Hope - 4.42 Sheddings

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After their raid of the archives they left without so much as a goodbye. Under veil of Void, Irwyn carried them into the horizon. North again, then a bit to the East following the compass given to them by Bhaak. That would be their next stop, and perhaps the last before reaching their destination. Mood for adventure had been souring.“It’s about time I carve my next Concept,” Elizabeth announced not long after the town disappeared from their sight.“Where do we stop then?” Irwyn nodded. It was only to be expected.“That will not be needed,” she shook her head. “It can be done in flight with you here. You can provide the environment of rampant Flames. Just don’t actually infuse the Concept into them - it could possibly skew my insights, however unlikely.”“Sensible,” Irwyn admitted.After a short discussion, they settled on an arrangement of a burning cube surrounding her while she prepared to carve. Irwyn would watch the process, just in case it afforded some snippet of knowledge, but that would only start after a few hours of mediation as Elizabeth double-checked her insights.Since Elizabeth would be busy, it fell to Irwyn again to arrange their concealment. A block of fire was rather striking when flying through the skies. Even if Irwyn could suppress the visual effects to something closer to a red box, it would be better to be invisible. And Irwyn just so happened to have an invisibility spell.He had to brush up on it since it had not seen use in a long while. The basic principle had been to copy the natural Light coming from an angle and then project it to the other side. Simple enough in principle, though he had to upscale from the more personnel spell. That was fine, he had also grown orders of magnitude better at magic since first developing it. A large area around their group became fully transparent to any onlooker in just a short while. The only challenged was that he had to account for a slight distortion, (...)