Well, this is a mess. I watched the whole thing unfold from a safe distance, I didn’t think it was a good time to interfere but now…. everyone is underground.776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE7IAxYf29T
This has gotten out of hand, I think it’s more important to get my powers back instead of gaining trust from either side.776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp03ls1fETw
I look towards the many pillars in the distance and wonder which one could be hiding the Essence of Zeus. Just to be safe, maybe I should go to the one Caecius is heading. Don’t want him to get his hands on such power.776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFPYrFCx4RB
???: “Watch out!”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIzXeqe0v6v
Moryuu: “What the-”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡek8GAqDIKX
I instinctively moved out of the way of the falling object which seems to be who I’ve been waiting for.776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡARIZ6UJ1Se
Moryuu: “About time you showed up.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoD5VFKTK64
The seemingly young boy dusted himself off and rose to meet me face to face. Considering our situation, I’m still surprised he would wear a normal yellow t-shirt and blue jeans like we’re on some vacation. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr7Ymm6zOMO
???: “Sorry, it was hard forcing my way in here but the portal that girl’s bird made helped a lot. Sad what happened to her.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXM7e4yNym3
Moryuu: “….Yeah.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx5SKbh5aW2
???: “Well, don’t worry I’m sure her next self will be just as interesting.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmhjM05Glal
Moryuu: “Maybe, anyway now that you’re here Talon, what’s the plan?”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3swsxF9HOq
Talon: “Well, it seems that those guys forgot about the dolls I gave them, oh, here’s a refill on those poison vials.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCHJAsIPdl3
Moryuu: “Thanks.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡulvDwQUKAt
Talon: “Anyway, I think you had the right idea regarding your powers. Things are getting dicey, try not to kill any more people.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpM50ILvkXQ
Moryuu: “Alright, I’ll try. What about you?”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLQb9LPPGVl
Talon: “I’ll try to find the sleeping bodies of the fallen by teleportation. Their souls should still be in there ready for the next round.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi5aGBarkqO
Moryuu: “Right, after that maybe you can help the rest of those alive.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXNq65Mm78L
Talon: “Of course, I can’t wait to actually meet normal people. Well, except maybe Jayden since his organization is similar to mine and I don’t want to be dragged back into that environment.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJYKIfU7jQ
Moryuu: “Let’s hurry, we don’t have much time.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7U2zuiwXF5
Talon: “Never time for a joke to lighten the mood I guess.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtAINE8NnDE
Talon raises his hands and a yellow portal appears beside me.776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjhwKBlu5px
Talon: “It’s way easier to open portals inside this place than outside. This should take you to where Caecius is, be careful. Get your powers and leave, I can’t have either of you dying.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ThsdvzRBG
I guess my powers are in the pillar Caecius was heading towards... terrific. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoXTFHtrVE3
Moryuu: “You too, don’t mess with the Umbra Lord Gideon.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiR3cM5mOMj
Talon: “You find him interesting?”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH2hDeTMZ5s
Moryuu: “I want a rematch with him after I get my powers back….and you’re no match for him. He’d rip you apart.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJkMs5xFinr
Talon grabs his chest in a dramatic manner resembling the melodrama I attempted in my alter ego. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfMtVJTb6u5
Talon: “You wound me good man, don’t worry If it’s one thing I’m good at it’s teleporting away.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbtN3Cv9Icf
I nod and enter the portal to find myself in a near pitch-black structure. There are glimmers of blue light to the right and left of me. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTtSwumgRoq
I steel myself for the journey and take the right path, listening closely to see if Caecius is near.776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfsfUsrqKr6
A wind mage is too much trouble for me now, especially since he can suffocate me which is pretty high level. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK3eWT6Tql0
I creep through the dark corridor to come across the blue light from earlier that’s coming from a weirdly floating lantern. Suddenly the Flame begins to dance around and playfully flies deeper into the structure. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmryU3oIMCq
Moryuu: “I guess you want me to follow you.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRt3NBJtbcU
I follow close behind the strange lantern until we find ourselves to what I imagine is the center of the pillar. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgTILdlk73A
