Arcane Transmogrification by Robert Harper

Author:Robert Harper [Harper, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-16T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 20

Motes of dust floated all over the storage room. Two guards visibly stood by an oddly placed hole in one corner. The loud sound of someone scraping wood on wood could be heard coming from the entrance of the room. The noise grew louder as a voice could be heard growling in frustration.

“The things I do for my butt…”

Danny dragged a dusty and comfortable looking chair which he had found in a separate storage room in front of the hole leading down to the vault’s barrier. Ignoring the guards, Danny settled into it to look down, opening and study the vault’s barrier closely. The tale tale glow of magic still covered its physical surface.

*Cranny, what have we not tried?*

*We tried all combinations of magic, both passive and active spells. We tried using each aspect to no avail. I can only think of two things we haven’t tried. Use Entropy Affinity magic on the barrier.*

*What’s the second thing?* Danny hurried Cranny along.

*Learn how to compartmentalize our aspect, like the light bulbs in the sacred trees, and use them all at once on the barrier.*

Danny thought on Cranny’s last suggestion. Something about it seemed correct, but slightly off.

*Cranny, what changed again when we became an Ascendant?*

Cranny sounded annoyed at the seemingly repetitive questions, *Your body grew those crystalline structures all over it, and we were able to use the different aspects of our affinities.*

Closing his eyes, Danny thought the solution was close, but the pieces didn’t fit right somehow. He couldn’t quite figure out what they were missing.

Cranny chimed in, *Oh yeah, and your mana manipulation jumped to the max level. We must have used some major cheat code to get that one.*

Danny’s eyes shot open.

***

The sanctuary portal flashed, and Danny didn’t pause, jogging across the walkway spanning the skill room. His current skills were being displayed on the numerous hexagons making up the room. A few crewman were walking around, and they stopped to salute him, saying, “Captain.” When he reached the other side, the door opened where Cranny was already waiting.

Danny excitedly asked, “Have you checked yet?”

Cranny shook his head, “Nope, I figured you would want to do the honors.”

They entered the door across the hall and into the small room holding Danny’s knowledge of runes. A crewman in a red shirt was working on the door next to the mana room proper. The red shirt stopped what he was doing to stand and saluted them both, “Good day, Captain and Admir…”

In a panicked voice, Cranny suddenly flew by yelling, “Ahhh,” and crashed right into the crewman, unceremoniously kicking him through the open doorway.

The crewman flipped end-over-end into the room and made an crashed right into the wall representing the Entropy Affinity. Instead of bouncing off, there was a loud crash, and the crewman was sucked out into the dark nothingness. The screams of the crewman echoed around the room as the wall slowly repaired itself.

Danny looked to Cranny in horror, “What the hell! Did you do that on purpose?”

Cranny ignored Danny’s questions and still looked down at what had just occurred.

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