The sky was blue, and the white clouds were drifting lazily in the bright morning. The sun's golden rays were shining on the emerald waters. The vegetation on the island's were lush, and the waves were teeming with tropical colored fish.
In this calm, and warm sky a small sizzling sound erupted in the atmosphere, a large gigantic blur began appearing, the curved shaped dome slowly emerged from the clear blue sky, and white clouds. Eventually the distortion became more, and more pronounced, unveiling itself to the world. A glass dome with five curved black pillars loomed over the once calm oceans.
The dome eventually started to tilt a bit, slowly but surely it came to land on the waters creating a giant splash, and causing gigantic waves to form, smashing into the islands around. After many hours, the environment finally calmed down.
The gigantic dome spanned around 2000 meters long, and 250 meters high, it eventually settled down in the waters, and blended into the scenery. Over time it became covered in moss, and it had lodged itself into a part of the island. Eventually the forest, and fauna covered the massive dome, years upon years had passed blanketing the dome with young trees, and plants.
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"Wake up, wake up," a small soft voice was repeating the same sentence for over 10 years.
A figure with long flowing blue hair reaching her waist could be seen hovering over a small encased capsule. The woman looked to be around her late teens, her delicate features reminded anyone who saw her as a fragile doll.
The girl was dressed in a long black dress, her slim figure kept blinking in and out, as if she was about to blink out of existence any time soon, small amounts of gray static could be seen all over her body. The girl had been over seeing the capsules for many years.
Row upon rows of 2 meter long capsules could be seen surrounding the curricular room, red digitized numbers could be seen on each capsule, each one had a different number.
The girl's clear blue eyes constantly gazed at the capsule with a 0 digitized number in the front of the capsule. After what seemed like hours, a small amount of steam could be seen leaking the capsule lid.
The hatch unlocked, and the top of the capsule slowly opened, inside was a man sleeping quietly. The woman looked at the man, she gently caressed his left cheek, and poked him a bit. Her finger merely went through the man, the girl gave a wry smile, and continued.
"Wake up, wake up..."
Eventually a small twitch on the man's eyes could be seen, slowly but surely the man got up, his short black hair looked messy, his face was slightly roundish giving off a youthful look, anyone who looked at him would say he looked to be in his early twenties.
"Good morning Saia," the blue haired woman smiled.
Saia rubbed his eyes, "morning Ariel. How long has it been?"
"Around 10 years Saia." With her hands spread out, Ariel made a grand gesture indicating all the capsules.
"I see..., it's been quite awhile, you must have been lonely, but what is with that appearance?"
Saia had pointed his finger indicating Ariel's floating figure bobbing up, and down like a ghost.
"It seems during the travel through the gate, a small distortion opened near where my body was resting. Somehow the capsule fell into the distortion, a copy of my consciousness was made inside the bio-dome's operating systems as an emergency
measure."
Saia furrowed his eyebrows, if the distortion took the capsule where Ariel's body is, then they have absolutely no idea where it could be, they would have to search the entire world for it.
Ariel tried to poke Saia's forehead playfully but instead it went through his skin not touching him, "Saia, the body should retain a separate consciousness, I'm only a copy, so the main body should be able to take care of herself. Right now we better observe our surroundings."
Saia shook off the cloudy feeling in his mind, before he immediately stumbled out of the small room, and entered an elevator, eventually leading him into the depths of the bio-dome. Inside was a massive control room with many gigantic screens over 3 meters wide and 2 meters tall, the room was littered with screens, and computer desks.
Saia had entered the main systems to diagnose the status of the bio-dome known as Advantis, Ariel had peeked over his shoulder to watch what he was doing.
"Looks like the dome had stored energy for 10 years, their is some minor flooding but nothing we can't drain. The aircraft hangar looks fine, the motor for the bio-dome needs some minor repairs though, looks like the bio-dome sensors are being obstructed."
Ariel floated down and tried to lean on Saia, but ended up going past him, "the vegetation, and seeds from the island pretty much crossed over to the dome, so many parts on the outside are jammed."
Saia pondered for a minute, "I'll go check the surroundings a bit, it's been a long time since I got to move around," Saia stretched his body, and cracked his neck to emphasize the point.
"Only after you had a proper meal, and exercise your muscles for a bit."
As if the emphasize that point, small tubular robots, were carrying trays of supplements, and artificial food stuffs on plates.
