“Well, now that there isn’t a chance of Neto seeing this. I made something for you girl, seeing as you’re permanently flinching at that arm of yours. Ache could you take her to your sanctuary, I’ll meet you there?”

“Sure Il, I assume you want to test it while we’re there?”

He smiled at them over his shoulder as he ran toward his workshop, a slight glint in his eyes. Achelois sighed at his antiques, while Phoenix giggled slightly, before Achelois teleported them back into her realm.

“I didn’t know he had that side to him?”

“That’s how he usually is, when he’s around those whom he considers friends or family, which used to mean only around after we got sent here, I’m glad that it now includes you as well.”

“So, which am I, friend or family?”

“I think I speak for both of us when I say family, eh Ache?”

Ilmarinen appeared behind them, in his hands a large black metal arm, or at least the husk of one, made of lots of little plates with gaps between some of them.

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“Well, come, try it on. I’ll help you.”

He handed her a silver glove with purple embroideries on it that almost reached her elbow, telling her to put it on before gently sliding the contraption over her arm, making sure it was in the correct position before telling her to channel her energy through the glove, which caused the arm to shift becoming a huge gauntlet that reached over her shoulder. The armour was now glowing with dark purplish-red runes all over, the hand part ended in claw like tips though the rest of it was now extremely sleek, giving the entire thing a slight ly demonic look to it.

“T-thank you Ilmarinen! I love it, it looks so cool!”

“I’m glad you like it. It also has a bunch of cool functions, for example you can use it as a focusing tool for your magic, or for close-quarters-combat if need be. It’s made of the same metals as Tenebris so as not to ruin your magics balance.”

“So, I could use it to amplify Tenebris and Aurora right!?”

“Hmm, I hadn’t thought of that but that should indeed work. Shall we try it out?”

Achelois started adding more and more targets to the ones that were already there layering some behind the others placing others at greater range and causing some to move erratically over the water, while Phoenix started shooting them, this time making sure to channel her energy through her new armour, making her blasts stronger, then she started casting some bolts of energy, though she couldn’t do so without her arm.

“Well, she seems to be having fun.”

“Thank you, Il.*sigh* She needed someone to do something nice for her, she’s so obviously out of her element…”

“Yeah, I feel sorry for the girl, so many expectations…