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The Relics of Irene

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After explaining to Melody that she wasn't going crazy and that the skull was actually a demon bonded to Phanto, she replied in a rather calm tone, though the calm tone was misplaced. "...I knew that you were hiding something when I met you, but to think... you had a hand in destroying an entire village..."
"It is not something of a proud nature that I am willing to say to many, but those I do, I am entrusting my gravest secret." Phanto said as he relaxed, Nolrag floated beside him as the demon gauged the conversation, the lightning cat familiar back as Yuu played with it, more joyful than before. "But, like I said beforehand, I never was a saint, think little of me now for I deserve it for a time." This was thwarted as Melody rested a hand on Phanto's and spoke.
"It is okay, I just... wanted to understand and you have given me more than enough." She cleared her throat as she gave a small report. "Now, I have heard of these 'relics' of the Divine Warriors, but that's the thing..."
"They are not exactly real, are they?" Melody nodded as Phanto rubbed his temples. "I thought as much, only a few would believe the story of the Divine Warriors and even fewer would believe that they possess special relics that not only grant them unique power, but also are passed down through the bloodlines, none knowing whose bloodline is the relic bearer."
"Irene... not.... line..." Phanto looked over to Yuu who, pausing for a second, continued in her wording. "Immortal... needed to shed... before line"

"True.. true..." Phanto whispered as he recounted the story, Irene was no goddess, but an immortal soul who had to watch as her closest friends, allies, perished around her before she finally disappeared, none knowing where she had gone to, but then who was the Irene relic bearer? "This does throw a wrench into the works, the world is changing now, someone is the bearer of Irene's relic." At this, the cat hissed loudly as both girls jumped to their feet in surprise, shocking Phanto as Nolrag spoke his point.
"Bad timing, kid, bad timing..." Yuu started off with a long screech, her Tempi rather long considering that Phanto was half-needing to correct her for it before Melody actually spoke with her own shouting.
"What do you mean, 'bearer of Irene's relic', where in this WHOLE country was Irene's shrine, that is SO impossible!!!" Phanto was taken back before clearing his throat and leaning forward, Nolrag listening as well.
"It is something I came across before I started to branch out more for information, one of the more... magically attuned beings said that the Lady Irene had returned, but I think that it is more that her relic has been found and it's powers have been used as of late, someone has the strength and abilities of Irene, but how and why..." Phanto looked at the skull and the demon spoke.
"Even I find it hard to believe, but that is the issue, someone has the power that Irene once wielded and we have no clear thought of where they are, leaving us on such an empty path of search that we can only work on what we can as of now." Yuu inquired about it and Nolrag had the answer. "No, we only know about Irene's, her relic is the only thing active at this present time so you may need to understand, if we don't understand, we can't do any more than we would like to know."

"Oooookay, demon skull is still going to be a new development." Melody shook her head to shake the fear, but it was impossible as she turned back to Phanto. "So do you have any ideas that we could use?"
Phanto started to think before he came upon an idea, one that he heard in O'khasis. "Yes, I do, it is about a former high priest... named Zane Ro'Meave..."

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Traveling back to the town was a bit tough as Tu'la was starting to close in, but Phanto was not so spooked as Yuu followed behind in disguise as they looked about for something or someplace that Zane had been using to his interests while the guards were more on edge than needed. "Be careful, young lady, this is not the best place to get split up over."
"Yes... Father..." As an additional measure, they were pretending to be a family through the short visit, looking further until they found his housing and entered, looking through hundreds of hundreds of books, yet none pertaining to the relics from the normal sight. "Now... we go...?"
"Yes, now we search, but return your collection back to the shelf to not aroused suspicious." Yuu nodded as they started to search the whole structure for answers before Phanto, searching the desk that the priest may have used before his disappearance, stopped short on something different and reached under and unlocked a hidden compartment that held a book, a mix of journal and glossary as he opened it up and started to read.
'Plans on plans, this Zane was quite influenced by power, even had a 'short' meeting with...' Phanto stopped short and rested a hand on the book, the words that he found told him enough, he betrayed one of his 'Jury of Nine', stabbing him in the back and killing him, Jeffery of the Golden Heart. It is clear that he was obsessed with the relics, but to be this far gone in greed, even trying to take the relic of Irene from... 'He failed... someone else has the relic and is the bearer and they are here, in the region even now, but where is Zane...?'
Looking further into it, he found an entry and started to read it. "After months of research, I finally found my prize and I just needed to pull a few... strings to get my plan on track, that idiot Lord of Scaleswind is so easy to control and direct him toward Phoenix Drop, while they 'enjoy' the chance to kill each other, I will ascend to the height of power, Irene's relic will be mine and none, not even that 'Aphmau' Lord, can stop me from something they will never live past to see." The book closed as Phanto breathed deeply, why would Phoenix Drop need to distracted from Zane unless... there was a location close by that could be used to enter Irene's realm, someplace that Zane would use to enter.

