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Post by Raikotsu Sudeki on Mar 15, 2021 16:55:07 GMT -8
"My appearance is a result of taking in the King's blood as well. Just... a significant amount more than yourself. Though do not fret, my appearance is strictly how his blood manifested in me, it appears that you will have no such... affliction. Though to be honest this look suits me, and it protects me."
He answered.
"As for where we are, we are still on the world that you found yourself on when you went through the portal."
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Post by Dime Price on Mar 15, 2021 17:21:20 GMT -8
“It indeed is a good look...” she complimented. “What world is this and where is it? You can’t mean to say this might be old world?” She was almost afraid to hear him confirm it to be the truth. Still the familiar feeling she got almost wanted to confirm this further.
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Post by Raikotsu Sudeki on Mar 15, 2021 17:44:53 GMT -8
Ramses shook his head.
"No, this is one of the worlds previously destroyed. I was sent here on reconnaissance before our world was destroyed. Since then I've been stuck here."
He explained.
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Post by Dime Price on Mar 15, 2021 19:48:18 GMT -8
“Previously?” Dime contorted her face confused. “Is this yet another reflection of our world that’s been destroyed? My apologies your lordship... maybe I should back up and ask the sum of what you have discovered?”
She was already deeply processing what he was saying and even beginning to assume getting out of here was going to be easier said than done. She wasn’t going to worry about that just yet however, not when it is possible this could be a hand in fate.
She figured out as well he doesn’t know all that happened on the ark. “Oh... leaving you here is but another sacrifice Raikotsu had to make. I hope he truly entrusted what was left of us to find you. I can’t imagine he’d want to abandon one of his trusted hands.”
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Post by Raikotsu Sudeki on Mar 15, 2021 20:11:44 GMT -8
Ramses sighed as he went and sat down on a fallen pillar.
"Our King saw a great many things... but even he couldn't see everything. He knew that there was a great threat coming and that our world was on the verge of being attacked and destroyed. Though he thought we would have more time... with his eye prowess he was able to send me to several different worlds... You see our world wasn't the first to be destroyed. Nor was it the second, or even third... there have been many worlds destroyed by the same being that destroyed ours..."
He pull out a tobacco pipe and loaded it.
"I was searching these worlds for evidence, clues, that might help us face him... All I found was destruction and corruption. Nothing helpful... This world... was the last I was sent to investigate when, I take it, ours was destroyed... both fortunate and unfortunate depending on how you look at it."
He chuckled humorlessly.
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Post by Dime Price on Mar 15, 2021 20:30:42 GMT -8
“Fortunate something survived the attack at all maybe.” She folded her arms and slid down the pillar to sit where she was. “The Qi was just being sucked from the less potent users so easily... Raikotsu, Strike, and other leaders fed the vacuum their own Qi and it took every last drop. It was barely enough to spare everyone, so much power just sucked away.” Dime remembered watching bodies drop like flies.
“According to witness someone was trying to save us and we crashed into the next plain, it is less potent in Qi through out its atmosphere that it is difficult for us to freely use our abilities. Drake has had a difficult time since Raikotsu’s death, no different than myself. I tried to give back his blood... he knew what I wished.” Her voice cracked as she came on the verge of tears stinging her eyes seeing his face so kindly tell her no. So at peace with his choice to make sure the rest of them made it safely. She breathed deep and exhaled slowly to relax and reel herself in. “He had his own dying wish and I had to follow and respect it. Even if it left us without a strong leader, a mantle Drake wasn’t ready to take on. We’ve been quiet and surviving at the mercy of the natives.”
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Post by Raikotsu Sudeki on Mar 15, 2021 20:47:05 GMT -8
Ramses nodded with the news. It was better than he had hoped. Even the young master survived.
"I see... that is good. Though, when you return, you must warn as many that will listen, it may be quiet now, but if what you said is true, then the world you are currently on will be the Next to fall. You must get stronger, stronger than you ever thought possible."
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Post by Dime Price on Mar 16, 2021 0:45:15 GMT -8
Her head snapped to attention. “Why are you talking like you’d not come back with me? Do you still have something to do here or something to find?”
Honestly she was feeling the severe lack of guidance and there was hope she’d found it with someone who already once upon a time in charge. She was but a subordinate and it was difficult to imagine leading anyone. Trying to inspire that much confidence and control was never something she had the chance to develop and put to use. Drake was sunk in his own sorrows for the moment and originally expressed every intention of not being a leader in his father’s footsteps. As Dime saw it that was no different now. Even so it’s what their people need right now. Not just people of blood, but every meta that survived.
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Post by Raikotsu Sudeki on Mar 16, 2021 10:38:32 GMT -8
Raises took another puff of tobacco and shook his head.
"I will not be coming with you. I wish it was because I had some bigger purpose... unfortunately it is solely because I cannot leave."
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Post by Dime Price on Mar 16, 2021 14:25:12 GMT -8
“That can’t be. What binds you and Might we be able to sever it?”
If she has the power of it she most certainly can try for his sake.
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Post by Raikotsu Sudeki on Mar 16, 2021 16:11:53 GMT -8
He shook his head.
"Unfortunately it's not that simple. I have the power to open a portal once. However, I'm only able to send someone back to the place they came from. Meaning that I can only travel between dead worlds."
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Post by Dime Price on Mar 16, 2021 16:37:37 GMT -8
“What a curse.” Dime grimaced but she had a thought. “If you can’t leave... what if I stayed anyway?”
She studied his face before she continued. “This world is dead if I’m the only one who can go back I need to know how and why to carry it back to the others with everything I can learn... I also have another reason, if you are willing to let me use you?”
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Post by Raikotsu Sudeki on Mar 16, 2021 16:57:40 GMT -8
"I respect your eagerness to learn but you risk death by staying here. And we don't have time to teach you everything you want to learn. But don't worry, I will be sending you with a gift to help you grow. I know there are others from our world that have our Kings Blood inside them. I'll give you the ability to sense them and absorb the blood from them to grow stronger."
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Post by Dime Price on Mar 16, 2021 18:17:53 GMT -8
“Do you not also risk death?” She started with force to her tone but then breathed remembering what she promised herself. “No, never mind... I’ll trust you know what you speak of. I won’t needlessly throw away my life which my king sacrificed for. It seems like you’ve already thought about all of this and are ready to lay in your bed. I should be accepting even if you too are making a sacrifice of your own.
She wholly was being heartbroken that so many people have to be left behind for the rest of them to carry on. She felt the burden and while moved by Gaspar’s valor and loyalty her eyes threatened to tear. It was not the hope she expected but it was all they had to give. That was heavy weighing on her.
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Post by Raikotsu Sudeki on Mar 16, 2021 22:37:09 GMT -8
He nodded glad she finally understood. The sun began to rise in this distance finally pouring in some more light into the room. Dime would now see that they were inside a large building similar to a church, but it was in ruins and decaying, however, with the new found light she would recognize it as being very similar to the room she had been taken to when she first received her blood magic. Ramses pulled out a knife and stabbed his finger.
"Come, let me see your hand."
When she did so he would place his bleeding finger on her palm and she would feel the power inside of her rush to life going to the blood and accepting it as her own. After a moment the sensations would subside and in the middle of Dime's palm would be a mark shaped like a black blood drop.
"When you feel the blood of the king residing within someone, merely touch them with that hand and that power will become yours."
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