Sunny was in his room, watching as a Memory disintegrated into a whirlwind of shimmering sparks, a dark expression on his face. He didn't need the Spell to inform him to know that he had just lost another one…
And yet, the ever-helpful Spell still whispered into his ear:
[Your Memory has been destroyed.]
Sunny snarled, then shook his head bitterly and summoned the runes, intending to check on how many expendable Memories he still had left. It was then that he decided to check on Neph's progress, which had long ago become a deeply ingrained habit of his.
Seeing that Changing Star was still alive and fighting brought him both relief and grim motivation.
Already sensing what he was about to see, Sunny stared at the runes and read:
Name: Nephis.
True Name: Changing Star.
Rank: Dormant.
Class: Tyrant.
Shadow Cores: [5/7].
Shadow Fragments: [0/5000].
He looked at the runes for some time, then sighed and dismissed them.
Just a few days ago, she was still far away from reaching the fifth core. After the Red Colosseum and his battle with Nightmare, the gap between them had shortened even more… but now, Neph had gone and done something crazy again, making it grow vast and infuriating once more.
He stared at the walls of his room darkly. It was as though the two of them were constantly playing an insane game of tug of war, fully knowing that one wrong move meant death, but equally unwilling to let the opponent win.
And from the very start of it, he had never been in the lead.
'How… tiresome.'
Sunny shook his head, realizing that he was in no mood to blindly throw himself at the impregnable barrier of weaving anymore. At least not today.
the sorcerer's door saw it
eyes and slightly messy hair. Considering who it
chance he was
meters away from Noctis and looked at him with a guarded expression. The sorcerer blinked a couple of times, then put on a friendly
still here? Haven't
rolled his
weeks ago. Fifteen days,
foot to
a nice
stared at the sorcerer for a few moments,
Yes, in fact, you
Transcendent
didn't you say so! We are friends, are we not, and friends are supposed
tighter, hesitated
you teach
***
to smile for a bit, then
Under my guidance, you will become a distinguished sorcerer
smiled tentatively, he looked at the sky to gauge the time of day, thought for
the same time, a hundred years
Sunny blinked.
"What? A hundred years?!"
a
to learn the basics… if you mean true sorcery, of course, not those pitiful tricks others consider to be miracles. Uh, actually… what do
then
to manipulate magical energies through means
at him for
is no single thing called sorcery. But there are various ways to twist the underlying laws of the world to produce some effect, desirable or not. What we call sorcery is just a… a structured method of achieving a predictable
around, observing the landscape of the
has to do with souls, and so, I was able to learn a few things from the followers of Heart God — the God of Souls, as well as emotions, memory, hunger, and growth. However, I only became a true sorcerer after
tilted his head a
"Hope's… magic?"
Noctis nodded.
used by mortals — blindly and without a true understanding of its nature, I might add — comes from Hope. She is the one who invented writing, after all, and gifted it to us
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