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Chapter 270 - Assembly
🕑 Added 2025-12-07 16:26:28 +0000 UTCMirian watched as members of the Cult of Eintocarst went through their final test of the Holy Crucible. The divination spell engines around the room began to glow as illusionary projections danced in front of her. She only half paid attention to them, preferring to sense the magic currents herself as they moved through her aura.
She shook her head. There was too much leakage on the fourth soul refractor. “Check the rune sequences in the 7B channel. I’ll fix the refractor myself.” She retrieved one of the Elder artifacts she’d retrieved from the Labyrinth for the task and got to work. Sure enough, the refractor had hairline cracks, only visible with several lens spells.
As the priests dutifully checked over the sequences again, Mirian went over the areas where runes and glyphs were linked in tri-bonds together. No one on Enteria could do that for her. Then she checked the soul repositories. Then she waited for the other checks to finish.
She had spent weeks on end hunting the most powerful myrvites she could in the Jiandzhi. All of it together would create a single ingot of adamantium. It wasn’t a lot to work with, but it was still more of the sacred metal than had been made in the prior century.
When she was done, the next loop would see trace elements vanish from places all over Enteria. A dozen alchemist shops would have to contend with diluted inks. A hundred myrvites would be missing small bits of themselves. The Ennecus Guild would find chunks of its magichemical inventory missing. The Association of Metallurgists and Cult of Eintocarst would find several ingots of rare metals missing. The imperial weavers of Uxalak would see a bounty of royal silk go missing. A dozen artifacts from the Labyrinth Vaults would vanish.
And most noticeably, the Triarch’s mythril armor and scepter would be gone from Divir.
She’d learned from previous cycles that it would be a problem to have Gaius hiding out in Alkazaria, so she had him keeping a watch on the movement of anyone coming into the city. Checking the trains for Praetorians or agents carrying anything runic. Checking the cargo ships for too many passengers. She also had the Luminate Order’s full backing, granted in secret by Pontiff Oculo. With her command, they had been moving to root out traitors. Now, Carkavakom’s priests acted as watchers from Palendurio to Madinahr, ensuring the sacred laws were followed. The pilgrims of Altrukyst acted as scouts. The scholars of Yiaverunan, as accountants and logisticians.
Even the Cult of Zomalator was involved, though without the knowledge of the Pontiff. Through Lecne and his priests, she had set up deals with the criminal syndicates, giving her eyes on the movements of black market goods. Everywhere in Baracuel, a secret stirred beneath the surface of the world. Months of such movement were too large to be concealed, so the secret was hardly contained. It had become a whisper in every tavern, the very water that moved the rumor mill: a new Prophet had risen. Or perhaps several.
Mirian could no more stop these rumors than she could stop Divir from falling; no secret could survive when that many people knew about it. So she had prepared with that in mind. Mirian’s regulator armor wasn’t just a prototype. It represented a way to magnify her already considerable power.
In a word, it was bait to a trap.
If Scebur hadn’t actually been eliminated, now was the time he’d be forced to strike. If one of the other Prophets wanted to stop her, she would force their hand. If Xecatl was right, and her enemies were just biding their time, they could bide it no longer. With the Gates under her control, the only way they could force an end to this cycle was through a massive confrontation.
So as she worked, she kept watch.
Baracuel contained its usual turbulence. She’d had the Corrmier brothers and a few other big-name conspirators quietly abducted and assassinated, but their network of allies and supporters was too vast to actually exterminate. Fortunately, Marduke Sacristar had no ideology except for his own wealth and power, so through Nicolus, she’d been able to move him into a position to support the Palamas family, who was reasserting control while Parliament flailed about ineffectually by appointing committees.
But that was just the usual unrest. So far, she’d seen no Prophet-driven movement against her. It was quite possible no one would. After all, she had been keeping those most likely to attack her in the dark about relicarium. And, the time loop would continue. If someone stopped her now, she would remember them. A tactical victory here could also be a strategic defeat.