"Report to me if anything happens, ok? Or else I'll get lonely again." Ariel pouted slightly as she slowly floated to the other rooms.
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After taking a long rest he went outside to enjoy the cool breeze slowly brush against Saia's face, he just stood there staring at the orange sunset, and the beautiful pristine waters, hearing the waves calmly crashing against the shores, he let out a light sigh.
"Beautiful, how long has it been since I was able to see the sun, and feel such a breeze." In the old world the sun had long since disappeared, he almost forgotten what it looked like, just staring into the sunset as the waves slowly drift by, felt quite fulfilling.
Saia had etched this scene into his mind, burning it into his eyes, with a slightly disappointed sigh, he slowly went unto the islands to explore the surroundings.
The island Advantis was connected to, was the largest one in the surroundings, a single gigantic mountain loomed in the distance, the trees were thick, and tall Spanning at the height of around 100 meters. Normally such trees were not found in such an environment, but Saia had other things to worry about.
After going deeper into the forest Saia saw a massive pink flower bulb in the middle of an open field, the field was covered in thick vines that even dug into rocks, and boulders. The pink bulb in the center was 3 meters tall, and the heat in this area was abnormally high.
Saia felt something wet hit his forehead, as he looked up, he saw vines several meters high entangled around the trees. Some were shaped like cocoons, on closer inspection he saw corpses of animals, and creature he had never seen before wrapped inside the vines. Blood was seeping into the green vines, like it was leeching unto the dead bodies, and draining it of liquid.
Immediately he sensed trouble, the ground around him tore open. Mounds of dirt were blasted into the sky; green, red, and yellow vines several meters long, and about as thick as a male arm shot towards him.
Saia immediately jumped several meters, and clung on a nearby tree. He noticed vines were hung all over the trees, covering over 10 meters in length. Saia lazily stared at the bulb in the center of the plain, the bulb slowly opened revealing a row of sharp teeth 20 cm long on the revealed inward petals, inside was a gigantic mouth that looked several meters deep, digging deep inside the ground.
From its jaw more vines shot out, and rammed into the tree Saia was clinging too. As Saia jumped to another tree, the vines nearby slowly opened flowers, releasing seeds, and dust into the air.
Saia felt slower, and tired, he lazily checked his body, "hoh..., the pollen has paralysis effects."
Saia could feel the nanites in his body hurriedly trying to purify the pollen he had inhaled. As his body was slowed down, vines immediately shot forth from nearby trees restraining both his legs, and razor sharp thorns grew out, slowly tearing up his skin.
"I shouldn't play around too much," with a light sigh, Saia's right eye slowly began to glow a mechanical red.
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In the small clearing in the forest a loud sizzling sound could be heard, and some minor explosions.
Saia was standing near the maw of the plant that was scorched brown, a small green orb of light was seen flowing from the corpse of the dead plant, as Saia slowly observed the phenomenon a loud howling could be heard from the distance.
He could sense hundreds of creatures were heading this way, with a light jump he slowly scaled the trees, until he could observe the the direction the sound was coming from.
Hundreds of creatures with thick white fur, and massive bodies 3 meters tall and 5 meters in length were rushing into the forest, the creatures looked like wolves with 2 curved horns jutting from their foreheads.
The wolves finally stopped near the green light. They cleared way for a Gigantic wolf that looked silver in color. The silver wolf quickly devoured the light, nothing had happened immediately, but a few minutes later the silver wolf let out a growling sound, immediately the wolf looked larger in size, the fur seemed to shine more brightly, and the horns on it started to emit a green light.
The wolf stared in the direction Saia was standing, for a few seconds they were just staring at one another. Saia found this incredibly amusing, and lightly smiled at the wolf.
The wolf stared at Saia then turned around and gave a slight bark, almost as if it was saying, "I'll let you go for now," and the wolves ran back into the forest slowly disappearing from his view.
"Looks like that thing evolved after devouring that small light from the plant I killed, is this how the creatures in this world grow?"
With an amused smile Saia slowly jumped unto the ground, and continued his exploration.
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The water was cool, and fresh. Saia was currently swimming to a nearby Island, from his explorations it seems the Islands were not connected to any mainland, and were pretty isolated from the rest of the world. There were 4 Islands in total, the four islands all curved inward creating a irregular circle, with 4 gaps in between.
