The harvest was completed and it was with relief that Hadama stepped away from the terrarium for the moment. Soon enough he would have to carry the corrupted flower it contained... but not for long, he hoped.
And not before removing the rest of this particular pocket of void corruption from Halo's border.
"A void-touched life from Caido's main regions," he rumbled, his words slow and chosen carefully before they were spoken. "Was one of the tasks the gods set in order for them to create the barriers. A variety, I think. So that the barrier will recognize what to keep out." Not just pollen, or lizards, or birds alone. But to keep out all of those things which had been corrupted.
Except, perhaps, the Family. Dahlia's appearance in the Atheneum had been even more unsettling at that realization.
The other questions, however, could only be answered with a shake of Hadama's head. "I do not know," he admitted. "I can only guess. That it seeks to spread. To make more of itself. At the expense of all other living things." An invasive species, in every meaning of the term. "Shield your eyes," he added, a quiet aside as he also stepped back and focused on the flowers.
And then summoned his power. Not celestial or glittering with starlight as Ronin's once had, but instead a shimmering twist of the light above the flowers as space warped briefly into three spheres of condensed gravity a moment before they became lances striking downwards, slamming into the field of frostblooms and crushing them flat into snow that compacted so swiftly it melted into water, flowing away from the area and then instantly refreezing as solid ice at the edges of the temporary gravity well in a glittering splash of the Fangs in miniature around the now-bare rock where the Void had been wiped away.
Magic: Gravity Spike: the user borrows a sliver of the moon's power to summon up to three gravity lances that appear above a target within 60ft. Control is excellent.
Type: Light | Rank: Mastered
And not before removing the rest of this particular pocket of void corruption from Halo's border.
"A void-touched life from Caido's main regions," he rumbled, his words slow and chosen carefully before they were spoken. "Was one of the tasks the gods set in order for them to create the barriers. A variety, I think. So that the barrier will recognize what to keep out." Not just pollen, or lizards, or birds alone. But to keep out all of those things which had been corrupted.
Except, perhaps, the Family. Dahlia's appearance in the Atheneum had been even more unsettling at that realization.
The other questions, however, could only be answered with a shake of Hadama's head. "I do not know," he admitted. "I can only guess. That it seeks to spread. To make more of itself. At the expense of all other living things." An invasive species, in every meaning of the term. "Shield your eyes," he added, a quiet aside as he also stepped back and focused on the flowers.
And then summoned his power. Not celestial or glittering with starlight as Ronin's once had, but instead a shimmering twist of the light above the flowers as space warped briefly into three spheres of condensed gravity a moment before they became lances striking downwards, slamming into the field of frostblooms and crushing them flat into snow that compacted so swiftly it melted into water, flowing away from the area and then instantly refreezing as solid ice at the edges of the temporary gravity well in a glittering splash of the Fangs in miniature around the now-bare rock where the Void had been wiped away.
Magic: Gravity Spike: the user borrows a sliver of the moon's power to summon up to three gravity lances that appear above a target within 60ft. Control is excellent.
Type: Light | Rank: Mastered
