Naught is Pure in Tanvene

"Ahh, fresh air... it feels nice even though I've not been gone long; strange how life's like that." Muttered Imogen as she looked down to be greeted by sand, an incomprehensible amount of sand.

"Wait!" "Why am I back in this desert, is this your doing, system? You dirty fricker!" Exclaimed Imogen while almost fuming in rage as she dropped Clarence onto the warm sand below.

*𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Where the hell did you expect you'd end up! When you go through a door, it leads you to somewhere new, when you go back through a door; IT DOESN'T

*𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐒𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Oh, and before I forget, because you're too stupid to remember this yourself; cover up your arm... it looks quite demonic. Usually I'd just let you find your own way of doing just that, because it's amusing; but I don't feel like that today. So this time, and this time only; I'll make an exception; and allow you to use False Form to mask it.

"How generous, system, I just love your sarcasm; it honestly makes my day." Grumbled Imogen as she glanced over her shoulder at a distant village, one she was sure she had seen before.

"But fine, I'll mask my arm; I don't want to be hunted by some cult fanatics after all... even if I am in the middle of a fricking desert!" Compromised Imogen while picking up Clarence, and performing False Form on her ebony arm.

"That reminds me... I need to get some better armor, all I've worn of late has been cloth, or at least what I think is cloth." Chuckled Imogen as she hefted Clarence onto her shoulder, and rubbed her newly constructed arm.

"Sadly though, wearing cloth as armor shall be my downfall; despite even my natural defence." Sighed Imogen while looking around a bit... before immediately smacking herself on the face.

"I forgot about Auden!" "Frick, I knew something would slip my mind!" Cavailed Imogen as she scrambled to get the Successors' Key back out of her pocket before it disappeared like the last one.

"Hey Clarence, wake the hell up; I don't want a sand worm to eat your dehydrated corpse when I'm gone!" Yelled Imogen while quite literally dropping Clarence so his back hit a rock.

"What the fu-, hell Imogen; you knew I had awoken before you dropped me!" Snarled Clarence as he rolled off the pointy rock that had jabbed into his spine.

"Oh... yeah, I did; whoops!" Laughed Imogen while opening the newly appeared door, and walking through as she flipped her friend off with a smile on her face.

"Ugh, best awakening of my life that was, I'll have to thank her later; by that I mean drop a damn brick on her head." Growled Clarence while falling back down upon the sand, and somehow landing on the same pointy rock as before.

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"Why am I even going back for Auden? I don't think it would matter too much if I just left him here… but I guess it's a step in the right direction towards becoming a 'good person.'' Suspired Imogen as she appeared back in the library, and kicked Augustine's limbless corpse.

Imogen looked around for a while, knocking down bookcases, and such; before shrugging to herself. "Either way, this is going to take ages; I don't even know if he's in this stupid library."

*𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐚: Here's a thought for you, he's not in this library, in fact; he isn't even in The Successor Dimensions as a whole

"Really... you could've told me that earlier, I wasted ten minutes of my life just standing here; do you have any idea how boring it was!" Snapped Imogen while searching her pockets for the key, only to realize it was gone.

*𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐀𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: Yeah, I could've; but then your key wouldn't of had enough time to disperse. Enjoy eternal silence in this bloodstained, and unordained library, forever alone

"This isn't funny, system... SYSTEM!" Screamed Imogen as she spotted eyes all around her.

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"Burn the father, consume the child; SCALD THE MOTHER!" Cantillated The Choir whilst they marched, shattering the pure visage of reality for many.

"Flesh from blood, flesh to food; flesh of power." Intonated The Choir as they set fire to all known to them.

"Bring forth that wrought from flame, which originated from blood; heed our call oh great ones; ARISE!" Incanted The Choir whilst a hand seeped from the ground, signalling the rise of a new age.

"We command you, oh great ones of blood, and fire; awaken from your homes of Heldom!" Recited The Choir as they basked in the great one's fiery glow.

