09-16-2014, 09:34 PM
It had become painfully apparent to Ornstein that Kuzan's past and the circumstances of his departure from his land's navy were painful memories for him. Better to know that now, the knight reasoned, and know not to bring it up out of turn in future, than to make that mistake later and affront his companion. While the wheeled machine growled in action, Ornstein's steed rode alongside it, the knight trading his attention between looking at Kuzan and the approaching gateway.
When they finally reached it, he reined his horse in to a halt beside Kuzan's smoking carriage. He watched with unrestrained fascination as Kuzan dismounted the vehicle and proceeded to... well, break it back down to the Omnilium he'd used to construct it. With a similar explanation offered as the one he'd been given about how to create with Omnilium, the knight dismounted his horse and turned to place a hand against it. He closed his eyes and concentrated... Soon enough, he felt a sudden influx of energy, the power of the enigmatic substance filtering back into his body. When he opened his eyes again, the horse was gone, and hadn't made a sound in its departure. Mercifully, the act of extracting the Omnilium that had birthed it appeared to be painless for the beast.
Taking up his spear, he turned to follow Kuzan as he disappeared beyond the invisible threshold. The moment Ornstein stepped through the arched gate, his entire field of vision melted into blinding white, and a sudden, acute wave of nausea coursed through his body, as if he was being flipped and upended in non-existent mid-air. With a groan to voice his displeasure at the sensation, he continued to stride forward the way he'd been going, until the flat white was pulled away to reveal a whole different world.
He and his companion had stepped into a verdant green clearing, rolling fields of grass more or less as far as he could see. He stepped forward slowly, looking around in no small measure of awe. This Omniverse just got stranger and stranger...
"It's much more pleasant to look at than the Nexus, for sure," he remarked in answer to Kuzan. "Now then, where to go next..." He trailed off as a distant break in the natural skyline caught his eye. Some distance beyond the field he'd stepped into, he could see a tall, white triangular structure set against the wall of a mountainous plateau. This structure jutted out from the face of the cliff that flanked it, and its surface was broken by concentric rings of stone. "That there," Ornstein continued, raising his hand to point it out to Kuzan. "Is that... a city built into the cliff?"
When they finally reached it, he reined his horse in to a halt beside Kuzan's smoking carriage. He watched with unrestrained fascination as Kuzan dismounted the vehicle and proceeded to... well, break it back down to the Omnilium he'd used to construct it. With a similar explanation offered as the one he'd been given about how to create with Omnilium, the knight dismounted his horse and turned to place a hand against it. He closed his eyes and concentrated... Soon enough, he felt a sudden influx of energy, the power of the enigmatic substance filtering back into his body. When he opened his eyes again, the horse was gone, and hadn't made a sound in its departure. Mercifully, the act of extracting the Omnilium that had birthed it appeared to be painless for the beast.
Taking up his spear, he turned to follow Kuzan as he disappeared beyond the invisible threshold. The moment Ornstein stepped through the arched gate, his entire field of vision melted into blinding white, and a sudden, acute wave of nausea coursed through his body, as if he was being flipped and upended in non-existent mid-air. With a groan to voice his displeasure at the sensation, he continued to stride forward the way he'd been going, until the flat white was pulled away to reveal a whole different world.
He and his companion had stepped into a verdant green clearing, rolling fields of grass more or less as far as he could see. He stepped forward slowly, looking around in no small measure of awe. This Omniverse just got stranger and stranger...
"It's much more pleasant to look at than the Nexus, for sure," he remarked in answer to Kuzan. "Now then, where to go next..." He trailed off as a distant break in the natural skyline caught his eye. Some distance beyond the field he'd stepped into, he could see a tall, white triangular structure set against the wall of a mountainous plateau. This structure jutted out from the face of the cliff that flanked it, and its surface was broken by concentric rings of stone. "That there," Ornstein continued, raising his hand to point it out to Kuzan. "Is that... a city built into the cliff?"