8 Useless

As the three lied there, time passed..... the sun slowly rose up, and reached the top of the sky. As it did, it started falling back down with the passage of time. Creatures in the night neared the three, but instinctively scared off with a tremor in their souls. Their bodies, with a now visible white glow on them, started forming faint symbols above them.

Above Suri, formed a pattern of runes. Together, a meaning could be taken from them. They meant Freedom, Power, Destruction. The mark of a Destructionist. At the end, they all glowed with a destructive power, as they went back to suri, and absorbed into her forehead.

Above Mothly, formed the pictures of different animals and hunters. The pictures moved, creating three distinct scenes. From them, a lesson was learned. Accuracy, Power, Efficiency. The mark of a Sharpshooter. At the end, all the animals, hunters, and landscape went back to mothlys skin, this time, being fully absorbed.

Above Feroo, came the image of a golden, glowing paladin. The paladin then exhibited three distinct characteristics. Boldly leaping to confront a devil, it showed its Courageous and bold nature. Being physically weaker then other warrior-type soul emblems, but exhibiting regeneration and movements beyond others, it showed its sustainability. Lastly, showing special effects being manifested each swing, such as the myriad fires, or the flesh-penetrating ichor, it showed its supportive nature. Courage, Sustainability, and Support, the clear and perfect marks of a paladin.

However, at the end, the scene did not end. Rather, the paladins light dimmed, and air around turned pitch black, and the paladins figure was no more. In its place, was the red, glowing outline of a child. Walking through the void, white beasts of light came at it, each one falling in one slice, turning into blood. This blood accumulated at the being, becoming stronger the more it absorbed. Eventually, it met the golden, glowing paladin again. They had a fierce battle, and the paladin was losing. As the last hit was about to be done, the soul stone appeared behind the paladin. Granting it energy in pure, white light, it struck the demonic creature down. It turned into a thick, blood red puddle on the floor, which went to rush inside the paladin. Hitting the paladin, his armor and skin slowly started being corrupted, the golden light fading as the evil spread. As the paladin was struggling against the corruption, the soul stone went next to the paladin. With runes glowing in the void around it, it self-detonated.

The dust remains of all three fell, falling directly onto feroo, mothly, and suri. This dust attracted the attention of the other two soul stones. Capturing the dust, they too, self-detonated, this time becoming a grey liquid. This liquid separated into equal parts, and went inside all of them.

Their soul emblems reacted with this liquid. Suri's destructionist soul emblem, started having violent fluctuations, reverting back to the origin emblem, the mystic emblem. Mothly's sharpshooters soul emblem had a similar fate, becoming the origin Ranger Emblem. Feroo's Paladin soul emblem changed to the origin warriors emblem. These were the best possible soul emblems.

When they would wake up, they would all have the temporary strength boost of feroos bloodlust qi strands, the soul emblem strengthening power of the soul stone, and the bonuses of every single non-origin soul emblem that derived itself from their origin soul emblem. However, no bonuses were to be had for now however, as all the soul power from the chilchin was exhausted in this massive deviance, having none left to actually strengthen their soul emblems.

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Right now, somewhere... hell, probably, had a small girl in a chair. "Tsk, annoying paladin, if that kid had more devils blood in him I would have shattered his damn avatar to pieces..... to think Arius would think so highly of him to bring a treasure to help destroy my avatar. Why would he spend so much on a kid with devils blood, anyways? Does he want to make use of it? Has he finally... started experimenting with black magic and evil? AHAHAHAAHA! To think even the most righteous paladin would have fell like this. What a joke."

Right now, however, in a holy temple, stood a man in a suit of glowing, golden armor. Not realizing the stones existence, he was thinking. "That kid didn't have that much devils blood in his, how could Annabelle have destroyed my avatar? Could it be, she hunted more heroes without us realizing, and grew even stronger? This cannot be, i'll have to bring her down once more." With this, he stood up, and grabbed a large golden greatsword with blue runes and light. He shouted, "Disciples! Prepare the passage to the underground, i'll be enacting justice once more!"

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In a plains, in the middle of nowhere, the sun was just rising once more. Suri slowly opened her eyes, and started blankly for a moment. She wiggled her fingers, then put her hand on her chest. She got up, and looked around. "Haha..." "Hahahahahaahahahahahaaa.... it was real.... I can feel complete, complete like never before, I've never felt this great!" She grabbed her staff and walked over to mothly, still unconscious on the ground. She started hitting him with the butt of her staff. "Oi oi oi, wake up you idiots. Feroo was tired as hell, but you have no excuse to let me be awake before you."

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She looked around, and it was plains as far as the eye could she. She waved her staff, concentrating mana on her eyes, and casted an illusion spell, to make herself see further. Looking around, there wasn't the slightest tree or hill. "....." "What do I do now...? There's only a few caves, caves are dangerous though..." She started moving towards the nearest cave, more than a cave, it was a hole in the ground which then becomes a cave. Looking inside, she found a rare cave that has an end visible without looking inside. She went back, and grabbed mothly and feroo on each arm. She jumped in, and started dragging them to the end of the cave. As she drew near the end, she found a human skeleton at the end, next to a chest. On the chest, was a note that read,

"Fated one, I have sustained a fatal injury with my fight with the flamestone elemental in the underworld. My magic armor... my armor made straight from the stones of hell. My Hellphin armor got destroyed, despite how impossible I believed it to be. Inside, is all I have left. A pair of enchanted boots, a lava charm, and my wind charm. Make good use of them...."

Seeing this, Suri believed it would be better to wait until everyone has woken up before doing anything.

She looked at the men she left leaning against the wall. She thought, "Well.... I am pretty tired..." She looked at mothly, and back to Feroo. She went found a spot inbetween them and went to sleep.