The weather was warm, and the fish abundant. Most of the land creatures reside in the Island next to Advantis, the other islands were located to the left, bottom right, and bottom left .
The island on the left only had rocky mountains, the bottom right housed a colony of miniature dragons with butterfly shaped wings. The creatures from Saia's observation were fairly playful, and not aggressive. The land was mostly just plains, and some small forests.
The bottom left island housed many tunnels 5 meters wide that ran across the entire island, even deep into the sea floor. Saia had found black scales around the tunnels, he hesitated slightly to be stuck in a tunnel, and encounter a creature in an enclosed space. He promised himself he would explore that later regardless.
As Saia was swimming around a sandy beach, he sensed a ripple in the water, but the ripple was calm, slow, and gentle. The presence he felt kept that atmosphere, and finally surfaced beside him.
A gigantic black turtle twice the size of a man was swimming next to him, the beady eyeball lazily stared at him, it gave the impression of lazy indifference.
From the obsidian turtle's back a white cloud could be seen forming, and floating up into the sky, eventually releasing a stream of rain.
Saia couldn't help but stare in wonder, "amazing, the turtle is somehow purifying the water, and releasing it back into the ecosystem."
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Ariel eventually reported to Saia, it seems it could take a few months to several years for some of the other people to come out of hibernation.
Ever since the meeting, 30 people had decided stay in Galileo, Maya's aide had volunteered to lead the new bio-dome, and deal with the loose ends until they reunite with us.
The remaining 51 people had been sent into a deep sleep, where Advantis would slowly spread out the strange particles around the dome, encasing everything, and everyone. Once that was set, we would automatically enter a gate into another world. A rift was too small for the size of a bio-dome so the key we got from Elithas opened a gate for us, so we could slowly pass through.
Saia climbed unto the roof of the bio-dome, he was holding unto a paint pallet while on a seat. He was using dark shades of black, purple, blue, and white to paint the night sky; the sparkling stars, and the pale moon were in perfect view.
Back in the old world he had done a few paintings, the problem was the scenery was dull, and drab so he rarely had the chance to be inspired. The new world provided a perfect opportunity to brush up.
As Saia sat there painting, he noticed hundreds of giant shapes flying in the distance, a small sound like an orchestra could be heard, in the midst of that procession he saw a gigantic figure.
A dragon that spanned 30 meters was flying in the sky, the wings weren't like a lizards, but had large white feathers, the scales looked like white marble, and looked even more exquisite underneath the moonlight.
Saia's right eye glowed red, the eye magnified the view and he saw a small carriage mounted on top of the dragon. A Golden insignia of a feathery wing and three red swords could be seen on the side of the carriage. Hundreds of figures could be seen escorting the dragon, armored humanoids riding on top of massive white birds flying in formation of 5 shaped like a 'V'.
Saia casually watched them all disappear into nothingness in the beautiful night sky, "guess this world is inhabited huh..., I wonder when we should start visiting a civilization soon."
A woman with blue hair could be seen floating behind Saia, with the image of leaning on his back.
"This really is a fantasy world, isn't it Saia?"
With a wry smile Saia spoke, "yes Ariel, speaking of which, I wonder what your body is doing?"
Ariel gave a small laugh then tapped his head, but failed, "well you should know how strong I am, we'll run into my body sooner or later."
Saia rebutted. "True, but you lack stamina, endurance, and are one of the few front line Aleos with limited combat experience."
Ariel just pouted, and tried to pinch his nose to no avail.
A few days later of rest, and relaxation, Saia once again began exploring.
The tunnel was dark, and steep, it was half submerged in water due to being formed near the ocean waters. Saia found it really hard to be half-submerged in water, while trying to navigate the far reaching tunnels. Due to how far, and deep the tunnels were, he had no source of light, so had to rely in the night vision in his right eye. A small single red dot wandering the dark, and damp tunnel was quite an eerie sight.
Sounds of crashing waves could constantly be heard from around him, as he moved deeper into the tunnels he couldn't help but feel a slight sense of unease as to how far the tunnel went.
He couldn't tell if it was made naturally, and carved over time by the water, or made by some massive creature. He could only recall some black scales found around the entrance of the cave, but after exploring for a few hours he encountered nothing but darkness, and overwhelming solitude.
