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< This Memory Record will be shown based on the Battle Maiden's memories plus some things she get to know from others at that time, plus again some knowledge she gets after Ragna Twelve helped her know more about what happened at that time with his 'Twelve Eye of Time', transferring past visions to her before she confronted Player Ragna Current. >
( October 2020 )
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< Location: Mount Kurama, Kyoto >
Andrew is walking with the Hollow Witch, the Witch decides to accompany him for now as she wants to see the key that Andrew holds worked, on unlocking the thing it was meant to unlock.
" The key you had is the key meant to unlock an item, an item that becomes a Gateway between worlds of the Spirits and the Living. " Hollow Witch tells Andrew.
" A Gateway, you mean this 'item' is like the 'Teleportation Talisman' you used? "
" Quite, but more advanced than that. "
"Let's say, a Teleportation Talisman creates a Gate in the size of a normal house gate that could withstand teleporting some numbers of people. "
" Whilst this item, the one which only is unlocked by the key you hold right now, Andrew... "
" Could create a Gate that withstands hundreds, not just hundreds of people but, spirits, demons. "
" Hence through this item, the Tainted Spirits and those spiritual beings tainted by the demonic energy used this item to bring forth armies.
" I see... " Andrew as he then unleashed some of his Dark Gifts for a bit.
" That Dark Gift is such a great attribute for this matter. " the Hollow Witch says to Andrew.
" If I recall, the Tainted Spirits and Demonic Monsters from their Abyssal Realm usually kneel down before those who hold great Dark Powers. "
" Like you, Bounty Hunter Andrew K. "
" Seeing you bringing this key, perhaps it is your destiny to unlock the item and- "
" Cut the bullcrap, Witch! "
" Are we there, yet? " Andrew asks as the two then arrived in an abandoned temple.
A rotten huge temple, covered in a barrier which Hollow Witch could see as well as Andrew to the Witch's surprise.
" You could see the Spirituals, after all? " Hollow Witch as she sees Andrew touching the barrier, punching it to see how sturdy it is.
" This is not my first time, not all Westerners are blinded to things outside our realistic world perspectives. "
" Besides, my eyes could see this because... " Andrew remembers something, as he then closes his eyes.
" Because...? "
" My eyes are opened with some help, that's all you need to know. " Andrew says as he uses his Dark Gift to forcefully open the spiritual barrier.
[ Dark Elemental Corruptor ]
[ Using the Darkness to corrupt and destroy everything it touches. ]
As he did that, the Barrier is opened, which is to the Witch's intrigued to see such a display.
"( Andrew sure got some skills, for a Westerner, those who can see the spirits are rare. )"
"( I began to want to know more about his past, there must've been something there that could make him like this, it must be. )"
As Andrew opens it, the weather then changed around the opened Barrier, the skies became Dark as Andrew and Hollow Witch approach the temple, evading traps and destroying things to make sure it's not dangerous.
As the two went in, they then entered the chamber where there was a sealed vault.
"Usually, abandoned vaults like this always had a guardian that came out of nowhere. " Andrew says, using his movie references as he sees this.
" There are guardians here, friend. " Hollow Witch responded.
" See the corpses and bones around us? " Hollow Witch asks Andrew Andrew then sees it.
" Oh, they're dead! " Andrew sees them.
" Yes, they're dead, they are- "Before the Witch finishes, Andrew then uses his Dark Powers to destroy the bones, leaving no traces of them behind.
" What's that supposed to do? " Hollow Witch asked.
" Um, to prevent these bones from resurrecting... " Andrew explains his actions, telling the witch that he prevent the possibility of these corpses waking up when they unlocked the vault.
" Really, Andrew? " Hollow Witch asks.
" Do you have to think that far? those dead people won't resurrect themselves, you know...? " Hollow Witch tells Andrew.
" They won't? " Andrew says as he thinks that the dead corpses in an abandoned temple will resurrect if a visitor came in uninvited, just like in the movies, hence why he destroyed them before it happened.
" No, Bounty Hunter, Ressurection is impossible for the level of Tainted Spirits and Demonic Monsters. "
" If your 'assumption' of these corpses' resurrection is based on your 'movies' then wipe those thoughts! "
" I will tell you the reality, that resurrecting corpses through necromancy is a huge cost of power, it is impossible to tamper with the dead, unless you had god-like abilities like a Tier 5 Gifted Human, even in that level, I still doubt that's possible. " Hollow Witch explains.
