26 「Archetype」 (1/2)
Roderyck, Hekkeran and Imina stared into the swirling purple portal which was in front of them.
”Was it right to just leave her there?” Imina asked as she looked over towards their leader. They pitied and cared for her, they were concerned with the fact that the girl was in so much debt. Now, she was being held hostage and will be unable to make payments to save her little sisters.
The only reason they knew abot her deby though however was this job made it come up in conversation earlier than it would have should this have never happened. So like she would have been excluded from the decision making from the Tomb Scouting Job which would be brought up several months from now.
Hekkeran placed his fingers spaced out across his forehead as he dipped his head down in thought. ”She told us herself that it would be useless to fight him, and all those villagers.” He looked over towards Roderyck, then towards Imina. ”And how in the heck are we going to find this Death Cult?”
The Three of them were standing directly outside the Royal Capital of the Baharuth Empire.
Roderyck was standing there amongst his friends, and as they had turned to talk to one another, he remained staring into the colorful abyss.
”He told us she will be in his care...” Imina said before he swiftly turned his head to look at her.
”He said she was at his mercy,” Roderyck retorted as he placed his hands on his head. ”I might just bring the Fists of God to my face for leaving her there!”
”Woah!” Hekkeran put his hands up to calm the man down. ”It's going to be fine! We just have to hunt down a Death Cult that may or maynot have hundreds if not thousands of followers and undead...Minions....” He let out a light sigh as he lulled his head back hopelessly as he stared up into the night sky. ”I need a drink...”
The Worker group known as Foresight, minus one member, made their way to the front entrance of the Capital as the portal faded out. Passing through they were about to get on their way to the Singing Apple Inn.
”Wait!” An unknown wail came out from behind them after they had taken several strides from the gate. So as they turned to see who might be paging them down, they could only raise a brow.
It was none other than Fluder Paradyne, a teacher at the Imperial Magic Academy and the father figure of the current Emperor of the Baharuth Empire.
”My eyes aren't betraying me, are they?” His eyes centered on the magic user.
”What happened!? Why are you back already, where is Arche Furt!?” Were the questions he barraged them with as he was panting, trying to keep his breath as he waddled on over to them after having run from the royal palace the moment they arrived.
Imina's mouth opened slightly when he had called their teammate out by name. Though it couldn't be too much of a surprise since she was indeed a former student who left the Academy come the purge of corrupt or impractical Nobles in the Empire.
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”What do you mean what happened?”
”You were aware of what we were doing?”
For a few moments they let their minds get to work before noting something that Jack had once asked Arche, whether or not they had been using surveillance magic to watch him.
”You were watching us... Watching him. That's what triggered him. It's your fault that Arche was captured!” Roderyck exclaimed aloud before looking to his team and then towards the powerful mage.
”My fau... She was captured?”
”Yes. The moment they looked at one another, she puked and became fully exposed.”
Fluder frowned hearing that she puked, but his expression was just a ploy a facade to hide his excitement. He had been watching the Carne Village for a while now, so when he finally focused it on the man who stood out the most, he lost connection; all sight.
”And? What happened after she was captured?” The frown was hard to maintain, the excitement in his eyes was shining through any kind of ruse to appear bad about what had happened.
”...” They stared at him with disgruntled looks before sighing.
”He ordered us to tell the Count that he'll be visiting the Empire sometime in the coming Months. And that if we want her back, we have to hunt down and eliminate the Death Cult known as Zurrernorn.” Hekkeran reported with a have wit to punch this man down, but knew that he would definitely be struck down by the Law for hitting an Imperial Official. ”Then he opened some sort of portal which dropped us off here.”
”Portal... Is it still here?!”
”No, it faded out once we were far enough from it. Either that or he closed it from his side.”
”How... How did it bring it about?”
”The spell was 「Gate」from what I heard him utter,” Imina stated as she scratched beneath her chin.
”That...” He began to think to himself what level of magic that could possibly be. His highest possible tier was fifth. That was as far as he could go without external sources of power such as powerful magic relics similar to how Khajiit needed aid in casting a seventh tier spell. ”She puked after seeing his tier. It must have been overwhelming...”
The old man looked to the sky for a moment. He believed he could use this to increase his abilities, he could become this persons disciple! He'd do anything to break the bottleneck that existed...
”Was he human?”
”Definitely not a regular one,” Roderyck shook his head, ”His eyes had a strange glow to them.”
”Strange Glow?”
”Like a Lich, but it was blue, not red. But at the same time, he looked entirely human other than that. It was too real to be any form of illusion.” Hekkeran picked as his group was known to combat the undead over in the Plains that the Empire and Kingdom fight annually within.
”Like a Lich...” In his mind he crossed a regular human being over with that of a Skeletal Mage. Perhaps it was a Lich that managed to preserve itself? That didn't sound quite right, a Lich was necrotic presence. Could it be that his exterior form was fake, nonorganic? Or was he another magical legendary entity?
”Why didn't he just kill you the moment he noticed your presence?”