The monster's eyes looked at him. It was unsettling, 4 eyes on each side, twitching, the top half on his left, looking up while the right was looking right down, and the bottom was looking left and right. His nails were black.
(???): "Hahaha You guys are acting as you've never seen me before."
His tentacle-like mouth rippled as if he was making a laughing gesture or something. It was incredibly hard to see his emotions.
(Sarrs): "You feel incredibly familiar but sorry I've been out of touch with the outside."
He rubbed his head and did a little smile. but I have a feeling that he wanted to beat him up as soon as he noticed a mishap.
(Josiah): "What a fascinating creature and it speaks too.? I have been needing to see the creatures of this world more."
A creature this weird and walks around in broad daylight without any fear. Makes me wonder about the world.
(???): "Oh then unfortunately you guys might be disappointed I'm actually max."
Sarrs eyes turned dark in a matter of seconds.
(Sarrs): " Tsk and here I thought I could test my skill."
I looked at him, then sighed.
(Josiah): "I had a feeling that you were thinking that, I didn't think you would admit it."
(Sarrs): "What the point of training if I can't try it on somebody?."
His words, make sense. But still, don't attack every single random thing.While the man wallows in his pain. I was still amazed that our bodies were really made like that to the point we could transform. since we are also made of ether
(Josiah): " What creature is that.?"
(max): "it's apparently called a Vobe. I saw it and it looked so cool."
I have a feeling for a lot of these guys motivation is just the fact that it looks cool. Although I changed a bit of my appearance overall, it looks similar, but I just did something that felt familiar.
Max looked around the place seeing the damage all around, he asked.
(Max): "Why were you guys fighting, was there a dispute?."
I and Sarrs looked at each other and then at our surroundings. Cringing our faces when we realized what we had just done.
(Josiah): "Honestly It wasn't my fault, It was sarrs if he hadn't made me fight him This would have been a thing."
Sarrs jolted his head my way. I looked at the ground to pretend to not have noticed his gaze.
(Sarrs): "Woah Woah At first it was only supposed to be a spar then you took it too far."
(Josiah): "It was your fault for egging me on."
(Sarrs): "It is the martial artist duty to respond in kind with their opponent something you clearly don't respect,"
(Josiah): " Oh come on stop it with this martial artist nonsense your just a fan your not actually one."
(Sarrs): "How could you... You have the audacity to disrespect the art in which I trained in you... You vile villain."
A vile villain who the hell says that. Really pissing me off and he just got done getting his ass whooped.
(Max): "Ok ok forget I even asked. Let's just find the others."
Max Two front small arms were put upfront. And he put his bigger arms, his right to his temple, and the other to his hips. He looked really fed up and he just got here. Are we really that annoying?
No. Not me surely.
(Josiah): " Where do you reckon they are located.?"
I tried to sound as responsible as possible.
(Sarrs): " We could try calling them."
Oh, smart thinking we could use the ether in our body to transform back true beast state but enlarged.
(Max): "Should we all do it together.?"
(Josiah): "Great minds think alike let's go crazy in controllable manners though."
Max and Sarrs both nodded their heads. They started to transform. I followed suit.
Our bones popped, and crunched, and twisted It was incredibly painful, but if we stopped we would be in horrifying pain. Our muscles grew as our skin started to shred itself.
The jaws of our mouths were growing bigger, breaking and reforming, eyes started to form into slits. Muscles grew so big that our skin couldn't handle them. We kept on popping and expanding At the end of it we looked like beasts, but we weren't done.
Our body started to grow out of control exoskeleton started to develop skin and blood filling the insides.
All of this happened in a manner of a few seconds. But to us, it felt like minutes. But now that we are done. We feel so much better as if our humanoid form was stuffing us in.
I wanted to revel in it a while longer. I let out a low growl
(Max): " I get how you feel but please try to pay attention."
His dark orange fur makes him look like a tiger of some sort. I always forget that we had a third eyelid. It just felt so natural. It moved after he blinked with his first eyelids. His Hazel eyes were covered in pink for less than a second, then went away. Sarrs, on the other hand. Had brown fur, golden eyes like Albid.
