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The italic font are for character thoughts or the book's word. You can find the meaning to the latin word in the end of the chapter. Sorry for the bad latin grammar, I only use dictionary ... :(
The third stanza was, the last of the jumi when with the mark's sibling. While the mark was still missing in time and space. They ventured to the Bejeweled City, capital of the Jumi land. There, they fought against the Jewelled beast, minions of the jewel hunter, and lastly the Lord of the gems. They fought ceaselessly and won over the first battle. The lord shall then consume the 999th core before he consumed the 1000th then destroyeth the 1001th Jumi. The emerald eyed girl then destroyed him, weeping as her friend was lost before her eyes, then she turned into stone as the curse of Jumi fall on her. As wind brought the news to the Mark's bearer, he raged and climbed the tree of Mana to seek retribution from the Goddess.
Kain read the part about Jumi's prophecies, he sighed as pain spread in his body. After, parting with Daena and Escad, Kain went home with Angelique to study about Mimir's Word more thoroughly. What would happen next. In the world's end chapter, it divided into four stanza which signified the great event that would occur. The first stanza, the dragon fall, The crimson dragon's prison will be broken and he shall rose with the Flame as his castle. His dragoon, Larc shalt be turned into a centaur as he wished it to be. Vadise, the last surviving dragon sent her dragoon, Sierra to conquer Drakonis and put a stop to his evil plan unknowing of Larc's choice. When Sierra, dragooness of Vadise, arrived at The Flame's entrance, she saw her brother turned into a mighty centaur. Raged, she tried to kill Drakonis then but Larc stopped her. Despair enveloped her and she killed her brother with regret. She then. Promised him to avenge his death. However, Sierra lacked the strength and thus her fate was lost in the parable of life. Killed by Drakonis, the crimson dragon. Vadise then fought Drakonis with the last of her power and both fell down in battle. With them the Underworld vanished the dead soul had no place to go. No more rebirth in Fa'Diel. The cycle had been stopped.
But Kain had stopped that fate from happening so he studied the second stanza, The heaven's gate of damnation. Lucemina's Awakening, "The demon shall roused Lucemina's sleep and it will stand on top of it to destroy the world. Whilst the priestess prayed for her friends' safety, the monk descendant and the knight descendant still had sparks of rivalry. Love or Justice, which would triumph over the other. They dueled till Lucemina's whistled the annihilation blow. They were swept away in Lucemina's unrelenting wrath. Then the bone dragon shall consume those whose abroad him and the demon will be devoured by his own power whilst the priestess will only pray and depart thereafter to see the wind. Thus one part of the world shall be gone with Lucemina's desruction." And that fate was avoided as well, thank the heavens that Kain managed to cast Aetas Adversarium on time. Matilda and Irwin were safe in the Underworld. The third stanza however had not happened yet but it will happen. So he needed to avert those to, he only needed to find Elazul and Pearl, the last two remaining in the Jumi race. If he could find the two of them then the Jumi fate would be somehow changed. Kain rested for a week or so, the toll of casting those forbidden magic was too much. He tried to convince Angelique that they must go to search for their Jumi friend immediately. They tried to search in Domina but there were no signs of them so they tried to go to Geo where the Jumi was last seen. When they entered the abandoned jewelry shop at Geo, all they saw was dusty cabinet and display and their Jumi friends.
"Elazul, Pearl!" Angelique squealed in delight and ran to hug Elazul.
"He.. hey…" Elazul who was a bit taken back by her sudden movement was a bit rigid.
"Hello, Pearl." Kain smiled when he saw Pearl blushed.
"Hello…" Pearl replied softly.
"So, what are you two doing here?" Kain asked scratching the back of his head.
"We were looking for Florina and the only place that we haven't searched is here." Elazul said.
"I see… well, have you searched the store then?" Kain asked again. Elazul nodded and Kain nodded back before he decided to browse the store. A certain jeweled box intrigued him.
"Have you tried this box?" Kain asked curiously.
