Arc 5: The Heart Within
Road to a Hero:
Three chances in another world
Chapter 10. Puzzle pieces
Gordon: “You’re Azalea!?”
Azalea: “Yes, I am. I’m currently speaking through Gray's body.”
Peter: “THAT’S AWESOME!”
Rosemary: “Why did he ask you to talk to us? And he’s coming back right!?”
Azalea: “We have an agreement, so yes he’s coming back.”
Gordon: “And I assume Gray asked you to tell us all you know?”
Azalea: “Well…there’s a problem…I don’t remember much.”
Soku: “Of course.”
Peter: “Then how were you on such a high rank!?”
Azalea: “I can tell you a few things I remember.”
Gordon: “Any bit of information will be useful, so please tell us everything.”
Azalea: “In the missing two hundred years…around the year nine-hundred eighty…I was born into the Yagari empire.”
Rosemary: “The Yagari empire! That’s supposed to be a legend right? Just like Godrick Walgonia. A placeholder story.”
Gordon: “Well it’s just speculation, and nobody knows anything about the missing two hundred years.”
Gray {The hell is the missing two hundred years? I wish I had some popcorn because this is getting interesting.}
Azalea: “Most of the “lost” history is real. It intentionally forgot to make sure nobody went peeking around.”
Peter: “Wait what don’t you remember?”
Azalea: “A bit of my life before I was frozen…and a little later. But I knew nothing about Arthur or the Sects' plan with him. But I know how their powers work. But I only know how and what their apostle can do, not their real bodies due to the fact I've never seen them."
Gray: {Real bodies}
Azalea: “For a bit of context…Prometheus Yagari…better known as Prometheus was the king of the Yagari empire…an empire led by Vampires.”
Peter: “VAMPIRES ARE REAL!?”
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Gordon: “I…can’t believe it.”
Gray {This place has dragons, magic, trolls, and spirits, and yet they think Vampires are legends, weird.}
Azalea: “Well when the original three great leaders put a stop to the Prometheus' rain of power my husband used dark magic to curse Godrick the Great.”
Rosemary: “Did you say dark magic?”
Azalea: “Indeed I did.”
Soku: “This is crazy…dark magic AND Vampires.”
Gordon: “Dark magic is speculated to have been real…but is it not supposed to kill you, or take your life span?”
Azalea: “It does in a sense. It takes a portion of your life force in return for the power of the spell.And Prometheus used a spell that cursed himself and Godrick. In doing so, all of the charms of improvidence were created. Godrick had made it to Alfheim and had his charms created. Armor that increases the wearer's power and repairs itself, a cloak that can bend and stretch at the user's will, an egg-shaped gem that locks a person's mana to their body, making magic unusable, and a ring that absorbs power.”
Peter: “THE CRAZED KING IS GODRICK!? HE’S THE ONE THAT BROUGHT THE CURSED CHARMS INTO OUR WORLD!”
Julius: “The name of the king that supposedly did was lost to history and suspected to have been done in the lost period. I guess that man was Prometheus.”
Gordon: “Hundreds of years, the thousands of puzzle pieces which make our history all coming together.”
Azalea: “The curse that was placed upon Prometheus sent his physical body to Eclis, the underworld. The place with an eternal eclipse and an endless winter, the mystical place of which all souls that are viewed poorly go, a place also known as Hell.”
Soku: “How the hell did he survive for almost nine-hundred years?”
Azalea: “Since he was a vampire his body only needed to absorb mana to live. And right before he died, he took the cursed ring of Godricks body to Eclis with him. He used the newly cursed ring to absorb the spirits' mana in the air and managed to live. But the consciences were dire, his body mutated, becoming a tall, slim, gray monster. With hairless and rough skin, sharp teeth, long fingers, and nails. He was turned into what books describe Vampires as.”
Rosemary: “How did he get out?”
Azalea: “I’m sorry, but I don’t remember that. But what I do remember is the Pillar's abilities. The apostle Prometheus can control the blood, muscles, and any organ in someone's body. He can use it to instantly heal or destroy one's body with only a touch.”
Rosemary: “That’s what he did to Kioshi, he touched her with his finger and she just…popped.”
Soku: “But Prometheus looks nothing like how you described him.”
Azalea: “It’s due to the dark magic they possess. They store a part of their soul in a body and can take over the body when they choose. But they can only do it one at a time and they have different ways of doing it. Prometheus must get your permission, and manipulate your OD. Servers just need to infect you with his venom. And it will grant you his hard scales, long limbs, and most dangerous ability aside from his venom is his stare, which can turn weaker bodies to stone."
Gray {HE’S A BODY HOPPING MEDUSA!?}
Rosemary: “That explains how he was in that old man's body.”
Soku: “What about Lazarus and Pandora?”
Azalea: “Pandora's ability is simple, Her soul is trapped within an egg-like shell that holds her power. When activated you'll be consumed by a black shell and granted bird-like armor around your body. It locks your OD, making you unable to use mana or marks of providence. And an added ability where it makes all the stress, anger, and sadness overflow in your body, and in some cases causing you to kill yourself.”
Gordon: “Oh…continue.”
Everyone looks at Gordon with a confused face, but they accept it and listen to Azalea's last few words.
Azalea: “Lazurus stores a bit of his scythes power in someone's body, transforming them into the skeletal-like figure you've seen. The scythe can rip the soul out of a body and be placed back in its body later. But it cannot place a soul in another person's body."
Soku: “So…that’s it?”
Azalea: “Yes…that is all I know. From most dangerous to least dangerous it is Prometheus, Lazurus, Severus, and Pandora. But each of their abilities makes them equally powerful, so don’t think just because they aren’t as strong as another that they’ll be easy.”
Gordon: “So…that’s it then. All we need now is to finish the communicator and get everyone to Walgonias capital.”
Rosemary: “Thank you for all you’ve given us!”
Azalea: “No problem. But keep in mind that this is their possessed "apostle" bodies. If for whatever reason you meet their real forms and there isn't a god of ear with you, or anybody near their strength know you will die."
Gray's eyes fade back to their normal appearance, and Gray leaves his mindscape and enters his body.
Soku: “You back?”
Gray: “Yeah, and what the hell is missing two hundred years?”
Julius: “To put it simply, it’s what is also known as the B.M period, or “Before mana”. It's a lost history, and the past world leaders decided to restart the Sagas calendar.”
Gray: “Only Saga? This continent is named Saga so…does all the other ones have a normal calendar?”
Gordon: “Yes, and I think we should just change to theirs. But most of the officials in the world wanna make sure that the lost history stays lost and we keep the year fourteen ninety-seven, instead of sixteen ninety-seven.”
Gray: “So…now all we gotta do is inform the ones that left the room. And Peters gotta finish the communicator.”
Peter: “Yeah, yeah I’ll go get on that.”
End of Chapter Ten