A tall dark figure had now joined BB and Ram outside of Chaldea’s doors.
“Oh good you’re here, can you… I don’t actually know how your weird lich magic works, but I’m guessing you can at least detect some sort of something going on here, right?”
The lich did not respond, but instead stood staring at the building. Even despite the sun’s rays beating down, Dusk still remained unaffected by the dark suit ix always wore.
“It’s definitely Yukari’s work. Or at least, part of it.”
“What do you mean, only part of it?” BB asked.
“The way these two places are blended together here, this definitely had to come from Yukari, but knowing her she would have only pulled Chaldea in directly as-is. No, there is something else marked all over this building, something quite dark.”
BB’s tail flicked. Not many people she knew were powerful enough to pull something off like this. Aeva maybe? As a goddess of time, her abilities might be capable, but she was far too sweet to just do something this—
“Hiiiiiii, I’m here!!”
Shortcake, the tiniest member at only 3/4 of a foot tall, had arrived and was carrying a fairly large book about twice her size above her head.
Ram acknowledged her. “Greetings. I take it you’ll be recording everything as well then?”
The fairy posed with a peace sign and tongue sticking out, now holding up the book with one hand. “Just leave it to me!”
Ram nodded. “Good, that just leaves Azure then. I reached out to Az but was unable to get a response, so this will have to do for now.”
BB frowned. “Odd, but I guess she does tend to forget to respond to stuff a lot.”
A few moments later, a cloud of dust exploded to the group’s side before clearing with a strong gust of wind.
“Hey!!! Watch where you’re landing!!” Shortcake juggled her book in the air while trying to hold back a few coughs. Dusk and Ram seemed largely unaffected, but BB did struggle a bit to hold her composure as well.
“Ah, I’m sorry, I just tried to get here as fast as I could!”
A short figure stood in the center of the blast site, wielding a glaive and dusting sand off her mystic code. With a few final flaps of her large butterfly wings, Azure approached the group.
“I take it we're all ready to go then?”
“Yep, I got my mystic code, my glaive, health potions, scoutflies, tranq bombs...”
“I uh, don't know how necessary all that'll be, but anyway um, Ram are we ready?”
alrighty we’ve heard plenty about what Az’s thoughts on the matter are, but how ‘bout we interview the other masters here to see if they have any opinions on if Mata’s done anything wrong?
first up, Dusk! tell us, what are your thoughts? has Mata Hari done anything wrong? has this wonderful pure precious woman ever brought any harm to anyone?
Yeah.
...fuckin when dude
No comment.
...i genuinely can’t tell if ix’ joking, so we’re just gonna ignore this one and move on then, yep! don't worry guys mata's still done nothing wrong :)
We’ve had a lot of focus on Az and Aztu, but next up on the introduction list is Dusk! Ix isn’t particularly social aside from occasionally showing up to relate to various comments regarding inhumanity or dark magic and the such, but ix... Sure is a person! ...Technically. .….Probably.
Yes, I do believe that possessing some form of sentience and self-awareness does qualify someone for person-hood, thank you Azure.
Regardless! Dusk being a lich has certainly made ix one of the most powerful members of our group, something I have personally witnessed myself multiple times. So far, I have never successfully killed ix for longer than a few hours at most (with no Heroic Spirit based respawning either), and this was all while ix was not actively attacking me.
I still fail to see any reason as to why I should have been.
Even so, to try and think about the full capabilities of what Dusk can do is… Kind of terrifying, to be completely honest! We still have yet to see what all ix is fully capable of, but it definitely includes the potential for large-scale raising of the dead, petrification, and quite simply manipulating the many aspects of death. We do have to wonder how ix would stack against the average heroic spirit, but we can definitely assume ix is somewhere up there.
Currently speaking, however, ix tends to simply offer general advice and do tarot readings for people when asked. A bit underwhelming, but I suppose having ix be somewhat amicable is far better than the old alternative.
I can go back to slowly killing everyone if you would prefer. That is something I can do.
Thaaat won’t be necessary! We are all quite happy being alive and well thank you :)
Roles: Arcane handler; Offers various advice and guidance through tarot readings
Relationships: Former rival of Azure; Possible friend of Seirios
Location: A small cave in the Prismscape desert marked by two obelisks.
Abilities: Incredibly powerful necromancer; Considerable skill with tarot cards.
Combat skills: Predicted to be capable of large-scale raising of the dead and petrification; Can regenerate indefinitely with the use of a closely guarded phylactery
Other: Fortunately seems no longer intent on slowly killing everyone anymore, reducing the need for repeated murder attempts by Azure.
