Chapter 123: Something is wrong!

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Chapter 123: Something is wrong!

A few days later:

Tia sat on her bed in the encompassing silence, her legs folded neatly beneath her. Her eyes, glinting with the faint energy swirling within them, traced the single glowing rune in the opened book's pages that rested on her lap. As her hand hovered just above the paper, a soft, almost electric energy danced across her skin, sparking with the rhythm of her heightened senses.

She funneled the energy, her focus unyielding, into the mental construct of the rune, mimicking the pulsating energy patterns detailed in the magic grimoire.

The air around her seemed to vibrate with unseen forces. Then, as if breaking through an invisible barrier, a single rune emerged, glowing ethereally within her outstretched hand. Its faint and mesmerizing light flickered like a hesitant flame, casting enigmatic shadows across the dimly lit room.

Ding!

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You have learned the new apprentice witch magic rune: Self

Reward:

+2 MAG

Guards in black armor lining the marble walls looked around, their poise crumbling under uncertainty.

'Yup, this is something abnormal.' Tia realized this while her pulse was drumming in her ears. There was neither an alarm nor a sound of explosions, yet her intuitions screamed at her that something was wrong.

'To the bridge!' She didn't know what was happening, but she knew the best place to head was the bridge, the very brain of the entire ship.

Tia burst into flight, her telekinetic powers lifting her from the ground. She soared down the corridor, her platinum blonde hair and black coat billowing behind her like a comet's tail. The marble beneath became a mere streak of grey and black as she accelerated, her focus laser-sharp.

'This is the main corridor; down it, I should reach the command center.'

She never visited the bridge, yet she still took care to remember the general outline of the ship's layout in case of an emergency.

As Tia flew down the wide hallways, a sudden purple flash caught the corner of her eye. Instinctively, she pivoted, her senses heightened in the face of imminent danger.

The armed soldier in the black imperial armor aimed squarely at her, pulling the trigger with a reverberating metallic clack.

Tia's instincts kicked in as she threw her gloved hand forward, a barrier of solidified telekinetic energy materializing in front of her just as the purple light in the rifle's barrel reached its peak and the high-energy particle ray sliced through the air.