Arcanum - Chapter 35

Chapter 35






Cradling his body close weeping . . . . "Fight . . . . " I heard a whisper in my ear, opening my eyes I look down at him . "Fight . . . . . " He whispered again, his half charred body's mouth moved .

'How is this possible?' I stared at him in disbelief .

"Fight . . . . " He mumbled again .

A demon manically laughing at us stood in front of me, its red eyes filled with bloodlust, snarling excitedly showing his sharp disgusting teeth, drew back its spear ready to pierce me . As it's barbed spear came thrusting towards my chest . With an unnatural burst of speed my body instinctively dodged it dropping Paul's body . "Fight . " Paul voice now spoke into my head .

The demon pulled back the spear ready for another thrust, my body reacted by pointing at him the tip of my finger glowed green releasing a green beam turning its head to ash, causing the demons body to fall to the ground lifeless . I instinctively rolled forward dodging some attacks from behind retaliate with both my hands pointing at two different demons shooting out more green beam carving out a large hole in their body causing them to scream in pain .

The large grotesque demon now noticed the commotion and turned around looking at me . It roared something in another language, all the demons began to charge recklessly at me from all direction .

"DIEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!" I screamed filled with determination holding my out both my index finger at him . I felt the Arcanum flow through me out my fingers, as I blasted its body and head with two green beams . It tried to shield itself with its hands and weapons, but eventually the beam turned his head and stomach to dust . Its body fell dropping the remains of its sword and began radiating a bright white light forcing me to shield my eyes .

"Emilia? . . . . " Paul's voice spoke to me again .

"Paul?" I replied opening my eyes, he was kneeling down cradling my head .

"You're okay now . . . . " He said with a smile .

"I . . . . What happened . . . you died . . . . . " I asked totally confused at what happened .

"Take a seat . . . . . " he said helping me up back to on the seat .

"Scarlet? . . . " I asked quickly remembering what happened to her .

"She's okay . . . . . She's gone to get something to eat, as much as she wanted to help I'm scared she would cause more panic then good . . . . . " he answered .

"JAY??!! DAISY??!" I remembered turning to them, Jay and Daisy was unconscious on the seat next to me looking normal .

"They are gonna be fine . . . . the illusion took a lot out of them . . . . . " He said looking at them both .

"What happened? . . . " I asked still a little confused .

"Something happened with the computer . . . some malfunction I guess and it opened up a scenario that it wasn't meant to . " He explained to me .





"What was that thing? . . . . " I asked .

"It was the avatar of a Demon Lord . . . . . " He answered .

"I saw you die . . . . " I replied .


An even bigger smile crept on his face, "This particular Demon Lord will make you see your worst nightmare . . . driving all who see him . . . . . Or it . . . . . Insane and incapacitated . . . then it would either kill you or you'd become so crazed you'd join his ranks" He answered .

"How comes you weren't affected . . . . . " I asked .

"I've already witnessed my worst nightmare . . . . . " He smiled kissing me on the forehead, "It's good to see you awake . . . " He said smiling . "I need to go and help the other students, sadly this isn't something I can fix with a healing spell . " He said smiling and leaving to begin tending to the other students .

'What was his worst nightmare I wonder . . . . . ' as I stared at him floating away to the other seating areas .

Several minutes passed when Daisy gasped jumping up holding out her arms looking at herself, with a giant sigh of relief she fell back on the chair .

"Hey . . . . . You okay now? . . . " I asked her remembering glow dark black crying thick black ichor .

"Yeah I'm okay now . . . . what happened? . . . . " She asked .

"Paul said a Demon Lord made us experience our worst nightmare . . . . " I replied .

"Ohhh . . . " She replied still a little shaken from the whole ordeal .

"What the hell just happened?" I heard Jay yell as he came into consciousness .

"A Demon Lord tried to drive us insane by making us witness our worst nightmare . " I answered him .

"It was so vivid and real . . . . " He said still shaking .

"I know . . . . " I replied turning to Daisy wondering if I should ask what happened to her . She seemed as if she was pray clutching her necklace tightly eyes closed muttering to herself .

We all sat there thinking to ourselves contemplating on the ordeal that we all just went through . "You know what we need?" I said to both of them . . . "Let's eat some good food!!!" I suggested trying to lighten the mood .

"Sure let's go!" Jay said .





"Okay . . . . . " Daisy said quietly getting up .

"I don't care what you both have to say . . . I'm not going to Paul's room again . " He joked .

Getting up I followed them as they led the way out the arena . "By the way . . . . . Emillia have u decided what you want to focus on?" Jay asked .

Remembering the illusion showing me shooting the green beams that turns things to dust, "Ummm what was that green beam Paul shot out on the Orc leader? . . . " I asked curiously .

"That was called Disintegration ray . " Jay answered .

"I want to me a wizard!" I said excitedly, "I want to use spells!" I added .

"So like me then . " Jay answered with a smile .

"I guess so . " I replied .

"By the way . . . . how comes Paul doesn't use any wands or items to cast? . . . " I asked noticing he used spells with his hands .

"No idea . . . I thought everyone needed to channel Arcanum through a wand or object . . . . " He answered .

