“Your muscles are more defined,” Jurot said, noting that Adam’s mood was dour.

  “Yeah?” Adam replied, taken away from his ay about Mina’s safety. “I’ve been w quite hard to lose weight.” He pulled up his shirt to reveal his stomach, where his abs were more defined. Adam was looking more and more like a Greek statue as the days passed.

  “I did not know Half Elves could gai,” Jurot admitted. “Or that they could grow such a thick beard.”

  Adam rubbed his beard, fluffing it up. “I should probably shave it. It grew so much during nightval and the Twilight Month, but it’s mostly stopped now.”

  “It is dawnval,” Jurot stated. “No longer will your beard grow, for the magic is banced once more.”

  “I wonder what that’s all about,” Adam said.

  “It is how the world baself, thanks to Ritetu.”

  “Lady Eveil?” Adam asked. “Makes sense, I guess. That’s a lot of influence over the world, even if she is the Goddess of Bance.”

  “She holds great power over this world due to her powers,” Jurot said. “She is perhaps the stro of the Gods, save Baktu.”

  Adam’s head bounced in a casual nod. “That’s a surprise. I would have expected Wahtu to be one of the stro. Baktu makes sense, and then there’s, what do you call her, Mahtu?”

  “Yes, Mahtu, Mother Soza,” Jurot answered.

  “Yeah. I would have expected her to be one of the strooo, since she’s the Goddess of Life.”

  “Mahtu answers prayers, but she does not directly unicate to her Priests,” Jurot expined.

  “What does that mean?”

  “All the Gods speak to their greatest Priests in some way, no matter how sparse, but Mahtu is the only one who has remained silent.”

  “That’s arming. Why’s that?”

  “We do not know,” Jurot admitted. “Ohe various Priests of Life lied that Mahtu had spoken to her, and they held great influehey used that power frivolously, but ohey were found out to have lied, much of their influence had been stripped away. They still hold the greatest admiratioo their role iing the death of births by many fold.”

  “I’m gd it ended well.” Adam’s thoughts fell to why Mahtu would remain silent, as Jurot put it. ‘That’s weird.’ Ritetu held such a great influen the world, and he had met her not long ago. However, Mahtu being so distant from her Priests, it was something Adam hadn’t expected. ‘Did I meet Mother Soza? I don’t think I reise her…’ He hadn’t met her in his previous life, or the current one.

  “Now that I think about it…” Adam threw a look to Jurot. “Why is everyone else called Lord and Lady, but they call her Mother Soza?”

  “She is the Mother of the Great Pantheon.”

  “Oh,” Adam said. “You mean she gave birth to the Gods?”

  “Yes.”

  “Oh.” Adam tio walk with Jurot back to their estate. “If she was the mother, then who is the father?”

  “No one,” Jurot said, but he exged a knowing look to Adam. The pair knew who the father was, but it seemed that he did in this world.

  ‘Does that mean he existed at one point?’ Adam thought. ‘There’s no memories of him, nor are there any of Bandlor, but they remember there was a Bandlor at one point. So…’ Adam tried to uand how it all worked, the rules within this world, how it ossible that some of them could exist and then disappear.

  Adam only khat it was because of him that everything had goo hell.

  No, not him, but Belle.

  ‘Hey, are you sure you aren’t Belle?’ Adam asked.

  [I am Bell.]

  ‘I get that, but… I guess it would really be too simple if you really were Belle. There’s a small ce you named yourself Bell from Belle and you really are Belle, just for the fun of it.’

  […]

  ‘How e you never say stuff to me randomly any more?’

  [You ignore me until you need me.]

  Adam cleared his throat, causing Jurot to look over his way. ‘Don’t say it like that. You’re using me and I’m using yht?’

  [How am I using you?]

  ‘You’re probably the st remnant of Belle and you need me to live on, or something like that.’

  [No.]

  ‘Huh, really?’ Adam raised his brows in surprise.

  “Adam?”

  “Huh?” Adam replied. “What’s up?”

  “Are you okay?”

  “Yeah, I’m fine, I’m just talking to myself in my head.”

  “Okay,” Jurot replied. Adam talking to himself wasn’t the queerest thing Adam had said or done, so Jurot left Adam to his thoughts.

  ‘I’ll try and treat you better,’ Adam said, w how he could treat a system better. He had a sneaking suspi that Bell wouldn’t answer anything about himself.

