C2 Session 31

They all stand in the captain’s quarters, each pondering how to unlock their magi capabilities

Koin grabs the training stone, summons a cloud of darkness, and goes to sit down in it to meditate and understand the darkness

Xodon walks into Koin’s bubble and throws a punch at him, but it phases through Koin’s darkness infused body

Koin teleports behind Xodon, then back into the captain’s chair

Xodon takes his magic dagger and teleports behind the chair, striking with the dagger

They both can’t see where each other is, but they know exactly where they are

Xodon’s hit lands, and Koin feels a sharp pain in his shoulder

Koin turns around and throws multiple attacks at Xodon, all landing

He then teleports straight above and begins falling

The stone on the table is shaking and glowing now, charged with magi

Xodon gets up and teleports to the ceiling next to him, then pulls out another dagger to attack with both

As Xodon lands his attacks, the image of Raulefit creates itself in his mind

He is neither an attacker or defender, and as Koin goes to react, he hardens himself and releases it, knocking Koin out, and sending him to the floor below

The darkness retreats into Koin, and a small blue wisp hovers next to Xodon

Koin begins having visions of past scenarios where he senses something, but cannot react in time

Dozens of visions play out, and then he senses a shadowy figure walk towards him in a void

The shape looks vague in dragonborn, but then it begins melting away into a mirror of himself

It is him, but not in his current form

This clone begins attacking him, but it is extremely easy to defend

The clone shifts into his form in Thera, more weathered, wielding the flametongue longsword

He teleports behind himself, striking with his sword

As he strikes, the dust clone disappears

It reforms into his current self, and begins running towards him

It is an attack he knows well, but then the clone teleports

Koin’s body reacts without his mind, perfectly dodging and countering every single move

Koin then teleports above and behind the clone, decapitating it with his vorpal longsword

He has gained full awareness in the darkness

A final figure appears out of the dark, a dragonborn in nothing but a cloak runs at him

The figure gets his attacks deflected, then deflects Koin’s, and goes for a feinted punch into a sweep which Koin dodges, but the sweep was fake too

The figure mutters the words “you fool” and strikes him with a more powerful force than anything Koin has felt

He is knocked from the darkness and back into the captain’s quarters

He gets up and hands the stone to Xodon

Xodon then enters a vision of the castle in the air plane

The doors are open, and he walks in

He remembers Raulefit telling him of a conflict that he should not interfere in

Xodon insists on going to fight, but everytime he goes to battle, he gets sent back to the castle

He is in an infinite loop, and eventually senses it and realizes that he should not fight, but should just wait

He waits in the front of the castle, and closes his eyes

He feels the wolf spirit in him, although he is Xodon he is also the wolf spirit

He opens his eyes and smells fresh air, as he looks onto the shore of Thera at the approaching fleet of ships

He does not have Zandriens sword or any other weapon he usually does

He tries to shift, but it does not seem to take effect

The ships arrive, and the slots open, letting loose the fleet of armada soldiers onto the beach

He waits, and notices that this time there are much more men there than before

They see him standing on the beach, and look very confused at his stance

Captain Ildrae walks onto the shore, and signals his men to move into the city

Suddenly, a hundred or so men rush past him, to attack the enemy

Xodon closes his eyes and can sense the heartbeat of each and every man on the beach, even though he is not shifted

He senses his legs harden with power, and can tell this is the time to act

He moves, and in an instant dashes 150 feet in front of the enemy

He goes to attack, but now he has a glowing blue claw that swipes them all away

His limbs revert, and the men are defeated, and Ildrae looks terrified

Again his legs harden, and he begins crossing the beach at hundreds of feet a second

He remembers the words of Poco, not to look for weaknesses, but let them create them themselves

He does not need to fight all of them, but hit one spot and let it all crumble

The enemy is being ripped apart, and Ildrae is screaming at his men

One soldier runs at him with a clear strike

Xodon has to let it hit, otherwise he will not make it to the other men about to enter the forest

He lets it hit, and it shatters against his skin

He moves to the men in the forest and throws them all away

He is doing so effortlessly, not shifting his entire body, but only shifting what he needs and putting the entire reservoir of his power into the one thing

