[Salvos] 732. The Plan Is Simple... (Removed for KU)
Added 2024-10-25 15:28:17 +0000 UTC(Removed for KU)
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Ovaries of steel. 💪🦾
Skylar
2025-04-03 16:16:31 +0000 UTCAlthough I wouldn't go that far, waiting sucks. For instance, I'm itching to see how the great battle for the Netherworld goes. Also, I'd like to see the perspectives of various characters. For instance, Willy heard about the circumstances of Edithe's oathbreaking, and I think she must have grown immensely in his eyes. He must have wondered what she did to lose the summoning privileges, and what he heard from Druma was the most badass thing: she basically broke her contract so that she could send her Spirits away when she was in mortal danger, so that she would die alone, but was somehow saved. That's basically what his Cyclops girl did, she died saving him. Also, he must think that Salvos gathers the people of best quality around her, and motivates them to be even better. Also, the thing with the Archangel doesn't look like it's over. I wonder what Manos is thinking. He had a shock with [Truth Divination], he didn't know what it was but by now he probably figured out that he got a good glimpse of Salvos' soul, and I wonder what he thinks. Also, there is a stark contrast with how other rebel Demons are afraid of him, and how Salvos is clearly not, and he must be impressed. She obviously knows he has 20 levels on her, but she's completely casual with him and acts from absolute confidence. Hartia is under some rock and I wonder what he's thinking - whether he's feeling sorry for himself, or is it dawning to him that Salvos was trying to be friendly and he was a total douche. Who is joining Salvos and Manos? Is Sicar tagging along? Haec? How seriously are they taking the fight? If not, are they going to get in some trouble because they were cocky? Also, why did Haec not mention the "chained guy", as he's obviously a major threat? Why did Hartia not mention him? Why did Salvos not ask around for Regnorex's level, because that kind of matters?
Danijel Turina
2024-10-29 17:16:32 +0000 UTCI need a new salvos chapter like a camel needs water in the sahara desert
Hunter
2024-10-28 22:02:59 +0000 UTCI kind of lost track, but I *think* the Rachel timeline is a few days ahead of Edithe and Salvos timelines, and it looks like things might accelerate now. Salvos is about to resolve the question of Regnorex's legions one way or another within hours. It would be preferable if most if not all surrender. Then I expect her to face Focalor, and that's going to be interesting; [Truth Divination] chapters are usually great. After that point, she will have to work on sabotaging the ritual, because if that goes through it's game over, and my strategy would be to prioritise that over any further fighting, for multiple reasons. First, at that point the greatest masses of slave demons will have been liberated. Second, the remaining ones will likely be hard-core loyalists. Third, sabotaging the ritual is the only time-critical thing, along with the siege of Mavos academy. Missing the timing on either results in a disaster. Fighting Regnorex can wait until the next cycle, theoretically. I say theoretically because this rebellion has now started and it would have the best chance of success if it keeps the momentum going and doesn't give the enemy the time to react and implement effective countermeasures. At this point, Regnorex is otherwise preoccupied, and the success of the rebellion is such that all his forces are in a disarray. The Death Squad just lost two squads and their leader. 25 legions are freed. Control over the collars is lost. The rest of the legions are assembled for something that has all likelihood of being an unopposed beatdown. And all that comes after Regnorex lost the battle of Inor, his plan to move to Mortal Realm was foiled, Salvos made him look like a fool, his "heir" left him, and his most loyal followers all died in the Mortal Realm. The morale of his forces must be at an all-time low. Manos apparently left him as soon as he perceived a *minimal* chance of survival, and that says something. Regnorex is ripe for a fall because everybody is done with him and his idiotic obsession with the Mortal Realm that gets everybody killed.
