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Copy Protection Void Part 23
🕑 Added 2024-09-24 06:43:49 +0000 UTC"This is completely unfair," Frank complained as he walked across the village green with Mist, Egwene's clone and Samara. "If you'd given me fantastic magical talents, I'd totally let you watch me have sex."
"Different morals…" Mist trailed off as the bunny ears covered Frank with magic, transforming the ancient man into a tall and busty teenage girl with long green hair and purple irises that was a good four inches taller than him. "How do you feel?"
"Fantastic," Frank admitted after a couple of seconds when he realized that he wasn't in pain, something he'd gotten familiar with over the last hour. He studied his hands for a couple of seconds from several angles, relieved that they looked healthy. He squeezed his breasts, curious if his 'transformation' was just an illusion. "This is going to take some getting used to."
"Just a bit," Samara agreed as Mist reached over and reclaimed the bunny ears, "especially the eyes."
"What's wrong with my eyes?" Frank asked warily.
"Nothing, they're just purple," Mist told him as he put the bunny ears in his bag of holding. 'At least he seems saner than the first two personalities,' he thought as he turned and started walking toward the spot that Samara had suggested they use for the cavern spell.
"That should increase the amount I can charge," Frank mused as they continued walking toward the other side of the village green, wondering if the color would stick around when he changed back to a male.
"What type of monsters are we going to have to deal with?" Egwene's clone asked as they reached the edge of the village green.
"It's random but they usually follow a theme," Mist replied, wishing he'd gotten a bit more information about the monsters from the spellbook. He focused on the area in front of him and cast his Blood Queen's Cavern of the Damned spell, pouring all of his mana into the spell so they'd have a larger cavern.
A circle of dirt five feet in front of Mist sank a couple of inches.
"I was expecting something more impressive," Egwene's clone admitted.
"Yeah," Mist agreed as he used his mage hand spell to push on the circle of earth that had sunk, causing it to drop into the cavern below and reveal a three foot diameter hole in the ground.
"That's a bit better," Frank offered as he walked over to look down the hole, not worried about falling since he could fly. "There are hundreds of glowing crystals down there and I can see humanoid figures moving around."
"The entrance has a tendency to get stuck if the soil is rocky," Mist explained as he walked over to the hole and looked down into the cavern that was illuminated by countless glowing crystals.
"Aren't you worried about it collapsing?" Egwene's clone asked.
Mist shook his head. "The spell that carves out the cavern creates a layer of extremely hard and durable rock around the cavern. It would probably survive dropping a mountain on it. It looks like the cavern floor is about eighty to a hundred feet down which tracks with the information the book gave me."
"Do you want me to open a gateway or do you want me to float a mirror down there?" Egwene's clone asked as she walked over so she could see inside the cavern.
"We should probably start with a gateway, I don't want to leave the monsters a way out in case something goes wrong. Speaking of things going wrong, can you sever the black cable attached to the back of Frank's head?"
"What cable?" Frank asked warily as he felt at the back of his head.
Egwene's clone wrapped several cable thick threads of air around Frank then lashed out with a razor sharp blade of spirit and severed the black cable that connected him directly to the Dark One and shielded him against the taint.
"What was that?" Frank asked, suddenly feeling better, as if the sun had come out from behind the clouds.
"I was dealing with a curse," she told him, a touch surprised that severing his connection hadn't brought the Dark One's attention.
"Let me get rid of the suppression collar." Mist reached out and took Aginor's collar off, making sure to touch Frank's neck first to update his pattern.
Aginor twitched when he found himself in a new location and pain free for the first time since he'd been trapped in the Great Lord's prison. "What…" he trailed off when he looked down and realized that he had breasts. "What the hell?!"
Mist put the cursed collar back on Aginor, causing the collar to pull his mind back into the gem in the collar. "Hi."
"I'm Fox, do you want to fuck?" Fox asked cheerfully.
"Maybe later," Mist replied as he touched the girl's neck and took off the collar, causing Aginor to twitch as he found himself back in 'his' body.
"What the hell is your problem?!" Aginor demanded as he glanced between the assholes that were torturing him by pulling his soul out of his body and shoving it back in for reasons he didn't understand.
"I'm curious, do you have any regrets about plunging the world back into a dark age where they barely understand the concept of science or following an insane demon with delusions of grandeur?" Mist asked as he studied the mad scientist.
"Yes," Aginor admitted after a couple of seconds of thought. "The fools in the scientific community weren't willing to push the limits but I didn't want everything to collapse. I wanted a world where I could run any experiment I wanted, not a world where they can't even make a microscope."
