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Moonlight Snack By IddlerItaler -- Report

"You should always choose the free dart monk over the other options. It's quick to strike, easy to improve and can provide an emergency snack." -Master Tartai, Re-lingi warlord

Memsaa and Shodi travel towards the monastery of Mae-Tyran, where their foes have grouped up. A new alliance tips the scales back in their favour. Will they get through the enemy patrol? Or better, will the patrol get through them?

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Mechdragon1k

Posted by Mechdragon1k 5 months ago Report

What did the snake and sphinx do with their souls.

IddlerItaler

Posted by IddlerItaler 5 months ago Report

You mean Memsaa and Shodi? They both are able to capture souls, but through different schools of magic. Shodi can summon slain foes as ghosts who are forced to obey her commands - like she did with Kenin in the previous chapter - while Memsaa has a more integral form of summon, that lets her reform eaten creatures and let them out as temporary servants (and that servant is usually Malsine). There are some caveats, like for example she usually can't summon a creature stronger than she is, and if she wants to deploy multiple servants they have to be proportional in power to her overall magic.

The souls of their preys aren't destroyed per se but they are retained within their bodies rather than going to an afterlife. If the predators died the souls would be released, unless they had been absorbed permanently (in which case they'd still follow them). Shodi was raised in a cult that can inflict a dreaded soul torture upon its victims, and she did implicitly threaten Kenin with that in a moment of rage last chapter, but Shodi has rebelled against that cult and doesn't really plan on continuing the practice anymore... Unless she ran into someone she hated that much.

As for the trio of monks who were eaten this chapter, they don't get brought up again. Memsaa threw around the idea of letting the staff monk (the one who tried eating Malsine) have another go at a later time, but whether she got around to it or she was never reformed is up to your imagination.