Eyes open, looking at the cloudy sky. 'When did all these clouds get there?'. From the corner of his eyes he saw a wooden statue kneeling. 'When did it get there?'. He began to sit up, but the statue moved its hand, placing it on his chest. 'Huh? Did it just move?'. He opened his mouth to speak, only to feel fat from the meat on his tongue. His mind was confused. Only to be slapped out of it, by a voice that comes from above him.
"Don't go up too fast, you lost too much blood."
'Who is speaking… Ha, right Annalee.'
Turning his head to the wooden statue, it was not moving, but it could move. From his memory it had the same appearance, but now it was different. If someone had told him how similar it was to the stone statue, he would laugh. It was shorter, not the same build, and it was made from wood, but that was not the thing that he was compared with. Annalee's voice whispered to his ear.
"You did a good job this time. Not the same with your failures."
An annoyed face formed on his face. 'Why did you remind me?'. It was quiet, then Annalee spoke again.
"You know I can't hear your mind, right?"
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'...'
"..."
"Right… you can't?"
The moment his voice left his mouth, the rest of the cohort turned to him. Lee stood up and walked over, hounding a wooden plate. On it were pieces of meat and fruits.
"It's good that you are awake, but we have bad news."
Lesser turns to Lee, now trying to move his body, only to be stopped by the Statue. Lesser was about to speak before Annalee spoke.
"Dreamsoul move your arm, and help lift him up slowly."
And the arm of the Statue moves from his chest to under his back, and slowly moves him up, in a sitting position.
Lesser, had gone from confused, to annoyed and now shocked. Turning to Lee, looking for answers. Lee look at him.
"Not me, you made it."
From the fire, Mary spoke.
"That has moved on its own. It began to move five hours ago. Know idé why do."
Lesser looked at everything around him, the thing that was new was the tents, the leaves were now in piles, and the tree had a hole bigger than Lesser himself. Turning back to Lee.
"What is the bad news?"
"We have decided where to go next."
"So, what's the bad news then?"
"Are you afraid of spiders or insects?"
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"..."
"No. Why?"
"The next platform, it is covered with cobwebs."
"So we burn it down then, right."
"Maybe."
Lesser look at him. turn his head to the side to see Mary and Adam looking back at him. They both nick. Lesser then look back at Lee and then down at the plate of food. Lee gave him the plate and moved back to the fire. Lesser had heard that nightmare creatures tasted bad, but it was fat that was needed for the body. Lesser took a bit of the food, it tasted bad, but it was still better than he had heard from his brother. He ate slowly. He looked at the sky and asked.
"So you can order this Echo?"
"You're right. I can somehow order your echo to move, but how did you guess it was echo?"
"Easy, it heard you, and moved. So it was easy to guess, you can see my runes, so you are counted by spell as me, but you have no power to summon memories or echo."
"Right."
The group by the fire, looked at Lesser.
"He's talking to his ghost right?"
"Thinks so, but it could be he lost too much blood to think right also."
"Right, but I think he is talking to the ghost that is hunting his memory."
The three of them turn to his other, and then back at him. Eating the vile tasting food.
Back to Lesser, he was summoning his runes. He was skipping to where his echo was listed on his runes. Only one was there, but it was his first echo he had gotten. He called its runes forth.
Echo Name: [Wood Saint Dreamsoul]
Echo Rank: Awakened.
Echo Class: Tyrant.
"So it became an Awaken tyrant. I hope it has good abilities."
Echo Attributes: [Battle Master], [Stalwart], [Photosynthesis], [Carved Blad].
'Four Attributes, ha. And one of them is [Stalwar], [Battle Master] sounds like it makes it a good fighter. The [Photosynthesis] is what plants do, like will it make oxygen and things. And [Carved Blad] sounds like it has a weapon on it.'
Lesser looked at it closely, he didn't remember if he had made a weapon with it, but it didn't have one. And that makes him worry if it turns its arms into bland or something. Look at its attributed runes, and on its strings. The stings were different from the memories he had seen, and the stone statue he had mimicked. But they had their similarities.
[Battle Master]
Attribute Description: [Born on the battlefield, the Wood Saint Dreamsoul is proficient in all forms of combat.]
'I guess right, it did make it a great fight, all is adapted with all forms of combat it is a blassing.'
[Stalwart]
Attribute Description: [The Wood Saint Dreamsoul is moderately resistant to all forms of damage, as well as being fully immune to mind and soul attacks.]
'Different from my [Stalwart Chisel] and Mary's [Stalwart] attribute. What did Mary say about how her [Stalwart] protected her.'
[Photosynthesis]
Attribute Description: [The Wood Saint Dreamsoul will slowly regenerate by absorbing water and sunlight.]
"So it doesn't make oxygen, but instead heals itself, slowly but healing is good, but water and sunlight."
"Yeah, that's going to be fun to use, right?"
"hard to call yet."
[Carved Blad]
Attribute Description: [It can't wield any weapon that's not made from wood.]
"Wait, Isn't this a flaw!"
"WHAT IS A FLAW LESSER!"
Lee shouted from the fire. Lesser turn and Shouted back.
"MY ECHO HAS A FLAW. LITERALLY A FLAW THAT MAKES IT ONLY WIELD WOODEN WEAPONS!"
The Three of them looked at him with shocked faces, but Mary was the only fake one of them three. Lesser couldn't see her face from there, but if he saw it he wouldn't release it. Having the runes move to his face and the description was the only one left.
Echo Description: [Inspired by the last child of the -unknown-, The unfated " " made his own living statue, not perfect, but his own to fight.]
Lesser tried to pick up a piece of meat only to find none left, he didn't realise that he had eaten all of the food given to him. He stood up and walked to the rest of the cohort, the statue stood there not moving and Lesser's voice sounded it to come, and it did. The [Tears of Home] was now filled up by the rest of the group when Lesser was down. They began to move to the platform. Ready or not they move, the four of them.