“Sacred One,” one of the priests said, bowing. “We can find no flaws in the sequences.”
“Good. We run the test again.”
This time, the fourth soul refractor had no leakage. When she checked the middle of the crucible, there was a puddle of molten orichalcum.
“Change out the holy repositories,” she said, gesturing at the soul repositories. It was necessary to change terminology around so no one realized they were doing necromancy. Holy necromancy, yes, but still necromancy. She wasn’t going to change the biases of accumulated lifetimes on a whim. “Clear the contents of the crucible. Rest up. We’ll begin forging the ingot in one hour.”
***
Beneath the Temple of Eintocarst, Mirian worked. For nearly two months she worked day in and day out. No one on Enteria had the skill she did in glyph or runework. It could only be her.
She’d recorded the rune sequences of the Triarch’s scepter for posterity, but as impressive as its design was, her own work had eclipsed theirs, and she needed it for parts. The Triarch’s mythril armor she could keep mostly intact, but it required heavy modification. For several days, she sent pieces of the armor into the crucible, channeling colossal amounts of heat into the metal so it could be shaped and the integrity of the sacred metal reinforced.
The regulator armor had a breastplate of solid mythril. From the chest radiated out sweeping lines so that the chest of the armor resembled a rib cage. This mostly followed the Triarch’s design, but she’d applied more modern methods to it, hollowing out the ‘ribs’ of the armor and putting in perfectly formed conduit crystals grown using Elder artifacts.
These conduit crystals wouldn’t work on the final leyline regulator design; they would only work when resonating with her soul. This allowed her to adjust the resistance of the conduits with a thought, allowing her to either absorb excess arcane energy or let it move in perfect flow. This formulation built on her early research, and was the pinnacle of the studies that she, Jei, Seneca, and her father had worked through. First, they’d discovered amber jeweled lotus extract could be incorporated into chrysoberyl for a higher mana capacity than corundum. Then, she tested out adding powdered orichalcum and then powdered mythril to crystals, which had led her to the soul-linked conduits.
The final formulation used powdered adamantium and extract of the ebonbloom lotuses from her father’s garden. It was incorporated into a silicon-carbide crystal. The resulting crystal was pearly white from one angle and looked like the night sky from another. Tiny flecks of black and gold floated in it, giving the crystals a wondrous, celestial look. Even if they’d had no useful properties, they would have been the prize of emperors. As it was, they were simply the most efficient way to move arcane energy that she had found in her years of research, very nearly achieving perfect mana flow.
On the inside of each mythril ‘rib’ were enchantments. As excess arcane energy flowed out of the crystals, the enchantment repaired any cracks or flaws in them, making the system self-regulating. She’d based the design conceptually on Viridian’s work with ecosystems and their feedback cycles.
On the back of the armor was a flexible jointed column that linked the sweeping ‘ribs’ together, completing the cage around the breastplate and resembling a spinal column. It felt right to Mirian that, after all the research she’d done, nature had provided a schematic. Gaius had warned her the design was too reminiscent of Triarchic style and looked a bit ‘necromantic,’ but Mirian was pretty sure he was the only person outside of museum curators and historians who even remembered what Triarchic style looked like. Either way, she wouldn’t deviate from the design; each sweeping mythril ‘rib’ was needed to contain an Elder artifact from the Labyrinth.
By combining artifacts from multiple Vaults, she’d collected one of every known energy type. One had the artifact that could absorb massive amounts of heat energy. The next, massive amounts of electric energy. Then magnetic energy, and kinetic energy, and so on.
The ‘spine’ of the armor had two slots where she could place the leyline repulsors she’d already bound, allowing the armor to either be tuned to powerful spellwork or directly trying to push at distant leylines.
