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[Unlurking Sentinel]

As Claus rattled on about the prisoners, the guard captain grimaced.
"Your ignorant insights mean nothing. The girl is a bandit who uses her appearance to deceive travelers. And whatever the woman's background may be, she was one of the terrorists who attempted to thwart the Academy's efforts to secure the lucid crystal! And the old wo-"

But before he could continue, one of the prisoners had put up a seemingly lit gun to the detentionee's head.
"Wh-? How did you-"

This is bad! We can't let them escape!

But as the young soldier rushed in, the guard captain tried to halt his advance.
"It has to be a trick! An illusion! I don't know how he managed to sneak a firearm into Praesidium, but he couldn't possibly fire it in a cell!"

Then what am I looking at?! Something's wrong wit the cell!

Despite the captain's best efforts, the young recruit rushed past his superior, axe in hand, and leaped into the room! But as he took a step forward-

Silence.

The air, once simply oppressive, now felt frozen in time. Inside and outside the cell. The guards. Viverna. They couldn't move an inch. The guards struggled to even think, save for the dread that burrowed into them. Only the prisoners and Claus weren't suddenly more affected by the dread than before.

And then... the old woman wasn't there. No. In that very instant, something slammed the guard captain's head against the floor outside the cell.

[Chevaleresse]

"Khhh. . . Claus. . ." Viverna was frozen in the middle of whirling around. "You. . .damned fools. . ." Viverna was clearly struggling against whatever force was binding her, both magically and physically, judging by the strain in her voice. "I am. . . not your foe."

[RedMageCole]

Claus didn't even have a moment to react to the guard captain before something was happening. He raised a hand charged with Thunder magic before observing the area, and the old woman's disappearance...

"Ah... Ah, I see what's happening! Time magic! Oh, that's forbidden! It takes me back, my father was close to perfecting this exact kind of forbidden art! I remember he had this technique, he called it 'Time Acceleration'... Agh, I wish he had written down his notes so I could have..." Claus's voice was laced with giddiness until he saw Viverna was also frozen and calling his name. At that point, he snapped out of it and went back to his serious expression and tone. "Miss, assuming you are indeed using the forbidden magic, might I ask you let my friend Viverna free? We certainly mean you no harm if you're interested in saving the Lucid Crystal... And perhaps if you were willing to tutor me a little bit in time magic. Even if I could just use it like father did and not actually use the magic... At least until it gets legalized." Claus took a breath in between his pleas to look to the guards, especially the guard captain getting his head slammed in.

"Oh, you can cave in the heads of the other guards. They're not with me and Viverna, I hate them and this academy so whatever happens to them is of no consequence to me. You can do whatever with them— Except one guard that I have unpaid dues with, but he's outside so please show off your technique to its full extent. Again, not on dear Viverna though, please. She was only trying to defend me— you know how it is, gun to your neck, things get all haywire. I was about to hit the man with a Thunder spell if I was the one escalating." Claus said this all with a straight face.

[rustytengo]

When the girl started choking the other person with the gun Blodeuyn almost drew her gun to threaten them but then they froze.


"Well that was useful why didn't you do that earlier would of made things go quicker." She said to the old lady as she walked out of the cell "Well now that we have successfully escaped, I'll be off. You all have fun saving whatever this crystal thing is cause I gotta figure out where they put my stuff at." She continued as she started moving down the hallway waving at the group as she did.

[Aurorix]

Greeeeeat, turns out this granny is more lethal than the cat gave her credit for. Best not to get on her bad side now, "Can we please not harm any students? We're supposed to save the child not kill two others in the process." The cat follows up with the old lady jumping down from above the door, knife held in his mouth, before pouncing at the closest guard to the door and aims to slit his neck. Also good riddance to that bratty child of a girl. She can end up in a ditch on the side of the road for all this cat cares.

[TricMagic]

"Well, at least we're free now. Thank you for your help." That could have gone badly for me. I am glad she interceded before I ended up against the wall. She seems very powerful. (Both of them in different ways.)

Arvidar moves the gun away from everyone and pulls the trigger.

click.

"I suppose that worked. M'am, as you can see weapons don't work in this cell. And as you seem to be allies, I'd agree. After we get a few weapons for my companions."

Tunring to the green-haired girl, who still hasn't given her name..

"I doubt you can escape the prison block on your own, and you don't have the build to disguise yourself as a guard. We have a better chance of escaping together than apart. And given that that guard won't be getting back up, we don't have much time before our escape is known."

