บท 14: A Wandering Soul[Repulsive essence of teleportation]

"Relax Evie, am telling the truth."

Blake made a statement and Evie rolled her eyes repulsively, making Tera to sigh alongside the other guy. Since Evie and Tera materialised into the cell, all Evie and Blake have been doing was argue and quarrel non-stop. Also, at the beginning of their venture into the Underworld groove, both Evie and Blake had been the like cat and the mouse and Tera found it so annoying, but the truth remains that they make a really great team.

"What truth are you telling, having us as slaves?"

Evie ranted and Tera dragged Evie roughly. Besides Blake apologised, even though it was once.

"What exactly is our main goal of finding Blake in his cell?"

Tera asked

"Scolding him?"

Evie replied, her statement more like a question and Tera gave her reply.

"No! Did you forget to tell him that the gods blessed us too?"

Immediately, Blake gasped.

"I think you just indirectly told him."

Evie said and Tera sighed. But Blake was even more dumbfounded than the girls were. Or even the lad who sat at one end of the burning fire watching them meekly as though they were acting in a play.

Tera and Evie were both witches, so the gods blessing was out of the world. A witch rarely gets the blessing of the gods, Blake realised. A witches chances of being blessed by the gods occurs rarely, mostly on special occations. The blessings doesn't just come out of the ordinary.

'Maybe, the gods were stunned to have them as temple slaves, that was why they unleashed their blessings on them instantly.'

Probably, they have discovered that being a [Temple Slave] requires the ability of the gods to accomplish not with their magical powers. While their magical powers were restricted to some divinity, the abilities being bestowed by gods can not be restricted.

"Did you choose your energy? Was the transformation painful?"

Blake asked excitedly making Evie sigh...

"Tera, your good idea to help him find his way out of the Underworld Groove and now, we are [Dormant] what a shame."

Evie tched.

"Tskk... I was being thoughtful. We caused his problem so we had to think of a way to help him out."

Tera said.

"Ladies? I am asking about your energies!!"

"Did you forget, we are witches. We have energy already. So it was our energy that the gods used to sculpt out the energy in us. We did not have to choose and we definitely did not pass through any damned process of transformation." Evie snapped.

"Tch!" Blake sighed and finally asked,

"did you get to see the Orthodox Crane or what?"

"Yeah we did. And who's this chick?'

Evie pinpointed at the guy with the eyes of a clear crystal and Blake turned to face him.

"Oh, he's my cellmate."

"And those foolish guards did not think of bringing any mate to our own cell." Tera screamed.

"Are you both staying in one cell?" Blake asked.

"Yea, but I see you overcomed loneliness too soon."

Evie mocked but Blake smiled instead.

"Sorry girls! Well, lets introduce ourselves to him, so that he does the same. He might be of great help." Blake stated and stared at the guy who tilted his head sideways waiting for Blake to continue.

"Uhm.. I am Blake..."

Blake felt weird calling his name out by himself. He was used to people calling it out themselves so he shuddered and glared intricately at Evie.

"Evie... I am Evie!"

Tera cleared her throat.

"Ahem..."

She continued.

"I am Tera Yvanne Monterisicurs, Albeitine Hau..."

"They did not ask for your full name dummy. Just your name would do."

Evie scoffed and Tera sighed.

"Call me Tera."

"Simple and short" Evie added making Tera to frown at her. She was a saddist by the way so Tera wondered why she wanted to retort back. Maybe because Evie was her best friend from the start. Whatever.

The guy shifted uncomfortably, as if their attention on him terrified him. What a weirdo.

"Uh... am Gabriel."

Blake smiled.

"Now, lets all talk about our different [Aspects] starting from you Gabriel. Hope you don't mind?"

Blake asked and Gabriel smiled.

"No, I don't mind. Actually, my Attributes allows me to wander or travel through souls. Or from soul to soul."

Blake blinked.

