Spaceships and Magic, What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Chapter 25: Real

I stretched out and cracked my neck from side to side as my eyes flickered open. I'd been having the strangest dream about magical powers, alien species and a strange AI that lived in my brain.

The now familiar voice of BB echoed around my skull.

I shot up in an instant, eyes wide open.

I still wasn't in my cramped London apartnt room. Dirty laundry wasn't all over the floor, there was no sll of damp or mould. I hadn't been woken by the bone-shaking rumblings of a tube hurtling past my window at a hundred miles per hour.

It had all been real.

Over the past day, however many hours that was on this planet, I'd gone from being a nobody with no magical powers whatsoever to being a temporary Guard mber under one of the Squadron Leaders, set on a special behind the scenes mission to try and stop the world from ending. It gave a little thrilled shiver just thinking about it.

But before I could get into any of that, there was a section of my System that I had been ignoring, and the final events of the day before had alerted to it. I had no idea that I could take quests, and that those quests would have unique rewards for to access.

BB chid in,

It didn't sound harmless. It didn't sound harmless at all. I'd seen what highly-charged streams of Manna could do to things. I'd been throwing them about all day yesterday to devastating effects. Now I was ant to calmly let one wash over ? That sounded more than a little bit suspicious. Maybe I'd activate my corona shield just in case

BB snapped.

That was easy for him to say, he wasn't about to be sent into his second reincarnation by a common household appliance.

With dread, I took off my clothes, item by item. I tried to make it take as long as possible. If these were going to be my final monts in Prespian City, my final monts with magical abilities and a smartass AI in my skull, I wanted them to last.

I apologised to Lara, I would never be able to find her or avenge her death.

I apologised to Yr'Arl, they never should have placed their faith in soone who couldn't even take on a shower.

I apologised to Akash, I'd never be able to prove to him that there were humans out there with the potential for good.

Then, I stepped into the shower, ready for it to wipe away.

BB muttered as I finally turned the shower on.

Goodbye, cruel world.