Chapter 107: Blue Moon
[February 4th, 750DBT]
With the Blue Moon event occurring every thirty days, Vahn was standing on the periphery of where the light poured into the cave from above. The Tower they were in, aptly named the Black Tower due to its sleek, glossy, ebon-black exterior, had a faux sun that never set. The only time night fell was when the Tower's moon eclipsed its sun, bathing every Floor from the 10th to the 99th in special Mana that strengthened and, more importantly, facilitated the promotion/evolution of the Tower's native inhabitants, flora, and fauna.
Unfortunately, while the extraordinary Mana, more commonly known as Blue Moon Energy, was incredibly beneficial to those exposed to it, it had the effect of sending even intelligent creatures into a frenzy. It thankfully didn't affect the Awakened who aspired to climb the Tower, at least not so long as they remained outsiders, but to those who had become bound to it after their worlds were subsumed and subsequently destroyed, it was a blessing and a curse.
'It's quite beautiful...' thought Vahn, raising his right hand, palm-side up, and allowing the shafts of sapphire blue light to flow across his skin like a gentle mist. Moonguk and his very pregnant fiancee, So-Young, were safe in their expanded burrow, but since he and Grayfia were impervious to the mystical light's effects, they could appreciate its ethereal beauty without worry.
tinkle tinkle tinkle
Perhaps as a result of the number of crops they had planted, Vahn and Grayfia noticed specks of twinkling blue light enveloping a total of seven plants: two radishes, one bok choy, a single carrot, and, surprisingly, three cabbages. The first three had their once green stalks turn varying shades of blue while the cabbage, evidently better at absorbing Mana, acquired a deep, amethyst-purple hue.
'This speeds things up a bit...' thought Vahn, having anticipated their first batch of Blue Moon-empowered crops to arrive during the third moon, not the second. He didn't mind meeting the Tower's Administrator early, but it meant he would have her monitoring and pestering him and Grayfia rather incessantly from then onward...
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With the Blue Moon's passing and the sun's gentle rays returning, Vahn figured he might as well bite the proverbial bullet by plucking one of the evolved radishes from the ground, prompting a blue notification window with a hexagonal background to materialize before him, distinctly different from The Path's and Invirtua's System.