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I love The Apparent King. It even has the subtle meaning that anyone who sees him immediately knows him to be King, it is apparent. His power is obvious to all with the eyes to see.

Jeff Scott

The Apparentleige! Chief Executive Wizard! Uh... wow coming up with these is hard. Eric the Great and Powerful (of Oz fame)? Oh! Minister for Magic :D

I'm thinking Erick really needs to delve deeper into Fae magic, especially since Fae is a part of Benevolence anyway. He needs, at least, a Fae domain in order to protect himself against Fairy Moon--also known as, Erick's least favorite future forever sorta soul-mate from hell. I'm thinking something along the lines of [Domain of the Benevolent Fae] at tier 8 followed by [The Seelie Court] at tier 9, with a description like "The Seelie Court Knows All, Sees All, Is All. By your Benevolence, may this world be Judged!"

Collateral_ink

Awesome chapter!

CentaureHeart

Sundering seems more like an emergency option though, since you’re passing up future (indefinite?) mana generation of that soul for 1 big release. When they said that the Headmaster could have decided to sunder Eric’s soul to get 10 years of mana for the planet it made me wonder if some source is siphoning mana off the script. Considering mana can’t be destroyed (but can be created as new souls are born) I would assume that the ambient mana level of Vierd is growing all the time. So why would a huge burst of mana from sundering a wizard’s soul only provide a temporary reprieve to the planet’s energy crisis?

Christabel Amanoh

Ah, thanks for the reminder. It makes sense then that the goal would be on encouraging repopulation of the planet through new souls and births, than trying to keep the old souls alive in new bodies.

Christabel Amanoh

As I recall it, one of the current after-life options is soul sundering, which results in the generation of a ton of mana. I feel like there's some vested interest there re: the current system.

am

I beleive it has been established the dead do in fact generate it It was referenced when they were talking about the source of the Shade God's power

A disgruntled nondescript squirrel

We know that living souls produce mana, but it hasn’t been established that this stops when the bodies die. Given that souls can be summoned from beyond death (and that they deteriorate when that happens), death is not the same thing as being sundered (which seems to be a 1-time major release of mana at the cost of future production). Therefore, other than those who end up on the angel/incani moons, it’s possible that reincarnation to replace death isn’t necessary to regain the mana production of those souls.

Christabel Amanoh

I'm somewhat surprised that Rozeta isn't more in favor of developing a systemic use of Reincarnation. Her one true stated goal is to maintain mana production so the world doesn't die. People endlessly dying of old age is a problem for her. Reincarnation, if I understood the chapter and its possibilities correctly, would allow an elderly person near death to be reincarnated into a new, younger body and (potentially) without any memories of their past life and at level 0 in the script. On an institutional level, this could easily become the new normal: when your time is come, if you wish, you are reincarnated. Erick's organization (a church or just house Benevolence) is takes the newly reincarnated person and helps them integrate into a new life and community somewhere else, maybe on another world eventually, and is sworn to secrecy about where any particular person is placed (perhaps they don't even keep records of it to ensure security this way). This shouldn't annoy the god of the End too much since you are explicitly telling everyone the person is dying and a new person is born and it will vastly assist in the population and thus mana generation problem long term.

Collateral_ink

President Wizard!

Joppest

Great, fun and thank you! Can't wait for Chapter 300 - Mass Reincarnation 😁

Ivo Havener

damn, good chapter. I always wondered if Yggdrasil's light effects are always on, or does it have a day night cycle? mainly wonder about light pollution and how much Yggdrasil would contribute to that. in a world of magic, I'm sure a majority of the population has pretty good eyesight/ Darkvision and having a possible skyscraper sized glowing tree would affect that. i don't remember if it was a soft glow or blinding sun levels...

twentytoo

The Apparant King! Lol

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