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Hello! This RP grabbed my attention and I really wanted to sign on. Have my CS here below:
Travis retained his cautious posture but found that the entity no longer any harmful interest in his wellbeing. He watched with caution as the cursed form slowly retreated back into Zuri's body, seemingly uncaring now that what ever had caused it and its host harm was finally gone. Just as the entity fully withdrew back into the wound it had initially created, Zuri's bloodied and scarred flesh by that time had fully healed as if there was no paranormal rupturing to begin with. Travis gazed with astonishment, having been rightly worried for Zuri's welfare prior, now feeling strangely reassured despite the standoff that had occurred between him and her curse.
"Fascinating..." Travis muttered under his breath, temporarily out of the moment of concern for his comrade until he validated he was within safe passage to render assistance.
It soon appeared to him that Zuri quickly came to, showing no signs of discomfort any longer. Travis was still concerned as far as how the Causality Scryer failed to take into account of the livelihood of Zuri as it attempted, and nearly succeeded, in purging the still-unknown curse. Clearly, the spell nerveless did its job but not in the specifics that would meet Travis's expectations. It nagged him so and he was so close too that it seemed unreal that this was the end result of his live trial of the spell, even after all those hours spent verifying it's effectiveness. Coincidentally, the irrational contempt he presently had for Felix, whom had stopped him likely seconds away before the Causality Scryer could finish the job, was slowly eroding away.
Zuri's eventual innocent smile swayed relief over him but her silence still pulled the tight feeling of failure in his chest. Travis moved in but watched as she coiled into a ball on the floor with near child-like fashion. Certainly, it was an unusual response however not one without some justifiable merit. After what she went through, he honestly couldn't blame her. Feeling pity, guilt, and sensing the lack of resentment; his best surveyed guess anyway, Travis then scooped Zuri into his cradling arms and carried her off out of the laboratory, with him meeting Felix's eyes in the briefest of seconds in the process.
With culpability still at his throat and clouding the apologetic thoughts he so wanted to vocalize badly, he remained silent though the short trip until they had arrived at the mansion's living room. Gently, he lowered her into one of the sofas and insured her head was leveled upon one of the lying cushions. For a moment, Travis stared down at his friend with somber highlights painted unto his face. Regret and responsibility continuously jabbed at him as if subconscious was trying to tell him something; whatever that was, he eventually relented.
"I'm sorry," he spoke finally, "I wished that would have gone better than it did."
"Fascinating..." Travis muttered under his breath, temporarily out of the moment of concern for his comrade until he validated he was within safe passage to render assistance.
It soon appeared to him that Zuri quickly came to, showing no signs of discomfort any longer. Travis was still concerned as far as how the Causality Scryer failed to take into account of the livelihood of Zuri as it attempted, and nearly succeeded, in purging the still-unknown curse. Clearly, the spell nerveless did its job but not in the specifics that would meet Travis's expectations. It nagged him so and he was so close too that it seemed unreal that this was the end result of his live trial of the spell, even after all those hours spent verifying it's effectiveness. Coincidentally, the irrational contempt he presently had for Felix, whom had stopped him likely seconds away before the Causality Scryer could finish the job, was slowly eroding away.
Zuri's eventual innocent smile swayed relief over him but her silence still pulled the tight feeling of failure in his chest. Travis moved in but watched as she coiled into a ball on the floor with near child-like fashion. Certainly, it was an unusual response however not one without some justifiable merit. After what she went through, he honestly couldn't blame her. Feeling pity, guilt, and sensing the lack of resentment; his best surveyed guess anyway, Travis then scooped Zuri into his cradling arms and carried her off out of the laboratory, with him meeting Felix's eyes in the briefest of seconds in the process.
With culpability still at his throat and clouding the apologetic thoughts he so wanted to vocalize badly, he remained silent though the short trip until they had arrived at the mansion's living room. Gently, he lowered her into one of the sofas and insured her head was leveled upon one of the lying cushions. For a moment, Travis stared down at his friend with somber highlights painted unto his face. Regret and responsibility continuously jabbed at him as if subconscious was trying to tell him something; whatever that was, he eventually relented.
