Chapter 100
I’ve been gone for too long. It’s great being back at the Pack, but I miss Arcana City. I wonder how things went during the week I was away?
I gather up all the ladies and we say our goodbyes after breakfast, loading into the Pack bus for the trip to Drakon.
A great change happened this morning, Hui’Jin awoke in a Junior Priestesses plain wool robes. She’s an actual full fledged Junior Priestess now, only days before her 12th birthday. I borrow Alpha Petros’s phone to call the base and have an advancement and birthday party arranged for the evening after our arrival.
Karl sounds stoked, congratulating her over and over. Lala and the twins are super excited for a reason to plan a party. They haven’t gotten to really be part of the planning so far, but this one is exactly their specialty.
They’ve been looking for an excuse lately to break up the monotony of an entire week of "boring paperwork and errands without any of your shenanigans" as they put it.
I knew I was the fun one. Take that Karl.
But on a serious note, everyone else is so busy with official duties that I feel like a bit of a slacker, playing evil cultivator for half a year, going on vacation, clearing dungeons all the time while everyone else is working hard at running city functions.
Now, that might have all happened this week in their perception, but not in mine.
As we travel in well fed silence, catching up on last night’s missed sleep and meditation, it occurs to me that something is off. The energy isn’t as sparse here as I remember. It doesn’t seem to be limiting me to Fortification Realm either.
"Sect Master Becky, how strongly is the limitation of this world affecting you?" I ask curiously. I now she’s well into the Immortal Realm, but I don’t know how bad the changed limit is.
"I’d say it’s cut my power by two thirds maybe? Definitely into the Mortal Realms" she says hesitantly. "There’s no restriction to the peak of Condensation, but I can force more past that point. Like pushing a cart up an increasingly steep hill."