Blue light shines from the top that reveals another sharper pillar in the center of the room with 2 lanterns adorned on 2 of the corners. I guess this little guy is one of them but where’s the last one. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyApUwcdybt
*Footsteps*776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡASC6DZLl3D
I dash to the nearest hiding place within the cracks of the jagged walls. As expected, Caecius comes walking in with the last lantern. I guess they don’t care who comes in.776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWULplF8XCE
Caecius: “I feel powerful energy here, perhaps it’s really here. Surely it must be fate if I’ve found it so quick.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJNQoBGUeG
He inspects the sharp pillar in the center, searching for a way to unlock the contents of it I gather. I can’t let him get Zeus’s Essence.776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdGXf1Y3rue
I’ll find a way to get the jump on him, maybe there’s a way to scale the walls. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJGcIOi9UDM
Caecius: “Mmmm?”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJTE7NDDAee
I guess that makes too much noise, now what?776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlrZATwFvYE
Caecius: “I know someone is there, come out or I’m coming to you.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZL7k0Sk4w
Unless I have Zeus’s Essence it will be too risky to fight him. I come out of my hiding spot with my hands up.776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiRaSNRUUhi
Caecius: “So it’s you, the mysterious man. What do you want, come to fight?”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSyQlvCKRwB
Moryuu: “Not really, I’ve come looking for something.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1IjitdptiJ
Caecius: “Oh, and what would that be.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsWAtoI81ZT
Moryuu: “Something that belongs to me.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡabIEroPdmY
Caecius: “Depending on what that thing is, I might have to kill you.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJDfjmB0ujE
Moryuu: “I expected as much.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ28sEh9DjHC
This is going smoother than I thought. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡij7OCV4VWx
Moryuu: “!!”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyZn517xKJY
Is what I thought until he shot a blade of air near my face, leaving a cut. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡntV65CkTRz
Caecius: “There’s something else I need to know from you, who are you, and what’s your purpose?”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPMu7rZM405
Moryuu: “Is that all, do you want fries with that?”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGJzORzm1bH
Caecius: “*Glare*”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDpvv8PUIrY
Moryuu: “I have no problem telling you the truth about this place, I wonder though if you’ll believe me.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUUDSN2J1GK
Caecius: “No harm in trying.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd8T9c0hVTx
Moryuu: “Fine, the first part of the info dump is the fact that this is not the afterlife.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfyBeJZw2NK
Caecius: “!!”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5OEyGB5E6i
Caecius: “Explain.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwGTeL7MmEN
Moryuu: “I don’t know if your world has something similar but what we’re standing on is actually a dead eldritch god.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPasxgPmEUJ
Caecius: “But….why and how are there dead people here?”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwNreKlSE0u
Moryuu: “Well, an acquaintance says that the nature of this god is to drag souls from other afterlives into this realm that seems like one but with an added twist. Time loops, every time someone dies and comes back, a part of their soul feeds the god and with enough energy, it will revive and cause massive damage to our universes and much more.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbOxsh3Awqa
Caecius: “….”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkk2Yj9ChKM
Moryuu: “Don’t believe me huh?”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHIXWEiByKP
Caecius: “So you’re saying we’ve all died multiple times, came back in the warehouse without much power, and then did the whole thing again but slightly different.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx8ichB3K8k
Moryuu: “Yep, well, everyone except the Umbras for some reason.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXKxKcCdouG
Caecius: “Impossible, this is too outrageous to believe!”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZuOXx9SB4F
Moryuu: “Have you ever wondered why shifts happen?”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIZbecxkjus
Caecius: “….”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpXbAVwr3GT
Moryuu: “That’s the beast stirring, my job is to keep everyone from dying and maybe work together to do enough damage to it so it loses all the energy it’s been building up. After that, everyone can go back to where they belong.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy72OY80ECJ
Caecius: “Let’s say I believe you, why are you here instead of babysitting everyone else?”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2OVs7WFdTW
Moryuu: “Because there’s an item of great power that can help me do my job.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Czm07xKUa
