Chương 129: Chapter 122

Interlude: The Underbranch THE UNDERBRANCH — Valecis / Arclight local weave. Unofficial. Everybody lies. Boost responsibly. thread ▸ The Campus Belle, Siobhan Morrigan, is going on a date??? third_row_seat · Evenshade 13: 42 ok everyone sit down. This is a hot take. So here is the scene. I am loitering outside the lower colonnade having a little herbal refreshment, if you know what I mean, minding my business. and without warning the Goddess shows up like it is no big deal. Good lord was she looking yummy.

Siobhan Morrigan walks up STRAIGHT off the training green, still in kit, sweat and all, does not change because why would she, and stops in front of some guy nobody has ever seen. tells him she is giving HIM "the privilege" of taking her to dinner and dancing. the Goddess. giving HIM the privilege. then she tells him to get a haircut and wear something fitted, and grants him permission to ogle when she dresses up for him. Oh and the crazy part?? he told her he was busy this weekend. WHAT THE ACTUAL F****???

sweatpls · Evenshade 13: 44 wait?? what?? I am not understanding. she walks up and tells him he is taking her out, and he said "next weekend"?? NEXT WEEKEND?? I would have said this weekend. I would have said right now. I would have said yes ma'am and asked what to wear. houndstooth · Evenshade 13: 45 there is no way that happened. do you remember last year when Brayden Sullen asked her out? she challenged him to a duel and beat him so badly he spent a week in the Sanatio bay. he still has nightmares.

third_row_seat · Evenshade 13: 47 Sullen is a clown who tried to get his Deacon father to lean on the Morrigan family. he went at Cillian Morrigan, the man they call the Dire Bear, to try to force his oldest daughter into marriage. I am surprised the guy is still breathing. freaking idiot. this is NOT that. Siobhan was hitting on him, I swear on my mother, I swear on my mana. the campus belle was all up in some rando's business. it was crazy. I got his name off the people around him. Cale Arcanus.

I don't know him; never heard of the guy. newleaf_09 · Evenshade 13: 49"Cale Arcanus...." never heard the name either. so he has to be some basic loser she is using as a marriage shield. her friend Lyala pulled that exact move last year.... ok I just looked him up. the guy doesn't have a noble affiliation. and it is weird, the Arcanus did not exist on anyone's board until earlier this year. no testing, no background survey, not even a childhood record. the man is a blank slate.

how in the world did he get into Arclight?? valmorcrowd · Evenshade 13: 53 not impressed. some undeclared nobody strolls in and Morrigan hands him her weekend? Does he have some sort of blackmail on her? I've heard she likes to get wasted at parties. Oh---this just in a couple of the Capstone lads are saying they want a quiet word with mr Arcanus after training. remind him where he stands. You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story.

reply · brakcheck · Evenshade 13: 55 oh please. PLEASE do that. bring me a chair and a drink because I would pay to watch. brakcheck · Evenshade 13: 56 slow your roll, you sociopaths, you are going to get yourselves killed. since I am apparently the only one here who reads the historical archive, let me remind you. that "nobody" is the one who put Lucien Veylan and his entire posse, and yes that is about thirty of his seniors, on the ground in one afternoon. not some cat-and-mouse thing.

thirty of them came at one guy and he stomped them like cockroaches, then walked off without a mark on him. Lucien has not shown his face since. the whole Veylan crew went quiet and stayed quiet. so go on. have your "word." a group of you. after training. see how it lands. newleaf_09 · Evenshade 13: 59 wait. THAT was him?? the Veylan thing was HIM? I heard that was a contract job, a Named merc, top fifty or something. his sister was telling everyone about it, right before they left for "security."

it was all over the threads. brakcheck · Evenshade 14: 01 nope. just him. and not knowing his ceiling is not the same as him not having one. people are guessing at his level. rumor is dual-core, some say two and a half, and the point is nobody could pull a clean read off him at all. he wiped the floor with a group of very capable seniors, not in minutes, in moments, like he was playing with toddlers. do not touch this guy. valmorcrowd · Evenshade 14: 03... ok maybe not a word then.

reply · houndstooth · Evenshade 14: 03 the speed of that retreat. framing it. greysleeves · Evenshade 14: 06 word of advice before everyone buries the Veylans and moves on. I would not put it past them. I hear from Lucien every so often, and apparently the family has relations out in the Marchlands and in Ava and they are planning a return to glory, or so he tells it. not sure what that is supposed to mean, but there it is. offbranch_rumor · Evenshade 14: 08 echoing the do-not-mess-with-this-guy energy.

word is he had a run-in with Sarien Draeven. yes THAT one. Ember Fangs, the Demon of the Inner Coil. and instead of that going how it normally goes when you cross Draeven, Draeven walked off in one piece and the two of them are apparently on good terms now. the man loses to no one and then befriends whoever tries him. that is not a student. that is a weather event with shaggy hair. plainweave · Evenshade 14: 11 you are all sleeping on the actual fresh news. forget last year.

a couple days ago he cleared a Stagnant Mana Blockage Petra has had since she was ELEVEN, in the middle of class, in under a minute. then he took the whole first-year floor in the Crucible using ONE element as a handicap. healers and combat track both losing their minds over it. and THIS is the guy who told the campus belle "next weekend." quietlurker · Evenshade 14: 14 offbranch_rumor, I see what you did there. made me laugh. FIRE.

so to recap the man Siobhan chose: no house, no rank, folded the Veylans, made peace with a gang boss who by rights should want him buried, and told the most wanted woman on this island "next weekend" like she had offered him a dentist slot. I am unwell. this is my whole personality now. tinfoil_ted · Evenshade 14: 19 · (hidden, low boost) not to be this guy but. no records. nobody can read his cores. folds thirty seniors. quiet. turns up out of nowhere.

has anyone seriously considered he might be the Ghost— reply · houndstooth · Evenshade 14: 20 do not start that shit again. there are enough rumors about the Ghost of the Wastes without piling this on. my favorite is still that Thessaly is the Ghost and the whole thing at Mirefall was a construct built to fool everyone. get out of here. the Ghost of the Wastes has been around since my grandfather's grandfather, 150 years at least. there is no way Cale Arcanus is that old.

sweatpls · Evenshade 14: 26 can we focus please. the campus belle is going out with a nobody and everyone is just OKAY with this? quietlurker · Evenshade 14: 30 do you want to be the one to tell him he should not go with her? no? then shut up.