Aristocles

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@Shadow Dragon

Polybius won't lose anything at all if he can regenerate from that phylactery!" Ophion had to shout as the banefire swelled, turning the lich's eyes the same green color as the flames. "Check under the floors, behind the walls, in the columns, anywhere not obvious! He's going to attack any moment, and I don't know how long I can hold him off alone!"

Ophion didn't dare attack the lich yet, for fear of setting off the banefire.

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@Shadow Dragon

Polybius let out a growl, probably for the first time since he was alive. Coming from an empty skull, it was a strange sound indeed, more akin to a hiss. He calculated that he could take on either Ophion or Soulcors, not both. Not as he was.

"If you want to see me change, I won't disappoint you!" The lich teleported himself a short distance, into one of his banefire braziers. Structurally, said brazier was a metal platform hosting a sickly green flame. Said flame was used for rapidly decaying matter so as to break it down into a state the lich could absorb for energy. Placing himself into the flame was a calculated risk, albeit a large one. The flames were very potent, and setting one off would likely detonate the others in the room, and there were four such braziers in total.

"Soulcors, we'd better be careful. He's playing with a lot of power. If he can't control the flames, he could end up blowing this place sky-high!" It might have been worse than that. Banefire was already attuned to the netherworld. A catastrophic explosion could very well tear open a hole to other planes, or weaken the fabric of reality so as to lead to a tear later.

"Can you find his phylactery? I can fight the lich directly if you can get onto that!"

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@Shadow Dragon

(We should finish the Polybius arc in maybe 10 - 12 posts in total, so Bloonewb can return after we do the time skip.)

Ophion launched a flare spell, sending it streaking down the hallway. It lit up the corridor, revealing what Polybius looked like all this time: a red-robed dragon skeleton with glowing red eyes in the sockets of his skull. Ophion had imagined that the lich would have appeared decayed after all these thousands of years. Instead, his skeleton and robs looked superlatively clean. Spotless, even.

"I must commend the two of you for reaching me. No one else has ever gotten this far in thousands of years. Even if you win, it is all for nothing. Even in this degenerate age, you must surely know about a lich's immortality."

"Find your phylactery and destroy it, I know. It's probably in these tunnels." That was not what the lich wanted to hear. For the first time, he sounded genuinely angry.

"You know, back in my day, that was forbidden lore. You'd have to have been admitted to the absolute highest circles of necromancy to know that. Now, it's- it's common knowledge?!"

"In the dracon realms, at least. Any child who can read can find it out in any number of books on the subject."

"... I feel so old."

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@Shadow Dragon

Polybius only let out a sardonic laugh.

"A Feyborn who's birth has worn off long ago. I can't tell if you've spent more time dead or alive, even though the latter is a mere blink of an eye next to the time ahead of you. Of course, I can guide you on your endless journey. You don't need to listen to that scaly sack of flesh you call a companion."

"Don't listen to him! He's just trying to use you!" Ophion warned.

Long time canon 1X1 RPer getting back in the game. Mature 18 plus only.

@MichiCommander

Are you still only open for what was listed 5 years ago, or to new things as well?

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@Shadow Dragon

Polybius himself appeared as a dracon skeleton with glowing red eyes, still clad in his royal robes. In fact, but for the obvious sight of his skeletal form, one could swear that the robes themselves had been made yesterday. They weren't even dusty, despite being in a tomb for so long. The lich laughed at the wraith, the injury in his ribcage sealing up almost as soon as the injury had been made.

"Oh, little dark elf, you're only delaying the inevitable. Even if you found my phylactery, it would do you no good. It's protected by magics you've only heard of in myth."

Ophion ran down the halls, silently cursing his ally for getting so far ahead of him, and so fast.

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@Shadow Dragon

"I don't think you understand, little wraith. I'm not here to receive your adulation. I'm here to receive the two of you as raw material for my banefire furnaces. Oh, I seem to have frightened the living one."

"B-banefire?! If you didn't know, that's a bright green flame which causes whatever it touches to rapidly decay, apart from certain metals, and even then, they have to be magically-treated to resist the decomposition effect."

"Indeed. The banefire will break you both down into your basest components, which I will then use to fuel the creation of my new army to reclaim the lands which are rightfully mine and restore my kingdom as the necrocracy it ought to be."

"He's telling us this to delay us! We've got to move quickly!" Ophion ran down the hall towards Polybius, who only growled in anger as his ploy to slow the two of them down had come to nothing.

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@Shadow Dragon

"I-I'm pretty certain that he is" Ophion remarked. "Although I'm not sure if words like 'awake' or 'asleep' would work for a lich or-or even you. More like 'active' and 'dormant' would- never mind. This is a terrible time for a lesson!"

"Oh, rest assured, I can see both of you just fine!"

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@Suzumiyo

Welcome to the guild!

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@Shadow Dragon

"Some dragons do, some don't. It's a matter of the individual dragon's powers, not the species or family. As to how it is done, that would take a long time to explain. All you need to know about it is that it's not scrying, but more like a sixth sense that-" Ophion explained, suddenly feeling the air suddenly grow noticeably colder as the walked down the hall. The tunnel dimmed as well, as if some nearby presence was somehow draining the light and warmth from the room.

"We're close. I don't know if you can feel him, but the room sure does. It wouldn't surprise me if Polybius was at the end of this tunnel here."