"Yes, but it won' t open." Pearl answered timidly.
"Hmmm…." When Kain brushed the lid of the box, he heard a voice.
"Someone, is someone there? Please help me!" a voice shouted from inside the box.
"Well… well… I guess we found our target after all." Kain smirked before he disenchanted the lock and they were transported into the Pandora box.
"Well, hello there." Kain smiled when he saw someone who he deducted as Florina.
"Hello. My name is Florina, the Clarius of the Jumi." Florina greeted us and that's where our mission began. The mission where we had to save the Jumi's race from extinction. After they had heard the explanation from Lady Blackpearl, Florina soon fade away into nothing.
When the group had decided the head toward the Bejeweled City, Elazul stopped Kain before they made their exit from the Pandora Box.
"Kain… here." Elazul summoned a sword to his side and give it to Kain.
"This is?" Kain inquired, confused why Elazul give him the sword.
"The Sword of Mana. I thought you might need it." Elazul said. Elazul himself didn't know why he gave Kain the sword but he really thought that Kain had to have it.
"Oh… okay. Thanks. I owe you, one." Kain replied while he sent the sword to thin air.
"No problem, shall we go?" Elazul dismissed it and inquired the girls.
With their nods, the group went to Bejeweled City. When they approached it, Angelique gasped in wonder of its majesty.
" Wow… this is so beautiful…" Angelique couldn't keep her mouth from opening since before her, stand a city so magnificent. A city that was made of jewel, it's door decorated with gems, and beautiful stones.
"Well, let's go inside." Elazul said when he thought that Angelique had finished with her amazement.
When they went inside, they went to the gem rooms first. Pearl explained that to proceed further in the city they needed the gems to unlock the door.
"How do you know the right gem then?" Angelique asked.
"Our core resonates with the gem and the gate." Pearl answered when they had approached the gate after collecting the gems. Pearl put the gems in the pedestal and both the gems, core, and gate resonated. The door opened and revealing a stairway covered with gems and precious stone. Suddenly they heard a massive roar near them.
"Damn… jewel beast! Sandra must be here." Elazul said. While he unsheathed his sword, dark pink light glowed near him, and charged ahead. When the light diminished, it revealed Lady Blackpearl and her war hammer. Angelique readied her bow and shot when she saw an opening. Kain started to chant magic but a sharp pain stopped him.
"Damn…." Kain muttered softly before another spasm happened again. The sound of his staff dropped brought Angelique's attention to him.
"Kain! Kain, are you alright?" Angelique shouted from her position while shooting when she can.
"Don't worry about me. Just concentrate on the beast." The truth was Kain can't even hold his stance because the pain shot through all his body. When Lady Blackpearl called her comrade close to her, she whispered some ancient Jumi verse and all of the sudden their body burst with power. Firstly, Elazul lunged and charged to the beast slicing its claw in the process, Lady Blackpearl smashed its body with pure force and Angelique shot the arrow that Kain just imbued with power. After that, Lady Blackpearl unleashed Soul Reaver on it, followed by Elazul's Laser Blade which cleanly cut the beast in two and Angelique blasted Main Gun on it. Destroying it to bits and blowing it away.
"Kain… are you alright? Your face is very pale." Angelique ran to her brother when the fight was over.
"Yeah… don't worry. We need to press on." Kain was sweating a cold sweat but he tried to look fine, as fine as he could to his companions.
"Are you sure? We can rest if you want…" Elazul quirked his eyebrow, his voice laced with concern for his friend.
"Yes. I am fine." Kain stood up and they headed to the second floor and they saw glimpses of the past here in Rubens' room. Pearl put the gems that they gathered on the second floor on the pedestal and the door opened. They heard another roar and found another jewel beast waiting for them.
"Damn… " Elazul cursed as he prepared for battle. Kain stood silently, digesting the situation. He decided if he can't help in battle then at least he will help them in strategy.
"Ange… could you focus on the core and shoot it with this arrow?" Kain said when he saw his sister ready to shot.