Danijel Turina
2024-10-27 10:55:29 +0000 UTCAlso, there's the concept that the Humans are prejudiced against Demons. That's certainly true, but prejudice is basically an intuitive way of dealing with statistics. In the last ten thousand years, Regnorex has been in power, and every single Demon that came to Human lands wreaked destruction and mayhem. Even Belzu, who didn't work for Regnorex, destroyed Nixa among his other actions. Salvos is the only historical precedent, and although we sympatise with her predicament of having prejudice of Humans against her, I can apsolutely see how those prejudice came to be. It's the same with the Centinels - all their actions, historically, have been indiscriminately destructive. They are a wild and implacable pest that attacks as soon as it sees you. Sure, I sympathise with Centina and other Centinels that can be talked to and brought to awareness, but historically speaking, Erhard Skyshreader was the first to try what Rachel tried, and the result was him being killed and Centina being imprisoned by the implacable Centinel Salvos eventually killed. Sure, Rachel proved that Centina was not a one in ten million exception, more like one in a ten thousand. However, this can still end very badly.
Danijel Turina
2024-10-27 07:29:57 +0000 UTCI strongly disagree. Edithe's plan was indeed a long shot, but it would have succeeded if not for the extremely poor luck of coinciding with the moment of mutual annihilation of Soli's vessel and the Archangel. The Archangel was obviously quite able to deal with the Matriarch. Rachel doesn't actually have a plan, it's "let's all be friends" thing, and it was considered completely unrealistic by the resident experts on the Centinels - which is to say Centina, Sally and Kron, who were actually in the Bloodied Gulf and interacted with the Centinels a lot. There's only one precedent of anything similar working, and that's Erhard talking to Centina and befriending her. In hindsight, it seems like this is something that works with a percentage of evolved centinels, but it apparently annoys the implacable centinels even more, which is obvious from how Erhard died. Basically, the only man known to befriend a centinel before Rachel's attempt died because this angered another sentient centinel to the point of killing him. This is not a great track record. So, rationally speaking, it is obvious why Clayton gave this plan a zero percentage chance of success and significant percent chance of angering the centinels to the point of accelerating the attack. As for the rationality of trying to buy time, we know of several things that could help. For instance, Daniel and Yves are practicing somewhere, and news of this might reach them, which would bring a Hero lvl 165 or something by now, and Warrior lvl 194 as reinforcements. Also, Helena, Orgaf and, I think, Laux Lionfist, are researching the corruption and might eventually get the news. Helena's GS can nuke the centinel camp really effectively and reduce their number to something manageable, after which the Elites can kill the rest, including the Matriarch. Also, we behind the fourth wall know that Salvos will eventually check what's going on, and she actually needs that time Clayton is buying in order to deal with Regnorex and his ritual. Imagine Salvos defeating Regnorex and finally returning to the Mortal Realm just to find everybody dead because Rachel annoyed Dan and his twenty Ancient Centinel friends to the point of accelerating the attack, breaking the shield and foiling Clayton's plan. That would not be good. So, buying time in hope of some uncertain and unknown but favourable event taking place is very rational, especially when you know that there are actual powerful forces that can arrive at random, and your other options have next to zero probability of success, and significant probability of reducing your time window until help possibly arrives.
Danijel Turina
2024-10-27 06:55:54 +0000 UTCA kid can have more than one parent, Sally and Salvos can both be the wyverns moms.
ArcaneOverride
2024-10-27 04:37:08 +0000 UTCYES. That's exactly what I hoped would happen, and I really am rooting for Rachel. Contrary to his own and many commentors beliefs, I judge him as irrational and Rachel as the reasonable one. Edithe's plan is wishful thinking, there is no help coming and if Clayton is capable of elementary school math he should know all the artifacts in the world won't help them defeat a level 200+ entity and it's army, a force so powerful all of humanity combined is not assured to win. That would imply the artefacts could defeat all of humanity combined. That is just nonsense when you think about it for a second. Rachels is their only realistic option. His concern is such weak reasoning as well. She can hardly antagonise them any more than they already are. Additionally, Centina is proof of concept that higher level centinels can be reasoned with and aren't necessarily hostile. Lastly, to make peace with the centinels is on theme for [Salvos] itself. The "centinels cannot be reasoned with" narrative mirriors "demons are inherently evil". I would be beyond surprised if Melas chose to flip the overarching message of overcoming prejudice between races - of sworn enemies discarding hatred and becoming friends - on it's head after building up Rachel and tearing Clayton down via his inner monologue in this chapter. Rachel also takes after the heroine Salvos, so, again, why would Melas set her up to fail?
