Tales of Revenants

Chapter 40 – Magus Incarnation

The Ducal Highness can't believe Eirisse had a missing heart. He extracted her blood by slitting her wrist with the knife and let her blood run through the coffin's placement.

The moonlight of Solara that came from the dungeon's crevice to shower them the blessing they needed.

Things don't always happen the way one wanted to be. Duke Deriar knelt in defeat as nothing happened to the awakening he is talking about.

Laken knew it was suspicious that the Ducal Highness himself knew so much about the kinds of stuff he only overheard.

He figures he's the one who planned all of this with Alisa's help. Deriar achieved naught after the heights he reached hoping to find the power that can surpass everything.

There's no telling what he still had up his sleeves. Laken knocks Deriar down by throwing a rock on his head so he can sleep for the meantime. Even if he did all that, he was still being manipulated by Alisa and he's not to be blamed.

“I'll bring down the undead skeletons, go hurry to Eirisse!” Laken asked Xenon and the sisters to hurry up and help her.

Laken's raging sword burned all the undead in an instant. He provoked the remaining bigger ones so they can reach Eirisse by all means.

Xenon and the sisters are facing the giant skeleton that had a cleaver who had incredible physical strength. They asked Luciella to sprint towards Eirisse instead while they buy time.

Luciella rushed posthaste towards the cross where she was shackled. Xenon suddenly felt the malefic magic still looming around the chamber and he immediately warned Luciella to not get near the cross.

“Wait, stop Luciella!” Xenon shouted.

He was relieved that she heard what he alerted but he couldn't believe his eyes when a shadow of black mist appeared behind Luciella pushing her to the coffin.

Xenon is fully aware that was the magic of Alisa who is nowhere to be found after she abruptly vanished.

“Permafrost!” Luna chanted an ice spell that completely rendered the feet of the skeletal giant useless.

Lena grabbed the chance and whirled her double daggers and threw them right at its face, “Burn into nothingness! Purgatorial Hellfire!” Lena invoked a spell that caused his daggers to burst in flames. The skeleton became a pile of ashes.

The sisters took care of the job and Xenon rushed to Luciella to see her condition only to behold another event that turned the tides of the unknown.

Luciella touched the splattered blood that was on the coffin's opening. Xenon clearly saw the flow of pure mana through the Shards of Creation as thick as the sunlight.

The shards began to produce a radiance of light and right after it absorbed the blood of the progenitor.

Xenon felt the strong surge of magical affinity in the coffin. He pulled Luciella out of danger as the coffin forced opened.

“It can't be?!” Laken did not expect that the awakening instead used the essential magic of Luciella to finish the ritual itself.

“Is that...?!” Lena was shocked to see what came out of the coffin.

It was not power nor something that one can be gained. It was an Umbral Wraith, the ancient monster that was sealed a long time ago. The wraith possessed Eirisse as her body rejects its existence.

“Arghh!” Eirisse screamed the howl of her pain.

The possession is causing her to feel the hefty weight of her soul being hauled out of her material form. It was so heavy the Ethereal Chains itself was reduced to smithereens on the process.

The other can't do a thing as they watch Eirisse get taken over by the Umbral Wraith hoping for her to win against it.

Things have gotten much worse when Eirisse instead accepted the possession. She did not win nor the monster itself and instead her Metamorphosis consumed both of the personality inside the body as she may enter into a self that she can no longer return to her former ego.

“Get back everyone!” Laken warned them, “She was no longer the Eirisse we knew. The Umbral Wraith lost, meaning that was her, the Heartless Revenant.”

Instead of grasping the sword he holds, he threw it aside together with the metal choker he had that restricts his emotion.

Laken's Metamorphosis is activated through his extreme emotion. He wanted Eirisse to accept the cruel world before she becomes a monster who only seeks the light of the living.

With no sword to contain the fervor, Laken's right arm burns purely with the azure flames. He calmly walked towards her who lost her character.

“It's dangerous Laken!” Xenon warned him.

Eirisse even lost her ability of speech. She gently sniffed Laken from her chest up to her face. She revealed her deadly fangs and suddenly buried it on his neck without a second thought.

The words are lost and Laken just let her continue. He embraces her in return and gave her the warmth of the azure flames, letting her accept the blood of the sinner.

Luciella couldn't accept the way things became. Overridden by emotion and fear of losing Laken, the Shard of Void shimmers the light of the lost hope.

Unbeknownst to Luciella's presence of what she is doing, she grabbed the Shard of Void in her pocket and she held it tighter as she wishes for a greater power to save her comrades.

The shard ushered the way and answered her call. Xenon and the sisters backed off from where Luciella stands when the perpetual power of the shard engulfed her entire being.

Her garments reconstructed into an elegant lavender dress. Her wand changes to a scepter with violet rose at its tip. The intricate design of her garments and the amethyst before the frills of the skirt was the befitting clothes of a noble princess.

Luciella's form completely changes as Xenon and the sisters couldn't believe their eyes on what they witnessed.

“Is she still the Luciella we know...? I don't understand what is going on anymore!” Lena was perplexed by what is happening. Luna remains to hide behind her just as confused as her sister.

“What we just witnessed was... Magus Incarnation.” Xenon said as Laken also couldn't believe such a thing can be done by the shard.

“The Shard of Void answered her prayer, so this is the sight when someone fully utilized the perpetual power of the Shard of Creation.” Xenon tried to scan her magic levels but his sensors don't work on her.

Luciella levitated straight towards Eirisse. She pushed back Laken while she drove Eirisse down to the floor, “I shall free you from your suffering, Heartless Revenant.” Luciella was not herself.

They can clearly tell she's not the one controlling the mortal form. She managed to wield its power but instead the power has taken over.

Laken wanted to interfere but Xenon halted him, “No... you must believe Luciella.”

He was forced again to let the tides of fate to win over his side. He hopes that Luciella couldn't be blinded by the power she used.

Luciella's consciousness was trapped in an infinite white landscape, as her original body was purifying Eirisse's state.

Her mind encroached the fragment of Eirisse's memory. In order to save a soul was to save both the mind and the material form. For her to fix her ego was to find the fault of her recollections.

She must seek the past of Eirisse that turned her into the Heartless Revenant who only dwells to extract heart from her victim. She believed there was a reason for the suffering of those that were cursed.

The white landscape painted the memories of Eirisse herself. The vast greenery of the forest and clear blue sky expanding from the horizon firmament.

The time when they haven't been corrupted by the curse. She observed Laken and Eirisse that just first met with each other from the visions of the past.