Ildrae goes to strike him, but his sword shatters like the rest

He falls to his knees, and Xodon jumps 50 feet in the air, hardens his body, and drops onto Ildrae, ending the battle

He returns to the quarters, Koin finishing handing the stone to him

He sits down for a second, and Adrezill grabs the stone

He messes around with it for a bit, trying to harness his magi

He cannot seem to do anything to the stone, and is infuriated by it

Adrezill begins angrily punching the stone, letting out the rage he feels for not being able to even get close to their level

Zoroc grabs the stone, and tries to infuse it with his blood life essence, but it doesn’t do anything

Vale attacks it and it doesn’t do anything

Vale continues to think, and while she does, Zoroc tries to move his own blood, but the stone does not react

Koin leaves and returns with a sand barrel for Vale

She continuously strikes it, envisioning her sister as the barrel

She does six attacks in faster time than anybody has seen

Zoroc sees these attacks in slow motion, and senses her energy

He then uses her own energy and her body begins moving more fluently, as he is completely in sync with her

He finds that it is more efficient to use other people’s bodies as the battery for the blood manipulation he uses

Vale lets out 16 attacks in six seconds, and decimates it

Energy flows into the stone, and zoroc grabs it

He is back in Estroza

He sees a happy content Siren

He sees others using hemocraft to grow crops, and Siren the prodigy raises an entire field in seconds

He is not forcing the plant to grow, but simply helping it do what it already wants to do

Zoroc can give the extra necessary push to a being that has a strong will to do something

He sees a boy who has his toy stuck under a rock, but is failing

Zoroc uses his energy to give the boy the power to lift the rock, rather than manipulating his body to do what Zoroc wants

The boy lifts the rock easily, and retrieves his toy

Zoroc is brought back to the quarters, and hands the stone to Vale

She is suddenly put into Zandrien’s pit, the gladiator arena in which she was raised

Now she does not have to use energy to exhaust herself for extra power, she can just channel it to gain more attacks

Once she has a chain of attacks going, she can become unstoppable

She is back in the quarters, and sets the stone down, leaving only Adrezill to unlock his true potential

Adrezill spends an hour swimming in the ocean with the stone, but it doesn’t do anything

He spends multiple days studying the stone and trying a million different things, none working

In anger, he chucks the stone into the ocean

It hits the surface, and turns pitch black, then back to blue

Adrezill is hit with a sudden wave of energy, and tidal waves and whirlpools begin forming

Adrezill tries to control it, and the entire fleet is submerged in water, upside down, and blue tendrils come off of him

He is integrating himself with another plane, as his magi doesn’t reside on the material plane

His magi comes from not just the plane of water, but all other elemental planes

Adrezill suddenly is moved to somewhere in Dragol, in front of a tower where he sees all of the elemental keyshards, floating inside of a gem

There is a man with black onyx armor, half of his body withered

He stares at the keyshards, and three goliaths meet him at the top of the tower

The man begins talking to the goliaths about his plans

Adrezill continues looking at the shards, all together, and feels something trapped inside of them

He walks to the top of the tower, and reaches inside the gem, feeling motes of energy trapped within each of the keyshards

The man in black begins reciting a ritual, which Adrezill can tell is not made well

He can feel the spell asking for his power, and Adrezill grants that power to him

The man’s armor turns gold, and his arm heals with fire

Adrezill is sent back to the ships, and they all turn upright

He has awakened himself as the elemental avatar

They all gather, and call Dara over, filling her in on all of their knowledge of the keyshards, before having her cast a spell to gain more knowledge on the keyshards and their purpose

She finds out that the keyshards were made for wards of protection on each of the separate plane

The dragons found these shards and used them for a ritual, and split up again, and are now being collected

In the depths of the ethereal plane lies a tablet, and when the keyshards are put into the tablet, they release the princes of the apocalypse, who will unleash a war and wrath upon the material plane so powerful it will completely annihilate it

With this new knowledge, they prepare to set sail for a new destination and make plans to stop Daemon