"I actually have a better plan."
Seisan was getting annoyed by these two mans.
First they empty the treasure room, leaving them with poor funds to properly run the castle.
Then that bastard even demanded more payment. If Seisan didn't control the situation, Tessai was going to murder them.
Also they kept them waiting for allmost an hour and as soon as they came, they started to cause commotion, interrupting her speech, and all.
And now that she was finally done with her speech, this bastard once again killed all the momentum she had built.
Now, people will have second thoughts about this. They won't be as willing as they had been just a moment ago.
'All because of this old fashioned bastard who is walking around like he's attending a party...'
'If he had a plan, why didn't he told us at the start?'
Controlling her emotions from showing on her face, Seisan said...
"What kind of plan are you taking about? Maybe we can discuss it at more appropriate place."
"No, that won't be necessary.... This plan is beneficial to all people, they should know what the plan is so they can make choices for themselves." Raine said not getting the hint.
"If we use my plan then this death march will become a walk in the park and most importantly, no one will die." He said loudly so people understood then previous plan was actually a death march for the most of them.
Silence.....
'This bastard...' people in front seats were making complicated expressions.
"Explain..." Seisan said.
"Oh, with pleasure. So first of all let me introduce ourselfs."
"My name is Raine and this is my ...companion Prisma." Raine said gesturing to his Sword.
'Why can't he just admit that she's his wife, ...I personally think it's a great love story....' Sunny thought..
"Mmmm... you can think of her as an advanced Echo if you want to know her nature, just million times more smart.."
"So Prisma here is the most awesome weapon ever to exist.... She is Awakend rank, and she's the one who killed Gunlaug, so you can imagine how powerful she is." Raine said proudly.
"Get to the point already...." Seisan said tiredly, as she imagined herself writing another speech.
'Maybe Changing star can help me this time...'
"So the point is... She isn't normal, she is very special, she is .... how should I say this ...." Raine said.
"..She can grow stronger by consuming memories..."
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Silence.
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'This bastard, why would he revealed something like that in front of everyone...' Sunny was feeling mixed emotions..
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People began discussing between themselves...
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"An Echo that can grow stronger, how fascinating... But do you think we'll believe you just like that?" Seisan said.
"He's telling the truth." The voice came from Sunny.
People gave him mean looks.
'I knew these bastads won't believe me anyway.' he just said that because he just wanted to support his bro.
"They are telling the truth." This time the voice came from the handsome, popular singer Kai.
"Thank you for your support, Mister Kai. With you around, it's really easy to convince these narrow minded people who can't imagine the vastness of this world...."
'Hay, where's my thanks?' Sunny complained in his mind.
"...your welcome..?" Kai said, uncertain about becoming part of this man's sarcasm which was diracted at everyone.
"How dare you!" Caster stood up, showing again that he was a legacy.
People begun to chatter again.
"Silence..." with a mighty Roar from Seisan, everything quited down once again.
"You, where you are going with this?" Seisan turned to Raine.
"Oh, I'm just saying that if we gather enough memories for Prisma to consume, she can become Ascended, or even a Transcendant.. what you think? .. won't that be completely awesome?"
Silence again....
'A Transcended...?' people thought with shock.
"How much memories will it take?" Seisan asked after few moments...
"Let me think....mmm" Raine thought for a moment.
"All of them."
"I will need all of the memories that exists on forgotten shore."
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Silen-
"...And Echos too."
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Silence rose again.
People were stunned.
This man wanted everyone to hand him all of their memories?
Was he serious?
Some couldn't handle the idea...
Tessie rose from his seat...
"You thief, first you stole all the Shards from treasury and now you want us to hand out memories to you? Are you out of your mind?" Tessie shouted.
"And you think we'll just hand you our memories and entrust our lives in your hand? You can't be serious?" Caster spoke.
Effie would have shouted to, if her memories weren't already goner either way.
"Aren't you doing that anyway? Entrusting your lifes to bunch of Sleepers? You think you have a chance that way?" Raine spoke loudly.
"You think you can defeat a fallen terror with a bunch of Sleepers? Dream on. ... you'll die, most of you will die.. only a few lucky ones will survive."
"You, all of you.." he turned to standing crowd.. "your lives will become stepping stone for thses people who are sitting in the front... They'll walk on your corpses to reach the waking world.. they will-"
"ENOUGH." Seisan shouted in anger.
