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Chapter 326: Flight

Michael can't restrain his grin as he levels Arctic Burn, "Huh, I can fly now... Cool." he mutters to himself, feeling somewhat dissatisfied from the rather anticlimatic way he'd acquired something so sought after.

Even people in Elderscrolls struggle to find ways to fly, despite their mastery in magic. The only people he could name off the top of his head were the Dragon Priests. But even then, it was more akin to slowly floating than actual flight.

He shakes his head, even if his ability to fly only lasted a couple seconds, it would still draw a lot of attention. He'd try it in secret later... Before that, he needed to check in on his new Spirit.

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Michael lands face first in the searingly hot sand and groans and he pushes himself up. Brushing himself off, he looks over and heads towards the oasis where Lina should still be. Low and behold, she was still present, sitting with her back against a palm tree with a frown on her face.

Her head darts in his direction, her frown becoming more prominent as her body begins to glow a bright fire orange, her body floating from the ground as fire wreaths her hands. "Who are you! And why have you brought me here!?" she shouts accusingly.

Michael lets out a sigh, he couldn't blame them for always having this reaction, but did they have to be so 'violent' about it... He shuddered to imagine what the godlike beings would do when he met them in the future... He raises his hands and quickly goes into an explanation, eventually calming Lina as he earnestly explains the situation.

"So. I'm trapped here?"

"From what I know, yeah... Not much I can do about it." he says, not yet explaining that he'd been the one to pick her out of many others.

She stops floating and sits cross-legged in the sand, a disgruntled and hopeless expression striking her features. "Well, that's it then, I suppose."

...

"That's it?" he asks, finding it odd that she'd given up so quickly.

Lina hugs and rests her head on her knees, "What did you expect? I'm dead, my lands are dead, everyone I loved is dead... There is nothing left for me."

"The Dead God?" Michael asks, taking a not so wild guess as to the cause of her suffering.

She lets out a low chuckle and nods, "That scum and his unending armies. We didn't stand a chance."

...

"Well, look at the bright side... You're still... You. Which means there's a chance for me to bring you back. Even if it doesn't change what happened to your home." he offers.

"Is that what you say to all the other hopeless souls you've trapped? What will you have me pay for my freedom? My knowledge? You've already taken my power so, my body, then?" she asks, her amber eyes turning a hot orange.

"Your knowledge, of course. I might have some of your power, but I'm like a headless chicken when it comes to actually using them." he replies.

She gives a slow nod, "I'd imagine. Let me think on it, whether I want to exist like this or just end it... I'm sure this prison couldn't stop me from burning my soul." she mutters, waving him off as she stares silently into the water of the oasis.

Michael doesn't argue, leaving her to her own devices so she could decide a course of action. He knew how it felt to be trapped, so, he could sympathise with her.

Lina glances over at where he'd been standing and lets out a tired breath, "Do I even want another chance to die?"

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Hours later, Michael was standing at a hidden spot on the College's roof, attempting to psyche himself up. "Alright, let's do it... Arctic Burn." he whispers, causing a truly huge pair of blue ephemeral dragon wings to sprout from his back. Cold mist exuded from them, and Michael could feel his almost instinctual ability to control them.

He has them flap which releases a freezing cold bout of wind in front of him. He was unaffected by it, and come to think of it, unaffected by the chilly weather as well... As if he were sitting in doors at a neutral temperature.

Next, he sucks in air and blows out hard. Michael felt as if he were superman as his breath extends forwards, freezing the stone floor of the rooftop and everything else it touches, creating small shards of ice in its wake.

The last thing to test now was flight... Yeah, not yet. First, he waits to see how long the wings will last. In the end, it's only around ten seconds. While the wings don't use a massive amount of mana, constant use would leave him exhausted in no time.

With all that confirmed, he casts Arctic Burn one last time and throws himself off of the roof while commanding his wings to flap... It was a bit awkward to do, but fortunately, when combined with his skill [Convection], flying wasn't that difficult to do.

The only real problem was simply how big his wings were... Their size left him rather slow to manoeuvre, and he wasn't sure what would happen if they got struck by a spell mid-flight... Would he just plummet to his doom or...?

Regardless, his tests were a success. Now, if anyone pissed him off, he could just fly over a fortress with Megumin in hand and reign explosions down until the problem didn't exist. Very handy if he did say so himself.

Now he needed to return to the roof, before Illococoo sees him and attempts to join him in her dragon form...


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Chapter 327: Vile Deals

Elsewhere :

Charlotte rides the single horse cart up the frozen road while occasionally looking over her shoulder to make sure her mother, Maria, was still present in the back.

Her decision to leave the group wasn't an easy one, but she'd made it nonetheless, choosing her mother's wellbeing over her own comfort and safety. She'd researched enough to know who the voice in her head belonged to, so she knew exactly what she was heading into.