Salvos Enjoyer
2024-10-27 04:02:43 +0000 UTCIt was especially funny when Typhest the Wind Lord made a force field and bragged how unbreakable it is, and then Salvos just broke it with a single strike like it's nothing. :) So yeah, either Humans aren't particularly good at casting barriers, or Salvos is particularly good at breaking them, but considering how this barrier held just fine against Regnorex and the Centinels, and Sally just went through it, with a passenger, I'd say it's the latter. :)
Danijel Turina
2024-10-26 20:10:49 +0000 UTC"Salvos cannot be uncorrupted if she wants to save the Nexeus. " - yes, I'm afraid that's the direction where it's heading. More accurately, she'll be uncorrupted once she figures out a universal cure for corruption, and then she can save the world.
Danijel Turina
2024-10-26 20:05:20 +0000 UTCClayton and Helena do the same. Many Grand Skill holders do. Granted, Salvos did it at a lower level, but at the point where you can fly and most can't, a lot of defenses become less effective. Add to that a very challenging space magic training, especially under Samuel...
Dragonmaster_42
2024-10-26 20:04:47 +0000 UTCI'm more pragmatic about it; basically, I believe that good things should inherit the earth, and evil things should be eradicated. If a species is universally harmful, like mosquitoes, ticks or something similar, I have no issues with them going extinct. I also like the concept of pruning - if a branch of a species is consistently nasty, I have no qualms with it being clipped off, for instance the Centinels that are wild and universally destructive. However, since there are obviously those that are really nice, reasonable, cooperative and have sophisticated emotions, those should be supported and allowed to express themselves. It's the same with Demons; those that are wild, nasty, cruel and so on, they can go salt the earth somewhere, but those that are intelligent, kind and sophisticated should be supported. I wonder what the Centinels could have been, if someone better than their Matriarch directed their civilisation. They could have had academies for magic, art schools, literature and a whole history. Instead, they remained wild pests that just killed everything and remained dumb as rocks.
Danijel Turina
2024-10-26 19:58:41 +0000 UTCI know what you mean and I agree. I wouldn't see it as an issue if Matriarch Centinel helped her lesser following level and evolve. But if she changes the rules just to fill the spot? With the core piece that resulted in the death on top of that? I'm not even 100% if being an elite centinel causes the matriarch to care or if any centinel old enought for her to care is also elite level thanks to the hostile climate.
Dragonmaster_42
2024-10-26 19:56:22 +0000 UTCI absolutely hope that Rachel's crew keeps out of the fight if they go along to the Netherworld! They already have their beds made in Salvos' world! 😉 Not to get political, but I don't like genocide. Rachel's crew should survive. And if centinels flee after their matriarch is killed, they don't do much harm in the Netherworld. You could even call it a fitting counter action to Reggie invading the Mortal Realm.
Dragonmaster_42
2024-10-26 19:49:01 +0000 UTCShe doesn't care about most of her children. Only the elites. She kills some, let's them kill and eat each other, ...
Gonvas
2024-10-26 19:39:21 +0000 UTCThat sounds disrespectful to the dead. It feels like a couple loosing a child and giving the next one the same name. That can only ever result in (more) hate.
Dragonmaster_42
2024-10-26 19:36:42 +0000 UTCI would prefer a more glorious resolution: Salvos rifting in with an army of super high level demons, killing the Matriarch and those wild centinels that remain loyal to her, while the awakened, sentient ones remain to create a much more civilised centinel species, more like Centina, cooperating with other species. It would be a shame if they all died because they certainly have great potential, but the Matriarch is the problem.
Danijel Turina
2024-10-26 19:32:20 +0000 UTCMy voodoo doll theory solves that perfectly. Matriarch Centinel can get Salvos' attention and get drawn into the Netherworld. She just follows her rage and the siege is broken.
Dragonmaster_42
2024-10-26 19:10:59 +0000 UTCI kind of don't see them breaking the siege. I see them finding out lots of stuff, I see them maybe sowing discord among the centinel ranks because there is that question why Matriarch didn't actually talk to her "children", why she didn't give them names, why did she leave them wild and ignorant and wasted their potential, and there is an genuine thing there. Those awakened Centinels might actually break off from the Matriarch and try to make a life for themselves like Centina. But I don't see Matriarch changing her mind, she looks pig headed and unintelligent, violent and emotional in all the wrong ways.