"I'm sorry," he spoke finally, "I wished that would have gone better than it did."
Travis shot Felix a panicked and obviously stressed look, "now you tell me?!"
With Felix having been on the sideline the entire time observing the events as they came to be, finally hearing the Arch-Magi's desperate feedback was almost unwarranted to Travis, even after having gone so far in cutting out the curse deeply imbedded within Zuri's manawell. It was clear that the notion wasn't well received. Nevertheless, Travis frantically complied and attempted to have the Causality Scryer go a full hard stop; something he had not even performed and neither believed it to be a necessary resort. He turned his right hand in the spell control scheme, manipulating its directives to cease all actions. It was tight, but Travis managed to stop the cleaning circle within a meter of reaching Zuri and the entity before them. In procedure, the guiding beam, along with the scanning threads disengaged and vanished in response to Travis essentially throwing the spells kill switch.
Frustration and contempt manifested through his angered expression, initially throwing his exhausted gaze at the cursed being before glancing back to Felix and then to their original quarry. He breathed heavily having used both spells non-stop in over the course of a minute. While he still retained some mana left, the stress of running more than one spell lingered one but regardless of that, he still kept his left hand trained on the curse's physical profile, unsure and even doubtful if the being before them still held and volatile intent towards him.
"...well?" he loosely asked the cursed form, honestly not expecting a verbal answer though rather wanting it to disperse as he became more concerned with Zuri's condition as seconds pasted. With the entity still at play he rather not aggravate it any more by pulling anything further. Even trying to get any closer was out of the question.
With Felix having been on the sideline the entire time observing the events as they came to be, finally hearing the Arch-Magi's desperate feedback was almost unwarranted to Travis, even after having gone so far in cutting out the curse deeply imbedded within Zuri's manawell. It was clear that the notion wasn't well received. Nevertheless, Travis frantically complied and attempted to have the Causality Scryer go a full hard stop; something he had not even performed and neither believed it to be a necessary resort. He turned his right hand in the spell control scheme, manipulating its directives to cease all actions. It was tight, but Travis managed to stop the cleaning circle within a meter of reaching Zuri and the entity before them. In procedure, the guiding beam, along with the scanning threads disengaged and vanished in response to Travis essentially throwing the spells kill switch.
Frustration and contempt manifested through his angered expression, initially throwing his exhausted gaze at the cursed being before glancing back to Felix and then to their original quarry. He breathed heavily having used both spells non-stop in over the course of a minute. While he still retained some mana left, the stress of running more than one spell lingered one but regardless of that, he still kept his left hand trained on the curse's physical profile, unsure and even doubtful if the being before them still held and volatile intent towards him.
"...well?" he loosely asked the cursed form, honestly not expecting a verbal answer though rather wanting it to disperse as he became more concerned with Zuri's condition as seconds pasted. With the entity still at play he rather not aggravate it any more by pulling anything further. Even trying to get any closer was out of the question.
Apparently, Zuri's hideous curse had not given up and surely was far from through with Travis. To the Untalent's horror, some kind of dark and twisted entity had grotesquely revealed itself, violently through Zuri's flesh and took a near sapient shape before him. Fear and dismay was painted on Travis' face. He quickly regretted his decision in putting forth this plan of his, now having seen first hand what this curse was capable and what awful effects it was inflict upon Zuri. Thoughts of stopping the Causality Scryer ricocheted through his mind, believing that by ending the aggravating process, perhaps he could end Zuri's suffering and calm the curse residing in her.
But then what was the point of going this far now? Travis however knew that there was no stopping the spell now as it was set on eliminating. Clearly, it was working if the curse was resorting to lash out in such a manner.
Travis swallowed hard and maintained his posture, sweat accumulating and running down his skin. A moment later, the curse fully manifested itself and came with it a set of armor that Zuri had worn previous while they had fought Rutger. Without warning, the cursed entity lunged out toward Travis whom was more or less ready for the attack. Travis would however admit that facing off against something like was not what he had planned for. Still, his was nevertheless ready for it.