"Phanto... priest... secrets?" He looked over to Yuu who found nothing, but he was not interested in her lack of discovery as he reopened the book and searched it.
"Indeed, he was looking into the relics of the Divine Warriors, more exactly Irene's relic, and he seems to have invested an considerable amount of resources in materials, magicks, and plans to this end, some of these documents are of sabotage, destruction, treason, and deeds ill-placed for a priest of the Irene faith." It was no lie, some of the materials were of a darker origin and purpose and could easily be used to create something like a object that could break open the boundary of reality to enter another realm, a different dimension, but that made little sense as he looked through it, finding names here and there that could easily be seen in the area, most notable the names of former Lords and side memos to their ends or plans for them like this Aphmau, planning to settle it simple with a marriage that was not accepted or, some one named Arron through the means of something that slain a entire village, its purpose still unknown. The book slammed shut again as Phanto hid it in his cloak. "Come on, we have stayed long enough." As they left, none were the wiser as they wandered the town and checked out the markets still open before heading back out of the gates before Yuu spoke, her resolve still rather calm for a child.
"Ro'Meave... only mother... alive with... sons unknown." Phanto nodded to her words, understanding well what she meant.
"It DOES seem odd, Zane was here, but was he killed or otherwise and what of the other two, I heard that the Ro'Meave family had three sons, one of a different parent and the first two from a driven man for strength and power." He rubbed his jaw as he glanced at the book again, its knowledge invaluable in the long run as a input guide and focal point of this whole situation. "What could have happened to the whole family, are all the sons dead or... is there something we are missing...?"
"Monsters... coming..." He glanced up to see bandits slipping out of the cover of the trees and gauged to see the gates were too far for any guards to save them...
...But also letting Phanto try something out as he pulled out another book, one engraved with runes as he flipped it one and focused, his hand glowing red over the pages as a circle appeared between the two parties, speaking in a new language that he dubbed 'Netherian' for a lack of a better name. "Di fuoco e ombra, io invoco la vendetta." Without warning, the realm of reality cracked open as a suit of red suit was called forth and glanced up with glowing red eyes as the bandits charged to their deaths. Yuu hid behind Phanto as the carnage started and ended with speed and he turned back to the book, sending the spirit back as a voice whispered into his ear to keep it open.

'Surrender your will and become much more than mere mortal.'
'This is not your place OR home, be gone with you...' The book closed as the summon was undone and he put it away as he draped a part of his cloak about Yuu. "Do not look, do not peek, I have spilt blood and I wish not for you to see, young one."
"I... accept your... truth..." They walked on as they left the bodies behind, the guards coming to find the mass grave of bandits and reckless fools with none to tell who killed them all...