"Sure… why?" Angelique asked when she saw that the arrow that her brother gave was slightly different.
"Just shot with it. It should kill it." Kain said firmly. Then Angelique aimed for the core of the monster with the arrow that Kain gave. When she shot it, it singed a sound that makes Elazul and Lady Blackpearl stop in their track. When it hit the core of the beast, the arrow stopped its movement before shattered into pieces.
"Kain… why do you have that arrow?" Lady Blackpearl growled.
"I found it across in the storage of my house. Let's go." Kain said while he climbed up the stairway.
"Blackpearl, what is that arrow? It, it…" Elazul asked, he still trembled from the sound of that arrow.
"Gemma silentium. The arrow that can destroy any jewel, even the hardest jewel will be like a paper when the tip touched it." Lady Blackpearl balled her first and stomped to the stairs.
"Why would Kain have something like that…" Elazul wondered for a moment before he ran to catch up with his friend. Kain stumbled when they were halfway through third floor.
"Kain… are you alright?" Pearl asked with concern in her voice.
"Yes… I'm fine. Just tired that's all." Kain's face was cringed with pain even his voice was strained with something.
"Are you sure? Let's rest for awhile." Elazul said before he decided to lean on a pillar.
"No, I'm fine, seriously. I can go on." Kain said unconvincingly because he flinched after he said that.
"Kain, just rest. We all need rest too, there will be another beast near the door anyway…." Angelique said as she sat down on the floor.
"Kain, where do you get that arrow?" Elazul asked out loud
"Huh…?" Kain cocked his head to Elazul unsure of what his friend question.
"Where do you get, gemma silentium?" Elazul asked again now turning his attention to his obsidian eyed friend.
"Ohh… I found it when I clean up the storage in my house. There's only two of them. So I've been saving them for a long time for something like this, I guess…" Kain explained, his expression was better but still very deathly pale. Elazul only nodded then silence loomed for a while for the four. Kain's breath was still ragged and strained.
"Damn… I guess, conjuring 3 out of 7 forbidden spells in short duration gap might be too much I guess." Kain mused, in his head, he knew that when he had conjured Heaven's Law that this would happen but he never plan to conjure Infernal Gate, and Aetas Adversarius too… Recently, his body had spasm of pain at a random moment, so far he had been able to suppress it but the pain just grew stronger and stronger. After they had rested for awhile then the group started to move on to the third gate of Bejeweled City. As Angelique had said, another beast appeared when Pearl opened the door. This time, Lady Blackpearl raged through the battle, she smashed and bashed it like pancake. Elazul attacked and covered Lady Blackpearl when it was needed. Angelique shot arrows to stun the beast movement. But mainly, Lady Blackpearl was the one who do the battle. They didn't know what raged her so but decided to support her effectively. When the beast is down, Lady Blackpearl turned to Kain.
"I will never forgive you if you ever pointed that arrow to Florina." Lady Blackpearl said while pointing her finger at Kain.
"I understand… shall we go? To the throne of clarius." Kain smiled, when he know what Lady Blackpearl meant. This time, she didn't change back to Pearl but kept being Lady Blackpearl. When they entered the throne room, they saw Florina, Sandra, and a strange man.
"Well… well… the knights have come." The strange man they met on Mekiv cavern spoke eerily.
"Who are you? What are you doing here?" Lady Blackpearl inquired harshly.
"Silence! You have no right to speak to the lord like that!" Sandra shouted back intensely.
"Now..now… Sandra. Don't be angry over things like that. Greetings, I am Lord of the Jewel." The man who introduced himself as Lord of the Jewel bowed and smiled sinisterly.
"My lord, it's another core that I have." Sandra gave him another Jumi core and he swallowed it.
"With this, it will be 999 cores within me." The man said calmly.
"You… damn it. So you're the one who swallowed us." Elazul said then he suddenly unsheathed his sword. When he wanted to charge, he's frozen in the spot.
