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The Art of Magic Fade to Black (IV)
Everyone stared at Z's corpse slowly being encased in ice. Nick looked towards Nex as her back a little slouch. Her beautiful purple gem like eyes obscured by her soft raven hair. She was staring at the corpse of her lifelong enemy, not knowing what to do next. Her rage filled eyes were nowhere to be found. It was unfocused as she stared into empty space.Everyone inside the room silently observed her, waiting for her to calm down before they approach her. However as if to kill the unbearable silence. A loud mechanical click echoed across the barren room. Slowly the theatre's screen slowly lowered. The screen flickered before showing a luxurious room. then from the middle of the screen was Baldr. He was shown on the screen slowly sipping a margarita as he was sitting down on a large sofa. "Looks like everyone's dead. Only the V.I.P's are left" He said as he eyed the six survivors. From the corner of the room, the sound of a blender could be heard. "Is that so? What about the presentor
The Art of Magic Cometh the Hour (I)
Meanwhile on the other side of the building was Team Ragnarok on cleanup duty. The newly transformed monsters shambled as they screamed wildly towards them. "What the hell!? What are these things! They look like they've been afflicted with the Shura Strain but worse." Aurora screamed as she blocked the passage with a wooden ward. It was a stake with a lot of enchantments and metal bindings, and on top of it was a skill carved with magic formulas.Wolf drew his blade and stepped outside the ward. "I'll handle them, you two search the building for survivors." Aurora frowned, "What the fuck are you talking about? You have a deathwish?" She said as Skadi on the other hand pulled aurora towards the other end of the corridor."We don't have time to argue. Focus on the mission Aurora." Skadi said as she cracked her knuckles. Aurora sighed as she tossed Wolf an ancient looking coin engraved with a skull. Wolf caught it midair as he turned towards the monsters. He lowered his stance and dashed
The Art of Magic Cometh the Hour (II)
Skadi and Aurora dashed towards the winding corridors and swung open the largest door. What greeted them was a sight unlike any other. It was Six people standing near each other, surrounded by droves of corpses, While a man on the screen bid them goodbye. The most eyecatching thing however was the man wrapped in chains covered in searing hellfire as he was impaled in never melting ice.Then suddenly a loud rumble could be heard from the area. The corpse wrapped up in chains twitched violently as black blood flowed outside his mouth. His eyes popped as black blood rushed out from it. Then thick purple tentacles exploded from within him extending outside, then latching towards the multiple corpses on the ground. Then a loud roar exploded from the eldritch abomination as it absorbed the corpses around its reach, as it grew increasingly large in size."What in the fuck!?" Aurora couldn't help but exclaim out loud. Solemne on the other hand frowned. "Shit, this is above my paygrade. Toodle
The Art of Magic Cometh the Hour (III)
The clashing of metals was the only sound that echoed on the empty corridor. Setsuna relentlessly waved her blade to and fro trying to atleast damage wolf to no avail. He was slippery as an eel. Everytime she felt that her blade would hit only for it to hit another illusion. "Hold on! I don't want to fight. Countless lives are at stake here!" He said only for his words to be ignored. She lowered her stance as she turned into a bolt of lightning, then reappearing above him. Her blade drawn, striking down with an overhead slash. Wolf slowly looked up with narrowed eyes, "A little too predictable." He said as he parried it off with a quick strike then kicked her in the abdomen."Again, I don't have time for this. Let it go, Ryuketsu girl. You can come for my head next time we meet." He said coldly. Setsuna held her stomach as she spat blood on the ground. She bared her teeth and grunted as she coated her blade with electricity. She inhaled then dashed at Wolf as she waved her blade errat
The Art of Magic Nightmare-like Fiction (I)
As soon as Nex approached the monster with her hammer, the monster tried to slap her away with its deformed tendrils made of amorphous flesh. However its movements were extremely slow. Coupled with disjointed flesh and bones all over its body it could barely even move. Soon enough Nex swung her hammer hitting the monster on where she assumed was the head. The monster howled as Nex stood on the top of its head and kept hammering it down.The monster felt pain down to its core. Then the flesh inside of it wriggled as spikes made out of bones protruded from its body. Nex flipped as she dodged the attack. As soon as she landed on the ground, the monster instantly shrank compressing all that biomass into a singular humanoid form. The monster that looked like Z tilted its head as they all heard bones creaking as joints and bones clicked together. The beast growled as it lowered its stance into a running position. It's blank eyes were staring directly at Nex. Then all of a sudden it bolted
The Art of Magic Nightmare-like Fiction (II)
"Anytime now guys!" Aurora bellowed towards the four people standing on the sidelines. "Were thinking of a solution!" Nex shouted back as she put her hand in her subspace, then she opened a bag of chips and started snacking. "What the fuck are you? Hourly!?" Aurora said with sheer resentment. Nova then popped out of her shadow, [Gotta say, staying inside that space is boring as hell.] He said as he looked around, [How long are you guys gonna take to take this dumbass down?] He said as he yawned and turned into a cat.Setsuna was clashing with the monster as she synchronized with the members of ragnarok. She then turned into a bolt of lightning, reappearing beside Nex as she breathed a little roughly, "Seriously, I dont think we could outlast the monster at this rate." She said as sthey watched the monster move more agilely with each passing moment. Then a beat later it was slowly but surely able to dodge their barrage of attacks.Nex then reached out her bag of chips towards Setsuna,
The Art of Magic Time to make History
A flourish of divine energy scattered throughout the theatre. A divine silence echoed as the archangel stared at the chains that bound the monster. Quietly contemplating. He then turned towards Lucian. His golden eyes could be seen through his gilded armor.>Lucian knelt and offered gabriel the golden feather, "Thank you Sir Gabriel.">Crowley and Lucian looked towards one another with a wry smile. Gabriel then turned towards Lucian. He placed his palms at the fading divine light of the golden feather.>He said then after a beat his eyes looked towards Nex. His brows furrowed, thou
The Art of Magic The start of something new.
