After sorting out Luna's weirdness, we began to talk about what we were going to do. It wasn't a guarantee that we would fight Freja, but depending on how she answers, it might turn ugly quickly.
'I've still got that black box that my mother gave… should I open it now?' As I was trying to co up with any way to avoid conflict, I recalled that mysterious box, which I was told to only open once I reached Tier 10.
'I should wait until we deal with Freja before opening it.' I may have theoretically reached that Tier 10 power level, but stats and actual battle prowess were two different things. A part of still lacked confidence, so I wanted to prove to myself that I really do deserve to open it.
'I rember the requirent to reach Tier 10 was to kill sothing at that tier, but I kind of skipped that step.' In the end, this was the final test to end my long training montage, although, if it turns out to be a more peaceful outco, then so be it.
"So are we heading straight for the palace or are we going to Freja first?" Clara wondered what our specific destination was, as we could head straight to the barrier and see if we could disable it first, but could we really afford to ignore Freja?
"If Freja truly did set-up the barrier, then I would like to have so answers, so we will be heading to Freya's forest." Hiko explained the plan, making realise that initially we didn't even have a plan. I hadn't haven't really thought about it too deeply as I was too hyper focused on how to deal with Freja. In the end, I probably would have decided the sa.
"Makes sense, but can we really fight her?" Elanor was on the more sceptical side, which was understandable. Clara, Silver and Elanor were still in Tier 8 or 9 making it quite daunting to face soone as strong as Freja. Even Luna I assud was still at Tier 8. She doesn't have a system after all, so her progression should be much slower.
"Don't worry, Shaman and I will take her head on with Luna's support. There is still her little harem of girls, so that's where you, Clara and Silver will co in. They all should be weaker than you, except maybe Kiruya." Hiko Elaborated on how we will fight if it does co down to it.
"Kiruya… She was a great help in Elfhiem. I hope we can at least talk it out with her, but I doubt she will defy Freja." Clara, and Silver all looked disappointed, as we had made so pretty good mories with Kiruya and it would be a sha if we had to kill her. At the very least, we could try to knock her out. Even then, if we end up killing Freja we may be breaking our friendship beyond repair.
"We can't let personal feelings get in the way. It pains that we will have to fight Freja, as she is essentially an aunt to , but she has betrayed and deceived us all. This goes for Kiruya as well, since she is most likely in on it." I didn't want it to get to us that we would be fighting a good friend, so I tried to be objective about it.
"Shaman is right, it's a cruel world and we can't all be friends in the end. So you better steel yourselves and make sure you don't hesitate where it counts." Luna voiced her determination, not that it was hard for her to do as she had no connection to these people.
"It would be great if we could talk it out, but having known Freja for years she can be very explosive. Which leads to one thing I want you all to be careful of. Freja isn't dumb. She may try to lead us into a trap as soon as we approach her."
"Whatever you do! Do not follow her through any portals or let her mislead you. She is considered a clever bitch for a reason and has the best poker face. She is an unpredictable master of deceit and trickery, so please be careful even with her subordinates." With personal matters out of the way, Hiko gave us so more advice, as she was the most familiar with Freja.
"She is right, my mories are only of her playful side, but she is definitely soone full of tricks, so don't let your guard down." Thanks to the soul rge, I had clear mories of all the interactions I had with Freja, which corroborated what Hiko was saying.
Everyone nodded their heads. Soon after, our attention was caught by a massive forest in the distance.
"We're close." Silver muttered, confirming this was indeed Freya's forest.
"Get yourself ntally ready, there is no turning back now." Hiko flapped her wings, slowing down slightly, giving us a little more ti to prepare.
[Shaman, what about Freya's system?] As soon as we had a mont of silence, Clara ssaged the group chat to ask about Freja's system, which I had completely forgotten about.
[Shit, does that make this fight impossible then?] Silver quickly jumped to conclusions, panic clearly showing on his face.
[Wait, Freja has a system as well?] Elanor chipped in, just learning that Freja has a system.
[Yes she does. However, it seed to be much different from mine so it's hard to say how big of an advantage she has. There seems to be a higher power at play, but they seem to operate separately from the ones behind mine.
For all we know, Freja's power might not even scale off of levels.] I didn't know how the systems ca to be, but one thing is for sure is that whoever gave Freja her system is different from mine.
I rembered Kiruya ntioning how she had a system, but it was nothing like mine and was a much simpler version. So there were still a lot of unknowns left about her system. Part of wished I had investigated more, but I never thought I'd be in this position.
[Still, she may have power that is beyond Tier 10, so please let us know if it's not looking good.] Clara erring on the side of caution made second guess myself, but like Hiko said, it is too late now.
[If it gets bad, I can teleport to Elysia. Then again, I would rather not co to that since that will an you guys will left on your own] Using my lover's call was the absolutely last resort, as it would put everyone else at risk.
[There is not much we can do now, but I can always use my shadows to hide everyone, just signal us when it's turning sour and we can turn tail and run.] Silver cald down a little. With his abilities, I doubt Freja would be able to find them. However, the only issue with that plan is Silver's mana consumption.
We also don't know Freja's skills so it might not be as fool proof as we think since she knows most of our abilities.
[W-we will just have to see, this is under the assumption we will fight in the first place.] Elanor thought about it optimistically, but in a scenario like this, it was hard to see things going down peacefully.
[Hmmm, okay. Speaking of which, has Elysia ssaged you at all?] Clara didn't seem to like the plan, but what else could we do? Switch sides? I doubt that would fly with anyone here.
[Nope, she has read it, but there has been no response.] It was a little disheartening since she was ssaging us at the beginning, but after a month or two she suddenly stopped. It made want to go see her, but since she still read the ssages I refrained. Whatever she was doing, I just hoped she would co back safe.
[Perhaps leave her a ssage saying we will be fighting Freja soon? That might make her co back.] Silver brought up a pretty good idea, as I doubt she would stay there much longer knowing or anyone in the party is in danger.
[Yeah, I'll let her know, she is in this chat, but I'll send a direct one.] Quickly switching to direct ssages, I quickly left a ssage saying we were going to et Freja in the next 30 minutes.
"Why are you guys all looking down?" However, as we were having our little secret eting, Luna looked at us weirdly seeing our heads looking down at our system screen.
[We can tell her, right? It's not like we have Rea stopping us from telling people the truth.] Clara was right, we had no reason to hide the system, so we may as well tell Luna.
'Maybe I could give Luna and Hiko a system. I'm pretty sure I offered Hiko, but she said she wasn't quite ready.' I would need to ask, but I don't know if now is a good ti.
[Yeah it's fine, no reason to hide it.] Giving the okay, we began to explain the details to Luna, preparing for the possibility of gaining a new recruit to our party.
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