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Chapter 24 - War of Tyrants II

Mary had made a pillow out the strings, as she was lying on the fluffy feathers, she spoke.

"So how do your guys think it's going for him?"

"Not easy, but with Lee's healing and his ghost guide, it would be better than us running together picking up aggro."

"True, when the spider attacks us in the forest most of the attacks come to me, and you, Adam… You too, Mary, but it not as much a–"

"True on both fronts, for some reason, the spider didn't notice him at first, but slowly they attacked him too."

"The weird thing was that his attribute only blocks fate related power right?"

Adam was looking around, it didn't make sense why the spider didn't notice him, was the spider working with fate, but no, if they did it would be way harder for them to move around with a group of fate spiders. Lee looked up, his voice was dry.

"I think it's…"

Stopping his word coming out. Adam look at him.

"You think what?"

"Maybe the same theory I have."

Both of them turn to her. The voice was calm, like it was hiding things in it.

"I saw a gips on his attribute… Back at the cave. I forgot what it was, but it wasn't the [Unfated] attribute that is making him harder to notice, it's…"

"It's what?"

Adam lifted his arms up, hitting the roof of the room. Looking up he sigh.

"Not much room here, huh?"

"True, for you two. I having the best room ever here."

The both of them looked at her, and her fluffy bed, she had made. Lee began to boulder.

"What happens if Lesser dies, Like what happens with us?"

"What?"

Both Adam and Mary said surprisingly in their voice. So he continued to speak.

"Like, what happens to this memory if he dies with us in it?"

Mary turned her sights to Adam, he was looking back at her. Both turn to Lee. Mary's voice sounded calm.

"Two ways it can go. One is we are sent flying out, or puff into existence where the memory was last, second is we just disappear with the memory." 

"Yeah, from evidence in Valor or Accidance, most would say. One man had a storage memory with a injured team mate in it, so when he died, the injured teammate just appeared, both died, the second time it happen, this time it was a rescue and the injured people was in the memory, and when the guy how had that memory dead, every one in the memory disappeared with the memory, but later they were found. So we should be fine?"

Lee looked at them, not liking the sound of things, but didn't have the right to ask more. He then looted up at the entrance and decided to look how Lesser was doing.

***

Lesser was tirade, his body was screaming at him to stop. But he didn't, no spider had appeared after he had run through the Tyrant Spider legs, but it didn't matter, he wasn't in a safe area to rest. Slowly his body stops working, till it stops. He fell to the ground, his legs burning, he tried to rise up for the fifth time already, but this time it didn't happen, now his arms gave up. Annalee's voice urged him to move. 

Lesser Again tried to move, only succeeding flipping himself to his back. There he saw the danger, it was the moth, the Ascended Demon, who had decided that it would be better to leave with the human, then stay at that battlefield of the Tyrants. And kill the one human that it had found, when they were tirade to run and fight back it would eat them. 

Annalee's voice now screams more panic at him.

"Move Lesser."

But Lesser was too tired to move, his mind also drifting to sleep, only one thing came to mind, to groups of sparks formed, the one he had summoned was his echo, Dreamsoul. As the Echo formed the Moth had flewed to Lesser's chest, and began to eat him there, Lesser's eyes fell, only to see it tearing his flesh, and it went dark. Only to feel pain on his body from something hitting him.

[You have slain an Ascended Demon: Illusionary Doubting Moth.]

[Your existence grows stronger.] 

[You have received a…]

***

It shook, then again, then one more. Lesser felt his body moving up and down, his mind slowly coming back to consensus. As it did the Spell whisper to him.

[You have slain an...]

'I am alive, or am a…" 

The Spell whisper more to him

[You have slain an...]

[You have slain an...]

It didn't take long before he heard voices around him. It wasn't clear at first, but slowly it was clear who was speaking, it was Mary and Adam. And it sounded like they were in battle. He tried opening his eyes, slowly opening to see that Adam and Mary were fighting some spiders, not many, two to four at most. 

But it was clear they were in battle. Lesser tried to move, but his body didn't respond to him yet. It didn't take long before he felt something ruffe. Bending his head up, he saw his echo. It looks worse than ever. 

Now moving his head around as possible, he didn't see Lee, and his flag was missing. His mind wasn't clear and didn't know how to feel yet. Trying to speak, only it sounded like he was a crow.

"gra, cra."

But it was enough to make Mary and Adam too notice him. Adam turns to him, unsummoned his weapon, and begins to walk to him. 

Lesser looked at his face, it looked relieved. But then slowly it turned to anger. 

"Lesser, good that you are awake now."

Adam looks worn, tired and damn angry. 

When Adam got close to Lesser, it didn't take a second for his fist to land on his face. Lesser fall to the ground, the pain woke him up fast. Looking at Adam, he turned his head to his echo. It had turned to him, it was missing its arm. Trying to stand to inspect it more, he didn't even get up to his knee, before he notice, he was missing his left leg.

"So, how long was I out?"

Adam looked flabbergasted. He shot his arm up, like he didn't expect that question of all things first. 

Mary walked up to him. Her voice was dry.

"24 hours, at most, maybe 19 at the least. Hard to tell here. Lee has been recovering his essence for the last 4 hours. He expanded all of it trying to stabilize your life. By the way, this is his third time doing that."

As she said her last two words, a fist was flying at Lesser's face again.

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