Once they were all outside they noticed that the entire area was deviod of anyone. Not a soul in sight could be seen. No corspes, no debris, no panic. It was as if nothing bad happened at all except for the deceased. Crowley closed his eyes and clutched his head, "This is going to be a long fucking weekend. I can tell by that much." He looked towards Nick, "Find out what you can. If your little friend there has the right hunch. We're gonna git Proxima-9, and I promise you we will hit it hard." Nick nodded, "Miss Alessandra has more information on whatever Magitech has been cooking up. Although a little unaware on what's what." Crowley nodded his head and turned to Lucian. "Apologies my boy, your evaluation although impressive will be put on hold due to pressing matters." Lucian nodded his head, "It's alright Father. If you don't mind I'd like to roam around the planet for a while. Do a little recon." He said while smiling wryly. Crowley scoffed, "Yeah, sure... Recon." Lucian turned
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The Tour (I)
The trio circled back towards the entrance while celeste blabbered on about the buildings architecture and defenses. "Since you are guests of Sir Nicholas, I bet you already know that msot of the artifacts here are the real deal relics from the age of gods, the age of magic and so on and so forth."She said not notocing the glint on Nex's eyes. "Most of these artifacts are have actually been used to fend off the invaders during the war. Some were even personally used by the twelve." She said as she pointed towards a large golden shield and a golden spear with its tip burning with blue flames.
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The Great Library (IV)
Celeste carefully trotted along as she approached both Nex and Setsuna. The slowly hid behind the bookshelves as she peeked through the books.While doing so she listened in their conversation. Nex picked up books on whatever the hell caught her interest. However her eyes never stayed on one book for too long. She sighed as she closed another dusty tome. "If Nova was here I'd already fed him everything in this library." She said shocking Setsuna. "Feed him? Feed him how? like a fish?"Nex scratched her cheeks but before she could answer she spotted a fresh pair of eyes staring straight at them with unconcealed interest. Her eyes gleaming in curiousity as she leaned in the shelves much closer forgetting that she was concealing herself."Well... for starters nova eats for some reason like the rest of us who needs energy to survive. I remember him telling me he's converting the innate mana residing on things to fuel his energy reserves or something. I don't know. I'm not too sure on how
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The Great Library (III)
Nex peered over the gilded gates widely open as they could be. She scratched her chin as she looked around only to see gigantic shelves that towered over her containing various amounts of books. Rows of them that seemingly span towards infinity warding of any sane person who would wander the halls of vast knowledge.Ranging from dusty tomes to the more wierd and eccentric stuff like a crystal ball that could help them see the original owners memory. All of it were guarded by armed guards patrolling and keeping an ever watchul eye filled with vigilance.She turned around and saw various items incased in glass, while also engraved in glowing red magic circles. Setsuna stared at Nick once more and tilted her head as she eyed all the thing all around them. "This place is a library right?"Nex on the other hand approached the desk as her eyes darted all over the place seemingly impatient to just out right steal the things that caught her eye. Nick sensed this as the facepalmed and stared a
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The Great Library (II)
Once the golden Barrier disappeared the entirety of the Hidden Grand Library of Alexandria was unveiled to them. Golden sparks of light scattered across the air creating a majestic sight to behold. A huge Fortress lay before them gilded in all its glory. Unblemished, Untainted, and Unseen by the unworthy. A towering drawbridge slowly lowered in front of them.What awaited inside was a large plethora of knowledge awaiting to be seen by curious eyes. NEx coudn't help but whistle in surprise, "You mages really know how to go all out." Nick coudn't help but scratch his nose in embarassment from her words. "Well, Faust can be a little eccentric but that man knows how to make things a little more grand than what they should appear." He said as he led the two inside the castle in the middle.Setsuna looked around and saw huge watch towers and wyverns chained beneath them. Gigantic ballistas that watch over the cosmic skies, ever watchful of potential intruders. On the pathways were infantrym
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The Great Library (I)
