"Right..." leyk muttered silently, " there was a second Cades..." he grinned, though it could not break his disgustingly flattering face that he was wearing right now, fully visible to Avere that had finally awoken, his body having assembled out of the silver everywhere in this place, the very silver that the corpses had been covered within as well.
It was actually ridiculous, Leyk wore a spotless face with thin nose and high bones, a relatively wide chin that was still closer to average, he wore long black silky black hair that reached a bit behind his head, though it could still grow in the end, that had been fashioned to look very good on his body-shape.
He was lean but muscular, his skin pale but slightly toned, showing shadows where the muscles were, though that could have also come from not a single person here really having eaten regularly for longer than a normal person should be able to survive something like that.
Other than that, his black hair falling behind, his teeth perfectly symmetrical and annoyingly white, so much so that Avere almost felt the need to punch him in the face to restore a bit of ugliness, he wore a black short-sleeved shirt with a collar made of a slightly thicker material, useable to protect himself when it was cold, as well as probably able to change form from what he had just seen, the entire thing having appeared out of nowhere to cover the naked, but definitely impressive, body.
The pants he was wearing were outlined with a bit of white but of a rather simple material, a belt having been added with a belt that was decorated with a buckle made of silver that looked like a simple triangle with a dot inside, the shoes being made of black leather as well, the body itself being about 6'4 in height, a bit taller than Avere who now stood at exactly 6 feet, wearing a greenish brown shirt with fading colour, full of wrinkles and old with a few holes inside, the bag completely tattered, brown pants made of linen that did not compliment his skin tone, and no shoes at all, the pants even being slightly to wide and able to be pulled down with ease by someone if they snuck towards him from behind, which would be easier since Avere had not yet found out about mana sense.
But at least Avere had other talents.
Avere had been speaking a lot, being interacting with various different people, though to be honest, he did not care all that much anymore because of what the great pillar had called selflessness, his own apathy, be it that those two seemed to be pretty much the same from what he had been able to interpret, and be it that the others had most often been leading the conversation, he at least saw himself capable of calming this situation down a bit.
Raising his hands and shaking them in a motion one would do to gesture for others to calm down without wanting to sound insensitive or annoying he began speaking in a calm voice, be it monotone and without real love for this situation, Leyk also a bit confused as he watched him.
"Let's calm down" he said, subconsciously sending out some kind of purplish wave that moved like a liquid, invisible to all but Leyk who already knew of it's identity as the light of dominion, his newest power, though he did have to admit that it made sense the other him had also been given access to it.
"We want to first know where you just came from..." said Kehit, muttering a bit, stuttering as her words were growing a bit slurred, the young boy besides her, to her left to be exact, looking a bit interested, almost as if they were able to see the light of dominion, which, perhaps, they were.
"Okay, we awoke here, as you walked by, perhaps because you are here." Avere said, though he did have to improvise a bit as he said that.
"Where did you awake from?" the aloof boy suddenly asked, his eyes completely black, not reflecting any of the violet waves in the air that spread out like shockwaves under water, bouncing back and forth like echolocation, perhaps because they had been carried with the voice and sound that had been uttered by Avere.
"We awoke from trials posed by the great pillars." Avere simply said, and with that the boy turned aloof and uncaring again, as if he had long since known about such trials, but on the other hand, the girl and the burly man now perked up, seeming interested in that.
"Which pillars?" asked the old man with the high-pitched and annoying voice, causing Avere to silently want to rip out his tongue and cut it off using his new blade, at least ensuring he did not kill them...though he was very much capable of hiding that little interest of his that showed just how far his wishes and even his compassion for others had fallen due to this so-called selflessness.
He hesitated for a small moment as well, Leyk suddenly turning around, feeling a great deal of hunger as the curse of his contract set in, almost instinctively knowing what to do, walking to the pine tree he had previously woken up under, and releasing the three from the encirclement, something Avere would have asked him to do just a little bit later anyways.
With Avere starting to have his eyebrows slightly twitch, and the other three, even the aloof boy, watching Leyk as he subconsciously put his hands atop the tree, his mouth open, they felt a surge of mana from within the ancient monument of growth presented by mother nature, before it started to decay.
The silver plant fell, decaying, the lower sides turning into splinters as the force was taken from inside, feeding the hunger of Leyk that had been born from the curse, and been solved by the curse, as previously told to Avere, and now found out by Leyk who had not known about this in the slightest before, finally, also, intimidating the two even further while the aloof boy just stood there, mildly interested now.