He quickly raised his left hand again and casted a cryo rune. The rune projected rune glowed a light bluish hue before activating and vomiting a miniature blizzard into the path of the entity, surely slowing it down and preventing it from getting any closer to him. Travis gritted his teeth as he now had two spells firing at the same time. Even with the runes being mana-efficient, he could still feeling the fatiguing effects settling in as his small reservoir of mana was being drained away. For a brief moment, he wondered if he himself or Zuri would make it though this nightmare at the rate they were going.
It was then something had caught his attention. It was the Causality Scryer and one of its rings expanding in size just before it separated into three stylized and sectioned verses of the tune they made up, forming a figurative vertical that even dwarfed him and the entity. The new runic construct then emitted a thick but transparent field within its space and pushed toward Zuri and maybe inadvertently toward the entity as well. Soon the field lit up and pulsed every half second that passed and along with his cryogentic rune still at work, it was pushing the cursed form back. Upon close exception, Travis quickly noted that each pulse was eating away at the curse while the circle drew closer.
Travis finally understood what the spell was now doing; finalizing its purging efforts.
But then what was the point of going this far now? Travis however knew that there was no stopping the spell now as it was set on eliminating. Clearly, it was working if the curse was resorting to lash out in such a manner.
Travis swallowed hard and maintained his posture, sweat accumulating and running down his skin. A moment later, the curse fully manifested itself and came with it a set of armor that Zuri had worn previous while they had fought Rutger. Without warning, the cursed entity lunged out toward Travis whom was more or less ready for the attack. Travis would however admit that facing off against something like was not what he had planned for. Still, his was nevertheless ready for it.
He quickly raised his left hand again and casted a cryo rune. The rune projected rune glowed a light bluish hue before activating and vomiting a miniature blizzard into the path of the entity, surely slowing it down and preventing it from getting any closer to him. Travis gritted his teeth as he now had two spells firing at the same time. Even with the runes being mana-efficient, he could still feeling the fatiguing effects settling in as his small reservoir of mana was being drained away. For a brief moment, he wondered if he himself or Zuri would make it though this nightmare at the rate they were going.
It was then something had caught his attention. It was the Causality Scryer and one of its rings expanding in size just before it separated into three stylized and sectioned verses of the tune they made up, forming a figurative vertical that even dwarfed him and the entity. The new runic construct then emitted a thick but transparent field within its space and pushed toward Zuri and maybe inadvertently toward the entity as well. Soon the field lit up and pulsed every half second that passed and along with his cryogentic rune still at work, it was pushing the cursed form back. Upon close exception, Travis quickly noted that each pulse was eating away at the curse while the circle drew closer.
Travis finally understood what the spell was now doing; finalizing its purging efforts.
Travis observed the Causality Scryer's progress in purging Zuri's curse. For a moment, it appeared as though the process would be without incident. If that were the case, he would have had to give its architects far more credit than he had previously given. However, it was evidently a foolish appeal in the end. Travis watched as Zuri began to recoil, expressing clear tension and what appeared to be growing agony across her face. Travis bore his clenching teeth. This was what he was concerned from the get go; a potential side effect of the curse being aggressive and procedurally cut out.
Seconds later, he soon found that whatever was befalling Zuri was not simply pain. Travis watched as her right hand slow and unsteadily raise upward. The act and movement of Zuri's arm betrayed her painful reactions, almost as if it was moving on its own accord and yet there was apparent resistance or struggle in the motion. It soon became brutally clear to Travis that this wasn't a mere byproduct of the curse being remove, it was in-fact the curse quite literally fighting back. And Zuri was trying her best to keep it in check and stop it from taking notable aim at the spell's caster.
"Aw hell," Travis muttered, quickly concluding that curse was now taking extreme measures to stop its dispelling.
In the brief moments, if not seconds before Zuri's curse would pull something, Travis recalled their battle with Rutger and remembered how Zuri formulated her attacks. Crystals. Shards of dark palette variety capable of disrupting magic and the flow of a caster's mana. The thought of either being jabbed by a large crystal or being obstructed from maintaining the spell was unappealing put the Untalent into high alert.
