Eryndor rembered his talks with Ken and Hellen.
They had talked about how Calix, the leader they followed, was preparing alongside the Ravencrofts, to defend against the Mage Outer Domain.
Syndra was from the Ravencroft family, so Eryndor hoped there was a chance she might know a bit about them.
The young lady was quick to reply.
"Yea sure, what is it?"
"Do you know the internal situation of team Lockheim?"
"Not really, but I know the basic information since each team which is cooperating with our family needs to submit their profile.
"Only then can our family screen them and choose appropriately. This attack isn’t a small one after all, we can’t have unworthy people among our ranks.
"The Mage Outer Domain has gathered a huge army for so reason, it’s as if they’re sure they’ll win this battle."
Eryndor got more information than he had asked for, but it was always welco. Not wanting her to stray from the topic, he asked.
"Do you know about Ken and Hellen from team Lockheim?"
"Here it just says they aren’t one of the strongest on the team. Let look up the more detailed information which our family collected."
Eryndor didn’t find anything strange with it. It was obvious your employer would gather more information on you beyond the basic one you sent, if the job was important enough that is.
And if defending against the Mage Outer Domain wasn’t important, then nearly nothing was.
"Oh yea, found it. Hmm, they might not be one of the strongest on team Lockheim, but surely the most precious ones.
"Here it says that Calix treasures his sister, Hellen, like a gem, and by extension, looks over Ken too. Nothing else interesting.
"It doesn’t need to be interesting, can you tell about the rest as well?"
"Oh, sure."
Unfortunately for Eryndor, there really wasn’t anything interesting in the rest of the information.
The earlier information was sothing he could’ve gotten from the couple themselves as well.
Eryndor fell into thought.
What would Liliana get by killing Ken and Hellen?
Since, there wasn’t really anything he could use as a base to connect the dots, he set aside the matter entirely.
For the next few minutes, he exchanged a few more words with Syndra, then talked with the rest of his roommates, and switched off the phone.
There’s still ti for snacks, and I don’t feel like cultivating.
Oh wait.
He abruptly rembered sothing.
Oh yea I can do that.
He locked the door to his room, and focused to enter his Mind Palace.
It had been a long ti since he entered it.
I an, there’s nothing much to do there, and there’s a long ti before I can test my theory of how to open the second door.
A mont later, he opened his eyes to the familiar sight of a majestic hall painted entirely of golden colors.
The three black rotating orbs still floated above their respective altars.
Their size has increased again.
He thought while gazing at them. He didn’t know when they would break through to the next level.
Shaking his head, Eryndor headed towards the first door where the Sovereign’s Cloak was situated.
"Damn."
He couldn’t help but whisper upon seeing its condition.
Dense black smoke wafted out from the Sovereign’s Cloak hovering above the altar.
It looks cool as fuck.
Never before when he witnessed the Cloak did it look so cool.
He inched closer to the altar, and found an addition to it.
There was a progress bar down there, with so of it already filled.
His eyes narrowed in thought.
What are the conditions of its breakthrough?
He thought back to the three orbs in the hall back there. Their progress was based on the number of tis he used the respective ability.
But if I go by the number of tis an ability has been used, it wouldn’t make sense for Sovereign’s Cloak to have this much progress.
Eryndor rembered that the Sovereign’s Cloak had only been used one ti significantly.
It was when it blocked the attack of misfortune. The rest of the ti, it was only used for minor defense, like when the Crappy Birds grazed his arm.
He couldn’t reject the idea with certainty though. What if the required number of uses for abilities inside the room to breakthrough, was lower than the abilities out in the vast hall?
Not to ntion the Sovereign’s Cloak was only in the Latent realm.
After taking an extrely thorough look at the progress bar, Eryndor exited the Mind Palace and arrived in his physical body once again.
With Sovereign’s Cloak draped over him, he punched himself.
No physical sensation was felt, but his energy of Consciousness was consud by an extrely slight amount. So low that he wouldn’t even notice it while in a battle.
Just in case, he punched himself a few more tis.
After feeling the small drain on his energy of Consciousness, he arrived back inside the Mind Palace.
He imdiately examined the progress bar.
It hasn’t increased.
In a way, it was to be expected.
Why would the abilities inside the rooms be the sa as the abilities back in the vast hall?
Eryndor thought hard before a conjecture appeared in his mind.
Killing?
Anomalies’ abilities increased in strength based on the number of living beings they killed. Could his ability have the sa condition?
In a way, he could be said to be an Anomaly after all.
Eldritch Entities were classified under Anomalies.
It would also make more sense this way.
Eryndor had killed plenty of Aberrosks, and just recently massacred a tribe of Crappy Birds.
If he assud that all of those kills were the reason his Sovereign’s Cloak began progressing towards the next stage, then it would be a valid guess as well.
They would be leaving this planet tomorrow, or day after tomorrow.
He would have plenty of ti to check if the guess he had in his mind was correct or not.
I can check it out tomorrow.
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