Chapter 326
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Blanche clicked her tongue disbelievingly. "Tsk. They actually used possession! That's something that only the most paranoid people use. If they aren't paranoid, then they're just despicable."
Possession, as Blanche spoke of it, was something that caused the death of the person that was possessed after the original caster 'left' that body.
As far as Blanche knew, this type of seal wasn't even found nowadays. The knowledge had already all but died out, though one could still read about the horrors that one could commit using possession.
But even if they could read about the horrors about possession and the damage it had caused, they weren't able to find the right sequence of runes that could produce such an effect.
Yet, beyond all odds, they had managed to find someone that had been possessed by someone – and they had used it as a means of escaping from Blanche and Alec.
That just pissed her off.
The reason why the knowledge was no longer circulated was because the various people in power had done their best to stamp it out from general circulated knowledge, leaving a sharp decline in people being able to use it in the future.
To be able to find knowledge of it also spoke of how widespread the organisation's reach was.
Unlike Blanche who was clicking her tongue over how the reach of this organisation hidden in the dark seemed to be a lot more widespread than she thought, Alec was crouched over the freshly dead body, his eyes narrowed.
There were still runes scattered about the air that he could barely make out, but they were quickly fading without a source of magic to latch onto.
Going by his gut instinct, Alec used his own magic to seal the area around the dead body, preventing the magic from fading into nothing.
Alec's brows furrowed and for once, the smile that had been all but beaten into his reflexes didn't make an appearance.
"What is it?" Blanche questioned her little brother, seeing him so serious for once. What was it that he was seeing that she wasn't?
Alec's face was dark as he took in the broken seal that had been attached to the woman. "It's a bastardized version of a seal," he said lowly, his voice thoroughly displeased.
Blanche felt a shiver go up her spine at Alec's darkly promising tone. She had no doubt that her cute little brother would skin them alive if he ever got his hands on the creator of the seal.
"You do know that possession like this was created before you were born, right? And that they probably aren't even alive anymore?"
Alec looked up from the body, smiling at her. It was a nice smile, but the intent behind it made her grin savagely. She felt as if Alec ever invented some time travel array that took him back in time, he would take great pleasure in killing the person who came up with such a seal.
She couldn't pretend to understand what he was feeling – to be honest, to her, possession wasn't that big a deal. She could deal with it. She just didn't respect those that sunk so low to use such means.
But Alec apparently didn't feel the same.
"That doesn't stop my murderous feelings any," Alec said pleasantly. "Anyway, they could have done something amazing with this, but now it's just a piece of disgusting patchwork in the making. Someone cobbled up what seems to be a mix of a few different seals together. The creator clearly had no idea what they were doing," Alec ranted. "They could have blown themselves up!" He paused.
Alec angrily started again, this time the sheer affront he felt coming stronger. "They *should* have blown themselves up! It's a travesty, that's what this is-"
Blanche looked at him fondly as he ranted about everything wrong that person did in his bastardized seal. Alec was only ever this passionate whenever he got into a debate about arrays and seals. She thought it was rather cute.
After all, he was always reading about the subject, saying there was never too much to learn.
Blanche didn't pretend to understand it, but it seemed to work out for her little brother, so that was all that mattered.
Blanche looked at how Alec stared trailed off before staring blankly into space, as if he was lost in his own mind, and her lips twitched.
She hauled him up onto her shoulder – and he still felt as light as he did when he was still a kid – and the body up onto the other shoulder, jumping out of the building.
She quickly moved them away from the 'crime scene' so to speak, and into a safer place.
No doubt that someone would come soon, with the sounds she'd made when she crashed into the place as a distraction.
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Alec blinked, looking around with confusion. This was the first time that he'd found himself in a completely different place from the time when he zoned out.
He felt slightly embarrassed when he realized just how much he'd let down his guard with Blanche. Nowadays, his subconscious didn't even register her as a threat, thus allowing her to move him without any reaction from him.
Still, his loss of concentration this time was fruitful.
He'd designed a seal that he could use to track the person who had possessed this person. Rather, if their magical signature was ever near him, he'd be alerted.
Useful.
He'd already studied the 'possession' seal – if that shit could even be called a seal – and he gathered that the person's magical signature stayed the same no matter that this was another body.
Thus, if he ever found that person, they wouldn't be able to fool him.
Now, whether the person was male or female, didn't matter. He already got his hands on their magical signature.
Alec's lips pulled into a smile.
"Who are you going to kill this time?" Blanche questioned with amusement.
"The person who created this seal," Alec said, his tone pleased.
"Pass me one too," Blanche said, sticking out her hand.
