To those outside the mansion it seemed like reality itself had just shifted, changing and warping as their reality distorted.
Where once there had been a blizzard, now only dark skies remained.
Snow faded revealing the ground below, dying grass and dry dirt were all that greeted them.
Even the trees were withered and decayed, barely showing any signs of life.
This place had turned from a frozen wasteland to a barren one, trading one hell for another.
Yet at the moment it wasn't entirely bad, for it gave them a moment of reprieve, the Drifters of the area vanishing alongside the storm.
With the storm gone as well they could more easily see any approaching threats, though none were seen at this current time.
Feros sighed, slumping to the ground as he tried to process what had just occurred. One moment he'd been fighting for his life, searching for a cure to whatever the spell was, now he was somewhere else.
Cautiously he looked down at his left hand, he'd taken some kind of pendant from those creatures before they vanished, hoping it was the key to curing Oto.
He let out a sigh of relief upon seeing it still resting there, the strange mixture of wood and metal creating a haunting beauty in his mind.
Though now was not the time to admire it, he had to make it back to Oto, to make sure this would work.
He'd been gone long enough after all.
Quickly he ran through the desolate wasteland, mentally cursing himself for not being faster, each step feeling like a thousand as time seemed to stretch to a crawl.
He had to be faster.
Had to make sure he survived.
He couldn't be the one to survive this.
His lungs felt like they were on fire as he finally made it back to the cave, emotions overflowing at this point as he moved to where Oto had been hidden.
He was still alive, though worse for wear as the spell had now spread over half of his body, his health down in the red now.
Feros' fear only rose now as he placed the pendant around Oto's neck, praying to any higher entity out there to let it work.
Feros' could only watch in a mixture of horror and anticipation as nothing happened, Oto's health still slowly vanishing over time.
Each passing second ticking down the remaining bar... until suddenly it stopped.
His hp depleting.
The spread of the runes.
Everything just came to a stop, staying still for a moment before a change occurred.
The pendant began to hum, letting out an eerie low pitched noise which the runes seemed to react to as they changed, each and every symbol morphing into a new one until it covered Oto's entire body.
Yet he didn't die, no, in fact it seemed like his health was slowly recovering now.
Each rune on his body slowly melding into him, becoming one with Oto.
Feros could only watch in confusion, amazement and horror as this happened, worried about what was taking place.
The runes were changing and healing Oto, though no one could know what effects it would have right away.
Whatever it was, it seemed like this pendant and the magic now... accepted him.
It saw Oto as one of its own.
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Astral Flow
FantasyA world in its dying days, the end of the world being held back by a powerful lord, death and decay slowly overtaking the world. That was the premise for the new full dive game anyways, one inspired by RPGs of the past. An interesting enough premi...
