Chapter 513: Looking Death in the Eye
Moving between the bone trees, Sofia found a hole in the dense canopy, affording her a look at the ‘sky’, which looked like a swirling vortex of gray clouds.
“Not some kind of weird sky-sea this time. The complete silence feels strange.”
Looking around, it was hard to see far in any direction, the bone trees and their dense gray foliage obscured the way no matter where she looked.
“Seeking death is taking on an entire new meaning…” Sofia commented for herself as she picked a direction at random and started walking. She felt strangely at peace walking through the strange forest. “This is when you know you’ve made it as a necromancer. Will Death be mad if I steal this tree design for Zangdar? I should be able to reproduce this pretty easily. I have to say, though, this place would look much better with actual colors…”
Making slow progress through the dense forest, Sofia couldn’t help but let her mind wander, and she started questioning her current situation a bit more. “This shouldn’t be any kind of trap but was this whole thing really necessary? And am I not in some kind of danger right now? Out of all the places someone shouldn’t go this feels like a given…”
“Hmm… Maybe Death is taking the opportunity exactly because I’m uniquely suited to come here. VPPV allows me to move around. The Deep-given protection from instant death, and [Singularity Edict] can also protect me from the semi-continuous type of damage that usually floods out when the templars use holy smite with Death’s power.”
The forest looks a little bit less dense in that direction… Could this be the way out?
“Can gods visit each other? Could Sorrow come here? Actually, where is ‘here’? Do locations in the physical plane and here link to one another in some way? It could also be more like the margin, where the rings take us to Zangdar no matter where we start from…”
So many questions…