LRAB Chapter 117 – Encounter From The Past
Chapter 117 – Encounter From The Past
Chapter 117 – Encounter From The Past
The group of priests, unaware of the one stalking them, continued their conversation without concern.
The priest who had been in the grove with Joseph spoke first. “Everyone recovering well?”
"No, sir, preparations have been thwarted.”
“Movement of the beast being misaligned was part of the potential risk.
“No, they never made it to the expected point, and the soldier was forcefully decommissioned ahead of when expected and caused unexpected injuries in our banded devotees.”
“That is distributing.” The priest’s eyes darkened. He nodded in understanding and asked. “Saint Joseph Sunrise Dawn Starcaller, can you please heal our recovering followers who have acted in service?”
“Glady.” Joseph appeared in his thirties with a slightly aged look. His eyes and hair were both pure white, and he possessed a very rectangular face that contained no blemishes.
The warmth of Light flowed over the company of priests, as their physical injuries were slowly taken care of, but the mana depletion had to wait until they reconvened with their supplies in a more secure location.
[It’s impressive how much one is willing to expatiate when they believe they are alone.] (Luna)
A star of moonlight appeared from above and shattered into a thousand pieces.
“Argh!”
“Nigh!”
“U–”
“Saint!”
“Lord!”
It was sudden, unexpected, and deadly.
The exploded star let out a powerful impact in the surrounding area and its shards flew into the bodies of priests cutting them. Those shards faded away quickly after the spell ended.
The condensed star of Moonlight was a more stable version of what the madden Luna had created before to wipe out the last group of priests, but it was still far from what she would consider perfect. That experience had left a lasting impact on her for many reasons. One of those impacts was the desire to properly craft and learn a new set of spells for Moonlight. She had always been working on some in the background since they were children, but it always happened in between events when Syrus or Eva didn’t have something they wanted to do, and Luna didn’t have something else important to accomplish in her minimal time.
Soon a second one formed.
[Luna, are you okay?] (Syrus)
[Yes… these constructs are just hard to control…] (Luna)
[I’ll help stabilise.] (Eva)
[No, you keep tabs on our appearance. I will be making my entrance in a moment.] (Luna)
Compared to the Moonlight stars from before that were uneven, this one was a mostly even star polyhedron. Its surface did wave slightly as she tried to ensure only the necessary amount of mana was poured into it.
Based on Jen’s re
[You… never had any scares…] (Eva)
[No. No, I did not. Many needles and many injections, but all the best healing in the world. Though I wasn’t sure what colour they made them, that was a surprise for death after all.] (Luna)
“Eliana… Alinastar… Bright Shinelight… you should return to the dead…” The fact that her face looked that exact same and the spectral glow–which was just Luna’s Moonlight glow from the armour and cloak–he perceived as a ghost. He had never seen one before, but what else could this thing be, outside of the trick on his mind?
“Oh, so you are recognising me as such?”
To mock him, she created a spear outside the shield and launched it at his leg.
“ARgh!” He crouched over in pain.
“Come on, can you heal yourself? Or did you forget how to do that?”
As the first spear faded away, a second stabbed his other leg. “And don’t call me that... I guess you can refer to me as Elianna, but, any, other, words after that and the next spear will be lodged in your throat.”
He gulped, and he slowly healed himself. Once his legs were no longer scared, he stood up, but his posture was lower as he was afraid to look down on Luna.
Eva managed to shrink their body a bit along with everything, but she wasn’t sure that after this she would be able to have the Syrus’ disguise active.
“Why… why are you here… you would never do something like this…” Joseph tried to play on her moral compass.
Luna scoffed, “What have you been smoking since I was gone? What am I doing here? What are you doing here? Do you believe I am unaware of what you are doing here?”
He confidently said. “We’re innocent beings. Tis not our actions that have caused fated events.”
“And?” Luna didn’t believe him for even a moment, but she decided to humour him. “What differences does that make?”
“...Huh..?”
“What, difference, does that make? Is that hard to understand?”
She stomped forward. “I enjoy it, snuffing each life that stole mine from me.”
“How-w-w-w can you say something like that?!” Joseph fell onto his butt.
Luna laughed. “Well, are you sure you weren’t sent to die here?”