Lesser Woke up, trying to scream. No sound came out. He felt pain in his stomach, chest and his back. He stood up, looking around seeing his cohort all asleep. 'Dammit!' He ran out of the cave, calling out his memories.
When he got to the entrance, he saw the root flying at him. He dodged them all. Like he was ready for battle. 'Is Lee's [Call to Arms] Attribute is affecting me?' But it did not feel like it, whatever that was was helping him now.
Looking around he saw the lake, it did not have a hill. The battlefield was still covered with the trees, the hill and the larger tree there too. It felt like it looked at him. He summon his runes.
Name: Lesser Silverlight
True Name: –
Rank: Dormen
Soul Core: 57/1000
Memories: [Hard Mallet], [Light Robe?!], [Stalwart Chisel], [Blessing of Avenli], [Tears of Home].
Echoes: —
Attributes: [Unfated], [Mark of Divinity], [Scribe], [Stringer], [Dream Feed].
The weird memories are gone. But his soul core had grown. Smiling, ran up to the trees and began to pierce them. His smile turned more creepy, more demolic.
[You have slain an Awakened Beast: Dream Tree Spawn.]
[You have received a Memory: DrEaMy LeAf?]
[Your Memory had been destroyed.]
[You have slain an Awakened Beast: Dream Tree Spawn.]
[You have received a Memory.]
[Your Memory had been destroyed.]
[You have slain an Awakened Beast: Dream Tree Spawn.]
[You have received a Memory.]
[Your Memory had been destroyed.]
He summoned the weird memory the moment he got them. The voices sound.
"That smile is still as beautiful as ever."
"That is a scary smile you have."
"Don't listen to her, Fall to madness."
"Watch out!"
Lesser turns around to see the root Missing him, but the vines capture him. The Branch hit him, killing him.
He woke up with a wild smile. He ran back to the entrance, back to the battle.
***
"Walkome madness in your self."
He killed more.
"Stop, don't fall for it!"
He killed some more.
"Watch out!"
He avoided and killed some more. Then he died again. Waking up and repeating everything again, and again.
[You have slain an Awakened Beast: Dream Tree Spawn.]
[You have received a Memory.]
[Your Memory had been destroyed.]
His mind hearing the Spell's whispers, the voices echo. His mind was gone.
[You have slain an…]
[You have received a Memory.]
[Your Memory had been destroyed.]
[You have slain an…]
[You have received a Memory.]
[Your Memory had been destroyed.]
[You have slain an…]
[You have received a Memory.]
[Your Memory had been destroyed.]
[You have slain an…]
[You have received a Memory.]
[You have slain an…]
[You have received a Memory.]
[Your Memory had been destroyed.]
Then he died. Waking up, he began to walk, only to fall. 'Huh', His mind was gone, but there it was again.
'What?'
His body moved, not by him, but by the madness of his mind. He couldn't do anything. Only see how his body fights, like a beast. But the voices was still there, echoing his body forward. No only one.
"Fight!"
"Kill!"
"More madness!"
"Stop!"
"Madness, More madness!"
"Move right."
"Kill, Fight!"
The voices repeated, one was slowly drowning in self weakness to helplessness. One was helping him. One was driving his mind into madness, faster and faster. He tried to stop, and wanted to stop. Nothing was his to control.
He was not growing stronger from this, the destroyed memories did nothing for him. He summoned his runes.
Name: Lesser Silverlight
True Name: –
Rank: Dormen
Soul Core: 567/1000
Memories: [Hard Mallet], [Light Robe?!], [Stalwart Chisel], [Blessing of Avenli], [Tears of Home], [Magic Leaf], [???], [???] .
'Huh, Why is it still there?'
He summoned its runes, but two voices did not miss his calling of his runes.
"Huh, Why did you summon your runes?"
"One step a time."
"Why bother with that, only killing."
"Move Left."
The runes appeared, but his body died again. Waking up his body began to repeat the battle again. But his soul did not follow with it. He was confused, but it only lasted a few seconds. He now looks at his memories. One was the memory that he had made before falling asleep, the other was the [Light Robe?!].
'Why are you different?'