"That's fair," Mist replied as he put the collar back on Aginor's neck.
"I'm Vivian, do you want to fuck?" Vivian asked cheerfully.
"Maybe later," Mist replied as he touched her neck and took the collar off, causing Aginor to twitch.
"What are you doing?!" Aginor demanded.
"I'm running an experiment, I'm trying to see if your soul snaps from repeatedly using the collar or if it's actually safe," Mist explained.
"Are you insane?" Aginor asked, wondering why anyone would let the brat have a ter'angreal.
Mist sighed. "No, I just don't really care if your soul shatters into a thousand pieces. The gholams were probably your best creation and you still managed to screw them up."
"What is wrong with the Gholam?" Aginor asked, wondering how the young man even knew about the Gholam since they should have died thousands of years ago and none of the black ajah he'd asked had known about them.
"They have to feed on blood, it's messy and noticeable and any channeler of decent strength could kill them easily enough if they knew what they were dealing with."
"How?" Aginor asked, wondering what he'd figured out.
Mist laughed at his look of outrage. "They might be immune to direct applications of the power but they can't fly or teleport through shadows which means all you have to do is open a skimming gateway under them and let them fall into the abyss. They'll eventually starve to death."
"None of the Aes Sedai know how to travel," Aginor argued.
"That doesn't change the fact that it's a flawed design. You could also simply bury them with junk that you toss with the power then pull it underground and cover them with rock," Mist told him.
"Like you can do better," Aginor snapped.
"If I had your skills without your ego or insanity? I would have tried creating a combination of the zomaran and the gholam without crippling their memories and without crippling the gholam's ability to eat actual food."
"They would have shared your secrets with the Great Lord," Aginor told him.
Mist laughed. "Not if you bring in a ter'angreal specialist and have them figure out a way to block their ability to read minds. It would have worked even better if you'd created some zomaran that were crippled and let the rest of the chosen get used to them not being able to remember anything. Then you sneak one of your special minions in, maybe as your personal servant or maybe as one of the cooks and you'd know what they were planning."
"Ishamael would have killed me," Aginor complained.
"So wait until he's busy," Mist replied as he put the cursed collar back in his bag of holding and pulled the soul eating sword out. "May you find peace in your next life."
"I could teach you everything I know," Aginor offered as he tried to bust the shield that was keeping him from channeling, trying to talk his way out of getting stabbed or at least get more information out of him for when the Great Lord brought him back.
Egwene glared at Aginor, glad that he was using mana rather than the power because he was nearly as strong as Rand.
"That's tempting but I'd always be looking for the knife in the back," Mist replied as he conjured a sex swapping belt.
"What are you going to do with that?" Aginor asked warily.
"I'm going to use it to reverse the transformation I used to restore your youth," Mist replied with a grin.
"Why bother if you're just going to kill me?" Aginor asked.
"Because I'm curious if there are any side effects and you're an acceptable target," Mist replied as he put the belt on Aginor, causing the belt to make a sound like someone sitting on a whoopee cushion before it disintegrated and changed Aginor into a clean shaven teenage boy with shoulder length green hair and purple eyes. 'Same height and general build and he's not thrashing on the ground screaming which means it's probably safe.'
"Where did you find the belt?" Aginor asked, curious where he'd found a ter'angreal that could physically change people.
"I made it," Mist replied as he turned to look at Samara. "Can you delve him to see if he has any health problems?"
"I'm not as good as Nynaeve but I know the theory," Samara replied as she delved the 'young' man, a touch surprised to find that he was in perfect health. "He's in perfect health."
"Good," Mist replied as he pulled up his cloning menu. "Can you put up a screen that blocks sight and sound?"
Egwene split her flows and created a dome around the group that blocked sound and blurred everything inside the dome as Aginor opened his mouth to scream.
"I'm going to enjoy torturing you when the Great Lord wins," Aginor complained, fully expecting to get brought back to life.
"That's fair," Mist admitted as he created a clone of Frank outside of the dome then did the same for Fox and Vivian, making sure they were facing away from the dome. He stabbed Aginor in the chest with the soul eating blade.
Aginor screamed in agony as he caught fire and was quickly consumed, causing his body to turn to ash and vanish after a couple of seconds.
"Is there a reason you created the clones before killing him?" Egwene's clone asked as she expanded the dome to include the clones.
