Goldshrine Strikes back

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Seikatsu felt a pressure against his chest, as though he was leaning on a branch or table, or something along those lines. His eyes slowly opened, him letting a groaning sound as he strained to wish away the blurry surroundings. The world came back into sight slowly, giving way to a faint pale glow and the silhouette of two figures smaller than himself. He felt his feet touching the ground as Knave placed him on the floor, him falling to a knee from the sudden change in weight. Seikatsu heard the sound of jangling metal as Knave got on a knee in front of him, resting one of his massive metallic hands on the wizard. Seikatsu's vision finally cleared and he watched as Knave removed his helmet and looked at Seikatsu. The face behind the helmet wasn't nearly as horrid as he'd thought it'd be. The man had dark tan skin, black hair that was a bit longer than his own and it was pressed down from the helmet he'd worn at all times. The man was clean shaven, and threw Seikatsu off when he began to speak. "Du bör be om ursäkt till den lurviga en." The seven foot tall, multi-armoured man said to Seikatsu in a very deep voice. Seikatsu stared at the man wide-eyed for a second or two before saying the only thing he could come up with. "Du kan prata?" Seikatsu replied in an inquisitive voice. "Ja min herre." Knave replied. "En tjänare lyssnar, han talar när tillsagd att." The man added. Knave placed the arm that was resting on Seikatsu across his chest and disappeared in a cloud of smoke. Seikatsu stood up, using the wall to support himself while he got his balance back.

'I should apologize to the furry...' Seikatsu thought while shifting his eyes to Mao. His eyes got wide again, and a type of fear overcame him immediately. Seikatsu dropped back to his knees in front of Mao and placed both fists on the ground, bowing so that his forehead kissed the dirt. "Lady Nakiri, I am unsure of what I have done to you... But please I beg for forgiveness, I assure you I was not myself!" Seikatsu exclaimed in an honest tone with tears on his face. "In exchange... I... I..." Seikatsu paused and got up rapidly, hesitating to do this to someone who'd actually remember it. "I'll entrust you with my secret." Seikatsu said with confident eyes and a partially hesitant voice. Seikatsu picked up his scythe from the ground and converted it back to the Thorn of Betrayal. He grabbed Mao's hand and placed it on the spine of the sword, and transferred a memory through it. The memory flashed as a vision of a small boy with black hair, his purple eyes seeming dead and dull. A young girl came out of nowhere screaming the boy's name. "Niyol!" she screamed gleefully while hugging the small boy. The vision faded out and Seikatsu removed his hand from holding Mao's to the sword, and he stepped back. "Tell no one." Seikatsu said as Lisa came onto his shoulders and crawled down his robe sleeve.

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Seikatsu agreed to the terms of the arrangement, hoping that the furry bunny, cat, lady, person, thing walking in front him would truly keep her promise of not telling anyone his name. 'Master?' a female voice called in his head, definitely too sweet sounding for it to be Altsoba. Seikatsu looked around, seeing if someone was coming from behind, and felt a tapping on his harm under the robe. 'I'm in here master.' the voice called again. 'Lisa?' Seikatsu replied in his head, walking and looking at his sleeve. 'I'm feeling a bit bored of walking through this place. Are there no more opponents to face?' Lisa asked inquisitively. 'I fear not my dear. At least not that I know of...' Seikatsu replied telepathically. 'Is it alright if I play with your friends?' Lisa asked, beginning to slide out of the robe. 'I have no qualms with it, just no biting.' Seikatsu replied, amused that his wyvern still acted like a child, considering she had no problems killing a man.

Lisa flew out of the robes and flew around the two girls up ahead. She'd landed on Mao and began scurrying around her, using the claws on her wings to latch onto Mao's clothes. Lisa crawled to the tip of her tail and gave it a small nip for kicks before jumping onto Aiyana's back. Lisa crawled under the girls bandages and starting moving about her body, still using those claws to get a hold on the skin underneath. Seikatsu began giving off a low pitched giggle that turned into a slight chuckle when Lisa jumped out the front and latched onto Aiyana's face. Lisa let off some high-pitched clicking sounds while wriggling her midsection against the bondage mage's face, before releasing the bandage wizard's face and flying a little ahead of the two. Lisa landed somewhere on the walls, using the dim light to make herself look like one of the roots protruding from the ceiling above.

