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Captainwolf said:
I don't understand why you have this impression? Regardless of the methods he uses, his enchantments are superior to like 90% of enchanted items he has encountered.
- When he went to the LotR plane, he was able to make a ring almost as good as one of the Rings of Power with just half a day of studying one of the rings and quicksmithing the new one.
- His Dragon armor is strong enough to let him ignore conventional attacks. It has 3 Mana laser turrets that can blast through building sized creatures (excluding God-Eternals), capable of automatic targeting, advanced target recognition, and rapid fire.
- other feats include making city sized shields in just a day or two, making rings able to hold and support a mana-based intelligence.
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The problem is, they really aren't, they just appear that way on the surface.

Let's go through your examples.

When he encountered The One Ring, he tried to copy it and ended up making what amounted to a limited Ring of Invisibility. That's not technically what the One Ring does, and it's not all of what The One Ring does either. The One Ring shift's it's wearer into the Unseen, which from an outside perspective looks like invisibility, but it's not. On top of that however, The One Ring has a number of other proprieties, it was a power reserve, a power enhancer, a translator, prolonged the users life, and could in theory allow a user to control the minds of others.

His armor is impressive when compared to the purely mundane, but it's also very level 3 artificer standard so far as it's capabilities are concerned, on top of which however it's also a power hog. If he had learned ground up Elder Scrolls enchanting however he could make the armor itself all but indestructible to both magic and mundane effects. If he had learned ground up Kaladesh enchanting he could have given his turrets basic AI and made them self renewing energy wise. If he had learned ground up Ravnica enchanting he could have probably doubled the power of his weapons, and added in a self powering energy shield.

The shield was semi-impressive, but it wasn't really sustainable long term, and burnt out relatively quickly when faced with even just non-magical attacks. Compare that to the runic shield's used to hold back Bolas's forces in Ravnica, the Blinding Barrier used to protect Benalia, or even the Denial Shields used by the Mages of Alara.

Or to go back to the Gunpla analogy, he's building this.

When if he learned things properly he could be building this.

And while I get that Pride is supposed to be the character's mortal sin, he's almost gotten killed enough times at this point that you are really left wondering how long that's going to hold back the character from what he could be.
 
