Chapter 214: Book 3: Epilogue 5 — Once More Unto the Breach
I sit in the corner of my cabin, breathing.
We’re due to leave in a few days. I can sense it in the air—the Temporal Firmament fueling this place is slowly running out, and nothing’s quite as real anymore. I’m grateful that Hestia has bought as much time for us as it has, and I’ve made it a point to take advantage of every ounce of the time given to me.
According to Guard, I’m now passable with the Threads. I still don’t prefer them, but they’re a lot more versatile than the Amplification Gauntlet. The Threads are a weapon designed to take control of a battlefield, and even more importantly, they have functions outside of cutting and slicing.
They carry Firmament. The color of the Thread binds to the Firmament that it carries, but that’s a benefit, not a weakness, as long as I use it correctly. Like Inspirations, they can modify the results of a skill, but they can also just create a link between two sources of Firmament.
If I lend them to Guard, for example, he could use them to make a skill circuit—not that he seemed particularly inclined to try.
“They are yours,” Guard says when I try to hand them off to him. “Firmament-bound, remember?”
Well, he’s got me there.
What I’m doing right now, however, involves an entirely different kind of Thread—the kind that bind into the Web of Threads and form into Concepts.
…I should probably rename the Chromatic Threads, now that I think about it. I open my eyes briefly to look over the Interface, searching for an option to do so. It’s kind of a surprise to me when I actually find it—I’d been mostly looking for a distraction.