[ Discovery ] : Inferno, FTO

23% || The Fourth Pillar

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'' This Hurts ''

Mindless Self Indulgence

The Pillars had been not only the most adored mages but the most feared and revered in all of the Seven Sea Union for quite some time. Though it was truly interesting to be rummaging in their history.

All three of those triplets had existed for centuries, it was hard to dig up all their rubbish hidden in the back of the Library of Ages– or as idiots call it, the magic library– I had barely found anything about it until that old feathery hag came to pester me. That four-eyed geek practically gave me everything I needed as soon as he shut that beak of his.

Once he gave me the small collection of books about them in the library he explained one very keen factor which was probably all I wanted to hear out of his spiel. Throughout the years, Run had been covering up their tracks, so centuries of their terror that was kept under wraps had already been burned by Run's magic.

Speaking of Run's magic, there was a book, far more interesting than his absent-minded rambles. She bared a spirit-type magic, one that allowed her to tame creatures from the spirit realm. Souls, elementals, and anything that relied on the mana of the realm produced from the spirit realm could be altered into her control. Including temporarily mind-controlling creatures such as Dragons, Devils, and if she had pure enough mana– Gods.

Such an interesting magic, using the bodies of others as puppets to your bittersweet order. I knew someone with a title such as Run would have such cowardly magic where she had to hide behind the bodies of other beings.

Such a skittish nature with a face so horrid, that she was the definition of a witch in children's fairy tales.

With a bubbling cauldron and greasy, sleek, grey hair, a crooked nose with warts on her hands, and a big one on her nose. The only thing relatively pretty about her would be those eyes of hers. The ones that granted her access to such magic in the first place.

The woman had killed a grand angel of the order decades ago, and by consuming its heart she gained its power, her body twisting into the distraught thing it had been. But granting her the eyes of the angel she killed, eyes that were built to soothe every creature that looked into them– though on the body of a human, the most they could do was chill and tame the monsters around her. Putting the mana-reliant creatures that I had mentioned before in a trance and once they were out it was too late, captured and locked in various runes she carried on her body or engraved into her very skin if the creature was powerful enough.

It made the non-human creatures that relied on mana fear her so much they refused to enter Athens until the knowledge of her magic soon got buried in history. As for Fight, her magic would never be buried in history.

She was a disaster magic user, she had sealed seven of her best skills into seven rings and gave those seven rings to the strongest seven mages in Athens for decades. Every time those mages reached their passing times there was a huge uproar and mages would set out on dangerous quests to prove their worth to be a successor of said rings.

The rings of the seven deadly sins, though my favorite had to be either Wrath or Gluttony.

Wrath, is a ring capable of making the user go full power the minute the rage gets over the edge. Magic and physical capabilities rapidly grow in strength at the rate of light itself. And even calm, as soon as a user put that ring on their finger, their magic would be doubled just naturally– even without being furious.

As for Gluttony, now that was a ring I would love on my finger. Though the lashback of constantly being hungry, it was truly a delicious kind of magic. With that ring, the wearer could eat through anything. If you cast a magic spell at the wearer they could just cast gluttony and take the spell from you along with the mana you used to cast it, without getting a lash back. If they ate a body part of yours you might as well not have magic anymore. They could even just snatch all the mana from your body if they so needed it.

Truly Fight was an interesting magic user.

Though that King's mother was the most boring piece of them all, she was a water dragon slayer just as her scornful son– what? Just because I serve for Icarus doesn't mean I have to like him! He's absolutely horrendous but I had to admit he surely paid me better than those greedy mongrels.

At least something good came from that geek king. The knowledge, that is buried in this library– in one of these books, of a fourth pillar– Hide. And dear gods was this man good at following his title oath?

I haven't found a scrap on him!

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23%

The Fourth Pillar

Arachnophobia

Date: November 4th, 2024

ꪊꪀꪻ꠸ꪶ ꪀꫀ᥊ꪻ ꪻ꠸ꪑꫀ ᥅ꫀꪖᦔꫀ᥅. . .

❝𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫❞

Archille mainly went to the club as a teenager to avoid his family, especially when Mercy finally stepped up and claimed him as her child when his magic started to show. His fury is his only drive to stay getting physically stronger, though he is far stronger and smarter mentally than he ever will be physically.

[ A / N ] : 

Morgana is a character I hate and love. Mainly because her habits and way of thinking are that of a villain and yet she is a hero. She only keeps herself a hero for money and power, but she has yet to do anything bad in the lore so I can't rightfully hate on her lol.