Chapter 560: Moonfall VI
The moon.
There were two of them, and the layer of illusion Lun’Kat had over them had ended about half a mile from the surface - lower than most clouds were on Pallos. The illusion was razor-thin, as most mirages were, and the ancient dragon had clearly not bothered to do anything so mundane as make it see-through on one side.
Above us was an endless illusion of a dragon’s eye, looking down on us just as much as it was looking up. I’d never wondered before what it would be like to be stared at up-close by a planet-sized eyeball, but now I knew.
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[Erudite Archmage] was getting so much weight in the background. I didn’t know how much of it was good - I was probably going to have to take the second or third-best class - but I was getting quite happy with the direction it was heading in.
It was terrifying on a primal level. Intellectually, I knew it was… acceptable. The lizard part of my brain was screaming that there was a GIGANTIC PREDATOR RIGHT THERE! ALERT! ALERT! RUN! HIDE!!
The ‘fight or flight’ reflex had landed solidly on ‘flight’, with my body seemingly forgetting that ‘fight’ was even an option. Staying in control when my body was so desperately screaming for ACTION was difficult, and Iona’s knuckles were white as she continued flexing.
On our way down I’d hit the illusion as hard as I could with [A Light Shining in the Darkness], carving a large hole through the mirage. Practically speaking, if anyone was looking at the moons as I did it, they might see a tiny little blip in a single speck - if they had good eyesight. It was nothing like when the titan had smacked Lun’Kat down and forced her to drop the illusion entirely.
The levels were epic.