As soon as he had spoken the words to spend his skill points, three new messages appeared in front of the Sprite to inform him of his new skills. Keen Sight and Minor Heal All were more or less exactly what he expected them to be, though he had thought the former would simply improve his vision rather than require activation. The ability he was most interest in was Spiritual Awareness; the description seemed reasonable enough in theory, though what it meant in practise would remain to be seen.

Would he be able to see ghosts and the spirits of the departed that no-one else could? Did ‘spiritual’ in this case have something to do with the afterlife and the other side of the veil? Or were there spirits of nature, spirits of things most would consider inanimate, a hidden lifeforce that he would now be able to interact with? He had been hoping for the latter, to become more in tune with nature rather than to become a medium, but either represented interesting opportunities even if communing with the dead likely wouldn’t help with what he had planned.

After the skill messages however was another message; or an alert. His Alert skill was being triggered by something, and sure enough as he read it he could feel a chill run down his spine and goose bumps spread across his skin as some deep, instinctual part of his mind told him to run and cower and hide from what was coming.

The wind picked up around them, a sudden and powerful gale nearly knocking him flag as violent black clouds formed over their heads. Directly over their heads in fact. A red light flashed at its centre and unconsciously he activated Keen Sight to get a close look, revealing it to be a diagram or sigil of some kind. He used Magic Analysis on it, assuming it to be the beginnings of some kind of spell.

Before he could read the results however something fell from out of that light and crashed down in the centre of their camp, shattering rocks and deafening him with the sound of its arrival. The dust cleared slowly and in time Oberon began to make out the figure at its centre. It looked like a knight, clad all in black armour and carrying a huge sword. It looked a lot like a Final Fantasy boss. He activated his Analysis Fusion Skill as the knight began to speak.

Zawisza raised his sword, and the world became fear. The Sprite felt himself wasting away just under the pressure of the knight’s presence, felt himself growing weaker as the blood pounded in his ears, the light dimmed in his vision and his breathing grew laboured. And all the while he couldn’t look away from those golden eyes.

The sword came down, their death coming with it, only for nothing to happen. The pressure disappeared, everything returned to normal minus one mountain top, and Zawisza gave them one final glance and some parting words before preparing to leave. Before he vanished, Oberon pulled himself together enough to notice the red crystal that was used to summon the diagram and managed to activate his Magic Analysis just before the knight shot upwards.

For the next few seconds everyone was silent, until Torrent turned on them. Someone had prayed to the Demon King, multiple people apparently, and he had sent that knight after them to send a message. Torrent was shifting colours, looking like she was ready to attack the first person who admitted fault as Ash threatened to torture the person responsible.

[i]Well, if it isn’t either of them, it isn’t me and it isn’t Digbie, then that really narrows down the list of suspects.[/i]

[color=f49ac2]“This isn’t helping. We shouldn’t turn on each other like this. No-one died. No-ones hurt, yet, and after what just happened NO ONE is going to try that again. Let’s just move on; we shouldn’t be trying to kill each other when there are enough things trying to kill us already.”[/color]

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Used 'Magic Analysis' on red diagram (far away)
Used 'Fusion Skill [Analysis]' on Zawisza
Used 'Magic Analysis' on red crystal and diagram (up close)
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