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Chapter 14 – Ritual
Staying at the spirit kingdom of Raquos, everyone has been hospitable. For food they served the animals to us while they keep its soul. At first Reila was quite uncomfortable near spirits but now she is starting to get used to it. Lopa on the other hand was a weirdly common name so it seems… but not all Lopa has a title… only that one and I am starting to get why… he is more average than the average Lopa, some Lopa were eccentric, some were moody some were quite unique but as for that Lopa… nothing but an aura of normality… simple, honest and such like a normal citizen…
Anyways before I start diverting my curiosity, I need to focus. First thing I need to consider is the black pentagram… a pentagram in Alxia, partly means soul and guidance… black isn’t usually used as a symbol and only a part of the symbol usually like in cities or kingdoms… they use quite a variety of colors or a pure color that closely symbolize them like blue which means beginning or white for protection or divinity but black means death and end so it isn’t usually used. I have a bad feeling on whoever stole the soul orb as it might not be as useless to them as we thought.
For now I’ll wait for the others to wake up before we depart. Also the structures of this kingdom are quite peculiar… they are transparent on the outside while solid on the inside. I tried to ask Calice the day before and she told me that every structure is made of wood that neglects the line of sight depending on the mana used it is called mist wood. All wood or metal… even the winds are quite special because of the influence of Genbalt. The wind purifies itself, the land is always full of nutrients, metal is extremely precious and even beings that came from him are unique. Well Zanth is unique to as they are both specials… I have been wondering that why did both promising Gods like Zanth and Genbalt joined my clan… for Genbalt it is for freedom but how about Zanth?
There are many things to think about… like that red spirit from before but I’ll just put them on my mental list to be researched later. I then decided to find more information regarding the history. Opening the door of my room I see Reila walking a little wobbly across the hallway.
Reila: L-lord Nelus… you’re up this early?
Nelus: Yes… I am trying to find some things regarding the history of this kingdom.
Reila: Hmm… then good luck Lord Nelus! Also I heard from Lady Calice that there seems to be an artifact of records in the palace. They don’t seem to use books as… they can’t touch it… well except for Lady Calice.
Nelus: Thank you for telling me Reila.
Reila: Y-you’re welcome Lord Nelus.
Frei: Oh? Lord Nelus... going somewhere?
As Reila turns around to hide her red face. Frei suddenly appears behind her. As she loses her balance and leans to the wall.
Reila: Wha!? Frei!! Don’t surprise me like that!
Fala: Oh? Reila is quite jumpy today… Lord Nelus it seems Reila is a little sick… can you carry Reila to her room?
Reila: F-Fala!!! What are you saying!?
Nelus: Her face does seem quite red…
Reila: A-ahaha… don’t listen to her Lord Nelus… I’m alright.
Nelus: If you say so but to be safe please rest a little. I'll go now…
Reiala: F-Fala! Look what you did here… but to see Lord Nelus worried. K-kyaaa!
Fala: Sorry… looking at your reactions is quite fun.
Frei: …Ehem...
In the palace Calice guides me to the crystal like artifact. It is called the record crystal, it connects to the mind and you can either input information or take from it. I found out that the orb originally belongs to humans… but for what did they use it for?
Nelus: Thank you for letting us stay.
Calice: Be careful on your way.
Reila: We will.
Lopa: Glad you enjoyed my food! I’ll cook for you again when you come back.
Nelus: Hmm? Lopa can cook? How did the food taste?
Reila: I-it tasted quite good.
Frei: It tasted normal…
Fala: I agree not bad, not good, exactly at the middle.
Nelus: I see… (Too bad I didn’t have some… I am quite curious…)
Frei: For me it is much more impressive to be that precise, I mean I was neither satisfied nor appalled.
Nelus: I see... (Once again, I am quite curious.)
Heading towards the direction Lopa pointed us to. We came across a group of men in black robes… and there it is… the shining black pentagram.
Nelus: Quicky… hide.
We hid behind a bush as we observed those men, we followed them at a safe distance, listening in on their conversation using Frei and Fala’s exceptional hearing.