From the metallic spine, next to those slots, she worked in eight conduit vents. Dealing with leylines meant dealing with extreme forces, and even with all the Elder artifacts, sacred metals, and adamantium-doped conduits, she would no doubt find herself in the grip of energies beyond even her capability to move. The conduit vents would shoot excess arcane energy out, with glyphs tuning the output so that the arcane energy would decay specifically into light. When she’d tested out the design, the result had been that excess energy spillover resembled luminous wings. Such a reference to the Ominian’s sacrifice would only add to her perceived legitimacy as a Prophet.
The inside of the armor was stuffed with more glyphs and runes. Mythril, as a soul-infused metal, could take runes, unlike most metals. This allowed Mirian to use a formulation much like her father’s undead constructs to contain a robust energy-transformation system. Weaker spells would simply by transformed into different forms of energy, which in turn could be converted to arcane energy for her use, much like black shield, or simply absorbed using the Elder artifacts that absorbed an energy type. After that, she took inspiration from her father’s robe, embedding the most common glyphs and runes she used in clustered formulations that would allow her to use spells without even drawing her spellbook. That would also allow her to clear a few dozen pages in her spellbook for notes, something she badly needed.
The rest of the armor was covered in hundreds more glyphs and runes. She’d studied the systems of Torrian Tower to learn more about material reinforcement and strengthening. Every enchantment she could think of that would increase the resilience of the materials, she added. Then, she added a final system that would allow her to divine if different glyphs or runes became nonfunctional. It was glyphic architecture that combined the practices of the old Persaman masters with the work of modern pioneers like Torres. It was only possible to fit so many magic sigils in because of the work of researchers like Endresen pushing the limits of glyph miniaturization and machine-assisted artifice.
Finally, she used the adamantium ingot to gild the armor. Even the great bounty of adamantium she’d made wouldn’t be enough to cover the entire outside of the armor, so she used the swirling fractal patterns of the Ominian’s flesh as her final inspiration so that in the end, the armor shone with both black and white metals. Anyone who looked at it would instantly see the celestial, the sacred—the void itself, entrapped in metal.
With the breastplate itself done, she then had help from several Tlaxhuacan tailors in using the royal silk she’d requested from Xecatl. First, they applied layers of it as padding that lined the inside of the armor. Then, the rest of the pieces were sewn in a connected robe, evoking the traditional garb of the Baracueli archmage, with a subtle nod to the style of the Naasqual people of Falijmali. Her birth mother’s people. It was only right that she would include it.
The titan catalyst, harvested by the First Prophet himself, she worked into the inside center of the breastplate, just in front of both her heart and the temporal anchor. Next, she integrated a focus from each of the Gods in a circle around the catalyst. The silver-gray focus, she already had, though she still didn’t know the name of the Elder God it had come from. Then there was a violet focus from Yiaverunan. A jade focus from Xylatarvia, sent as a gift from Xecatl. A white and red focus from Zomalator. And last, a black focus that she could only guess came from the Ominian Themself.
As far as she knew, that encompassed every type of known focus stone. Altrukyst, Eintocarst, Shiamagoth, and Carkavakom were not said to have died in the Gods’ War.
Throughout the entire process, Mirian worked to make sure the relicarium was evenly integrated throughout the armor. As a four-dimensional substance, the luminous liquid could be applied even to surfaces that seemed to be inaccessible. Mirian had come up with a checklist of equations that would ensure she could make sure every part of the armored robe had been integrated. Once it was bound, there was no way to undo it that didn’t involve her own soul-death, so there was no room for mistakes.
She had delayed her trip to Divir as long as possible, but even the few minutes she’d needed to retrieve the Triarch’s items had caused the destabilization of the second moon. Even with the Tlaxhuacan Gate open, her forecast put moonfall on Plenith 28: a cycle of exactly six months.
Still, she had planned to be done well before Plenith 12, where moonfall was with her usual configuration. Unlike her spellbook, there was plenty of time to double-check her work.
