Chrysalis

Landing in the water wasn’t my most graceful landing, I’m going to own up to that straight away. I’d love to tell you that I masterfully manipulated the sparkling waters of the Lake using my mana, gliding to my ship upon a wave shaped like a herd of horses.

Instead, I plummeted down and smacked face first into the waves. It felt like I ran straight into a rock wall. Unpleasant to say the least.

But that wasn’t the worst of it. Not even remotely.

I was pretty much directly underneath the gravity bomb when it terminated. Great stuff, still very pleased that I wasn't consumed whole by the void of death. Great stuff.

However, other things were consumed by the void of death. A lot of things. Well, mostly rock, but lots of it. Lots and lots. And, as we all know, the gravity bomb does what a good black hole should, sucks things inside and crushes them into one nice little ball.

So what fell out of the sky right behind me? You betcha! An extremely hot, extremely dense ball of super rock. Not long after I hit the water, I sensed the damn thing coming and started to frantically paddle with my legs, not that it got me far, and a few seconds later….

Let’s just say there was quite the splash.

When the waves settled, which took a while, the brathians were eventually able to fish me out and dump me back onto the ship, which is where I now find myself.

Basically, I’m just flopping on the deck, not moving, letting myself slowly recover from the excitement of the day. It’s almost refreshing, in a weird way, to find myself this drained. It’s been a while since I was genuinely tired, physically, mentally and emotionally. There are still ten thousand ants around, so it’ll go away eventually, even if I don't sleep, but for now, I am straight up exhausted.

[A moment of weakness!]

Which is when Odin decides to pounce at me. Claw arms extended, he leaps through the air, heading straight for my most vulnerable point, my eye. I can’t even move, I just watch him come, floating through air, almost in slow motion, blade arms extended, a twisted glee burning in his demon eyes.

Actually… it’s… it’s taking a long time for him to get me. Is he actually using some slow motion ability?

floating toward

to poke him. He’s still moving forward…

authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report

one of you, Protectant? Wrapped him up in air

to have

harmless, and I think Sarah has taken a liking

sure this wasn’t a serious attempt on me. I mean…

a little more seriously, Eldest! Especially in the light

I normally see from the reserved little ant. Well, technically speaking, I almost never see her, but I still get Will from them flowing into the Vestibule. Clearly, she’s a bit mad about the whole ‘almost getting eaten

am going to be way more careful about throwing out that particular spell in future. To be fair, though, I’ve not fired it off at full strength before, so I didn’t know how bad it

little. I was reckless, sure, but not that reckless. Protectant doesn’t seem

than anything else, multiple times, since we joined you. Almost every time you use it at anything remotely close to full power, you are nearly dragged in. Might I suggest, Eldest, that you not

reasonable. I will definitely, maybe, think about

keep

It’s not like I’m trying to

and is in real danger of going over the edge

you guys going to stop floating him at some point? How are you even doing

you away from dangerous situations. It’s quite complicated, are you sure you want

Probably not.

abandoned the method because I