Chapter 266: Unexpected growth
Irwin let out a weary sigh as he lowered his hammer. The table beside was covered in loose papers with music sheets. With his Tablatures of Soul and Song card having a limit of twelve songs that it could store, a few of which he had filled with things from Granvox, he'd copied the attempts on paper so they could see what was causing the issues.
If I don't have to create another card like this, I wouldn't mind, Irwin thought.
Still, it had paid off.
Before him, on Ambraz, lay the final, fifth card for Hind. It had taken him longer than he'd expected. Three full days to get the final one, mostly because Ambraz had tuned them to accommodate the changes he expected.
"Kid, don't look so relieved! That was very good practice," Ambraz said. "Now, go and see Hind! I'm curious to see what will happen!"
Irwin felt his own curiosity grow, and he wondered if things would go as they hoped. The longer he and Ambraz had thought about it, the more they wondered if, with six cards fully focused on someone's soulforce and soulscape, it wouldn't do more than just stabilize it. As far as Ambraz knew, it wasn't something he'd heard been done before, especially not with three of the cards being topaz, one being emerald, and the final actually being ruby. It was, for all intents and purposes, an experiment very few could or would be willing to attempt.
Perhaps, depending on what it does, I might do something similar for my third card, Irwin thought, not for the first time.
He grabbed the card, then his vest from the chair, pulling it over his head.
Ambraz landed on his shoulder as he left the cabin, wondering if an active body transformation -like the one Vera had- then combined with only cards to couple it to his soulscape wouldn't be a great option.
"How far along is Ethereal Strings?" he asked.
As his main-self said that, his soulscape self, as he had begun thinking of the other half of him, continued playing on the soulstrum guitar. He had begun doing so nearly nonstop, his main -self practicing with the cards and still purifying the Gneisian ore and his soulscape-self playing on the soulstrum guitar.
Well, that and-