Chapter 61: Spellwork
As per usual, Derek retreated to one of their airlocks to stare out into the warped universe as he worked.
Blue-shift ahead, red-shift directly behind, multicolored scintilating chaos everywhere else. The most refined form of spatial manipulation Derek knew of, and most certainly the one with the widest use, the magic that held most of humanity together.
Though, funnily enough, it was also one that should have been one of the most dangerous. Because according to the old mathematical models that [Alcubierre Bubble] had been named after, the warp bubble would wind up picking up every stray atom, piece of dust, and random small rock in its path, all of which would be unleashed as a titanic blast of radiation upon the bubble’s dissolution, capable of shattering planets.
Thankfully, the [System’s] version was safe, but that did not preclude the possibility of a spell being capable of replicating the feat. On a smaller scale, hopefully, but still, if he could pull it off …
Space magic ruled supreme in outer space, that had been pretty well known and generally accepted since well before Derek had been born. Not to mention that it was (in)famously the fleet admiral’s magic of choice.
Without any physical objects to interfere to diminish the magic, not even air, it was capable of achieving far greater effects than on a planet’s surface, and, in many ways, it was the only kind that could, at least outside of near-point blank ranges, though whether that lack of distance was real or had been brought about by spatial magic hardly mattered.
Yet for all the effectiveness of various applications of spatial magic had, they were hardly complex or varied.
Teleportation, spatial compression or expansion to make your attacks land and the enemy’s miss, and logistics, of course, creating storage spaces that were bigger on the inside … certainly nothing directly offensive.
At present.