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Tharozan
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“Money...as in currency, gold...trading sticks, ectotokens?” The guardian asked, but not seeing any sign of recognition. “Oh boy,”

How to explain that one, that would take some thought.

“I’ll talk to the bankers, they might be able to send someone out to train one your people. If you’re willing of course,” the guardian said.

Kita nodded. “There is of course, Neri,” she said.

“You want me to instruct her in Divination?” the guardian asked.

“Take her to these areas you spoke of, teach her well until she is ready to return. Besides, show her this world. It’ll be good having the opinions of one of my people as to how to proceed with the various races out there,” Kita said.

The guardian agreed. For several days they all worked away in the new settlement until there was an actual settlement. There were building to shelter the new arrivals, the forge was ready and the guardian showed them various pickaxes and guided them through the various metals that covered the mountain top. When ready, he and Neri left the island. A route was planned, one that took them through the primary leaders of each kingdom before, finally Neri’s tuition began south east of Draynor.

She learned fast. Kita was right, Neri did have an aptitude to the skill and Neri would be essential to her people’s survival on Vareen with an energy bleed that severe. They covered all the sites, even took her to the Elder site through the World Gate at Freneskae. He took her across the Arc and lastly to the Wilderness wall at Edgeville. He prepared Neri for what lay beyond and then guided her up to the central volcano.

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20-Oct-2017 11:01:49

Tharozan
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Vareen...

It took a while, but their return was to a bustling people who were still working away. While they still were mourning their great loss, they still had hope. As they saw Neri, the people rushed toward her and welcomed her home before Kita asked for a demonstration of her skill. Together, they all walked down the rings to the cracked ring where the Guardian reassured his young student with a pat on her back.

Neri reached out her hands and focused on a wisp. The energy and memories flowed to her with such each that even drew a smile from Kita. Once Neri could hold no more, she walked to the crack and channelled the memories inside. The people roared, not clapped, their applause.

Back up top, the Guardian continued to help where he could before he spotted a small pedestal. He walked up to it, Lata noticed and came near.

“Kita forged it from your memories. She said you’d know how to activate it and that you’d be welcome here anytime,” Lata said.

The guardian touched the lodestone and powered it up before he felt a pull back to the cave. Kita summoned him and he went.

“Before my brother passed, he sent me a message. In his last moments, he learned what the Enemy was that killed our world. I feel you should know as well...should something similar happen here...you’d know what to look for and be able to warn the rest of us,” Kita said.

“What did he learn?” The guardian asked.

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20-Oct-2017 11:02:44

Tharozan
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“Six thousand years ago, toward the end of the seventh God War, the was a dark god called Vatus. A vile, corruptive entity. You would call him a god of chaos...but that is a gentle and far, far too polite. There is nothing he would not do, no line he would not cross. At that God War, Vatus decided to weaken his rival gods but weakening their worshippers. He wrought a disease that weakened the bones of its victims and handed it to a priest of his who mounted a beast of his race and rode long among the other races to infect them.

Vatus’ people lost control, ended up infecting themselves. We gods came together and hunted Vatus down, all of us. We turned our wrath entirely against him, and ended Vatus. Afterward, we guided the greatest healers of our races together and together they found a treatment for that disease. We even named it after him, the Blight of Vatus. We actually thought we eradicated it,” Kita said.

“Wait, this Enemy is some disease? Neri told me some stories on our travels, she said this thing killed gods. How can that be possible?” The World Guardian asked.

“In your memories, I see an object your gods fought over - The Stone of Jas. We have an object similar, well...not in description but in power. We only called it the Stone. It’s been lost since the Seventh God War, some of us suspected Vatus had it and hid it but we never found it. If he did have the Stone, and he had a sample of the Blight nearby...” Kita said.

“Soaking up the power of the Stone, feeding off it...” The World Guardian said.

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20-Oct-2017 11:03:50

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“Shortly before the enemy appeared, another god vanished. Nios of the Sun, she never stopped looking for the Stone. We felt her passing but there was no increase of power in another god, or a mortal elevating to our level. The Stone empowered the Blight, made it strong enough to infect a god. Nios might not have been aware what was happening to her, if she found it and tried to work with it while the Blight was coursing through her,” Kita said.

“Eventually killing her...killing a god without an Elder Artefact. Turning a virus like the common cold into something on the level of the gods, something that can think, be aware...strategise,” The World guardian said with not a mild dose of panic in his voice. “That thing didn’t follow you here...it is still on Vareeni?”

Vareeni...

The dark swirling mass of the Blight moved around the planet, constantly on the hunt for anything living. All the while, a part of the creature remained in the World Gate chamber to wait. World Gates can be damaged, crippled, shattered...but never for long. There wasn’t a power that could destroy the gates.

The shards of the gate, every now and then would glow and snap across the room. The fragments would crash together, fuse and remain where they fell until the segments of the gate that remained standing called to them. The Vareeni gate was healing...

The End.

20-Oct-2017 11:04:41

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