Agnisotra: Origin Tails

Day 3: I woke up and Ignis was still coiled up. He didn't disappear throughout the night. I think I woke him up because he popped his head out of his coil. It seems he is basically a pet now. I picked him up and used him as a scarf and wandered through the temple. I talked to the magma spirit guards and I asked them if we could look for Isi.

They said they would allow us if we wait till noon. It was only 7:23, noon was quite far away. I have to say so far this timeline isn't as bad as the others. I’m sure I will eat these words later on but since we moved underground most of our problems disappeared. I fed Ignis some more bread. Is it just me or does it look like he is bigger than yesterday? I met Gregory after I left the kitchen. What are you up to? I found another magma skill; I'm wondering if I should learn it though… What skill?

[Lava Bomb] ... Learn it!

I knew you would say that… Well, most of your earth and rock moves down here will turn into lava so might as well learn it else you will have to struggle using earth magic on magma.

I know… Gregory looked at the piece of fire-resistant leather and audibly sighed.

I guess I should get familiar with this… Yesyes! Go get some volcanic firepower!

If you don't mind? Hmm? Frostcloak? Ah right. I used my last free cast to make a [Frost cloak] for Gregory. I realize that spamming [Tsunami] to keep the free casts up is not a good thing for me. I had a lot of mana stored up in my tails from using all these frost cloaks.

I wouldn't be able to get rid of it if I kept using free casts. Imagine being so overpowered that free magic skills are relatively useless. At least this gives me more control over my mana economy. I don't necessarily need frost attacks now to use mana expensive skills. I just need to flood the whole place… maybe I should stick to the frost magic route a bit longer… I could hear Ted snoring from here. I wondered what I should do, there was not much to explore in this temple. Maybe I could join Gregory and see what Ignis can do.

I stepped outside and saw Gregory [Lava Bombing] the magma pool. An explosive performance! I need to have a talk with Ted his stupid puns are rubbing off on you guys…

Ignis show us what you can do! Ignis looked around and then looked at me.

Hmm, you have a point there is nothing to fight here. Hey, Greg shouldn't there be like ehhm, more monsters here? How should I know? I’m just glad that we can have a normal timeline for once!

Hmm, you also have a point, sorry Ignis, I don't think there is anything you could fight. How about you show off your accuracy by shooting Greg’s [Lava bombs] down! Ignis started spitting lava bombs at Gregory lava bombs.

Oh, you can use that skill too? Maybe you can teach Gregory something! Ignis shot lava bombs that exploded mid-air and rained down lava and rocks.

Ohh look Greg you can do that too! Gregory tried several times and managed to make them explode but it looked messy.

Hehe, you got outdone by a magma snake. It would be a sad magma snake if It couldn't…

Fair point. Now that I don't have any free skills, I can try a proper [Magma snake] attack! I used [Magma Snake] and made a 4-meter-tall magma snake.

Hmm, still smaller than I expect one to be but this looks promising. I made the magma snake blast a wall. It could also use [Magma wave].

That snake of yours is quite powerful, probably because your fire affinity is through the roof. It seems like it’s a glass cannon though, just like you. Gregory used [Lava Bomb] on my magma snake and blew it to pieces.

Hey! Magma gathered and it reformed. Oh… Hahaha! Yes, Magma snake! Rise like a Phoenix! Why are all your skills like you’re cheating? Gregory shot more lava bombs at it but I made it evade.

It’s fast as well… I wonder, can I use this when there isn't magma around? No clue, but you could always just melt some rocks and use it… Oh! That is smart! I will archive that! We kept practicing. I made Ignis and my magma snake shoot Gregory’s [Lava bombs] down.

-Hey, Agnis, can you make some frostcloaks for Raishin and me? - I looked inside, located Ted and Raishin and made them some frost cloaks.

I hear explosions! I want to join in too! We were just wrapping up. Hey is it me or is Ignis a bit bigger now? That is another magma snake that I made.

No, I mean the one that's coiling around your neck! Oh, you think so? I can’t tell. He probably doesn't even remember how big it was when he made it. I also want to make explosions…

Hmm, you could use some target practice. Ignis shoot lava bombs over that magma pool! Go shoot them down Raishin Gogogo! As usual Raishin’s accuracy is shit. Gregory also shot off more lava bombs and at least Ted could hit them with his [Meteor Punch]. His [Meteor Rain] had a good enough accuracy.

Hey, can you stop making them move so much? They are hard to hit! What do you mean? They fly in a fixed path! This is purely a skill issue. Yeah, Raishin, you suck, git gud.

Pff, look at this! Raishin shot off a [Flame wave] and hit multiple lava bombs at once.

See easy! Yes, and now with single-target attacks!

But that's too hard! Look even Ignis has better accuracy than you and he’s a snake!

I bet he’s a cheater just like Agnis. Hey! I didn't use a [Flame wave] to hit those lava bombs! How does one cheat on accuracy feats anyways?

Those eyes! I bet you couldn't hit them even if I linked my vision with you.

Challenge accepted! I linked my eyes with him.

Aagh this headache! Good luck Raishin.

Ugh, this is easy! There! You missed.

There! Almost hit it

How am I supposed to focus with this headache? I mean I could give you the headache-free version which I normally give you guys but that would be cheating right? I thought you knew this Raishin…

Fine! Ok, it’s not cheating! Are you happy? Can you unlink me, please? Hmm, do I want to?

Hey, what is that? Hmm, just a spirit on the bridge approaching the temple with a huge scythe.