He instantly remembered that there is an ability that allows one to travel through souls. It was [A wandering Soul]. Actually, if humans are clustered around, there's a possibility that, your [Soul Step] would quickly cover a good amount of distance in less than a minute. It makes one come in contact with human soul making it possible for him to reach the other end. It is a repulsive essence of teleportation. Instantly, another realisation dawned on him. That must be how he got the keys to the cell. [A wandering Soul] does not just allow its wielder to misley teleport. You can also leave your body. Somehow, his ability allows him to leave his body hollow as his body wanders about. It is like a makeshift ability, but for someone that is [Dormant], his soul wasn't allowed to reach a far distance. It only had the right to linger about where the owner's hollow body could be seen and recognized. Besides, that was a good ability for starters. Blake himself feels apparantly so useless when it comes to using his own ability[The Eye of the gods] was fate just playing a cruel joke on him? Blake was wondering.

Gabriel continued speaking...

"I am also able to teleport myself through souls. I use a human soul as a channelling allignment and then when we merge energies, I realise that I walk through it to reach a certain destination. I can take mortal objects even in my incoporeal form. Real souls are supposed to remain incoporeal to mortal objects but my aspect ability allows me to come in contact with these mortal objects. Well, that was how I took the keys. But somehow, the strange Lieutenants discovered."

Evie and Tera stared at Blake and then back at Gabriel. They wowed. It was indeed a good ability. With this ability they would have been able to reach the Lietenants and stolen the keys too.

"My ability is a sharpened vision. I can see clearly in the dark." Blake said full of envy for Gabriel's ability.

"We do not know.of our ability as of yet." Evie said.

"Yeah, but lastly we are witches."

Tera said and instantly, Gabriel gasped making all three of them to stare at him. Gabriel suddenly felt alarm and then, he used his ability to pass through Blake's soul to reach the other end of the cell instantly.

"What the..."

Noticing the kind of stare he recieved, Gabriel sighed.

"Uh, sorry. I was decieved by a witch who brought me in here. The Groove." Gabriel cleared them and that only statement made Blake to instantly frown.

"Can you believe it, these two brought me here, into the dark depths of the Groove."

He pointed at Evie and Tera.

"But we apologised already. Countless times."

"Only thrice!!"

"Yeah but it was worth it." Tera added.

"Well, apologies not accepted." Blake said back and Evie growled the answer.

"Then we are good, don't you think?"

Evie asked.

"No,"

"you are a step away from becoming a CrestFallen so stop bringing up those past shit." Evie said rolling her eyes.

"Oh, please!"

And just like that, the matter died.

Suddenly, the vile crouching sound of metal being scraped resounded. The lock was being reopened resonating the fact that the guards were opening their cell room.

Tera used a spell to quench the fire burning in the cell room. The burning woods vanished out of existence then both girls teleported as the vault door opened with a loud creak.

Immerse light pooled in.

"Hey you!"

Blake looked and they were pointing decisively at him.

"Me?"

"Yes! Come out."

Blake blinked, but nevertheless, he stood his sorry ass up from the arched floor and headed out of the cell with the guard strailing behind him. Clinks was heard from the shackles used to bind him as he moved. Blake noticed his surrounding. Surprisingly, the Cathedral was no longer dark. The [Eternal Flames] were burning from somewhere so ferrously. He don't know but, he thinks that he would definitely escape. But the question right now was where? He still had to seek the freedom, which lies in the Vile Castle and going back to the Linards Mountain would not help them pass the trial. He definitely needs to pass the trial which means, he needed to find the exit way out of this Citadel.

Instantly, they were descending a narrow stairs and then passed through an entrance and then a battered room came to his view.

They stopped.

"You boys are to lift these heavy cargos and send them into the flying ship which parked itself almost at the entrance of the cathedral." The instructions were suddenly given and Blake's face turned sour.

'Did he come here to lift weights or to seek his freedom? What a piece of Crap...'

All of a sudden, by the large bell behind the two pillars, there was another alter. The dwelling of another god. The logo of the god was shown and Blake knew it instantly.

'The god of freedom'

Has he found it? There was a gateway... this time around, it wasn't dark and stark with starless void, it was emanating an eerie light. There was an actual runes powering the gateway...

'What the fuck?'

He had found the exit. The gateway from all of these trouble.

'Ah, at long last. The only thing remaining was his escapede plan.

"Listen up, be quick. This room would he destroyed by the harrowing flames by tonight."

One of the guards said and Blake's eyes widened.

'Destroyed?'