Our furs swayed with the wind. Each step crushed the ground underneath us. The feeling of overwhelming power is overwhelming us.
We raised our necks to our bulging muscles in full display. And then roared.
Rumble
It was as if the heavens fell from grace. The birds flew away, some even dying from the shock of it. Animals' eardrums get ruptured as they die in agonizing pain.
(Max): "Maybe this was a bad idea..."
(Josiah): "Yeah no shit."
When we realized what we had just done, it was already too late.
I think all we have done today is destroying nature. The spirits won't like this their hard work down in the drain...
Just then we heard a much quieter noise as the person was trying to be careful not to kill everything.
We shrunk our size to its original size but still stayed in our true forms. We ran so fast that the trees were becoming blurred. Dodging every small thing until we met across a being with long ears, eyes flowing like water. Her blonde hair touched her hips. Spirits were flying floating everywhere around her, making it a beautiful scene.
It was an elf, but an elf this far into the woods was dangerous creatures were about, it was just negligence.
The elf saw us. Her eyes showed us no fear. A little girl popped out of nowhere. Her clothes were light blue. It seemed like a mini-gown. She had four wings behind her back, hair was light green with tints of blue. If you looked into her eyes, you could see that little particles were floating around it.
(???): "Guys what's up been a while."
The elf smiled as she jogged over to us.
(???): "It's me Sarria come on, join me I want to see what you guys choose."
All 3 of us looked, then we started to transform back our clothes that were stretched to their very limits and ripped started to regenerate.
Sarria seemed excited, especially when she saw what a disgusting creature Max had become.
(Sarria) " Wow, max that super creative. You do realize that we are in the middle west right.? And here is the elves' territory, and if you go down is the humans. that species is normally more common up northwest in small swamps arent I right.?
(max): "yes you are but I want to be it because it looks cool and besides the are too many intelligent species for any of them to care right.?
Oh? I see so here the creatures here are diverse but still connected, that's cool.
(Josiah): " Oh so like demi-humans and stuff or monsters like that one near you.?"
The fairy that was floating quietly just erupted. She tried to fight me. Sarria jumped in before it was a conflict.
(Sarria): " First of all I don't know what a demi-human but this Sylph is only like this because she chose to look like me she is a spirit and her name is Nebo.
The only reason I assumed that was that normally in a fantasy world humans were the top dogs, so everything else, even respectable, was a demi-human.
.
(Josiah): "My apologies for how I conducted myself."
Nebo puffed up her nonexistent chest. She had a smug face on it that was really punchable.
(Nebo): " hmph you better you kid. Back in my days, just a mention of my name would have caused mass fear."
Hard to inspire fear when you look like that, but I digress if I said that I feel like she would get pissed off.
(Sarria): "Alright Alright, let's just go and meet Pharaoh."
(Max): "Where would we even look.?"
Yeah, honestly, she was the one person that was with us the least. She sometimes comes here and there, but then she just disappears. , so it's going to be a pain in the ass.
(Sarrs): "Well I remember that she was near the mountains she was a unique one."
His deep voice vibrated through the air as he put his hands on his chin.
(Josiah): "Hold on I could help with that."
I raised my hands with a confident smile. My black eyes reflected the sun. They all looked at me with a confused gaze. This might be time to impose my knowledge on these ignorant fools.
(Josiah): " Hehehe well gather round my children. So my skill is the controlling the fundamentals of physics."
It took so long that it turned into night. I admit, I kinda took it too far. When I was done with my little summary, they all looked dead-eyed.
(Nebo): "Woah I'm surprised you already know that and yeah all the way in the middle of nowhere are you a genius.?"
(Josiah): "It seemed like you already know this information. how.?"
(Nebo): "It is common sense I would imagine, well I'm a genius, though you controlling it is something entirely different."
(Sarria): "Real question is how do you know this stuff.?"
(max): "Yeah realistically you shouldn't be able to know this stuff unless you studied them."
They all turned their eyes at me. Should I tell them? In the first place, that was my past life, I wanted to start a new one. But then again, it doesn't really matter now, does it.?
(Josiah): "This is not my first life."
Nebo was the first to make a reaction, as she was talking to her about it. The possibilities and such I didn't.t really understand.