[cronos5010]

Akira wordlessly approached the guard captain's prone body, and wrested the man's sword away.
: "And you don't mind doing any of this? Betraying your empire? And letting us out to slay any guard stopping us from taking that boy with us on our way out?"
: "Feh, the Corisians are nothing but honorless dogs after all."

[rustytengo]

Blodeuyn stopped and looked back at the gunman after he spoke to her.


"You shouldn't underestimate me. The only reason theses idiots caught me was because they used Chocobos as bait to lure me in." she gave a puff of annoyance " Really who uses Chocobos like that its just mean." she sighed then smiled back at the "Well if you are going to need my help i guess i can stick around."

[Unlurking Sentinel]

"Forbidden magic? Oh, it isn't something so fancy. Just a trick of the mind, really. Though perhaps some sort of magic is involved..."

But as she turned around to speak, her 'trick' had begun to wear off on its own...

Die, demon!

One of the still-remaining guards rushed at the old woman, lance in hand, before thrusting it at her, and landing a hit! However, she did not recoil in pain. She simply turned to look at the guard, and stood up. This was the first time that the prisoners or students had seen her standing upright, and it was for the first time that her figure could be discerned. It was now clear that her silhouette matched her form.

"..."

She looked the guard in the eyes, unflinching, the lancehead still lodged in her right arm. The instant he broke eye contact, she lifted him up by his armor and cast him into the cell, where he landed atop the guard who had rushed in there before (still shaking in his legs).

"Is that the one you were describing?"

[Chevaleresse]

"It appears so. However," Viverna turned to eye the red mage. "Now is not the time for indulging yourself. This may be the only chance at rescuing that boy. And afterward. . ." Her steely gaze shifted to Ivoh'to. "We must speak, cat."

[RedMageCole]

Claus took a short break from his admiration of what he was very certain in his mind was related to time magic in some way to address Akira.

"Nope. Don't mind it at all. I'm afraid your hatred for Corisians is paltry in comparison to mine— as my father said, no one hates the Coris Empire like Corisians do. Unless you are Corisian, in which case you might want to rephrase your sentence to be 'Corisians, with a few exceptions, are nothing but honorless dogs'. Unless you're in a state of self-loathing, in which I do hope that gets cleared up quickly. Regardless of whatever situation you are in, you'll find I have more honor in me than all of these guards combined, I assure you."

Once the guard entered, Claus recognized him immediately on sight— wincing at the hit, but then taking a bit of macabre pleasure in watching the guard get lifted. He perked up immediately once he was addressed.

"Precisely the one, actually! Allow me..." Claus took a few steps before Viverna addressed him. He sighed just a bit, pulling his hat down slightly. "Oh, very well... However, we still have to knock him out, so I might as well do it. But I'll cut my speech down to a sentence in the interest of time." He cleared his throat...

"What goes around comes around, sir. Thunder!" Claus pointed his finger in the air, calling a burst of lightning from his fingertip to envelop the small pile of guards and jolt them full of electricity.

[SirAston]

A lot of chaotic situations and movements happen all at once, with the addition of magic only adding fuel to Djedre's confusion. So many spells flung around at once, and a red-clad student that chatters too much to her liking.

All she could do in the past seconds was observing everything with a hint of panic in her eyes, moving her body by instinct to keep a distance to whatever is happening around her.

Really not doing the magically-rich history of her family any justice at the moment and the lack of armor makes her feel extra vulnerable.


The armored woman, seemingly a friend of the red-clad mage, then mentioned "rescuing that boy". That was the moment where Djedre snaps back, eyes focusing and looking sharp again, her body stance becoming more firm and ready.

"... Yes. We have an innocent child to save. Hasten your necessary efforts and then let us leave this cell behind."

[Unlurking Sentinel]

The old woman, upon hearing the horned woman's words, turned back towards the cell.

"...so you're saying you know where this child with the crystal is? Is it also where the other spi- ...'lucid crystals' are being held?"

[kj1225]

Lenn'art, rather understandably, was somewhat stunned into silence by all that went on in this brief period. Finally though, he roused himself into action with only a single comment.
"Gods protect me."

With that, he pushed off from his spot on the floor to run up the stairs, quickly stealing a staff from the guard the cat had done in. After a brief moment where he nearly turned back to the door he paused and closed the eyes of the guard he stole from. Might as well pay them some respect even if he didn't care for the guards here.

[Chevaleresse]

"I do not believe he is with others. The mages here have found difficulty in imprisoning this one. Neither do I know if the crystal is still where it was - but we can take you to the previous site. If it is there, and the guard is not utterly incompetent, there will be resistance."