The voice had been leading her ever since she'd left Winterhold College, and now she'd finally arrived to her destination. It didn't look like much if she were honest, the cave which sat East of Helgen looking as if it'd been abandoned by both people and animals for centuries.

"Yes, now skip along inside and clear it of its current residents. Don't worry, they might bite, but I'm sure a girl of your skills won't have any trouble at all!" the voice whispers into her ear, prompting her to tie her horse to a nearby tree and escort her mother into the cave called Haemar's Shame.

She holds her mother's hand in her left and grips her staff tightly in her right, spells already prepared for whatever threat lay within. A quiet chant leaves her lips and a breeze blows through the cave, allowing her to catch a few sounds coming from further inside.

"M-Master, Lord Vile still has not answered your call... What if he-"

"Silence! I won't have my actions criticized by a weak, pathetic thrall! Hold your tongue before I tear it out!" a man hisses in response.

Vampires then... With the clue Vile gave her, it only made sense... Unfortunately, her Frost spells were very ineffective against undead creatures such as Vampires or Draugr. Their Frost resistance makes them almost completely immune to them.

She could crush them under a block of ice of course, or blow them apart with high projectile shards, but that would be inefficient at best, and allow them a chance to retaliate.

Charlotte wasn't a one-trick however, she still had her Wind magic. Her original ice magic was based on her proclivity towards wind and water elemental energies. Thus, she could still be considered a master when it came to using separate elements.

Continuing further inside, she spots a lone thrall standing guards at the entrance to a larger section of the cave. More were probably behind them, so she had to be sneaky about this to get the jump on them.

Another chant later and Charlotte gently blows some air from her mouth towards the thrall, "Thrall, come this way! And stay your tongue or else!" the previous vampire's voice exclaims into the thralls ear, the sound completely isolated to just him.

"Y-..." the thrall almost instinctively answers but cuts himself off in time before beginning to walk towards Charlotte.

Tapping her staff onto the ground once the thrall was out of sight from his compatriots, his head rolls onto the ground after a blade of air severs it.

"!!" Maria looks down in shock at the headless thrall, but Charlotte quickly calms her by wrapping some fabric around her eyes to act as a blindfold.

The next room was dealt with just as easily, Charlotte using soundless wind blades to dismember them before they could do anything. Five thralls and one freshly turned vampire, dead.

"Hmm hmm! Well done! All that's left is that bloody loud-mouth in my chamber!" Clavicus Vile's voice sounds out in her ear.

She nods, sneaking over to the entrance to the chamber with Maria in hand, quickly spotting the vampire that was praying to a large shrine of Clavicus Vile, the statue depicting an imp-like man holding up a horned mask.

"Please release me from this curse that I was forced to take, Lord Vile! I will do anything! Pledge my soul to you for all eternity!... Just free me from Molag Bal's grasp!" the master vampire prays, almost begging as he knelt prostrate before the statue.

"You wish to be freed? To give yourself to me for eternity?" a loud voice asks from the statue.

"Yes!" the vampire exclaims, looking shocked that he'd finally received a response.

"And you will do anything I ask in exchange!?"

"Y-yes!"

Clavicus Vile chuckles, "Then, I accept." he states but continues via whispering in Charlotte's ear, "Now, finish him! Sever his head as you'd done with his servants!"

Charlotte nods, uncaring for the plight of the vampire. A whispered chant later and the vampire's head drops to the floor... And begins to float in the ear, eyes still wide and aware as a dull glow encapsulates it.

"W-what isss thisssss!?" the vampire hisses in agonizing pain as the pressure on his skull builds.

*CRACK!*

The skull is crushed inwards as the vampire screams despite lacking any lungs.

*CRACK!*

Again, it shrinks. The vampire's skin slowly turns an ash black as the process continues.

*CRACK!*

Again. The vampire's eyes becoming squashed and condensed, filling with blood as they begin to resemble eye-shaped rubies.

*CRACK!*

One final time, the head now looking like a small ornate black face that one would wear on a necklace, with a gaping fanged mouth and horrified ruby eyes. The vampire's spine snakes itself from its corpse and goes through a similar process, eventually becoming the string of the necklace.

"Hahahahaha! What a marvellous thing you've become! Quite the fashion statement, Arkmis! Hmm, I shall name you. The Chain of Arkmis!"

"T-this... Is... Not... What... We... Agreed... On..." the Vampire, Arkmis' voice struggles out from the newly created artifact.

Clavicus Vile laughs, "No, this is exactly what we agreed upon! Your soul is mine, instead of my brute of a brother, Molag Bal's. We just never agreed in what state you would continue in!... Now, be silent, I have other deals to make." he says, the vampire going silent as Charlotte feels the Daedric Prince's focus lock on her.


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