Sister Mirror: Lord Nerve, what are you doing here?
Lord Nerve: I'm here to ensure this goes well. Two siblings are dead for the first time in a century, what else were you expecting?
Brother Green: Do we really need four of us here for that? That Maskless isn't even here.
Lord Nerve: Do you question Lord Stella?
Brother Green: No. I would never. Forgive me Lord Nerve.
Lord Nerve: You are forgiven. Now, you two. Talyndra and Elara.
Tali and Ela don't reply to him, but do look him in the face- eye.
Lord Nerve: -I see. This won't work if you don't cooperate. And if this doesn't work then there is no reason to keep either of you.
Tali: What do you want?
Lord Nerve: Kaelen Calder.
Tali: What about him?
Lord Nerve: He is responsible for the death of two of our order and we need repayment.
Tali: Killed? Kaelen? He would never.
Lord Nerve: He very much did.
Tali: When?
Lord Nerve: Yesterday-
Tali: Yesterday? But he went- Oh...
Lord Nerve: Yes. Oh.
Ela: W-what is it? What's going on?
Tali: Ela... These people, these Circus Lights. I think they kidnapped Kaelen.
Ela: What?
Lord Nerve: You would be correct Talyndra Vaelric. Kaelen Calder was... Taken to the Perimeter by Brother Shade, only to kill both him and Sister Spark.
Tali: How unfortunate for you. And you want me to do what about that?
Lord Nerve: Come with us. We'll lure and execute Kaelen for his murders, and then you two will be released.
Tali: Yeah, I'm not doing that. Why the hell would I willingly help you kill my friend.
Lord Nerve: Who said anything about willingly?
Lord Nerve touched Ela's shoulder and she immediately crumbled to the floor.
Tali, angry: WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO HER?!
Lord Nerve: Good night, Talyndra.
He touches her shoulder as well, her mind fogging over as she falls asleep out of nowhere.
-Abel-
Abel focused inward, toward his Sigil. When he had first gotten the Sigil and it had automatically activated, the weapon grew from the ground, logically he should be able to do that again. The weapon didn't really matter, anything sharp would do, and so hundreds of swords and spears sprouted from the ground in an instant, piercing Sister Spark all over her body. Including straight through her skull. Killing her instantly. He threw the body off of his own and sat up.
Abel: You really should've had Brother Shade Blaze me.
"You've... Changed."
I had to, didn't I? Besides, you were planning to do the same. This was self-defense, even if you don't count the previous Save States.
"True."
[Notice: EXP gained]
[EXP (+1,174)]
[EXP to next level: 189 (-189) -> 0]
[EXP to next level: 270 (-270) -> 0]
[EXP to next level: 325 (-325) -> 0]
[EXP to next level: 390 (-390) -> 0]
[EXP to next level: 470 (-0) -> 470]
[Notice: Level up]
[Level 9 (+4) -> Level 13]
[Health Points: 35/70 (+40) -> 75/110 (+35) -> 110/110]
[Mana Points: 21/21 (+8) -> 29/29]
[Stamina Points: 130/182 (+80) -> 210/262 (+52) -> 262/262]
[Attack: 26 (+4) -> 30]
[Defense: 64 (+4) -> 68]
[Dexterity: 19 (+4) -> 23]
[Speed: 20 (+4) -> 24]
[Intelligence: 19 (+4) -> 23]
[Wisdom: 16 (+4) -> 20]
[Adeptness: 20 (+4) -> 24]
[Notice: Stat points up]
[Stat points: 0 (+32) -> 32]
[Notice: Stat points used]
[Stat points: 32 (-32) -> 0]
[Notice: Stats up]
[Health Points: 110/110 (+70) -> 180/180]
[Stamina Points: 262/262 (+140) -> 402/402]
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[Attack: 30 (+5) -> 35]
[Defense: 68 (+2) -> 70]
[Dexterity: 23 (+2) -> 25]
[Speed: 24 (+1) -> 25]
[Intelligence: 23 (+2) -> 25]
[Wisdom: 20 (+5) -> 25]
[Adeptness: 24 (+1) -> 25]
"Now what?"
