Netori: Stealing The Hero's Party!

Chapter 454 Blooms Bright The Secrets

A glimmering nail, transparent at some angles and opaque at others. A dead part of a god–it now lay in Linkle's hands. She knew little about the thing but had decided to keep her lips sealed until she could figure out exactly what the item was capable of. But to do that, her return to Athenia was inevitable and thus, the moment everyone had awakened she approached Raven.

Trying not to let her true intentions be known, Linkle casually leaned on her sides before starting to talk.

"I think I'll be heading back to Athenia," she told him, and everyone instantly turned to look at her in shock.

"That's the first thing you're gonna say in the morning?" Being the only one beyond getting shocked after recent events, Raven tried to keep a straight head as he understood why Linkle would try to leave them for now. "We'll let you know when we find that flower or get to the middle of the ocean from here to another mainland."

Nodding back, Linkle kept the secret about the peculiar nail to herself. She had her doubts about it being divine but didn't wanna tell anyone about it just yet. Raven too was holding a secret by not letting his intention of allowing Linkle to part be apparent.

'It's better for Maine and the rest of us for Linkle to stay away until this demon thing is resolved.'

He thought while extending his hand forward to shake the witch's hand.

Meanwhile, watching from a distance with heavy eye bags, Erika was holding a secret that neither of them was aware of. The book she'd gotten her hands on last night; she hadn't had the time to read through it since her attention was solely focused on the mimics once she'd gotten back from the church.

'I might need to tell him about that spirit teleporting too...'

Her words lingered for a while as they settled inside everyone's head. Raven was the first to catch up as he was already thinking of ways to kill the siblings. With a deep nasal breath, he leaned forward and nodded at the queen–sealing between the two without having to say much else.

"Wait a second!" But not everyone was convinced just yet, and the one to voice his thoughts first was Amedith. As heads turned towards him, the warrior kept glancing between Raven and Elana. He had a question for them both and he demanded an answer. "We don't know anything about the strengths of her brothers and sisters, not to mention if we're doing this after handling the fleets, no way in the nine hells would we have enough energy to handle even one of them!"

Nodding his head along, Raven let the warrior speak his piece. Once he was done, however, he gave him a swift and conclusive response.

"They'll be tired too, and if push comes to shove we can teleport away or if we really need to end things then and there..." Turning his attention to the Djinn in the front, Raven asked a question of his own before completing his sentence. "Are your siblings demis or just you?"

For a moment the queen looked bewildered by his question but quickly decided to answer it.

"Yes, we're all demis. It helps to keep us alive for longer if we have a physical form, Djinns usually die off quickly if their magic has no flesh host."

Turning his head around again, Raven looked not at Amedith but at the priestess Erika and said but one word, yet it conveyed everything about his plans.

"Ostheriopryroprosis." The same rune that had helped them in the centuarian colosseum.

Note: This fucking name, I have to search it from a 450k words document to make sure I spelt it right lol