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The same werewolf-like Dissonance from before.
PS: Now that your characters are song knights, they can indeed treat that kind of Dissonance as mooks, not much more dangerous than your average wolf.
A reply will come at some point of this weekend.
Hehehe. We can almost introduce a new Class: Chef, the Heroic Spirit of Otherworldly Cooking Skills.

Either way, I'll get a post between tomorrow and the weekend, just as usual.
Plot twist: massive power upgrade for everyone.

Refer to this, to learn more about the new powers that your characters gained, in addition to their Vessels: https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/3587318

The main differences are:

- You all don't need to use instruments, just a short elemental aria (a short, single stanza poem) that Diana helped the Cadets to learn. Actually, your characters aren't powerful enough to use higher degrees of Song Magic yet.

— Your characters can't use both the Spirits and the Vessels at the same time. In fact, the Vessels are the dormant forms of the Spirits. If want to add some form of weapon or other thing to their arsenal (to help back up the Spirit), Diana would have provided it.

— You all can have up to two extra abilities or spells, aside from enjoying the passive protection and powers granted by your Spirits. You'll eventually unlock more powers but, everything needs time.

That should be about it. Submit your upgrade ideas here in the OOC before using them, please.

If there's any doubt left, we'll be glad to answer.

"Hmm... is that so?" Diana said, narrowing her eyes toward Chen for a moment. Seeing through his act wasn't that hard at for her, yet she didn't have any reason to care for anyone's suspicions regarding her. Hopefully, this business would be solved quite soon, or... at least she had company for a long time.

"By the way, I hope that you guys are looking forward to dinner. It's going to be to die for, hehe!" Diana laughed heartily at the expense of the Cadets as she walked back inside the temple, ready to begin their long, arduous training.

Days turned into weeks, and weeks to months, or so the time spent with Diana would seem to the Cadets, lodged in such a place bereft of civilization. The wildlife slowly began to acclimate to Diana's present within their space, making the Cadet's living far easier, with food and drink becoming plentiful. The temple counted with ample lodgings as well as a pair of huge indoors baths that must have been purification pools of some sort in the days of old. Hot water was easy provided. Aside from the isolation —which Ires seemed to enjoy quite a lot— and Diana getting "a little too friendly" sometimes, there would be no problems at living with the dragon.

The training, however, was another whole ball game. Diana's teaching may have been cryptic and hard to follow but they would allow the Cadets —except Viola and Ires, for some reason— to tap into the powers hidden within them. Magic of the likes that no one in ages was able to use: the power of the Song Knights.

Through the chanting of an Elemental Aria unique to each of their own, the Cadets —now full-fledged Beginner Song Knights— would not only be able to improve their Vessels current powers with true Elemental Magic but also form a contract with a being from the Spirit Realm that lays beyond this reality. Phoenixes, undines, gnomes, wraiths and even (lesser) dragons, each a unique individual could answer their prayers and form a lifelong bond with the Song Knights, granting them incredible powers and abilities that no one else in the world possessed.

One day, after the harshest depths of winter had long since gone past Orello, Diana called the Song Knights to the same ruins they met at first.

"All of you have grown quite a lot in the past few weeks. I guess that there's nothing else that I can teach you. Also, 'that person' is taking way too long, I'll have to go look for them and see if they got lost inside of another paper bag... Hehehe!" Diana joked while leaning against the old church. She made a solemn pause, taking the time to gaze at the improvised cemetery in which she personally buried all of the unknown soldiers from months ago before continuing, in a grave tone, "Times are changed. I have no doubts that our meeting wasn't a coincidence, but Fate itself at work. You guys are probably going to face a lot of hardships before you, I don't know what, or why, but you must weather the storm, that's all I have to say."

"I—" Diana scratched the back of her head nervously while a faint rosy blush painted her cheeks, "I'm not that good with partings. To say the truth, I feel like we are gonna see each other again. And... when that happens I swear that I'll let you all punch me for this, but..." Diana reach into her pocket and drew more than half a dozen music sheets, inscribed with strange scrawled characters that were painful just to watch. One could only imagine how awful such a song would be if played, almost as if it was a curse. "To prove that you are worthy of the power I bestowed upon you... consider this your graduation ceremony," Diana said, changing back into her true form for the first time in months —revealing that she could do it without removing her armor— before taking flight, with a tremendous wing beat.

"See ya, kiddos. Someday, sometime..." The massive dragon said before flying away. On her way out, she threw the pages at them. The ungodly screams that followed were cue enough to herald the summoning of 8 of the same monster that almost killed all of them a few months ago. Now it was time to put Diana's teachings to test and see how powerful Song Knights truly are.