(Nebo): "Even I hadn't experienced something as bizarre as a reincarnation especially on a mythical being this is new!."
(Sarria): " Well be then we still have to find pharaoh."
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(Josiah): "Oh her? I already found her location."
Nebo was really curious about how I worked, I don't know much about her past, but she did tell me that she knew about skills and such and mine might be ultimate or absolute.
The other's was like Woah. Though with a feeling that they were dead inside energetic.
We got up and walked to a location in a desolate portion of the forest. It looked destroyed. The smell of death permeated the air.
I couldn't help but scrunch my nose. There was a being that looked like a buff wolf. Its face was ripped open. Flies were already degrading its body.
Is it me or is it getting hard to see?
No. It doesn't seem to be my imagination. My senses are getting dulled.
Click,Click,Click
(max): "What was that.?"
(Sarria): "Nebo."
Nebo nodded as she was using air magic. It tried to disperse the fog around us. It went away.
I was starting to calm down, but it then filled in again.
(Sarrs): "Everyone doesn't leave each other sides."
We followed his orders, jumping to each back, turning on our abilities.
skit skat
Blood was feeling in the air. Beings were moving. I tried to use my abilities to sense them, but I saw that these were going really quick, clicking their mouths. The blood from the fog was starting to get bigger.
I could sense the magnets inside them, but my skill with control, the electromagnetic force, wasn't that great at best, I could attract, and repel, but too much could hurt my brain.
I sensed some metallic thing coming our way. it seemed to have been thrown.
(Josiah): "Guys incoming!."
Immediately, Max put up a bubble-like field, slowing down the knife. Sarrs too, quickly went at it using his immense speed, chopped at it, bending the knife.
As he did A being made of blood lunged at him, ripping a piece of the bubble, catching him off guard, but even so, Sarrs reacted quickly enough to land a blow at his abdomen.
As if expecting it, there was another clone in the limelight. Nebo blasted at them, but the clone blew up. Making the air around us harder to see and making Nebo jobs to manipulate the air harder to move.
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The air became clearer, but Sarrs wasn't there anymore.
(Max): "Oi oi where is he!?."
We didn't know what had just hit us.
Click click click.
We kept on hearing these weird noises, like metal hitting each other.
Our senses were getting dulled. The blood in the air was intoxicating. I could taste it.
Maybe I should go on top and see what's going on.
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I jumped up, cracking the ground underneath me. I was getting higher and higher.
shling.
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I repelled 7 knives. I looked around to see if there was any. Thankfully not, I think I can calm down, and focus.
bam, something hit me. It was on top of me. It kept on punching my face. I couldn't focus. I was losing control.
crack
The ground shook. It's like I have been falling a lot.
I tried to get up but jumped back down the creature's face.
It didn't have any eyes or a nose. Its skin was gray skin. The only thing that was present on its face was its mouth. The fangs were on full display as it screeched, clicking its mouth as it went away.
I couldn't be idle or I would get hurt, so I attracted two of the knives, then grabbed them.
Two clones were formed. One was trying to hurt me in the front while the other tried to hit me from the back. I slashed at the one in the front, then, kicking it, tried to get up. I used gravity to attract it myself. It couldn't control itself as it was going at me.
I jumped the clone and hit the other clone. Then the blood fog got lighter, and it was becoming easier to see and breathe.
That's strange. Why did that happen?
screeeeeech!
There were 4 more clones behind me and the other two were getting up.
I might be getting more than I bargained for ...
I ran to the ones that were getting up. using the back as a propeller.
I aimed my knives at the two that were running towards me. They flew to the clone's legs making them fall.
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The knives came back to me. I was going to fight the two left, but then ...
The fog grew thicker. My senses were getting overwhelmed.
(Josiah): "Ugh."
The clones punched my stomach, breaking the clothes as they tried to repair themselves.
(Max): "Oh mother of the earth as I stand let every being know that you reign supreme as you drown these sinners in never-ending earth. [Earth magic: burial]."
The earth starting to swim following under the clones couldn't react fast enough. Their bodies were already falling in the endless sandpit. But they weren't physically. It didn't matter. They were not quick enough to get out. They were part of the ground, it solidified.
