The ritual was complete thanks to the materials brought by Fiona and Nu'ma.
Fee, with the mixture created by the essence of his wings and the blood of Dalia, anointed the fronts of the members of the incursion team, preparing them to be able to dive inside the heart.
"Alright guys, while I, Hannah and Elsa are taking care of Dalia and waiting for Jack and Mirabelle, you will enter inside the soul / heart of Dalia and you will create a nexus with the crepuscular wax that I have applied on your foreheads.
I must warn you, that I have learned about the operation just as the same time as you... so I have had to adapt the entire cleansing soul ritual not only for you to enter, but to enter into the soul of an extrahuman. There may be certain errors in the ritual, such as your abilities and powers are less than outside... or things that I better save for me...
The important thing is that you locate Hades and apply the wax! So I can stretch out and take him outside to kill him once and for all!"
Elsa waited for the fairy to end her speech, looking briefly at her daughter before turning to Orc and Storm Elf. "Sildud, Xelvin ... you dont have to get more involved in all this... My daughter had selfishly asked for help from her family without telling us, and the least I want to do is involve more people in this..."
The orc refused, walking towards Elsa and resting her hand on the blonde's shoulder. "You dont have to suffer for our getting involved, Elsa, we are members of the fiery alliance, and all of you have done a lot for Mount Uhx.
I can see Dalia's will and passion in her actions and the pain that Hades causes her. As an orc, I cant leave a crime like Hades without punishment, and an orc never leaves his allies behind! "Sildud glanced behind his back, expecting a similar response from his partner.
Xilven didnt have values r03;r03;as strong as those of the orc, but the chance to win a favor from Elsa was too juicy. Hannah was not that important anymore, but Elsa... Elsa could move many things in the fiery alliance... "Testing my skills against a being like Hades is an event that doesnt occur twice in my life, and also if I can help an innocent girl with it, I swear on behalf of the old dragons that I will fight until I die"
Elsa sighed in relief, as she returned to the side of her wife and daughter.
"I have been watching Dalia's plan above and the plot of persona 5, so in the absence of Jack and Mirabelle I have distributed the roles for this incursion.
In persona, 8 people usually go to the dungeons, being one of them the navigator in charge of controlling the situation. I doubt that the interior of Dalia's soul resembles these "Palaces" or "dungeons", but just in case, Flynn is the navigator and Valeria, you are the leader.
The rest distribute your roles as a function of the battle line where you prefer to fight... it will be hard, I have no doubt that while Hades was a coward, he is still an Alitian God. Ogden lost an eye on the fight against him and near of the two legs, and this time Hades has had much more time to prepare Dalia's soul and fill them with traps, so keep your eyes open at all times.
Good hunting, guys. "Elsa returned to his wife's side, while Fee concentrated her magic and opened the portal to Dalia's heart in front of them.
Valeria vaguely looked at the portal, closing her eyes and beginning to walk towards the followed by her companions.
Calling it portal is certainly very generous, as they were going through the portal their unconscious bodies fell to the ground on the other side of it. Actually, the faerie ritual consisted in recreating an image of the soul inside the soul of the Iloa, so if everything had gone well (and it looked like it was) inside the soul of Dalia, the images of the team's soul were appearing.
The fairy waited for everyone to cross, flying towards Hannah and Elsa and perching on the blonde's legs. Hannah finally uncovered her daughter, letting Fee anoint the teen giantess' torso with her wax. None of the three said anything, all praying for Dalia's safety.
Dalia Soul: First depth layer
Valeria opened her eyes little by little moved by the sensation of descending, being blinded by the light of nearby buildings. The vampire found herself in a kind of glass-walled elevator next to her father, Sam, Sildud, Xilven, Fiona and Nu'ma.
Through the glass wall of the elevator a huge city with buildings that rose to the sky rose, with millions of lights illuminating the streets away from natural light. "This is the heart of Dalia, isnt it? It does not seem different to a landscape of my series..."
"There is no doubt that my granddaughter dreams big!" Flyn laughed as he looked at the city.
"Hades is somewhere in this city I cant notice the essence of nature, so this city must be a real jungle of asphalt..." Sam said as the elevator reached the ground, opening its doors and leaving to the team in front of the bright sign of welcome.
Welcome to Bright City! The city where everyone can shine!
"City where everyone can shine? If everyone shines then no one can really shine!" Xilven exclaimed, while looking around. Hundreds of elevators took people to the city, people... who didnt have faces."It is certainly uncomfortable to be surrounded by so many faceless humans... is this some custom of yours?"
