Omen: 2, 8
“So, how are we meant to find this Twilight Fox anyhow?” Adam asked as they tio trek through the snowy forest.
“It will appear in the night, most likely in front of us as we will be within its domain,” Jurot replied.
“That’s ve.”
“It is a powerful creature,” Jurot said. “It will test us to see if it kill one of us, and if it ot, it will leave as quickly as it appears.”
“So I gotta ? Got it.”
Jurot assumed Adam meant he was going to go all out in the beginning to take it ht away. ‘Newk?’
Sir Landon and the Knights sometimes exged a few words between one ahe young Noble sometimes growing bored of the silence. He did not speak to the others, though, leaving them to their own versations.
Adam could still feel it, the eyes of the Silver Strider, which came from an unseen pce. “I don’t like that it see us and we ’t see it.”
“Leave it to its business, and it will leave us to ours,” Jurot said.
They tio journey until the te afternoon, where they set up camp.
“What are you doing?” Sir Landon asked.
“I was going to summon my tower,” Adam said. “I saved my Mana this m so I could cast it at least once.”
“We will need yic against it.”
“I know, but I spare this,” Adam said. “We won’t need a Third Gate spell to deal with it.”
“How you be so sure?” Sir Landon stared at the Half Elf, who stantly annoyed him to no end.
Adam smiled. “Have you fotten how quickly I dispatched your Knight?”
Sir Landon narrowed his eyes, but nodded his head. “Very well. However, if we ot hunt the Twilight Fox because of you, I will warn the Guild of this matter.”
“Don’t worry about it,” Adam said. “If we fail this, we’ll find somethiroublesome to hunt. You’ve seen how good we are.”
“We will see if yood enough.”
Mana: 18 -> 15Spell: Adam’s Tower
Adam summoned forth his tower, which emerged from the ground. He had cast it the night before because it seemed safe to do so. Jurot had said that we weren’t within its domain at that time, so he bathed in peace.
“ I go bathe really quick?” Adam asked.
“It will not appear until night falls,” Jurot said, nodding his head. “You may go.”
“Sweet!” Adam quickly stripped out of everything, befoing to take a dip i water. Going from the cold Nightval to the hot bath was something else. ‘Ah, this is the life.’
Once Adam was done, he kept a to allow Lucy to bathe in peace too, before she was done and the Nobles bathed.
“Thanks,” Lucy said, feeling much better after a bath.
“Any time,” Adam replied.
She had trusted Adam to keep a, and was sure that if it did somehoear ih, she was strong enough to deal with it for a moment before the rest would e to assist her.
‘Not that I heir help,’ she thought.
Night eventually fell, and the stars began to twinkle in the distance. Lud Adam spent their time staring up at the stars, which Jurot seemed to be trated on. The Knights were keeping a around their camp, wary of any Nightval Wolves or htval creatures which would appear.
“Why didn’t we bring Fred?” Lucy asked. “Then we would have outnumbered the Nobles.”
“I think Fred needs Sir Vonda at the moment,” Adam replied. “He retty quiet ao himself after the whole thing with the kid and the Chief.”
The stars were sn to Adam, who could still feel that the sky was wrong somehow. It was so different from Earth, all the different colours strange objects and phenomena uo this world, this universe.
“It has e,” Jurot said, donning his shield and grabbing his axe.
Within moments, the others had shot up, ready for a, grabbing all their gear to fight.
“e.” Jurot bolted forward as a blue and purple star fell down from the sky, shooting towards them, though it veered to the side away from them, before an explosion rocked them and the forest.
Adam stumbled against a tree, before his eyes returo the side, where a massive area had been cleared from the explosion. “Is that… it?”
In the tre of the explosion was a tiny creature. It was no bigger than a hamster, with fur which was starry like the sky above them and a tail whied a crest moon no matter how it moved. The Twilight Fox, which was more like a Twilight Mouse, stared up at them, its pupils in the shape of stars.
Battle OrderD20 + 1 = 4 (3)
“It’s more dangerous than you think!” Jurot replied, gripping his axe tight.
The Twilight Fox, which seemed as harmless as a mouse, disappeared from where it stood. It did not quite disappear, as the darkness blurred across the white snow, giving them just a moment to gather themselves, the Twilight Fox darting from oree stump to the , moving as though it were a shadow.
Within the span of a sed, it appeared before Lucy. Lucy, who was unarmoured, carried no shield, and had her delicious flesh on dispy for it.
Lucy, with Destroyer in hand, swung down towards the Twilight Fox, her Destroyer suddenly afme as she tried to cut the creature in half. However, their eyes met, and Lucy froze, still as a statue.
She hadn’t the ce to fall inte, as the Twilight Fox had e upon her so quickly, and her eyes turned gssy as she looked to aime. Her lips formed a small smile, her face gentle as she weled the embraary.
As the Knights darted forward to attack the Twilight Fox, it spun quickly, being a wheel, and its tail sshed across Lucy’s front. Its tail had somehow mao cut through Lucy’s flesh as though the Demon girl was made of paper.
The snow turned red as Lucy’s blood spttered across it, though a boot stamped across it as the Knights leapt forward into a.
“Lucy!” Adam shouted, having charged forward. Lucy was still alive, her eyes still unfocused as they remaiaring at aime.
“e here!” A Knight roared, as the Twilight Fox leapt over Lucy, and darted around. The Knights, with their years of training, managing gng blows against its tail, which it used to partly deflect the delectable magical steel away.
It was ghostly quiet as it moved, and save for the sounds of their movement and grunted of effort as they cshed with it, there were no sounds within the forest.
Sir Landon tried to step forward to attack, but uood he was out of his depths, so raised his sword up defensively. However, his as soon proved to be far more dangerous, as the The Twilight Fox’s eyes fell to him.
He was the weakest link, it gathered. Lucy hadn’t died to its attacks, which had sin almost everyo met, meaning she was quite tough. This fellow, oher hand, was surely someohat would die instantly, and it would be able to drain the Noble’s blood so eagerly.
Warrior Spirit: 3 -> 2
AttackD20 + 8 = 19 (11)D20 + 8 = 28 (20)Critical hit!Phantom: 3 -> 2Mana: 18 -> 152D6 + 8D6 + 8D6 + 6 = 81 (4, 4)(2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6)(3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6)81 damage!
The Twilight Fox tio bounce about, dodging and weaving through the group with grace, darting towards Sir Landon, wanting to taste his flesh. The Twilight Fox needed only a moment to kill him, and ao sip his blood.
As it did, however, an axe blurred across its neck, cutting it through. Its head dropped down beside the man’s feet, and its body smmed against Sir Landon’s armour, before skidding across the snow and striking a tree beside him.
Adam, who had spent a moment to focus himself, had swung his axe down ahead of it, towards where it was going to be. The axe had appeared from its blind spot, its greedy eyes glued to Sir Landon, its most preeal.
Just like that, as quickly as it had appeared, it had left.
“Well,” Adam said, staring at the bisected form of the Twilight Fox. “That was easy.”
Even Jurot, who was usually first to move, had not reacted. He had left the matter to Adam, trusting that the Half Elf could kill it, since he had promised to newk it.
Adam’s eyes so Lucy, who was still within her daze, staring out ahead of her with joy. It was a joy Adam hadn’t seen before, a joy which was not faked to keep herself from being swallowed by the abyss.
“Is she okay?” Adam asked, before Jurot roared behind him, aurned back, only to watch as something blurred in front of him. It was the shaft of an arrow, which caught his eye. He didn’t blink, instead watg as it shot forward, striking Lucy’s horn, before it exploded with light.
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