"With that much power behind it... the spell could have started a transformation of the whole planet into something else... or opened a gateway to another. Almost anything is possible with a spell that powerful, the one who used it must be worn out for a while."
Himinn's eyes grow wide. "But... then wouldn't that mean they'd be vulnerable to magic taint?" she asks. My head immediately turns to her. What...? She was never interested in that sort of things, how does she know about it? My left eyebrow rises considerably as I answer her, slowly: "Yes, indeed, the mind of the being who used such a powerful spell is much, much more vulnerable and open to corruption, which is often called "magic taint"."
"What will you do when you find the caster of the spell?" The man who asked that question is Ross. "Depends on the caster and the spell. Even so, I can't possibly know what to do, much of it boils down to if whoever casted the spell has good intentions towards me or not."
A short moment of silence is quickly interrupted by a shout from above: "There are people down there!" My eyes shoot up to find two winged people carrying two other people.
I don't believe I've seen any of them before. They land and I get a better look at them. A girl with gray wings was carrying a boy who seems to almost radiate light. Guardians of... Flight? and Light, I suppose. No doubt about Light, not sure about the girl though. The other winged person is male, almost angelic looking. Could be the Guardian of the Aether. And the girl she was carrying... red eyes, silver hair with very light red in it, transparent... that's the Guardian of the Nether. But then, who is the man carrying him? There's no way Nether would go anywhere near Aether, except maybe to drive a spear through him.
I look back at Nether and my jaw drops just a bit as realization dawns. She opened the portal to Nether, that's what I felt! But... why did she do it so early...?
I've been on good terms with Nether in the past... well, most of the time, at least. I've acted to maintain balance in the world more than once and that does include keeping her away from Aether, to not disturb the balance that requires the presence of both. But if she opened the portal now, without Aether even having arrived on this planet yet, that would have upset the balance, greatly.
"This lovely girl needs your help," the winged man says, looking straight at me. I snap out of my thoughts. "What?" I reply with a dumb and thoughtless expression on my face. Nether stumbles forward. "Y-you're a teen this time...?" she mumbles with a tiny smile just loud enough for me to hear it faintly. And then her expression grows serious. She looks really pale, I hope everything's okay.
"I need y-your help," she manages to say. "Magic... I-I have magic t-taint..."
No. No. No, no, no. This isn't happening.
Damnit.
"What's your name, Nether?" She replies: "R-Remilia."
I think for a moment. "Remilia, I can't help you. Not on my own. I need the Guardian of the Aether to help me. Magic taint needs to be cured with the opposing element."
((@Everyone near me))
