Transmigrated as a Ghost

After finishing up reading about the Great Gome Woods Dungeon, Marcus asked Chitchit to lead him back to Mrazivý.

Following the little bird, he soon found her exactly where he had left her, still engrossed in a series of books about beasts.

"Hey Mraz, find something good?" 

Raising her head up from her book, Mrazivý said, "Yeah, I was just familiarizing myself with the beasts and monster of certain territories I am considering going to explore next."

"I see, so where are your adventures going to lead you next." Marcus said sitting down next to Mrazivý.

"Hm I am still thinking about it but the front runner has to be the Delvien Swamp, that lies in the southwestern part of the kingdom. In fact, the area is really close to the border and actually extends into Tralenstein, but there are a number of species or beast and monsters there, some that are apparently pretty high level." Mrazivý said enthusiastically.

She then continued to tell Marcus about the swamp and what manner of creatures could be found there, and her enthusiasm was evident.

"Of course, you are also you are welcome to come along, if you want to?" Mrazivý said blushing ever so slightly.

However, Marcus was a bit hesitant to agree, certainly he wanted to go with Mrazivý, but he also had his own goals to accomplish.

"Well, I have somethings I will need to take care of and to do all of them might take a while. I know you are probably planning to go pretty soon, so feel free to go on without me, and I promise I will come and see you when I am done with everything else."

Frowning slightly, Mrazivý nodded her head, before looking at Marcus with fiery eyes and said, "Fine, but next time we meet I will have become much stronger, and I will show you that I can keep up with you." 

"Um, you are not leaving today, we are about to head back to the same room." Marcus said, bringing fiery Mrazivý back down, and causing the two of them to laugh.

"Cheep Cheep." Coming over and ruining the moment, Chitchit started yelling at them for being too loud, though its complaining was actually even louder.

"I suppose it is about time we head out. I have already looked into most of what I wanted to for today." 

"Yeah, you are right. And if we stay for too long Aunt Katzia will start to get grumpy since she cannot leave until we do."

Having accomplished what they set out to do within the kingdom's archives, Marcus and Mrazivý made their way back to the elevator that would take them back up to the castle and said goodbye to Chitchit their humble guide.

"Thanks for the hard work Chitchit." Mrazivý said right before the doors to the elevator closed and began ascending.

"Oh yeah, so what were you looking into after you separated from me." Mrazivý asked curiously.

"I just went to check on what types of skills I might want to get in the future, and the Great Gome Woods Dungeon."

"Wait you are not planning to go to that dungeon are you? My father said it is a place that idiots go to die, and I have read a bit about it, and he is right." Mrazivý said, worried that Marcus might be planning to go there.

"No, I have no intention of going there right now. I am pretty sure with even all of my different abilities I could end up getting beaten, or at least stuck there for a very long time. I mean I read through everything I could about the place, and apparently one time Boreas got a condition that forced him to headbutt to death a bunch of rock elementals before he could move on." Marcus said still perplexed by some of the weird restriction that happened within the Great Gome Woods Dungeon.

"Really, there was something like that. I am actually surprised my ancestor survived going into such a place."

After that the elevator soon arrived letting them back out into the castle proper, and they began making their way through the layers of security, before coming back to Mrazivý's room.

However, before opening the door Mrazivý turned around and said, "Marcus, I thought I could wait till tomorrow, but I think I want to go now. Would you mind coming with me to check out the amethyst blossom tree and see if Salvia is still there."

'Sure, I was feeling a bit restless about that issue too. Let's go.' Marcus said to Mrazivý via telepathy since he was currently in his ghost form to avoid being spotted going into Mrazivý's room.

Turning around Marcus and Mrazivý, headed towards the castle's atrium, and even though it was already getting late as they had spent hours in the archives, they were still able to get in owing to their statuses.

Except this time when Marcus entered the Atrium, he suddenly felt as if he was hearing some type of static reaching out to him.

'What the hell is that.' 

Looking around and focusing, Marcus soon felt a small line of spiritual energy tugging at him, and that was producing the noise he was hearing.

Mrazivý seeing the weird way Marcus was acting, said, "Marcus what's up. You were just looking around frantically.

"Sorry, but I think that Salvia might be trying to communicate with me. Let's go to the amethyst blossom tree and see what is happening."

Following the thread that had connected to him, Marcus found that it was indeed leading them towards the flower garden, and when they entered, the sound it was making was much louder and Marcus was certain he was receiving a message of distress.

Going straight for the amethyst blossom tree, Marcus felt the signal become akin to someone yelling at him, but he still approached and placed a hand on the tree.

However, as he did, he felt some sort of force sucking at his spiritual energy, and he instinctively pulled away.

'nooo… come back.'

Yet as he pulled away, he heard a very displeased and pained voice in his head.

"Marcus what is going on, you took off so fast all of a sudden." Mrazivý said as she caught up to him.

"I think that Salvia is suffering or something. When I placed my hand on the tree, I felt it try to take some of my spiritual energy, and when I moved back, I heard a voice in my head. In fact, I am still getting what feels like a loud and displeased spiritual distress call." Marcus said, not exactly sure what to do.

"I see. Well go ahead and place your hand back on the tree. If Salvia is in trouble, you should see if you can help." Mrazivý said with no hesitation.

Still Marcus was a bit worried. 

What next time he placed his hand on the tree he was not able to pull back and got absorbed somehow.

Of course, he thought this unlikely, but the worry was still there.

'Worst case scenario I will just blow myself up and see how well deny destruction works.' Marcus thought before placing his hand back on the Amethyst blossom tree.

'Well, here goes nothing.'