Galus looked at the rotten swamp of the witchbane ruins. Sat down to take a break, the physical and mental exhaustion of his fight earlier, concentrating on several spells at once is fucking hard. He laid down, and decided to sleep off this headache.

He didn't dream of the flower field this time, no this time he opened his eyes to a sky of deep maroon, he got to his feet, seeing blood fucking everywhere. He went for his sword and realized he didn't have hands. He was a spectator it seemed. He turned seeing a group of people in red and black clothes all kneeling, and then he turned to the right seeing a massive burning castle, with a deep red erd tree standing behind it. He saw Mohg standing tall, a creature that might have been Miquella judging by the hair, it might have been him one point. But Clearly it wasn't Miquella anymore, it's skin a dark maroon like the sky and insectile wings like a wasp coming out of it's back. Miquella walked up beside Galus, the actual Miquella this time not the abomination. "I'm sorry to show you this, but it's to get a point across, you should know, this we're gonna need to step this up, you've killed the rune hunter?"

Galus shook his head. "I did not. I wounded her greatly but she's alive as far as I know."

Miquella looked at him confused. "Why didn't you kill her?"

Galus sighed. "She's one of your sisters daughters."

Miquella looked at him, before nodding. "I understand."

Galus looked at Miquella realizing he now had a body, so he took a knee and looked Miquella in the eye. "Miquella, why is Malenia not in the dreamscape with us, she's in a deep slumber, shouldn't she be here too?"

Miquella looked sad for a moment. "Her slumber is brought on by the scarlet rot. It blocks our influence from getting to her."

Galus closed his eyes and nodded. When he opened them it he was awake again. He got up, stretching and unsheathing his sword, he blitzed the swamp, and up to a wall, before climbing onto one of the walls to the ruins and noticed a pair of the Marinette golems patrolling, he was sick and fucking tired of golems. He jumped from the wall and landed on a second wall, before running along it to parkour his way to another one, he was surprised with how well he was doing this, he was never athletic in his old life, maybe this was because of dexterity, it almost seemed to train his body to know what to do, coming to think of it he saw that his arms were much more muscular than it was before and he he was able to cast good spells.

He found the entrance to the underground bunker, he also saw the summoning of the graven school. It floated up from the ground and levitated there, it started raining down Glintstone mortars, he lept into the toward it and used to his hounds step as he leapt of, swinging his blade as he shot through air and realized he was flying through the air, almost at the speed of a 9mm round without the ground to speed him down... He heard an explosion, and he felt himself starting to slow, and saw he was slowing down, and then watched as he quickly started to approach a ledge, he stabbed his sword into the ground, slowed to a stop about a foot away from The ledge, he carefully crawled back on his back. He grabbed his shoulder, and with a cry of pain popped it back into place, then his arm as well, he wouldn't be using his sword arm for a while. Then he remembered his flask, he hadn't had to use it in so long that he forgot it existed. He took a swig and felt his arm and a few ribs go numb.

He walked back to the ruins and was suddenly glad he got thrown like a ragdoll because the stone mass had blown up and shattered sending it's stone heads and stone shards flying. He saw them sticking out of the walks. He trudged through the swamp, and saw a few of the marionette soldiers soldiers with shrapnel sticking out of them, one of them was still twitching around on the ground malfunctioning.

Galus summoned a discus of light and threw it at the automaton. He walked downstairs into the bunker. Recalls the disc into his hand. He walks over to the door and kneels down to open it, he noticed his shadow, and that it didn't go down with him. He rolled out of the way, and saw a the Valkyries sword. He looked up seeing her angry face, with her arm still tightly senched. "I let you live dumbass, but fine, if you're so damn determined to die today I'll end you." He dashed and swung ha sword, she blocked his strike before he kicked her in the jaw sending her crashing into the wall, he saw something rushing him in the corner of his eye, he leaped at the wall and jumped off of it, planting his foot on Melina's shoulder, and kicked himself off of her. He landed behind her and she ended up stabbing the wall the blade bouncing off the stone wall, he spins and swings his sword cutting through Melina's cloak, he ducked a swing of the Valkyries blade, before his vision blurred and he was out of her swords reach. The pair looked at him and he looked back at them. He tapped his sword on the entrance doorway behind him. "Get out, and leave me alone!" Melina wordlessly dashed at him and Galus slashed at her. "I said leave!" He roared and he saw Melina dodge backwards, he saw the Valkyrie raise a bell. and a group of ethereal wolves coming at him he summoned his disc and then a second one and controlled them to spin around him rapidly, one jumped at him and was cut in half by the spinning holy saw blades, he slashed at one who attempted the low approach and then launched the one of the blades at the last one, he brought it back to spinning around him and then continued his approach. "Last chance, fuck off." The Valkyrie looked surprised at the wolves vanishing in a puff of blue sparkles. He saw Melina summon what looked to be a representation of the erd tree, it glowed brightly and he saw their cuts and bruises heal. He shook his head. "That's a damn shame. I didn't want you guys dead." He sighs and stabs his sword into the ground, recalling the discs to his hands, and raised his hands.

