Murai didn't know this world after all, so seeing Lisa and her plotting nature and vague word choices were always sothing he found annoying. Hearing her willingness to finally talk was a welcod change that was important, but would it make a drastic difference? Not much. Not now, at least in his opinion.
The problem was obvious. Why this change didn't co sooner? Because Lisa didn't want to talk before, and now she had an advantage or change in attitude about it?
Though, that would be his problem since his own perception and opinion caused his own anger while caring about Lisa was his own problem. For all he could care about, he may forget her and be done with it. That would be the easiest solution, but sotis, the easiest thing didn't happen according to one mind. He needed information and Lisa wasn't talkative when it was important to be so. That was a fact that he disliked with a passion.
“So what if it is a bit funny?” Lisa said, annoyed. “Sona sounds like so form of the ancient word anyway. Like sothing magical and mysterious, since it is that. Strong, and sothing I haven't heard before. It's my own interpretation of what it ans to be in a world of a power that ans a magical being.” she sounded as important as always.
“Right... magical. Got it. Tell about it please...” Murai kept his comnt short, and boring, leaving Lisa in a self-centered view as if he really was interested.
“Since you insist. My ability as a Soul Render is special and I am extrely pleased with how it feels when I have it now. Not only it is special, but it resolved around my whole being that I see as a power of the path of souls. You don't ever hear of such paths normally, so feeling it with my own senses is interesting. Only special cases of mages can feel my presence if I will turn my physicality to null, and even fewer could make an impact on my form with their magic. It would require quite a specific power, or incredible Will, intent, or weapon.”
That made sense since Lisa's form was that of a soul form. An intangible thing that was one of the most mysterious essences known to anyone. One can destroy it. Murai did so many tis in the past hours with many tangible or intangible soul form beasts. Of course, those weren't of the kind like Lisa whose origin was of a higher caliber than those beasts born from this Seventh Death Forest.
Murai viewed this topic in high regard, and with stronger intent than anyone, as his soul was walked, existed in, and ford many paths already. Sothing that should be impossible, but it was, for whatever reason that caused his Cursed living.
Lisa continued. “It is true that as this... peculiar Soul Form, it is hard to damage my physicality by ordinary ans, but that doesn't an I am invisible. A soul may be weak for so figures of specific paths. Beings that can wield and empower their attacks with the intent that can move unford, I am like a good target for them. I may die because of that, the sa way you can also die or injure yourself.”
“Die? This talk about physicality makes sense, Lisa. Soul Forms are peculiar because their soul is involved in their origin, rather than their power in general. So what If you die? Will it have so repercussions since you are this... unknown Soul Form directly involved within my soul space?”
“M-maybe... I am... Unsure.” she said, appearing as if she didn't want to tell the whole picture of the truth. It was a bit more complicated than she was willing to explain, while his interest piqued so hesitation within herself.
“Oh, so your case will have so problems? Is it your form? Ability as a Soul Render, or it has sothing to do with you as a Life Companion under this rule of the Battleworld? I bet you aren't talking sense as you should, but it doesn't an I can't figure or co up with so guesses myself.” Murai deducted.
“Yeah... Yes. About that... I will talk. Alright? I own that.” she winced her body, appearing nervous about what she wanted to say. “It has sothing to do with this world and these differences and sses that make not only the Will of the Battleoworld crazy but many other things that follow us around,” Lisa said hesitantly. “I was doing sothing. with you, Murai Hisagi. Don't hate for that as you probably think of it as important, but you didn't feel it. I was using a part of your World's Blessing for myself, pulling it out of you by the intentions of the Will of the Battleworld that gave that option. Rewards that were ant for you, beca smaller because of that. It was one of the reasons I didn't explain a lot of things to you sooner and it is the reason I went to sleep to finalize my first evolution behind your back... S-sorry.”
