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The Epic of Beginnings - Fragments of a weathered scroll

An impressive display of power, and it revealed a team of traitorous hunters on top of it.

Nobunaga had little tolerance for traitors.

The arrow that sailed towards her was hardly difficult to evade, a swift step. Certainly, she had questions about just how Novak had been able to predict the presence of the hunters, but that matter could wait until this conflict was resolved.

Surely, these hunters were skilled at combating animals. That much was certain. And the fact their prime target was Enli...

They had likely intended to strike by surprise.

Perhaps they would be unprepared for strong resistance?

"Novak," she began, glancing towards the man, "Make Enli a difficult target."

With that, she ducked low and began running. Immediately she was using the figure of one of the spear-wielding hunters as a shield, interposing him between herself and the archer. This would make her difficult to target as she made her advance, as it would force the archer to relocate or try and aim around his fellow.

Fighting a spearman with a sword was somewhat more difficult due to their range, but these were hardly trained samurai she was facing.

The moment she came within range of the man's spear, the petite black-haired girl would swiftly unsheathe her katana and swing upwards, in a bid to intercept his attacking and shove the weapon out of her way. If she could get into his range and beneath the spear, then the next step was obvious.

Take his arms.

If he survived that and lived long enough after the remaining two hunters were dead, he could be questioned.

@Crimson Paladin@Rune_Alchemist

Dead Gods Dream: A post-apocalyptic divine action-adventure RP

That's pretty much what I was expecting, honestly.

Blades of Iron Roses: An Anime-Inspired Fantasy Knight RP

That would be correct, since it was already late. I forgot to note time of day in my post, oops. ^^;

Emerald Odyssey — An MMO Isekai RP (Now Accepting!)

Watching Kokoma handle the harpy that had attempted to divebomb them once again confirmed it in her mind.

Sefira wasn't helpless. She hadn't just become her character physically.

She didn't just need to stand by and watch.

But she needed her catalyst first.

Raising her right hand in front of her, mimicking the animation for drawing a catalyst as a Starlight Mage, she couldn't help but feel a little excited as blue motes of light flickered into existence, immediately gathering in her palm and forming the shape of a staff witch a spherical head. In a blue flash, the physical form of her staff had appeared. The round translucent blue orb surrounded by two metallic rings... it was a Glasstone Staff, one of the best catalysts for a Starlight Mage.

Sefira, in spite of the situation, couldn't help but feel some confidence building, even if her heart was still hammering in her chest and she was still reeling from the fact she was now a girl.

If she could do this much, then there was no reason she couldn't do everything else!

Sliding one leg back, Sefira took aim skywards, towards the concentration of harpies that Kokoma had thrown their hapless attacker towards. She had no idea how damage would work, if it would be more like real life or the game. But running was just going to get them attacked more, and if she could do something about this...

Blue light began to build at the tip of her staff, a magic circle filled with shimmering blue stars around the inner rim expanding around it as they did.

Magical energy was flowing down her slender arms, through the Glasstone Staff. She could feel it. It was gathering, brighter and brighter, at the tip.

And now it was ready to be released.

"Starbolt!" cried Sefira. There was a crack like thunder, then a rushing sound, as warmth rushed back up her arms and a force lightly pushed against her small body. The bolt of blue light ripped through the air, tearing skywards and directly for the harpies!

@Rune_Alchemist@PKMNB0Y

Blades of Iron Roses: An Anime-Inspired Fantasy Knight RP

Fanilly felt quite lost at this point, sighing, her shoulders sagging. No matter how they discussed it, the conclusion was obvious: The shard was no longer in the keep. All these brave soldiers of Thaln had died in a horrific manner, and they couldn't even locate the culprit or the artifact that caused the madness to spread.

"Oiii, you've got some leads, right?" commented Alette, "Don't look so damn sad, you were cuter when you were determined, y'know?"

