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[LitF] Changes to chapter 26
🕑 Added 2023-04-18 23:46:48 +0000 UTCI heavily edited the final parts of chapter 26. To be completely honest, I forgot about the Wise Inspection trait. That left the chapter 26 missing something that should be there.
Here's what was added (link to chapter 26 if you want to read it there):
Even with the medicine gone, Tamara had to slowly, very slowly, work on her healing. The diseases and complications were just within the range of her abilities.
Meanwhile, Arthur learned what the weapon and its individual parts were called.
His Wise Inspection trait had been useless until now but might become pretty henceforth. It was at 2-8, meaning that if Arthur looked at anything non-stop for 12 minutes, he would learn its name in all languages he knew. He might even get alternative names for the same language depending on how many people used those names. Then, the more he looked—not necessarily uninterrupted this time—the more he would learn about it. It would take him two months to learn an object's composition and how it was produced.
In the League dialect, the strange weapon was an "automated defense turret" a type of "gun." He cheated the trait by looking at its internal components using his Mana Sight passive spell. The gun had things like a trigger, charger, barrel, and muzzle.
The cylinders were rounds or ammunition held together by a belt, the name for the collective of the metal links. Each round had a primer, cartridge case, and bullet, and a round could also be called the latter two, cartridge or bullet. The case held powder.
The sphere was an automated mechanical joint. The wires were high-speed data transmission serial buses, also called HSDTSBs, or just TSBs for shorts, or even simply cables. The glass bits were positional monster sensors or just sensors. And the thumb-sized magic cube was a micro-processor or just a processor.
Most interestingly, Arthur kept staring at everything while thinking about what it all might mean, and after around an hour, he got new names from them. HellSlayer 33X Black for the entire turret, MechKnee v9 for the sphere, TSB 8 cables for the serial buses, UncleShock MonsterGlass 13A for the sensors, K77 Armor-Piercing Explosive Shells for the rounds, and Shaman S19K229 for the processor.
Arthur had also been taught the elven and high elven languages by Tamara. Everything had similar names in both languages, sometimes even the same, as if the elves never bothered to localize those items' names from the League dialect. However, the names he got in Carnan, the human language, were more like a description than proper names.
The turret was a long-range defensive automatic weapon, the cylinders were combustion projectiles, and the processor was a math-based high-speed logic-based instruction-bound calculator. They didn't sound as fresh as the names in the League dialect but gave him much food for thought on what each thing actually was or did.
Sophie tightly hugged Arthur's arm silently as they waited for Tamara. Such an intimate display was improper, but he wasn't in the mood to care about it. His suitress needed the emotional comfort that only that level of physical contact could grant her, and he would provide it. To be honest, he also needed that.
Fate, there wasn't even anyone around to point fingers at them, to begin with!
Tamara used mana-expenditure management skills that impressed Arthur. Her mana reserves hadn't even lowered by a tenth when she was done, despite it taking two hours. In the end, she was successful.
The girl was breathing easily and sleeping like a baby.
"Let's go," he commanded after Tamara cleaned herself with one of her skills.