Alec looked at her, bemused. "Pass you what?"
"One of whatever you're going to use to make that person's life hell, of course."
That startled out a genuine short burst of laughter from Alec. He pressed one of his newly designed seals onto a sheet of paper, waving it above the dead body still in the room with them. He then passed it to her.
"Put a bit of your magic into it," Alec instructed. "It'll tug on your magic if the person is within one kilometre of the seal. Then, you just have to follow the way your magic tugs to find the person."
"Good," Blanche grinned, pleased. "This makes things easier."
Alec nodded. He'd been pissed when he realized that he failed to take into account that the person might escape by other means other than well… *physically* escaping.
He'd grown a bit more complacent than he thought, if he allowed for something like that to happen.
Being around Blanche, who was perfectly powerful and also willing to listen to his orders most of the time, had killed off a bit of the thorough thought process that he should have maintained when facing a potential enemy.
He'd have to split off from Blanche soon lest he continued down this path.
Alec still needed strength of his own making, not something that he depended on others for.
It rankled that he had still yet to hit the advanced tier when Dominique was already a Meister.
He was perfectly happy letting things take their course, but he would probably do well with a bit more urgency.
With that thought in mind, Alec turned to face Blanche. "Let's go find that group of chaos."
Blanche raised a brow, but she nodded. She'd seen the frustration that was well hidden on her little brother's face, and she knew that they would probably be splitting up some time soon.
Her being here for too long was probably hampering his growth. He also couldn't get into suitably dangerous situations with her here. Just knowing that she was a Meister probably affected his subconscious.
"I've heard rumours about some chaos happening further down south."
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Blanche clicked her tongue disbelievingly. "Tsk. They actually used possession! That's something that only the most paranoid people use. If they aren't paranoid, then they're just despicable."
Possession, as Blanche spoke of it, was something that caused the death of the person that was possessed after the original caster 'left' that body.
As far as Blanche knew, this type of seal wasn't even found nowadays. The knowledge had already all but died out, though one could still read about the horrors that one could commit using possession.
But even if they could read about the horrors about possession and the damage it had caused, they weren't able to find the right sequence of runes that could produce such an effect.
Yet, beyond all odds, they had managed to find someone that had been possessed by someone – and they had used it as a means of escaping from Blanche and Alec.
That just pissed her off.
The reason why the knowledge was no longer circulated was because the various people in power had done their best to stamp it out from general circulated knowledge, leaving a sharp decline in people being able to use it in the future.
To be able to find knowledge of it also spoke of how widespread the organisation's reach was.
Unlike Blanche who was clicking her tongue over how the reach of this organisation hidden in the dark seemed to be a lot more widespread than she thought, Alec was crouched over the freshly dead body, his eyes narrowed.
There were still runes scattered about the air that he could barely make out, but they were quickly fading without a source of magic to latch onto.
Going by his gut instinct, Alec used his own magic to seal the area around the dead body, preventing the magic from fading into nothing.
Alec's brows furrowed and for once, the smile that had been all but beaten into his reflexes didn't make an appearance.
"What is it?" Blanche questioned her little brother, seeing him so serious for once. What was it that he was seeing that she wasn't?
Alec's face was dark as he took in the broken seal that had been attached to the woman. "It's a bastardized version of a seal," he said lowly, his voice thoroughly displeased.
Blanche felt a shiver go up her spine at Alec's darkly promising tone. She had no doubt that her cute little brother would skin them alive if he ever got his hands on the creator of the seal.
"You do know that possession like this was created before you were born, right? And that they probably aren't even alive anymore?"
Alec looked up from the body, smiling at her. It was a nice smile, but the intent behind it made her grin savagely. She felt as if Alec ever invented some time travel array that took him back in time, he would take great pleasure in killing the person who came up with such a seal.
She couldn't pretend to understand what he was feeling – to be honest, to her, possession wasn't that big a deal. She could deal with it. She just didn't respect those that sunk so low to use such means.
But Alec apparently didn't feel the same.
"That doesn't stop my murderous feelings any," Alec said pleasantly. "Anyway, they could have done something amazing with this, but now it's just a piece of disgusting patchwork in the making. Someone cobbled up what seems to be a mix of a few different seals together. The creator clearly had no idea what they were doing," Alec ranted. "They could have blown themselves up!" He paused.
Alec angrily started again, this time the sheer affront he felt coming stronger. "They *should* have blown themselves up! It's a travesty, that's what this is-"
Blanche looked at him fondly as he ranted about everything wrong that person did in his bastardized seal. Alec was only ever this passionate whenever he got into a debate about arrays and seals. She thought it was rather cute.