As Saia intently studied the tunnel walls, he noticed the entire tunnel was covered with reefs, and corals, which meant that it was once submerged completely in water.
He could only guess as to how long it would take before the water once again would come rushing into the tunnels, and sending him on a one way trip to nowhere land.
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A constant scenery of damp orange colored walls, and pitch black water repeated over, and over again. Saia continued on, and noticed a part of the tunnel was completely submerged. He immediately brought down a breathing apparatus attached to his back, and started to swim into the tunnel depths.
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After 15 minutes Saia found the tunnel slowly expanding, leading to a gigantic opening. After swimming up to the opening he took a look at his surroundings. Gigantic underground walls encompassed an emerald green lake, the ceiling was covered with tons of stalactites. Gigantic pillars could be seen all over holding up the ceiling, and the rocky space around the lake was massive.
Saia slowly approached the miniature garden located on the shore, the red glow in his eye pin-pointed a large black figure in the distance. A massive black scaly hide could be seen, it was shaped like a gigantic snake with 6 clawed legs.
The Massive creature was curled around itself like it was in a deep slumber. Saia's right eye indicated the massive life form's body heat was abnormally low. As his eye magnified the view, he noticed chunks of its flesh were ripped apart, and numerous wounds could be seen on the body.
He scrutinized the large body at a distance, "as I thought, looks like it's dead."
The wounds it suffered were fairly odd, it had burns running on some parts, and certain scales looked like its been frozen solid. Saia went closer to the body to inspect, next to the claws he noticed a few man made chests.
"Did it attack a merchant or pirate ship and take some of its treasure, and goods?" Saia checked the snake's body to make sure if it was truly dead.
"No pulse, no breathing, and no living temperature, well sorry big guy, but looks like I'll be taking your treasure." Saia lightly patted the snakes scaly head.
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A blue haired woman was currently hovering over a desk, on the desk was a soggy map, a small pile of coins that did not look like currency, and a collection of soggy books.
"Hmm, is this what you found in the tunnels?" Ariel was staring at the books with interest.
"Well I'll tell you about the details later, let us cross reference the books, and writings in the database to see if we can figure out the language."
With a slight nod Ariel began to remote control access the database in Advantis.
Saia studied the map closely, apparently the map only indicated a section of an ocean, and was not a world map. In the map were 3 continents, 1 massive continent located North, 1 South west, and 1 East.
He could not find any Islands on the map resembling where he was located.
"Was the island not discovered? or was the map about a different area?" Saia grumbled as he slowly took a break, and formed plans in his head.
Later that day Ariel had the few functioning machine workers to construct a small ship in order to explore the region, the aircraft hangar was still not functioning, and the aircrafts were still water logged, so sending a few simply designed ships was all they could muster at the moment.
After a week she concluded that they were in an unmarked island, and near the southern continent(from the map) or more specifically merely west compared to their current location, the books had roughly been analyzed, and had a 90% correlation with an extinct language back in the old world.
Saia had already downloaded the information to the micro chip in his brain, the ship already contained co-ordinates for the western land mass.
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The sun was dimming, and the skies were giving off a deep orange color, the ocean was calm, and on it was a small motor boat skimming past the waters.
A blue haired woman was floating around the ship next to a man lying on the side.
"Well this is where we say goodbye, I can't stray too far from Advantis, and the ship should automatically follow the pre-determined route, say hello to my body if you find her, also don't forget to gather information on this world."
With a light wave, the blue haired woman fizzled out of existence.
Saia waved back at the empty space, "looks like I'm out of range now...," He stared at the small radar in his hands.
"This will help me locate anyone else with nanites in their body, the range is only a few Kilometers but oh well, I'll manage somehow."
With that Saia closed his eyes, and let the calming waters soothe him to sleep, after a few days the ship was nearing it's destination.
"Ahh...relaxing..," as Saia thought such things loud shouts echoed out from around him. As soon as he noticed the shout, a large beam of blue light was approaching the ship, Saia Immediately dove into the water.
As Saia swam to the surface he noticed he was surrounded by many small row boats, and a bunch of rough looking men were staring him. They were indicating for him to get on board with their unique looking bladed weapons, with a light shrug Saia climbed unto the small boat, and was tied up before being carried to a much larger ship that resembled a primitive galleon.