Sure enough, Zuri's efforts were at the breaking point as he quickly caught the materialization of one such crystal in her hand. Travis noted the first time she has had lobbed one of these projectiles and identified the insane speed it flew. It was outstanding untraceable to the common eye and that put him at a serious disadvantage, resulting in very little time to respond effectively. He had only a few seconds to spare.
"Incoming!" Travis yelled, hoping to alert Felix to the impending danger that was about to befall them, namely the Untalent in this instance.
Timing was now everything as he had no way to evade with the juncture given to him and the spell essentially kept him in place anyway. If he was going to get out of this troubling event alive, Travis needed to make his reply head-on into the trajectory of Zuri's possessed attack. Gambling on an educated guess, Travis drew his left hand out and casted instinctively projected a repulsion spell. Seeing as Zuri's crystals would likely punch through any barrier he could produce; his one methodology was to instead alter the course of the inbound crystal. Honestly, a grazing hit was better than a direct hit in his book.
Sure enough, the attack came but as Travis predicted, he, at least physically, couldn't see it coming. However, with his response planned out with mere seconds ahead of time, he concluded in the split-second moment that the crystal thrown at him was no longer in Zuri's palm and thankfully neither was it stuck into him. He however dared not draw his eyes anywhere else other than to Zuri and whatever her curse has in store. Presumably if that one stroke of defiance was the curse's last hurrah. Anticipating any more trouble, Travis began conjuring up another spell to better his defense just in case.
Seconds later, he soon found that whatever was befalling Zuri was not simply pain. Travis watched as her right hand slow and unsteadily raise upward. The act and movement of Zuri's arm betrayed her painful reactions, almost as if it was moving on its own accord and yet there was apparent resistance or struggle in the motion. It soon became brutally clear to Travis that this wasn't a mere byproduct of the curse being remove, it was in-fact the curse quite literally fighting back. And Zuri was trying her best to keep it in check and stop it from taking notable aim at the spell's caster.
"Aw hell," Travis muttered, quickly concluding that curse was now taking extreme measures to stop its dispelling.
In the brief moments, if not seconds before Zuri's curse would pull something, Travis recalled their battle with Rutger and remembered how Zuri formulated her attacks. Crystals. Shards of dark palette variety capable of disrupting magic and the flow of a caster's mana. The thought of either being jabbed by a large crystal or being obstructed from maintaining the spell was unappealing put the Untalent into high alert.
Sure enough, Zuri's efforts were at the breaking point as he quickly caught the materialization of one such crystal in her hand. Travis noted the first time she has had lobbed one of these projectiles and identified the insane speed it flew. It was outstanding untraceable to the common eye and that put him at a serious disadvantage, resulting in very little time to respond effectively. He had only a few seconds to spare.
"Incoming!" Travis yelled, hoping to alert Felix to the impending danger that was about to befall them, namely the Untalent in this instance.
Timing was now everything as he had no way to evade with the juncture given to him and the spell essentially kept him in place anyway. If he was going to get out of this troubling event alive, Travis needed to make his reply head-on into the trajectory of Zuri's possessed attack. Gambling on an educated guess, Travis drew his left hand out and casted instinctively projected a repulsion spell. Seeing as Zuri's crystals would likely punch through any barrier he could produce; his one methodology was to instead alter the course of the inbound crystal. Honestly, a grazing hit was better than a direct hit in his book.
Sure enough, the attack came but as Travis predicted, he, at least physically, couldn't see it coming. However, with his response planned out with mere seconds ahead of time, he concluded in the split-second moment that the crystal thrown at him was no longer in Zuri's palm and thankfully neither was it stuck into him. He however dared not draw his eyes anywhere else other than to Zuri and whatever her curse has in store. Presumably if that one stroke of defiance was the curse's last hurrah. Anticipating any more trouble, Travis began conjuring up another spell to better his defense just in case.