Talk about being bad with partings...
And now, I have to wonder what would happen if Tamamo Cat joined Keisuke's group? Can the silliness escalate even further?
There it goes, an update. Half of you got into an immediate encounter and the other half con choose between an encounter or the chance to begin the PVP from the get go.

"Wa—wait, that's not fair you... somekind of Siamese bully!" Diana shouted with effort, after recovering the wind that was knocked out of her, while unsteadily pointing Ascalon at the bicephalus elephant man.

Before she even had the chance to finish her complaint, it began attacking them again, with extreme prejudice. Diana ducked out of the way of the furious axe blows, but didn't avoid the crushing feet. She jammed Ascalon at the mammoth's sole, in an attempt to force it to yield before she became a bloody stain in the snow.

If it worked, Diana would backflip, aided by her dragon wings, before landing a few meter away from their foe and unleash her breath weapon at its upper torso. Following the blast of her breath, Diana would charge in, blade held in a reverse grip, to parry any incoming blows as she attempted to zero into the giant's blind spots to deliver the counter it deserved. If the giant continued to crush her, despite of the sword jammed in her foot

"Suparna, hang in there! We're gonna get out of this in one piece!" Diana shouted, hoping that her friend was faring better than her. This creature certainly wasn't allowing much time for Diana to do anything other than take care of her own tail for the time being.

"Why did I even bother to ask why does a rock fall?" Hoehenheim sighed out loud as Titanica turned around and began to —surprise!— stomp her way out furiously. "Seriously, this is even more boring than watching harpies molt. Such a pain in the ass lizard, I should just let that Eel Face rape you again. But..." she cursed emphatically, making quite sure to cast her annoyance to Heaven and Hell alike.

"Contrary to 'someone' know very well that a job is a job."

"Hey you! Are you sure that this is the way you want to follow?" Hohenheim said, raising her voice a notch to call the attention of the tantrum-throwing lizard, breaking trees to quell her BOILING RAGE!!! —RAWL!!! "That which you want. You know that there are... more efficient ways of acquiring it, right? Unless you want to do it the hard way, or no way, I can make some arrangements to facilitate your pursuit." she added, getting back to her feet and turning around to face the direction Titanica stomped to.

"As long as you are willing to bargain, of course," Hohenheim flashed her best smug grin, not even bothering to cover her diminutive body as the scalding water run down her silhouette. Why would she be ashamed of perfection, after all?
The tides of battle raged under the glacial waters of Lenuria. As the warriors of the Triumvirate sifted in the ancient city or its surrounding ancient, forces rose to greet them...

Kayne's booby traps weren't the only danger that Cydone as well as Saef's forces would have to face as they prowled Lenuria in search of the Staff of Okeanos. The cowboy dressed warrior was met with the only enemy that could challenge his mastery of strings. A swarm of horse-sized jellyfish coming like wraiths from behind a rock formation wove their way around him as if guided by an unseen will. Their countless caustic tentacles, barely visible to naked eye sought to sting and digest him with a cocktail strong enough to melt the best of the Machina super-alloys.

Meanwhile, Saef and his troops would be met with hermit crabs large enough to wear entire houses as shells whose claws could split rock and bone with equal ease. The ambushing monstrosities would wait until some of the men came close enough to them, to search the "empty" domiciles before snapping forth like titans of the depths. For all of their formidable defenses and brute force, they would prove to be slow foes. If Saef and his troops would be able to capitalize on this flaw or not was yet to be seen.

Cassiopeia's journey in to the abyss would be halted on the darkness became so pitch black that it was impossible to tell left from right and up from down. Certainly such an effect wasn't natural, but the result of the bitter-tasting jet of ink expelled by a kraken that lashed at her with crushing arms and vice-like beak.

Safe from the giant hermits for the moment, Bonesword would have to deal with a much more prickly problem: countless sea urchins falling from a rocky arch above. as well as dotting the walls, floors and every surface of the dark section of the city in which he arrived at first. Left alone they would be harmless but, any proximity caused them to either try to swarm to the cause of their distress, in a attempt to skewer the aggressor with their steel-sharp spikes, or to simply... explode in a chaotic chain reaction, filling all the area in their proximity with sharp spikes and gore. Whether the skeletal swordsman would avoid search this sector in order to not trigger the urchins or risk it for the chance of finding any relic was up to him to decide.

Thanks to their distance and position, all of the other combatants would have to face similar hurdles to the ones above, or be able to avoid them with some fast thinking. However, avoiding the environmental dangers —by going to other sections of the battlefield— would make it easier to engage in combat with members of the opposing factions who also had the chance to avoid the first wave of natural threats. If this was to their advantage or not, it was their choice to make.
I'll reply up to this weekend.
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