“WHAT?” Murai barked at her, almost stomping the ground in the reality where the danger of the ssiahs lurked not that far away. “Are you serious? Did you an.. this whole leveling thing, upgrades, and the World? You bled from the inside out so you would have your own al? How.... shaless... but...” he hesitated. “You took advantage of my cluelessness... and situation. How does it even work? You were taking sothing from without my knowledge? That... sounds... doubtful. Who do you take for?” Murai said as his voice drifted to doubt when he questions his own power and lack of noticing what she did. He was not really angry at her words, but more confused as sothing important probably happened without his awareness.
Also, he didn't feel his progress to be lacking all that much in the past week so whatever Lsia took from him ant, she was taking it for herself because she wanted more power. It was that kind of thing. Murai couldn't bla her since he would do the sa thing if he was in her situation.
“You... you aren't angry?” Lisa asked, surprised and calmly waiting for his fury. “I would be furious, as a forr Blessed that understands this thing... Its... Against the unspoken code, but not as it matters, I suppose.”
“Who says I am not?” Murai said. “You don't have to worry about my soul or intention to shackle you like a fool. Tell the truths, for once. Think of it as a price for whatever you did, that went behind the scenes of my knowledge.”
“It's... simple” Lisa hesitated, thinking of what she wanted to tell, as there were things that she couldn't reveal. “I wanted to wield the power over my Soul Form faster, so I would travel the world to be more useful. That is it.”
“That's it? It sounds like an excuse to not tell any more of it, but I'll take it as if you don't care about the whole picture. Also, don't make it all about yourself... You may think of yourself as important but you aren't all that useful to if you continue to be such a bother. What about this leveling process at all? You took it from , I presu? This... power? What is it... I guess it has sothing to do with the world itself, which is making this whole evolution and progression possible. You didn't steal my mana, or sothing within my soul... I know that much. It isn't coming from within us, so my only guess is the World's Core itself?”
“I... You are right. I know you would know it, or guess it sooner but you never said anything along your... Soul or mind. I said things I deed worth telling and didn't say things that should've been said. I know it my wrong as a forr Blessed. I can tell... more things if you will accept .” Lisa said with a change of attitude and confidence.
“I got it... Accepting... you. Asking or talking like that is a basic thing, but you are forgetting sothing. Trust ... I feel your loftiness from a mile ahead. I didn't voice my questions, as I have no need for caring about your ego. Now I do... slightly since the world is pressing on like a mountain. I need it, so explain this situation without being borderline, yourself.”
Lisa shut herself up, as her whole being in the soul space shuddered. Murai's words were quite aningful, and they made her realize so things that she wasn't willing to acknowledge. She also understood so things from this conversation and sothing in her mind changed.
“Alright... It is true that I am myself. Still... am.” She whispered to herself before speaking loudly to answer Murai's words. “The World itself is one big source of ssy magic that is unique and unlike... anything you've seen. It is sothing similar to the River of Manaflow as you ntioned before. That is a source of mana, but the world is a source of everything pertaining to the many paths and possibilities one can get within, or outside of that River.”
Murai heard that to another degree of interest. “A power in the level of River of Manaflow? That... seems insane. Does the Core of this world itself do this? These Blessings under God's domain and this whole ass system? I don't get it... It makes no sense for gods to wield this sort of power... They do... I can tell it because it is happening.” Murai figured in confusion and understanding.
“I don't know the answer to that.” Lisa shook her head left and right around herself, noticing no qualities or strangeness before her in Murai's soul. It is still nacing, even in confusion and hesitation. “But, I know a few things that can or may make sense for your worries. This Core is the reason this all works. I can vouch for that. It is also one of the reasons many Gods are present in its proximity, forcing and trying their way toward higher powers.”
“You speaking surely, or with guesses or hunches that you know, or not?” Murai asked, eyeing the ssiahs that moved throughout the paths of the Seventh Death Forest. He was still patient and had ti to hear her words, so he wasn't in a hurry.