Travis stared quizzically at Zuri. He honestly hadn't thought about how the curse would react, especially to its host, when it responds to being dispelled. Briefly, he began to have doubts if it was proper to carry on with his live trial with the Causality Scryer, after having been informed how the spell displayed a forceful tenacity while surgically unraveling problematic designs and incantations. Then, he was reassured, if not convinced, that this was probably the best chance of breaking Zuri's unidentifiable curse, regardless of the risks.
"I expect some discomfort, however I can't say how painful it will be, if at all. These are unknown waters we're treading here," Travis explained as he took the memory case containing the sell from the work table, "it'll only take a moment for the spell to warm up. Go ahead and stand in the center of the room and hold there. Hopefully this doesn't take to long."
With that, he began pouring mana into the crystal and the rune within began to glow. Seconds passed, and he raised his hand toward Zuri and within it, the spell ignited. The Causality Scryer run projected itself into reality and surrounding its notable small profile spun several runic rings, each rotating at a different and a directional vector. In retrospect, it resembled a armillary sphere moving on its own accord. A moment later, a ray of light shot forth from the eye of the rune into Zuri's center mass. The beam itself was harmless and merely acted as a guideline, prompting the spinning rings to unhinge from their spherical patter and aligned in the space between the rune and Zuri.
Eight seconds after the spell's casting, the lager of the ring that hovered before Zuri emitted a low and rune resonated with the other rings. From her perspective, it would be gazing into an glowing artificial tunnel where the heart of the rune stood at the other side, gazing back towards her. The rings immediately spun faster and hummed louder than before while additional threads of lighted casted from each of the articulated bands onto Zuri. Like a laser pointer, the smaller beams scoured all over her frontal profile. This was the phase Travis had been described to by the spell's developers as the scanning phase. The spell was now looking into Zuri; into the curse and compiling its make up and complexity before eventually dispelling it.
Twenty seconds in and the humming momentarily quieted down but not before the tinier lines of light conjoined their points to the main guiding beam. The rings themselves soon became even more lively and louder while the center design of the rune suddenly commenced a rapidly flashing its illumination. Travis then knew that the spell had the curse pinpointed and it was on the attack.
A second later, a surging bulbous pulse of shot down the guiding beam's trajectory and quickly leading into the mass of Zuri. The moment it would impact, the spell would then be fully committed in its purging phase. And it would not stop until its target was cleansed.
"I expect some discomfort, however I can't say how painful it will be, if at all. These are unknown waters we're treading here," Travis explained as he took the memory case containing the sell from the work table, "it'll only take a moment for the spell to warm up. Go ahead and stand in the center of the room and hold there. Hopefully this doesn't take to long."
With that, he began pouring mana into the crystal and the rune within began to glow. Seconds passed, and he raised his hand toward Zuri and within it, the spell ignited. The Causality Scryer run projected itself into reality and surrounding its notable small profile spun several runic rings, each rotating at a different and a directional vector. In retrospect, it resembled a armillary sphere moving on its own accord. A moment later, a ray of light shot forth from the eye of the rune into Zuri's center mass. The beam itself was harmless and merely acted as a guideline, prompting the spinning rings to unhinge from their spherical patter and aligned in the space between the rune and Zuri.
Eight seconds after the spell's casting, the lager of the ring that hovered before Zuri emitted a low and rune resonated with the other rings. From her perspective, it would be gazing into an glowing artificial tunnel where the heart of the rune stood at the other side, gazing back towards her. The rings immediately spun faster and hummed louder than before while additional threads of lighted casted from each of the articulated bands onto Zuri. Like a laser pointer, the smaller beams scoured all over her frontal profile. This was the phase Travis had been described to by the spell's developers as the scanning phase. The spell was now looking into Zuri; into the curse and compiling its make up and complexity before eventually dispelling it.
Twenty seconds in and the humming momentarily quieted down but not before the tinier lines of light conjoined their points to the main guiding beam. The rings themselves soon became even more lively and louder while the center design of the rune suddenly commenced a rapidly flashing its illumination. Travis then knew that the spell had the curse pinpointed and it was on the attack.
A second later, a surging bulbous pulse of shot down the guiding beam's trajectory and quickly leading into the mass of Zuri. The moment it would impact, the spell would then be fully committed in its purging phase. And it would not stop until its target was cleansed.