"I didn't want to take a chance that my power would use part of his soul," Mist admitted as he conjured three loincloths and tossed them to the clones as they walked over. "Let's clear out the cavern then we can set things up and have sex."
"Awesome!" Vivian cheered.
"What type of monsters are we dealing with?" Fox asked as she worked on putting the green loincloth on. "I'm a scientist and a whore, not a combat specialist."
"I don't know," Mist replied as he checked his clothing menu to see if he could conjure anything new. 'Plague mask? This enchanted mask prevents the wearer from catching any diseases and will prevent any resulting offspring from inheriting diseases, genetic or otherwise if at all possible. Okay, that's strangely fitting and makes running a bunch of whorehouses less morally questionable.'
"Do we have a plan?" Frank asked as he worked on putting on the loincloth.
"The first step is to figure out what we're dealing with," Mist replied as he turned to look at Egwene. "Can you make a gate?"
"No problem," Egwene's clone replied as she used mana to weave a hardened air barrier with a fist sized hole in it and opened a gate on the other side of the barrier. She jumped when something immediately blurred and slammed into the barrier a second after the gate formed, giving her a brief glimpse of something large and green before it vanished into the shadows.
"So much for fighting them in melee," Mist muttered as he put the sword back in his bag of holding and pulled his wand out, figuring he'd boost the damage a bit more before he lost the chance.
"That just means that we need to kill them from range," Samara with a grin, looking forward to finding the treasure and setting up the school she'd seen in her vision. "They don't have any combat magic but they're fast, supernaturally strong and they can turn invisible. Their claws will also paralyze people for twenty minutes which is more than enough time for them to eat you."
"Lovely," Mist replied sarcastically as he raked the 'lightning' from his wand across the cavern, clipping a couple of monsters before they dropped to the ground or darted behind rock outcroppings. "This is going to take a while."
Egwene's clone dropped the barrier and replaced it with several razor sharp threads. "That should-" she jumped back as she got splattered with blood as one of the monsters cut themselves to ribbons on the threads in its attempt to kill her.
Mist used his wand to blast the still moving monster with 'lightning', draining its health and mana until it stopped twitching and his mana pool took a hit, letting him know that it was actually dead. "One dead, at least a couple of hundred left."
"Ninety nine," Samara corrected. "If you don't count the queen."
"That makes it easier," Egwene's clone admitted as she took the wand from Mist, knowing that it was easier for her to rebuild her mana than it was for him. "You should probably tell the girls that we could use the help, they'll probably appreciate the rescue from all the questions."
"Might as well," Mist replied as he conjured three taint eating lab coats and tossed them to the clones. "These should let you channel without going insane."
"You're the best," Vivian told him as she pulled the lab coat on, wondering if she could keep the coat for her sexy scientist outfit.
Mist gave the attractive girl a smile then headed toward the Winespring where the girls were probably still answering questions about the differences between the worlds.
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"Cheater," Fox complained as she watched Frank fill a quarter of the cavern with fire, doing a remarkably good job of avoiding the glowing crystals that Egwene wanted to save.
"I'm not going down there," Frank replied as he held the fire for several seconds to make sure everything in the area that he'd warded was dead.
Fox shook her head. "I was talking about the wards that only channelers can walk through."
"If they can't move around, they can't ambush us or escape the fire," Frank replied as he dropped the weave he'd used to create the flames. "Your turn."
Fox grimaced as she embraced the source and felt the filth that covered it. "We're going to have to do something about the taint, it's disgusting."
"It's on the list," Egwene's clone assured them, wanting to deal with the taint before the rest of the forsaken escaped.
"Good," Fox replied as she wove a weave of fire over the section of the cavern that Frank hadn't set on fire, causing dozens of monsters to scream as the fire consumed them. "This would be easier if I had an angreal."
"As soon as we find a seed, we'll see about copying it so you can make one," Egwene's clone assured him, looking forward to learning how to create ter'angreal.
"We should probably cleanse the source first, the process weakens the channelers that help create angreal for several months," Frank warned her as Mist walked through the sound dome with a large group of teenagers following him.
"I'm aware or at least Mist mentioned it," Egwene's clone replied as she watched Fox burn another section of the cavern, causing a bell to ring and a massive metal door to open in what looked like a worn down tower.
"What did I mention?" Mist asked, wondering what they were talking about.
Egwene's clone turned to look at Mist and stopped when she realized that most of her family had shown up to watch them clear the cavern along with several other girls that could channel that she didn't recognize. She let the dome vanish, giving everyone a bit more room. "You mentioned seeds, Frank wanted an angreal."
