Meanwhile, Leo stopped hiding when Greendove got far enough away from them.
"How does that work? He didn't even notice your presence?" Nefrati asked, shocked at what happened.
"That's the power of magic. It will only work on mages who are below the Middle Stage of the 5th Circle though. I still have to improve my mastery of it. But now that we escaped, can we focus on the real issues? Where is the actual temple of the Blood God?" He asked her.
"Fine. How did you find the prison that we were in just now?" She asked him.
He took out the compass that guided him to the temple. Nefrati took a look at it and gave her comments.
"So, you just have to alter it and it will lead you to the temple," she said.
Leo's expression soured. "Ah, I should have done that beforehand. I don't know why I haven't tried that yet, genius." He jabbed at her.
"Fine, I can do it for you. But you need to hand me control over your body," she said.
"Control over my body? How would I do that?" He asked her.
"Just don't fight back when I'm doing what I'm doing. The minute you put up any form of resistance, it will fail," she said. "It might even destroy the compass if you do it in the middle of me altering it."
Leo slowly descended to the ground and put the girl on the ground. He noticed that she was stirring and about to wake up so he kicked her to knock her out again.
"You have to be more careful with her. She is your only sacrifice," Nefrati said.
"Actually, this woman has at least 11 more sisters and a bunch of brothers. I just need to find one of them and sacrifice them," he said.
"How are you able to sacrifice a person so easily? I thought that you would be a little..."
"Hesitant?" Leo finished her sentence for her. "Trash like this doesn't really deserve to live. But on the other hand, you don't have the right to comment either. It's not like I was the one who proposed the idea in the first place."
"Fine. Just give me control. Keep in mind what I said before," she said.
"Fine," Leo said and freed his mind.
The minute he did that, he felt like someone was muffling him with a pillow. His control over his body was slowly disappearing and he could no longer make it do things. Even though he could fight back, he chose not to.
After a few seconds, he felt a weird sensation as if he was drifting off into a void. His senses all disappeared except for one small connection that he could still feel. It was like an anchor that he refused to let go of.
Nefrati successfully gained control of his body, but she immediately felt her soul starting to hurt. She had clearly done it before, but what happened then was a first for her. She had never heard of a body fighting back without the owner's soul present.
The left arm of the body was burning her with so much pain and she could barely walk. When she looked down at the arm, she saw a glowing tattoo. What was that? There was intense pressure that suffocated her, making it hard for her to breathe.
She had no idea of what to do since she could barely control the body at all. She tried to resist, but it didn't help her. After a minute of feeling helpless, she decided to give control of the body back to Leo.
Leo was in the blank area feeling nothing when the connection he had to his body suddenly pulled him back to the real world. He opened his eyes and found himself on the ground. His left hand was feeling the after-effects of the previous burn and was stinging.
"What is wrong with your body?! I tried to take control but it refused and fought back. I almost died there," Nefrati shouted.
He shrugged. "I don't know. So I am guessing you weren't able to alter the compass?" He asked her.
"No, I didn't. I don't know what to do now," she said.
"Do you not know the way there from your memories?" He asked her.
"The last time I was there was when I got caught. All I know is that it is close to here, not where it was. I was teleported here by the Blood God. Also, even if I did know, that was 100s of years ago. How would I be able to remember? Especially when the landscape changed so much?" She asked him.
"I don't know. Perks associated with being someone as strong as you are?" He said while thinking of ideas.
"An 8th Circle Aura Knight is very common. They aren't as powerful and omnipotent as you think. Your empire is just very underdeveloped," she said.
"Fine. What about other ways? Do you think you could just control my hands to use them to alter the compass? If the entire body is too much for you to handle, then just my right hand shouldn't be a problem, right?" He suggested.
"To be clear, I could take over the body of a 7th Circle Aura Knight within seconds. It isn't that I can't handle it. Your body is just weird. But the idea that you gave was very good. We can definitely try it. If your soul is still in control of most of the body, then it might work and I might not be treated like an invader," she said.
"So how does it work?" He asked her.
"Well, the first thing is that you need to listen to every word I say. If I say that I need your aura, I need your aura. I won't be able to circulate aura outside the arm that I am controlling," she said. "Other than that, we will be fine."
"Let's do it," he said.
He let go of her body again, this time staying in control of most of his body. He only felt his right arm slowly slipping away from his senses. After a few seconds, he could no longer feel his right arm.
The arm came up, almost slapping him, but his left arm caught it.
"Don't do anything stupid," he said to Nefrati.
"Sorry. I had to try it," she said. "Fine, we should start now. Give me all the aura in your body."
"All of it?" Leo asked with surprise.
"Yes, all of it. You are just a 2nd Circle Aura Knight, so obviously I would need all of it to alter the compass. If you were at least a 4th Circle Aura Knight, then it would have been so much easier," she said.
"I don't know what era you came from, but it sounds scary. The aura levels you are saying are normal just don't make sense to me," he said while circulating all the aura in his body.
After a while, all of it seemed to congregate right outside his right arm, ready to go in. He was still keeping it moving in that area in case his arm couldn't take the concentration of the aura.