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Seikatsu watched as Mao caused a door to topple over by merely touching it. Amazed at her immense strength, Seikatsu turned to find Lisa hanging above his head. He gently grabbed her and pulled the small creature down, letting her crawl to wrap around his shoulder. Walking past the door, he saw several crystals lining the edge of the fallen structure and figured that was the reason why it had toppled so readily. That mad much more sense to him as Mao was quite small, and didn't look like she was a physical power house.

Looking around the room, Seikatsu saw what at first looked like shiny gold coins, but upon closer inspection turned out to be lacrima being preserved in magic seals that resembled gold. Seikatsu stood, pondering exactly what was going on here, as he recalled this was an armoury vault not a photo booth. Looking around, the walls were blank and contained no clue as to where the true items were. He continued skimming the walls until he'd noticed than one of the items leaning on the wall was a centimeter above the surface of the wall. Seikatsu stepped over to it, and lifted the mirror like object from the wall, and saw that there was a large keyhole. "I don't suppose anyone has the key?" Seikatsu said sarcastically, while also removing the back from his back and getting ready to pull out his 'key' to open the door. He paused to look at the keyhole more carefully. The area was kind of like a massive target sign. There was a circle shape, with engraved pictures that were faded terribly so it was hard to depict what they were. However, one picture stood out among all of them. A picture of a woman in a dress with horn on her forehead, holding a scythe. Seikatsu realized that the wall's images were all actually a spell of their own. A spell that remained in tact for as long as this vault was closed, and the one he was seeing was there because it's the marking on the wall closest to his heart. As much as Seikatsu hated to admit it, he did care for Altsoba just no romantically.

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When the Time Is Right
What You Need
Will Come

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After examining the strange markings on the wall, Seikatsu pulled the blast cord from his pack. He stuffed the other items he'd pulled out and closed the bag before putting it back on his back. Seikatsu carefully laid the blast cord on the wall, tapping the wall to see the density of the different locations. It wasn't long before the entire wall was covered in blast cord, and Seikatsu had just enough detonation cord to blow it all to hell and back. Seikatsu tied the detonation cord so that it would light and separate to the different parts of the wall evenly, creating a single blast. The fuse was a good ten second wait, so it should give him plenty of time to make the area safe. Seikatsu quickly lit the fuse while holding a small blue orb in his hand made of souls. He jolted so he was nine feet, and two inches (maybe a bit more) from the wall and allowed the bubble to expand while covering his ears. "Fire in the hole!" Seikatsu yelled two seconds before the blast cord exploded, sending the wall into pieces and destroying his Spirit Barrier. After the ringing in his ears had gone away, Seikatsu walked over to the hole in the wall and found there was a room with several boxes in it. The room was about the size of a small walk in closet, and at the end of it was a metal plate with another piece of metal on it. The item was three circles arranged so there was equal room on all parts from the edge of the other circle.

Seikatsu picked up the edge of the largest circle, estimating it to be about a five inch diameter circle, and was quite shocked when the other two rings came with it. He examined them but there was nothing connecting the three circles at all. Even more surprised he was when the smallest circles, a 1 inch diameter circle, began spinning slowly and gaining speed. Afterwards the second circle repeated the action and the objects began glowing. Seikatsu watched at a bit of the shadows around him were pulled in, as well as some of the glow from the walls entered the item. Seikatsu knew this item, it was a sacred object from his tribe. "The Balance Catalyst..." Seikatsu said under his breath before stuffing the item in his pack. He stepped out of the rubble and looked at Aiyana. "Thank you for inviting me. I do hope you both make it out of this place safely." Seikatsu said in a gentle voice as he pulled out a small blue rectangular item and squeezing it. Seikatsu disappeared from the labyrinth and reappeared in his house, noting that he was in one piece and no one else was transported with him. Seikatsu took his power limiter off, and rested it next to the Balance Catalyst he'd claimed from the area and alerted his maid he was going to sleep.

-Meanwhile back in the room with the two girls, where Seikatsu had disappeared a dead deer flew out randomly, and slammed into the wall near the girls-

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