"Actually," Travis began in response to Felix's query, "there is one other thing I'd want to address. Apart from our research pertaining to your predicament, I had on the side began researching how to undo Zuri's unusual curse. To make a long story short, I believe I have a solution for unraveling her curse and properly dispelling it."
He paused only briefly, giving a reassuring glance at Zuri before continuing, "with your permission, I would like to test the spell out before we depart."
He paused only briefly, giving a reassuring glance at Zuri before continuing, "with your permission, I would like to test the spell out before we depart."
As Felix briefed everyone else, Travis peered over his findings with their most recent test. It was a success of course but it did introduce a slight snag. They had made the rune as efficient as it can be with only a necessary number of redundancies to have strong stabilizing influence over Felix's predicament. But after all that, the rune could only remain active for two hours. Felix described it more of a non-issue though Travis was hesitant to accept the fact outright. Considering just how long they were out on their last adventure to seize Fantasia, two hours may not be enough to cover their upcoming expedition, assuming of course that they just brought only one mana crystal. The only answer as Felix mentioned, was to bring a sufficient number of mana crystals to extend the time Felix could operate outside the mansion.
Travis took the time to study over Felix's training vest which was the object of which the rune would be applied to and produced a diagram on how it would the rune would inscribed. Much of the work however was done on the vest itself as he noted the focal points over the vest and the amount of coverage the rune would have. At this point, it was only a matter of simply applying the rune.
The Untalent then turned to one of his other projects; something he had been working on the side when he had the free time. While he and Felix's runic spell demanded the majority of their concentration and efforts, he hadn't forgotten about Zuri's condition. However her problem was complex and required a different approach than what he had took before. Zuri's problem was a curse of unknown origin being bestowed upon her. A curse. Travis didn't fancy curses too much. They had blaringly different behaviors when compared to a runic lock, despite some similarities. Additionally, curses held more rules, specific ones that defined how they functioned and usually benefiting the caster in the end or simply having a neutral yet long-lasting impact on the victim it was applied to.
When initially looking at the problem, Travis simply had nothing to go by; Zuri's curse was absolved of any distinguishable attributes he could go by.
That was however, until he had earlier on got in touch with some of his Academia team members. It was a yearly procedure where his research team would share their discoveries and other findings with one another to in order to critique and improve the new spells before being officially published. Travis had supplied his knowledge surrounding his mana-efficient formulae, to the group as his offering for the get-together. The rest provided their own work too and Travis then found what he had been looking for. A small collaboration had begun a year prior between two Scholars, a Ruin Mage, and headed by a Cleric. Their work was a formulaic spell capable of virtually surveying, probing, and even dissecting incantations and enchantments. This also included curses as well. Apparently, the spell, after analyzing whatever manaform invocation assigned to it, could then literally deconstruct it's target, effectively dispelling it regardless of any pre-established rules.
Their problem however was that the formula lacked a platform as the spell could only be deployed via a lengthy incantation. Travis, almost nonchalantly, offered to apply their formulae into his own runic architecture as a mode for better deployment. The others eventually agreed to this agreement and in turn, he would receive the perfected product after it had been finalized. After a month, he received the information dump gathered and issued by his Academia research team. The dump included a plethora of research notes and spells awaiting further testing. While the load contained many useful assets, it was the runic spell, the Causality Scryer, he had been waiting for.
At the work table while Felix still gave his announcement, he had the spell work against an incantation simulator at mastery level to ensure its effects were legitimate. Each night before, he would run a new challenge for the spell and by the next morning, Travis would find that the Causality Scryer was successful in its assigned task. Funnily enough, he found that the spell had would have finished minutes after initiating the test. From all the experiments, he couldn't find any reason for the spell not being up to trial of eliminating Zuri's curse.
After verifying the spell's repeated success, he turned to face Felix, having completed his speech, "The pretty much sums it up for me," he began, "however I am curious what kind of opposition we may run into."