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Vaermina said:
When he encountered The One Ring, he tried to copy it and ended up making what amounted to a limited Ring of Invisibility. That's not technically what the One Ring does, and it's not all of what The One Ring does either. The One Ring shift's it's wearer into the Unseen, which from an outside perspective looks like invisibility, but it's not. On top of that however, The One Ring has a number of other proprieties, it was a power reserve, a power enhancer, a translator, prolonged the users life, and could in theory allow a user to control the minds of others.
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He didn't try to copy the One Ring. What he copied was one of the 3 elf rings, Vilya, (See chapter 25 of "Living With Dragons"). After a short period spent studying Vilya, he was able to see that the ring gave a mental enhancement to its wearer, despite the rings using a different method of enchanting (Magic being infused into the metal instead of being seperate). He then proceeded to make a new ring that was 75% as good as Vilya, in a matter of hours, despite having only examined the One Ring and Vilya for a short time. I know the LoTR wiki says Vilya has different abilities, but Atregos made no mention of that.
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His armor is impressive when compared to the purely mundane, but it's also very level 3 artificer standard so far as it's capabilities are concerned, on top of which however it's also a power hog. If he had learned ground up Elder Scrolls enchanting however he could make the armor itself all but indestructible to both magic and mundane effects. If he had learned ground up Kaladesh enchanting he could have given his turrets basic AI and made them self renewing energy wise. If he had learned ground up Ravnica enchanting he could have probably doubled the power of his weapons, and added in a self powering energy shield.
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1. I don't understand why you are comparing it to (presumably) a level 3 DnD artificer. Its more like at least level 15 DnD artificer armor, what with being a full body suit, built-in weight reduction/flight so he can still fly with weight, has a built-in magic shield, strength enhancement, durability enhancement, can reshape itself to form a saddle, has the ability to magnify vision, has deployable scout drones, and probably more abilities besides these.
2. The armor doesn't need power from Atregos, and there is no indication that it consumes an unsustainable amount of magic in normal use (excluding the guns). On the topic of durability, we know it is far more durable than WoW armor, and don't really have enough information to determine how it compares to other enchanted armors.
3. There has been nothing in any of the stories that have shown that Elder Scrolls based enchanting can make armor almost indestructible. I'm not sure where you are getting this from?
4. His turrets do have basic AI. They are able to select targets based on very vague directions, like shoot any blue Undead.
5. I don't understand what you mean by "self renewing energy wise" The turrets can either fire at a medium-low setting forever by using ambient mana, or they can be set to use more power for large targets. Considering they don't need to use Atregos's pool of mana, that seems quite powerful. I mean, even the sustainable rate of fire was enough to consistently blast limbs off of Eternals. I don't know why you are saying that Ravnica enchanting methods would have meant that his lasers would have been twice as powerful, so far we haven't seen any ranged weapons of similar size and compactness with as much power, aside from the vacuum explosion gauntlet that Atregos has.
6. Atregos's armor does have an energy shield. He was able to keep it up at all times when his armor was deployed, indicating that the shield was self-powered.
Hiver said:
An arrow suddenly pinged off my shield, followed by a dozen more to equal lack of effect.
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The shield was semi-impressive, but it wasn't really sustainable long term, and burnt out relatively quickly when faced with even just non-magical attacks.
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If you are referring to the shield that protected Minas Tirith, that was a shield made with (for a device of that nature) substandard materials in just 3 hours. Despite that, it still would have completely protected a huge city from an massive (if mundane) army for 10 hours. Instead what happened was Sauron himself personally intervened to try to overload and blow up the shield, but Atregos managed to alter the device in a matter of seconds to instead enchant the entire city to be repaired and made stronger than steel.
 
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    • I climbed higher into the air, scanning the horizon as I reached the top of the pack of flyers approaching the ziggurat in the distance. I could see them from here, Eternals. Grounded and flying. We had waited for long enough for the ground forces to get into position before we took to the sky and started our approach.

    Apparently the Eternals could see our Sparks, so illusions wouldn't be very useful, at least my kind. Jace apparently could pull it off, but the mindmage was just bullshit in general.

    I looked towards the fliers below. But not all of them are Planeswalkers, not even a lot.

    Reaching a decision, I started casting spells, starting with summoning a pair of Proto-drakes. Alexis quickly followed suit with summoning her angel as I started on my second spell and I dug into my mana, channeling it and casting a wide area Blur spell on everybody here. That many people and it wouldn't last long, but it would last long enough to get close enough for it not to matter. It would at least hide our numbers.

    On the other hand... every Planeswalker here just became even more of a target. Not ideal, but we already were the targets, so hiding the rest could be more valuable.

    "Atregos, is it me or does there seem to be more of them?" Alexis called over the sound of the wind.

    "No idea, you were in the main fight before. But they have been consolidating their forces," I answered as I scanned the swarm of angels and other beings, including two that looked like dragons, in the sky above the ziggurat. Swarm of angels? Flock? What do you call a group of angels again?

    Well, in this case murder seems to be the right one in any case.

    "Here they come!" somebody shouted down and to my left, and I activated my manalasers. Freshly tuned and adjusted, all three started to fire. Bolts of blue mana shot through the air and struck their targets, and then the two groups clashed and people screamed as spells, weapons and claws ripped and tore across the sky.

    I twisted and turned, avoiding a lunging angel and its spear strike only to grab a blue and gold roc by the wings and rip it in half. Alexis was once more wielding her sword in one hand and firing with her blaster with her other at anything that came too close. My manalasers kept blasting away, blue blasts stitching across the dark sky as I twisted and turned. One of my proto-drakes collided with a larger-than-average roc and they went down towards the city below, scratching and biting.

    Everybody was fighting and people were dying. We were over the ground forces by now and spells and weapon fire flashed across the darkened streets below. Flashes of summons, the screams of wounded or dying.