On Plenith 5, there was a riot in Alkazaria, but it seemed to trace back to legitimate popular sentiment. Her priests and hired syndicate spies had noted she was being watched, but that was to be expected. Pontiff Oculo had his own people checking on her, and all the noble families had an idea of who she was and what she represented. Even Parliament had likely figured out she should be watched. Almost certainly, some of those watchers traced back to the other Prophets. She knew that Xecatl had agents watching her in place, for example, though at least one of those was probably one of the tailors who’d helped her put together the robes.
None of them stopped her. No Gates were attacked. No archmage was manipulated into confronting her. She had been prepared for such a maneuver, but her preparations had been overkill. There was not even a cursory attempt.
On Plenith 7, Gaius Nezzar entered the city in disguise to stand guard over her while she bound the leyline regulator armor. Beneath the vaulted ceiling of Great Temple of Eintocarst, Mirian readied the final bindings, alone with her father. The priests stood watch around the temple. Gaius had placed his own wards around the premises.
“Have you decided on a name for it?” he asked.
“I have,” Mirian said, running her hands across the armor. “It is half the celestial Divir and half the terrestrial Enteria. A thing to bridge the world of the Elder Gods with our own. It serves to balance the leylines. And here I am, binding it on the very day. A spring day I thought I might never see again.”
Her father smiled.
“Equinox,” she said, and began to settle the bindings over it, one by one.
When it was done, she let out a breath of relief. Another step on the path, she thought. She looked through the stone ceiling to where she knew Divir was. She didn’t say anything. The feeling was enough. The Ominian was watching her.
With a flash of light, she let the armor into her soul. There was a strain to it—without her ascensions, the bulky object might not have fit. But once it was there, she could feel it, right there, next to the others, circling like lines of liquid light.
She summoned it to herself, then levitated midway up the central chamber. It was heavier than what she was used to, but not at all a burden to fly around in. The fit was perfect, and the weight, evenly distributed. She spread her arms wide, closed her eyes, and breathed in deeply.
Whatever came next, she was ready for it. It was time to move into the final stages of her plans.
Comments
JRØ
I tought that too the first time, because of all the time shenanigans, she grows trough enough soul ascensions and that's why she is haunted by law gods enforcers, they are checking if she has broken any of the pact before she ascended 😀
Samuel Sever
tftc
Omoi
I think Mirian is the unknown Elder God
Khent Mercer
I think it's going to become something else. This artifact has the appearance of the flesh of Ominian. I think it's going to be used to be rather closer to that flesh in the end.
Amadhe
It makes me UNREASONABLY exited and happy to see plans DOZENS of chapters in the making come to fruition. I’ve researched this phenomenon, since I get actual physical shivers when reading the exceptionally rare “god book”, and I’ve come to the conclusion it might be an Adrenaline High from my vivid imagination of the events taking place. I actually had to stop twice while reading this chapter, so overcome I was, that I had to calm and down and do a lil clap. After Mother of Learning, I’ve spent years chasing this kind of high, and I just want to say that this has absolutely delivered. And it’s not even over. Omigosh, I’m just so unbeliabky excited I can’t even type right. Great Job. 👏
Thaabit Rivertree
That armor is definitely going to become the relic of the nth prophet (i forgot which number Mirian was).
Thaabit Rivertree
I dont get why people think Liuan had something to do with Scebur, as in she controlled him or she was him. To me that doesnt make sense. Whatever he was doing could have been done better differently, and when she died he still acted. Unless the letter from jherica was forged. Actually... that would have been a great way to test what would happen if the invasion did go through, and with knowledge of Miriams presence. It would actually make sense for Liuan to try to do a test run like that. I guess its possible.
YarrowFlowers
I was wrong! Amazing! Without a confrontation I feel that Scebur (cough cough, Liuan) was confident in their ability to observe the crafting, idk how though Mirian was rather thorough. Thinking on it, it might actually just be a win on Mirians behalf which would be cool. Although we have confirmation from Conductor and Eyeball of great and evil things that roam, I worry that great accumulations of power may draw their attention.