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Silence...
...
Everyone was stunned once again.
But people became uneasy.
Seisan was angry. She wanted to crack open the skull of this man with her warhammer.
This mothe-... This madman put cold water on all their dreams... He turned the people against them as if he was a Masiha fighting evil of the world.
Seisan knew what to do.
The situation was hopeless now.
If they still stuck to their old plan then they won't have any people following them anymore.
But this way... It was a high risk, high reward...
So she made up her mind..
"We'll go with your plan...but first.."
"Demonstrate what you say is actually the truth, ..that your Echo can actually become stronger...."
"Sure, let's do this Prisma... Let's show this fools how awesome you actually are.." Raine said to Prisma, ignoring the murderous looks he got from people.
'Hey, my Saint as awesome too!' Sunny spoke in his mind. He would never say something like that out loud. He guarded his secrets like his treasure.
Raine summoned a memory... A garment type which looked similar to modern clothes...
'So this fool have other clothes too, then why would he go around wearing that?'
Raine put the garment memory on floor, and moved away for everyone to see.
"Go on, show them..." He said to Prisma.
Everyone waited.
Nothing happened...
The sword didn't move.
Everyone looked at him like he was a lier..
"Oh, you see, she isn't in the mood right now, ....she's just upset that I revealed her secrets in front of everyone.... And she also prefer Swords.." Raine said embarrassed.
"Come on, I'll give you swords when I have them, but first, consume that, consume that, come on ... everyone is watching.. you can't do this right now.." he silently pleaded to the Prisma.
People saw as sword stayed in place.
"Hehehe... You guys mind giving me a Sword,... she said she'll do it if it's a sword. ...Hehehe.. she can become picky sometimes, you see." Raine said, embarrassment dripping from him as he endured the looks people gave him.
Nobody came forward.
Why would anyone will hand over there weapon to this madman?
"Here, you can have this, brother..." Sunny summoned the midnight shard and casually handed it to Raine.
"Oh, thanks you, brother, you are a lifesaver.. Now then..." He started to give it to Prisma when...
"Wait..." It was Caster.
"That's a shard memory, you fools ..how dare you try to destroy that? Hand it over right now?" Caster shouted.
"Well, we wouldn't have to, if you guys weren't so stingy, but we got no choice...you continue, brother.." Sunny said.
"WAIT... You..." Caster said in anger.
He turned to his cohort, everyone looked away, already knowing what was going to happen...
'If it's not true, I'll kill them..' Caster was forced to summon his own Jian which was a gift from his own clan..
He didn't want to do it, but he understood that if they had to go with this plan, their memories were a gone either way...
He walked with his beautiful Jian which had jade like handle and guard, he holding it with both hands like a delicate treasure...
"This is my family hairloom, passed from generation to generation among the members of han-li clan, it is our prid-" before he could finish, Prisma moved swiftly and hit the weapon in his hands.
The blade got tossed in the air and to everyone's surprise Prisma gobbled up the Jian whole.
"....."
Caster stood frozen.
He couldn't react to this, he could if his aspact was activated.
He was going to hand over the weapon for greater cause. but he never imagined his family hairloom would be consumed this brutally.
"Mhh... Thank you for your sacrifice, master Caster..... In history, your family hairloom will never be forgotten.." Raine said respectfully.
"it will give Prisma strength to defy heavens...she has already grown quite strong because of it.." he looked at Prisma and gestured something silently.
Prisma understood and started to glow lazily.
"You see, she has already crossed her limits because of your awesome blade."
Caster stood there motionless.
Raine turned towards Seisan..
"As you saw, she can consume memories and Echos to grow stronger..." Raine said.
"You now you have a choice..."
"You can either entrust your lives to some Sleepers and face that fallen terror alone..."
"Or you can have a Transcendant carry you all out of this place...." Raine said.
"It's just a suggestion, so you can do whatever you want... I just gave you a better options to choose from..."
"It's you who will make the final call.." Raine tuned and walk back to his seat.
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Seisan couldn't believe this man, he talked like they have any other choice left now.
Seisan thought for a moment...
"This will be different to carry but..." She smiled.
"I will make sure, we have a Saint to fight for us Sleepers."