The swamp looked oddly familiar to the third floor, the only difference was the silence.No sound was made, no life was there to be seen.Kay eyes drifted towards the rotten corpse, her flesh cut to the bone. He also noticed the man, crying over that body, holding her with tender and grief.Kay understood what he was seeing.“Everything about him and me… you could say it started on our childhood, but… the turning point was here.”“What happened?”He felt a wave of anger, foreign to him, taking control of his mind, until it washed away, a deep numbness corroded himself.“A envious wife.” Was all she said, before returning to the history lesson. Ley was about to be taken away from her by his friends when a mysterious person appeared before them.It looked like an ordinary old man, but Kay knew better.He had the same feeling that Long had, mixed with that of the two-headed blacksmith.“That’s the man who started everything.” Kay saw the strange touching Ley’s shoulder.“Would you like t
“Where’s this place?” He asked aloud, his gaze wandered on the big room. He noticed a banner behind a throne, one that showed the mighty phoenix.Sitting there was someone that Kay recognized on the spot. How could he not, since he was looking at the split image of himself, with only more regal clothing.Together with that one person was another one that Kay couldn’t take off his eyes.Liria was sitting on his lookalike lap, both sharing an deep, erotic kiss.“What… what?” He asked, dumbstruck. This was, probably, the first time someone ever had envied themselves.“This, as I’m sure you know, is Enkai… the one you inherit the Phoenix power from.” She giggle, and then the scene kept playing out. “Look closely at what happen next.”Enkai begun to kiss Liria’s neck, they both were almost doing it right there, when the doors opened with a loud bang. “Sir it’s terrible… oh… am I interrupting something?” Another member of the Phoenix clan entered, eyeing both lovers with an arched brow.“No
“Y’er looking a bit pale.”“Ssshould ressst for a bit.”“When will we arrive there?”Kay filtered the questions of the three, a bit of indignation on his face. “Why are you guys following me?”“Want to see my weapons in action.”“I’m curiouss on how long you’ll lassst.”“I’m hungry.”He eyed the two and a half creatures there with an incredulous look. Sighting a bit, he eyed the circle where he first arrived with annoyance.“None of your reasons are good!” He pointed, angry at the group, but soon relented. “Sorry… I’m still a bit… overwhelm at the recent events.”The blacksmith released a breath, reminding himself about what exactly the boy discovered, as well as who he had fought to achieve that knowledge.He wondered why Jago choose him for that job. He was really bad when it came to children. Stealing a glance from the youth, the blacksmith sighted. He looked taller… and stronger as well.‘Welp, I was wrong about y’er… Kay Rosebury’s already a fine man.’ Chuckling to himself, he ey
After taking the bath, he excused himself from Zera’s flat and went to the streets, to see how much the city changed after two months.For his disappointment, nothing changed much. There’s still the same streets, the same people…He didn’t knew what to expect, but he supposed, wanted, to at least see some difference. To, at least, see that he mattered in someway…He eyed the castle above the mountain top, the same one where the Magic King inhabited, a small smile playing in his lips.‘I may not be important now, but… soon.’Then, he smelled something good from some stands away. Walking towards it slowly, he eyed the door and smiled at seeing the restaurant food. He was about to enter, but stopped himself.Touching his pocket, he sighted as he felt no bulge in them.“I’m hungry…” He sighted, only then noticing that he was surviving out of holy water for a month. ‘When did things get so problematic.’He was about to turn back and go towards his home, where his belonging should be, when
“He sure is working hard, eh?” The blacksmith sighted, looking at Kay’s back. The boy was trying to efficiently connect his Qi to his runecraft, but was finding no success, besides what he usually had.They watched him training like this since yesterday. Exhausting himself more and more, to the point that Zera had to drag him out of the forest, just so he could eat something.“While father would be proud… he would also worry about him.” The plant child chided, sitting in Zera’s lap. “He should rest, but it’s not on my place to stop him.”The Arcana kept quiet. She was thinking about what happened when Kay’s returned from the commercial district and frowned.He was pissed.Later that night, she was contacting Seth, along with other contacts, which led her to found out about Kay and Leon little meeting.She mostly let him train after that, since she knew he would have to get it out of his system, one way or the other. Her thoughts were unfocused but they would usually drift to Rosebury
In the middle of the night, in a run down church in the outskirts of the town, two high devotees were kneeling down towards a scholar, someone one rank higher.“What is the bidding of Janus?” One of them asked the high scholar, who had a grandfatherly smile, that didn’t fully reached his ears, on his round face.Taking out a stack of papers, he placed the list of the 21 candidates for the throne in the altar. Then, he proceeded to take four files, each marked with a blue stamp.“These are the ones lord Janus wants us to guide.” Both eyed the files that contained the Magician, Hierophant, Temperance and Star. “As you can see, this time, we have a very hopeful candidates…”“Sir… I was wondering… each of those have alliances to nobility.” He squirmed, feeling nervous at the spotlight. “The people of Amynistrad already hate the nobility… so, why would Janus choose these people… if they’ll most likely will be dictators?”The old man considered the question, his spectacles shining under the
Two weeks later, Kay was practicing one specific rune from his Grimoire,This was, perhaps, his most useful magic, but it also was complicated and difficult to use in battle.He rested his hand, his breathing labored, as he eyed the tree ahead of him, bound by blood. It was also rotting, slowly, but it was happening.He spat.The Blood Bind he was trying to work on was not supposed to corrode it’s target, but he couldn’t get that part right.Taking the knife, he made another incision on the palm of his hand, drew a magic circle on another tree, this time he tried to alter the runic array to something different than what was on the book, and proceeded to draw the same runes with his blood-empowered Mana.The red bindings emerged from within the tree and Kay felt the connection almost immediately.He smirked.The spell was, originally, a curse that rotted the opponent from the insides, in a way that consumed the Mana from both around and from within the target. That was why he needed to
It took a minute for Zera to realize Kay disappeared, and she immediately tried to locate him. She felt furious at the candidate and at herself, for she knew that she had to keep an open eye towards where he was.She also felt worry creep into her heart and crush it under it’s despairing grip.It took an hour, but she met Kay again. Zera was about to scold him, when she caught his eyes.There was guilt, shame and… fear.“What happened?” She asked, to which Kay embraced her. “W-w-what?” She stuttered, her face was in a deep red, she could only marvel at the beating of his chest.“We need to go…” He whispered in her ear, making her feel dizzy.‘It’s… everything it’s going too fast! He wants to do it now? And here?’ She was about to nod, but Kay had other concerns. He took her on his arms and begun running towards their home.“Kay!”He ignored her, focusing on jumping from roof to roof.“We’re in danger.” He whispered, trying to feel the humidity around him, checking for any movement.Th