Mr NerfGun
I think it was that it boosted her aura and soul in some way.
FuriousDee
I seem to remember Mirian thinking about how the sword of the fourth prophet wasn't just a sword when she first got it, or am I misremembering, was that ever resolved?
Enthernal
She never saw them from Enternia, only that there were buildings on it. She only sees what's near the edge of the surface since she's looking from below. It wasn't until she first opened the doors in the dream that she learned about the triarchs being there. Considering the dreams weren't linear then, the chances another prophet was there (and went unnoticed) are very small, after all she picked up the unmoored and he was only there for a second.
Clifton
The trouble is, concentrating power in a small group does work in the short term. It's hard to spot the long term problems when you never experience a long term.
Clifton
If they didn't respect an all powerful necromancer, why would they respect an all powerful arch mage? They're more likely to fear her and react accordingly.
Armo
I think Ibrahim has delved deep enough below previously, and he’s better now than he was then. And Liuan has access to sufficient resources to figure out how to solve the puzzles correctly. Still, we don’t actually know how much of the total amount of relicarium Mirian has found and/or used, only that she noted she has some in reserve post-armour. I seriously doubt the entire planet has like 8-10 cubes total, which is about what Mirian has used so far if I remember correctly.
Armo
I keep coming back to comment on this… I really hope we get a time travelling (or, alternatively, space travelling!) arc later on in this. With Jherica’s work on a spaceship to Luamin, it does seem to be where this is heading. Speaking of spaceships, I wonder if Divir is just a soulbound spaceship of DIVITRIUS. It would explain why the entire mausoleum feels like the Ominian, while the body is also seen separately when They are walking around Enteria in Their memories. The spaceship is retractable! Then the gods are like super powerful beings that bound hyper advanced magic tech to themselves, kinda like Mirian but x1,000,000. It would explain why Carkavakom is side-eyeing Mirian with her fancy tools and suit.
gotag
Building off a comment below from Emma Mass, it seems very likely that Miriam has cornered the relicarium. She used almost all of the known and easy to access sources. She is also the only one of her allied prophets capable of delving deeper labyrinths and the only one who can one shot a labyrinth. She’s already won the arms race. If Liuan wants relicarium she may be forced to negotiate with Miriam as no one else can get it nearly as quickly if at all. Same for anyone else, the easy to complete + nearby labyrinths might be finished already.
James Lambert
I need a picture of this badasss armor!!
Mai0e
Also does anyone know in which chapter she first saw the Triarch armor and scepter using the lens spell and realized their worth? Also, which chapter was it when she ordered the doors of the Ominas Mausoleum to open in the dreamscape, then wandered to the Triarch's ritual site to see the armor and scepter? I know that in Chapter 268 she finally picked up those two items and brought them back to Enteria.
Armo
There’s a lot of discussion of what the other prophets are going to think below, which is warranted. However, I also want to hear about what all the non-loopers are going to think about it. Mirian now looks the part of an all-powerful archmage. Maybe they’ll respect her more, now, without having to convince everyone.
SlickMongoose
Cracking chapter, can't wait to see the armour in action.
Armo
Man, the woman has fought a war and a half over the loops, and recently had to deal with a massive assault aimed specifically at killing her. Cut her some slack. We’ll see how this develops.
AntiClimax she her
While she has raised just about every very villain flag there is apart from actually working against the good of the world, I feel like you're being too hard on her. I agree that this is likely to backfire, and that the true reason she built it was feeling insecure, thanks to Troytin. It is quite likely that, even though I don't think she's actually gone insane or about to take a villainous turn, that she's quite likely to be cast as the villain. It's already happened, with Scebur. She needs to learn that concentrating power in the hands of a single person (or small group) never actually works. That vulnerability is the only real way forward. Also, if she were really insane or evil, Ceiba Yan and Xecatl would know--unless the ancient tree is evil and planning on using her to remake the world in its leafy glory.
