“I don’t want to go to space,” he mumbled, earning him a raised eyebrow glare from Allayeth. “But you need to make sure you’re throwing the right people. Why exactly did you not just kill them with the others? And don't give that nonsense about saving adventurers because most saved themselves and you can kill a silver-ranker just as easily as throw one." Now, go chase down those messengers you threw. “Charist, you have no concept of how many things I’m keeping from you. Are you sure you aren't keeping things from me? Because I'm a 'blunt instrument?'” He’s wary, as you might expect after you essentially ransacked his home.” Asano has given me hints and implications, and little else. “When did you intend to share what you’ve learned with me?” “You’ve had some success after all, haven’t you?” he accused. “He's more than just a silver-ranker, Charist, and I think you understand that.” You agreed to let me deal with J… Asano.” “We don’t even know if any of them got there. When that’s what we need, that’s good, unless you start throwing messengers at the moon.” “Are you sure you aren’t a little closer to Asano than you should be?” Do you even see what he’s doing right now?” “You cleaned up my mess, did you? You got no more answers out of Asano than I did. ![]() I had to step in and now everything is more complicated.” You insisted on taking the lead in dealing with Jason and you messed that right up. You drop in like an alchemy bomb and then leave me to clean up the mess. “Because it’s always the same with you, Charist. “I don’t see why you are so up in arms about this.” It's the reason I don't throw people into space. Do you know how hard it will be to track people down if they’re randomly orbiting the planet?” “At least tell me you didn’t throw them at the Mystic Moon.” It looks large, but hard to pinpoint from this distance.” Also, it was more at the moon than to the moon. “You won’t get told off if you don’t throw people to the moon!” But you shouldn’t talk to me like this in front of the other adventurers.” “How was I meant to know you were going to warn them all? It was something of an urgent situation, Ali.” “You couldn’t have waited a little longer before using it?” ![]() “You know I threw them because I was prioritising rescuing the adventurers.” “Unless you threw them to the moon, I don’t see… you threw them to the moon?” “Find them? Do you know how big space is?” “No, you’ll go and find them now before they start showing up in little towns and villages across half the planet and killing everyone there.” “They can handle the cold, they don't need to breathe and they can fly. “What inspired you to think that throwing them into space was a good idea?” Allayeth asked. After talking about all the adventurers he had knocked around, she moved on to the messengers from the cloud that he hadn't killed. Charist looked like a child caught doing something stupid by his mother as Allayeth jabbed her finger in his direction with every point she made. Their body language remained obvious, however. ![]() The opening of the shaft was at the bottom of a hole made not by impact from above but explosion from below, making it less a crater than a massive exit wound.Ĭharist and Allayeth were discussing how he had approached the situation inside a privacy screen that both sealed off any sound and blurred the visuals just enough that no one could read their lips. The absence of the cloud revealed a massive shaft descending into the earth, wide enough that a house could be dropped down it. The messengers had a less pleasant time of it as Charist killed most of them. Most of those had an unpleasant time being knocked around by the vortex, but through slow-fall or flight powers were able to return to the ground safely. On the ground, there was no shortage of adventurers, including those that had been tumbled around like clothes in a washing machine. All of them were tossed into the upper atmosphere by Charist’s potent vortex power. The diamond-ranker, Charist, had created an air vortex that sucked up not just the cloud and the messengers inside it but a goodly number of the adventurers fighting those messengers. The cloud that had been choking the sky was now gone. The Adventure Society was sending containment vehicles in their direction, but in the meantime, all of the prisoners were being watched. Clive and Farrah's ritual cages were able to contain almost fifty of them, although the constructs would not last forever. Jason and his team were not the only ones to capture some of the elemental messengers, although they were the ones to catch the most.
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