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Chapter 1506 - Can I… Just Take It Easy?
🕑 Added 2024-12-10 05:17:10 +0000 UTCI sit and watch the battle develop over the next few hours. The Templars continue to rotate, ten minutes on, twenty minutes off, and they prove to be effective and deadly each and every time. They don’t have the ability to affect the battle on a large scale, not yet at least. If I was out there, I could be dropping gravity bombs or fields, using Dragon’s Breath to torch huge swathes of the field, or employing my Starcrusher chomp attack to annihilate chunks of monsters at a time.
None of them have Skills at a high enough rank to do anything like that. There just hasn’t been the time. What they do have, however, is truly impeccable training.
It’s making me appreciate all over again the lectures that Granin always gives me. Ranting about how Skill ranks and skill aren’t necessarily the same thing. Sure, earning a new rank in… axe… or whatever, will give you shiny new abilities, make you swing harder and faster, but to truly master a weapon, you need timing, grace, experience and knowledge. You need relentless practice to make the movements second nature, ingrained in your muscle memory. You need to learn the limits of your body and push beyond them. Only then can you truly be called a master.
Going even beyond that, the Folk train to push themselves even further. Having the ability to send a wave of sword-light is nice and all, but if you can’t control it, bend it to your will and turn it into some sort of ten point lotus falcon stars of the dragon moon lily attack, then they think you’re a chump.
Because you are.
So while they aren’t able to win the battle by themselves, they are super efficient and effective at what they do. Jern moves like the axe is part of himself, he doesn’t even need to look at his target, doesn’t need to see a strike in order to block it. His footwork is impeccable, the full weight of his body is behind every swing and the axe just doesn’t stop moving. Left to right, up then down, it traces glittering arcs in the air as Jern wields it perfectly within himself.
All of them are like that. They never take on a challenge they can’t handle, they never forget to leave themselves a way out and they don’t bother to strike if they can’t contribute. Every time they engage, it’s in a decisive manner, ending the fight, or tipping it heavily in the favour of the defenders, then they vanish.
They may not be winning battles by themselves, but I’m pretty sure the levels are going to come quickly. They amass plenty of last hits, which is a good thing. Sure, the ants and militia need them too, but these Templars need to level up so we can get a better idea of what they do!
Still, the defenders are holding on well, and with the Templars helping out, there doesn’t seem to be much for me to do. Which is nice! And here was me expecting to be out in the toxic area having to fight until my carapace started to melt.
Just when I’m busy patting myself on the back and settling in for some intense, heavy-duty relaxation, a deep roar resounds from further down the tunnel. It’s faint, still a fair distance away, but I know better than to hope the creature is heading somewhere else.
With a weary sigh, I pick myself up and start wandering forward, closer to the edge of the blue mana. The monsters are coming thick and fast now, but the Colony and its allies are holding strong. With all the kinks worked out of the system, they’re experts at fighting on the border between safety and toxic nightmare.
Despite their calm competence, I can tell they were at least a little rattled by the roar they heard. It was no ordinary monster that let that roar loose. It was big, and coming up from below.
Which is a bad sign. If powerful monsters are already being dislodged from their hidey holes deeper in the Dungeon, when the wave hasn’t even started yet, then we might be in for a bad time.
As I step over the ranks, placing my legs carefully to make sure I don’t step on anything I shouldn’t, several of the humans and golgari mixed amongst the ranks reach out with their hands, trying to touch me as I move past. I mean… sure… why not, I suppose. Seems a little rude, but they’re here fighting alongside the Colony, so I can’t get too mad.
Once I reach the front, I settle in and get ready to see what comes, sending a blast of Dragon’s Breath out every now and again.
The roar resounds again, closer this time, of course.
The slime along the walls ripples and sways, and I can feel the pressure blowing against the sensitive fibres of my antennae. Whatever this is, it’s a big boy. Thankfully, I may have just the thing to deal with a monster like this.