The Knight-Captain wasn't exactly sure why that mattered, but the truth was they at least knew what they were looking for and who was involved in its transport. It was better then nothing.

It was around that moment that Sir Fleuri, Sir Gerard, and the pale and mysterious figure of the Stingray emerged from the fort.

"The Silver Stone?" Fanilly said, stunned for a moment, "Why would they...?"

She couldn't understand why anyone potentially associated with the horrific acts here would be carrying such a note. Did they intend to meet there? At the holiest and oldest shrine? After being involved in something terrible like this?

Regardless, the blonde knight nodded to herself. This was their best lead, the only location they had any information on.

Thus there was only one path forward.

"... We ride to the Silver Stone," Fanilly said, striding back to her horse, "We have no further time to lose."

Alette sighed, hands on her hips.

"Tch, of course our job ends up like this... Good thing they paid half ahead, I guess," she commented, moments before the Stingray suddenly wrapped her arms around the mercenary captain, hanging off of her affectionately.

Fanilly pulled herself astride her horse.

They had to hurry.

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The Silver Shrine was half a day's ride from the fort, at speed, which made the note even more suspicious. It had to mean something. It had to mean this was a meeting spot, didn't it?

It was coming into view ahead, at the edge of the Brennan Forest. A large, silver-white stone, sitting pointing skywards. When close enough, it would be possible to make out numerous sinuous, spiraling carvings, created by some of the most ancient residents of Thaln in honor of the Moon Goddess. It was surrounded by smaller stones, and a large, flat table with a hole in the center, leading straight down to an underground water source. It was not infrequent for offerings to be left here, cast into the 'moon pool' beneath the table or set at its edges.

Fanilly had been here once before, when she was seven years old. It had felt strange, an ethereal, light sensation filling her chest as she approached the shrine. The same feeling was present today, too, but at the same time...

Something didn't feel right.

@HereComesTheSnow@TheFake@Crimson Paladin@PaulHaynek@FlappyTheSpybot@Raineh Daze@ghastlyinc@Krayzikk

Blades of Iron Roses: An Anime-Inspired Fantasy Knight RP

Specifically I'm going to update tomorrow!

Dead Gods Dream: A post-apocalyptic divine action-adventure RP

It should be fairly obvious what the horned man is going to do, so first person to reply and intervene can go ahead and say as much without waiting for my response.

Dead Gods Dream: A post-apocalyptic divine action-adventure RP

In spite of their defense, the soldiers' numbers were dwindling. While their formation had initially afforded them a position that was difficult to assault, now they had been broken. The humanoid machine crashing down on their numbers was only served to further worsen their situation. None of them fled, to their credit, but now they were increasingly laying dead or dying.

The humanoid machine was repeating, internally in a calm masculine voice, that there was a 'System Error'. Whatever this meant was not elaborated on, and did not stop it from crushing several soldiers with its huge size, blood splattering across the stone as the sizable metal figure staggered and threatened to fall over entirely. Beside Lopaley, however...

The small figure was starting to stirr.

Outside of the machine, soldiers were cut down, hacked apart, bitten by the jaws tipping Alasayana's tails, or pierced with javelins. Trineon's bludgeoning blow with the gun served to knock a soldier off his feet, but he was immediately attempting to get back up, gripping his sword and drawing it immediately.

Needless to say, it was becoming clear how this battle was about to end.

The horned man's blade flashed, and with a hissing noise and a shower of sparks it scrapped along the side of O'Menus's borrowed weapon. But it wasn't enough.

The white sword slipped by the red, finally finding its place buried in the man's chest, piercing through his armor, his flesh, his bones, before erupting out of his back stained with blood.

"Ghk..."

A garbled noise came from behind the horned helmet, as the main dropped his own weapon on the plataeu.

"... Heh..."

And yet... he was beginning to laugh?

"Heheheh... hahaha..."

Suddenly, he reached out and gripped the Sun God's hand.