He tried to enter his soul sea, and entered. He was now standing in his soul's sea. He realized that he had never looked around it. The sea was grayish in colors, with mist floating above it. His soul core was shining like a sun, but it was slowly creaking and leaking some golden color Ichor. In the deftness of his core was slowly turning black, Dark, he was slowly falling to corruption.
Around the Core were small bubbles floating with his memories. He called down one. It was a chest, when it landed on the sea it was still then roots began to grow on its bottom. Around it was a beautiful carving. But on one corner was a mess of carving runes. Slowly the runes began to form.
Name: [Tears of Home]
Runes:
Memory Rank: Awakened.
Memory Tier: V
Memory Type: Tool.
Memory Description: [I tear fall from the broken soul. Never having a home for his soul, he broke down. He took a step, for once he was not hated. He spoke to his companions about his life, he was broken.]
Memory Enchantments: [Small Home], [Companion], [Oath of Tears].
Lesser looked at the runes and saw that they had turned into strings. All of the enchantment was passive.
Enchantment: [Small Home].
Enchantment Description: [This Memory is bigger on the inside. It can be summoned and dismissed while storing inanimate items.]
The first enchantment that let him store things, but it could also let people stay in it and still breathe. But it could not be dismissed when someone is in it.
Enchantment: [Companion].
Enchantment Description: [This Memory can move around and follow its wielder.]
And how It follows him, with roots it had grown on its bottom that it uses as legs.
Enchantment: [Oath of Tears].
Enchantment Description: [Restores power to those who rest inside it and let their tears be its oath.]
The third enchantment was the most interesting. It lets all that enter it have their essence slowly restored. But also it gave off an aura effect that gave off a mind and soul protection around it.
Dismissing the runes to [Tears of Home] and replacing it with [Magic Leaf]. Its appearance was of a leaf with red and white colors, flowing around, always changing.
Name: [Magic Leaf]
Runes:
Memory Rank: Ascended.
Memory Tier: II
When he realised it was an Ascended of tier II, he was shocked and scared, because humans were not the only ones trapped in this dream.
Memory Type: Charm.
Memory Description: [One day a sorcerer walked into a forest of song and rest. They were not allured by the leaves in the trees, but by a flower on the ground.
"What a fine flower, but not as great as me."
He walked why not plucking it up. but the trees were jealous of the flower, all dropped their leaves on it, hiding it forever, killing it forever. Growing new leaves trying to match the flower colors, only to have forgotten its colors. The flower never died, only reborn anew.]
'That was murbet.'
'But by the sound of it, this memory could be…'
Looking down to the enchantments.
Memory Enchantments: [Leaves of Colors], [Anew once again].
Enchantment: [Leaves of Colors].
Enchantment Description: [Your colors never fail to change anew, forever trying to allure your prey.]
Enchantment: [Anew once again].
Enchantment Description: [A soul of a flower never ends by death, only it grows anew with every death.]
There were only two, one was weaker than the other. The first was an active so lesser couldn't use and confirm its effects, but the string gave more clues. It could change the colors of your eyes, skin and your hair. The second made people that looked at you, attracted to you, but he didn't know yet.
The second enchantment was a passive. It was weird how it worked. One it slowly heals the soul and the second, it would strengthen the soul if they were heavily damaged or close to dying. Because of this his soul had slowly healed back, but because of the nightmare creature, he was now out split.
Lesser felt his luck with memories was weird. How the spell gave him the right memory at the right time with good enchantment that he needed, but gave him a really slime chance at getting memory other times.
He dismissed the [Magic Leaf], and looked at the [Light Robe?!]. He was pre plax. Why had it been given a question mark by the spell. He began to summon it only to feel his body dying again.
Waking up, and seeing his body moving again. Running back to the forest, he entered the soul sea again. He summoned the runes again.
Name: Lesser Silverlight
True Name: –
Rank: Dormen
Soul Core: 585/1000
Memories: [Hard Mallet], [Light Robe?!], [Stalwart Chisel], [Blessing of Avenli], [Tears of Home], [Magic Leaf], [???].
Calling the [Light Robe?!], and the spell spoke.
[Your Memory had been destroyed.]
[You have received a Memory.]
'HUH?!'