Caecius: “….”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZU6GIlROko
Caecius: “Sorry, I can’t risk believing you.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ08gya5AUss
He swipes his hands and shots a wide blade of air towards me and I narrowly dodge out of the way.776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVBgMXUzVMJ
Moryuu: “I knew it, never trust a mage, especially one hellbent on bringing back the dead.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBqCItGOELm
Caecius: “It can be done!”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSJPoY4V8p6
Moryuu: “Maybe, but the dead should rest.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaIzWFmAejn
Caecius: “Silence!”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw1NMxEuWDo
Caecius continually blasts out wave after wave of air blades but I dodge them all. Still, it’s hard to maneuver in this-776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡURiTpVSpvw
Moryuu: “!!!!”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcDVT51zb2d
I'm….suffocating!776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAucln0FzRS
Caecius: “Enough of this game, I’ll kill you and get what I've come for.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYluZhuIR8S
I throw 3 daggers at him and he blocks it with air but it did break his spell. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy0wT3QezFy
Moryuu: “*Cough* *Cough*”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa0uufE4wjs
Moryuu: “I guess you need concentration for that huh?”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGAsysrN0zZ
Caecius: “I don’t need it to kill you.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZQLmvGmb3P
He shoots more air blades but I jump high up onto the few bars that line the ceiling corners. I let loose more daggers at him from above but he blocks them again.776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvOVHu4cIs6
Caecius: “It’s useless!”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCF11Id278m
Moryuu: “Is it?”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNRG7cjNCEf
I close my eyes, breathe, and take out my tonfas. I jump down and slam into the ground causing a small crater. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡediCSWweH7
Caecius: “You’re going to fight me with melee weapons, fool.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoycANvaWov
Caecius shots a dozen or so air blades at me but I stay still….and listen.776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAzfJmm8YfV
The slight movements in the air, the whirling sound of blades, and the split second before impact.776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCcXGax5Zln
My instincts flair up to prepare for the assault.776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZcajhJqhk5
…776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIaAqtVUZaf
..776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Qpe0cITco
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NOW!776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaj1sFHiWYW
*Slash*776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbbalGgCaMN
*Slash*776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkedqgaOZ44
*Slash*776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQZ56ACPq7l
Caecius: “Wha, how!”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ37IqEGVU0G
I knocked away all the blades of air, probably causing large gashes in the wall behind me. I was still cut all over but nothing vital has been damaged. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyj7Via1oaE
Moryuu: “What’s wrong, I guess you’re not the best wind user out there.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ233eFkBG3H
Caecius: “You!”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsQUTFKfX6V
I keep my eyes closed and anticipated the assault of air blades.776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZIvnnWKxVL
I dash forward and reflect the dangerous ones away right before they touch my body while letting others past my defenses so I can keep going.776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeTI3TKxFga
Despite the many injuries, I make it right in front of Caecius and hit him in the gut with my Tonfa bypassing his wind barrier. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1TK6vToNzK
Caecius: “GAH!”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdBBGLd9ur2
He’s sent flying into the wall, still-776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOVXDVHqzdk
Moryuu: “Tch.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdIwiXebmtm
I’m not that well off either, I’m breathing heavily and I don’t think that finished the job. Damn, I should have attached an Anti-Magic Dagger to my Tonfa. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuy8fpmCyaY
Caecius: “*Cough* *Cough*”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnifICzTLmy
Caecius: “No more playing around, I’m going to…oh my god.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyJNV1ijCov
Moryuu: “What?”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjcb95OKaE4
I look towards what he’s staring at and behold, there’s the flask of Zeus’s Essence and….something else floating in the air. All where the pillar once stood, I guess it was sliced to bits during the fight.776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTzOOikI6u2
Caecius: “The Eye….”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbt5fMwXV4H
He dashes to the object and I jump too, he can’t have either of them. Whatever the eye is it can’t be good if he has it. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4hgiLiijBO
