THE ARCHAIC SKY

CHAPTER: THE HARBINGER'S DISPATCHMENT

Crystalians

Humanoid beings from the depths of terraria made of crystals and precious gems. They are powerful but their numbers have decreased because of the celestial calamity. Some say you might be able to see them in large chasms and canyons and karsts, living out their daily lives separate from humanity. Others say you ought to run when you see one to avoid being pierced by their sharp claws.

This earth had been a host to many creatures. Titans, elves, dwarves and humans were descendants of an old clay deus. Oceanids, Vampires, Harpies and Beastmen were created by the spirit of union. Fairies, nymphs, goblins and spirits were of the primordial forests. Dragons and Demons were races as old as the lands themselves, they once conquered the world only to lose it to the divine sovereign gods.

Crystalians, Lunarians, Solarians and all the other Eans are Elementals forged by the will of this world with golden mana for blood and this world's desires for a heart. They born with arrogance, every single one of them, just because they were made from the branches of the tree of kalpitaru. So Amara was quite surprised to find the shadowy figures were Crystalians.

Why would they want anything to do with her? even those created by the primordial forests seemed to dislike her.

So quick that all Amara could see were flashes of them in the dark night. Their entire eyeballs were glowing in the dark the way their hair which were made of their gemstones where shimmering and glistening in the night's moonlight. Not far behind their rather heavy steps was Haru. His eyes targeting them as he hopped from one rooftop to the next.

Amara on the other hand calmly followed them from the ground. her hands drawing a sigil on a piece of paper. "I should have taken kirika's clipboard," she said, stopping her steps as she fell to the ground. pressing the piece of paper on the ground and drawing there instead. her other hand peeled away from the edge of paper as she had used it to keep the paper still, her fingers swirling dirt and water together. with that she used the mud to stick the talisman to her kunai. "This better be easy to track this way..." then with a tap from her short staff, the sigil also bore her emblem.

Of all her reapers, only few bore elemental gifts. Such as Sora, a Losturane, who could manifest and mimic weapons and armour of light. His gift was only a little different from a cryptic's manipulation of elements. The other reapers and envoys didn't. Kirika was an orphic who could bend light, she could simply disappear and turn other things invisible even turning untrackable. She was the perfect the spy along with that all seeing eye orb she can summon. Kuma was a mythic who could summon four bear hands, as far as she knew he was a burly brute. But he was effective in tasks that require harsh physical work.

The last was Tanuki, a magistrane, he had sigils and talismans that could create illusions of great splendor, nearly as well as Kamira, only his had mass. Hollow, but still had weight and sound. He could even shapeshift but Amara sometimes wondered if that was an illusion as well. But it didn't matter, he was a magistrane, therefor he knew a plethora of sigils which she made him teach. Some she even stole from him.

One of them was the flying lightning rod sigil.

At least she called it that seeing as those characters were written in the glyph. Though she wasn't as fast as him, it certainly became useful. She simply needed to throw it with a bit of wind and once she felt it prick the air in a far location, she could activate the glyph and suddenly appear with the kunai in her hand once again.

She spun in the air, one hand on the flying kunai while the other had prepared a sword of lightning coming out the end of her further shortened staff. Just as she had planned, she teleported right in front of the two crystalians. She staggered back, pointing her electric blade to the two beings.