Danijel Turina
2024-10-26 19:02:40 +0000 UTCSalvos cannot be uncorrupted if she wants to save the Nexeus. She needs to embrace and surpass the corruption, achieving a higher level of divinity. Otherwise her power ceiling is at the level of the archangel at most. Independent Sally and Salvos cannot coexist. At most until someone asks who the wyverns' mom is. Sally doesn't even have a self-preservation instinct. I think the most satisfying conclusion would be for Sally to reconnect in life or death and [Salvo of Vanity] evolving. After the evolution, Salvos can have multiple identical bodies, one housing her real self (that just switches body once one is destroyed), a general level clone housing an evolved Sally and the rest housing an incomplete intellect at the level of current Sally. And each clone can create inferior clones. That way Sally is preserved as a distinct personality without clashing with Salvos. Sally identifies as a (somewhat disposeable) clone of Salvos, why would she give that up? Reconnecting has a lot of advantages, among them the fact that she has the same (social) priviliges as Salvos and conditional immortality that only hinges on Salvos' life. She also gets free power ups and doesn't compete with Salvos over primordial tier XP (when Salvos gets there). Sally is truely free, much more so than any other entity we know in the story. She doesn't even have to take care of her own survival.
Dragonmaster_42
2024-10-26 18:47:43 +0000 UTCI don't mean Sally would be a instant cure, but instead she might end up doing a heroic sacrifice to heal a fully lost to corruption Salvos back to control of herself though not uncorrupting her entirely. The Primordial weapons might even be able to be reforged into something that weakens Salvos' corruption powers but helps her maintain control if that becomes an issue in the future. Also Sally becoming a fully independent entity doesn't mean she would have to come into conflict with Salvos if she decides that she wants different things. Maybe Sally might decide to become a Space Magic professor at Mavos and be around to take care of the kids every day while Salvos continues her quest to become the strongest? There are many possibilities.
ArcaneOverride
2024-10-26 18:16:53 +0000 UTCI have always and will always dislike the ideas of (1) Sally becoming her own person and (2) Sally serving as a backup. Sally becoming her own person would mean she either leaves the plot or takes up a similar social niche to Salvos. The first is an easy cop out and the second would require Salvos to invalidate her own character by either loosing all remnants of her pride or murdering Sally. Both are regressions. Same goes for the backup theory. We cannot undo things in real life. It would fundamentally break immersion if Salvos could. The only consistent solution would be if Salvos irreversibly died and non-Salvos Sally became the new protagonist touring the world while it collabses. The only good way forward is alive Salvos and Sally reuniting and Sally integrating into Salvos as a semi-independent entity, maybe just by evolving the skill, possibly by making all of Salvos' clones named individual. Maybe Salvos will be able to create blank clones of herself and copies of Sally
Dragonmaster_42
2024-10-26 17:54:07 +0000 UTCMatriarch Centinel will likely leave if here goals lie or move elsewhere. If she wants to kill Salvos and/or Samuel, seing learning that Salvos is in the Netherworld will break the siege. If Clayton is now even just similarly high on the kill list, him leaving Mavos Academy ontop of the previous condition will break the siege. Similar conditions apply for Centina. If Matriarch Centinel can be honestly conversed with, breaking the siege is easy.
Dragonmaster_42
2024-10-26 17:40:14 +0000 UTC"There is a poetic beauty to the idea that the gifts she made to protect her friends could allow them to protect her in turn." - I wouldn't say "gifts", but the fact that she protected her friends with her life in so many instances and so diligently and persistently will have consequences - those friends are absolutely loyal now and would jump into fire for her. Edithe and her team are a good example.
Danijel Turina
2024-10-26 11:33:53 +0000 UTCI was thinking about that earlier, too. Sally is a pure uncorrupted sample of Salvos' essence. She might be essential to saving Salvos from the corruption at some point. Though the Primordial Sword and Primordial Staff that Salvos made for Daniel and Edith are as well, however they are samples of her essence prior to apotheosis. Given that recently the sword has become plot relevant and the staff has been mentioned more often than usual, I think they might end up saving Salvos. There is a poetic beauty to the idea that the gifts she made to protect her friends could allow them to protect her in turn.