"It would make things a lot easier," Frank replied as he used cables of air to tie up the nine foot tall green skinned humanoid that stalked out of the tower. "Do you want to kill the boss?"
"Absolutely," Mist replied as Egwene's clone handed him the wand.
Egwene's clone opened another gateway behind the boss, making it easier for Mist to shoot her with his want.
Mist pointed his wand at the giant troll-like creature and started draining its life.
"How much space does the cavern have?" Berowyn asked, doing her best to ignore the creature's screaming.
Egwene's clone watched the boss disintegrate and turn into a small wooden chest then turned to look at her sister's alternate, still not sure what to think about the monsters turning into loot when you killed them but glad that most of them hadn't left a mess unlike the one that had left the cavern before it had been killed. "It covers half the town and it's about a hundred feet from the bottom of the cavern to the ceiling which means we should be able to build a decent sized town, especially if we build it in layers and use mirrors to connect it to the cavern we're planning on creating in my world."
"Can we explore?" Bode asked hopefully.
"It should be safe, you have to kill everything for the boss to show up," Samara offered.
"Okay," Mist replied as he walked through the gateway and glanced around the cavern filled with thousands of glowing crystals, half expecting to get jumped despite her assurances.
"Dibs on the red crystals," Vivian said cheerfully, looking forward to making a 'proper' red light district.
"Red light district?" Fox asked thoughtfully as she followed some of the teenagers into the cavern.
"Yes," Vivian replied as she followed Fox into the cavern, making all of the locals stare at the clones in confusion.
"Have fun," Mist told the girls as he used a mage hand to open the jewelry chest, revealing three silver rings, a plain silver bracelet, three gold coins and a thick gold ring with a thumb nail sized ruby. He walked over to the box and checked the details on the jewelry. "Ring of greater invisibility, a bracelet that can store up to five items, a ring that can store books and writing materials, a powerful angreal and a ring of regeneration that should heal most mortal wounds within a couple of minutes as long as you were wearing the ring while you received the injury."
"Saidar or saidin?" Loise al'Vere asked as she walked through the gateway into the cavern so she could take a look at the crystal.
"Saidar," Mist replied as he picked the jewelry box up.
"Rats," Vivian complained under her breath.
Egwene created a grate over the hole in the ground using hardened air then tied it off, figuring that would keep people from falling to their deaths until they figured out what they were going to do with the hole.
"Can I study the ring of greater invisibility?" Allora asked hopefully.
"Here." Mist tossed Allora the invisibility ring then put the bracelet on that could store things on his left wrist since he was wearing the armor bracelet on his right. He checked the gold coins with his glasses. 'Token: Talent upgrade? Token: One free spell? Token: One free and marginally useful magical book?'
"Thank you," Allora replied as she started delving the ring, trying to figure out how it worked so she could duplicate it.
"Let's see how badly this screws me over," Mist mused as he picked up the token for the magical book. He blinked when he thought about using the token and it changed into a hardback book. "Fantastic Architect's Guide to Impossible Creations?"
"Can I use it?" Egwene's clone asked.
Mist glanced at the description his glasses gave him. "It's not a spellbook. I'll just read the description. General disclaimer, this book can't actually share any secrets for crafting legendary buildings, it merely generates designs based on your descriptions and doesn't include any spells or techniques that you'd actually need to make the structures magical."
"I know how to fuse stones together," Fox offered, trying to be helpful.
"And I can make indestructible glass and support beams," Egwene offered, looking forward to actually exploring some of her less used talents now that she wasn't wasting her time trying to browbeat the hall into being halfway useful.
"I want the designs for a glass tower on a rock outcropping," Mist said and opened the book, revealing a printed color image of a glass lighthouse by the sea that looked like it had come straight out of a modern photography book. He flipped the page and looked at the list of material that they'd need to build the tower. "We'll probably need an architect or a mason to get started but it looks simple enough if you ignore the fact that it doesn't explain what some of the magic bits are supposed to do."
"I'm sure we can figure it out," Allora assured him, figuring it couldn't be much worse than the book on ter'angreal crafting that had started her obsession.
"Probably," Mist replied as he handed the book to Bode. He grabbed the spell token and blinked when he found himself in a stone room with several wooden targets, no exits and a large computer display set into one of the walls. "Spell creation and testing center, you have one credit. Huh."
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ZeroLink21
Hope he gets a really hood spell
