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THE WAR FOR MYTHERIA - Isekai Adventure

I will post tomorrow, there is a lot to writte and I arrived too late to do as much as I wanted.

THE WAR FOR MYTHERIA - Isekai Adventure

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THE WAR FOR MYTHERIA - Isekai Adventure

He walked slightly behind the others with a single thought in his head.

"How embarassing"

He barely resisted the temptation of jumping in the river (though he would probably end up doing that eventually) and let the current carry him to somewhere where nobody recognized him. He, well he had made a fool of himself no other way around it, trying to distract everybody was perhaps not his wisest choice even though it mostly worked, the only silver lining was that Lily appeared to be -while not necessarily better- at least calmer, he supposed that maybe letting out all her feelings was what she needed and he kicked himself for trying to prevent it.

Ah well, no use crying over spilled milk, looking around at his party members he saw their interactions, Adam and Zell bonding over powers with the latter falling hilariously to proc his teleporting abilities and Maz and Fenna discussing the power-up the party had seemingly gone through.

He didn't want to interrupt so he looked to his other two companions. He grimaced.

...The safe option was Joji, he had talked with the giant before and knew the man was easy to talk to, surprisingly chatty once you got him talking about something he was well versed on and he couldn't imagine the guy reacting badly to some inane conversation. On the other hand his two interactions with Lilliana could be summarised to "Bleed out freak out" and "Foot-met-mouth" respectively. Still, Mama didn't raise no quitter and if they were going to be traveling together for the foreseeable future then he could at least put in the effort to get along.

Walking to her side he cleared his throat to get her attention once he was sure she was focused o him he started "Hey Lily, how you doin'?" Better to specify, the other aspect was pretty self-evident "Physically I mean, your injuries were pretty bad when we entered the hospital and for you to be walking already they must have done something short of miraculous" Shit what else could he talk about? "Ah right, you okay with me calling you 'Lily'? Last time I asked you were pretty-" Fucked up "-delirious"

THE WAR FOR MYTHERIA - Isekai Adventure

This was the one I wanted to post too

Lilliana waking up be like

Made these ones too

Joji went hard

I would be sad too

With our luck...

THE WAR FOR MYTHERIA - Isekai Adventure

"Shit she looks like she wants to cry"

Not that he couldn't understand the why of such reaction, hell he would be on the same boat if he wasn't so, fucking, TIRED! and annoyed, couldn't forget about that. Still, tears were not something any of them needed right now, they... well they weren't in the best of positions right now, so that only left his favorite tactic.

Distract.

Distract until the problem became too big to ignore, luckily Adam had provided just the thing.

"If we are going to have a group hug I want you all to know, my safeword is Chayanne, nothing worse than saying your dad's name in the middle of it"

Ha

He stood up from the wall he was resting on and rolled his shoulder, damn the anchor was heavy "Full seriousness though, nice to see you walking around Lily, I knew a cray- a genious wizard like you would't kick the bucket by something like that" A lie, he knew exactly how bad were her chances had they not found the hospital on time "So, let me get you up to speed, we are in Valhaim right now and we are waiting for Mac and Joji to join us to head to the Adventurer's Guild to get rid of the Cube of Doom, they are not here because they" The idea of laying briefly crossed his mind but he dismissed it, she would learn about it sooner or later, better take the bandage off now when they were safe "...They went to give a proper burial to Clive, he and Arthur didn't make it"

And now he made the mood worse, great!

Better turn it around, making his voice clear so all the members of his party could hear it he started speaking again "Don't mope though, they died protecting others and they wouldn't want us to stop because of it, better to respect their wishes and keep going forward" Not his best speech but neither the worse, what else could he speak about to take their minds out of the deaths?

Ah!

Focusing once more he felt deep within himself for the new growths that had appeared in his mental library,mmh?, it appeared that his spell slots had grown by three rather than one, though they felt weaker than the other two spells he originally had, what was more attention grabbing however was the shinning new Blessings he could felt inside himself "Also, I don't know if anyone else noticed but after the fight my crystal shone purple for a moment and I think I can cast more spells and another two blessings" He paused for a moment to consider, then his face scrunched off into a grimace "One of them feels weird though"

Like opening an apple and finding a tomato.

"What about y'all? Did you also gain something?" A sudden memory came unbidden to his mind and he could help but whirl and face directly to the resident swordman "You! Since when can you teleport Zell!? What the fuck man? I showed you mine so why didn't you show me yours?"

He made subtle eye contact with Zell, if he could trust anyone to share the same last two braincells as him it was this guy, "Let them focus on the antics, don't let them think about other things"

Crossing his arms in front of his chest he glared "Well? what can you say in your defense?"