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The Valkyrie gritted her teeth. "It's too late for surrender."

"Was that ever an option with you?" He asks, before energy of unalloyed gold radiated from his hands. And the Valkyrie screamed swinging wildly at Melina. He grabbed hiscsword and walked over to the door. He hated that he had to do that but frankly he was relatively sure he would have died otherwise. He was sure Melina could kill her easy enough. He opened the door and walked inside hearing the struggle going on behind him. He grabbed the divice from his bag and looked at it, he saw a Glintstone orb on the top of it and a needle of Glintstone. He gently pressed the Glintstone spike to Selen's heart area and he noticed it start glowing and almost looked like something flowed into it she thrashed and eventually fell still. He when it was full and completely glowing he put it back in his bag.

He walked out seeing the two still going at it, Melina clearly not wanting to kill her partner. He rolled his eyes and decided to test if he could undo the bewitchment. He concentrated and she stopped fighting Melina who looked at the end of her rope.

Galus nodded to himself. "Kindly, leave me the fuck alone. Or next time I won't stop." He said.

The Valkyrie glared and started forward but Melina grabbed her by the shoulder. "You cannot kill him, he'll just make you attack me again."

He nodded, and walked off, and he could hear them arguing as he left.

He once again leapt from ruin to ruin, and got to the edge of the poisoned bog. He jumped down onto the lake.

He dusted his pants off and continued walking back to the others.

He saw a Kaiden Mercenary on his horse. He walked over to them, he looked up at them. "How much for the horse?"

The Merc held up 5 fingers. "Five thousand, non negotiable."

He saw looked at the coin shaped amber about the size of a drink coster. It was worth about six thousand. He sighed and gave it to the Merc and they got off the horse. "It's name is Tempest, take good care of her, or else."

He hopped up onto it's saddle, it was awkward. "I will. I love animals."

He hands it some rowa berries to eat from the palm of his hand, it turned it's head and ate from his hand. he tapped his leg into it's side and it rode forward at a trot, it was a good pace until he remembered how to ride a horse. Half way there he pulled the horse to a stop and aimed his crossbow at a sheep on his way back.

He arrived back at camp and saw Selen's body slumped by the fire. He waved to them as Edgar was trying to help Selen, he got down from the horse nearly falling on his head. But managed to get down safely. He walked over to a young oak tree and tied the horses lead to the biggest branch he could and walked over to the back of the horse saddle and untied the sheep fron the horse saddle. He set it down, taking out his Kukri and used it to cut it open. Edgar looked over at him, as if he didn't see that Selen is dead. "Didn't you hear her? Don't overreact, now I need some help skinning this thing."

Edgar sighed. "You know, whatever it is you two are hiding you can tell me."

Galus sighed. "She told me not to tell you, and I need you to respect her wishes, even if those wishes are rather shitty, but I will tell you this, she isn't a trusting person, and for good reason. She's being hunted, and this is a secret that if you knew, you'd agree that it should be kept a secret, besides, I'll tell you when this is done. So, let's camp here for the night, and get back on the road. For now I need help with this."

Edgar sighed handing Galus a large knife by the blade. "Use this, it's sharper."

Galus took the knife by the handle and started skinning them and it definitely cut the fascia much better, after a while he'd field dressed it to the best of his ability. He cut off two good chunks of muscle off and speared it onto a sharpened stick and handed them to Edgar. "Here."

He cut off his own, he skewered it. They roasted their meat. it was a rather good night between the three of them.