10/6 2:18 (Autumn, Day, Nord Lowrar)
"So, what is our plan now that the bitch is finally dead?" Amber asked Luna, the two still starting to rise from their bed.
In response, Luna merely stretched briefly, enjoying the way her Mate's eyes were fixated upon her body, before explaining.
"I have no particular plan in mind but my short-term destination is Dunrar." Luna stood up, her new pair of clothes appearing in her hands as she started to dress under the distracted gaze of the Phoenix.
The Lunarian smiled, her fangs shining even with the low level of light of their hideout, at the other's expression and above all she was satisfied by her Mate's rising lust before nodding to herself.
"Would you mind if I try my newest Skill, "Presence: Charm" on you?" Luna finished to dress back, her shirt covering back her pale skin and bringing Amber back to reality.
The Phoenix stammered a little in embarassment before remembering the other's question and, under her Mate's amused gaze, she hastily replied.
"Sure, I don't mind. The "Charm" condition is not that bad when around Allies."
"Okay, here I go then."
A small part of Luna's Vital Mana was spent as a wave was released instantly as Amber closed her eyes before reopening them, the wave of Energy solidifying around her briefly before vanishing, leaving behind a light pink sheen covering the Demon-blooded one's irises as she blinked a couple of times.
"How do you feel?"
"Well, it's curious how it immediately caused the "Charmed" Status Alteration but it functions as it should, with a decrease on all of my Status Resistances and my Skills automatically consider you as an Ally even if I try to View you as an Enemy."
"And its Duration?"
"The same time it would take me to Recover naturally from the Alteration and not an instant more."
"I see… And what about now?" Luna activated her newest Skill once again, a wave of pink Energy filling the air for a brief moment.
"Nothing changed, it only restored the little bit I Recovered but nothing more than that."
"Interesting. In that case, then…" The white-haired one's Aura was Unleashed at once, slowly inflicting additional "Charm" however not enough to fight back against a Demon Phoenix's natural Status Alteration Recovery but slowing it down all the same.
"I will need a way to inflict the "Fear" Status Alteration to lower the Recovery Speed, then." The red-eyed one reflected on her own before being interrupted by her Mate.
"Speaking of tests, I have my owns to perform on my Unique Skill if you don't mind." The rhetorical question waited no answer as she immediately Materialized her Unique Arma, now changing as her own Unique Skill was activated.
Flames briefly raged within her left hand before solidifying into a quite changed version.
A great curved sword, with a crimson blade that seemed to be burning brightly as vivid as it was, an as bright long purple line as its core while it had a golden hilt with a red gem at its center and ending in a dagger-like sharp purple gem.
Calmly the blonde rose it before swinging down at her Mate in a semi-serious attack while a Shield rose in turn to stop the blade, or at least to try and stop it as said blade cut straight trought both it and Luna's wrist.
In response this last one merely grabbed her falling hand before reattaching it casually first with strings of Black Blood and then back with flesh throught a flash of Vital Mana before calmly commenting.
"I see, does your Arma now ignore Defense?"
"Not precisely, strikes involving my Blade simply consider all Resistances to be a Degree lower. Absorption to Nullification, Nullification to Immunity, Immunity to Resistance, Resistance to Neutrality and this last one to Weakness." Amber corrected before Unsummoning her "Blazing Blade of the Piercer".
"My Unique Skill, instead, allows me to designate a Spell or an Art, whether my own or someone else, and, once every 30 seconds, allow them to similarly consider all Resistances to be a Degree lower. And yes, their Effects stacks with each other. My Aura, instead, simply boosts all of my Arts and Spells."
Luna simply imagined what would happen if her own [Annihilating Conversion] was Boosted with her Mate's Unique Skill, an eager look in her eyes, while Amber subtly stepped away from the dangerous Person in the room before deciding to distract her.
"So, our next stop should be Higrar, shouldn't it? In that case, you should introduce me to our Mates, they should be on the road for it, right?"
Luna blinked a couple of times in evident confusion.
"What? I mean, yes, I planned on taking you to meet them especially considering how soon it will be Sabel's birthday but what exactly do you mean by they should be on the road?"
Silence stretched out between the two before, a sinking feeling in the blonde's gut, as she responded.
"We are in Lowrar, to reach Higrar we need to pass throught Midrar and they should be around the border of the two, shouldn't they?"
Yet again silence filled the air between the two before the blonde smiled, genuinely content of having found a mistake made by her Mate.
This last one merely blinked once at seeing her Phoenix starting to slowly laugh at her expression before her laugher increased in intensity upon seeing her expression.
Her response was obvious, then.
The Lunarian stepped forward, embracing her blonde before pressing a specific point of her back and making her yelp and jump in her arms.
Subsequently Luna proceded to throw her on the bed and attacking her weak points, reducing her to a laughing mess.
Only once she herself was satisfied with her revenge on her Mate did the white-haired one let up on her lover before sitting down next to her, petting her until she calmed down.
"Very well, considering how you found so much amusement about such a small mistake then you will function as my guide. Prepare yourself."
Luna pressed a light kiss on the other's lips before standing up herself, stretching lightly before holding her Phoenix in her arms, leaving their base and moving it back into her ring.
Amber composed herself fully, jumping down from the taller one to the ground before stepping a couple of paces away from the vampiric one and transforming back into her original form of a vastly bigger Phoenix than she was before made of a mix of gold and purple flames.
"Come on, it's going to be faster if you jump on."
"How hasty." Luna jumped on her head, making herself comfortable between the other's purple horns before sending a message to her other two Mates indicating that the two of them were coming and asking where the four of them could meet, bringing with her a gift she spent the last ten days of their training days to complete while Amber did her own private session and by using True Images all the while.
In response Sabel indicated the Dungeon the two met for the first time as the place while Mafel sent her own approval of the plan and the Demonic-blooded one started to flap her wings to fly there, guided by the positions of their Mate and basic geographic sense, thing she was certain what would one day be called as the Whole Moon had no sense for at all, a laughing thrill escaping from her beak.
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10/6 2:18 (Autumn, Day, Anirar)
Meanwhile, in a continent far away, in a city nearby the coast, the last to be discovered by the general populace of this Age and known as Anirar, what looked to be a tall and muscular young woman with dark skin, bright silver eyes, long wild black hair, a pair of wolf ears and a long and fluffy wolf tail, dropped from the window of a large manor, slowing her fall by stabbing her elongated claws in the wall before transfering the kinetic energy of her fall into a launch that sent her over the roof of a nearby building.
From there she simply jumped from rooftop to rooftop, her route long since chosen for this exact moment in which the security around her was at their most negligent, quickly, especially thanks to her immense physical capabilities, reaching the port and more specifically a previously prepared naval vessel for her to escape on, her thirst for adventure driving her forward even if it meant leaving behind her position and everything she ever knew.
Once on board she activated said vessel's core, it being an Artifact that quickly and forcefully sent her boat and with it herself away from the coast with a burst of speed, barely being able to dodge pursuit from her parent's guards, at least for a while.
She sighed in relief before turning towards what is generally known as a fridge, starting to have a snack while she waited to arrive, unaware of the distance between herself and the nearest safe, for her purpose at least, landmass or at the boredom she will suffer until then.
The Werewolf moved to the deck of her dark blue boat, almost ripping her dress off in her haste to free herself from it and leaving herself in a much different outfit, one made for the purpouse of fighting while still being able to show off her musculature, her size and her natural beauty to everyone around her.
She lied down while waiting to arrive, her boat driving itself in a stable manner while leaving her balanced.