    Sparks arcing through the air.

    "Atry!" Alexis yelled loudly and I twisted at the warning, meeting the diving blue pegasi and its rider with the armored front of my wing instead of allowing its spear to hit me in the chest. I felt the impact, but the mount and its rider shattered in fragments at the collision, raining down towards the city below.

    "Atry?" I asked as I leveled out for a second, "What the fuck?"

    "You called me Lexi," Alexis said and carefully aimed before blasting a roc from the skies with her blaster, "And I needed something short."

    "I don't-" I started and then beat my wings hard, twisting around to snag an angel by his wings as he tried to take the head of a pegasus rider. Before he was able to grapple me instead, I ripped his wings off like he was an insect, "-like it."

    "Well, too bad," Alexis said and started to channel her mana, glowing white with red flowing into her for a second, then she put her hands against my back, letting the spell flow into me through my armour. Suddenly it was like somebody had turned on slow motion. Everything slowed down by at least three quarters but I moved at regular speed.

    Oh this would be fun.

    I grabbed an angel and threw it at a pegasi before I twisted around, beat my wings twice and landed on the back of a blue and golden drake-like wyvern as two of them dove towards a trio of thopter riders below. Grabbing its wings, I broke them with loud snaps and then I twisted around in a kind of throw to smash the undead Eternal into the equally undead drake that was flying next to it.

    Time seemed to speed up again and I spread my wings and beat them hard as I pulled up from the dive.

    "Was that fucking dragon judo!?" Alexis yelled over the airstream as I pulled up, climbing back up through the air.

    "Kinda," I admitted, "Ren tau-" I started before I let loose a blast with my breath towards another pegasi and its rider, both of the Eternals freezing solid and falling towards the ground, "-taught me. Not often I need something like that though."

    "Can you do it again?"

    I scanned for targets as my manalasers kept firing. Admittedly even in this kind of furball they missed more than they hit, but they had likely downed dozens already.

    "I should," I agreed, "Can you enhance me like that again?" I asked before I looked towards the Ziggurat and Bolas on his throne. He wasn't even looking in our direction.

    Maybe...

    "Alexis," I said, "You know the plan, right? We could possibly do a rather big distraction when he goes for the big guy. You in?"

    I felt her shift as she looked forward towards the would-be god-emperor of the entire fucking multi-verse. Considering what he had done so far and how unconcerned he seemed to be with us being here... I wasn't convinced he wasn't as powerful as he thought he was. If we attacked directly...

    "Fuck it," Alexis finally said, "After everything he's done here, after everybody he has killed. I want a piece of him. Do you see Gideon?"

    I scanned the sky and easily spotted Mister Muscles towards the west with a squadron of pegasus riders covering him. I did some quick calculations, "About four minutes until contact," I said and shifted course to bring us around to what would turn into a pincer movement, "I'll use what spells I can to get bigger and tougher, put anything you can into it."

    "Got it," Alexis agreed and holstered her sword as she started to prepare. I cast an illusion of myself. Two dozen illusions of myself actually flying in close formation. With some hope, it would confuse the Eternals at least a little.

    The first angel in our path showed that it didn't work at all so I just let them go as I froze the angel solid. So lucky these things weren't stronger or at least smarter. At least not without Vess directing them directly and I bet she was multitasking like a bitch right now. Likely focusing on the...

    Where are the God-Eternals... there. Still moving towards the ground fight. The buildings were slowing them down.

    I shifted course to avoid them and put a Blur spell around us again just in case. Maybe it made the Planeswalkerness a bit harder to see at range, I didn't want to risk either of them having a ranged attack. Snakeface hadn't, but who's to say that these two didn't.

    "Go!" Alexis yelled and pointed towards the pegasi riders. They were moving faster and towards Bolas as his attention seemed fixed on the approaching floating fortress.

    I went. Shifting course, I beat my wings harder and faster as I started to channel my magic. White mana. I felt stronger. Blue mana. Stronger. A second layer of armour covered both of us as illusionary enchantments layered on top of us, layer after layer as I cast enchantment illusion after enchantment illusion over myself. Stronger. Faster. Tougher.

