Book 2: Chapter 43: Re-Supplies
Book 2: Chapter 43: Re-Supplies
The courier arrived sometime between dawn and breakfast, a gap of time where most people were too exhausted to greet the day and too hungry to return to sleep.
He wore the pale blue trim of the royal delivery corps and had the thousand-yard stare of a man who had seen far too many officers and far too few latrines.
“I have delivery for... the Worldstriders?” he announced with all the enthusiasm of a wet paper towel.
Alex took one look at the stack of chiseled wooden crates, scroll tubes, and wax-sealed satchels and immediately knew something was wrong.
“…We don’t usually get mail,” he muttered.
“Or friends,” Holly added brightly, peeking over his shoulder.
“Or food that doesn’t come in lumps,” Garret helpfully chimed in, popping something grey and vaguely meat-adjacent into his mouth with a wince.
But the courier, dutiful and slightly dead inside, simply unfurled a parchment and began reading names aloud. “Gifts to the worldstriders an behalf of the Nobles Houses of Terraxum, the Holy Church of her Lady in Light, and the MetalWorkers Merchant Guild Consortium.” He said in with a affeck that made monotone sound damn right cheery.
The First Package: Spell Scrolls from House Caerwyn. Elegant, tightly bound parchment edged in gold-inked glyphs. A note was affixed, in the cool, formal script of Lady Thessalia herself:
“To the Worldstriders:
Consider these formation schematics and spell scrolls a further investment in your survival — and thus, our continued alliance.
— T. Caerwyn”
Devon unrolled one scroll and let out a low whistle. “Adept Level Spell, [Razor Rain]. We could blueprint an entire skirmish strategy with this. Henry, catch.”
Alex raised an eyebrow at the burly man who looked down at the scroll in his hand. “Then start studying.”
Henry gave him a mock salute with the scroll. “Yes, sir.”
That was the only Adept Tier scroll in the bunch, but there were plenty others that the team divvied up among themselves. Alex picked himself out something that he was sorely lacking and desperately needed, a ranged attack option.
| Spell: Wind Lance Type: Transmitter Element: Air Rank: Beginner Effect: Forms a condensed lance of piercing air to fire at your enemies. Sturdiness, piercing power and speed of projectiles are determined by spell rank, your intelligence stat, and Core Rank. “When you can get over or around an obstacle, just make a hole.”
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