Chapter 241: A deal
Irwin rushed forward, using kinetic energy to speed himself up before grabbing the connected anvils. He barely wrapped his hands around them when he felt You'gyn resist.
"What is going on? Let go of me, you-"
Both Anvils vanished from Irwin's grip, and his hand slammed together with a hollow clang. A horrible sensation in his soulscape stopped any confused questions he might have.
'Get in here and let us in!' Ambraz shouted in his soulscape.
Irwin groaned as he sat down where he stood, closed his eyes, and jumped inside his soulscape. As soon as he appeared, he felt and heard a rumbling from a small point of the barrier. He flew towards it as fast as he could, almost sensing the struggle of the two Ganvils near the edge of his soulscape. When he reached the border, he felt both a familiar and a very unfamiliar resonance tangled together.
'Synchronize with his resonance! Then force him in! As soon as you do, keep focusing on his resonance, and you should feel how you can lock him inside here!'
"How are you even talking to me," Irwin muttered, focusing on the two struggling resonances.
It was far clearer than when Ambraz had been there alone. If that was due to the addition of his two new cards or because Ambraz had been quiet, he didn't know. Whatever it was, it made the resonating soulforces sound like two combating songs. Focusing on the unfamiliar one, he began humming, resonating his soulscape gently.
The first attempt failed, as did the second, the resonance both unfamiliar and… odd. The third time, he finally picked up on the oddities, some weird underlying harmonic. He hummed, then sang a wordless song of meaningless sounds, and a bulge appeared on the barrier before him.
Irwin flew to the side as two Ganvils surged inside, both appearing inside his soulscape like foreign entities, even if one was familiar and welcome. He struggled to keep a focus on the foreign entities' resonance, and as he did, he felt his mindscape seem to want to wrap around it, the barriers ready to block the thing from moving away again. Irwin allowed his mindscape to act, and it felt like it clamped around You'gyn like a vice.
Alright, I definitely have to be careful with going into any other person's soulscape, Irwin thought as he shivered at the thought of being locked inside with no way out.
Ambraz shot away from You'gyn and hovered beside Irwin.