After all, he was always reading about the subject, saying there was never too much to learn.
Blanche didn't pretend to understand it, but it seemed to work out for her little brother, so that was all that mattered.
Blanche looked at how Alec stared trailed off before staring blankly into space, as if he was lost in his own mind, and her lips twitched.
She hauled him up onto her shoulder – and he still felt as light as he did when he was still a kid – and the body up onto the other shoulder, jumping out of the building.
She quickly moved them away from the 'crime scene' so to speak, and into a safer place.
No doubt that someone would come soon, with the sounds she'd made when she crashed into the place as a distraction.
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Alec blinked, looking around with confusion. This was the first time that he'd found himself in a completely different place from the time when he zoned out.
He felt slightly embarrassed when he realized just how much he'd let down his guard with Blanche. Nowadays, his subconscious didn't even register her as a threat, thus allowing her to move him without any reaction from him.
Still, his loss of concentration this time was fruitful.
He'd designed a seal that he could use to track the person who had possessed this person. Rather, if their magical signature was ever near him, he'd be alerted.
Useful.
He'd already studied the 'possession' seal – if that shit could even be called a seal – and he gathered that the person's magical signature stayed the same no matter that this was another body.
Thus, if he ever found that person, they wouldn't be able to fool him.
Now, whether the person was male or female, didn't matter. He already got his hands on their magical signature.
Alec's lips pulled into a smile.
"Who are you going to kill this time?" Blanche questioned with amusement.
"The person who created this seal," Alec said, his tone pleased.
"Pass me one too," Blanche said, sticking out her hand.
Alec looked at her, bemused. "Pass you what?"
"One of whatever you're going to use to make that person's life hell, of course."
That startled out a genuine short burst of laughter from Alec. He pressed one of his newly designed seals onto a sheet of paper, waving it above the dead body still in the room with them. He then passed it to her.
"Put a bit of your magic into it," Alec instructed. "It'll tug on your magic if the person is within one kilometre of the seal. Then, you just have to follow the way your magic tugs to find the person."
"Good," Blanche grinned, pleased. "This makes things easier."
Alec nodded. He'd been pissed when he realized that he failed to take into account that the person might escape by other means other than well… *physically* escaping.
He'd grown a bit more complacent than he thought, if he allowed for something like that to happen.
Being around Blanche, who was perfectly powerful and also willing to listen to his orders most of the time, had killed off a bit of the thorough thought process that he should have maintained when facing a potential enemy.
He'd have to split off from Blanche soon lest he continued down this path.
Alec still needed strength of his own making, not something that he depended on others for.
It rankled that he had still yet to hit the advanced tier when Dominique was already a Meister.
He was perfectly happy letting things take their course, but he would probably do well with a bit more urgency.
With that thought in mind, Alec turned to face Blanche. "Let's go find that group of chaos."
Blanche raised a brow, but she nodded. She'd seen the frustration that was well hidden on her little brother's face, and she knew that they would probably be splitting up some time soon.
Her being here for too long was probably hampering his growth. He also couldn't get into suitably dangerous situations with her here. Just knowing that she was a Meister probably affected his subconscious.
"I've heard rumours about some chaos happening further down south."
Blanche clicked her tongue disbelievingly. "Tsk. They actually used possession! That's something that only the most paranoid people use. If they aren't paranoid, then they're just despicable."Possession, as Blanche spoke of it, was something that caused the death of the person that was possessed after the original caster 'left' that body.As far as Blanche knew, this type of seal wasn't even found nowadays. The knowledge had already all but died out, though one could still read about the horrors that one could commit using possession.But even if they could read about the horrors about possession and the damage it had caused, they weren't able to find the right sequence of runes that could produce such an effect.Yet, beyond all odds, they had managed to find someone that had been possessed by someone and they had used it as a means of escaping from Blanche and Alec.That just pissed her off.The reason why the knowledge was no longer circulated was because the various people in power had done their best to stamp it out from general circulated knowledge, leaving a sharp decline in people being able to use it in the future.To be able to find knowledge of it also spoke of how widespread the organisation's reach was.Unlike Blanche who was clicking her tongue over how the reach of this organisation hidden in the dark seemed to be a lot more widespread than she thought, Alec was crouched over the freshly dead body, his eyes narrowed.There were still runes scattered about the air that he could barely make out, but they were quickly fading without a source of magic to latch onto.Going by his gut instinct, Alec used his own magic to seal the area around the dead body, preventing the magic from fading into nothing.Alec's brows furrowed and for once, the smile that had been all but beaten into his reflexes didn't make an appearance."What is