rofl Xvim... Never change.

 

I knew that girl would become important again.

 

No idea how she's important though. Her mom's probably a scary mage or something, but...

 

Yay, finally a chapter I didn't have to force myself to read through. Back to enjoying this story.

 

Great chapter, but it felt too short. Oh well. But I was really interested to see how he would interact with his classmates and Kael, but he just mentioned them, a shame. Jade was the spider girl right or one of Zach’s groupies?

 

I kind of like that we keep seeing so many characters pop back up, but we never know which will actually be important in the end. It keeps things unpredictable, not knowing who will hold the next clue to the mysteries at hand.

Will little girl's family turn out to be experienced mind mages? Or some tutoring with Ibery will have her using her library skills to figure out more about the invaders and their motives? Or maybe they'll just be like the classmates, background characters re-appearing occasionally but without much significance, and Red Robe will turn out to have been Xvim all along.

 

You know, I don't think we've seen Xvim do magic except burning a shape into one of the cards. Think we'll ever get a practical demonstration of what he can do after focusing on shaping for so long?

I wonder how Xvim stands compared to the other teachers.

 

Once Zorian's shaping skills became "adequate" Xvim will probably have him practise simple spells until he can cast them with just a gesture and without any mana wasted...

Invictus: By "spider girl" you probably mean Tinami Aope, the girl fascinated by everything with eight legs. She's the one who taught Zorian the invisibility spell and got introduced to Novelty.

 

Yep, Tinami. Got lazy and fogot her name.

 

^ Don't worry about it, I forgot she even existed. Keeping up with all the characters in between updates is a real pain.

 

Yes, they are mostly very well written ans unique ebough that you remembert them as people, not just waste of words, but there is a limit.

 

Update

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I'm pretty much convinced that Rea is a cat shifter after learning that she has excellent hearing and that shifters gain the abilities of their animal. If that's the case then she may have been killed for the same reason as the people on the list Kael gave Zorian.

 

Good update - gaining some steam.

 

I'm still holding on to my pet theory that Rea(and by extension Nochka) is a cat shifter rather than shady. The animal soul would explain some of her mannerisms and supernatural level of hearing. They would also be naturally kind of guarded considering shifters seem to receive discrimination as some kind of sub-humans.

As for why a cat? It ties into her interest in the cranium rats and that cat Zorian encountered in an earlier restart. It had too strong of an emotional response to be a common animal.

I guess we will find out their secret soon one way or another.

As for the chapter itself, deep-diving was even more dangerous than I expected. Considering Zorian needed a couple attempts just to limit his attempts to light damage much less do it perfectly, it makes me wonder how big the body count would be to learn to do it with structured magic.

 

Here is the new update btw.

 

The story is really interesting again, and a such, the chapters are once more way too short.

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Pretty cold planning, to allow a little girl to be kidnapped by an insane murder cult in order to track them. That's one big slide down the slippery slope. Let's see if he is detached enough to follow through with that.

I find myself oddly interested in Akoja and hope that she gets involved more in future time loops.

 

So... How do you think Kyron identified Zorian as the mind mage? It was obvious that someone was fucking with the warbeasts, but it's not like Aranean-style telepathy has any outward tells... Was he just guessing?