“Think of it as you wish, but I am not joking. My own guess is that the secrets of this planet are sothing beyond the gods themselves. It shouldn't be sothing about one's divinity, or power over the people like the conventional ends of one's path. For example, this whole thing about the dungeons is also a thing to question. Somalis and others are obviously places that have already been here, long before the gods ca to this world. It was part of the forr planet before it beca the Battleworld itself. No one can be sure of why, you know? A whole lot of things are old and ancient, but so are still older than others. This whole World Core idea isn't a topic that the public knows about. I do because of my forr status, and a lot of Extres think of this as an important topic. It is hard to point it out this sort of answer to this sort of power, you know? It's sothing I wish to uncover myself soday, so if you may, this is my answer which provides so answers to your doubts.”
Murai grunted inside, feeling that she was still forgetting or not stating so of the things he wanted to hear. Or should hear.
The talk about the World Core was a peculiar one, as the universe itself held many individual and unique things. Murai knew this sort of huge deal... Power in the similar complexity as River of Manaflow shouldn't be anything simple. This system in this world was definitely sothing of that sort of caliber.
For countless tis, Murai wasn't sure which part of the universe he was born with. The knowledge of that always beca important later, or not. Because of that, he knew many secrets and knowledge of higher powers. Planets were no simple things, and whenever a civilization in the cosmos rose, it was prone to certain mysteries. After all, life was a rare thing in this universe filled with Chaos.
Battleworld itself may be just a tiny little dot in the greater place and there was nothing wrong with that approach. Yet, the Gods made it their plaything for so reason that Lisa just explained. Literary and most likely, figuratively.
Murai held a couple of guesses which could make reasonable cases, explanations, or answers, but it all ca to one thing. He had no need to care about it. At least not now, when he was weak and not ready to take such answers to his heart.
Lisa continued. “As for the reasoning behind my... situation. I was eating up a bit of this power that was flowing to you by your... existence? As you endured life in the Battleworld, it makes this flow into you. They are known as Boosts. Core does it to import power from it to the beings on the surface, up or below it. Pretty much anyone is prone to it one way or another, but so more than others. Blessed are among the more... than the latter. In this special affair of , being within you, it puls its power to also, but I took a chunk of it for myself. In so sense, it is like mana, but not really.”
Murai nodded to himself, feeling that her words carried a lot of truth, yet it was a truth he couldn't see or conform it himself. The origin of this worldly feeling was vague and hard to point out.
“Is it true that everyone has this flow? This intangible.... threat? Or... sothing, vaguer?”
“Everyone has it. It should be the case. The world is huge and it poses so value of interest, I believe. Its purpose should constantly flow to all beings, enabling them to level, improve, and share countless possibilities of power. Abilities, attributes, and their own level all play a big part because of this Core. The Will of the Battleworld is then a topic of the runner of this place, along with this Core. It is an artificial voice of reason, creation, and a lower purpose to appease so sense of the creator who... or... It is created by whoever runs this place right now, I reckon.”
“Hoh... Your words this ti carry a lot of sense. It's surprising...” Murai said, impressed by figuring it was the case.
“Excu...”
Murai shut her off, continuing. “I heard so of this topic already from a little girl of 17 years of age, let alone a figure such as yourself. It is... a weird progression that doesn't make happy, but it makes sense. You added much-needed context while she added so answers too. It doesn't need to be intricate, or sensible. Alright. That doesn't explain my inability to sense very little changes, nor it should. I couldn't even sense a tinge of it, so I guess you ate a lot, didn't you? I couldn't notice it.”
“Well... M-maybe.” Lisa mumbled hesitantly. “It's more complicated than that. It's part of Anatidae. It's about them. They are creatures of darkness and brightness. They are demons of unlike features and Will that is... kind of legend in so parts of the world. I haven't felt the need to be too direct with you, so I did what I did, hoping your progress would be fine even without the part of it, but I suppose it isn't fine. I decided on it before you finished the Somalis Dungeon, so I am sorry.” Lisa bowed, apologetically looking like a sorry figure even though Murai's Will was no longer in his soul space.