"Damn… what's happening?" Elazul said as he tried hard to move.
"Calm down… getting infuriated won't help you…" Kain said soothingly. Elazul looked at his friend then he saw that behind that soothing voice laid an anger that matched his.
"We shall act accordingly to the situation, shan't we Lady Blackpearl?" Kain said while in his hand laces card between his fingers.
"Hmmph.." Lady Blackpearl only grunted her response before she readied her hammer.
"Kain… are you going to use that?" Angelique said curiously wondering if her brother are going to use the gemma silentium.
"No, now's not the right time. We'll fight accordingly." Kain smiled as he threw a card to the man. The lord blocked the card but instead of being knocked away, it grew vines of thorn. Kain smiled as he knew this is the last section of the Jumi prophecies.
The lord shall then consume the 999th core before he consumes the 1000th then destroyeth the 1001th Jumi. The emerald eyed girl then destroyed him, weeping as her friend is lost before her eyes, then she turned into stone as the curse of Jumi fall on her.
He was sure that he won't let that happen because right now, there's 1002 not 1001. So he was optimist that fate was going to change. As the vine trapped the man, Lady Blackpearl smashed him with her hammer. When he took the blow, the vine disappeared as magically it appeared.
Kain threw another card but the man avoided it. Angelique shot arrows to the card and the arrow grazing him into skin. The card glowed and vanished, not summoning anything. Although, the lord was seen struggling more after the card had vanished. Lady Blackpearl and Elazul dealt the final blow before he flinched back and the magic field that has been erected when they started battling shattered.
"My lord, are you alright?" Sandra asked gasped.
"If only, I had one more…" the lord said staggeringly.
"My lord, here, take my core!" Sandra said while plucking her core from her chest.
"I'm sorry. Thank you." The lord before he swallowed the core and transformed into a incorporeal like form. The space also changed like the battle with Drakonis. Everything had no bounds.
"Damn, he's just impossible to be hit." Elazul said as he tried slicing his swords at Lord of the Jewel but it only sliced thin air.
"What should we do…" Lady Blackpearl pondered as she tried to hit lord of the jewels.
Kain smirked to himself, he knew that he would have to conjure another forbidden magic. He gathered all his energy to summon guardian's cog. Although, he flinched in the middle because the pain is just too much.
"Kain!" Angelique shouted from where she stands.
"Don't worry! It'll be fine." Kain managed to stand up and saw that perhaps he needed help after all.
"Elazul, Blackpearl! Do you think you could lend me a hand?" Kain shouted from his spot.
"What?" Lady Blackpearl snapped at him.
"Your core, I need to borrow its magic." Kain answered, he knew that this might be too much to ask but he decided to give it a shot anyway.
"Our core? You mean, you want to take our core?" Elazul asked shocked
"No, I only need to borrow its power." Kain said huffing, his strength diminishing with each passing second.
"Ok. I'll be right there." Elazul shouted before he tried to maneuver to Kain's position.
"Elazul, what do you 're doing?" Lady Blackpearl shouted angrily.
"I'm just lending Kain a hand, so that he can do something about that monster." Elazul said when he crouched to level with Kain. Lady Blackpearl shivered at the thought that Kain was going to rob Elazul's life so she moved closer to Kain too.
"Ange, can you keep him busy? And could you lend me your bow, please?" Kain said loudly so that his sister can hear.
"I think so... but not long." She tossed her bow to her brother and took out her double daggers. She lunged and shouted a battle cry to intercept any attack that monster might throw at them.
"OK… I just need a lil' bit of your life. Do you mind?" He asked Elazul. When Elazul shook his head, Kain touched his core but Lady Blackpearl snatched Kain's hand away from Elazul's core.
"What do you think, you're doing?" She asked angrily.
"I'm just asking him to share a bit of his life to me." Kain said pained because the aftereffect had been tolled up on him.
"What…!" She raised her voice as she found the idea blasphemous.
