Part 26
He closed his eyes and concentrated, and activated the spell sequence. First it released a vast amount of raw power he’d stored in the stone. He held the power without casting it, feeling its improving effect on his intellect. He began gathering more and more power, and used every technique they’d come up with to prevent it from cooking his brain or otherwise harming him. As he followed the instructions and automated steps in the stone, every increase in power gave him new understanding and new ideas on how to continue the process.
Then he was finished all the steps in the stone and relying on the new ones he was inventing as he went along. In a moment of sudden inspiration he walked to his left and stood on the top of the great Truthstone of Falgaroth itself that shallowly protruded through the stage, and began to draw power from it, both through his feet and through the small extension stone in his hand.
He cast a vast collection field, nearer the sun than any they’d cast before, and had it send him its power through the Translocation medium in a novel new way, then began expanding the field even as he cast completely new ones with different frequencies that collected new kinds of power.
Then it ceased being something he was doing, and it became something that was happening to him faster than he could control it, whether he wanted it to or not.
A bright light was shining from his body with increasing energy until he was barely visible within it, and he began a long, low growl that rose in pitch and volume with the intensity of the process until he was roaring at the top of his lungs. The tension in his muscles increased, along with the tightness of his grip on the small Truthstone.
Suddenly reality itself shifted within the volume of his body, and at the same moment the small Truthstone was shattered and crushed in his grip, and a pulse of arcane energy was released that everyone there felt as it passed through them in an almost instantaneous wave.
They cried out with the wonder of the sensation, their voices joining his amidst the otherwise silent transformation, but it seemed to have no other discernable effect.
He fell silent. The light he was producing gradually faded. All was still for a moment as he stood on the Truthstone with a handful of blue gemstone gravel. He appeared to be the same as he had been before he began.
he began returned, along with Glup of The
You are unlike the gods of The Triax. But there is no doubt whatsoever that you are a
of The New Gods Of Kellaran!” Visinniria proudly proclaimed as
on for a few seconds, then Amirgath
say you, Mark?”
awesome, and amazing, but it’s still very strange. As far as I can tell, in
edge
closed his eyes for a second. “But
moment to consider it. Hmm. I’m definitely a lot more intelligent than I was, and my awareness is so much better that there’s no comparison. But I think it’s my subconscious mind that’s improved the most. I need a moment to try to take stock
everything I did with magic with god-power instead, and a lot more, without consciously casting any spells, just by wanting it to happen. I want an apple and I’ve got an apple,” he said as one appeared in his hand, “And I couldn’t say how it got there, or where it came from, or what it’s made out of. If I want it gone, it’s gone, and that’s all there is to it. It’s a completely intuitive process. And I have no idea where the power for it
either. The part of the Ascension I had in the stone was about a third of it, and it was already too complex to even remember myself, let alone communicate it to anyone else. Then I
I can still access the warlocks’ source and cast conventional spells.” he said as he cast Restore on the small crushed Truthstone. “And, I can now fully access regular wizards’ power as well, or access the Source directly as unicorns and gargoyles do. And, I can
without any physical manifestation at all.
“I guess that proves that I really am a god