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Upon returning to the lair, Phanto took his time to be check over the summoning tome he had made and to look through Zane's journal to see if there was anything about the relics, but little was given sadly, so he just focused on the tome, trailing through the book to ensure nothing was out of place, even the spell was perfectly fine except for a tip of the page, its texture seared like fire touched it and it was no surprise as something told him that the page wasn't just burned, he had seen it starting as the voice spoke, something in the Nether that was without emotion, only hatred fueled its actions.
A knock at the door had him close it as he spoke. "Enter." A young brigand enter and closed the door as Phanto addressed him, his posture defeated as he sat down in the chair that Phanto gestured him to. "How may I help you today?"
"It... is something that has been on my mind since I joined, three months ago." Phanto nodded as his guest continued. "This whole 'magick' thing, you said something along the lines of 'I have potential', but you didn't say where my skill lies, simply having me train with the others about physical combat."
"That is because I don't believe that spell casting or channeling is in your blood, you have much to learn before you can tap into those realms of magic, but..." He glanced at the book and reached under his desk to grab a second tome from the drawer, the same except it was of a radiant green instead of a darkened red, sliding it to the brigand as he spoke more. "Perhaps you could do something more physical, but still be in the magic column." Standing up and guiding the brigand outside, Phanto spoke to the members in a calm voice. "This is merely a test of magicks, please clear the training grounds..." The order was followed as Phanto stood on one side and the brigand on the other as both cracked opened the tomes, Phanto's right hand red and the brigand's left green as he spoke. "Call forth your chosen warrior and I will match." Though it was to ease his mind, he needed to see if this was a field of battle that they could use as the youth started off.
"Expergiscere ligna sensibile bellate!" A circle appeared in front of him and a large tree creature emerged from it as Phanto spoke his, his charred eye now glowing in response, a development if he had seen it.

"Fuoco e ombra nel tuo fiato, io chiamo il volo." From his circle, a monstrous beast of draconic life clawed forth and the titans, despite the small space, started to circle each other before the wood creature struck, swinging a fist to crush its smaller foe, but fire brimmed forth from the beast's jaw and engulfed the creature who was not deterred as it wrested through the flames that charred its frame before gripping its fire shut, the aftermath clearing the field more as the two battled like long rivals in the fray.
Claws slashed through its hide as the mouth came free and it charged before firing a fireball into the exterior, but it was far from over as the creature was not finished as it took another, slamming hard on the beast's face and trying to get a few more blows in as the monster tried to shake off the daze, not quick enough as the creature wrested to break the neck, but it was a vain battle as another fire stream consumed the creature and a tail whip defeated the creature, forcing it back into the tome and Phanto closed his, undoing the summon as he walked over to the youth, sweating furiously with his own sweat nearly dripping to the ground as the beast faded from existence there. "Are you okay?"
"FINE!... fine, sir..." The brigand got up and handed the tome back as he commented. "It was... a waste of time... anyway, no one can... beat you one bit..."
"That, however, was an excellent control and focus for a 'waste of time', young blood, you have shown more than just an idle waste than I had expected." He gave the tome back to the brigand's surprise as he continued. "Build up from the start, see which summons are more valuable in combat or otherwise and I will accept your challenges to help you strengthen yourself... young Conjurer." A new title and role and the brigand was head-over-heels as he wept into the cold air in joy as the members returned in amaze at what had occurred as Phanto spoke. "Now that it is out of the way, I will be aiding in the clean-up, this place looks worse than I had expected, let's get to it!"
"YES SIR!!!" A majority saluted as the clean began with Melody and Yuu watching on and talking to each other, Yuu's hairpin sparking and Melody's stave blooming in life before dying and repeating a cycle.

"These relics... sound dangerous, are we intended to stay by and wait to see WHO has them?"
"Impossible... say, Milady... relics be... tricky." Both nodded as Phanto continued, they realizing that his eye was glowing from behind the patch and that he was unaware of its light while in his mind was a battle.
'You are weak, you have no worth in this world.'
'That is where you are wrong, I have worth to him and you will not be otherwise forcing me out of my home, he is mine and you are nothing but a shadow of a corrupted foe...'

Sorry for the strange language here and there, I wanted to just make it a normal wording, but decided to use different languages to mark the different summoning in this story.
Also I am sorry that I didn't get too into the relics, but other than the ones we ACTUALLY know about, there is not much I can do with it.
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Edit: Decided to use something else for the ent summon.