He shoots a powerful blunt blast of air towards me which pushes me away but I throw 2 daggers at him and 1 from the blunt side at the flask as I fall. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcZ5lrWfc7r
The flask falls to the ground safely but Caecius grabs the eye. I shake off the pain of the fall and push towards the flash while he’s distracted. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkgQEts3VAl
Caecius: “At last, I’m closer to my goal. Wait for me….Nieth.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6iHKqN50EA
Caecius: “It’s over Moryuu, now that I’m this close to my goal there’s no way I’m losing to you.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡELGu9GzBzB
Moryuu: “Maybe before, but not now.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbwULDWwqv6
Caecius: “What’s that, a potion of some sort? That’s not going to help you here.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡljJUHUFEhf
Moryuu: “Well, allow me to surprise you.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyFjev4AmTh
[ Music Plays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojL5Y5HvOlE ]776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeAIqGEU041
I down the entire flask and instantly, I can feel the power of lightning coursing through me again.776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ojfRFr6tq
I’m lifted into the air, my body is electrocuted from within and I begin to feel the almost unbearable pain battering my bleeding body.776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoue0Yh6BGt
I’ve survived this before, I-I’ll....survive ...again!776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkTZych9ev8
Soon enough, the pain subsides and the real power begins to form within. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ii5hcJUGp
My wounds heal and azure lightning strikes all around scorching the area around me.776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXBeF7MyFri
I float back down, my eyes shoot open to reveal a deep light blue color change and I push back my hair. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLdKDog84dE
Moryuu: “Bow, you’re in the presence of a God.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ163vULRgzS
Caecius: “Wha-What are you!?”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1sqsEM97CW
I blitzed past him in the form of lightning and grab the eye before he could register what happened.776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKu2JQwComG
Moryuu: “The winner of this battle.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdUqEu1a7ru
He hurried to fling more air blades towards me but I block them all with a lightning shield. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAGc3VAY5yy
Moryuu: “Normally I’d kill a mage like you but I have a mission to complete, give up.” 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ50UzmPpsfw
Caecius: “I can’t….I need that eye….”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4a3hpEbWyM
Moryuu: “She’s dead, let her rest.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmdInicFo7D
Caecius: “Rest? How can she rest?! She was killed before my eyes by the scum of the earth! Even if I have to move heaven and earth, I will give her the life she deserved.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0QrOu5g9nF
Moryuu: “I’ve lost loved ones too, but I would not disgrace their memory and name by dragging them back from the dead.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyGmQSLJhIV
Caecius: “Tch….”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZaQwY8E4Lx
Moryuu: “There are few things I hate more than Necromancy. That’s why I’m going to kill Shadow for not only betraying me but because he dabbles in such dark arts.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSXafUImost
Moryuu: “We’re done here, I don’t want to kill you and you’re no match for me. I’m leaving here with the eye, maybe you should think about what I said.”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS6PnxbaZMP
I turn my back on Caecius and head towards the exit of this place. Now that I have my powers back, I can move around the place a lot faster and help everyone stay alive better. Well, everyone except Gideon and Shadow. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvgQZIB1SiS
Caecius: “No….No….I can’t lose her again!!!”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Qyyqj63kG
I turn around to see Caecius conjuring up a large mass of magical wind that would do nothing to me but would probably collapse the place. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWCOfzOa4fC
Caecius: “Die!!”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJcxruYjBv0
He throws it at me, I know it won’t hurt me but….my killing instinct involuntary kicked in anyway.776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYY1Ah35pIX
Moryuu: “You Fool!”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJuEX3axGaN
I shoot a powerful blast of lightning that rips through his wind and then through him causing a massive hole in the wall that leads outside and collapses a couple of buildings too.776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYpBEQ5KzjL
In the end, Caecius collapses on the ground charred black and….probably dead. 776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNDBej7Omil
Moryuu: “….Damn it, why didn’t you give up….”776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0IkGqArazx
1 Day Till Shift776Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlbLen9BPxj