" So these corpses, won't resurrect, then? " Andrew asks, wanting to be sure.
" They don't, they have been rotting for ages after all. "
" Even if they could be resurrected, their frail fossils won't be enough to even punch our flesh. "
" I know this, after all... "
" My Clan is the one who owned this, this was actually 'meant' for us to use whenever necessary. "
" But since the Tsuchimikado forbids us and we lose our right to use this by giving the Tsuchimikado the 'key'. " Hollow Witch as she then snaps back from recounting the past and tells Andrew to put the Key into its hole which Andrew did as the vault opens dramatically.
" Hmph, what a dramatic opening, usually if the unlocking opens like this, means. "
" Whatever it holds, it must be that powerful. " Andrew sums it up, he then comes in with the Hollow Witch to the end of the vault where the item resides. A huge Painting that depicts hundreds of demonic and dark spirits symbols in it.
" Ooo... scary. "
" So this the item you want me to use? " Andrew asks.
" Yes, this is it... "
" The Huge Scrolls that will open the Gateway to the demonic tainted spirits of old, the Hyakki Yagyō Emaki Scrolls. " Hollow Witch as she then told Andrew to use her Dark Powers to activate the item, by transferring some of his Dark Powers towards it, to open the Gates.
" Remember what I told you, Bounty Hunter, use your powers to not just open the Gate but also to capture the minds of those behind this gate. "
" Since your power is Darkness, then you must accept the Darkness within you, your negative thoughts and emotions, it will help you master the very Gift you hold. "
" I know that, Witch. "
" My mind, heart, and soul, as well as my fate is already drenched by Darkness. " Andrew says as he then activates the item using his Dark Powers, making the symbols' eyes glow as the painting begins to create a huge vortex of wind and continues to become a Gate where the creatures in it growl as they see their Gateway.
" Now come...! " Andrew calls them.
" Come to me, Tainted Spirits, Demons, whatever f**k you are! "
" I opened the Gates for you to come and my powers will enter your body. "
" But you, in return, will serve me! "
" To fulfill my vengeance! upon the gods! " Andrew says as he then remembers his Vow with Loki*.
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( Flashback )
< September 11th, 2015 >
< Location: District S >
< Andrew's House >
" So that's what happened? " Andrew says as he now knows what happened to Loki himself.
" The gods' from outside also participate in my endeavor to defeat Indura, it was tough for them too, even Amaterasu had a hard time dealing with her with her Sunfire. "Loki tells.
" Amaterasu, the Prime goddess of the Amatasukami Pantheon!? "
" Yes, she was the one who fend Indura off, with the help of her brother... " Loki explains.
" After all, the two literally clashed with huge force, not even I could help to mitigate their clash effects. "
" But after that, Amaterasu decides and told me and the others to not ever make this case public as much as possible, she, Uncle Zeus, and some other gods' agreed heavily on this. " Loki sighs.
" Why? Because this will make them weak if the public knows them, 'almost defeated'? " Andrew asks.
" Yes, it was... " Loki responded.
" After all, Indura was from the Celestial Pantheon, the Pantheon which had gods that took us so many energies to exile. "
" We had a schism back then, so yes, we do not want you and the other humans to even know about their existence, that's all. " Loki discloses things to Andrew while Andrew sits on his chair, hearing the story in full rage.
" I will leave, had many things to attend to, Andrew. " Loki leaves Andrew enraged, he hears it feeling enraged on how incompetent the gods' in that event were from Loki's own mouth.
" I see now, so this is why, huh? " Andrew says.
( Return to the present. )
" The gods themselves had a weakness. "
" If Lord Loki's story was right, then by assumption, the theory I've been thinking about for years could be right as I will prove it through these Unleashed Demonic Tainted Spirits.
" Now it is time to slay those gods who just set aside my family as if they were nothing, this time, they will die! " Andrew swears as the summoned comes out from the Gate, filled with his Darkness as he is able to control them, binding the summoned through his Dark Gift.
"( Remarkable... )" Hollow Witch says as he sees all of it, in awe of what happened.
"( The Grand Demonic Sect was right, he does have potential. ) "
"( He might've had more potential than that Waterson kid or whatever. )" Hollow Witch thinks while witnessing all of it.
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Extra:
*Andrew's Vow with Loki: See Chapter 250: Motives Part 2