Hooded Man#3: I heard we finally found the soul orb.
Nelus: (Soul orb…)
Hooded Man#7: Finally! we can proceed with the ritual.
Nelus: (A ritual… so they need the soul orb for it… and a part of the ritual seems to need souls if my logic is correct… what is that? A horn?)
Hooded Man#1: Ohh!! My brothers it is time. The Grand Necromancer is calling.
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We continue to follow them and we came across a huge shrine filled with blood, flesh and a massive amount of human corpses. On top of the shrine is a quite large man with a black pentagram on his forehead. God’s eyes.
Zynne CorTitle:Grand NecromancerRace:Human, Special ImmortalGenderMaleLevel:365ClassNecromancer (Ruler of the Dead)Existence:S-A
A variant class? It is a class that has special properties that makes it as powerful as a unique class like Warrior (Warlord of Darkness) or Mage (Time Weaver). If so it will become quite troublesome as we have to be careful on how we take back the soul orb. Some of them are quite weak with rank B and below. The once beside him are ranked A.
Zynne: My brothers! In my hand is the fated soul orb! Now it is time to commence our ritual!
Necromancers-in-unison: Hail Lord Zynne!
Zynne: We will invade the spirits and use their souls to make an army of elite undead!
Necromancers-in-unison: Hail Lord Zynne!
Zynne: Our priority is their queen! Using her soul we shall make an unstoppable undead!!! We shall rule over all!!!!
Necromancers-in-unison: HAIL LORD ZYNNE!!
Reila: N-not good Lord Nelus, we got to warn the spirits.
Frei: Can’t we just take care of them?
Nelus: No… that man over there is quite peculiar… we can't take the risk.
Hooded Man: !? What are you doing here? Lord Zynne intruders!
Zynne: Hahahah!!! Well let us not make your visit a waste let me show you our power!
The necromancers around us summons thousands of undead to hold us but it was no use. Fala froze most of the undead with a large scale ice magic, Frei continuously cut them up with his ice dagger while Reila and I use healing magic and light magic as it was the most effective.
Zynne: Quite impressive… then can you handle this?
Zynne summons dozens of undead with a white flame inside... it was a soul... no undead should be capable of containing one... I use light magic and it doesn’t seem to affect them. God’s Eyes.
Soul Form UndeadRace:Undead SpiritGender-Level:-Element:Light, DarkExistence:B-S
Zynne: Do you see now that it is futile! They are the perfect undead with no weaknesses. Even if they are ranked B they are as powerful as a rank S.
Nelus: (If they used Calice soul then it is all over it might equal the power of a God.)
Zynne: My undead, hold them down!
The group of undead holds down Reila and Fala as they aren’t a strength type while Frei gives them a good fight and releases both of them. I used
Zynne: Enough of this farce! Soul orb get me their souls!
Reila: Gaahh!!!!
Frei: Uuurrgghh!!!
Fala: Aaaaggghh!!!
Nelus: Guh… (It stings quite a bit…)
Zynne: Excellent! To only be slightly affected by the orb… you must have a marvelous soul… I MUST HAVE IT!!!! No matter all of you will die anyways.
Reila: (I-I feel like my vision is fading…)
Frei: Fala…
Fala: Frei…
Nelus: (At this rate they are going to die… I almost forgot… I had been to the spirit kingdom so I can use it to get us back there… space control…)
Zynne: What!?
We teleported away from the orb’s range appearing in front of the palace. I checked if Reila and the rest is okay and it seems their souls weren’t damaged. *relieved* Approaching us with a frantic expression was the queen, Calice.
Calice: What happened!? I just looked out the window and I saw some bodies lying in front of the palace…
Nelus: I teleported us away from danger… also we need to talk. Take me to the palace and I need to tell you something also have those three rest.
Calice: Alright… take them to the palace rooms.
I lift all three of them into the palace to each of their designated room as the queen and I head to the room where the recording artifact is located as the room there is soundproof. I explained the things that happened on our journey to find the soul orb and about the necromancer named Zynne…
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