Well, our stats are now the highest we've ever seen, so we have a few options.
"Those being?"
We try and find a way back home, or we walk around the Perimeter hunting for other people like this.
"If possible I'd prefer to return to my house. But I already tried making my way from the house to this place and it didn't go well, remember?"
It's a Perimeter, if we walk in a straight line from the door-thing in the sky then we'll reach the city eventually. Except this time we already know that we'd be facing the correct direction so we wouldn't get lost and die.
"Then we're going home. Try not to die on the way, it'd be a massive waste of our time and I don't want to have to redo all of that for no reason."
Agreed.
Abel: If only it was a weapon-
He Blazed Sister Spark's corpse and Fabricated some clothes. He had killed two people. That's all he could think about now. He had killed people. They might have tried to kill him, but that didn't mean he wanted to kill them. He could never undo this, never. And he would regret this for the rest of his life. But he was alive. He had survived, and now he could return home and sleep. He stepped through the hole in the sky, the heat of the sun immediately dropping by what felt like thousands of Celsius. He had to get back home and tell Talyndra, warn her of the psychotic clowns that tried (and succeeded on more than one occasion) to kill him, to prevent them from doing the same with Ela like they had in the previous Save State.
He started to just walk in a straight line directly away from the hole in the sky. It had been maybe a day since he got kidnapped, alongside the day he spent at the Festival improving his stats he had been gone for two days overall, so hopefully he'd be back within a day making the total three. He could go a day without sleeping if he had to, so with a few breaks it shouldn't be too long to get back into town soon hopefully. Not that a day was soon, but there was every chance he just never got home, so compared to that a day of walking wasn't that bad. He just had to hope he'd get there before those clown-people did anything else.
[Notice: Boss defeated]
[The person "Sister Spark" dedicated as the "BOSS" of this Save Point has been beaten and the "EVENT" known as {Zenith} has been passed.]
[Authority granted - You may now choose one place and one time to create the next Save Point. When you are ready to create the next Save Point active the skill {Death Watcher, Level 6}.]
He stops moving when the notice played out.
What? Seriously?
"We can save? Does that mean after we save if we die we'll reset back to here? Why did it take so long for the notice to tell us?"
I'm guessing it was waiting to make sure we didn't die immediately after winning. That we had actually passed.
"So should we save right now?"
Nope. Do you want to make this walk however many times we die in the next set of Save States?
"Save when you reach my house then."
That was the plan.
After almost a full day of walking, it was the third morning since he got kidnapped and he had finally reached his house. He had done it, he had managed to get back home. Choosing to immediately use [Death Watcher, Level 6] there and then.
"Finally. Progress."
[Mana Points: 21/21 (-1) -> 20/21]
[Notice: Skill activated]
[Death Watcher, Level 6]
[First Save Point - "Zenith"]
>>> [Save State #1]
>>> [Save State #2]
>>> [Save State #3]
>>> [Save State #4]
>>> [Save State #5]
>>> [Save State #6]
>>> [Save State #7]
[Create {Second Save Point}?]
[Yes / No]
It felt so unreal... He had died six times to get here, and would die even more. He knew it was true, despite how much he wished it wasn't. This [System] wouldn't allow him to make a second save point if it didn't intend for him to die again and again in the next "EVENT". He had more to do, he needed to know who kidnapped him and why, and in order to do that he was going to die. He couldn't waste time re-doing this bit if he was ever going to do that. So he selected [Yes].
[Use the Spire and create your new save point.]
A beam of white light apparated before him, forming into a shape somewhere between a spear and a large baton or javelin. He grabbed onto it, the Spire, and thrusted it into the ground. The ground shattered, air whipped around him, biting at his skin, as the Spire grew in intensity, splitting its form of white light into a million, billion, trillion shades of every colour imaginable before-
[Second Save Point created]
[Authority removed]
>>> [Save State #5]
>>> [Save State #6]
>>> [Save State #7-1]
[Second Save Point]
>>> [Save State #7-2]
He had finally just saved his game.
-End of First Save Point: Zenith-