(Josiah): "Thank you, Max. Where are the rest.?"
I couldn't tell what his expression was. The creature was extremely weird.
(Max): "We got separated and we have to find sarrs."
Sarria is at a disadvantage. The fog is used by someone else's magic, so she cannot use the structure well. And since there is blood filling up the air, the said air is hard to move.
Sarrs said there was a cave near here, I would imagine that is the main point of the whole thing. Although hard to know where it is, we are not out of options.
(Josiah): "Sarrs can you sense the ground and people on it."
(Max): "That would be a lot of work so would need to use a chant to support me."
(Josiah): "Go ahead I will protect you."
Max nodded then closed his eyes. His two front small arms touch as he chants in a weird language.
(Max): " Oh mother of the earth give me sight. [Earth magic: seismic sense]."
His eyes closed. He didn't make a sound. A few seconds later he opened his eyes.
(Max): "I think I found something similar to a cave... this way."
He ran, rushing through the fog. I ran to catch up with him. Although my physical abilities are the lowest, which really bums me out, it's time to focus.
I was still incredibly fast so we got there in a minute. It was quiet, but the blood was so thick that I was having difficulties breathing.
(Josiah): " What a creepy place."
(Max): "if we weren't in such a situation we could have explored it."
(Josiah): "I don't know about that I prefer a nice and comfortable place."
(Max): "Hmph there is no adventure without danger."
He threw his hand out, trying to state his point. But no thank you. This is already taxing enough.
The cave doesn't seem to be man-made, so it's not from someone stronger, more stealthy ...
I have a feeling it's her.
Please don't tell me this is what she has been this entire time.
clack clack clack
The noises were getting worse, it was could hear it in my brain.
(Max): " The blood is getting lighter."
The blood in the air was getting drawn by something. We tread carefully. Since blood is still mostly water, the magnetic part doesn't really change anything. Although I could feel my connection getting better, it was still difficult.
whishh
I dodged a solidified blood attack. It was like a spike.
We ran as the spikes were increasing more and more, but we were far quicker than that, what was she expecting.?
I saw a spark...
Oh.
(Josiah): " MAX GET OUT!."
The spark was a start of fire magic, if we had stayed in there we could have suffocated because of lack of oxygen.
We got out, I used water magic to lessen the water.
Since water pressure didn't matter as much, I focused on quantity. The steam was becoming too much. The visibility was getting lower
I was trying to focus, but then a giant creature hit at me, implanting my feet beneath the ground.
Another running out, but we couldn't worry about that.
This giant insect is what we had to worry about.
(Josiah): "Fucking hell."
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(Sarria): "Argh enough. o peaceful spirits of air I beg for thee's help as I isolate myself. [air magic:repel]."
She says a spell that she got from Nebo. Dots of spirits were filling the surroundings. They were following her, making her control over the air all the more effective.
The surroundings got washed away, Nebo amplifying the effects.
(Sarria): "Nice job everyone thanks a lot."
With that she dashes.
(Nebo): " They are this way."
Sarria nodded speeding up.
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Sarrs was done fighting the blood clones as he wonders if Pharaoh is taking this a bit too far.
A being out its mouth cracked, its ignited fire on the right side and air gathered on the left. The fire kept on growing as it ate. Then it blew it.
It turned into something of a flamethrower, then using the air to enhance it.
Sarrs wasn't too good at using magic, but he did have amazing physical prowess and body better than all his siblings, so he ran.
But he couldn't do so much because the fire spread too much.
(Sarrs): "Argh."
The fire was ripping his skin to shred. He used water to cool himself down.
His body was already healing.
(Sarrs): "Ah don't complain if I kill you."
This weird being no... Pharaoh smiled, then chuckled. Her voice was raspy like she hadn't drunk water in ages.
She got down from the sky. It was hard to see because of the darkness, although Sarrs could see the area was still burning. She used air magic to obscure his vision with the smoke.
A slash to the eye, rendering it useless, then stabbing his leg.
But almost immediately he started healing. He started his pose, watching her dead in her face. His eyes turned his canine protruding more.
