After they finished marvelling over the sight in front of them, Nova finally slapped Cloud on the back, Enough fooling around. The Divine Egg is out of our league. Start setting up the gear.
Cloud had an aggravated look on his face, one which he didnt dare to keep when he turned around. Instead he took off his shell and started opening the top plate to pull out so complicated looking gadgets. He looked around and then rembered Spark wasnt with them. Then he turned his pleading look to Aurora. She rolled her eyes and then cleared her voice, Once weve set up the gear, we can try for a few of the Divine Athyst before we leave.
Nova chuckled and didnt object. The group didnt have any official leader, but they did have a sort of chain of command, mainly based on who was the best at bullying the others. Or at least thats how Cloud felt, since Nova was always bullying him. She was also friends with Aurora and Spring did anything that Aurora said. Not that he blad her, Cloud turned his eyes wistfully over to the fair Aurora and tried not to sigh too loudly.
Like she could tell exactly what he was thinking, Nova threw a stone that hit the back of Clouds knee as he was walking and made him stumble onto the ground. He cursed, but didnt say anything. Grumbling to himself as he pulled out the gear. The device looked like an overly busy tripod, and he handed two of them to each mber of the group. Then they spread out around the room, hugging the walls. Even so, they were assaulted by varying waves of dizziness and vertigo. They heard phantom voices and saw vibrant illusory waves of color floating towards them.
With their hand on the wall, they had a guide and ignored the strangeness coming from their eyes and ears. At a certain point, the device in their other hand started to vibrate and they stopped their trek. Led by the vibration, they placed the device without needing to know where they were. Then they unfolded the tripod-like device into sothing more like the tines of an umbrella. At the base, instead of a handle, there was a spike. They placed the spike down against the ground, holding the device tightly while pressing a button. There was a loud hiss of air and the spike on the bottom drove itself into the stone floor. Once the device was placed, they pulled out the second one they were given and started moving again. They were guided to another position and repeated the process.
Aurora, Spring, and Nova placed two devices each, while Cloud put down three. When all nine of them were placed, the strange visions and hallucinations they were seeing disappeared. They could still hear so faint sounds, but their vision cleared up just like when theyd been standing outside of the room.
Okay, all the Pylons are down. Now lets hurry up with the defenses. We cant stay down here forever.
They put up a camouflage screen like they used when camping, as well as a few other devices that would block slls and sounds. They also added traps and even moved the rocks around to create an artificial end to the cave before it reached the chamber with the Divine Athyst. Only when their preparations were complete did they finally return to start trying to collect the crystals.
Novas finger lit up like a firework and she hurled the marble sized ball of crackling light towards the Divine Egg. It flashed and crackled as it whizzed through the air, but after traveling a few feet over the pile of Divine Athyst it disappeared. She let out a loud sigh, If only our powers worked nearby the Divine Egg. You could collect all the Divine Athyst in just a few minutes, Aurora. Hey, Cloud. Go crack that egg with your big sword. It cant be as hard as your head.
The normally quiet Spring chid in, Theres no way any of us could withstand the ntal attacks of the Divine Egg long enough to get close to it.
Of course, they all knew that already, but Nova felt like her joke had just turned into her being teased. She turned a glare onto the brown haired girl, but then Aurora laughed, What if we just throw him over there, head first!
Spring realized what shed said and then laughed with Aurora, Oh! If hes moving fast enough before getting close that might just work!
Cloud did not enjoy being the butt of the joke, so he just finished with the last device he was setting up and then walked towards the Divine Athyst pile. At this point he would rather face the hallucinations and poltergeist-like ntal attacks, Being alone with a bunch of won is really not as great as they said.
Excuse ? What did you say?
Nothing!
Cloud didnt realize he spoke so loud and quickly ran into the ntal attack area rather than face the three of them who sohow spoke in unison. He felt like he was being stabbed in the chest by a ghost holding a knife, while walking across a field of hot coals that had already destroyed his shoes and started burning his skin, but he felt it was a relief at the mont. Then he saw a viper made out of stone with burning magma dripping from its fangs. He reached down and plunged his hand into its mouth. He felt like his arm was being completely lted off, but then a mont later he pulled his hand out and felt the Divine Athyst in his palm.
After teasing Cloud, the three won went around the room collecting a few of the Divine Athyst that were on the wall, but still had so power in them. Then, they adjusted their ntal states with careful breathing and a round of ditation. Then they did the sa as Cloud, braving the terrible hallucinations, and simulated pain and torture to try and retrieve the Divine Athyst. They had all been trained in the process and knew that wherever they saw and felt the most terrible and painful things, it would likely be where the Divine Athysts actually were.
The Pylons that they placed earlier could restrict the area of influence, but they had a limit. They would only operate once they were a certain distance away from the center of the powerful field of energy. Only near the edges of the room was the energy weak enough to be neutralized. Unfortunately, that energy was what nourished the crystals into being Divine Athysts. The crystals that were scattered against the walls were quite far away and only a few of them retained enough power to still be considered as Divine Athyst.
A couple hours later, the group could only collect a few crystals each before they were starting to get fatigued and had to leave. They made it to the surface and rejoined Sage and Spark. Of course, Sage had been watching everything that had been going on with the Twin Soul, so he already knew how things had gone for them. Thankfully, they hadnt spotted anyone else during this ti.
Sage looked at the four who returned, Were you successful?
They nodded and he smiled, Wonderful! Okay, so on our way out; should we kill a bunch of their guards and then escape after being discovered? If only this one squad goes missing, theyll be suspicious and search this area, right?
Cloud finally perked up, Dont worry, weve already got it all planned out!
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