THE WAR FOR MYTHERIA - Isekai Adventure

Yeah @Saiyan, not all of us just have our character randomly headbutt people in the shoulder, NFL-tackle allies and hand out unrequested hugs!

@Zool

Mine would! He appreciates the straighforwardness

THE WAR FOR MYTHERIA - Isekai Adventure

I was making my new post but became distracted, take this shitty meme instead.

The anti-Ogre plan

I was working on another but my laptop died

THE WAR FOR MYTHERIA - Isekai Adventure

Second Chance

THE WAR FOR MYTHERIA - Isekai Adventure

The hug from Zell was almost as unexpected as the fact that most of them were still alive and he was not ashamed to admit that he hugged the other man with maybe just a little bit more tightly than he was going for, Clive was dead and he felt the moment the blessing over Arthur shattered.

The battle was over but it was no time to mourn yet.

"James, you are a miracle worker,"

Mac

MacKenzie's words brought a sardonic grin to his face "Don't go saying that just yet, surgery often takes a while to see if it even worked"

"I'm sorry that I led you all here to this awful place, and them to their deaths. If I could have died instead, I would" Pause "You can do whatever you want to me; yell at me, kick me off the team, whatever. But only after we're safe in Valheim. Otherwise, their sacrifice will have been in vain."

Tree man

He gave a half-hearted glare at the younger man "Don't say shit like that Adam, you think that asshole wouldn't have found us no matter what? It was only thanks to the bigger creature driving him off that we survived" Not that he would thank said creature, it killed Arthur so it could burn in hell for all that he cared. He continued with a more tired tone of voice "Don't take it wrong just, accept that shit would have hit the fan regardless, it is not your fault and neither is ours, it's theirs" Saying so he turned around. It wasn't like he was the one who ordered Arthur to attack the Aurok

All around him he watched as his party started preparing for the travel despite their injuries and he refrained from casting his healing spell on anyone else, chances were that something even worse happened during the trip and he didn't want to be caught without some sort of safety net in case a medical emergency popped up. He didn't want to cause another casualty "Get your mind out of the gutter" With careful steps he got back to his feet, Adam carrying Lilliana was the best option, he felt too much like shit to do it himself and everyone else seemed to be in equally rough shape so better let the one capable do the work, it also was assured that if something happened Adam could recreate his improvised fortified position and cover himself and Lilliana.

The brief glow on his palm distracted him from his thoughts, whatever the crystal on his hand was it was reacting to something and a brief inspection brought something new to the surface deep within himself. Two new blessing slots appeared on his mind next to Undaya's as well as a new spell sitting in his mental library, but for some reason they felt... incomplete, for a lack of a better word, as if multiple inputs blocked each other from entering and blocked the spell as a result. Whatever it was he dismissed it, he didn't have time to worry about things like these when they were already pressed for time.

Looking around one last time he caught sight of Arthur's tossed anchor so he approached with careful steps and bent to grab it, maybe he could prop it to make a makeshift headston-

The weapon was not sentient or sapient but whatever shenanigans were going around its natural enchantments and its relations to the blessing the result was the same, the moment he grabbed it a pulse rang through and an alien feeling invaded his whole body, it took him a moment before he could put into words into what feeling it was but once he did there was no mistaking it.

It was grief.

The weapon recognized that its wielder's life was cut short and wept for it knew that without his presence it could never accomplish its purpose, perhaps it was pity or sympathy that made him act that way but before he could even think he was already fixing the chain around his body. Once he made sure the chain was secured and the anchor rested on his back he utilized his knife and made a big hole, if he was taking his weapon then the least he could do was give him something to remember him by, in this case, his own staff.

When he was finished at least half of his staff was under the earth with the other half overlooking the cliff Arthur had fallen through, it was way less than a man like him deserved but it was the best he could give him, saying a prayer he bid him goodbye and retreated with the rest of the group to keep heading towards Valheim.

...

After Zell made contact with the guards Lily, Zell, and himself were quickly ushered to the hospital where they were told prices and their wounds were treated, a part of him wanted nothing more than head to the nearest hotel or inn or whatever they had around here, maybe after drinking enough to forget all that happened on the last few hours but his conscience wouldn't let him, they were being persecuted and they needed answers, commander Vadim had told them to go to the Guld and he knew he wouldn't be able to sleep until the matter was resolved.

Glancing at those with him in the hospital he decided to share his thoughts "We should wait for Lily to wake up and for the others to come before going to the Adventurers guild, they might be able to explain what the fuck is going on and it would be better if we all are there to hear it from the source." A pause "Plus, whoever is after it was willing to send assassins to get the cube so it would be better to get it out of our hands as soon as possible."

THE WAR FOR MYTHERIA - Isekai Adventure

Well, I would like to cast my vote for: World's Apart, wheter it wins or not I will explain my reasoning after a winner is decided