The galleon had 2 large crystals attached to it's sides, at first the ship looked like it was made of wood but the moment Saia's feet touched the ship, he felt the impression of iron, it felt fairly unusual.
The man spoke a jumble of near incomprehensible words, after his body was searched for valuables, he was handcuffed, and thrown into a cell.
Saia leaned on the wall and closed his eyes, "since the ship was destroyed I'll at least wait for them to bring me near land before I escape, fighting them in the ocean would probably be too hard, I don't want to swim too far after all."
After a week, Saia eventually came to understand their language through recording their voices, and overhearing nearby conversation. After constant observation, pattern analysis, and recordings, he finally manged to form a database on their language.
Apparently he was on a slave ship that was being funded by a local government, they sold the slaves in auctions to provide profit for the military. They apparently were on a trip to raid some other villages, and Saia was just the unlucky first victim.
As Saia sat in his cell calmly he noticed a loud commotion on board, loud sounds of steel clashing, and rough shouts could be heard. After what seemed like 10 minutes, the commotion died down. Immediately later two rough looking pirates carried a woman in between them, and threw her in a cell next to his.
The odd thing was that her restraints had strange glowing patterns on it, both her hands, and legs were locked, and her mouth had a cloth covered over it, with a strange glowing symbol carved on the cloth.
One large bald man with a rough beard touched a scar on his face, and shouted, "bitch, I'm gonna mess you up later for this."
The man beside him laughed, "hey, the captain gets to go first."
With a light glare from the bald man the two slammed the cell door shut, and left.
Saia casually observed his new neighbor. She was wearing a black leather suit, had tanned skin, and her hair was a very light purple, it was tied in a fluffy side-ponytail, she had beautiful feminine features on her face, and sharp purple eyes that were at this moment glaring daggers into him.
But what truly drew his interest were her ears, Saia looked at her eyes directly, and smiled I'm guessing a "dark elf?" Saia had read enough books in his lifetime to be able to make a guess but that didn't mean reality and fiction had a direct correlation, he waited for the confirmation from his new neighbor.
After glaring at Saia for several minutes the dark elf shrugged her shoulders, and nodded then leaned on the wall, glaring a hole into the ceiling.
With a slight smile Saia muttered, "how surprising, anyways... Should start tonight.."
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Four figures slowly walked into the cell holding area, the sun was down, and the outside was pitch black. Four huge men walked into the cell, and reached for the woman. The woman's ears already noticed the sounds, and her eyes shot open, first a wide eyed shock was displayed, then cold hostile fury could be seen emitting from her eyes.
The men who saw her eyes froze slightly out of fear, but immediately regained their composure. One of the figures casually laughed, "shes already been sealed, she won't put up much of a fight."
A large bald man with a scar on his face threw the woman to the floor then grabbed her hair, after pulling her face up to his, he gave a grotesque smile, "let's enjoy."
She tried to struggle desperately, but all the restraints prevented any coherent movement.
The large man grabbed her chest and squeezed tightly, the woman winced in pain.
"Man they're huge," another man replied, "oh really?"
The bald man turned around, and replied, "yea... Huh!?"
As soon as the bald man realized what happened, it was already too late, and all he could see was a world of pitch black.
Saia had picked his locks, and broke out of his cell. The four men were too busy with the woman to notice. With swift and silent movements he quickly knocked the three men unconscious before they could even react. The bald man was too busy with the elf that he never heard the noises of the large men hitting the floor.
The dark elf could only stare in shock at what just happened, and was just dazedly staring at Saia.
Saia stared back at the elf, and spoke, "I'm going to offer you a trade, if I set your free, and help you escape, you have to help me with my information gathering."
With a light smile he continued, "you see I'm new to this area, so I have a lot I need to know, and things I want."
The Dark elf immediately nodded, Saia smashed the restraints with his left arm, shattering the iron restraints into chunks. The Dark elf could only stare in utter shock, she then regained her composure, and immediately tore down the cloth covering her mouth, and spoke.
"This contract I accept, I Seles Eldin offer my soul for this binding contract, at this moment I don't know you well enough to form a magic contract, but you have my word." Before leaving, Seles walked up to the unconscious bald man, and repeatedly stomped him between his legs with her boots, after several minutes she finally gave a satisfied sigh, and followed Saia.
