Infinity: Rising of the Soul Weavers

* Aero Chord - Shadows (feat. Nevve) [Monstercat Release] *

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The alien could already tell that his queen wasn\'t the same one he\'s served a long time ago. But he needed to make sure.

The only options he could think of were that either she had lost her memories, or that the girl in front of him was the queen\'s daughter, which then proves that the queen had betrayed her people.

Both options weren\'t good yet they still needed to know the truth, as it could determine the fate of their entire race.

"Care to state your name and who you are first?" Raven said in a diplomatic tone.

"Apologies, I had a lot on my mind that I\'ve forgotten my manners." the alien answered sincerely, "my name is Jakol, the fifth general of the Akash kingdom of planet Akish."

From the way he conducted himself and his appearance, Raven could tell he was indeed who he claimed to be.

He wore a silver armoured pants of sorts that looked both efficient and formal. And even though his mascular chest was left for the eyes to see, he had a robe of sorts covering his shoulders, and that was made out of metallic plates as well.

Many badges were left hanging from the left side of his robe as an indicatiin of his high rank.

"Well met, my name is Raven. So what brings you here?"

Seeing that his queen was silent, waiting for his answer, he didn\'t let her wait. "The current situation is as follows: a random portal of sorts opened in one of our main cities, and we were asked, by the current ruler, to investigate it.

"Once we got to this side, we detected your presence, your highness," Jakol said with a bow towards Maya, "and so we came here to check whether it\'s actually you or not."

"Ok, break time," Raven said, "a couple of idiots looking kinda like you, I\'m assuming same race, came here and attacked Maya, the one you\'re claiming to be your queen."

At that, Jakol\'s aura flared bright white for a second before fading away. "I do apologize, it seems as though the \'Resistance\' was one step ahead of us."

"What?"

"The current situation in Akish isn\'t at its best, it hasn\'t been since the day you left, your highness..."

"Listen here dude," Maya was so confused that she didn\'t swear this time, "why do you keep assuming I\'m your queen or whatever? I\'m a little human girl with no powers. Are you blind or do you think we both look the same?"

"Your highness, but we can feel the connection!"

"Bullsh*t! I feel absolutely nothing," Maya wasn\'t taking it easy on a creep that wanted to basically kidnap her with permission, "Just go find a cat or a bird and claim them your kind and queen. I\'m not into giving orders anyway."

Hearing her reply, Jakol didn\'t know what to do. The real queen would never act like that, so that left him with option two: the queen had betrayed them.

\'No! What am I thinking, our queen would have never done that.\' he tried to convince himself.

"Your highness, can we do a small test, to check whether you\'re indeed human or Akash? I can guarantee it\'s safe and will cause you no harm."

"Why would we trust a word coming out of your mouth?" this time it was Maria who spoke as it was her daughter they\'re talking about here.

"You don\'t have to trust me, I\'ll show you..." Jakol said while extended his hand forward, palm up. A small bracelet of sorts materialised in his hand.

"This is a device that would test someone\'s internal energy to confirm their race. It\'s mostly used in crime scenes, among other applications, to determine who stole or killed, etc." he said while placing the bracelet around his wrist.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

Making weird noises for a second, a hologram materialize above the bracelet like a screen. The hologram had one word on it, and that was "Akish".

"Is that enough of a proof? Not even a scratch." he said while showing them his wrist after taking the bracelet off.

Thinking for a second, Raven looked at Maya to confirm her race. \'Kay, she\'s human right?\'

[My appraisal shows that she\'s human, yes. However, remember when you had the disguise runestone to hide your gender? She might have something similar for her race.]

"Alright, we\'ll try it," Raven said surprising her group. But, she could swear she heard a sigh of relief coming from Jakol and even some cheers from the flying Akash above them.

Raven approached Jakol alone to get the bracelet. Her plan was to try it on herself and see if it shows Soul Weaver for her first, if that was safe and legitimate, then she\'d try it on Maya.

However, even if she did that, there could be something else blocking a good reading of her race, like Kayla had mentioned.

"I KNEW IT!" a voice beamed as Raven could instantly feel danger, but in her current state, there was nothing she could do.

\'What the...\'

Jakol and Jaimie could see a boy approaching her so fast while aiming a long dagger at her neck. They both were about to stop the boy when a figure seemingly appeared out of thin air in front of Raven.

Jaime could faintly see a magic circle underneath the figure, but it disappeared the moment he fully appeared.

\'Wait, is that another magic circle? What\'s going on here?\' Jaime muttered while noticing another magic circle forming midair.

PUCHI! BOOM!!

The dagger was stopped in its tracks by two gloved fingers. And at the same time, another figure appeared midair and kicked the attacking boy in the head.

But the boy was quick and put his guard up, while making a dash backwards, or so he tried. But he couldn\'t move as he felt his body hit the ground hard enough to crack a normal man\'s body.

Taking a moment to digest what had just happened, Raven found herself staring at Keith, the newly named demon who was holding the attacking boy by his head and preventing him from making a single move.

Keith appeared to have a neutral expression on his face, but if someone was to look deep into his deep red eyes, they\'d see rage burning brightly.

Even though Raven was only his temporary master, she\'d given him a name for the first time in his life. Something that even his actual master had never done.

Above that, she had treated him nicely and with the utmost respect. Because of that, he wanted nothing more than to squash the boy\'s head like the insect he is, but he knew better.

"My mistress, may I kill him? Or would you like me to torture him for a while?" Keith finally said in a polite tone.

However, before Raven could even answer, another voice beamed next to her, "MY MISTRESS, ARE YOU OK?"

Looking at the source of the panicked voice, she could see Calcer midair with a tense expression, as he hadn\'t succeeded in defending his mistress.

If it wasn\'t for Keith, that dagger would have hit his mistress, and he wasn\'t happy about that, to say the least.

At that very moment, Calcer had one thought in his mind, \'I should get stronger. I should be strong enough to defend my mistress, just like Keith.\' he thought while looking up at the demon in front if him.

"Keith, Calcer, thank you," Raven said with a smile. "You\'ve certainly saved me, hehe"

Even though she looked calm on the outside, things weren\'t going well in her mind. \'How did I just stand here like an idiot? In any other situation, even if I was completely drained, I would have found a way to stop it!\'

""It\'s our duty!"" both Keith and Calcer said in unison, breaking Raven out if her thoughts.

[But remember you were COMPLETELY drained, you\'ve used up everything to summon and name the two demons, attacking aliens and defending civilians. You also flew over provinces even though it\'s your first time actually trying mana flight...]

\'But I used my skill Exhilaration just a second ago? What happened with that?\' she complained again.

"Well, I was about to save you too, you know," Jaimie complained but Raven didn\'t seem to notice, while Jakol just stood their silently.

[Raven, if you didn\'t activate it you wouldn\'t have been able to walk? Do you not feel pain? I can tell you exactly how much damage each part of your body has suffered... Anyhow, you have your Keith and Calcer to protect you now so it\'s alright, try to stay as passive as possible, at least till you could get some rest, please.]

"What just happened?" Maya murmured and the group just shook their heads, including the clueless Raven.

"Ahem! Um, Kid, would you please introduce your friends?" Jaime said, looking at the red haired boy and the young man in the weird garment.

"Hey don\'t you dare ignor-" the boy on the ground tried to yell but was quickly silenced with a head squeeze from Keith that made him yelp like an injured puppy.