A Shuffling of Planets by Daniel Ruth

Author:Daniel Ruth [Ruth, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-28T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Several days later I was back in the apartment looking over my new hoard of books. There weren't actually that many. Apparently when the other person didn't have a terminal to send the information to or display said holographic information it was difficult to sell it.

I had really wanted a spell that summoned a speck of antimatter in a warped reality shell of about ten feet in diameter. Pretty much anything in that ten feet was annihilated. The Duke did not consider my contribution worthy of this magnificent spell.

Looking back on it I suppose it was just as well. Just reading the description I could see the limitations. Slow cast speed for one. The warped reality spell was ten feet but the anti-matter was encased in a baseball-sized energy shield for delivery. In other words, you threw it like a baseball. You also held it like a baseball. For about ten seconds while the spell stabilized. If the shield was hit during this time it would go off in your hand. So, it definitely had a major drawback. Still... antimatter in the palm of your hand. I really wanted that spell someday.

I settled for an anti-poison spell. Yeah, the Duke was one of the bigwigs that had healing magic. He would have been handy at the party. Instead, we had to settle for a spell that stopped time. Oh well.

I actually asked for that spell. The duke did not have that one, however, he did have one that was targeted, as opposed to affixed to a location and slowed time. I was learning that one specifically for a big dumb alien I knew of, assuming he survived.

The second one was the opposite. It sped up the local time of the caster. This was also earmarked for any dragon vs alien conflicts. Even then he may be faster than me but I wouldn't be completely steamrolled.

The third was a common item creation spell that allowed you to store spells into items and jewelry. It only stored either raw energy or a single charge of a precast spell before the caster had to 'fill' it up and recharge it. Never the less it allowed instant casting, avoiding the embarrassment of standing there like an idiot waving your hands and waiting for someone with an IQ greater than a cucumber to interrupt your spell. Creating batteries with magical energy couldn't be ignored either. Generally, an awesome spell, mostly limited by my own small repertoire.

The fourth wasn't really a spell. It was a technique a mage could use to merge their essence into a ley line and travel along it. It was terrible unless you knew where the ley line went, since your perceptions were almost non-existent while inside.

However, if you did know where the ley lines went it could allow almost instantaneous travel. Since my intra-dimensional teleporting was limited to a few hundred feet and extra-dimensional travel was not only excruciating but presently limited to my anchor shard locations, I thought it was an excellent utility spell.

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