Saia had wanted to retrieve his black jacket, and luggage bag, Seles needed to regain an item that was taken from her, it was likely they would head to the same place.
He sensed two men were standing on the other side of the door, before he did anything Seles put on a strange black glove in her hand, with black runic symbols engraved on them. She then formed 2 dark spears from her gloves, and threw them, it impaled the two men from behind the door, instantly killing them.
"Honestly judging from your moves, and actions I really don't see how they caught you."
Seles merely clicked her tongue, "they just got lucky."
Saia stared at her gloves in curiosity, Seles ignored his stares and opened the door, "let's go," she whispered.
As they walked along an empty hallway a drunk man walked out, his legs were impaled by black energy, and his mouth was held firmly by the dark elf.
"Obey my orders, or die, you choose. Nod once, to agree, any other strange motions, and I'll immediately break your neck."
The man which had his limbs pierced, and was kneeling on the ground, nodded once.
After interrogating a captured sailor, they found the store room. Saia had found his long black coat with various metal canisters hidden in them. Seles had managed to retrieve what she was looking for, in her hands was a long black scythe that seemed to have absorbed all light, and blended perfectly in the shadows.
Saia couldn't help but remark, "shouldn't you be using bow, and arrows or something."
Seles glared at him slightly, "shut up, and lets grab a boat."
"No wait! They still have my coins!" Seles ignored him, and dragged him to one of the small row boats attached to the side.
As they were slowly approaching the deck, a loud bell could be heard, "escape, the slaves escaped!"
Immediately the slavers started to pour out of the rooms searching for them.
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Seles slashed her scythe at the air, the slash created a small black ripple floating in the space in front of her, small spikes of pure black energy escaped from the ripple and shot towards the pirates charging at her, it slammed into their bodies causing them to fly back wards, and collapse on the floor.
Saia noticed a small chant from his ears.
"Bounty of the Ocean, freedom of the winds, I call upon you to grant thi.."
*Bam* with a loud thud the chant stopped, and the robed man fell over. Seles had stopped the man from chanting by sending a large spike of black energy into his gut.
"A spell with magic incantations are only good if your a safe distance away from harm, or you have quick cast."
More, and more robed men began appearing. The pirates were starting to crowd the entrance, Seles clicked her tongue, and dragged Saia with her to a small room, barricading the hallway. There five slavers stared at them in alarm before arming themselves, however Seles already dove in, and slammed her scythe into the floor, five black replicas of the scythe's blade emerged from the area of impact, and flew directly at the men.
The shock had caused them only one second of hesitation, but that was more than enough to have four of them cleaved by the blades, the remaining one managed to dodge, but was engulfed in moving wires, and abruptly started to leak blood, before collapsing in agony.
Saia observed thin threads from her gloves, that seemed to have a life of it's own, the thread connecting to the man disconnected, and the remainder seemed to reel back into her gloves. Truth be told the majority of the conflicts were solved by Seles herself. As more, and more loud noises, and shouts poured closer, Seles stared at Saia.
"No choice, I'll have to teleport us."
He gave a light whistle, the existence of magic was theorized to have existed by observing the first invasive species, but had no real solid proof. The black spikes, and odd weapons she used were also interesting, but seeing a traditional magic circle, and incantation was another story. He had originally planned to help set her free, and then personally sink the ship, either steal a boat in the process, or swim to shore. He didn't expect things to escalate to this point.
Saia then asked why she didn't do that earlier, Seles explained she needed various requirements for a proper teleport spell, the one she plans on using has no location marker, nor did she have any catalyst to aid her, not only will it drain all her magic, and stamina, the location will likely be random as well. Of course a majority of what she said barely meant anything to Saia, as the terms she used were something far too complicated for a beginner in the foreign language like him.
Seles slowly formed a magic circle underneath the both of them, Saia slightly paled "Wait, let's just sink the ship, and swim to shore, I don't want to be accidentally teleported inside a rock."
As Saia was about to step out of the magic circle, light encompassed their bodies, and they disappeared from the hall room.
(Hmm I'm pretty much going to base the magic off of nen at least superficially, although slightly modifying it for my own purposes to not completely plagiarize. This story was posted like what? A year ago? So really I'm only compressing two chapters into one, the only delay is the editing, doing other projects, and adding some stuff. I'm pretty much burnt out, in general, so this story has been on hold at around ch 50 for a few months.)