Alexander Dupree
I was so confused by this
Leaf
totally agree with naming the spellbook, idk about the amulet since it’s so insignificant and isn’t at all useful for her seeing as she has the titan catalyst
Gopard
lol... I hope for about the next tenish loops or so every prophet and person they talk to shuns and berates Mirian for her selfishness and megalomania... and then she finally snaps out of it and acts like a human again... "Final stage of her plans"? "now no one would be able to stop her"? "she took a another step on the path"? Dude If these are not the BIGGEST DEEP REDDEST OF FLAGS FOR HER GOING INSANE then I don't know fiction anymore... I wonder when she will realize that building an ARMOR is NEVER going to be the " most efficient design for solving environmental crisis because it has a FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT MAIN USE... I think we're about to get the fall of Mirian narcissistic house of cards. or at least I hope so. the kinds of behavior she's been showing since about a 100 loops all taken together are NOT what I'm hoping gets rewarded... even if they solve the divir issue... Mirian now is one bad day away for slaughtering entire countries to use them as "blood ritual fuel for holy necromancy" if a problem and the country's leaders get 'too annoying'. Her current mental state is ABSOLUTELY CRACKED. And for the same reason I do NOT want this Mirian to "ascend to Godhead" potentially... no thanks wtf she might just decide the 'normal humans are too annoying and inconsequential' and wipe out humanity or something... Mirian is on the Edge to becoming terrifyingly evil right now and is deluding herself tht shes 'doing it all for enteria'...
Gopard
Well I can't help but stay pessimistic I don't trust her. I don't trust Mirian at all right now... this being an "Armor" that mostly "enhances combat effectiveness" is only more of a red flag for me... if you want something to solve a NATURAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS you don't ALSO include some "super badass cannons and shields and shit in case after we stop the apocalypse aliens come and we need to use this thing to fight them" it just DOESN'T MAKE SENSE... From a purely "Objective" perspective... Mirian isn't thinking clearly I've been convinced of that for a long time... now the question is how insane she is... how much did she obviously misjudge everyone and how much backslash will there be... im hoping lots and lots enough to potentially make her hate herself for a few rounds to finally get back down to earth. Not a direct attack... but let entire countries hit her with the EMOTIONAL DAMAGE to finally pull her out of this fucking insane powerhungry APATHY state please!!!!
HJSecond
I'm really looking forward to the fallout of this with the other prophets.
Gopard
she definitely is the zombies... deluding herself in thinking "this is for the leylines" lol... everyone who ever had anything to do with "science stuff" knows "specialized equipment beats general equipment"... Miriam made something mainly used to gain EVEN MORE POWER and as a "side effect and self justification" also serves to "help me use artifacts I could already use to try and influence the leylines". I hope this has severe repercussions really do... the very fact NO ONE ATTACKED her means SHE is the MAIN schemer obviously... however "evil" she seems to think "others" generally are they're obviously still continuing with their general cooperative agenda... unlike Mirian who just does whatever the fuck she wants and doesn't care a lick to consult anyone that might disagree the slightest bit from her... the very way she's talking she WANTS confrontation she is at the middle school/teenager maturity stage "ugh talking is hard when the others don't want to jerk me off always let me do this and this hehe and now this which I KNOW basically FORCES THEM TO HATE ME.. so then when they complain I have a good reason to punch them haha"... this is how I currently see Mirian acting... and it's not good, it's also not practical we still know she NEEDS the other prophets to ever forget a collaborative global effort to built whatever ends up stopping Divir... and she is actively making relations between prophets worse with such blatant provocative actions... with this new powerspike and her already insane detachment idk if there really is a true "happy end" for humanity left. Miriam would as she is now likely also sacrifice all of Akana Praedir in a blood ritual to destroy Divir if she's pushed enough and gets "annoyed enough with the solutions not working". I genuinely don't know how she can be brought back to sanity now...
CoveringStorm
Duala is a month right? At this point we could just assume that temporal and spatial locations are interchangeable :)
FuriousDee
I wonder how many soul ascensions are needed to bind this armour?