"Purge the world of those that do not belong; the ones unmade by Denair's holy flesh; take from them their accursed heads!" Commanded The Choir whist the world was breached by several unfavorable souls.

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*𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: You've become a target of The Great Ones, have fun getting your soul torn from your body; and then consumed

"What!?" "System, what is wrong with you, I'm already fighting off these weird eyeball creatures; I need not more!" Exclaimed Imogen as she ripped off an Eye Leech, of which was the offspring of an Eyeling.

"These weren't here before, why is there suddenly thousands of different fricking eyeballs; this is going to give me nightmares!" Griped Imogen while watching a laser beam get deflected off her right arm, and fly back through its sender's head.

"Oh yeah, I have a cool arm now; I should probably use it." Grinned Imogen while tossing Execratus to her left hand, and shoving her right hand through an Eyeling.

"System, can I use my binding token on the Refined Halberd Talisman; I think I've become powerful enough to warrant upgrading it again." Asked Imogen as she stabbed her pointed nails through an Eyeling, and bit into it.

*𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: Yes

"Well can you fricking do it then, why else would I ask other than for that reason!" Snapped Imogen while splattering an Eyeling into paste, and kicking her foot through another.

*𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐄𝐧𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: The item, Refined Halberd Talisman; has been binded into a Hallowed Talisman Of Vine

*𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐟 𝐕𝐢𝐧𝐞: An age long relic harboured by the ancient dryads to protect their forests, this is one of the few left that still work, +10 STR; and +14 DEF

"Well... now my defence is even more obscene, just what I wanted." Jested Imogen as she crushed an Eyeling into juice with her right hand before chopping in half three more with Execratus.

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With hand of ice, with body of bone, with skin of soul; ARISE Old Ones!" Shouted The Choir whilst four arms of blue shot up from the ground.

"Return you mustn't, to us you follow; hear our pleas oh ones of old!" Repeated The Choir as the ice around them groaned, and shattered.

"Purge the world of those that do not belong; the ones unmade by Denair's holy flesh; take from them their accursed heads!" Adjured The Choir whilst the beings of gelid long past stepped forth one final time.

~~~

*𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫: I don't know how you did it, but The Old Ones are after you too; this is almost comical

"What even are these creatures, and why are they coming after ME; it sounds to me like you are making this up!" Accused Imogen as she punched an Eyeling... in the eye.

"No reply huh, you always do that when you're lying; go frick yourself system!" Scowled Imogen while ripping a book off a fallen shelf, and throwing it through an Eyeling.

~~~

"I did it... I finally did it." Smiled The Rebellious One as he looked at the sliced in half figure of his training dummy.

"See, I knew you could do it, if you practice every day; I'm sure you'll soon master the great axe." Beamed Craigen while watching as The Rebellious One put the great axe back on its shelf all by himself.

"You really think so, but I'm not that great at learning... it took me three weeks to cut in half a training dummy." Murmured The Rebellious One as he looked up at Craigen.

"I'm sure of it, one doesn't have to be great at learning to accomplish mastery over a subject; it just means you'll be stronger than the others in the end!" Affirmed Craigen while picking up the training dummy's fragmented remains.

"Now for step two, just doing work around the ship won't increase your strength much more, just solidify it slowly; so from now on you're going to do twice the amount of work!" Chuckled Craigen as he threw the training dummy overboard, and into the sea.

"Uhh, that just sounds like you're trying to get me to do more work; but I'm up for it!" Offered The Rebellious One while running off to find more work to do.

Soon after, Pajin walked up with a frown on his face. "When are you going to tell him, you know that when we reach the mainland we won't be in for a pretty sight, the whole damn world is crumbling around us!"

"I'm sure that it won't be a war zone, The Rural Kingdom is notorious for having its message system broken all the time; the citizens won't know war's abound for at least a year." Lied Craigen as he shook his head, and wondered if the continent was even worth coming back to.