Though, her whole bearing of the lustrousness of before, slowly beca more intricate as she talked. The Essence of her Soul Form, filled with glowing and shimring wavy mana, was unlike before. It was more vivid along with waves of rules within them that seed more intricate, complex, and powerful. Her being was bearing the mystery of the Soul Render, so it was no wonder.
Before being one, she held a very poor iteration of Soul Essence that worked with those strange flows of power from the World Core. It made matters out of her hand but now? Now, she held so incentive to work through her decision, which may have worked against Murai, but she did it for him, albeit more for herself.
Feeling her bare sincerity, she appeared honest, according to his sense but that didn't an there weren't more words to tell. Doubt was still there since Murai knew he didn't know much about her past. Since she already plotted sothing once, it was easy to figure she would do it again. Murai thought of that as such.
“I doubt you are even sorry all that much,” Murai said. “You may be your own person, but I am myself. You seek sothing out of this... because you want to live and walk the power like before. It is Ego, as I said. I don't bla it, as I bla my... or everything. I know that. I can't guess it or force it. I am not upset all that much by your action, since I am used to being alone in the path of power.” Murai said in a calm manner after so sort of decision ca to his mind after deliberate contemplation.
Lisa remained silent as if wanting to hear more of his words that stemd from her sincerity. “I wish to continue... but this was a good start. So... Wanna see butcher those ssiahs? I am over your topic, so if you want to talk about so more anings later, do so later and without hesitation if you fear my anger or your plot that much. My Soul Read isn't allowing to gouge the powers of these lunatics, but a soul is intricate enough to gouge them a little. They should be level 30, or around that number. It's going to be a mistake or straigh up the tough challenge.” Murai said, still hiding in the bush. “It is quite to my taste. Hehehe.”
Looking at the walking foes that weren't spread around the Seventh Death Forest, Murai saw them enough throughout this talk with Lisa in his head. They firmly walked a couple of ters beside each other, walking and looking for him. Though, they didn't know they were hunted instead of being hunters. The Centralis Kingdom's ssiahs were trying to catch him according to the topic of the Encounter from Razmund's side.
Murai couldn't guess which sort of aning they had, as his own part was his, while Razmund's case was his own. Two parties will clash either way, with individual prose, rewards, wish, and ploys. That was what sort of ss Encounter was.
A ss that Lordis decided to call after deep deliberations, or further plots that knows no bounds of common sense.
Having his life exposed and used by others made Murai quite upset. In one way, he was furious at Razmund, but more so at gods who were likely figures hiding behind their lofty palaces. This feeling of pressuring hunt made his heart skip a beat, but his mind was firm. Hunting him like so kind of animal wasn't his idea, but if the world wanted him to act like one, he may bite this bait and carry his Will to the bitter end.
Perhaps in the end, he will love this idea, but now, it was ti to taste the start of it first. Murai was right in his own approach, but this whole Encounter was suspiciously against his odds, and Lisa realized it all too well.
He was way too low in the flow of power and this whole balance of this Encounter made no sense. Including Lisa's worry or purpose, it also posed no solution. She couldn't help him, let alone give him a solution to end this madness. She can carry her purpose and help him with solving it, but only in small steps which may not be easy at all.
“If you let out, I can be of so help against those ssiahs,” Lisa said after so thought. “I am more powerful than before. Levels themselves aren't good enough to gouge others, but they are good to look at yourself. Numbers aren't absolute. Especially when humans are involved. In the sense of the Battleworld, abilities scale much better with one's power. They make up for the core attributes that the basic level-ups contribute. Your case is more than like that though, as your body is that of an Anatidae. Such species must have a ton of hidden properties where the Will of the Battleworld, Blessing of the World, is included. Your own experiences are making the biggest impact though. The level differences don't matter to you, am I right?” she asked.
“You just explained the absolute common sense of any power, Lisa,” Murai said, unbothered, and unsurprised by her basic revelation that he long figured out.
