"co- on, a-ro! Can you he-r me?!" the lord faintly started hearing her. But he wasn't in any state to respond. One he's drifted a bit too far from his body, it was a good and bad thing how far he distanced himself from his physical form. Cause right now, he was feeling very shitty. Trying to recycle all his energy to defend, torture, and keep his wound closed.
It was putting a lot of string on him that he actually hurled; his thoughts still burned slightly from the stomach acid. Even worse he was sweating his head was pounding from the effort and the beas town attacks against him. he barely had time to prcosse what galia and inna were trying to say to him.
But he still heard them; he had almost just pushed them away. But he stopped for a moment and considered two things. Could they help him? Should he let them help him? for the latter he decided that he wouldn't let them help him. First this was his battle and his pride demanded he continue on his own for the time being.
Plus... he didn't want them hurt. He had a first-seat view of what the beast could do. He wanted them far away from it. But how well he could do that was left to be determined.
What aero could think about in the brief moments was whether could they help, they didn't know how to manipulate energy without melodies. Even then would the energy do anything? this was a question could other people help him, even people he didn't care about, mostly aero would say no.
But they had pride, which the beastcould effect. And one thing aero learned form tova, there is rarely a case of a true one way road. There was a small chance that there pride could hurt the beast, and with that thought aero opened his eyes. His gaze zeroed into the pride of the two girls before him.
Reaching out pyhcal he tried to ignore that his body felt worse than he thought it would. He underestimated the smell of vomit; it's been a long time since he hurled his guts. Instead of thinking about that, he focused on the pride of the girls before him. Reaching out weakly and touching it.
Beyond sensing and breaking it, aero hadn't touched other people's pride. He hadn't considered another option beyond them. But at this moment as he reached their pride he didn't try to hurt it, he just felt it seeing if it was usable.
He found resnation, something he's felt before the simularity in the thing they took pride it. folllwoing a hunch he felt out the resonation. Bringing it up to the point, Inna and Galia felt it. It was a strange feeling, but they didn't feel in danger, so they let it continue.
'yeah i can use this?' aero thought feeling the pride resonate and grow in response to each other. No just in volume up, but also in decity. Leaving a part of his pride to resonte with they he turned his focus back to the beast who was removing the many throns he left in the beast skin.
He couldn't tell you how many he shovered it, he just made one after the other. "come back for another thrashing?!" putting on a wider smile then he really felt," no i came to continue making you scream!" again the beast cursed him out as more hooked throns appeared. The beast paused; something was different about these thorns.
He figured it out as they pirced there skin, they weren't just the lord's power anymore. Tainted by anything being pride. There first thought was this was some petty trick, then they reized a mistake. 'it resiting my control!' that wasn't possible. They were pride, pride, didn't resist them. The mind the pride belong to some times. But not pride itself.
The beast panicked slightly as they heavily tried to push the hooked thorns out of him. Not only being resited but hurting him. Seeing his new action was effective. Aero altered the shape of the resonating pride. hooked thorns connected to chains.' This will have to be my last move.' even if it only held for a while, it was time for Aero to recover mentally. And energy-wise, he lost a good amount of pride.
The beast quickly realized his plan and tried to move. The hooks in their body, tied to the hooks that dug deep into the ground. Tying them in place, the energy behind them wasn't enough to keep them here for long. No matter how painful it was they would get free and this battle would go on.
But that didn't mean much to Aero, who immediately returned to his body and fell asleep. of course, it looked more like he fainted. "ah!" Galia quickly grabbed him, throwing her over his back and racing out of the building. Inna following after, them quickly over taking her teammates to reach the healres first.
They after a short exmation define the mager problem with aero was alrgey eashation, dyhdration and minor starvation." we saw him eat this morning, we saw him drink!" inna stated but the healer was only reading the signs that they found. Mostly, it is the prescribed rest, food, and water.
So the two were sitting there and waiting, "Alright, I guess today is coming to an end. The sun was still high in the sky despite how drained they were. Inna must have doze off at some point because the next thing she knew aero was away. He slowly drank water between drops like he was going to fall back asleep.
"The chains are holding, but I'm going to need to reinforce them so the beast doesn't break free. I don't know if there stopping their power but I'm not holding my breath on it. The resonating pride seems effective, I'll have to deliver some to xqoax. And need to acquire more of it to explore it." he might have been talking to himself, but she couldn't help but wonder what he was talking about.
Still after some food and water aero was out again. over them next few days he was very in and out while inna and galia were helping around. They heard from the healer at several point s he tried to instsite he wasn't that bad that he needed help with almost everything. But seeing as his words slurred from the exhaustion, he convinced no one.
At least once a day aero had inna and galia stay by his side so he could reinforce the chains. What that meant they weren't sure but it only too 10-20 petals so they weren't worried. He usually drifted off quickly after that.
"you know this might be why he's not recovering fast enough," Inna commented after aero fell asleep a bit of jell on his lips. "i mean he passes out right after doing everytime." gailia had to give it too her that seemed to be a rather good idea. But they had no way of confusing it beyond asking a healer.
