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บท 33: Chapter 33 Modern Art is so Bad it Hurts

Kat and Minor walked through the now well lit halls but at a drastically reduced pace. Where before they were constantly jogging the damage Kat sustained and the mana that Minor burned through meant that neither of them were keen to simply sprint ahead even if the destination was likely so close. Despite this Kat was putting her new muscles to work, keeping hair steps extremely regular and limiting the impact on her wings creating a surprisingly graceful scene. Minor on the other hand was focusing on regenerating her mana as fast as possible. This involved turning her gaze inwards and as such she looked a sorry site compared to Kat.

The silence was companionable though, Minor wasn't shaking, content to focus on her mana she felt calm enough to ignore the unease she felt using the body in Major's place despite the fact that Kat had not continued to use her calming aura after passing out.

It didn't take the girls long to reach the end of the tunnel where it expanded into a domed room with an intricate mural of tiles along the ceiling and the upper sections of the walls. The mural featured numerous scenes that also seemed to be connected by a white-haired fox with a varying number of tails.

"Woah, is this a compilation of Grandma's adventures?" mumbled Minor mostly to herself

"It looks like it, assuming that the white haired fox is your Grandma? Do you recognise her?" said Kat

"Well, the pictures aren't quite as detailed as I would like to figure that sort of thing out, and I haven't seen my Grandma since the ritual I'm, well I'm not sure I'd recognise her even if they were perfectly detailed" said Minor

Kat took a second look at the murals but found she couldn't understand Minor's confusion. Everything looked like a perfectly renditioned version of the events and she could even see the signs of age on the Kitsune as she passed from event to event without the aid of increasing tails.

"Hey Minor, you Grandma put that illusion on you before correct?" said Kat

"Yeah why?"

"Well, this mural has details to my eyes, I can see all the faces, the joy in that first picture when she is setting off on her first adventure, I can feel the joy radiating from her. And later on in the fifth seen the sadness in her eyes as she looks at what I presume is a grave is quite impactful" said Kat

"What? Why would she hide something like that? I wish I could see these pictures with your eyes Kat" said Minor

*It is rather strange, why bother placing illusions over these murals. Or a better question I suppose is why make them with such detail if you're going to prevent people from looking at it?*

"Um, Kat, do you think, maybe you could tell me about the murals if you don't mind. I don't really know anything much about her" said Minor

"Well, um sure. As I said, the first one seems to be your Grandma setting out on an adventure, she is wearing travelling gear with a slightly oversized backpack on and a smile on her face" said Kat. Minor nodded along with the story

"The second, is what I'm guessing to be her first fight, it's made up of three scenes and it has your Grandma trying to use magic on a wild boar but panicking and missing with the spell. After that she was charged by the boar but managed to miss being impaled but was dragged along anyway, and the final section has her using her hands to dig into its eye" said Kat who could feel a faint pressure building in her head.

"The third is your Grandma meeting someone, they look to be human I think, hard to tell because they are wearing a thick cloak and bandages, with burns on their skin but your Grandma seems so happy to see them I can't think of whoever that is as creepy" said Kat.

The heavy weight on her mind increasingly noticeable. *What is going on, I know I'm not just imagining things, something is wrong with these murals.* Kat's thoughts were cut of as she was shaken physically by Minor

"Keep going Kat, you can't end the story now" said Minor in a panicked voice, practically begging for Kat to continue. Kat stared at minor and was shocked at what she saw. Minor had a massive grin on her face but there were tears dripping down her face. And her eyes, they looked like there was no life in them.

Kat slammed the full weight of her calming aura into Minor, eyes glowing purple she reached out to grab the now collapsing Kitsune who went completely limp in her arms. *What the hell was that? Are the murals cursed or something? Why am I fine but Minor was acting out.*

Slowly lower Minor to the ground the girl didn't move at all. Only the slight movement of her chest gave Kat any indication she was alive at all. *Shit, what do I do about this. Is she asleep because I slammed her with calming aura or did my aura actually break whatever effect was on her but freeing her from it forced her to sleep?* Kat looked around the room nervously, looking for anything that might help but all she could see were the murals, and the strange patterns on the floor.

*Right, now the question is do I try and wake her up or do I leave her to rest. We've just woken up so I don't think its exhaustion keeping her down but what's the appropriate response to, uh I don't know? Mind Control artwork? System help please?*

INFORMATION ON MAGIC OF ANY KIND IS LIMITED TO AT LEAST RANK 1 CLASSIFICATION.

