Bro, I'm not an Undead!

Chapter 1160: Departure From Edagon

Well, it then occurred to her, first among everyone else, that Edagon was changing. It was healing itself!

"Look!" she pointed into the distance, where a particularly massive mountain that Sause had casually pointed out - before they rose up the Sovereign\'s Peak - had not, in fact, been lying in a pile like a stack of giant uneven rocks before Replicus fought Caxellac was.

It had somehow been restored during the time the group took to rise and descend the immense, sacred height now behind them, slowly becoming hazy, like a memory.

Replicus and Aurolio looked over. The vast lands were indeed being restored. The portions that had been split off into small, separate islands that drifted away swimming back to merge with the original.

The Warmoth\'s Progeny scratched his chin.

It had been a minor detail, but Sause did mention that Aigas was originally one giant continent over which the Eternal Drakkens had lived and thrived before succumbing to their immense innate powers. The way he explained it seemed to hint at the fact that these creatures didn\'t even have paths for progressing in power at all, that rather, they were born with powers that were comparable, perhaps, to the scarcely explored Stage, the Beyond the Veil Stage, which came right before Divinity.

\'Weird. So that version of Aigas then formed Feinheath and Opungale and that mysterious Amanas... I guess there are still too many mysteries that the Deities imbedded into Aigas. I admit, I am very curious now. But there isn\'t really any way to force that information out of the Deities, is there?\' Replicus thought.

Serenity obviously concurred.

"Yes, yes, very cute detail," Aurolio gave a disinterested remark to the state of the continent. "Well, since there really isn\'t anything else I can glean - and quite frankly anything else I\'m interested in - I will take my leave." He gave Sause a glance and wore a sly smile. "Of course... that is unless if you are tempted to reveal why you turned this place into a desolate, glorified museum."

Sause\'s face contorted slightly.

Aurolio was asking about why Sause had eaten his fellow Giants. Everyone seemed to recognise that it was probably a sore subject, but Aurolio pretended he didn\'t reckon so.

Sause narrowed his eyes dangerously.

Whether or not he was going to offer some kind of answer - perhaps a blood one - however, remained up in the air, for Benzard spoke in his stead.

"I think you\'ve absorbed your fair share of secrets. You even learned a lot more than you were supposed to. You SHOULD leave," he said sharply, his eyes staring deeply into Aurolio\'s.

For a few moments, the Voided Deathform and Sausifillis\' successor locked sights, a mild sense of hostility brewing between them.

Aurolio then chuckled.

"Fair enough," he said and then he glanced at Replicus, said nothing, and simply vanished into thin air.

Yuyui looked immensely surprised and Replicus scoffed.

<Quick Spawn>.

He had nearly forgotten that Aurolio had a higher tier of Patronage Rank with his guidance field than him, which offered him some more functionality with the universal construct. An ability like <Quick Spawn> allowed Aurolio to instantly transport himself to a place he had marked with the guidance field\'s <Marked Spots>.

\'Well, it shouldn\'t be long before I have access to that,\' Replicus said and then gave a sharp glance to Yuyui who still looked mildly interested in Aurolio\'s \'trick\'.

The lime-haired girl had also been given the guidance field by Skullius a while back, with the lowest Patronage Rank possible. She rarely used it though, and to be fair, it didn\'t help her much because of how weak she was - identifying the levels of enemies on this side of the world wouldn\'t work for her because of how much of a difference there was between her and them.

\'I should probably help her become more familiar with it now that she has decided she wants to stay and fight,\' Replicus thought.

Come to think of it, he had given the guidance field to Kenno too.

"I suppose you will want to discuss the matters surrounding our Tie of Exchange, ahaha?" Sause said, his face loosening.

Replicus snapped his head up to his face.

Right.

He had one guaranteed ally in his promised journey to Deadmanland.

Sause\'s strength was immense, something Replicus could definitely rely on. The Giant had been able to survive fighting off the BoneTender, Incandescent Stage Stylla and Aurolio at the same time. He seemed to have been doing well enough before Replicus and Yuyui intervened. What was even more valuable than Sause\'s strength, was his knowledge. He had a deep understanding of universal concepts such as the soul, which, against an Arch-Lich, would be invaluable.

However...

"Not yet. I have matters to attend to first. I can summon you using the fingernail you gave me, remember? I will call on you when I\'m ready to begin logistical planning," he said to the Giant.

Sause sighed and sat down.

"Well, I dread that, I truly do. Whatever possessed me to think your request of me back then couldn\'t be something like fighting true incarnations of Undeath, is beyond me. Very well. At least when I leave with you, I will have a capable guardian left to defend Edagon," he said as he reached for Benzard with his large hand and patted... his entire body.

Benzard\'s feet sank into the ground.

Replicus gave Benzard a deep stare.

"Looks like you didn\'t lose purpose after all. You ended up receiving a good Class and you are protecting the entire world in a way more meaningful way than before," he said. He had heard, back then, Benzard\'s struggles with purpose as he spoke with Denille, Irlen and Reon. He had been enraged at losing it after Eobald\'s betrayal.

Benzard wore what looked like a sad smile.

"Yeah. It came with a cost though," he said.

"Yeah," Replicus said.

An awkward silence reigned for a few moments.

"W-well, we better get going too!" Yuyui suddenly said while bouncing on the balls of her

feet nervously.

"Right," Replicus said. "We should. We\'ll be on our way then."

He felt he had a lot of questions, but the answers didn\'t seem like things he would get right

now, or things he needed to know anyway.

Why Sause ate his fellow Giants...

What the secret to Divinity was...

Well, he would soon be faced with the Giant again.

"I will see you soon," Sause said with a wide smile.

Yuyui\'s Eye of Moving opened in her palm and she pointed it at Replicus from the distance.

At once, the Warmoth\'s Progeny felt a vicious pull and it was as though Aigas sprinted backward around him while he rushed ahead.

A few moments later, his feet rested on the ebony sea and he heard a few gasps.

"Boss!"

"Master!"

Grim and Pherdanta were the only ones to audibly react to Replicus\' and Yuyui\'s arrival.

Araeyn, Yagrina and Bassbion didn\'t seem to bat an eyelid, while the figure sitting close to

Pherdanta merely jerked in surprise.

Replicus glanced to his immediate right.

Yuyui was panting hard, blood dripping from her nose in concerning volumes.

She gave Replicus a huge thumbs up before puking some more crimson and collapsing

forward into the water comically.

\'Honestly. She was that determined to move us here at the expense of her health? Well, her health...\' Replicus thought as a strand of Ju`wtte rushed to coil around Yuyui who seemed only half-conscious. She had worn herself out, stretching her capabilities way beyond the norm in the last four or so hours.

A smile broke on Replicus\' face.

He never would have thought that the timid, weak, greedy girl from all those months back would grow to become such a dependable ally.