It’s been a few days since I improved my Skills, and all that time, my sub-brains have been churning away, decoding and practicing the new spell form I was granted from my Gravity Magic Affinity. It’s still a bit rough, which is putting it mildly, but I think I can knock together a cast. Whatever this big monster is, I think it seems like just the sort of thing to test my new spell on.
“You might want to give me a little space,” I warn the ants around me. “I’ve got a new trick, and I get the feeling it’ll be a bit… disruptive.”
Ten seconds later and the nearest ants are over a hundred metres away, giving me my own wide section of the platform to defend.
Well, it’s fine. I can hold this while I try to stitch together the lousy spell.
Comments
taukid
I hope those humanoids that reached out and touched him gain a new class called Ant-Touched or something like that, lol
Roombot
Usually Anthony doesn’t even bother warning people! This must be serious 😂
evyatar
Not really, the most efficient use of gravity magic so far is the bomb and it would likely stay like that, i just think that the idea of two moving fields being close is extremely lethal in terms of cutting because... Well a duel spaghettification from both directions would weaken any matter, I'm not sure if it could or is strong enough to challenge the weaker nucleus power though so it might not tear atoms themselves but it probably could deal with molecular bonds
alt31415
Then they would just rip something in half instead of crushing it into nothing. Jesus Christ you're trying to hype it up like it'd be the ultimate cheat code or something.
evyatar
Because the distances mentioned are vast and gravity is 1/r^2 of course the forces are weak, i was talking about two fields almost touching each other like when Antony used two bombs and they started getting closer until contact the force when the two bombs almost touched, when they were a nanometers apart? That is the force i am talking about
Gopard
Thanks for the chapter!
Gopard
no dude... You know the "null gravity point" between Earth and Moon or Erath and Sun? Theoretically if you could get an object into such a point where the opposing gravities (ofc its more than 2 out there in space but 3 main opposing once) with zero velocity relative to Earth, moon and Sun, it would just sit there and not move, nor be torn apart. This is simply NOT now it works otherwise PLANETS wouldn't hold together... Scientist have calculated this and even 2 EARTHs quote "However close you get them 2 Earth wouldn't have the power to ripp a human apart with their gravity". Its a fantasy it may still happen in the story its just not at all realistic which barely anything in the story is (and thats totally fine and fun to read lol) but arguing otherwise is just strange.
evyatar
My dear summer child this is only true for atoms directly in the middle, gravity and the such work 1/r^2 the distance of of a nano meter is 10^-9 being pulled by two forces will tear anything and shred practically anything, sure being pulled in two directions by huge forces doesn't cause movement until the middle point is stressed until breaking point what intrested us is causing the breaking point in an efficient manner which gravity can do by closing the distance or using more mass
alt31415
What 'happens' is the same as for anything being pulled in two directions with equal force: It doesn't move.
evyatar
I know but mana seems to be able to generate gravity from nothing, having two fields without mass being near each other yet not touching, say… the distance of a nanometer and have a vacuum between them, see what happens
alt31415
That's not how gravity works!
alt31415
"here doesn’t seem to be much for me to do. " - AAANTHONY~ THIS IS YOUR CONSCIENCE SPEEEAKING~ USE THAT REDIRECT-THE-WILL ABILITY YOU MUTATED~ "Ten seconds later and the nearest ants are over a hundred metres away, giving me my own wide section of the platform to defend." - Lol, the ants know exactly what Anthony's about.
Ether's Blessed One
Rinoz and Anthony's naming sense on martial arts - ten point lotus falcon stars of the dragon moon lily attack
evyatar
A reality slash that the edge is an event horizon “gravity slash”, anything that the edge touch… well good luck, two conflicting gravities essentially sharpening each other fields until there is an edge, the slash, the slash touches any matter?bye
DrDankness
Yessssss give it to us. The BIG BOY
Buck
Hoo boy! This should be GOOD!
Rick Delallata
Let's go, new gravity magic. Maybe some gravity beam that'll rapidly change the weight of the target, or perhaps the reverse of his bomb. That actually sounds terrifying.
Grey Knight Lord
It’s the big strong Monsters Anthony needs. Each one is a package of XP. Tier eight approaches