(Pharaoh): " Do you want to know what happened here, a few young elves came here too as they said prove themself by fighting a few of the creatures here one of them was the itsuauno they thrive in the dark using there using echolocation there was truly no need for eyes. They were massacred. I knew I had to be one."
Her smile was unsettling and disgusting. Sarrs had a bad feeling about this. So he went on the offensive, running at her.
He swung his leg, but she dodged. He punched; she blocked, but she fell over.
(Pharaoh):" Hehehe hahaha I need to try this out your perfect."
The moon was as bright illuminating over argus as if looking down on it.
[blood magic]
All the blood in the air was going to Pharaoh.
going to all the dead animals and the elves
(Sarrs): " How are you doing that. you focused on a study of magic.
(Pharaoh): "Yes he called it necromancy. Forcing soulless beings to fight for you."
Sarrs had had enough. He ran, but before the animal bit him. But it didn't matter. He smashed its head in with his hands.
[necromancy magic.rebirth]
Pharaoh disappeared, but that was not what he should be worrying about right now, as many undead were popping from different animals.
Even if he punched them, they kept on going, it was getting anyone.
slash
Pharaoh popped out, her claws slashing at his back. He opened his eyes as he tried to fight back, but an animal that looks like a buff wolf with its bottom canine enlarged, took a bite at him with that pharaoh struck his abdomen.
But even with all that, he healed, but that didn't matter to her. She kicked him up to the sky, then with that grabbed his body head to the ground working with gravity.
Sarrs wasn't going to let that happen, so he started to transform.
Pharaoh smiled her creepy mouth on full display and used her claw to stab him back, skinning him. His inside seemed like it was going to fly out.
He had never felt this type of pain before he felt like crying.
crack
The ground shattered his head 1 foot under.
He lifted himself up, implanting his feet into her mouth kicking upwards.
Sarrs jumped up, punching her face to the side of the cave through it.
(Pharaoh): "Ah still too weak. well, everything is still in progress."
When he went inside he was ready to land the final blow, but the cave started to rumble.
The undead was swarming him stopping him from leaving.
He was caved in.
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This centipede-like creature was in the way
Its eyes roll around, looking at us, discerning if we are worthy foods to eat.
Doesn't matter. I'm not going to wait till the end.
I used water magic to distract it. I don't think I could add enough pressure to harm it.
Max took this chance to use earth magic and water magic, trapping it in place.
I attracted one of the knives, and jumped on his back, running up.
It tried fighting me, but max kept it at bay. I climbed till I reached his eye, then stabbed its eye.
Repeatedly. Green blood was spilling over me.
Screeee
I felt like throwing up, we were both losing our balance. Max was cutting its legs. It is really a picked, a bad match.
Then it did something unexpected it threw up.
It turned its body around the vomited on me.
(Josiah): " Argh it burns."
I began to fall. My vision was getting hazy, but before then I tried to focus.
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The ground grumbled, all of the rubble going on in one spot. His face.
It kept going, you could hear his face squishing on the pressure. He could barely make a sound. He can't move without a brain.
(Josiah): "Ugh today is not it. Are you ok max?."
(Max): "Yeah actually, I'm full of energy, we have to go beat up pharaoh."
I still can't tell what face he is making, but he seems excited to each their own I guess.
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Nebo and I heard a cracking noise and a corpse moving.
(Sarria): "Nebo cut off its 4 legs."
I ran, I could hear the noise that I heard earlier.
(Pharoah): "Found you."
She cut my neck clean through. I held my neck as I went down.
Although I cant chant I don't need that to just move the air around.
But then she disappeared.
(Nebo): "Where did she go?"
(Sarria): " Your really going to act like my neck wasn't just cut open like that."
Nebo was holding her arms up in a shrug, her blue dress fluttering.
(Nebo): "If you can complain enough then was your neck really that badly hurt."
(Sarria): "I can show you how it was like."
(Nebo): "How uncivilized."
Even in the little squabble, they were both paying attention, a bunch of undead started popping up, since even if you cut them they won't die, it was better if you could erase them but that's really hard to do
(Nebo): "Let's just create a dome that way we can protect ourselves while trying to find pharaoh.
whoosh
As Nebo was maintaining the dome Sarria was searching for Pharaoh.
