[Vol.3] Quest 250- A New ShadowCirrus’s mindscape.
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“… It's peaceful here.” Said Xuanlong. “Tell , what is this place?” she said, turning to Cirrus, who was sitting down and leaning back on a tree watching the sea.
“This is my mind, I guess, or sothing close to it at least.”
“And you, giant, you stay here?” she turned her gaze up to Hecton.
“I do,” Hecton said, reading a book.
“Do you find it boring?”
“I spend my ti in ditation, but every night I and Sir Cirrus play gas of strategy.”
“Lucky punk ass, it’s not fair! You have like 90 tis the calculative power than
to make moves!!” Cirrus shouted.
“And you still won 5 of our 60 gas, a remarkable feat, given my intelligence.”
“… You two have a lot of banter… tell … huh? I never caught your na?” Xuanlong asked.
“My na is Cirrus, and this is Hecton.”
“Cirrus, tell
what do you plan on doing with ? And what am I?”
“Hmm… nothing much, really. I an, I only stopped you because you posed a lot of danger to the world. As for what you are… Hmm… I guess Hecton would know more than .”
They look up to Hecton as one of his heads looks at them.
“From my long pondering, I have concluded that we are what I call Kagesonzai, a Shadow Existence.”
“Oh? You went with a Yamato na, huh?”
“Either would be fine.”
“Ah…” Xuanlong looked at herself and saw her body as that of a monster with a parasite on its head. “… This body… it’s disgusting. Vile, abhorrent, repugnant, unnatural.”
It was easy to tell that she held a great self-loathing.
“You can change your form if you wish.” Said Hecton.
“You can? Have you changed yours?” asked Cirrus.
“I have, but I returned to this form as I found it more comfortable for .”
“I can… change my form?” Xuanlong asked.
“Yes, you simply need to focus on an image in mind of how you wish to look, maybe soone you have seen in your past life, and take it. Our bodies are now as malleable as a shadow. We can also move from shadow to shadow and reside in them. Luckily, we gained that ability from your pact with Circe.”
“…” Xuanlong closes her eyes and tries to rember, but. “I have… mixed mories? No… so are mine and so aren’t?”
“An amalgamation,” Cirrus said, getting up. “I found it strange from what I heard and by Hecton’s own words that you corrupted spirits could use many kinds of magic, and now I can see why.”
“W-what do you an?”
“I an, they must have mixed in a lot of other spirits in you to allow you to use their magics. I heard the Loki Familia faced one similar to you, but you seed more… well, a few screws loose.”
“Sir, it could be because of the monsters they were fused with,” Hecton said.
Hecton was not wrong. While the Corrupted Spirit, the Loki Familia faced down in the Dungeon's 59th floor was also in the sa line of prototypes that Xuanlong was part of. Except for Xuanlong who was a mash of 6 whole spirits, each 1 being a main personality all haphazardly put together. While the one the Loki Familia faced was one major spirit as the dominant personality and six other smaller ones.
“I-I-I n-no! That’s not—!”
She goes through her mories to find an assortnt of disconnected mories. All from different perspectives and tifras.
“From the looks of things, it seems I was right.”
“T-this… I'm… am an actual monster…. I don’t even know who I am anymore.” Xuanlong crumpled to the ground, grasping her mind, wishing for the pain to stop.
“Well, how about I give you a na?” Cirrus said, walking up to her. “Unless you already have a na?”
“A na… I was called Xuanlong but… I don’t like that na… nor the person who gave it to .”
“Well, I can give you a new one if you want, or you can sort it out and give yourself a na you can be proud of.”
“…. I… I will think about it.”
“Very well. I’ll be going to sleep now.” He walks towards the woods and suddenly music began to play as he began to sing.
“??Led through the mist,
By the milk light of moon,
All that was lost is revealed.
Our long-bygone burdens, re echoes of the spring,
But where have we co, and where shall we end?
If dreams can't co true, then why not pretend?
How the gentle wind,
Beckons through the leaves,
As autumn colors fall??”
His voice brought a gentle serenity to her heart, as it could lull her to sleep by it as it slowly fades away.
“Do you understand now? We are now part of him.”
“… He is my master now… right? Does he treat you well?”
“He treats
as an extension of himself. I have access to plenty of books and various other dia that have not been seen by the world.” Hecton waved his hand, and a tv appeared. “You will find your stay here enjoyable.”
“… Well, I no longer feel hungry anymore, so staying here isn’t so bad. Do we even still eat?”
“Not necessarily. We can still eat, but we do not need to eat.”
“So food is more of a luxury?”
“Correct.”
“Huh… I see. What of thirst? Is that the sa as food?”
Hecton points to the sea.
“You may drink from that. From what I have found, the sea is both Sir Cirrus’s mana and, taphorically, his life.”
“…Uhhh.”
“I said taphorically, figuratively. It does not affect Sir Cirrus as drastically as you think.”
“With your size, I am sure you drink a lake’s worth!”
“You only need one mouthful to be satisfied. Try it.”
“Hmm…”
Xuanlong slowly walks to the sea and opens her dragon mouth and takes a mouthful.
Gulp!
“!!”
She felt refreshed, her body cooled, and satisfied.
“That will last you three weeks. One if you are outside this little world.”
Around the ti, Xuanlong was absorbed by Nox’s magic.
“… Seems we are too late,” Neze said, having t up with Wu to deliver the magic stones.
WHOOOOOOOOOOSH!!!!!!
Neze stands with Wu as a massive blast of wind hits them and pushes them back a bit.
“This power… it’s disgusting how powerful she is,” Wu said, looking at Nox’s magic in fear, awe, and frustration. “Cirrus… Ein was right. He has sharpened himself back up.”
“… No, it looks more like he has shown his fangs. At last, this body rembers it well, how skilled and dangerous he is with moves he polished to perfection. As for Nox… it seems we will have to fight her in the dungeon, anywhere else, and her magic will strike us.”
“… Neze, can you go and tell them what happened? I think I’ll spend so ti here on the surface… I can’t face them after I had failed so miserably.”
“Very well. I shall find you when the tunnel is truly complete. I will bring back the magic stones for Arbuda.”
Neze walked away, quickly leaving.
“… No matter how many magic stones I eat I will never reach you… but I can at least find a poison that could.” Wu looks towards the desert and walks. “I can sll a very potent poison in the far distance.”
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