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Immolating Gloves
The main floor of the chapel had changed since Alyssa first passed through. The biggest difference was with the fountain. Alyssa had made a special note of the water being crystal clear her first time past. To say that was no longer the case would have been an understatement. If she didn’t know better, she would have thought that someone upended a vat of chunky salsa into the basin. She tried not to think about what actually happened. A spell flying across the room proved to be a sufficient…-
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Conspiracy Theories
“Am I dead?” Whatever Alyssa had been expecting, it wasn’t that. Having asked Tenebrael to hide Irulon and the draken to keep the shocks to a minimum, Alyssa tried to present herself as normally as possible. She hadn’t run to the bathroom to equip the armor despite wanting the added protection. She hadn’t left out three empty beer bottles for him to see. She had even asked Tenebrael to step out of the room for a few minutes, just in case he could see her, and had been mildly surprised when the…-
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Connection Established
“You need to get some sleep. You’ve been awake for two days straight.” “Can’t.” Multi-word responses were hard. They took too much effort. Alyssa had no such effort to spare. She had to focus all her concentration on the vial. Tzheitza’s most caustic counter-plague potion had almost no effect. At first, Alyssa had thought that it had done literally nothing at all. Until Irulon stopped by. She had measured the ember and found that it was shrinking. Just slowly. So slowly. “It…-
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Portals
“Oh good. The palace isn’t on fire,” Kasita said as she emerged from the portal. Alyssa and Irulon, the only other two through the portal at the moment, stopped and stared. They certainly were in the palace. It certainly wasn’t on fire. As soon as everyone else was through the portal, a full three days of travel time would have been sliced off their journey. That wasn’t the best part, in Alyssa’s opinion. The best part of the portal was that she didn’t have to go past Teneville again.…-
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Acquiring Assistance
Alyssa stepped into the palace stables, exiting a shimmering portal. She barely managed to drag Iosefael through before the rippling liquid dispersed into the air. Tenebrael had ended up allowing Alyssa to leave the little box without any trouble. More surprising, she allowed Iosefael to leave. It was a close thing, but it had to have been intentional. The portal only collapsed after getting the angel out. In contrast, the other portal was still up and running. All the draken were on this side, even…-
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A Walk Beneath a War-torn Sky
Alyssa and Tenebrael walked along the road away from the city. It was a casual walk with no rush and no panic. Fela and Izsha both accompanied them, though their position must have been a little strange with their inability to perceive the angel. They heard one half of a conversation. Alyssa gesticulated to nothing at all. It was a good thing that they knew invisible creatures existed or Alyssa would probably have looked like she was losing her mind. It might have looked like that anyway. “Just…-
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Gussy Up
Alyssa set down her phone, pausing the video on some more advanced physics—her topic over the last two days, since arriving in Lyria. She thought that she might be able to make more interesting things if she knew a bit more about how the normal world worked. Unfortunately, she also thought she was reaching the limits of just what could be accomplished through simplified video tutorials. Luckily, a distraction arrived. The Pharaoh walked into Irulon’s room. His presence commanded attention. He was…-
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Deadlock
Bastiel’s four wings spread wide. Whatever ‘discouragement’ was supposed to mean, it clearly included rushing head-on toward Alyssa. Spectral Chains lashing out slowed the angel for a moment. Only a moment. Her body shuddered as the chains burst into fragments of twinkling light. Cricking her neck to one side, Bastiel resumed her charge. She wasn’t moving as fast as Alyssa had seen Tenebrael and Iosefael move during their fight. For that, Alyssa was thankful. It gave her the opportunity to…-
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Annihilator
Alyssa crept through the town, moving slowly as she eyed her surroundings. No one should be able to see her. She had a shroud of glass shards surrounding her, making anyone who looked in her direction see nothing at all. Empty Mirror. Alyssa had snapped a picture of it the second Irulon had handed it over. It was one of the spells that Alyssa had been wanting a permanent copy of. With it being a lower rank relative to some of the other Fractal spells, it didn’t look overly complex to redraw either. As…-
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Monumental
Alyssa stood in front of the temple ruins. It… was a lot bigger than a table. And that was the understatement of the century. She could have stepped over the remains of the destroyed table. This thing would take five minutes to walk from one end to the other. The height before it collapsed hadn’t been anything to scoff at either. While it wasn’t a palace or one of the towers around Lyria, it would probably be the next highest building if put up on a chart of the tallest structures in this…-
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