"One of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. Created by the nine goddesses of arts themselves. Regarded as the capitol of knowledge and learning. The central gathering of all the most rare and mysterious books in the world. Not only that everything in that place is disaster proof, especially fire!" Nick said as he stared the the two slacked jawed women. "I welcome you two to the Great Library of Alexandria!" He said as he spread his arms wide. He then slowly panned towards Nobody who was nodding along at the grandeur. "Can we find records of you in there?" Nick asked as he crossed his arms scrutinizing every movement of Nobody. However he just shrugged, "You'd be extremely lucky to find it when it's buried in all these books. However I'm fairly sure you've read most of the library's contents don't you Nick?" Nobody said as he tried to step inside however a huge golden barrier suddenly appeared out of nowhere barring his entry towards the library. Nobody fr
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The Wiccan Bazaar (IV)
The two finished touring around the Bazaar. They found Nick waiting for them at a bench with his arms folded in annoyance. The moment he saw them he raised his eyebrows, "So Did you enjoy the 'Bazaar that looks like the Golden Heart?'" He said as he scoffed. Nex scratched her cheeks, "Well, although it looks familiar. It's different enough to warrant exploring. Thankfully the roads are familiar to not get lost..." She said as her voice slowly shrank. "That's the point! Familiar enough not to get lost. But different enough to merit exploration!" Nick shouted at them. Setsuna crossed her arms and chimed in, "I still think it's a little lazy." Nick shrugged his shoulders, "Hey! if we could save money by just doing a simple palette swap and a small and minor adjustments then more power to it." He said as he snapped his fingers and showed Nex al the ingredients have been bought. "So should we summon it now?" Nick looked at Nex. However before she could answer, Nobody popped out of the sha
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The Wiccan Bazaar (III)
"It seems that only you are capable of summoning whatever this thing is. Hopefully not something truly bad. Who gave you this anyway?" Nex Shrugged her shoulers. "Where's Nova when you need him. His name is Nobody, and as far as I'm concerned... He's the one who has helped me the most in this long and arduous journey. He gave me those pages." Nick scratched his chin, "Not exactly a helpful pseudonymn." Nex shrugged her shoulders, "I feel like he's sort of sealed at the moment. There's like a time limit he could manifest himself. He is a tall man in a black suit, his face covered by the shadows, has glaring and ominous yellow eyes? This is his symbol." She said as she snapped her fingers and recreated Nobody's symbol.A Glowing Red Circle filled with undecipherable inscriptions that wriggle as if it's alive. In the middle of it all was an Inverted Ankh Painted with blood.Nick shook his head, "It's definitely not an egyptian god nor a mage of the same discipline. No one would dare use
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The Wiccan Bazaar (II)
"Well you're in luck kiddo. All the shit listed here is available in The Wiccan Bazaar! I just hope that this thing doesn't eat your face, Setsuna's, or mine!" Nex shrugged her shoulders, clearly not giving any fucks. Setsuna on the other hand took the page from Nick's hand. Then immediately passed it back to Nex, "Yeah... Have no idea what the fuck any of these mean." She said as she leisurely sipped her coffee.Blair handed them their breakfast as she prepared Nex's and Setsuna's clothes. "Eat up! It's gonna be a long day." He said as he and the gang chowed down on Blair's amazing breakfast. After a few minuites of lazing about Nick finally stood up and drew a magic circle on the ground. "This portal is technically encrypted and it changes on a weekly basis." He said as he snapped his fingers and a portal appeared beside the magical circle. Blair put her hands on her hips as she stared at Nick, "You do know, I have to clean your messes right?" Nick scratched his cheeks, "Uhh, everyt
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The Wiccan Bazaar (I)
Nex woke up feeling refreshed more than usual. She stretched her body and did some light exercise. She was no longer plagued by jolting pain everytime she woke up. She sucked in a batch of fresh air as she excitedly exited her room and almost bumped into blair on her way out.Blair's eyes were wide open as she stared at Nex awake and about. "Oh my, It seems you woke up on your own today Nex." She said as she put her hands on her hips. Setsuna came out of her door a little groggy, but awake nontheless. The moment she looked to her left and saw Nex energetically standing in front of her door all lucid, her jaws dropped. She tried pinching her cheeks only to wince from the pain. "What the hell? Am I in some kind of mirror dimension?" Nex chuckled, "Hey! no matter how thick my face is, I could still get hurt y'know?" Setsuna shrugged her shoulders, "Can you blame me? It's like a rebranding. It's almost freaky." She said as she moved towards the cupboards and start to brew herself some co
