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[ Month of Renewal 16th, Morning / Jiaojing Province, Maolan Forest, Crypts of the Sacred Blood ]
Listening to Yuan in mid chant, she didn't finish it in time, though the source of the problem...it wasn't where she had expected it.. Shouting out her instructions she only got part of the way through.. "Just put it around your weapon or on your per-"
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"-son" Finishing her words the whole world seemed shut off, because it was.. This was simply put not a good thing, the problem was how to solve it, Tsubaha had fallen prey given her doubt and refusal, while Tsubaki had acted as the gateway. Or so she had theorized, Rumiko wasn't a scholar and time was pressing. The question was how to fix it without harming the two. To converse with the wrathful dead was never a good idea.
First Rumiko had to figure out if their bodies were actually here, or still out there, that mattered a lot. Given the cutoff to the outside world, which some seemingly had not noticed, the Miko had assumed it was a barrier of some sort.. They also had another issue to deal with, the hunters would not likely gain on them in no time, the plus however was, they would also likely be trapped here.
One thing was for sure however and likely didn't need to be said;
"Don't sleep here."
"And..as to you Tsubaha, don't you need to fight your sister? She is coming you know.."
Eying Yuan and Kei the Miko shifts her vision towards Tsubaha, for now she couldn't do anything for Tsubaki, though Kei had made his usefulness short by hiding behind her. With a shake of her head at least he knew enough to know something was up and just maybe her short aid to Tsubaki would have been enough. The clear problem was this wasn't and was Tsubaha, testing the waters for a reaction the Priestess wasn't sure how many others would fall for this façade, either way the Swordswoman was the major issue here.
"Power is meant to be expanded is it not? What is Strength without worth and flesh? What is the center of all things and the power of the lesser among the greater?" Pondering the situation again, perhaps talking to this... thing wasn't the correct option and their bodies were still outside, with their minds as a prison. If this being was attempting to test her it would be sorely disappointed, her hands were coated in blood that she had accepted and even now marched forward knowingly adding more to it.
While waiting on her response from Tsubaha, it would be worth noting the reactions, regardless of her faith being real or false, it was a source of hope in this dark times.
Of course then the creature had all but confirmed what it was and what she was, or did it? Either way her purification rites had been too slow, though she at least had a way out of this, the problem was the rest. On the one hand leaving them to their fate would have been what more sensible people would have done, but the Miko had made a pact and she wasn't about to leave souls to some foul Demon, nor was she about to speak with it.
Strength without Will was feeble, Will without Strength was useless.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Letting out a tremendous battle scream, summoning up her own spirit and magical essence her whole disembodied form seemed to roar with the blue flame of the Ki energy that some Monks were known for. For all her talk on purging spirits it wasn't too much of a surprise that she seemingly knew how to conduct battle here. "
Focus your Wills! Fight for your Life! Listen not to the Mutant, the Abomination to Ancestors and Spirits! Listen not to the Easter of Souls and bring him nothing but his well deserved Rest!"
"If we can drive him back we can leave! I will buy us time!" If only one attack would have worked... if only it would be so easy.. The first step was to create holy ground within this realm. While it was indeed the land of the Dead that faith and belief of those the beast trapped did in fact shape it.
"Your Bodies yet live! but this foe will take them! You will turn into beasts you cannot imagine! So Fight! Do not Speak to it! Any Promises it makes will haunt your ancestors a thousand fold!" The Miko seemed rather insistent on this point as her feet firlm plant into the surfaces of this room.
"Neithare! Ha! Tha land of nothingness! Yet you lead fools astray and turn them into monsters! Look upon your anscestors, look upon Shang! You being of malice! I shall drive you out and back once more!"
"EARTH STOMP!" Attacking him with her very soul and spirit the Miko had the drive to carry on and a reason that went far past glory, perhaps a fanatical edge, but for now, a spoiling attack would do, something to show them that the voids differed and could in fact be crossed.
"The only thing we could offer him, are our trackers, then we could likely take all the bells, but she'll became some sort of creature...hell bent on fighting us.. Shadow Walkers, never trust them.."
Continuing her rant and stomp, the area right beneath her feet seem to became influence by outside elementals, the twinge ling between life and death. bits of water, wind, earth and fire seemed to have found root in the miko's attempts, inducting more of familiarity to drive the best back, or at least amp up her comrades to fight. Her real attack would be coming after this... ground work had to be set. If anyone here wanted to make a deal with demons, that was also fine, she would not aid them in escape.
What happened next would depend on them but the Miko had already slammed down the gauntlet, this being but the first of many blows provided none of the rest didn't suddenly want to make a deal.
Either way not many deals could be made and fiewer were those of a Demon, one should put trust in. Nor could this being be trusted with a simple agreement, if at all.
@Ehb @others
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