ArcaneOverride
2024-10-26 10:15:56 +0000 UTCI'm not sure she would intentionally try to reestablish the connection, and yet it might just happen. For instance, if she's in a part of Netherworld that's the equivalent of the "Netherfied" regions of Elutra and Inoria, the place where all those demons rain from the sky, the separation between the planes might be thin enough that, with her powerful space magic, the connection might just automatically re-establish itself. Also, it's a given that this would happen if she went to the Mortal Realm. As for the divergence, I did think about that, too. They look like identical twins, and no longer identical twins with connected brains. Also, they have different experiences, different memories and they made different choices. However, I wouldn't say that any of it is significant enough to preclude reconnection. Everything Sally did was protect companions and friends, protect the Mortal Realm, basically she continued doing what any clone would have done. It's Salvos herself who changed the most. She got 16 levels, learned two GS, got semi-corrupted, advanced her class, changed titles. At this point, if the corruption thing goes really badly, Sally might actually be an equivalent of a backup drive stored on a different plane, untainted by the corruption, and I wonder if restore will need to take place.
Danijel Turina
2024-10-26 10:00:02 +0000 UTCI feel like at this point Sally has diverged too much from Salvos for their minds to merge again without issue. She is becoming a different person. Also, given that Salvos can summon her full complement of clones again, she probably assumes the clone she left behind died and doesn't notice what's left of the connection from her end. If that's the case, she probably wouldn't even try to reestablish contact with a clone she thinks no longer exists.
ArcaneOverride
2024-10-26 09:33:09 +0000 UTCAlso, what's interesting here is that Salvos is a master of improvisational pragmatism, and usually does things that make everybody else's heads spin, but Rachel's plan is so much out there that Sally is in fact somewhere in between Rachel and Clayton here - and she's been in the Bloodied Gulf and talked to the centinels, and even befriended one. It's not just a risky plan, it's a risky plan by the criteria of a habitual risk taker. :) That's why Sally is intent on improving the odds in case it goes belly up - she probably has at least five skills at the ready, together with the scythe, and she still isn't sure she can save Rachel if things go really wrong. That's how risky it is, and that's why Clayton's reaction is completely understandable. Also, other than the risk of death, it isn't certain what "success" even means here. Will she manage to get to the Matriarch? Sure. But she intends to actually convince the Matriarch to break the siege and leave. That's the part that would really require something wholly unexpected to happen.
Danijel Turina
2024-10-26 09:02:20 +0000 UTCAlso, Salvos traditionally made human defence fields look ridiculous even when she was low-levelled. She would just tear through them and think they are against pigeons or something because they're so weak. So far Sally would wait for Clayton to reduce the barrier before teleporting, but that's obviously more due to politeness than necessity, like knocking on a door despite being able to break through it. Unlike Salvos, Sally doesn't have draconic scales and claws that can cut through realityspace, nor does she have the ability to travel between the planes, and she did try. However, she has a supersensory skill and she's a very good space mage, and she has divinity. She's also very strong. This means she could see microscopic local weaknesses in the field, hold one such micro-crack with force, do a teleportation spell (not skill) powered by Divinity that also uses [Fragmented Pocket Dimension] and [Full Phase] to compress them to microscopic dimensions, force them through and decompress them on the other side, and since Rachel is lvl 75 she wouldn't even notice any of it. Also, that field is probably just mana, ordinary magic. Sure, it held against Regnorex for a week, but Regnorex probably just hit it in anger, because smooth brain.
Danijel Turina
2024-10-26 07:05:05 +0000 UTCAlso, she already lost two (one to Clayton and one to Sally) trying to avenge one. She's not a rational player, and seems to be driven mostly by emotions - anger, vengeance, hatred, sadness, regret, and her emotions fuel each other in an irrational mess. Basically, sad because loss, sad makes angry, angry makes violent, violent makes more loss, this makes sad, repeat.