"So how powerful was Paul? . . . " I asked Jay . . .

"Well . . . . during the fight with the goblins when he made them float and then sent them plummeting to the ground was a high level spell called reverse gravity . . . . and his books . . . . I can't even fathom how they work . . . . " He said pondering on the fight .

Daisy still quiet and shivering slightly, "Hey!!! You okay? . . . " I asked wrapping my arm around her shoulder to try and cheer her up .

"Hmmm? . . . yeah . . . I'm just still a little shaken . . . " She replied quietly .

"If you need to talk or need anything! Let us know! We are family now!" I said to her smiling . . . . . "By the way what time is it? . . . . " I asked .

Jay looked up at the sky . . . . "Hmmmm it looks like . . . . 3pm" He answered .

Making our way back to the dorm building . . . "So whose room should we chill out at . . ?" I asked .

"Let's go to mine . . . " Jay offered leading the way .

"By the way . . . . what was the white ball? Paul was focusing on vs the Demon Lord . . . . " I asked .





"No idea . . . . I didn't even see the demon lord to be honest . . . . " Jay replied .

"Me too . " Daisy added .

Arriving at Jay's dorm room, we entered a very plain room almost identical to mine . "So . . . . classes will begin again tomorrow so we have rest of the day free . . " He said taking a seat on the bed .

Daisy and I collapsed lying on the bed staring at the ceiling . "So what shall we do for the rest of the afternoon and evening? . . " I asked .

"Well dinner isn't served till 6pm . . . So if you're peckish we can snack on the food Daisy's Aunt graciously gave us . " Jay answered me

"Also . . . we can go to the common room and meet other students of various years . . . . " Daisy added .

Remembering I still had Paul's sandwich he made for me, and quickly dove down into my bag thinking about it pulling it out, foul stench followed the smell of rancid food and expired vegetables aggressively assaulted my nostrils forcing me to shove it back in the bag again .

"WHAT was that foul smell?" Jay yelled in shock .

"Woah . . . . . What was that?" Daisy also yelled in surprise .

"Sorry guys . . . . that was the sandwich Paul made me before we went to the city . " I embarrassingly confessed .

"Urrr . . . . yeah . . . . even though it hold near infinite amount of things . . . it doesn't slow the flow of time . " Jay joked .

"Yeah . . . I guess I'll toss it away when the time is right . . . . " I replied .

"Ohhhh Daisy do you still need my Scrying orb? . . . " I asked remembering she wanted to use it .

"Ummm . . . . Not anymore I got word from my Aunt yesterday, she said she was okay after the wyvern attack . " She answered .

"You have a Scrying orb? . . . . " Jay replied in shock sounding surprised .

"Yeah . . . . . Paul gave me one . . . . . Not really sure how or what it does… . . . . " I replied .

"So . . . all you need to do is place your hands on it and focus on someone you want to see . . . . and it will show them to you if they are on this plane . " Jay explained .

"Ohhh . . . that sounds super handy!" I said excitingly .

"Could I perhaps borrow it? . . . . " Jay asked politely .

"Sure" I answered him reaching down and pulling out my Scrying orb and handing it to him .

"Can I? . . . I join you?" I questioned hoping to maybe touch the orb and share a vision .

"Ohh you want to see what happens? . . " Jay asked .

"Yeah . . . . is it possible? . . . . . " I asked quietly

"Hmmm not sure . . . . worth a try . . . . " He said holding the orb between us, "Okay now make sure you have your mind so you don't mess up the spell . " He explained

"Sure!" I explained with a smile .

Daisy sat up "Can I join? . . . " Daisy asked .

"I don't see any harm in trying . " Jay replied placing the orb in between all of us, he put both is hands on it, me and Daisy hesitantly placing our hands on it also . Jay closed his eyes causing the orb to suddenly begin to glow .

Following his actions I also closed my eyes trying to keep my mind blank . Miraculously my vision showed that I was high up in the clouds, descending down slowly into a town, down through building . I entered into a building of what seemed to be a decently busy bakery, a woman smiling happily serving customers, which a man was behind her baking bread and kneading dough . Both seemingly happy talking and baking loaves of bread and talking to customers . The sides of the shop lined with various beautiful loaves of bread of different colours and shapes . When suddenly the vision went black .

Opening my eyes I saw Jay almost in tears completely quiet . "Are you okay? . . . " Me and Daisy asked him super concerned .

"That was my Mum and Dad . . . . " He said extremely quietly .

"They seem to be doing well . . . " I said to him .

"Yeah . . . . I know . . . . . It's a miracle . . . I don't know how this could be possible . . . . . " He said completely confused but also looking overwhelmed with joy . "I will need to visit them as soon as I can… . . " He said sounding excited .

"You can't send them a letter? . . . " Daisy asked .

"I don't know the address . . . we were homeless . . . . " He explained .

"Do you think I can hold onto this Scrying orb for a couple days? . . . . Emilia? . . " He asked me .

"Of course!" I replied happy for him, and extremely thankful for what Paul did for us .

"Let's head to the common room!" I suggested exited to meet people .

"Sure . " They both agreed as we made out, Jay placing the orb onto his bedside table .

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