“That's your opinion, so I am just stating what is this Battleworld and its system like. Do you think my words don't an anything to you? I will stop eating up your Boosts, so tell how it makes you feel after a week, or 2. You will soon be worried about God's Trial anyway... so this whole ss is just another ss to the others. Hmph! You make worry and tell useless things. Numbers are important, but only so of them. Talk in the cleverness and skill can many levels useless and those n are no dumb beast, let alone dull soul form monsters.” She explained before playing a pouting ga, where she was playing an upset princess since she wanted to get out of the soul space.
“Oh, I almost forgot about that... How much do you... Well, what did you gain from this eating-up flow from the World Core, or should I call it sothing else? Boost?”
“Begginer path of the Soul Demon,” Lisa said begrudgingly, not answering his second question. “I am still a Life Companion, but a special one that is residing inside of you. I can be called the case of the Battleworld itself, if in the broader term, as my whole creation is... a bit complicated. I don't understand it either, but it is what it is. I am sothing between Blessed and Gifted. A being that can improve and walk path like you can.”
“Then what is the difference?”
“Blessed is a being like you, involved with the Battleworld with the utmost freedom and care from the Core. A Gifted is a familiar, or soone who gained sothing from the Battleworld, or by God's domain, Will, care, or gift. Such figures can still have a certain freedom, but Gods usually use their position as an opportunity to gain a permanent follower. My case is sothing between them since I am sothing like a Blessed, but my involvent with yourself is hinder... Is complicating things a little. Get it? I am like your... follower. We are connected by a strand of fate.”
“Hmm...” Murai thought out loud, thinking of Lisa's words in his own storm of thoughts. “Your abilities? I am quite intrigued by this now, unlike before. This isn't bad, so since you used my lack of knowledge, you shouldn't feel too bad if I use you as a tool. Get it?” Murai sneered in mockery and a aningful glint was within his eyes.
It was vile enough to turn Lisa a bit uncomfortable, but she got what she deserved. She thought so too, so she understood her change of mind. It was important to deal with it with her own problems. That much, she owed him. The situation called for it since God's Trial will be way too harsh, but that was far away.
For now, the Encounter was the present problem that needed her attention. She had no choice by to force herself to be as honest as possible, and even include many other pieces of information that she hoped to trade to get to know him better. She failed in those unnecessary and frankly speaking, greedy choices. In fact, she was much more inclined to work with Murai than ever before. She held so power right now. Murai also wasn't so clueless brat that so Blessed would be at the beginning of their life. In that sense, Life Companion was like a huge helper that would give Blessed a aningful start n their journey.
It was the exact opposite of Murai's case so it wasn't a ti to be the greedy and egoistical succubus she used to be. It was ti to change it towards sothing else since her own life was still hers, but not hers alone.
“Soul Render... Those aren't necessarily so soul beasts, but demonic mana beings. Their Class is varied, and Class does matter a lot in the context of power. My Class D doesn't even cover a lot of my possibilities, similar to your own Class D grading. I look like a ghost as before, so that ans the obvious. I am still far from being an incredibly profound being. At the mont I am level 18 Soul Render with a beginning range of abilities.”
“Abilities that are useful are basic Mana Shaping as you have, but my Mana Pool is lesser than you by more than a half. I have a high perception of the soul and can view or force mories out of others depending on the power of the foe, or their Will. ntal attacks to the soul are also sothing I can do, albeit, their effectiveness doesn't go far above my level. It should be quite weak against level 30ties, who have high Vitality and experience that shaped their soul to be stronger than my power. For example, those ssiahs are quite tough, since their utmost belief makes their soul and ntal defenses quite hard. They could even kill themselves if I tried to view their mories.” Lisa explained quite a bit this ti, leaving nothing but aningful word choices.
“Then use your... questionable abilities along with mine. I will smack those ssiahs and see for myself what is this Anatiadae about. I can't be carrying and fighting those ghosts all the ti and those fuckers are from a place that forced this all. It will be the first task for you. Work now with , but according to . Like a tool with so senses.” Murai ordered, leaving no place to talk back as he willed Lisa to get out of his Soul Space.
It was ti for a fight and he won't be the one forced to it this ti around.
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