Chapter 521: Exactly on Time
Tala lay, splayed out on her bed, feeling mentally bleh.
As it turned out, she could move Kit around to different stoneward depths without causing any issues within, but it was straining on her will and authority, even with Kit’s very nature making it possible and facilitating the process.
Doing so did divide the damage being done to existence into smaller, less contiguous chunks, which would heal faster—at least according to the experiments that they’d done and the information that had been shared with them.
I still say there has to be a way to increase the structure of existence around gated so that they don’t do as much damage regardless of anything else.
-I agree, but that honestly sounds more like area of effect magic, which…-
Tala shook her head. Yeah, that’s not our thing. I still feel like someone should have come up with a way of doing it.
-...you mean like the stability magics incorporated into the keystone inscriptions?-
…that’s… fair actually. That was described to me as helping contain the bounds of my gate so as to keep it from ‘breaking out’ or some such… Her eyes widened a bit. So, all of this is with mitigations in place?
-Yeah… imagine how it used to be? No wonder the gateless races disliked and distrusted us.-