Quickly a chilling realization tightened around her heart He had always known she would acquiesce to his request
Again her heart pulsed with a heat she didnÆt study closely enough to understand So many thoughts were tangled together she couldnÆt be bothered to cut them apart But before she sat down and began to create the Engraving necessary for her fatherÆs great experiment she did quietly eat the pie
With her hands digging her fingers into the sweet goop and shoveling it into her mouth When she finished she looked at all the diagrams her father had given her
The theory might be complex with the Dungeon requiring special anchoring and an elaborate energy shutting mechanism to avoid the spatial bridge between the two time bubbles from collapsing but the work the Patron of Feathers would be doing was extremely simple
It required her to exercise her image but it was just as mundane as hand winding a crank Which she would be required to do for
An indeterminate amount of time she would need to judge by examining the stored power Her father had provided written descriptions of temporal anomalies he suspected would begin to appear once she had reached certain requisite tiers of time compression but those were just hypotheses The real experimentation would have to be done by feel
She was the only one he trusted to do this
Choking back a sob the Patron of Feathers wiped the remnant pie from her mouth and cleared off the table She took out the diagrams given to her by her fathers and painstakingly drew out the Engravings Whorls and traced gears to grip time and force it into the shape that Faelmac Westrisser had so long dreamed
The Patron of Feathers had worked up a light sweat by the time she finished her preparations but otherwise felt fine She looked around at the grey walls inspecting her current situation one more time She had missed no details on her first examination The area was grim and tightly shuttered against all distractions
She looked down at the messy remnants of the pie in the pan She scowled and stored it away pulling out a jug of water and taking a sip Then after she produced a comfortable chair from the same interspatial bracelet she began to wind
It took about an hour of winding for the coin to begin to twinkle and warm The Patron of Feathers paused in her labor and pulled out the coin Suddenly she heard a half remembered voice in her ear You are right to be afraid your enemy in such circumstances is loneliness and an idle mind I cannot help with either directly but you can trick yourself with this coin to help pass the time
As the coin activated the Patron of Feathers could feel her image continue its toil with the weapon but her mind began to drift She skated through fluffy pink clouds of warm emotion and arrived at a familiar scene She was young slender and bright carrying a heavy darkness from the constant scolding of her father She could not act could not alter the course but she could watch her own life flow past her from beginning to end
Her childhood passed relatively quickly considering how tortured it was How stifled Frigite had felt by her father and by the absence left by her deceased mother
But one day while heading to the market to fetch a certain herb he wished she saw two young adults bold and confident arguing over how they were going to break into the Westrisser compound She had frozen and stared at them until they had noticed her
They were Elhume and Yystrix the two individuals who altered the course of her destiny
After meeting them on that day Frigite Westrisser would someday become the first of the Patrons the Patron of Feathers
Chapter 2273
Randidly Ghosthound studied the roaring tide of Nether above Homewell and tried to guess the amount of time he had remaining The computational allowances given to him by the Dread Homunculus rapidly approached their limits He narrowed his eyes and chewed on his lip From what he could tell all of his preparations would come to a head in a little less than six hours
Randidly hoped he could make sure all the preparations by the other factions would be foiled but he would settle just on his own succeeding
Right after lunch Randidly muttered not bothering to suppress a massive yawn
The sun hauled itself up above the horizon weighty and blazing Randidly went through his mental checklist trying to catch any detail he had missed He sent a confirmation to Nathan making sure that he would have the pieces necessary for the first layer of this plan The creation of humanity refocusing his Fateset and the PhilosopherÆs Stone would be his first step and he needed to make sure everything was in place
His thoughts continued swimming through the current of problems flowing around him Reaching out to Lowanna for another piece could wait until later although both Nathan and Lowanna had been set a difficult task Randidly had no idea about how the Nether Arbiter could succeed At least with Nathan he had been able to give some guidance
The PhilosopherÆs Stone served as an effective mental anchor after all
Randidly turned to the North where he could sense Lowanna continuing to meditate Ripples ran throughout the massive sea of her Nether where Deganawidah seemed to drag a vast tide in his wake the Nether Arbiter sat atop a bottomless well of power Those small ripples bounced up and down through her potential hinting at the shape of her potency
It made even the Dread Homunculus wary to feel the hints of her movements Which was why he had decided to offer up a silent prayer and trust her when he could find no other answer to his problem
Still he could tell from the movement of significance that going to her now would deplete the momentum of history swirling around her with no benefit So Randidly straightened and stretched His muscles were warm and he felt ready to move Close but not quite ready LetÆs grind a few more Skill Levels
He started with Yggdrasil allowing the vast canopy to manifest above him although keeping the image invisible so as not to pointlessly disturb the Turtleline leadership of Homewell already buzzing from the tide of Nether Warriors only a few hours out from their borders If any of the residents were to look up toward the rays of the dawn they would see a massive glimmering specter a place where light met the invisible leaves of the World Tree Those points of impact sent out starbursts of color refracted into blues and greens and oranges a radiant haze of beauty that would take their breath away
Randidly leaned closer to the ambiance sewing beauty and wonder into every inch
Congratulations Your Skill Dawn Opens the Sky and Reality Stirs has grown to Level 939
Congratulations Your Skill Dawn Opens the Sky and Reality Stirs has grown to Level 940
A nova of heat and light began to form around his image as Randidly concentrated on capturing the metaphysical aspect of dawnÆs arrival Just like the sun rising over the horizon the treeÆs growth revolutionized the landscape For many dawn signaled the start of the day the first victory over night It was rebirth and return it was warmth and light
Light very literally cracked open the opacity of darkness opening up the visual world from the shadowy realm of nightmares to the clarity of the day Randidly hummed and sculpted the impression he felt based on the warm touch of the sun against his skin A halo began to form around the World Tree borrowed from the Stillborn Phoenix
In this incarnation Yggdrasil possessed an event horizon all its own the edge of the life spring it possessed It gave and gave to the world first in the form of its pure light second in its warm sap and energy The tree woke and the world organized itself into certain positive patterns
Congratulations Your Skill Conviction of the Celestial Cataclysm has grown to Level 1021
Congratulations Your Skill Dawn Opens the Sky and Reality Stirs has grown to Level 952
The sun crept higher its rays warming from pale white to yellow oranges The impression around Yggdrasil pivoted from the flow from a cool spring to the surging force of a volcano The nova intensified Yet as Randidly felt his focus for the image sharpening he also felt that he had reached the apex of his Skill gain momentum for the day Already the glory of dawn began to wane And while he had gained some Skill Levels it wouldnÆt be enough to cross the gap to a Mille