Book 6. Chapter 33: It gets weirder
Yesterday I was pretty strong. Had gear, occult spells, Hexis’s book, and a few custom built items specialized in giving the middle finger to specific enemies I might run into.
Right now, I had a lot less of that gear - but I had grifted Drakonis’s entire spell kit. And just about everything Lionheart had taught them in their return trip. Best of all, I’d gotten it for my favorite price point: Absolutely free.
He didn’t need to know that just yet, had a feeling he might get a tad salty if he knew. But I was a gracious god, and once he’d told me all of his spells and their uses, the hangarball was back in my court.
Maybe I felt a tad bit guilty about the near one-sided information squeeze, so I handed him a few bits of info I shouldn’t technically be telling a possible enemy.
Since he knew I was a Winterscar, he knew I came from Clan Altosk - a rather famous clan among Capra’Nor since they had close ties to Lord Atius. I told him our clan lord had shared with us some occult spells and their locations out in the wild, so that’s where we had our powers from. Flame, speed, occult mirrors and occult shields. That’s all our knights had displayed before, so that’s what the ‘Deathless’ kit we had to work with. Kidra and her honor guard were among the Deathless now, and had been going undercover so as to not stir up too much drama.
Where our real power came from wasn’t just the occult spells - it was the gear we were all using. That was a little more difficult to explain away.
“And you’ve seen this weapon eliminate Feathers?” He asked.
“Absolutely. I’ve got limited rounds until I visit a mite forge again, but it is very handy. Killed To’Aacar, but because those bastards can come back to life, it’s no longer as useful against Feathers. Other machines though? If we run into anything truly dangerous, one round would eliminate most things. The armguard's been more useful in general due to the occult spells Atius had us learn. But we only have a single version of it, so it's unique to me until you find a miteforge nice enough to generate occult edges for you and you feed it blueprints. They're a little temperamental sometimes.”
He stayed silent for a moment, jogging at my left. “Still have more questions?” I asked him.