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Durithill's plans of rest were ruined almost immediately as the building they were in suddenly burst into flames. "Nevermind." Durithill grumbled, slightly annoyed as the flickering flames danced around them. On the plus side though, his book suddenly appeared in Melody's hands: unharmed, save for a little ash that dirtied its cover. What Durithill knew that Amaranth obviously didn't was that this wasn't any mundane spellbook. It was an ancient artifact left over for days no longer remembered, and even though it was extremely hard to destroy it returned to its last master whenever it felt threatened. Brefily Durithill took back control of Melody's body to pocket the book.

The inn keeper at this point was nearly having a heart attack from fear and surprise. A woman suddenly teleports into the middle of his lobby, and then sudden the whole building lit on fire. Durithill ignored his shouts and quickly drained his life force, using it to cast a spell to protect Melody (and therefore himself) from the flames. "Let's get out of here. I should have known better than to ask an angel to help." Durithill said to Melody as he relinquished her body again. The inn keeper, like the soldiers, was still barely alive, just unconsious on the floor of the burning building.

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Amaranth knew she couldn't possibly save all the people there. She was no miracle worker. And they don't seem to be dead so they probably have a chance. Thankfully the marking on that book would slowly leave a neat hole in the middle of all the more major spells, rendering anyone who holds it only capable of casting basic spells that even a ten year old could cast with proper training. What countered black was white. That marking had been there for well over a month. Anything too disasterous was already illegible in the book. She didn't care now if it or Durithill survived. She had successfully dealt with the more troublesome pages of his precious book.
"Come on Durrahn...I need to hide you okay?" She pulled on the shadow creature's arm and tried to get her somewhere safe. She wasn't affected by what affected the others because of Rachel's protection.

(I need to wait for Estu, guys. And who are you talking about when she said 'I thought you were a good person for a second'?)

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((Alright. I've got a class now for a bit anyway.))

"To save us, that's why." Durithill replied simply to Melody. If he hadn't drained the man's life force, the two of them would probably have been burned to death in the flames of the inn. He didn't care whether Melody thought he was a good person or not, so her comment went largly unnoticed by him. Instead he just watched out of Melody's peripheral vision for any sign of being attacked by Amaranth again, although he doubted it since she probably underestimated him once again and assumed that the flames had consumed him as they were consuming inn.

Something caught his attention though, and he used Melody's sense to confirm that there was a second flame in the city. Something was happening by entrance, and it didn't look good. "It looks almost like Belkan is under siege." Durithill mentioned suddenly to Melody, trying to get a better view of the scene without taking Melody over again. "I took the soldiers down before in order to escape. You know how to fight? 'Cause you're going to learn real fast. Head towards the action, then give me control of your body for a bit. With any of luck, they'll be plenty of ones for me to have over there."

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"Then I'll do all the fighting." Durithill replied with an annoyed sound as he continued watching Melody's peropherals. From what he could tell, it looked like the attackers were approaching from Expansia, which was good new. Engaging an army in a wide open area was good for a caster because they didn't have to worry about aiming their spells around corners or figure out how big a fireball would expand in a tunnel and things like that. Once they got out there, Durithill could drain some more life force from the enemy, then begin unleashing hell upon them. Quite literally, even. If he drained enough energy, he could probably raise a small army of the damned, but he wasn't counting on it.

Of course none of that would matter if they didn't get to the battlefield, which was what they needed to be doing right now. "Those men I drained earlier to get us out? They were Belkan soldiers." Durithill explained quickly in Melody's mind. "Meaning the city's defenses have been crippled. The scales need to be evened, and in the process I can get a new body and leave you. Sounds like a win-win situation, don't you think? Just give me control of your body, and I'll take care of everything."

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((The virus itself is alive though and therefore has a life force, even if it's small, correct? And once the body dies, the virus wouldn't have a host anymore and would also die, so possessing it would be harmless, wouldn't it?))

(Think zombies. Are they alive?)

(I'm thinking now that if he took the life force of the virus then your character could get infected as well. And Expansia Field is a snowfield. And there's a lot of people going about. There's no life to take but theirs, since animals should flee from sound like that and there's no plantlife)

(It spreads through contact. If your character bit or even brushed one of the infected then it's possible that he will be infected too.
I'm too tired right now to keep up with this argument. I'll be more sympathetic once I get a coma session in. So for now, I'll say 'do what you like, but please don't suddenly appear in the battlefield, slaughter everything in sight singlehandedly, and go off like nothing happened'. That was my best attempt at being reasonable in my current condition. Sound good?)