    Alexis cast her spells and suddenly I felt like I could do anything. I could take this ugly flat snouted snake! If I had all this when I faced Sargeras, I would not have needed the portal bomb!

    My final spell flashed and I put every point of magic I had left into boosting the green mana as I grew larger than any Flightleader, I would have towered over them all and I beat my wings hard before going into a pounce.

    Bolas turned in my direction and in my enhanced vision surprise flashed across his face for a split second before he raised one hand.

    There was a feeling of movement, pain, and a rushing sound followed by a massive crashing, crumpling sound and screaming.

    Then darkness.



    AN/// Posted early because early morning tomorrow.
     
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    • For those thinking this was really dumb of Atregos, it is important to note that he timed his attack to happen at the same time as Gideon attacked:
    Hiver said:
    "Do you see Gideon?"

    I scanned the sky and easily spotted Mister Muscles towards the west with a squadron of pegasus riders covering him. I did some quick calculations, "About four minutes until contact," I said and shifted course to bring us around to what would turn into a pincer movement, "I'll use what spells I can to get bigger and tougher, put anything you can into it."
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    Hiver said:
    My final spell flashed and I put every point of magic I had left into boosting the green mana as I grew larger than any Flightleader, I would have towered over them all and I beat my wings hard before going into a pounce.
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    And here I am, imagining Alexis having to do a split because the harnesses on her legs have just shifted to an uncomfortable position.
     
    Captainwolf said:
    He didn't try to copy the One Ring. What he copied was one of the 3 elf rings, Vilya, (See chapter 25 of "Living With Dragons"). After a short period spent studying Vilya, he was able to see that the ring gave a mental enhancement to its wearer, despite the rings using a method of enchanting (Magic being infused into the metal instead of being seperate). He then proceeded to make a new ring that was 75% as good as Vilya, in a matter of hours, despite having only examined the One Ring and Vilya for a short time. I know the LoTR wiki says Vilya has different abilities, but Atregos made no mention of that.

    1. I don't understand why you are comparing it to (presumably) a level 3 DnD artificer. Its more like a level 15 DnD artificer armor, what with being a full body suit, built-in weight reduction/flight so he can still fly with weight, has a built-in magic shield, strength enhancement, durability enhancement, can reshape itself to form a saddle, has the ability to magnify vision, has deployable scout drones, and probably more abilities besides these.
    2. The armor doesn't need power from Atregos, and there is no indication that it consumes an unsustainable amount of magic in normal use (excluding the guns). On the topic of durability, we know it is far more durable than WoW armor, and don't really have enough information to determine how it compares to other enchanted armors.
    3. There has been nothing in any of the stories that have shown that Elder Scrolls based enchanting can make armor almost indestructible. I'm not sure where you are getting this from?
    4. His turrets do have basic AI. They are able to select targets based on very vague directions, like shoot any blue Undead.
    5. I don't understand what you mean by "self renewing energy wise" The turrets can either fire at a medium-low setting forever by using ambient mana, or they can be set to use more power for large targets. Considering they don't need to use Atregos's pool of mana, that seems quite powerful. I mean, even the sustainable rate of fire was enough to consistently blast limbs off of Eternals. I don't know why you are saying that Ravnica enchanting methods would have meant that his lasers would have been twice as powerful, so far we haven't seen any ranged weapons of similar size and compactness, aside from the vacuum explosion gauntlet that Atregos has.
    6. Atregos's armor does have an energy shield. He was able to keep it up at all times when his armor was deployed, indicating that the shield was self-powered.

    If you are referring to the shield that protected Minas Tirith, that was a shield made with (for a device of that nature) substandard materials in just 3 hours. Despite that, it still would have completely protected a huge city from an massive (if mundane) army for 10 hours. Instead what happened was Sauron himself personally intervened to try to overload and blow up the shield, but Atregos managed to alter the device in a matter of seconds to instead enchant the entire city to be repaired and made stronger than steel.
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    My apologies, it's been a number of years, and a number of other fanfiction, since I read that part.