Danijel Turina
2024-10-26 06:47:14 +0000 UTCI see it as irresponsible risk-friendly children vs. responsible risk-averse adult who is actually in charge of thousands of lives and always tries to do what's best for everybody, and is currently faced with a situation that has no obvious good solution, so he tries to buy time and improve his position in the meantime - get artefacts, get allies, wait for things to change, and when the barrier drops, teleport and in other ways save as many as possible while the teachers fight and kill as many centinels as possible. His plan is rational and conservative, but he's playing with a losing hand. Rachel, on the other hand, goes from the position that their current position implies certain loss, and whatever she does can't really make things much worse, so gamble is warranted in attempt to make it better. This is also a rational move, and derives from the principle that high risk is preferable to certain doom. She also justifies her latest disobedient move with understanding that Clayton misunderstood the situation and actually made an attack more likely, as the centinels she was talking to will get impatient/angry if she's missing. It's basically a standard gambit between conservative and innovative positions. A conservative player iterates on previously successful moves, while an innovative player experiments with new and previously untried moves. It's a probabilities game, and a conservative player will have a much greater probability of success if the situation is in the realm of previously known. However, if a situation is a complete unknown, and conservative gameplay doesn't have a predictable winning move, innovation is warranted, because it doesn't really raise the probability of a loss. It is uncertain, however, whether it can produce a winning move, because in reality, unlike the movies, when you do a risky move in a dangerous situation, you don't automatically win; you usually die.
Danijel Turina
2024-10-26 06:23:12 +0000 UTCYep, even super high leveled people and country leaders travel by ground/air
Danielv123
2024-10-26 04:51:29 +0000 UTCI honestly can't see Clayton in any sort of negative light here and I think he has caught way too much flak over the last few chapters. Thinking as objectively as possible, every decision he has made so far has been the best one. Rachel's plan should not even come close to working, especially since centinals are swarm monsters under the control of their matriarch. It would definitely be interesting to see this plan backfire horribly, forcing Rachel and Sally to deal with the consequences of their naivety, but with none of the other major players being in position to bail them out it'll probably work in some way.
Crashdevil
2024-10-25 23:51:53 +0000 UTCNow that ya mention it, it does seem a little slapdash. But. Adhoc Teleportation is pretty rare throughout the books. You got some faeries, some lesser gods, very few humans and a few demons. Plus (probably) all planeswalkers. AFAIK, that's the list of peeps teleporting around without major preparation.
teedeedubya
2024-10-25 21:10:58 +0000 UTCThat's one possibility, but as Salvos levels and her space magic becomes more powerful, the opposite, I think, is more likely to occur - that the planar separation will stop interfering with their connection and the skill will not just level, but outright evolve.
Danijel Turina
2024-10-25 20:31:57 +0000 UTCI keep waiting for Sally to feel a snap, as the dwindling thread connecting her essence to Salvos' finally exhausts its ductility and breaks, before she gets bombarded by notifications about gaining experience and levels for everything she's done since Salvos left the plane. I feel like that's where this is going. Her description of that connection shrinking away and her starting to regenerate her own mana, as well as Salvos having 10 clones again, while Salvos' memories fade from Sally's mind, really seems to be foreshadowing Sally becoming a fully independent entity.
ArcaneOverride
2024-10-25 20:24:52 +0000 UTCThe main problem in conversation with Matriarch Centinel is that she doesn't seem to have enough of a strategic mind to understand the value of living in peace with other species living on Secily. Basically, she's in a crybully mode - oh poor me, the corruption came and expelled me from the Endlands, then I had to go to the Bloodied Gulf, where I just had to kill everybody and then they kept killing my children, and since I'm a victim it's ok if I just keep killing everyone but then my children will die and I will just keep getting angrier and killing everyone until I either kill everybody or Centinels go extinct. She's like Belzu - oh, you hate Regnorex and don't want him to merge the planes; the humans also hate Regnorex and don't want him to merge the planes, why didn't you work with them? Oh, you'd rather die. Sure, it can be arranged.
Danijel Turina
2024-10-25 19:54:01 +0000 UTCWell, Centina is close enough as it is, but I don't think Matriarch would care for the exchange, nor would Centina care to go back there, so I don't think so. I also don't think the Matriarch is reasonable enough to agree to some accommodation, and the best they can hope for is a conversation where they find out important stuff. After that, Salvos better be back with an army of Demons because I anticipate Matriarch lashing out, but if a large enough number of Ancient Centinels were seduced by Rachel, this might go all kind of unexpected ways, such as Ancients complaining to the Matriarch that she never gave them names or talked to them so they were all just stupid and violent and having empty lives. Because, honestly, that's exactly right. She's a terrible leader with a square root of a single brain cell.