AntiClimax she her
Mirian finished her evil overlord armor! I was worried she wouldn't. And yeah, I don't think she's evil, but what will others think seeing a ribcage and spine? I'm not sure an undead necromancer is exactly the approval you want for your aesthetics, even if he is your father. Also, it feels like time to share the secret of relicarium with the others. Hope they take it well, or are able to get over it.
tentacles4all
1. This was some gooood armor crafting goodness. 2. No prophets attacked and the armor looks a bit "alien". Marian , my dear , maybe you are the zombies.
Enthernal
A couple more toughts: - Good plan getting the stuff off Divir, With how delapidated everything else up there is, they might actually not even notice it's missing. The only possible problem I can see is if a Triarch didn't have a backup focus and was relying purely of the titan catalyst, but that seems unlikely. Clothes and everything else can be explained away. - Mirians best defense might in fact not have been all her planning, but the promise to take them to Divir in the next loop. It's something none of the other prophets are even close to attempt and all of them would deem crucial in whatever alternative "victory theory" they have. - If Mirian is going to have (any) opposition, wrestling control of the gates from her seems paramount AND it's very doable, considering how weak her claim is. My theory, the ring of the first prophet is that proof and we know Liuan has been hunting them down. - They also (claim to) haven't found any gates in Akana, which seems very unlikely to me. So assuming they can claim ownership, found some gates in Akana; -- They can deny Mirian her fast travel. -- Assuming they went around visiting the other gates; they can invade several/all major cities/countries at their leisure, without any risk. It would explain why the waiting as well, for a gate in Tlaxhuo and the gate on Divir to be found so they could visit them. It would be enough to but Mirian on the backfoot. That elite strikeforce might come through any of the gates, without any prior notice. She doesn't have plan "oh shit" to fall back on. If she runs or hides, they can cut the cycle short whenever they want, like if she runs, goes into hiding or decides to invade Akana herself. And that's just one aspect, who knows what else they might have discovered/planned.
Mr NerfGun
I think she had found a leyline repulsor in the vault beneath Torriviol.
Nick M
I'm so excited to see Mirian put the armor to use. And to see what happens with the other prophets now that it will be difficult to keep relicarium a secret from them. Also: "And most noticeably, the Triarch’s mythril armor and scepter would be gone from Duala." Shouldn't this be Divir, not Duala?
Erlost
100% Can’t wait to see quasi-deity Mirian in action.
Thaabit Rivertree
Scebur has already been neutralized though?
Matthew
I hope Mirian names her spellbook and amulet as well
Thaabit Rivertree
I got the same idea. Maybe Liuan just wanted her to finish before confronting her, so she wouldnt be in contest with whatever Miriam is doing. Also, she probably realized this Scebur was actually causing all her problems and is willing to trust Miriam because of it, or is busy expanding on her efforts for the first time without Scebur's interference and thus seeing some new/interesting results.
Thaabit Rivertree
She'll probably have a magic solution for that
Zurko
It also helps having a 300 year old skeleton daddy you can call on for help
Zurko
That armor sounds so badass. I forgot that the other prophets don't know about relicarium. So they think: whatever mirian is doing, it will be reset next loop, so why risk exposing yourself. And for mirians part, she can just destroy the armor, and next loop go kill the traitor and try again. Either you force them into a loss, or they dont act and you make big gains. A win-win situation for mirian, really. Very smart.
BlastYoBoots
Typo: “using the Elder artifacts that absorbed an energy time.” Should be “energy type.”
Enthernal
Great to see it all come together. I also like how the chapter was anticlimactic in a way with nothing going wrong. It makes sense she would prepare all she could and sometimes the best result is nothing happening. If some did make a move it would have felt forced, especially if "Sulvorath" was suddenly around after all. That being said, now that Mirian is ready I hope it won't be too long before we see what they have been planning.