it?" Blanche questioned her little brother, seeing him so serious for once. What was it that he was seeing that she wasn't?Alec's face was dark as he took in the broken seal that had been attached to the woman. "It's a bastardized version of a seal," he said lowly, his voice thoroughly displeased.Blanche felt a shiver go up her spine at Alec's darkly promising tone. She had no doubt that her cute little brother would skin them alive if he ever got his hands on the creator of the seal."You do know that possession like this was created before you were born, right? And that they probably aren't even alive anymore?"Alec looked up from the body, smiling at her. It was a nice smile, but the intent behind it made her grin savagely. She felt as if Alec ever invented some time travel array that took him back in time, he would take great pleasure in killing the person who came up with such a seal.She couldn't pretend to understand what he was feeling to be honest, to her, possession wasn't that big a deal. She could deal with it. She just didn't respect those that sunk so low to use such means.But Alec apparently didn't feel the same."That doesn't stop my murderous feelings any," Alec said pleasantly. "Anyway, they could have done something amazing with this, but now it's just a piece of disgusting patchwork in the making. Someone cobbled up what seems to be a mix of a few different seals together. The creator clearly had no idea what they were doing," Alec ranted. "They could have blown themselves up!" He paused.Alec angrily started again, this time the sheer affront he felt coming stronger. "They *should* have blown themselves up! It's a travesty, that's what this is-"Blanche looked at him fondly as he ranted about everything wrong that person did in his bastardized seal. Alec was only ever this passionate whenever he got into a debate about arrays and seals. She thought it was rather cute.After all, he was always reading about the subject, saying there was never too much to learn.Blanche didn't pretend to understand it, but it seemed to work out for her little brother, so that was all that mattered.Blanche looked at how Alec stared trailed off before staring blankly into space, as if he was lost in his own mind, and her lips twitched.She hauled him up onto her shoulder and he still felt as light as he did when he was still a kid and the body up onto the other shoulder, jumping out of the building.She quickly moved them away from the 'crime scene' so to speak, and into a safer place.No doubt that someone would come soon, with the sounds she'd made when she crashed into the place as a distraction.-Author only posts on w.e.b.n.o.v.e.l.-Alec blinked, looking around with confusion. This was the first time that he'd found himself in a completely different place from the time when he zoned out.He felt slightly embarrassed when he realized just how much he'd let down his guard with Blanche. Nowadays, his subconscious didn't even register her as a threat, thus allowing her to move him without any reaction from him.Still, his loss of concentration this time was fruitful.He'd designed a seal that he could use to track the person who had possessed this person. Rather, if their magical signature was ever near him, he'd be alerted.Useful.He'd already studied the 'possession' seal if that shit could even be called a seal and he gathered that the person's magical signature stayed the same no matter that this was another body.Thus, if he ever found that person, they wouldn't be able to fool him.Now, whether the person was male or female, didn't matter. He already got his hands on their magical signature.Alec's lips pulled into a smile."Who are you going to kill this time?" Blanche questioned with amusement."The person who created this seal," Alec said, his tone pleased."Pass me one too," Blanche said, sticking out her hand.Alec looked at her, bemused. "Pass you what?""One of whatever you're going to use to make that person's life hell, of course."That startled out a genuine short burst of laughter from Alec. He pressed one of his newly designed seals onto a sheet of paper, waving it above the dead body still in the room with them. He then passed it to her."Put a bit of your magic into it," Alec instructed. "It'll tug on your magic if the person is within one kilometre of the seal. Then, you just have to follow the way your magic tugs to find the person.""Good," Blanche grinned, pleased. "This makes things easier."Alec nodded. He'd been pissed when he realized that he failed to take into account that the person might escape by other means other than well *physically* escaping.He'd grown a bit more complacent than he thought, if he allowed for something like that to happen.Being around Blanche, who was perfectly powerful and also willing to listen to his orders most of the time, had killed off a bit of the thorough thought process that he should have maintained when facing a potential enemy.He'd have to split off from Blanche soon lest he continued down this path.Alec still needed strength of his own making, not something that he depended on others for.It rankled that he had still yet to hit the advanced tier when Dominique was already a Meister.He was perfectly happy letting things take their course, but he would probably do well with a bit more urgency.With that thought in mind, Alec turned to face Blanche. "Let's go find that group of chaos."Blanche raised a brow, but she nodded. She'd seen the frustration that was well hidden on her little brother's face, and she knew that they would probably be splitting up some time soon.Her being here for too long was probably hampering his growth. He also couldn't get into suitably dangerous situations with her here. Just knowing that she was a Meister probably affected his subconscious."I've heard rumours about some chaos happening further down south."