Pharaoh, on the other hand, was wondering how she could work on her weakness better.
Even though necromancy magic is great, it's difficult to use. Every time she can feel her magic drain every time she uses it.
Pharaoh was a child with exceptional control over magic, making her the best out of all the siblings, but she doesn't have the immense mana that max has. Rather, the quality is exceptionally great. And she knew beforehand that they were coming, so she settled everything up beforehand
That was why she could take on so many powerful people at once. With planning and separating them
She saw this dome and realized a weakness it had.
Fire.
Although she was at her weakest with fire, just like all her other siblings, she didn't need to put up that much this time.
She started the process of combustion and held the flame in place.
Sarria detected a presence running at her at top speed. She could react using the air as a cut weapon.
Pharaoh dodged most of the attack, but one cut through her abdomen. But mist of that she threw the fireball up in the air when Sarria's focus was solely on her.
(Nebo): "Is she down for the count?."
(Sarria): "Yeah I cant sense her getting up so we could assume that she is down."
Nebo breathed a sigh of relief but immediately retracted that as she tilted her head up.
(Nebo): "Quickly fill the place with water."
Too late!
(Pharaoh): "Hehehe Hahahaha."
The dome caught on fire!
Now the dome is a prison rather than safe, having grown so wildly that the air which increased it started to make weird sounds.
(Sarria): "I was too late! The water isn't doing anything."
(Nebo): "I have to cancel it out."
Pharaoh was expecting this. She dashed to knock out Sarria. but she made a miscalculation
What makes Sarria so special is her connection to communicating and emphasis on the spirits. Sure, not every spirit would care to listen to her. But the ones that do gave her extreme proficiency.
Nebo is one of those higher beings of spirits. Although she had gotten weaker throughout her age, she was still powerful.
(Nebo): "You are getting annoying back in my day's pest like you had their head stamped to the ground it seems like you need some teach [air Deoxygenation]."
The air around pharaoh started to restrict as she realized what had just happened, it was to look
Oxygen levels dropped. Her skin started turning blue. She tried to breathe but instead coughed up blood.
Everything was spinning, the world seemed to be flipping upside down. Her heart slows down and the body goes into an unconscious state.
(Nebo): "Hmm that young fool [air magic: Cancel]"
(Sarria): "Woah what was that spell.?"
Sarria's eyes were sparkling. She grabs Nebo's whole body trying to understand that magic. Nebo had an arrogant smirk on her face.
(Nebo): "Hehe You really wanna know huh. Well, it was a magic spell that I found while trying to find out my possibilities and it's when oxygen is being separated from a certain area and I formed that into something specific so it's a spell you could learn with intense training."
(???): "Ah yes that really was impressive deadly even."
Nebo and Sarria were shocked to hear another being that they didn't even sense.
Her pale skin shone as the sun was coming up, and her golden pupils were glowing, making all your attention go to her. Her black nails enhanced her looks even more, even though she was just wearing a shirt and sweatpants.
(Albid): " You kids seem to be good enough to go to the outside world."
The rest of the true beasts just got here, and Sarrs came from behind Albids back.
Albid looked at him with a cold expression filled with disappointment.
But she looked at Josiah with keen interest.
(Albid): "Your abilities are growing nicely although it did take a while to get to that point I think your potential is almost immense!. Where are you planning to go?."
Josiah stared into the sky, wondering what he should do. But he then realized that the answer never left him, nor has he lost interest."
(Josiah): " I think the human nation."
(Albid): "Oh that is good. talking about that I haven't seen that skin color in a century. because humans have been around for so long the mixed in to was skin color so individual races as they call it a few and far between."
(Josiah): "Oh? That is interesting then why are you white?."
(Albid): "This form is my old friend form, I took it as respect for her."
(Josiah): "Oh I'm sorry to hear..."
(Max): "Arghh never mind that I'm more concerned at why you guys defeated her before I can."
Max swung his arms and pointed at Sarria and Nebo.
(Nebo): "Hmph you would have lost we did you a favor."
They kept on arguing. Albid kept on smiling, then she turned her focus to Pharaoh.
(Albid): "I hope you got to increase your skills with that."
A new day started. It's time for everyone to go on their journey.