    As to the Armor, you're a module behind, Tasha's introduced the Armorer subclass, who basically get magical power armor comparable to what Atregos made at level 3. And yes, that includes energy blasters and a magical forcefield.🤷‍♂️

    For the other bit, there was a part back in Chapter 31 where he mentioned still using replaceable charged mana crystals that feed into capacitors as the ammo source for his weapons.



    Hiver said:
    Bolas turned in my direction and in my enhanced vision surprise flashed across his face for a split second before he raised one hand.

    There was a feeling of movement, pain, and a rushing sound followed by a massive crashing, crumpling sound and screaming.

    Then darkness.
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    There's always a bigger snek...
     
    Vaermina said:
    As to the Armor, you're a module behind, Tasha's introduced the Armorer subclass, who basically get magical power armor comparable to what Atregos made at level 3. And yes, that includes energy blasters and a magical forcefield
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    I was in fact looking at the armorer subclass when I stated his armor was at least equal to level 15 artificer armor.
    - Assuming you are referring to the lightning projector when you say energy blasters, his Mana lasers are an order of magnitude more powerful and don't require him to do any aiming, plus he has 3 of them.
    - The armor makes him stronger and stuff, so at minimum it is effectively equivalent to level 9 armorer ability "Armor modifications", with abilities that would basically translate to at least the following infusions:
    -- Armor of Magical Strength
    -- Enhanced Defense
    -- Enhanced weapon (his claws)
    -- Replicate Magic Item: Eyes of the Eagle
    -- Replicate Magic Item: Boots of Levitation (since the armor should be too heavy to let him fly, but uses anti-grav or weight reduction to let him fly anyway)
    - Note that Artificer armor can actually only have 4 infusions anyway.

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    For the other bit, there was a part back in Chapter 31 where he mentioned still using replaceable charged mana crystals that feed into capacitors as the ammo source for his weapons.
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    I think you remembered it incorrectly. The chapter says that each blaster automatically recharges. He specifically said he doesn't make them be able to be reloaded like a gun because the spare Mana capacitors would be unprotected and highly explosive if hit.


    Vaermina said:
    There's always a bigger snek...
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    That's true, although I suspect calling Atregos or Bolas a snake would not be good for a person's health :V
     
    Atregos's Defeat 1UR
    Instant
    Deal 5 damage to target red or blue creature or planeswalker, then draw a card. If that permanent is an Atregos planeswalker, draw another card and destroy target artifact you don't control.
    "Perhaps in a few centuries, you'll manage to invent something that can chip one of my scales. Perhaps."
    —Nicol Bolas
     
    *sigh* Yes, Bolas bitchslapped Atregos (and likely Alexis?), so what? He did the same to the entire Gatewatch not too long ago, and could do so to the vast majority of Planeswalkers currently alive. I don't get why so many readers are fervently desiring him to 'be taken down' for 'thinking he could take Bolas' when that's not what they were trying to do.

    Atregos and Alexis never actually expected to take Bolas down, they were specifically trying to make themselves look like a possible threat to distract Bolas from Gideon's attack, and they timed their stunt that way.

    And regardless of outcome for them, they look to have succeeded, Bolas was focused on them rather than Gideon's taskforce.
     
    I am not sure Bolas looking away For five seconds really qualifies as a successful distraction.

    One big thing I think most people are missing though is the question of what Bolas hit Arty with. Because that was almost surely the Elder Spell. Which means while he might survive due to his Soul Stone, it's questionable if he will still have his Spark after everything's said and done.
     
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    I am not sure Bolas looking away For five seconds really qualifies as a successful distraction.

    One big thing I think most people are missing though is the question of what Bolas hit Arty with. Because that was almost surely the Elder Spell. Which means while he might survive due to his Soul Stone, it's questionable if he will still have his Spark after everything's said and done.
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    No, Elderspell is touch only. I don't think Bolas ever personally stole someone's spark. This would have been just a (powerful) conventional spell.
     
