"Nelli, Gondos. What's happening?" Eiro asked, and the two spirits imdiately turned toward him with clear nervosity. Although Nelli just seed to be a bit agitated, Gondos was really freaking out.
"Th-There's sothing there... Sothing is coming out of there..." The Golem muttered quietly, and Eiro just turned his head as he watched the slab of carved rock in the front of the room. There really were so cracks in there. It seed like a good idea to just get out of there already, or else this would turn out pretty bad for Eiro.
Although, just when he thought that, the slab of rock shattered into a million pieces. As if it just turned to dust then and there. And at the place where that slab was before, stood simply a figure. A figure made up of... nothing. It stood there, and Eiro could definitely see it there, but it was simply invisible.
"Do you two see it?" Eiro asked the spirits, and they imdiately nodded their heads. Slowly, the invisible figure stepped forward. As it was doing so, the invisible figure was picking up parts of the rock slab that had shattered just now. The rocks were spreading throughout its body and making its physical shape look clearer.
It currently had the shape of an androgynous child, even younger than Leon. It was frail and was moving around slowly as it kept picking up more parts that integrated into its body.
Once there was no more space for the rock to fit into its regular form, it slowly started to grow in size, as if aging rapidly. And at so point, the figure was just grasping at its face and trembling, as if in an imnse amount of pain. Hyjun imdiately fell apart into black mist and appeared in front of the figure made up of rock.
Hyjun attempted to grasp it and seemingly sohow place a seal onto it, but it was apparently too late. Whenever Hyjun tried to grab it, it make the part where contact would have been move out of the way, and instead soon placed its hand onto Hyjun's chest. That was just before so of the rocks suddenly were pushed to the side from inside of the body. And just through so of the gaps in between the rocks, Eiro could see the slight golden glow of a card together with the vibe that was pushed off it. The card itself soon disappeared and turned into whatever item its real form was.
That item slowly travelled through the rock-figure's arm before appearing in its hand and replacing its rock index finger. It was a small, golden key. It was as if its shape was shifting around constantly, so every few monts it turned into a completely different form.
The figure pushed the key into Hyjun's chest, but it didn't cut into its white flesh. No, instead it simply created a light glow in that place and Hyjun's body froze up completely. The next mont, things like the magic circles that Hyjun had been creating appeared around the spot the key had been pushed into and just faded away.
"Did it just remove the seals Hyjun placed on itself..?" Eiro muttered quietly, confused, before he saw sothing else happening. It seed like the card was the seven of wands. The key that could open everything and anything.
It was a gift that the Arcane Dealer gave to a man imprisoned in the deepest level of an impenetrable and inescapable prison. And with its help, the man could open the locks of any door, gate, and even shackle with only a single twist of the key.
With a deep glare, Eiro looked at the figure and Hyjun and thought, 'At least it's not a dangerous card...'. Although, Eiro noticed sothing else. All that the figure did was push the key into Hyjun's chest, it didn't twist it yet. It so easily removed the seals... as if they were dirt that was stuck inside of a lock that needed to be removed.
Suddenly, the figure did just what it hadn't done before. It twisted the key, and sothing happened. The key-hole widened, and seed to have turned into an actual hole. But Hyjun still didn't bleed, it was just as if there was an incave in its body that had always been there as part of its natural body. The hole continued growing until there was just a small space inside of Hyjun's chest that seed to be modeled after this very temple. Quite literally. The walls were clothed in the sa wood and carvings, the windows were the sa as well and even showed the outside world.
But inside of that space stood nurous small figures that all had Hyjun's shape. One was made of Hyjun's black mist, another one currently had its gaping central mouth open. The sa that Zaragon had . Another was holding a book and reading, while another one was just currently forming one of those magic circles. There were many, many more of those.
It was as if that figure had opened up Hyjun's very being. It stretched its rock-hand out and grasped one of the figures, the one with the vertical mouth on its chest agape. It didn't seem to be struggling at all, and the rock-figure just pushed the tiny Hyjun into its face and had the rocks practically swallow it up.
Just a few monts later, a slit opened up on the figure's chest and turned into a gaping mouth with sharp teeth made of rock.
And then, Eiro realized what was going on. He tried to read up on so different Royal Monsters before... There was sothing that surprised Eiro a fair amount. One royal was not amongst the current generation. The last one disappeared maybe a hundred years ago. It was the royal with the ability to pull everything into itself and make it part of its own physical body. .