  Lanarot was crawling around, pying with her blocks, but when she saw Adam and Jurot return, she crawled over to them. Adam lifted her up, cheg her clothy with one hand as he kissed her cheek.

  “Why are you out here pying, silly girl?” Adam asked, noting that her clothy was . “It’s nap time for you.”

  Lanarot babbled up to him as he carried her into the room. She groaned and threw out her arms, but Adam pced her down onto her thiket and dropped down beside her, rubbiomach gently.

  “Go to sleep, little Lanababy,” Adam cooed, trying to get her to fall asleep. If she tried to fight through her tiredness, she’d be irritable for some time.

  Lanarot reached up and grabbed his hand with her own, which gripped his palm firmly, before she grabbed his finger. She sucked ohumb as she stared up at him.

  Adam smiled at her, causio smile with her thumb in her mouth. He brushed her hair gently and slowly whispered towards her, coaxio sleep. Once she was firmly asleep, he gently, over the course of minutes, slipped out of her grip.

  Once she was fast asleep, Adam grabbed his pearl, and made his way to another room. He wao sit far enough away from her that, if magic did affect children and their sleep, it wouldn’t affect his little sister.

  Spell: Identify

  Adam decided against using Mana that day, just in case he ter, so cast the spell as a ritual instead. He held his pearl in one hand, and held Stormdrake iher, slowly elling just the smallest amount of Mana through himself, f a e between himself, his pearl, and the magical on.

  He quietly ted, calling forth the magid as the hour passed, he mao ect the threads of magic, gaining a deeper uanding of the sword.

  StormdrakeRequires AttuYou gain a +1 bonus to attad damage rolls made with this on.Deals 1D6 sshing and 1D6 lightning damage. You gain the ability to speak Drakken and Stormspeech.You gain the ability to use the trick Shog Touch.???

  “Hmm?” Adam stared at the information ahead of him. Stormdrake was indeed quite the on, though it didn’t hold a dle to his Phantom. However, seeing the three question marks, he wondered what the spell couldn’t gather. “Weird.”

  The spell had allowed him to form a small e with the on but he could feel how tough it was to push through the e.

  Are Lore CheckD20 + 5 = 14 (9)

  Wisdom SaveD20 + 5 = 8 (3)Health: 65 -> 54

  “Ah, fuck,” Adam gasped, dropping Stormdrake after it had shocked him. “What was that for?” he asked the inanimate magical sword, swinging his hand in the air to cool himself off. His flesh was slightly red from the burn. He reached for the swaiively. “You shock me again and I’ll bury you.” He grasped the hilt tightly, waiting for the shock, but it didn’t dare to shock him again, so he assumed.

  “What’s wrong?” Jaygak asked, watg as Adam winced, walking towards her.

  “Stormdrake shocked me,” Adam said, holding out the sword to her.

  She looked at the sword and then back up to Adam. “So you wao touch it?”

  “It didn’t shock me after,” Adam replied, defensively. “Just take it. It’s a pretty good sword, but I couldn’t gather much more about it.”

  “Is it better than Bloodseeker?”

  “It seems to be better, in my opinion,” Adam said. “Strom said that it was at least as good as Phantom, but I’m not sure about it.”

  “What it do?”

  “It’s a basic sword, deals lightning damage, gives you Drakken and Stormspeech, and a trick, Shog Touch,” Adam expined, quickly.

  Jaygak’s gripped the sword within its sheathe tightly. “Since you’re me the sword, it’ll be so rude to refuse.”

  Adam kept his hand on the hilt, and the pair of them tried to hold the bde.

  Athletics CheckD20 + 6 = 9 (3)

  Due to the shock from moments ago, Adam’s hand twitched, causing him to let go of the magical sword, and he gasped as the slightest pain which filled his hand.

  Jaygak smiled, holding the bde in her hand. “Thank you, Adam.”

  “That’s all I wao hear,” Adam said, finding some water to cool with Tricks so he could stick his hand within it. He carried the bucket of water with him as he walked to the Rot family estate to teach Churot.

  “Why is your hand in the bucket of water?” Jarot asked, sipping some peach wine.

  “I was shocked by a sword so I o y hand,” Adam replied.

  Jarot, who knew how queer Adam was, just nodded his head.

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