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    • Silent darkness. No dreams. No pain. Just calm darkness.

    Peace.

    "-ak-"

    Almost silent darkness. There was some sort of banging sound far in the distance. Something was... what was that?

    "-izar-!"

    A voice. I didn't know what it was saying, I didn't want to know. I just wanted to rest. Sleep. It was so rare that I could sleep in, I usually woke up when Sheila got up.

    Sheila. Maybe it was Sheila?

    "Wak- ou-"

    Didn't sound like Sheila. Then I didn't care. I could sleep a little longer. Something somewhere twinged slightly. Was that... pain?

    "-ake up! Y-"

    That was Alexis. Why was Alexis in my sleeping spot, she didn't belong there. Why did my teeth hurt? I can't feel my wings.

    Slow, ever so slowly my brain started to move. Gears slowly started to move as the hamsters got to running, cobwebs slowly falling off and slowly shaking the dust off.

    I slowly forced an eye open, my other didn't seem to be responding. Everything seemed blurry and the lenses in my armour seemed to be cracked or shattered. That's odd, that's almost impossible, they were enchanted.

    A clang ran through my head as Alexis hit my helmet with something before yelling, "Wake up you stupid dragon! Wake up! Atregos, you have to trigger your soulstone! Use your soulstone! Do you understand me, I can't kill you through your armor! Use your soulstone! Wake up!! I don't know how much time we got!"

    Another impact on my helmet, hard enough to rock my head slightly this time. Alexis sounded upset. I didn't like that, she was one of my best friends. Why can't I feel my tail? Or my legs? Any of them?

    "Use your soulstone you stupid dragon!" Alexis yelled and clobbered me again, the sound ringing across my helmet "For fuck sake, Atregos! Wake up!"

    She wanted me to do something. I tried to ask her but nothing wanted to move right.

    Clang!

    I triggered my soulstone and suddenly found myself in the calm and silent darkness of my soulstone and everything was clear.

    Shit! I had been completely ready and behind the strongest defenses I could possibly prepare and Bolas... shit. He didn't kill me, but it must have been a very close thing if I had been that badly injured.

    Triggering the Soulstone, I reformed in fire and smoke and I struggled not to roar as the pain burned through me and I spread my wings for balance and I almost stumbled.

    Then I did collapse onto the ground, breathing hard. That... that never got any easier. How my Consorts could do that everytime we traveled...

    ...They were all a lot tougher than I was. There has to be a better way.

    "Atregos!" Alexis exclaimed and dropped down next to me, "You're okay!"

    "I... I think so," I said and blinked quickly, looking around the room. We were in what seemed to have been some sort of meeting hall of temple or something. Half the roof had caved in, likely when we hit it and every window in the place seemed to have shattered, "What happened? He hit us with something."

    "He smashed us from the sky like it was nothing," Alexis answered and hugged my neck firmly for a second, "I think I lost you for a moment there. Damn it, don't do that to me, I have no idea how I would be able to face Sheila and the others if you..."

    I leaned against her touch for a moment before I nodded, "I'm sorry," I said before I looked at her, blinking in surprise, "...What in the world are you wearing?"

    She had some sort of blue and white fabric wrapped around herself like a dress, but it didn't look anything like one, "Is that an Azorious flag?" I then asked.

    Alexis glanced down at herself and nodded, "I woke up in my soulstone," she said and then motioned towards the other side of me, "And I had to wear something. Your fat ass was laying on my pack!"

    I blinked and looked where she pointed. My armour lay on the ground and it looked like I had gone through two pillars on the way down and crushed about half the furniture. The armour was twisted and heavily dented in multiple places. I couldn't see any actual holes, but...

    "What the hell did he hit us with?" I asked softly before I glanced at Alexis, "How long has it been?"

    She shook her head, "I don't know, maybe five or ten minutes. It took a while to get you to trigger your stone."

