As night carried on ash woke up to find himself a drink so he went to the makeshift kitchen ash grabbed a cup and looked for a sink but couldn't find one so he went outside and found a hose and slowly turned the top
More and more water coming out of it was dirty water but ash thought he could use his powers and purify it but then he heard footsteps
So he looked around "uh hello definitely not creepy ghost" He said.
As hooded guy walked door to door putting bags done on they're doorstep
It was the guy the old woman was talking about so he ran up to him
"Hey uhm could you take off your hood" ash asked the guy but the guy looked at him and walked away before he could say anything so ash walked back inside and went back to sleep.
When he woke he looked at the others they were eating the food the hooded guy brought then ash slowly looked around Before standing up And stretching
Ready to get his mind back In shape because if he doesn't he won't be able to survive the ruin belt and he'll end up like how he ended up in his first selection.
He decided to keep the fact he saw the hooded guy a secret not because it wa important but because he just wanted to so he sat down "who brought these?" He said "the hooded man" Aurelia said eating "well dig in your gonna need to eat if you wanna face the three kings" she said they nodded so the old lady slowly lifted up the hot bowl of stew and handed it to ash.
Then ash took a bite it was so delicious he hadn't had a meal this good in a while
He ate like he hadn't had food for days "the problem with the rot king is he has a memory core" ash and noah looked at her they confused expression made the old lady chuckle.
"A memory core is A core inside a person that stores power + experiences
It holds energy for fighting
It grows stronger from memories, emotions, and battles
It can unlock new abilities based on what the user has gone through
If pushed too far, it can crack, break, or become corrupted" she said
Ash and noah but looked at eachother food in they're mouths.
"Yeah it's a pretty popular subject didn't the teacher literally tell us that?"
Aurelia said ash must've not being paying attention it probably was after he was finished helping sage then the old lady stood up and cleaned her plate before heading outside "I'm going to help more people you can do what you want until then" she said.
She walked away leaving Aurelia and noah and ash by themselves
So ash Aurelia stood up "Ok it's time to get to work" Aurelia said walking out the house ash and noah followed and they saw seris helping villagers out
"Now it's time we try to find our way into that castle" Aurelia said
But then the old lady walked back up to them.
"Ok I'm back just just needed to get something" she said scooting past them
And ash turned to her "mrs.you know who Aegis is" she froze
And slowly turned her head to him "know him, I almost died because of him"
She said "I was forced to come to this village because of the black knight raid"
She said "black night raid?" Noah said.
"the black knight raid 2.0 the first ever black night raid was the deadliest attack in history but thanks to the first generation totalities, they're the people that keep Aegis in the temple they all have different powers that are used to seal him"
"What are the totalities?" Ash asked "they are girls that have unique abilities they're totalities the totality of flame totality of control and finally totality of death"
She said "so why don't they help us then?" Noah said "because no one had seen them since they sealed aegis" she said.
"ROARRRRRR!!!!!!!" They all turned around slowly "God dang it I was hoping I just heard that" noah said as monster with 5 legs 1 eye long neck a mouth at the back of its head and white skin it charged at them "MOVE!!!!!!" Ash yelled out to the old lady Aurelia dashed at the lady grabbing her a millisecond
Before she could be attacked.
Ash and noah got ready to fight until a cannon ball it the monster in the chest knocking it back and they turned around and seris had spawned a cannon
"FIRE!!!!" And another cannon ball came out.
It hit the monster again and seris spawned a rock and jumped
On it and and sent more rocks at the monster And ash spawned his blade
And Aurelia dashed at the monster slicing its leg.
Making it bend as noah screamed sending Shockwave at it
It roared back putting it's hand on the floor keeping it from moving
"It's smart!" Ash thought then it grabbed a tree slapping noah with it
Aurelia ran back "take a knee!" She said cutting it's caves making it take a knee.
Then Aurelia jumped in the air and spun around slashing it's legs then landed but it snarled in pain as it grabbed a house and broke into peices chucking it at
Ash.he dodged trying to figure out what he could use so he ran while they fought so he could get a good look At the situation As seris shot at the monster the old lady hid innher house praying.
"Ok man, That hurt" noah said his voice barely above a whisper
As he stood up slowly and he yelled at the monster sending It flying back but it grabbed on To a tree, the tree bended due to the monsters wait and broke off
Sending the monster with it but it wasn't over as a blood curdling scream escaped the monsters mouth.
"Ok this is gonna take a while" ash thought.