*Of course, I guess I've been getting away with too much stuff because it's more closely related to me but because this isn't in the slightest, I guess the system won't give me much. Which is fair I guess; it did warn me about this but I just wish it would help. Um what about, system why wasn't I affected by whatever that was.*

USER KAT'S IMMUNITY TO THIS MAGICAL INFLUENCE IS UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME. D.E.M.O.N.S RECOMMENDS FURTHER TESTING. POTENTIAL SUGGESTIONS INCLUDE, STRONGER MENTAL FORTITUDE, ABILITY RELATED TO EYE MUTATIONS, DEMONIC NATURE

*Ok, that actually gave me some information. So it can really depend on what type of question it is. This means the magic is probably some kind of mental thing or it's related to visuals. That gives me something to go on. And Minor said she couldn't see them and I don't think anything went wrong till I started describing them. Ok I think I'm going to try to wake her up and be very careful not to mention the murals. Even just casual like I did the first time lightly describing them, I can't be sure that wasn't when the manipulation started*

Kat placed her hand over Minor's eyes so that when she started trying to wake up Minor she had no chance to look at the murals again. Shaking the girl she twitched and seemed to wake up, the girl started to squirm and break free of Kat's grip but Kat pushed a small amount of calming aura over Minor while speaking "Something is wrong with the murals, I've covered your eyes for now but I'm not sure if your back can you give me a sign or something" said Kat

"Um, what are you talking about? The last thing I remember was asking you to describe the murals to me" said Minor


บท 34: Chapter 34 Modern Art is so Bad it Hurts Part 2

"Well, after I started describing them, I felt a pressure in my head but thought I was imagining things. I continued reading out another one but then it got worse, so I stopped reading and you freaked out and tried to get me to keep telling you about the murals, but your eyes had no light in them. That's when I knew something was wrong, so I blasted you with my aura and you collapsed" said Kat

"I don't remember any of that I'm sorry Kat. I didn't hurt you, did I?" asked Minor

"No, just the shaking before I knocked you out" said Kat

"That's a relief. I'm not sure what I would have done if it turned out I hurt you" said Minor

"It wouldn't have been your fault Minor; it would have been whoever developed the enchantment on the murals. Do you think your Grandma is behind this?" said Kat

"Um, I'm not sure, she does use illusions but, I don't really know enough about her to say that it was intentional" said Minor

"How could something like that be unintentional?" said Kat

"Well, um I know there are some special pieces of art in the castle that I've never been allowed to look at because they can cause some serious damage if you aren't strong enough or you have a weak mind like me. Maybe the illusion placed over the mural was actually to prevent people that were weak like myself from getting hurt but because you could see the mural anyway it didn't work properly when you started to describe everything to me" said Minor

"I thought you said you didn't know much about enchantments" said Kat

"Well, um I'm not sure if the paintings are enchantments per say, it's complicated and hard to study because no one would let a priceless artefact like one of those be taken apart just to find out what happened. I only know about these specifically because Mother was extremely clear that we must never look at those paintings in the castle. Apparently, she needed to display them for some reason but she never said why. Just to stay as far away as possible" said Minor

"Well that is a little scary to hear. Trapped in a room of magical murals and I have no idea how we are supposed to get out. At least it seems like I'm somewhat immune to the effects as long as I don't start talking about them and even then, I certainly didn't suffer like you did" said Kat.

"Yeah, honestly that probably saved us. I have no way to recognise magical paintings and if you hadn't shrugged off the effects who knows what would have happened" said Minor.

"Well, the new question is how do we get out of here? I can't see an exit anywhere" said Kat

"Um, the tunnels certainly wanted me to go into this room but I can't feel it anymore. I guess this room isn't part of the enchantment network that has been guiding us but hopefully this is somewhere in Grandma's house"

"Well, what's the plan Minor, any idea how to get out of this room Minor, you'd know your Grandma better than I would. Any idea how she would have hidden the exit?" asked Kat

"No, but if you don't mind can you lead me back out of the room just to confirm this is the direction we need to go. I was a little excited when the lights came on and might have missed it if the enchantment tried to steer me somewhere else. It isn't perfect" said Minor

"Sure" said Kat

Kat held Minor's hand and directed her towards the exit. Kat had removed her hand from Minor's face but the Kitsune made sure to keep her eyes completely closed and tried to keep her mind off the murals by focusing on the sound of her footsteps. As soon as the pair stepped out into the hallway the weak but ever-present indication of which way Minor needed to walk to reach her destination returned and this time there was no mistaking that it was indicating she needed to return to the room.