Atlas Dwarf
Yeah that would be fitting given Mirian's progress is what made Gabriel start believing in a future again. Granted I am not sure what Liuan could have done besides spying on the materials used to make the armour.
Josiah
In the comment below, the author siad the robe is enchanted too. She never uses that necklace anymore. I thought she was going to unbind it and give it to Ibrahim to save his wife eventually, but now we just found out that's impossible. Bit of a waste.
Sean Carter
Wow. I can't wait to read its first real test, it's been a long time coming. I like the parallel to the spellbook - she's ready, had more time to plan, and has clearly moved beyond anyone else in the world in her knowledge and power with magic.
gotag
Honestly I was a little worried that Miriam was too dismissive of the Scebur threat, and maybe Scebur will still make things hard. But man was Miriam ready for it in this project. Curious how that confrontation starts now Miriam has super armor.
FuriousDee
That is some very cool armour Did Mirian use the leyline repulsors from the air ships or were they also from a vault
FuriousDee
What was the 6th prophet doing?
Touch
- wish she enchant the robe - what happened to the focus necklace?
Armo
I believe we know that there is plenty extra after building the armour.
Clara
I was kinda expecting for her to also make it double as a space suit :P
Thaabit Rivertree
Ooo interesting theory, but I doubt it
Tanna
I wonder if any Prophet's spies have managed to figure out the method of creating relics. It might be the reason no one attacked her. They knew she wouldn't give up this secret willingly so they had to allow her to work undisturbed and see what she does.
rkdesc
In a weird way, this somehow feels like a pyrrhic victory. Like she won in a short term goal at the cost of a long term setback. Did she at least leave any relicarium in reserve for saving Ibrahim's wife?
Thaabit Rivertree
Also, I wonder if this goes on for a while longer if she will be able to make improvements to it. I expect her skill and knowledge might improve even more with another dozen or two cycles to the point she might want to add to it or redo some parts, though it sounds like the book might be wrapping up soon.
Mr NerfGun
No leg and arm armor either, it seems. Is it actually more like a robe with a chestplate? So the protection comes mostly from the arcane side of the armor?
Satya Prateek
I'd like to think Liuan planned something but was thwarted by Gabriel. Would be a fitting end point to this arc
zoarian
An epic chapter. I love the name - Equinox - it fits in with the white and black theme of the armour too. Now need a chapter where she full on smites people as the true archmage prophet
Mr NerfGun
Hmmm, does it not have a helmet?
Josiah
Originally I thought the sixth prophet was helping to make this armor, but now it does make sense that the armor he made won't be bound. The whole advantage of getting him to make it in the past is so that it will be readily available in yhe present. Almost as if it were soulbound. I wonder who will get that armor though and why they need it.
Josiah
Also did she not put any enchantments on the robe? I thought the whole point of that material was that they held enchantments easily.
Touch
Edit the enchantment repaired any *cracks of flaws* in them, cracks or flaws
V0lcano
I'm sorry for doubting you Mirian. She really did take every precaution.
Thaabit Rivertree
Daaam, that sounds like one badass piece of armor. It must look fit for an emperor and incredibly intricate and badass. I thought the silk was going to be used for a seperate battle robe that would also be soulbound. Interesting that she made it all one piece. I figured being able to have the robe without the bulk of the armor might serve her well in certain situations. I'm curious what it looks like to an outside observer though. How bulky is it? How do they perceive it? I'm really curious
Armo
YES! Armour get! I really enjoy these crafting/culmination chapters. I love how much care Mirian is putting into the armour, how it reflects all the inspirations and precursors that affected both herself and its creation specifically.
Robert Mullins
Time for the first round of testing. And I'm assuming the metal covered person Mirian has been seeing is armored Mirian.
E
Omg!!!!!!
Kresimir
PLEASE have some other prophet povs in reaction to this stuff soon!
Keifru
Mirian going to try and wrassle herself a leyline for a test run? Oooh what shall these plans be...
