Attuned Future: An Apocalyptic LitRPG Adventure (The Metier Apocalypse Book 3) by Frank G. Albelo

Author:Frank G. Albelo [Albelo, Frank G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mountaindale Press
Published: 2023-04-04T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

Harsh Reminder

Over the next few days, I split my time between the testing room, meeting with the council of Wildwood—now including Sarah—and Alan’s on-the-spot laboratory. The first two I had somewhat expected when returning to the town, but the last was an exercise in patience.

Somehow, the researcher had gotten Tim and Arnold to collaborate on a wonderful little building just on the edge of the Blessing of Magic. Inside the rock column, wooden walled structure, the man had set up all the measuring equipment he had available. To top it off, he also placed a Metier Crystal modified solar panel on top of the lab to provide for his equipment’s electrical needs.

Many of the survivors of the Fall still clung to their electronic devices for one reason or another, but Alan quickly made it clear that his system was A) not for public use, and B) incompatible with regular electronics. The shielding and transformers, his words, were specifically designed to not explode in a mana-permeated environment. To the chagrin of the pre-Fallen, it seemed the internet was not yet to make a comeback.

Aside from being the acting public liaison for Alan, I spent as much time as I could trying to keep up with his Metier Radiation theory, which was quickly expanding to include the resonance of the Attunements, the concentrated nodules of infusions, and a number of other factors that I struggled to comprehend, dealing with the way mana actually interacted with our physical reality.

What I was able to understand was the foundation of what he called the Attunement purge pulse. Its intent was to create a field where an opposing Attunement would struggle to affect reality. He explained that each time a skill was forming, a similar effect was taking place; it was just in the opposite direction. The spell chain facilitated changes to reality, fed by our internal mana. There was something…meaty about that bit of information, but with everything else going on, I couldn’t quite focus on it.

Apart from gaining a headache, I worked with Alan on using his <Infusion> miscellaneous skill. It was a curious process, since it was the first time a non-Fallen had tried the skill, as far as I knew. Ben’s enthusiasm to join the effort had still come short back in the Bunker. However, as I watched, the process worked more or less the same. From the plethora of notes Alan took, however, I was able to see that channeling and manipulating the thread took some of his physical energy as opposed to using his mana pool like with the Fallen. The behavior of that, plus the ability to gain traits, continued to put the older survivors in a weird place as far as managing the town’s needs. At the very least, Alan didn’t need my direct help with the circuit-like etching practice he worked with after each of his meetings with Tec.

If Alan was the only person I dealt with, that would have been plenty. However, the Bunker Busters were highly sought after to mediate discussions with the council of Wildwood.

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