"Kat, I wasn't wrong, we need to find the way forward in that room somehow" said Minor

"Is there anything else in the room Kat? Anything at all" said Minor

"Well the floor looks really weird" said Kat

"Describe it, um broad strokes, as unspecific as you can be just in case"

"Well it's kind of a mess, lines and squiggles everywhere, nothing I recognise at all" said Kat

"Is there any straight lines? Any order at all to it that you can see" said Minor

"Nope none" said Kat

"That's very strange. If the floor was enchanted in some way I'm pretty sure there would need to be at least some straight lines to make it work. See I asked because a lot of enchantments are hidden in other things, like pieces of art or basic patterns on the walls but as far as I know they do need some regularity and a few straight lines are a must. I think, any enchantments Grandma has are certainly above me but I think that rule holds true, enchanting is like a language so you need patterns" said Minor

"Right I understand, so the floor isn't enchanted. What's the next place she could have hidden something" said Kat

"Well, Grandma can fly I'm pretty sure, or if she can't it's pretty easy to jump up to the murals. I hate to ask but can you take a closer look at them with your wings" said Minor.

Kat stretched her wings carefully feeling a twinge in her back still remained.

"Not really Minor, I tore something in my back or wing, I'm not quite sure where the line is drawn, but anyway, I damaged it before the landing, and it hasn't completely healed. It's already much better than when we went to sleep. In fact I haven't been as careful as when walking and I didn't notice at all, so maybe if we waited, I could try but for now at least that option is limited to us" said Kat

"Hmm, your eyes are really good right? Or can they just see in the dark?" asked Minor

"They seem to have been improved a bunch but it's hard to tell a lot of the time" said Kat

"Well I'm thinking, um you know how they glow occasionally?" asked Minor

"No? My eyes glow?" said Kat

"Um, yes, I'm not sure why they do, but they can at least. They're purple when they glow, but I was thinking that if they light up like that you can probably try and use the same technique, I do to push mana into your eyes. If they glow occasionally already it should be hard to damage them like most people" said Minor

"I don't think I have any mana" said Kat

"Oh right you're a demon, well you certainly have something, we call it demonic energy just uh, force that to your eyes or something" said Minor

Kat shrugged towards Minor then realised she couldn't see her response.

"I guess I'll see what I can do" said Kat. *Hmm, channel energy into my eyes. The easiest thing I can think of is to try and push my calming aura into my eyes. It probably isn't demonic energy but it's the main power I have control over so let's try it.*

Kat summoned her calming aura but instead of allowing it to flow outwards she concentrated it on herself. Pushing it towards her eyes she felt only a slight resistance before her vision expanded and she felt like she could see everything. The grains of the stone, the wear on the tiles, the dust that had barely accumulated despite the room seemingly being abandoned the secrets of the world almost seemed like they'd opened up to her. Kat's mind was adrift in the detail, it was simply to much for a human mind to take in and Kat wasn't able to properly process everything she was seeing. Suddenly Kat felt a push on her side and her concentration broke. Her eyesight returned to normal and she looked curiously at Minor who still had her eyes closed.

"What's up Minor, I didn't spend that much time looking" said Kat

"Kat, I don't know how to tell you this, but you haven't moved in about fifteen minutes. I was getting worried so I thought, if something had gone wrong maybe a little push could fix it" said Minor

"Curses, I hadn't noticed at all. It felt like an instant to me, or perhaps an eternity. It was too much for me to concentrate on. If there is something in the room I need to be more careful and not just shove all my power into my eyes" said Kat

"Ok, just be careful Kat, please" said Minor

"Of course, how about this, if I don't say anything for five minutes push me again" said Kat

"Ok" said Minor.

Kat once again tried to force her aura into her eyes, however this time rather than trying to shove her aura into her eyes like an overstuffed suitcase she tried to pour it into them instead. Initially there was no reaction but as she kept imaging herself pouring her power into her eyes the details slowly started to sharpen. Glancing carefully over the room Kat noticed that just at the back of the room underneath the first section of the mural the one of the tiles had the slightest discolouring to it in the centre.

"Minor I think I've found it" said Kat as she walked over to the tile in question. Placing her finger gently on the discoloured section she felt a click and heard a rumble coming from behind her. Turning around she noticed that the top of the room had disappeared, and a platform was dropping down seemingly by itself coming to rest in the middle of the room

"Minor I've definitely got our way out, a platform just dropped into the centre of the room. You think it's safe to hop onto?" asked Kat

"Yes, I think so, it's probably a levitation platform, they aren't very common because they are ludicrously expensive to run mana crystal wise and it only gets worse the longer the distance they need to float so most people still use stairs" said Minor. The girls carefully walked over to the disk and placed their feet onto it. As soon as both of them were firmly planted on the disk it started to rise slowly up towards the ceiling.


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