Discovery for Slate.

Cerci and Genie were riding on an inflated Sprite through the oceans of Northfin..

“So, you think Darrius is okay?” Asked Cerci

“Darrius can handle himself, I’m more worried about what those suspicious people were doing at the castle!”

“Ughh…. These 5 days have been horrible, and all we got out of it was some stupid glass shard from our informant!!” Said Cerci holding the Shard of Splitting unaware of its power….

“Yeah, you doing okay there Sprite?”

Sprite was about to ask when Cerci put her boot down on her hard.

“Don’t speak, it took me forever to fill you up with air, Ughh…. Can’t believe I had to half kiss a virgin angel!”

Meanwhile in the underwater temple, Megan and Slate were walking down through the temple as they saw the Artefacts on pedestals…

Slate had Darrius covered in baby clothes thanks to the Box Of Babysitting..

“Yes, we found them, let’s grab them!” Said Megan as she rushed across the bridge only for black blobs to shoot at her…

“Hehe blithering boob!” Said Slate as he grabbed Darrius and used him as a shield to get across without any damage to him..

“Arghhh….!”

“What’s wrong Megan sweetie?” Asked Slate concerned as he threw a completely gagged and babied Darrius to the ground covered in black goop.

“This feels so weird!!” Said Megan as the goo covered her skin and moved around a little

“Well that’s to be expected when messing around with…. Temples?” Said Slate as his eyes caught the look of an ancient wall of text.

“Megan, what is that?” Asked Slate confused by the art of what looked to be a dark goo contained by an alter..

“I’m not sure what this art is, but this text looks like the kind my people speak!”

“Then read it for me… I’ll make sure the Artefacts aren’t booby trapped!”

“Y y yess sir!” Said Megan as she managed to wipe all the black cold goop on her onto Darrius suffering from it…

Slate grabbed The Dared Flip Coin and put it in one of his pants pockets, and sighed looked at all the other Artefacts..

“Damn, I really need better space to put all this!” Thought Slate as he looked at The Orb of Ongoing, The Tentacle Twister, The Helmet of Hypnosis, and the Spirit Splitter…

He remembered Megan had a backpack he took from her and opened it up as he put the other Artefacts in it..

“All right, here’s what I’ve got from this!” Said Megan as she read it aloud..

“A warning to very a select few, The untold desires of people lead to them infusing great amounts of magic into goo that could be reshaped and reworked into what we called “Artefacts!”

“Wait…. What exactly is this place?” Asked Megan concerned

“Keep Reading!” Demanded Slate sternly.

“Umm….. This goo was made for the purpose of giving those with magic whatever they desired, but that power was soon used against all of us……. As one of our own betrayed us to the dragons and used a Artefact of immense power to combine our Artefacts into it, it grew very unstable as it reached the point where it could reshape almost anything!” Read Megan

“Reshape anything….. hmm interesting!” Said Slate as Megan looked at all this text with concern as she looked back at Slate.

“Did I say you could stop reading yet?” He asked as Megan shook her head and went back to it..

“This magic would soon take the desires of everyone and turn them against the entire world of Lustrous!”

“And what’s this phenomenon called?”

“Invictus!” Read Megan as she put her hands over her head…

“Hmm, what a rare source of power, almost as powerful as my Helm!” Said Slate curiously

“I don’t know about this!” Said Megan as she felt something was off

“What do you mean, it’s simple…. With a power like that we can control the world ourselves?”

“No, we….. shouldn’t be tampering with this!!”

“Oh please don’t so be hasty, there are more temples like this right, so the best of action is figuring out how to bring out this— Huh!!”

“You don’t understand, I remember this from my time in the academy…. I know far more than you, you shouldn’t be missing with this kind of power!!” Said Megan angrily as Slate put her mind to sleep as she fell down as Slate broke her paintbrush wand.

“And you shouldn’t be questioning who’s in charge of all this!” Said Slate as he opened Megan’s bag to grab one of the Artefacts..

He grabbed the Orb of Ongoing as his Helm scanned it as he got a clear idea on how to use it and spoke the word “Punishment!”

Both Darrius and Megan were sucked into the Orb as Slate put it back in his bag..

“With power like that, I’ll control this entire plane of existence!!” Said Slate eagerly as he held the Tentacle Twister and attached it to his chest..

His back grew individual tentacles and his arms as they ripped through the top of the underwater temple like nothing…

He got out of the underwater temple and saw the same party that Darrius was with…