Waves of flew from the ripple caused by the multiplying echoes , the figure who had been in command of them had lost control and collapsed on the floor of the ruin enclave . The murky grass drenched with the liquid oozing out of them .
Only moments had passed since the viscount's son had arrived . Elara , the echo who had taken hold of Lyra , analyzed the young boy amusingly . His actions were what had intrigued her , instead of going to aid Kaelen , Everett had walked right past him and took out an empty wine bottle to collect the strange liquid that was pouring of the cluster of cups.
It was a strange liquid that even the forbidden texts never spoke about , it bioluminescent type of black was eye catching , even more so the process of falling it did was like a beautiful waterfall. But she couldn't help but chuckle seeing the mystical liquid get harvested by the young man.
She smirked.
He had finally noticed their presence or at least it seemed that way but then he just walked by her with a silver bucket in hand .
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'This should be it. Ah , fervei grass.', he picked up a chisel like tool and started to tear away the mossy wall . Although he had called it grass the plant could grow even on ceilings. It's reproduction tended to act like that of an mold but bore none of it's toxicity.
"You there , my brother needs help!", Elara put on an act to try to deceive the young boy and perhaps get some insight on what he was up to.
"Shh!", he simply responded , she tried to make a response to his but was cut off before she could utter a single word , "It's pointless . Give me a few moments , after that I'll deal with you."
"Tsk" , Elara clicked her tounge then remarked ,"How long have you known?".
Everett was casually collecting the mossy plant , going as far as his height could take him . He knew that whoever held this grass in their hands had the key to limitless possibilities. At least for the first volume of the book , at the current pace he had analyzed that he was just about at the beginning of the story.
So he had to act quick .
The conversation he was currently having was distracting , so Everett tried to make it as brief as possible . "Since the party , I could feel your presence lurking within that girl you have taken hold of."
His tone was hardened in order for it to sound as cold as possible without stuttering , in all cases he was afraid . The echo who stood only a few metres away from him was on par with the main antagonists throughout the entire series. Ones that the protagonist , Frian L Sirviten had struggled to defeat countless times , eventually succeeding but mainly because he was the main character.
Originally , Frian was supposed to stumble upon this grove and 'coincidentally' find the fragment of the creator of Nexus Arcana , Merlin Ambrosias. He would merge with it , granting him some unknown abilities but something was off at the situation he was in .
It had all begun at the birthday party of the young Lyra Renon , an event that never existed within the first few chapters of the novel. Then the regulators came , 'Regulators' , the scum of the world of Axis On Silver , funded by the marquis of a foreign nation who was also the head of the Rori Trading Fleets , they were a group who held authority in the eastern sectors of the Naris Empire , the one he was currently in .
Fortunately , the incident had been more beneficial to him ; news of the attack on a social gathering of the most influential people in the Naris Empire had spread like wildfire and was not taken lightly , neither by the nobles nor the general public. So Everett hoped that it had at least lessened their influence in the Empire , but he couldn't say the same thing for the other three.
"Haa...." , sighing deeply he continued at the grass and finally noticed that he was scraping at the dirt . Slowly he rose to check for any pieces left only to find none , he was finally done and now came the hard part.