    Nodding, I slowly got up and carefully moved past her to check on my armour, "Well... that's a week of work wasted, this is all kinds of fucked, at least it mostly did its job," I said and looked across my armour before I blinked and looked up towards the sky, "The sky is dark," I said quietly, "The attack..."

    "It failed," Alexis agreed quietly as she walked up next to me, putting her hand against my neck before she swallowed and nodded firmly, "But there isn't time for this. Lift your armor so I can get my stuff. We need to get out of here."

    Nodding, I quickly rolled it over, allowing her to pull her things out, looking them over.

    "Damn," she said and looked at her sword hilt, "It's crushed," she asked and turned to me, "Can you fix it?"

    "Of course," I said and focused my magic to turn to mortal form and take it from her.

    "Good, I'll need it," she said and started to unpack a change of clothes before dropping the flag.

    She didn't bother being shy about it but I turned my back anyway, knowing it would matter for her later when things weren't as dangerous. I focused on the metal in her sword hilt, shifting and moving it around. I reformed it, shifting the metal around and reforming the enchantments and wiping the broken ones.

    "Good things soulstones don't reset your other form," Alexis said as she stepped up next to me after finishing getting dressed in some spare clothes, taking one of my blasters from my armour and sliding it into her belt.

    "Mhmm," I agreed and finished the sword before handing it back to her, "Yeah. We should redo our soulstones. How long does it take you?"

    "Fifteen minutes or so," Alexis said and frowned up at me, "I don't think we have time for that. We need to move."

    I turned to her, "We're taking that time," I told her seriously, "If we hadn't had those, we would be dead now."

    Alexis swallowed and then nodded, "Okay," she said and put her sword in her belt, "You're right," she admitted and moved to sink down to sit on one of the remaining benches. She looked exhausted.

    I gave her shoulder a squeeze before sinking down to sit next to her and starting to focus on casting my own spell to make a new soulstone. Sheila was way faster than me at this normally, back when she could use the Fel. I timed her at less than a minute.

    Me it took a full ten minutes of focused casting; it wasn't an easy spell to do and I closed my eyes in focus.

    Black mana almost made me feel odd to use, there was... kind of an oily feeling to it. But it was the only kind I was able to use to make a soulstone.

    "Atregos! Look!"

    I looked up just in time to see the dark of the sky fade to a smooth natural blue.
     
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    • Crimson Doom said:
    ...I have no idea how you think Liliana got involved in this.
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    If you're talking about the whole War of the Spark, besides it happening in canon, here's a quote from this fic of her fighting on the Bolas side:
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    Alexis shook her head and lowered her hand before brushing some stray hairs away from her face which instantly fell back. She frowned and then started redoing her braid, "Well, Vess is still alive," she started, "I'm not sure what happened, I couldn't see it very well but I think Bolas might have saved her from the attacks. The portal closed, but the Eternals are all streaming into the place from across the District.Beleren called the retreat before we could get surrounded."
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    If you're talking about why Lilliana would be involved with the defeat of Bolas, that's probably because it happened in canon too. There she used the Gods Eternals against Bolas, and one of them specifically to steal all the Sparks that Bolas had collected up to that point, including his (which resulted in the God Eternal in question to burst like a balloon and disperse all those Sparks across the multiverse).
     
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    IvanDead said:
    If you're talking about why Lilliana would be involved with the defeat of Bolas, that's probably because it happened in canon too. There she used the Gods Eternals against Bolas, and one of them specifically to steal all the Sparks that Bolas had collected up to that point, including his (which resulted in the God Eternal in question to burst like a balloon and disperse all those Sparks across the multiverse).
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    At which point Bolas triggered her contract and the magic of it started to kill her.

     
    *nods* and in canon, Gideon sacrificed/exchanged his life to save her (which as I understand it, she's still trying to wrap her head around)
     
    Vaermina said:
    Hopefully that didn't happen here since she knows the Soul Stone spell.
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    Since when? She wasn't even present when Atregos or Alexis used the Soul Stone as far as we know. She should have no reason to know this unless I've forgotten something from one of the previous installments.
     
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