"Lady Blackpearl, please! Just let him do it." Elazul begged when he saw that Kain was in deep pain.
"If you find that stealing your friend's life is not good. Would you care to substitute?" Kain challenged her, because he knew she wouldn't back down from a challenge.
"Fine!" When she agreed, Kain moved his hand to her core and he felt that his other hand was dragged into something cool. When he turned his head sideways, his hand was already on Elazul's core. Elazul smiled as he nodded. Then Kain started to channel their life force into him. When he did it, he felt something really magnificent.
"No wonder, the Jumi flourished once. Their magic is filled with power and emotion but this feeling. Their love is overwhelming." Kain took his hand away when he took the bare minimum to ease his pain from the spells. He then continued his conjuration from before while holding Angelique's bow in his left hand.
His tongue rolled in ancient verses, Lady Blackpearl recognized some of it and gasped at what Kain intended to do.
"Cum ab tintinnabulum canor acerbus. Ab sabulum ab advenio sinere omnino. Ab nihil non ab etiam. Fragosus Aevum." When Kain had said the last word, a golden sprinkle glow from his hand and it expanded quickly to the boundless space. Then everyone except him stop moving, he took the last gemma silentium and aimed it to lord of the jewel with Angelique's bow. When the arrow singed in the air, time started to move but still in slow motion. When it had pierced the body of lord of jewel, time had flowed normally. The arrow worked its magic and the lord started to glow radiant colors before he was shattered to little pieces of jewel. The space around them became Florina's room again and Kain collapsed since the pain was just too much. He barely could moved now but he was satisfied that he was just one step closer before the elegy could be played. Kain noticed that his sister was little bit downcast and when she came closer, he noticed that she almost shed her tear.
"Elazul, I'm sorry. I'm sorry that everyone… "Before she finished her sentence her tear glided in her cheek.
"Angelique don't! Don't you ever cry for Jumi! If you cry for us then…" Before he even finished his sentence Angelique had turned to stone. Her tears still there unstoned but crystallized.
"Damn… damn it!" Elazul cursed when he knew he's too late in his warning.
"Elazul look…" Pearl's voice broke Elazul's reverie and he saw that everyone were here.
"Everyone… how can this happen?" Elazul wondered out loud.
"Because she produced a teardrop crystal." Kain said while covering his eyes that almost cried for her sister and the Jumi.
"What… how can a human does that? Only Jumi can shed the teardrop crystal…" A jumi clad in white exclaimed.
"Well, no matter. The problem is now that we need to turn her back." Pearl said.
"But how…" A jumi in blue asked
"Everyone, can you share a bit of your life?" Elazul asked all of them in general
"I think, I can cry…" Esmeralda said standing out from the crowd
"Yes… if it's for her then maybe…" Diana chirped in
"For the Jumi savior." Rubens followed along
"Then let us give her, our teardrop crystal, one that is worth her sacrifice for us." Florina said from her bed. Then everyone except Kain started to shed tears and slowly Angelique's stoned form began to crack, the stone falls off bit by bit, revealing her skin again and her vibrant color. Finally her tears and smiles. Outside, the storm raged as the tale went, when Jumi cried then a storm so big will occur and aurora will appear to show the world that another soul has been saved.
"The elegy is played when the lad met the divinity. The lad then survived the strokes upon strokes of pain before he strike the symbol of love with the unspoken word then fade away into nothingness. He then soon collapsed with the mark of Ragnarok on his right hand. The mark then soon left his hand and attached itself to the tree and consumes all. When it is finished the only left over is the lad body and the wisdoms that lingered in the nothingness." That is last part of the prophecy and it will happen nonetheless how hard he tried. He'll just try his best to make the mark of Ragnarok return to its original purpose. To make this world flourish again with Mana and happiness…
Cum ab tintinnabulum canor acerbus. Ab sabulum ab advenio sinere omnino. Ab nihil non ab etiam. Fragosus Aevum. means:
When the bell sound harsh. The sand of time completely stop. everything became still. Broken Time.
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