To dispel the very odd look Elita gave him right after his explanation, Skullius found himself having to tell her about everything that happened in Opungale. Before, when he explained everything in the Empyrean Bosom, he had only been in possession of his mories as Replicus and only after he rged did he get the full scope of what happened when his other body had woken up with the WILLS influencing it.
Skullius first had to explain who Luserus was. Elita was surprised to find out that the Deity had ties to the Sif. Luserus was, after all, the one who made the Luminants. Fulgardt, after reaching Divinity had invaded Luserus' world and nearly slaughtered the entirety of the Luminant race. He had only spared a few, including Dezrael the Arch-Luminant, and relocating them to Opungale in Aigas where they were well-received by the Sif.
The Luminants never forgot their roots. They made a shrine for Luserus, and the Deity could actually communicate with them to a degree using that shrine as a conduit.
Skullius' alter had visited this shrine and made a deal with Luserus that exploited his desperation to keep the Luminants alive as leverage. Since Skullius had part of the DNA of the Luminants, as his race had hinted at (Hybrid Luman), Luserus had been willing to grant him three wishes.
Luserus got rid of his atrocious luck, allowed him to use the skill, [Son of Luserus], which had refused to activate when Festos desired it due to so restriction, and gave him a blessing: Graceful Monolith of the Eminent.
In exchange, Skullius was supposed to produce spawn with Luminant qualities. He imagined that Luserus hoped to rebuild the Luminant race and relocate them from Aigas.
The way Skullius' possessed self was going to go about making sure he t his end of the deal was rather bold though. He had proclaid before a council of Sif, including the High Family, that he had fallen for Darwel, and after defeating the Ode of the First Horn, he had declared that he would appreciate it if the High Family allowed him to 'use' both their daughters.
Skullius didn't dare ntion this part to Elita. It made even him want to collapse in on himself with sha. To think he had been brazen enough to say things like that…
It was all Fulgardt. Only Fulgardt would casually, arrogantly, do things like that. That imdiately beca another reason Skullius was looking forward to killing the bastard.
After his lengthy explanation, Elita had an odd look on her face. It was sowhere between a cheeky smile and a frown. She took a seat as she processed this information. Skullius didn't know what there was to process though.
Kintar had flat-out laughed at Skullius. Kenno had done the sa, but he had the grace to at least warp away and laugh his ass off several kiloters away where Skullius wouldn't hear. Sila rely shook his head. He limited his mirth to a smile. Aurolio did the sa.
Uyuniya didn't know what was so funny. Sure, what Skullius had done in Opungale was bold and a little cheesy, but in other ways it was attractive.
It was unfortunate that she didn't get the funny in it. After all, even Skullius could see it, but he couldn't laugh at himself.
Elita let a bit of her mirth leak in a poorly-stifled chuckle.
"Hold on, Skullius. Don't take this the wrong way but…" she said, a big smile appearing on her face. "…Do you even know how to… you know? How to do it?"
Skullius would have kicked her head off right then.
Kintar hugged her tummy and roared in laughter all the more. Skullius killed her twice, but she kept laughing so hard that her face turned blue.
Uyuniya was left drifting in confusion again.
"Why wouldn't he know how to have intercourse?" she asked Elita seriously.
Elita's cheeks inflated. She might have been a balloon. For Skullius' sake, she did not laugh very hard. She instead explained to Uyuniya what she was missing.
Even after Uyuniya found out that Skullius had been a skeletal undead in the domain of Liches before obtaining the power of Null Life, she was still confused.
"But hasn't he been living on this world for a while? Surely, he knows how to—"
Kintar interrupted Uyuniya's sentence with a goat-like laugh.
Skullius killed her again, and when she revived with [Granted Restoration] he kicked her to Aigas' boundary.
The Monarch and the Arch-Mages might have lost their minds at this point. Fear couldn't even describe what they felt after what they had just witnessed. Even if they had been lucid enough to follow the conversation between Skullius and the three won, they wouldn't have dared to laugh.
The Monarch, in particular might have wet himself.
He rembered how he completely disregarded Skullius before, when he had simply been 'Kintar's master'. He had laughed, wondering how Kintar could possibly have a master and even used that reasoning to deny that she was, in fact, a Realm Source Mage. Yet now...
He had barely managed to comprehend it, but he had seen Kintar, a genuine Realm Source Mage get killed four tis now… and she had been laughing through it all.
He slumped to the dusty, debris-covered floor, questioning common sense.
anwhile, Skullius defended his honour.
"I know everything there is to know," he said firmly. "I've absorbed the mories of hundreds, maybe thousands of people on Aigas. I know it all. So would even say because I've experienced it through their mories—"
"No, no, no," Elita cut him off, wagging a finger. "You don't get a cheap pass with this one."
Skullius frowned.
"What about you? Aren't you the typical saintly knight saving herself for the 'perfect one'?"
"You wish. Don't confuse my identity. I was a knight not a nun," she said with a wave of her curly hair. "Anyway, is your body even equipped with such... functions? Isn't it supposed to be fake or sothing?"
Skullius narrowed his eyes dangerously.
"Don't listen to her," Uyuniya said assuringly. "You'll do just fine."
"I'm not worried about that, you socketholes!"
…
Minutes later, Kenno and Kintar had returned and the discussion on Skullius' possible impotence had ended. He had fully explained how Luserus would be of help as an ally, but his willingness to help was not at all guaranteed.
"Can you even contact him?" Kenno asked the Hybrid Warmoth.
"Yes. I used the Blessing he gave , Graceful Monolith of the Eminent, to absorb the shrine the Luminants used to contact him. It was mixed into the Preeminent Attegoth. I can use that," Skullius replied and he looked at Sila. The Tower General gave him a nod of understanding. "If Luserus agrees to help, I'll convince Suzate to allow him into Aigas. But in the case that this falls through, I'll have to fall back to relying on just the Corrupted Deity I have to ta."
Everyone nodded, but then Red Rage spoke up. He had been suspiciously silent in all this.
He had been engaged in his own thoughts.
"While you check to see if you can obtain an ally in Luserus, I might have a way we can use to do sothing about these crystals all over Aigas."
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