Travis took the time to study over Felix's training vest which was the object of which the rune would be applied to and produced a diagram on how it would the rune would inscribed. Much of the work however was done on the vest itself as he noted the focal points over the vest and the amount of coverage the rune would have. At this point, it was only a matter of simply applying the rune.
The Untalent then turned to one of his other projects; something he had been working on the side when he had the free time. While he and Felix's runic spell demanded the majority of their concentration and efforts, he hadn't forgotten about Zuri's condition. However her problem was complex and required a different approach than what he had took before. Zuri's problem was a curse of unknown origin being bestowed upon her. A curse. Travis didn't fancy curses too much. They had blaringly different behaviors when compared to a runic lock, despite some similarities. Additionally, curses held more rules, specific ones that defined how they functioned and usually benefiting the caster in the end or simply having a neutral yet long-lasting impact on the victim it was applied to.
When initially looking at the problem, Travis simply had nothing to go by; Zuri's curse was absolved of any distinguishable attributes he could go by.
That was however, until he had earlier on got in touch with some of his Academia team members. It was a yearly procedure where his research team would share their discoveries and other findings with one another to in order to critique and improve the new spells before being officially published. Travis had supplied his knowledge surrounding his mana-efficient formulae, to the group as his offering for the get-together. The rest provided their own work too and Travis then found what he had been looking for. A small collaboration had begun a year prior between two Scholars, a Ruin Mage, and headed by a Cleric. Their work was a formulaic spell capable of virtually surveying, probing, and even dissecting incantations and enchantments. This also included curses as well. Apparently, the spell, after analyzing whatever manaform invocation assigned to it, could then literally deconstruct it's target, effectively dispelling it regardless of any pre-established rules.
Their problem however was that the formula lacked a platform as the spell could only be deployed via a lengthy incantation. Travis, almost nonchalantly, offered to apply their formulae into his own runic architecture as a mode for better deployment. The others eventually agreed to this agreement and in turn, he would receive the perfected product after it had been finalized. After a month, he received the information dump gathered and issued by his Academia research team. The dump included a plethora of research notes and spells awaiting further testing. While the load contained many useful assets, it was the runic spell, the Causality Scryer, he had been waiting for.
At the work table while Felix still gave his announcement, he had the spell work against an incantation simulator at mastery level to ensure its effects were legitimate. Each night before, he would run a new challenge for the spell and by the next morning, Travis would find that the Causality Scryer was successful in its assigned task. Funnily enough, he found that the spell had would have finished minutes after initiating the test. From all the experiments, he couldn't find any reason for the spell not being up to trial of eliminating Zuri's curse.
After verifying the spell's repeated success, he turned to face Felix, having completed his speech, "The pretty much sums it up for me," he began, "however I am curious what kind of opposition we may run into."
Travis kept up the use of his manalysis while he and Felix past the time through chess. Every turn he took, he took the brief moment to gaze at Felix's mana flow and then turned his attention to the mana crystal powering their spell. About an hour of doing this routine, he began cutting back the need to check on the Magi having concluded that the spell was performing as expected, as long as it had a flow of mana energy to consume.
Another hour had passed and their spell had given out, due to the mana crystal it was pairing with having run dry. With their test complete, it was evident that they had no need to linger further seeing as Felix's condition becoming more apparent now. Travis rose from his seat, almost immediately as Felix recalled the chess set and furniture back into his inventory before processing to follow him back into his portal, back to the mansion.
"Now that we know that our rune can function for awhile," Travis began, "we'll certainly need to address power source problem and come up with an efficient solution if you're going to be operating outside the mansion for far longer than 2 hours."
Another hour had passed and their spell had given out, due to the mana crystal it was pairing with having run dry. With their test complete, it was evident that they had no need to linger further seeing as Felix's condition becoming more apparent now. Travis rose from his seat, almost immediately as Felix recalled the chess set and furniture back into his inventory before processing to follow him back into his portal, back to the mansion.
"Now that we know that our rune can function for awhile," Travis began, "we'll certainly need to address power source problem and come up with an efficient solution if you're going to be operating outside the mansion for far longer than 2 hours."
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