Chapter 69.2- Doom Days

“First of all, what kind of ward is it?” He asked.

“I didn’t ask for a lesson. Just help me remove the ward” I growled back.

“Well, it is not like you find yourself spoiled for choice, is it? We either do this my way or not at all” He said. I looked back at him, and he met my age, not even flinching or backing down slightly. Oh fuck it.

“It’s a boundary ward of some sort. Creates a boundary that no one can pass”

“Mostly correct. But most wards are boundary wards in one way or another. What kind of ward is this one? I’ll give you a hint, the door doesn’t matter even slightly” He said.

“So it’s not a locking ward then?” I deduced from the hint.

“No. It is not. Those creatures would have broken through something like that easily. Think about what the point of the ward is” He said.

“Is it a containment ward?”

“Accurate enough. Now how do we bypass it?”

“Bypass, not break?”

“This place is built on the intersection of two leylines, and that ward has been up and feeding on the leylines for decades per your account. If you want to try banging your head against a wall and expect it to give way, then be my guest/“

“Alright then. Np need for you to be sp snarky. Okay, we have to bypass it. Ho do we do that?”

“What do you know about containment wards?”

“Only that they are designed to keep things in a specific space within that space rather than keeping outsiders out of said space more than anything else” I said.

“Yes, that is their primary feature. Magic works on balance more than anything else. And this works by using that balance to its advantage. It has almost no power to prevent ingress, and trades that capability for near limitless power to prevent egress.”

“So now that we know how it works, how does it help me do anything?”

“How did you get here?” He asked.

“The portkey on the cup.”

“Indeed, and I am sure you don’t think your adversary was supposed to reman in that cell with you” He said.

“So you think he is keyed into the wards?” I asked back.

“Most definitely. That is the only way he could make it out of here, isn’t it?”

“So we just have to find a way to key myself into it as well. Using his corpse, perhaps?”

“These aren’t blood wards from what I can see, else a partial blood adoption would work. You’d just have to be sure to do a cleansing ritual before things became permanent” he said, and I nodded even as I didn’t say there was no chance I would just blood adopt myself to a random person to make it through a ward of all things. Not when there were other options.

“Think he could carry someone along with him through the wards?” I asked.