Once Lumina and the apprentiights finished shopping for supplies, they met up with the schors and Ternan at the west gate where they were holding horses. The horses were rather rge and imposing with dignity neighing in dession towards those near it, they even threw of one of schors trying to ride.

  When Lumina got close to one of the horses and stared into its eyes, the dignified horse lowered their head prostration towards her intangible aura of death that emanated from her being where the horse allowed her to get on without fanfare. Eventually the rest of the team mao get onto their horses where the schors led them into a sprint towards the west.

  After a few days of travel, even past the western vilge that Lumio before for a mission, the schors, knights and Lumina got to know one another along this trip allowing for each of them to e to an uanding when it es to a fight.

  By the third day, they reached the edge of the western forest which is said to house the ruin the schors wao do a precursory exploration iing off the horses, they tied them down to the nearby trees and pressed inwards into the forest with Ternan being the scout ahead of the group, the knights in the front, schors in the middle and Lumina closing up the rear.

  There wasn't much trouble getting to the ruin site as most of the magical beasts and monsters were easily dealt with because they were signifitly weaker than the rest of the party.

  The rui grey stone rocks jutting out of the ground with plenty of moss and vines crawling all around its surface. Some of the exterior of the stone appeared to be weathered with cracks spindling around here and there from what looked to be possible damage. Arthur walked up to an area of the stone covered in flora and moss, wiping it away carefully to reveal what looked to be a worn down, rotten wooden pque with barely legible words.

  Muttering to himself, Arthur then excimed in surprise and joy. "Ahah, it seems this is a possible underground crypt for a notable member of the neancer family, someone by the family name of Albus." When the name Albus was mentioned, Lumina narrowed her eyes in thought before asking Arthur to know more about the Albus family.

  "Excuse me, knowledgeable Arthur, do you think you could enlighten me about the Albus family?"

  "Ah, of course! the Albus family were once a small family of vilgers who learnt of the neantic ways from priests of the Death temple aually rose in power to bee Barons within what was known as Morakaiz capital city but is otherwise now referred to as Droma. The most powerful member of the Albus family would be Drake Albus, though there isn't much left to say about him."

  Iing, it seems that there is more to learn about you predecessor Albus. After the initial versation, everyone prepared and started to head down into the underground crypt. As this was happening, Lumina thinking about the possibility of danger ing for her, decided to leave behind the four spiders to keep watch outside the crypt just in case.

  The underground space within the crypt was dark and damp making it slightly difficult to navigate as the tunnels started to branch out into twists and turns. The schors within the group was watg out for aable patterns that may bee a prelude into a trap using their knowledge on neantic style buildings.

  After a solid amount of time passed, everyone decided that it was a good point to rest before they tinue desding down further into the crypt.

  Sitting down, Lumina reached int and brought out the necessary provisions to share with everyone. "So Arthur, what are we looking for specifically?" Lumina questioned him with an ever-growing curiosity.

  "Well, I won't lie, we are looking to see if there are any relics for neancers buried here in which we research to see how they could have been used." Arthur responded jovially while stroking his beard.

  While the versation was underway, Lumi something tickle her hand that was leaning on the ground, so looking at it, she saw that there were small vines brush against them. Hmm I don't think those vines are natural. Moving her hand out of the way, she looked towards the others and just when she was about to speak she felt her throat tighten as if someone was strangling her.

  g at her throat, she picked up her dagger on the side of her hip and quickly cut at the thing strangling her, panting from the asphyxiation, she looked towards the schors and knights and saw that they too were struggling. Taking a quick few minutes, she cut all the vines within the viity. "Is everyone ok?"

  Receiving positive feedback from everyone, she settled down her guard thinking about making a couple of these vines her shadows. "Perhaps we should head on out of here and progress." Lumina suggested to her cohort of listeners.

  Everyone picked up their things as Lumina stayed towards the bad muttered under her breath so no one else hear her say "Transd" Return. The two vines slinked into her shadow as she made a move.

  Deeper into the tunnels, she started to hear some echoes and gibberish muttered into her ears as they progressed. While taking no notice of it, she watched the others to see if they are hearing the same thing or not and by their expressions, they looked to be in a daze as they walked in a zombie-like fashion.

  Huh? What's going on?

  You will never be accepted by us... What kind of son did I raise to bee this... Monstrosity. Ew! You think I'll ever date a girl? you fuck off as I find a real man. The mutterings became louder as what looked to be illusions of people she knows started to appear.

  Fuck off! You don't know my family like I do!! In anger, Lumina dehinking about the possibility as she temporarily summoned Aethon to have a swift lookout from anything unordinary or what shouldn't be. Looking through his eyes, Lumina saw that there were differences in the location as through her owhere was nothing but tunnel, but through Aethon's, she sees that there are deadly nightshades in the walls leading into a cliffs edge that everyone seems to be walking towards.

  Shit!

  Exg inside her head, Lumina ordered Aethon to attack the nightshades on the walls as she grabbed the schors and knights smag them in the face to get them out of the dazed state that they were in. Also, to py along, she did the same with Ternan but really put all her forto it ensuring that it hurt.

  THWACK

  "OW! Huh?" Ohat was done Lumina expined away her jecture as to what was going on. It seemed that everyone was under a fusion and halluation from the deadly nightshades that were leading them to their death as she poiowards the cliffs edge. Everyone paling from shock moved back to where they came from, meanwhile Lumina also grabbed a couple of nightshades as shadows as well.

  Finally, they reached the end of the tunnel for their exploration leading to what looked to be a sarcophagus in the middle of the room.