So it was sealed here? It seed like Eiro really just fucked a lot of people... this thing was dangerous... far, far too dangerous...
Eiro imdiately picked up Sammy and Leon, trying to hold on to both of them more easily through the use of the three of swords' threads. The Demon imdiately tried to run out toward the door as quickly as he could. was too preoccupied with feeding on Hyjun's self at the mont, after all.
As fast as he could, Eiro made his way through the temple until he was all the way back at the gate leading into the courtyard. He was going to try to co up with a way to bring these two down the mountain as quickly as possible, although the quickest way was to make a direct path using earth magic. It would take a lot of mana, but Eiro didn't care about that anymore.
was dangerous, Eiro couldn't let it get to these two under any circumstances. But at least he understood why Hyjun was so desperate to reseal Leon's skills. It was a monster, so as weakened as it seed to have been, it was most likely influenced by Leon's unique skills. Even Eiro was feeling the effect, even if it didn't seem to be too bad for him sohow. Maybe it was his high Willpower, or just because he had been with Leon for all of his life. Eiro was simply feeling a little nervous.
But sohow... just when Eiro thought that, he felt sothing approaching from behind him. It was a strong pressure and very obviously the source of the miasma that had been given off in this place for the past 100 years.
It seed more collected, sohow, but it wasn't able to get out past the second layer of the seal nonetheless. But it had changed a lot since Eiro left that room. In that re minute.
The figure had taken on the shape of Hyjun with its four arms, and its gaping mouth was slowly starting to move as black blood was flowing in between the cracks of the rocks.
"Give your abilities. They are... tasty." It said, and Eiro stared at it with a deep growl, "No way in hell, you complete piece of trash!" He yelled out, and the thing just stared back. It tried to extend its hand forward. The rock went past the gate, but it was no longer part of 's Body and just fell to the ground together with so blood.
"Why isn't it using the key?" Gondos muttered quietly, and Eiro kept staring back at it. Honestly, Eiro had a pretty good idea why, "It probably has sothing like a cooldown, or so usage restriction right now... Or maybe it takes a lot of mana that it doesn't have to use it..." The Demon muttered quietly, "Or maybe seals can't be opened that easily after all?"
"Let's go. We need to..." Eiro said, before he noticed sothing else happening. The ground underneath them was tremoring and cracking. Why didn't he notice this beforehand? There were monsters underground! They were attracted by Leon's skills and were now going on a rampage underground!
And to top it off, they not only started destroying the path itself, but also the gate that was holding in the temple.
"Gondos! Help out here!" Eiro exclaid, and the spirit looked at him with a nod as he started to take control of the ground underneath them to sohow stabilize it while Eiro was starting to just run away down the path while carrying both Sammy and Leon. Both of them seed to be slowly waking up at the mont, which didn't really help Eiro all that much in trying to get them down the mountain as quickly as he could.
"Hm... stop it..." Sammy groaned, and Eiro felt a ringing in both of his ears before his whole body completely tensed up. His whole body stopped moving and he wasn't even able to breathe anymore. To him, it seed like everything stopped for a mont. The whole world simply frozen in the mont. But it seed like there was one entity that wasn't affected by this. One that didn't have ears to listen to Sammy's words.
stepped through the broken-down gate and made its way past the cracks in the ground until it stood right behind the Demon. With a deep groan, Eiro tried to sohow force his body to move and then averted his eyes toward Nelli and Gondos, "Get... these two out of... here..." Eiro muttered quietly and made the three of swords disappear while trying to hand the children off to the spirits in front of him.
Sammy was slowly waking up by now, so she was sowhat able to walk even if she was still pretty hazy, and Leon was seemingly light enough to carry. Either way, the two spirits quickly followed the request the Demon made of them and pulled the children away. They were sure that Eiro was going to be able to survive this.
After a little while, Eiro regained his ability to move, which was when he was forcefully turned around by .
Eiro looked into the face of the creature in front of him, even if it wasn't really a 'creature'. It was just made up of black blood and rock, and was holding Eiro down while trying to press the key into his chest. And that quickly disproved Eiro's theory of the cooldown, because it went into his body without a hitch. The seals placed onto the mark of the devil and the mark of wrath were lifted, and Eiro could feel his stuck-in-place body cave in in his chest.
But just when that happened, sothing else appeared, and that was right behind . A pulsating gate made of flesh, blood and bones that seed to lead right to hell.
And out of that gate stepped a well-dressed Devil.
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