Valeria refused, taking the shape of Aleria and jumping towards the poster. "Fiona, I want you to prepare to "interrogate"! Nu'ma, you and I will go looking for someone who looks like knowing the city while the rest I want you to stop the elevator where we have gone down to use it as an emergency escape!"
The vampire jumped back to the ground, running out into the crowd followed by Fiona and Nu'ma.
"They left us bhind ... we should listen to her, dont you think?" Sam asked the rest of the classmates, before realizing that only Sildud remained with her.
The orc simply look to one side, before walking back to the elevator to find a way to stop it next to the high-orc.
Flynn and Xilven
"The architecture of the city reminds me of a hyper-vitaminized Capital City, but as far as I know Dalia has never been in Capital City, how curious!" Flynn and Xilven were walking along the main avenue, observing the area and taking notes and pictures with Flynn's C-com of each important building.
"Humans have a very clear tendency to pretend to fill the landscape with your works, it makes me think how different our races are, an elf of the storm... or any race that descended from the noble elves prefer a thousand times a city that it is founded with the landscape and not the other way around!" Xilven laughed, while the elf stopped to see one of the entrances to the subway.
Metro concern, a name evidently with a deeper background than it seemed at first glance.
"Tell me Flynn, what kind of person is Dalia? The names of all these buildings can be grouped into three groups: feelings of victory, feelings of helplessness and distrust, and to finish my favorite, references to specific names but misused!... Although I have to say that some are chosen with an exquisite taste! The Museum Almost but not! Precious!"
"Dalia has never been an easy child... as a little girl she was super nervous!
If you lost her sight 5 minutes she was able to get to the next neighborhood she alone! Then, as she grew older, she became more and more dependent on her older sister... until, for some reason, she stopped talking with children her age... refusing to go out to play if it was not with her sister .
Dalia looks much like Hannah, more than the mother wants to admit! She has taken the good will and distrust of his main mother, and has joined with caution and the ability to turn things around Elsa... an explosive mixture if I may say so as her grandfather!"
Flynn laughed while They came to a square with a huge statue of Sarah, the first mention to her sister in the soul of Dalia and it was with a statue of solid gold and diamonds... the reality is that Flynn was upset that there was no mention of him until now.
"She was born thanks to the magic of "science", right? That two womans can have children indicates the great level of magic that humanity has! Not as much as we, of course, but you acecais more than the Iloas and orcs Ironscale!"
"Science isnt really magic, but you can see it that way... the birth of Dalia and Sarah was certainly difficult, because although extrahumans can get pregnant using or male semen or a female ovule that then their bodies are responsible for To deform until it becomes the necessary genetic code... the enormous difference of sizes between Hannah and Elsa made the conception very difficult!"
"Allow me the indiscretion" Xilven and Flynn jumped on one of the fences that closed the public access to the Hannah skyscraper. "But that anecdote I know from Samantha.
Elsa had to take out one of her "ovules", put them in another extra-human until they became the desired genetic material and then implant it manually into Hannah's fertile ovum, right?
At first I rejected the story because it was slightly disgusting, but as I went around it made me think about the potential of "science". Humans are weak, at least the majority not extrahuman or you and Elsa, and live a short time! again avoiding these exceptions, but the little time you are on Novaterrae you achieve great things! Imagine if those things are enhanced by storm elves along with generations of humans! We will be capable of so many things!"
Xilven couldnt help but smile thinking about the progress that could be achieved by the collaboration among so many races.
The Iloa are very numerous and their different sizes make them ideal to perform any function.
Humans live little and are physically weak, but their minds are simply bright and their capacity for adaptation and improvement is impressive.
The extrahumans, although they are only women, compensate the human weaknesses with a great variety of abilities whether offensive or for the day to day.
The Ironscale orcs are expert miners and hunters personally chosen by the ancient dragons to develop and protect Mount Uhx, besides being real beasts physically.
And the elves of the storm have awakened minds and a connection to magic and elements simply incredible... in addition to possessing the beauty and social gifts inherited from the servants of the dragons!
Each race separately could defend themselves in Novaterrae. But together?
Together they took the concept of alliance to another level! Xilven, as leader of the storm elves could not wait to see which race joined the fiery alliance and what aspect and qualities it would add to this awesome mix!
"I understand what you mean, my friend, I've been alive for a long time, and I dont plan dying for at least another 200 or 300 years... in these times I've seen humanity pass from being discriminated against to living next to races more different on another planet! In just 150 years we have achieved more than the whole history of humanity combined!"
The elevator finally reached the top of the skyscraper, and Flynn and Xilven went to the roof to get a good view of the city. As both suspected, the city had no end anywhere, so it was not worth anything to explore or bother to look for Hades.
They had to go deeper into Dalia's soul if they wanted to find the Alitian God.