Seinnissia smiles mischievously at my reply, though her gesture seems forced.
I know is not natural because she's not very fond of displaying public affection. Yet, she mark territory with her previous token of bold possessiveness.
"You're not deceiving anyone with this poor charade, Cinder-Shit". Says haughtily a lady with gold hair, and bright red eyes.
Her plump brown lips are sensuous, like her athletic silhouette, clad in a tight dark leather combat outfit. But her overconfidence is annoying, almost as much as her conceited voice.
"Sticking to a Vecturion like a prostitute won't change your fate when Natvasha crushes you in the Coliseum of the Berezovsky Clan. But please. Resist. After the Countess, her Mother, and my Brother have their way with you". She moves her pelvis rhythmically, putting extra emphasis in the inexistent bulge on her groin. "I'll use you too…".
I can't help but laugh. "Haha. This «Pyrite» is glazing on others grandeur, before they achieve anything".
"Vuir!. Don't be mean with her!". Seinnissia falsely admonishes me. "Don't use such offensive word…".
"Nissi. Pyrite is not an insult".
"Oh!. You are right «My Fiancé». It means «Fool's Gold». Danaika is just a Fool who looks like Gold, and spends Crowns as if she had wealth".
"So her House is a puppet of the Nydrikoffs".
"Correct, Vuir. Their entire Barony is in debt, her Mother ran away with her Grand-Uncle after they kill Danaika's «Gambler Father», stealing the emptied treasury".
"That's lame, let me help her". I observe Danaika. "Shave your head, Pyrite. Perhaps you can scam someone by selling it like a wig".
Appalled gasps resound in the vaulted chamber, because messing with anyone's hair, is a severe offense, especially towards Pure Scions and Heiresses. Which is why Vestaria is looked down by others.
Yet. Wigs and Hair Extensions, are Taboo.
"You talk a lot to be a Vecturion from Loutharn". Venomously retorts Danaika. "Disgusting, «Exodus Abuser»".
"Like everyone in his House". Ines points out as if it were obvious. "That literally is the Vecturion Trademark". Leaving Danaika speechless. Though i believe Pyrite shut up because the Barking Bitch is an Iscandaris, even of she is an «Impure» one.
Our dispute comes to an end with the apparition of transparent tiles. This large narrow rectangles hover above us, forming an ascending path of stairs for those who are gathered in the chamber's center.
Going upstairs, we never reach the vaulted ceiling of maple cobblestones. Instead, we cross into a new environment.
The floor is black, similar to the nothingness i saw after the mirror that brought me to Loutharn. But the sky resembles a colorful cosmic nebula.
Ahead, lies an unnatural white entrance, the route to it, is marked by blinking neon lines within the ground's darkness. The hypnotic twinkling of the lights is bewitching beyond belief. Our attention refocusing only after we hear the voice of a grown man.
"Students. Congratulations. You passed through the Relativistic Portal, gaining at least one Subclass. Those who wish to increase the «Tier» of their Subclasses. Remain where you are. Those who are unsure, cross the exit. Beware. Death or Worse await for those staying. Decide wisely, based on your Self-Prowess, because aside your Comrades. You will have nothing, unless it belongs to any of you…".
Less than a tenth choose to leave. Causing the white exit to disappear, reducing the lighting, while augmenting the obscurity, which enhance the brilliance some of us possess, linking us between each other.
"Students. Reunite with your Teammates in the illuminated areas. And prepare to be dispatched… , Your goal is to reach «Tier 1» in a Subclass, so you can return here without passing through the Relativistic Portal. And, if you know what a «Beacon» is. By no means you should attempt to create one, in fact imped others from doing them. Trust my old rotten bones when i tell you this, «None of you want to face the aberration that will arrive on behalf the Beacon». Still, Don't waste this Six days you'll have access to, and don't overexert yourselves, forgetting life is precious, power can wait… , May Avrora Miuller Alzierich watch upon all of you…".
The light patterns on the ground change from being sporadic, to have a single hexagon shape. However. Most students are standing on other locations, sinking into the black nothingness, vanishing from my sight.
{So strange. They didn't look altered by being absorbed. Like if they weren't aware of it…}.
Seinnissia catches my attention by hugging my arm. Her cheeks blush, and nervousness is noticeable on her beautiful face. Making her look vulnerable.
{She is truly trying to send a message, huh?. I kinda like the idea, along this compelled proactivity Nissi is depicting. Yet, it bothers me is for the sake of maintaining the facade, rather than being truthful…}.
Our group has a total of 24 people. Many more of what i was expecting.
Nevertheless, the Deployment begins after the last of us enters in the hexagonal perimeter.
The black floor rises as if it were water in a sealed container, covering our bodies in an instant. But only for a moment. Because when it goes down, the cosmic nebula landscape has been replaced with a lagoon of cold water in the verge of frosting it's surface, dampening me up to my thighs.
Snow falls from the violet sky, coming with a chilling blizzard that is not diminished by the towering hills in the horizon.
{Am I tripping?!. Or the sun is green?!. Is that even possible?!. Well, it is because i'm seeing it. But, shouldn't be hotter in here. Or how far is the orbit of this planet?}.
Then, with the data available, the answers clicks in me.
{We are not inside of an Enclosed Amalgam. If not in another world}.
I walk out of the lagoon, reaching the shore with Seinnissia, Ines, and the Elven Amazon, among others.
But seeing Danaika shivering from the cold weather, is hilarious, especially because she's naked, like most of the students present in the area.
Ines approaches me, opening her black combat gambeson, revealing her cleavage, where the Scroll is visible between her massive breasts, taking it out, and returning it to me.
"I will compensate you". Says the Barking Bitch, evoking the Summon she learned from the Scroll, sending it to the sky, as she must be able to share her view with the gaseous creature.
{So the man's warning was literal. Anything that doesn't belong to any of us, we don't have it here…}.