"The Light of the Holy Emperor Bathes my entire body!"

With that exclamation, a high pitch whine began to emanate from his armor, which began to glow...!

@Rune_Alchemist@Click This@1Charak2@Raineh Daze@Renny@Martian

Emerald Odyssey — An MMO Isekai RP (Now Accepting!)

Upon realizing that she hadn't actually thanked her savior, Sefira quickly stumbled to her feet the moment she was free.

"Er... thanks," she said, averting her eyes as she spoke. The girl's bizarre behavior was still an enigma. Why would anyone be handling a situation like this... like that?!

Wait, what was that?!

"M-m-m-my b-body?! I-I... y-you... C-can't you take things a little more seriously?!" she cried, waving her hands in the air as if to gesture to the world around them, "We're in some weird isekai scenario, at least assuming you're another player, and I-"

She hesitated.

Saying she was actually a guy out loud would be way too much, especially when it came to someone weird like this and especially right now. She was barely managing to deal with that rather major change internally, if she tried to say anything about it there was no way it'd make it any easier if she blurted it out to the first stranger she ran into. Especially since the first stranger she ran into was some kind of weird pervert or something.

Sefira took a deep breath.

"N-nevermind," she said, her eyes turning skywards once more. There were monsters attacking from the skies. She recognized harpies like the one that attacked her, griffons, and sphinxes. Sphinxes? What were they even doing here?

"I-if we run, we'll probably just be attacked again," she said, trying to keep the subject off anything embarrassing and on the problem at hand as best she could, "Hmph, what the hell kind of game balance is this, just dropping monsters on a city..."

Then again, it was real now, so game balance probably didn't matter. What did matter was the clear and immediately danger to her and everyone else around her.

The blonde elf looked down at her delicate hands again. Maybe...

@Rune_Alchemist

Emerald Odyssey — An MMO Isekai RP (Now Accepting!)

Matsuo-Or perhaps Sefira was more suitable at the moment-had only barely managed to tear her eyes away from her own reflection. To promptly stare at her own petite, slender, delicate hands in mute shock, but progress was progress. It was hard to do anything else. Her body had once been... well, a university-age man's.

And now... Sefira looked like she was somewhere in her teens. Petite and youthful, with a figure lacking any real maturity. This was all by design. Matsuo had modeled Sefira on some of his favorite tsundere characters. He particularly liked the short ones who got angry for being mistaken for younger then they actually were. Of course that wasn't the only reason he liked them, they still had to be developed characters beyond that...

But right now Sefira was cursing her own past decisions internally. Not only was she now female, but she was so small. It was going to be even harder to deal with!

So caught up in her own thoughts was the blonde elf that she only registered something was coming at her moments before it actually struck. A part of her brain actually capable of making rational thoughts realized it was the familiar winged shape of a harpy.

Another part of her wondered if she was about to get killed immediately after ending up in some kind of weird isekai scenario. If this was seriously going to be how her life ended.

Everything was happening all at once. It was too much happening all at once. A part of her just wanted to scream.

And then...

Someone tackled her to the ground from the side. Sefira yelped as she hit the ground, landing on her back as her savior landed on top of her, both out of reach of those sweeping, grasping claws.

For a few moments, Sefira simply laid there beneath her savior, her mind trying to catch up with the situation.

At least until said savior decided to make comments about her figure. Almost immediately, in spite of everything, her cheeks reddened.

"Wh-what are you, some kind of dirty old man!?" she shouted, unable to contain herself, "We're caught up in some kind of stupid isekai plot and now there's monsters, and you're... y-you're..."

Even thinking about her own body was embarrassing at this point.

"We need to g-get... just let me up! Gaaaah..."

Flustered, trying to collect her thoughts, Sefira glanced skywards. There really was a lot of other monsters, and the sky had gotten dark...

Wait.

If she was Sefira now, did that mean...?

@Rune_Alchemist