"you have to stop doing whatever the chains are; they sapping your strength you need to recover." aero blinked huffing. "yeah I figured, but I can't really stop, there the only thing that keeping the beast busy for the moment." he could turn his attention tot hem and seeing the beast roared and swearing as they bucked and lashed out at the chains
each time he went into introduce the chains the beast hit him with incredible hostility He knew if or when they got free aero was going to feel it, not to mention the people around him. he wasn't sure if it meant physically or emotionally. 'does the beast even know of my reaction ship?' he hopped not, he wasn't really sure what he would do if his mother got hurt.
"there had to be something we can do so that we can do to help?" galia asked and aero paused. He knew honestly he couldn't keep this up long term, but he wasn't really sure if anyone could help anyone. But he should try, probably should try at least, at least he would have information. Another option was finding a way to store resonated pride. Another reason is to get a sample for xoqax.
"I'm not sure if there is a way."
"then how do we make sure there is?" aero blinked at the questions seriously considering it, the most simple solution would be some make it so there pried and other energy apparently feed the chains. But how did he do that? First he asked the helper is in general something like that was possible.
'Yes, across the spectrum of energies and people. Most have found that unity produces great power. That have more then one person's power important things like seal have great effect. But." which aero expected," the method were carved out from decade maybe centires of research and manipulation method refinement."
"so something like the energy of pride is too unknown; even xoqax would need time to figure something out." the helper nodded," Unless you're willing to lower your morals and resort to dangerous methods that would harm them..." The helper waited for his answer. Aero shock his head, they were offering him help. He respected them to much to tramble over them, plus where was the pride in taking such shortcuts.
'so I need some kind of work around, a way to feed the chains while keeping my own energy up.' the moment he was silent make inna and galia more tense until. Galia shouted something that inspired him, "Can't we give you the energy or something?" the helper informed him that was a much simpler but still not easily done thing. 'At the very least not on a contiuls stance.' but the helper didn't say anymore.
This was for their lord to figure out.
"galia that is a great idea, i don't know if we'lll get it done soon. It might put us all at risk. But are you willing to try?" neither of the girls said anything for the moment and aero took the moment to adjust the energy bandages. "the beast! Is it the thing that sent that massive creature towards the town, endangering all those people?"
Aero nodded, "Then I'll enjoy helping keep it chained down. Aero smiled before telling them to sit down and close their eyes. he wanted them to focus on their minds and bodies. Ready to tell him if anything went wrong. Closing his eyes, aero reached out, quickly feeling their pride. Letting the resonance between the energy happen. The pride as fighter ringing together before he slowly tried to draw the power towards him.
At first, aero wasn't sure it was working. He was just feeling resigned. Then he felt something shift in their pride. It might have been Galia first. But that didn't matter; what did was how the pride started to separate from the main body. But not fading. Clinging to aero's own energy. It felt like it was partly his, but not.
'i feel like i can still use it, but i don't think i can further asorb it... yeah i can work with this.' he checked in with his teammates. "it's strange i feel fine but i know something happened." inna said rolled her shoulder trying to relax. "okay so now what?"
"if you willing i'd like to store up more of the power I'm using for the chains." from there they would see. The girls aggre and Aero gather enough resoantiing power for the next time. From what he's observed, the beast was starting to tire. If things kept up like this, he would be able to focus on other things.
The next few days were peaceful, and Aero was able to recover as he should have, with his team helping him bear the burden. "it's tiring the two of you out, isn't it?" it wasn't really a question they didn't deny it. "but not as badly as it was draining you."
"your right, do you think the rest of the team will be willing to lend a hand." inna didn't think they would, "but I can't wait to see there faces as we explain what happened." that brought a smile to all of there faces. They talked for a while trying to imagine what expressions the rest of there team would make. Before they went to the topic of Baili. Who was definitely going to have a very interesting reaction to the news of the massive beast. "image what she's going to she fins out we were involved."
At the time the very stressed leader of the country found out, she immediately ordered something strong and sent people out within the next few hours. One group for to speak with aero while the other was to go after that massive creatures and determine if it needed to be killed.
'oh, zaltess, why are you dropping these trials on me? Have I done something? Am I being tested?' she quietly asked. She was unable to hear several beings state they had nothing to do with this. But they definitely started to make some moves of their own. The world might be changing, but they were not just going to stand by and let things suffer.
The question was what, they had power. Quite a bit of it but they knew if they weren't careful they could do more then a bit damage to the contents. So they discussed for days, going back and forth with ideas until they came up with a few things they could put into work in the coming years.
"What!" xoqax shouted at the repost. Scarring the guards who were trying to watch him, he ignored them, looking over the report the helper had sent him about the information they and their lord found on resonating pride. It was an interesting topic, they've only had real research on the lord's energy measures so this was new information. Interesting information.
It also opened some possibilities. Many the first thing he noticed an interesting increase in power, cause all his reading showed vague increases and decreases in power. But the resinated pride was at least doable, which would definitely be good for the young lord to combat the beast, which would help the universe!