Your eyes say that this spirit is bad news shouldn't we do something? We should yeh. So, what are we going to do about it?

Hmm, well the problem is… I took frostmarbles out but they instantly got charged with fire magic because of the environment.

Oh Oh! I see it let me explain! So, he just took these frost marbles out but they instantly went shwoop and sucked up the ambient fire mana here and all turned into fire-charged frost marbles! But his eyes say that fire doesn't work on that spirit! Yup. So how do we deal with that spirit then?

You don't… Wait you had still multiple layers of illusions running right? Can't we damage it as we did to the spirit sisters?

Well… you see those are centered around Boshi town. I attached them to that as the location because that cost the most mana. At this point, we are quite far from Boshi town and underground to boot. Out of range of its effectiveness… Hey the spirit is preparing to attack the temple!

If I can get some water here I could probably one-shot the spirit with a [Tsunami]. Would frost work on it?

I don't want to go too crazy with frost magic in an environment that has a lot of energy… Right…

I still have to figure out how to ditch all this mana I’m getting from your frostcloaks. Guess I will blast it with some lightning. I teleported to the spirit and dropped a purple [Lightning bolt] on the spirit.

“Move away intruders!” Raishin copied what I did and also teleported and dropped a purple [Lightning bolt] but he missed. Not that he would hit it anyways. Is there any chance we can talk about this or that you give up on ehh whatever you want to do?

“I am tasked to destroy anything that isn't a spirit!” Oh, so you will let me through? Wonderful!

“Spirits with vessels don't count!” Hey, what did you do to Isi?

“Not sure you want to know the answer to that.” I took a sword out of my dimensional pocket and sent a lightning charged slash at this spirit. He blocked it and swung his scythe at me. At this point, Gregory and Ted arrived who had to take the long way. The magma spirits lagged behind them.

“Hehe, I see I attracted quite the crowd, all these souls ready for reaping!” Talking about edgy, how about using a normal weapon, who uses a scythe these days? Only edge lords use those! I bet you probably have a tv hooked up somewhere here and are watching stupid shows!

“You will not touch my tv!” I fucking knew it! That tv is going down! Hey, how does a tv not melt down here or even get a signal down here? Is that really important?

Of course not! The question is who would deliver a tv down here? Gregory facepalmed. I prevented this spirit from ‘reaping’ my soul. I sent some random slashes at the spirit while dodging his swipes on the narrow bridge.

“Hey! Stand still and let me reap your soul!” I jumped over him and landed behind him. I don't know how strong Isi is but judging by your level of combat I don't think you would be able to defeat her.

“Hah, that's where you're wrong kiddo!” Agnis get back! Gregory ran in and cast [Shadow cloak] on us but a bit too late as Raishin, Gregory and I got hit by a purple wave. Hmm, this didn't do any damage.

Shit! Ugh, this situation is such a pain in the ass... I suddenly felt demotivated to do anything and hungry.

Let's not let this guy make fools out of us! Man, this battle would be so much better if we were fighting some hot spirit chick. Hey, guys are you alright? You took that wave head-on. Hmm whatsup magma spirit? I don’t understand spirit language. What curse? Did they get cursed? Hey Greg, I thought you were immune to curses!

Ha of course! I would never get hit by a curse! Now let's defeat this spirit to see what rewards he will drop! Hey, Agnis stop eating! We’re in battle! Ugh, what's wrong with you guys?

“Hehe, these idiots took my powerful curses head-on, consider yourself lucky because the range is quite short!” Should you really be revealing this?

“Heh, it's not like you can hit me, the only one that can is stuffing his face over there!” Hey, edgelord do you have a sister? Are you sure you cursed Raishin? It doesn't look like he is acting weird.

“Huh? Impossible my seven deadly sin curses are impossible to resist!” Ah, I see, so Agnis probably got hit by Gluttony, Raishin would probably have no issue eating lust, Gregory, not sure… Oh that was a good meal, haven't eaten so good in a while. It seems my eating compulsion eased up. Ugh, that was rough but I guess my racial skill came through, although a bit weak and late. Do you really have no hot sister?

Not sure if Raishin is just being himself or is still under its effect.

“What? impossible!“ Hey want to know something funny? This guy here, he’s a three-tailed shadow cat. The spirit backed off a bit.

“What? Why? Why is a shadowcat here? My curses!” Are useless now! But these curses are quite strong. We have to properly dispel them after you blasted this spirit, vaporize him Agnis! Right, he is immune to fire but I think I have the right skill. I took off my shoes and put them on the bridge. They instantly turned into ash because now that I'm not wearing them the fire resistance doesn't apply to them anymore.

What is the point of taking my shoes off if they're going to get vaporized anyways! Aaah! You are going down asshole! I loved those shoes!

“Hey! Don’t take it out on me! That was your own fault!” I made a frost ball and threw it at Raishin. As much energy as you can, this asshole is going down! Hey Agnis what about this bridge? We need it!

Don't worry, I got this. Ignis! [Lava bomb] at 7 o clock! Ignis shot lava bombs over the magma pool and I swapped the edgelord with a lava bomb as well as myself.

Hey, don't drop lava bombs on the bridge! Gregory moved them away from the bridge and made them explode.

Right, edgelord this is what is going to happen, I am going to use [Dagger torrent] on you and you get shredded. Any questions? No? Right, let's go! Ignis help my buddies if something else pops up! I’m entrusting the bridge to you! I caught the edgelord in my [Dagger storm] and it was only a matter of time before he would get defeated.