He realizes something is strange, that some of the daemons simply don't connect for Holy to blast them away. How it feels like there's someone else nearby as the elevator ascends. He prepares to use Holy again as he makes his way to the catwalk when something happens.
Noctis connects with something solid. Holy doesn't go off. The tiny lights around them indicating he's charging the spell suddenly stop, his eyes widening as he takes a step back.
"What?" he asks, demanding yet suddenly unsure as a ringing noise echoes in his head. He raises a hand to his head as (—snap out of... Please! ...just a...!") that voice continues. Slowly, Noctis lowers his hand. Tries looking around but doesn't see him.
Is it Ardyn pulling more tricks on him? No, that makes no sense. If anything, he wouldn't use Ignis' voice so brokenly. It would be crystal clear, trying to egg him on further ahead.
—been through... what's on the end.
He knew...? Noctis blinks, looking around again before his gaze falls to the Crystal again. Yet instead of taking a step forward, he closes his eyes.
That's when something really weird starts to happen.
He's both in the Crystal and not, slowly being dragged into it. Yet still standing where he is. He gasps, looking at his hands as they glow an odd pale blue. Just like Luna's pale gold... Looking up again, he watches at Ardyn torments him with truth he can't ignore. Not so much as getting into striking distance.
"In Lucis lived a savior that could cure the afflicted. His body would come to host a myriad daemons, that countless lives be spared. But a jealous king, one not yet chosen by the Crystal, ostracized and demonized this healer of the people. Making a true monster of him.
"I gave you my name earlier, but you should know that it was not the name given to me at birth..."
"...Ardyn Lucis Caelum," both men of royal blood mutter in unison, the smugness of Ardyn's face being matched with vitriol and horror in Noct's. The real Noctis takes a step back, shaking his head. "What's- going on?"
... :3
But he was. He was going on alone just like he—
He realizes something is strange, that some of the daemons simply don't connect for Holy to blast them away. How it feels like there's someone else nearby as the elevator ascends. He prepares to use Holy again as he makes his way to the catwalk when something happens.
Noctis connects with something solid. Holy doesn't go off. The tiny lights around them indicating he's charging the spell suddenly stop, his eyes widening as he takes a step back.
"What?" he asks, demanding yet suddenly unsure as a ringing noise echoes in his head. He raises a hand to his head as (—snap out of... Please! ...just a...!") that voice continues. Slowly, Noctis lowers his hand. Tries looking around but doesn't see him.
Is it Ardyn pulling more tricks on him? No, that makes no sense. If anything, he wouldn't use Ignis' voice so brokenly. It would be crystal clear, trying to egg him on further ahead.
—been through... what's on the end.
He knew...? Noctis blinks, looking around again before his gaze falls to the Crystal again. Yet instead of taking a step forward, he closes his eyes.
That's when something really weird starts to happen.
He's both in the Crystal and not, slowly being dragged into it. Yet still standing where he is. He gasps, looking at his hands as they glow an odd pale blue. Just like Luna's pale gold... Looking up again, he watches at Ardyn torments him with truth he can't ignore. Not so much as getting into striking distance.
"In Lucis lived a savior that could cure the afflicted. His body would come to host a myriad daemons, that countless lives be spared. But a jealous king, one not yet chosen by the Crystal, ostracized and demonized this healer of the people. Making a true monster of him.
"I gave you my name earlier, but you should know that it was not the name given to me at birth..."
"...Ardyn Lucis Caelum," both men of royal blood mutter in unison, the smugness of Ardyn's face being matched with vitriol and horror in Noct's. The real Noctis takes a step back, shaking his head. "What's- going on?"