Should I just die? The ihought surfaced, it would fix a lot of problems, maybe this time he could kill Theodore faster, not having to be on the run like a wounded animal didn't sound so bad.
"Hey, cut it out, you're sg me" Isabel spoke, notig the way his gaze felt distant. her eyes widening in .
He shook his head, escape, that's all he should be worried abht now, the sounds of the horse's drawing near did not diminish or increase. He took this as a sign to make sure to run to where horses couldn't follow him.
He entered deeper into the forest, where the trees would make chasing them harder.
Aegeon's, heated breath left his lips, his thoughts trailed back to the fight, it turns out fog everything you had in one blow only sounded good on paper.
He was tired, he was hungry, his body ached like it had never done before, evehing was arduous bor, all Aegeon wao do was y down and sleep, eveh felt like the better alternative.
Lamenting why Gideon arrived 'earlier' was useless, obviously the extra time in the cave had something to do with it, but why was he even there? Was he hunting traitors of the golden order? That was the most logical clusion, running into one former member, was a ce, two attern.
Would he run into a third?
As much as Aegeon knew about the game, it didn't involve the people, and it didn't help that the main characters in Deminos were mostly solitary, even the csses that usually beloo a group were solo members of said group.
Like the padin css he initially chose, the lore behind it was a member of a fallen order where all members either fled or died.
Most quest ing other people, either ended with the pyer killing them or them dying. The only notable named characters were Trandants, like the LightKeeper Gideon, or the Sword Saint of Ice. Who, you'd only ever hear of, or never meet.
A truly remarkable and cheerful game, he clicked his tongue.
"What?" Isabel asked, breaking him out of his stupor.
"You let go now" she said shyly, her cheeks flushed red, with a bashful look in her eyes.
"ht" He scratched his head "Sorry" He let go of her hand, and slowed down before ing to a stop, the sound of his pursuers no longer entering his ear.
Iy Aegeon must have lost them long ago too lost in his thoughts to notice.
He hunched over breathing heavily, his hands resting on his khe want, or rather the o vomit almost overcame him.
"Fuck that golden-haired prick" His voice came out hoarse, no longer in overdrive everything hit him like a truck, the stant abuse of his body catg up with him.
He was eveed to just y down and sleep.
"Oh my, a padin that curses this much" He turo look at her, annoyance evident in his eyes, she covered her mouth with her hand as she spoke, her eyes widening in an exaggerated fashion.
Aegeon was almost sure she was full of shit.
He clicked his toraightening up, he closed his eyes and rubbed his forehead, a prayer leaving his lips thanking his god for the victory and the escape.
The air around, them got colder, his eyes instinctively turowards Isabel.
Thats odd I'm not supposed to feel the cold.
An icicle formed in her hand, her hands moved swifter than he could follow, her right foot stepped forward, her hand bringing the icicle under his , he flinched for a sed before hesitatingly surrendering. She walked forward, pressing it until he backed up against a tree.
Her eyes narrowed, her eyebrows furrowing, a serious look on her face, an almost accusatory look in her eye, Aegeon could almost swear to see some fondness hiddeh it all.
"Who the hell are you?" She pressed the tip under his , drawing lightning.
What the hell is she on?
"And don't give me that Aegeon bullshit, or that other name you made up with your shitty lightning trick"
His eyes widened, "You remember"
What the fuck? he internally panicked.
"Of course, I remember you oaf, your damned god is fug crazy" Her cheeks flushed as she remembered the first time she was reset.
'Way to show her. 'He almost instinctively rolled his eyes.
"That power with a mortal" She looked at him with incredulity, shaking her head at the thought of it, her voice almost dripping with pity.
"Do you know how b it was to wait for you to finally kill that bastard? Only for you to die the sed we did it." She rolled her eyes a disappointed look overtook the incredulity.
She pressed the tip and poked his chest with her finger.
"Now who are you and why did you e to save me, and don't give me some bullshit like yod told you"
"Fug insane really, that's the ohing you kept sistent."
"Cause what kind of freak, dies over and ain for some plete strangers." She clicked her tongue.
If he just pushes his further, maybe he could die in one swift motion, per, save them and run their separate ways.
"And don't think you just reset your way out of this one," She poured water, over the kindling of his idea, she turned her gaze and looked at the ice, almost admiring it "this right here is true ice, it will stay with you even ih"
Thunder rumbled in the distance.
She rolled her eyes, pressing it harder against his .
He raised his hands up in surrender, his lips beginning to move.
"My name is-"He stopped for a sed, his eyes narrowing, a look of disdain appearing on his face "fuck you" His voice rising, "that doesn't matter" he enunciated "what kind of ungrateful piece of shit are you?" He pressed his into the ice, causio stumble backwards.
"Reasons, identity" He gave her a look "does it really matter?" He tio walk forward.
Yes, but he wasn't going to let this upstart press him.
"How many times did I die for you? How many times did I walk through that door just to get my ass hao me." He walked forward with every word.
"And this is the thanks I get?" He ughed mogly, "I mean e on" Her back hitting the tree behind her, his face h above hers. "We could have pnned, you could have let me know, yet all you did was find different ways to call me a barbarian"
"Here I was thinking some type of butterfly effect was making you talk more, differently" he looked up and ughed before looking into her eyes. "But no, it was you fug with me."
"Tehee" She weakly said, "Sorry " the ice dissipating as she sheepishly rubbed her head.
"No hard feelings, right?"
"That was just normal ice by the way."
"You know what they say curiosity kill the slumbering dragon?" She blew some hair off her face.
He sighed, "You're actually so annoying."
She frowned "You take that back"
"Oh Revera, I'm su Idiot" Embarrassment creeping up his spihings don't just ge like that, every a has an equal and opposite rea. He almost face palmed. How could he not know something was amiss?
He stepped back, turning away to hide his embarrassment.
"Do you want the horuth?" he posed himself and looked at her, Isabel's beauty was truly out of this world, she made everything around her look dull.
She slowly nodded.
Should he tell her? Sure, why the hell not, it wasn't like he rofessing some nefarious pn.
"I hate to lose" It was the truth, his stubborn nature, his pride, his hatred for failure drove him. Of course, that wasn't the only thing, but it was the fual reason.
Quiet you
She looked at him, like she was looking at an escaped asylum patient.
"Seriously?" her face filled with shock "You're insane" She paused, red creeping on her olive oil skin, and here I thought you had a crush on me.
He turned and gred at her, "are you sure that you're actually the daughter of a duke?"
Iy she was the anthesis of what he would expect from a pure-blooded noble, and specifically an ice user, where was the ice-cold jade beauty?
"Hey that's rude" She stomped her feet on the floor, her cheeks puffed up.
"Lucky for you I think besides me and that crazy knight, I'm the only ohat knows about yression trick, courtesy of my amazing god." The snow around them glowed as if to reciprocate her words.
"And since we just killed that knight its only just me"
"So, what's the pn big guy?" She patted his back.
"I don't know" He paused "we've never really gotten this far." The words feeling odd as they left his lips. He turo look around, his eyes widening in panic when he reized where they were. All the bizarre happenings linking together, a mystery that he asked himself solving itself, from his discovery.
"Hey, did the Pope of the Church of Thorns die yet?"
"Yet?" She spared him a look of fusion "Not that the Duke's house knows of" She touched her, her face tilted slightly as she looked at him.
"Why?"
Shit