Twisted Fate Chapter 3: Sanctuary
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> The first rift was the responsibility of a lich obsessed with dimensional magic, who had gathered his mana for a century in order to smash through. It is to our shame that we didn't detect and stop him before he was ready, and now someone wishing to repeat his experiment could conduct it in half the time. A time that already borders on being achievable within a human lifespan. So in other words, it's possible that Amy could do it herself now? > Your soul is not attuned to mana, and you have already experienced the effects, when our servants' healing magic proved ineffective. So I was fairly close, then. > Likewise, you will find tools required for day-to-day life inoperable. Oh, dang. Glad we're getting to see what happens when someone ends up in another world without going through the normal summoning process. > Besides, at the rate banks were going, it would probably be closed soon; rent, maintenance and staff for physical bank branches ate too much into their profit margins. Huh. We still have plenty of physical banks where I live, at least as far as I know. > And once again, it all came back to mana. How could she learn anything about magic without it, let alone discover secrets of interdimensional travel that had eluded, at minimum, an obsessive lich and an entire pantheon of gods? Dang. > The Weave is... hard to explain. It is the sum of all stories. The tapestry of fate, real and imagined. The build-up of potential. Sounds very Wheel of Time. And possibly Discworld? I haven't actually read anything from that series. Fits very well with how making new spells works in the world of Unborn Hero, too. > "No... No, I'm okay," lied Amy. Yes, she could stand, but she was far from being okay. Heh. > Despite that, she held herself together until they were back in the small bedroom. The clicking of the door as it closed was the trigger that finally released the floodgates, tears streaming from her face as she sobbed. > For his part, Alexander merely smiled gently, embracing the poor girl. "There, there. Let it all out," he encouraged. > Amy needed no encouragement, if she even heard him at all. She just cried and cried and cried, stopping only when her voice was raw and her tears exhausted. Oof. Pretty good logic there from Alexander. > Always an interesting time in any new parent's life when their baby learns to play with their home's light and heat. LUL
Tim Burget
2024-12-23 20:59:54 +0000 UTCShe's right in that even bad news are better than full uncertainty. Now she knows what she needs to do if she is to advance, which leads to a much better emotional state than last chapter.
TroubleFait
2024-12-23 09:33:55 +0000 UTC
