章 174: Dark Darkness of Dark Intentions about Darkness...

After finishes their short discussion Reima turns his gaze to the piles of books stacked high on one side of the room, he approaches and almost falls over into the shallow water as he picks up whatever he'd just kicked... It's a mask, the one Pinwheel was wearing that depicted the father, in the game it raises the amount of weight you can carry when worn but... Reima is hesitant to touch something that was in-contact with Pinwheels deformed body, instead he stores it away, maybe he can melt it down and make a lamp or something?

He walks over to the table Pinwheel was working on and finds a skeleton that has an ominous black glow around it, looking around for a clue as to what this actually is he sees an open book next to the skeleton depicting a ritual that'll give a semblance of life to an inanimate object, or most commonly used, a corpse. He looks at the books title and sees that it's called "Necromancy, not just for perverts."... Either this is a joke or Necromancers have a serious PR problem. He stores the book away after jabbing the skeleton with his divinely enchanted sword and starts looking through the rest of the books. Most seem to relate to reviving a deceased person and theories on how to permanently bring them back, he skims through some of the book titles, "Soul storage", "The Dark Sign, is it worth it?", "Moddling your homunculus how YOU want."... Reima looks at another book titled "Is it immoral to make love to the dead?" before he finally loses his patience, he stores them all into his Folded Space before angrily kicking the table over, "What is wrong with these people!".

Solaire had stopped helping him look through them the moment Necromancy was mentioned, he had however heard Reima muttering the titles of the books as he skimmed past them. He didn't know whether to be horrified or amused at the casual titles of books teaching dark magic.

Reima "I'll look through them later, when I can stomach looking through the more... Egregious ones." Solaire just nods as he walks around the room trying to find an exit, he starts getting frustrated but he eventually finds a ladder that seems to be hidden in the wall. They climb up it and are immediately engulfed in darkness, Solaire tries to light a torch but the dark seems to form hands before enveloping the flame and snuffing it out.

Solaire "I hope you've got something for this... Fighting unknown enemies in the dark is not my preferred method."

Reima nods and casts an overpowered light spell that illuminates the surroundings, the darkness tries to snuff it out but as soon as it comes close it's burned away. This isn't all good news however as while they can see their enemies now, they can also be seen in return. They look around the huge underground cavern and spot Giant skeletons wielding large weapons, some upright while others on all fours, acting like animals despite their humanoid appearance. The duo is wary of fighting these Giant skeletons due to the paths being very narrow and being the only thing stopping them from falling into the bottomless abyss below.

Reima "Take this for now, hopefully we aren't flung off of these platforms." he says as he hands Solaire Havel's shield, the Silver SunBro takes it and immediately feels the weight of it. Despite being quite strong himself he has to sheath his sword and hold the shield up with both hands.

Solaire "Are you sure this is necessary?" he asks hoping to be given the Crystal shield back.

Reima "It's this or hoping these giant skeletons aren't strong enough to just pick us up and throw us." he says blankly. Solaire sighs and reluctantly nods before starting to walk forwards towards the first Giant skeleton that's wielding a huge scimitar, no doubt courtesy of Vamos. It sprints it them disregarding its own safety on the narrow naturally forming stone bridge and tries to crush Solaire with it's weapon. The man in question gives a small shout and hefts the "Dragon Scale" shield up to block the strike, Solaire expects to be knocked away by the powerful looking swing but is confused when he feels something akin to a light punch instead... He peeks over the large shield and sees that the Giant skeleton's strike seems to have been deflected, so well in-fact that's on the verge of losing it's balance and flying off into the abyss below. He doesn't wait for Reima to do anything and slams Havel's shield into the Giant hip, causing it to finally fall off, Solaire nods in satisfaction. "It seems you were right my friend, although this shield reminds me of someone..."

Reima just pats him on the shoulder, "No time to dally, we've still got... 76 more Giants to kill." he says after doing a quick head-count on the visible enemies. Hearing the number Solaire almost loses his own balance, "Seventy six! Are you sure?" he says trying to concentrate his vision at the dimly lit targets.

Reima shrugs, "At minimum" this short statement causes Solaire's shoulders to slump, while he does love combat this is more akin to a weighted exercise routine, less a rush of adrenaline and more anxiety about plummeting to his death.