Danijel Turina
2024-10-25 19:39:12 +0000 UTC"And with that, the Headmaster of Mavos Academy rushed out of the room to give chase to the two students who had given him the most troubles throughout the years." - The girls will have such a warm welcome even if they don't get eaten by the Centinels...
Danijel Turina
2024-10-25 18:11:09 +0000 UTCRachel has tunnel vision, thinking only about the Centinels she was talking to, and forgetting all the hostile ones that might have different plans.
Danijel Turina
2024-10-25 17:23:35 +0000 UTCIt would be, but I don't see it working with just Sally, Rachel and possibly four more clones, especially since Rachel is super squishy and protecting her would be a priority. It would work with a couple of thousands of demons rifting through and charging at them with fury of all hell. That would make the Centinels forget what they came for in a hurry.
Danijel Turina
2024-10-25 17:21:19 +0000 UTCIn any case she's better at space magic than they are at barrier casting. :)
Danijel Turina
2024-10-25 17:14:04 +0000 UTCSo my guess wasn't that far off so far...
Dragonmaster_42
2024-10-25 17:12:25 +0000 UTCMaybe it's easier short range with line of sight?
Dragonmaster_42
2024-10-25 17:11:12 +0000 UTCLeading the centinels away would be a tactical win.
Dragonmaster_42
2024-10-25 17:09:45 +0000 UTCEnding badly is a broad term, but in this case, the risk of death is especially high...
Dragonmaster_42
2024-10-25 17:07:45 +0000 UTCCould a truce be made with the Matriarch where to quell her anger for losing an elite child, Salvos and co help Centina become an elite?
Gonvas
2024-10-25 16:50:51 +0000 UTCIt's a possibility, but so far the barrier had to be seriously weakened for someone to teleport out.
Danijel Turina
2024-10-25 16:44:06 +0000 UTCIt probably is harder to get in than get out
Manlor
2024-10-25 16:42:48 +0000 UTCDid Sally just do a group teleportation through all seven layers of the strongest barrier the greatest Human mages were able to build, and a million Centinels couldn't break through? :)
Danijel Turina
2024-10-25 16:35:18 +0000 UTCThe problem with risky plans is that most of them, by definition, end badly.
Danijel Turina
2024-10-25 16:31:55 +0000 UTCThat doesn't reverse being injured or killed. I wonder if she has the [Secely's Sentinel] Title still? [Protection of the Sentinel] would be excellent here. But that would work only against the first strike, and then it's a matter of how fast they can flee. The greatest danger lies in the fact that the hostile/wild Centinels outnumber the friendly ones 20:1, and that's if we count only the [Ancient Centinels] as a factor. If push comes to shove, Sally can't take them all, and it's questionable that the friendly ones will go against their Matriarch. This is a super dangerous thing to do, but it's also an indicator of sincerity that might tip the scales. I don't like the fact that they went behind Clayton's back. It's a stupid, childish thing to do, especially since Clayton has been giving a refuge to Salvos' children and friends. Annoying him like this when he has too much on his plate already is inconsiderate and disrespectful. It's his school and he should have the last word over anything security-related. At least they didn't do it on the inside, risking the Centinel attack on the barrier in case of failure; they can now divert the assault outwards if it comes to that.
Danijel Turina
2024-10-25 16:31:05 +0000 UTCSo Dan wasn't the centinel listening to her? He is probably still mad.
Tim
2024-10-25 16:17:43 +0000 UTCThanks for the chapter!
Wensber
2024-10-25 16:10:05 +0000 UTCSame, still am
Travis Brown
2024-10-25 15:45:27 +0000 UTCI’m nervous,can sally use the devil’s grace, cause I don’t have the best feeling
Travis Brown
2024-10-25 15:43:31 +0000 UTCAbsolutely insane plan but if anyone can pull it off it’s Rachel
Blaize Haynes
2024-10-25 15:37:21 +0000 UTCThat ... went a lot better than expected. Then again, I did kinda expect a violent death once they left the barrier
Angworu
2024-10-25 15:36:29 +0000 UTC
