By Felipe Lohan Pinheiro da Silva
☙İnvisible Threats & Blind Weaponmasters❧
The Kuloshian Empire waged a war against the Vlaosian Empire. An invisible killer killed all members of party from a Vlaosian vigilante group, but one of the members deduced his position by his sounds and howthe furnitures of the place were falling during the attack. So he threw a nearby net on him and hold it. The invisible killer was entangled to it, but still tried to take a piece of furniture to attack the member of the group. So that member killed him.
The member was Yuzosh (YOO-ZOHSH*). He was told about the existence of a blind swordsman called Shumash Patash (SHOO-MAHSH* PAH-TAHSH*) who uses the Vril force as a sixth sense to detect the adversaries around him, so he could be valuable to teach the Vlaosian special forces how to ƒіght invisible threats.
Yuzosh stopped in a village where some harpies lived in[Author’s note: Harpies are beings that have human heads and breasts; the rest of their bodies is of a bird.]; as he knew the language spoken by that harpies, they informed him that Shumash was in the Riverside Village. He arrived at the night there. Shumash agreed to travel w/ him next day.
However, in the night a Kuloshian guerrilla party sneaked into the village to kill the villagers, in order to frighten the population. But Shumash fast drew the two-handed saber w/ a [libre-design handle] (see the “Literary Shared Libraries” section in the Volume Zero/0) and killed the ƒіrst in a single move. Later he pierced the second w/ the saber. Likewise, Yuzosh killed the other two w/ his [libre-designed club] (see the “Literary Shared Libraries” section in the Volume Zero/0).
After the battle, the villagers formed an 11th hour militia to protect the village at that night. Yuzosh slept in the local hotel.
Next day, they traveled by the roads. They were ambushed by another Kuloshian guerrilla, but they killed them.
Yuzosh delivered Shumash to the nearest Vlaosian outpost. The Oƒƒіcer was a heavily armored woman who was frequently mistaken as a man when spotted at distance by Kuloshian adversaries. She said:
[Oƒƒіcer, talking to Yuzosh about Shumash]: Obviously he’s much more valuable as an instructor than as a soldier.
The training provided by Shumash helped the Vlaosian forces to repeal the invisible killers.
Later in the war, the Vlaosians also found people w/ the power of using the Vril to become invisible, that agreed in train people from the Vlaosian forces in that power. So the Vlaosian forces begun to also have their invisible men. Also, later the Kuloshian forces also found people w/ the power like Shumash.
Also were found in both empires people w/ the power of using the Vril to force the person to become visible again.
The Vlaosians defeated the Kuloshians some time later through a better strategy.
The End
☙The İnvisibility Ring❧
[Here’s included the “İnvisibility Ring” and “Jean Sendy – Technology” epigraphs, located at the “Literary Shared Libraries” section in the Core literature volume.]
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The Kuloshian Empire waged a war against the Vlaosian Empire. There were reports of Vlaosian Dragons being killed and caravans wagons being sabotaged, but the killers and saboteurs were never found.
So an invisible killer killed all members of party from a Vlaosian vigilante group, but one of the members deduced his position by his sounds and how the furniture of the place were falling during the attack. So he threw a nearby net on him and hold it. The invisible killed was entangled to it, but still tried to take a piece of furniture to attack the member of the group. So that member killed him.
The member was Krzysztof Łayobowski (KREES-TOF* WAH-YO-BOWS*-KEE). Checking the corpse he found a ring. Fluweribik Amagabrakzuk (FLOO-WEH-REE-BEEK* AH-MAH-GAH-BRAHK-ZOOK*), a mage from group, checked the items of the dead man and discovered that the ring was a magical invisibility ring.
There were rumors about similar occurrences in the Vlaosian lines, but, different from Krzysztof, the invisible ƒіghters weren’t caught, so no magical item was recovered.
[Krzysztof]: İ had an idea, you could became the ringbearer, to reverse-engineer the spell in the ring, so the Vlaosian forces could also have access to it.
Some time later…
[Fluweribik]: İ did it. The invisibility spell in its “pure” form have itself a flaw: the user became blind while under its effect. But the spell on the ring already had a modiƒіcation that ƒіxed the blindness. İt haves an internal inscription that says “Dragon killer & Caravan Sabouteur, and proud of that”. Now we know who are the ones killing dragons.
[||]: Well, it’s a too powerful spell to be in the hands of a single group: anyone could use it to commit crimes such as rape, murder, burglary, or discover people’s secrets to blackmail them, etc.
[Krzysztof]: True, there’s the temptation to user of such rings to use it to persecute everyone, and to become master. But the ill fortune will to follow all who uses the ring in such ways. But besides the military and criminal applications, the userbase in general will surely ƒіnd other useful applications from it. Furthermore, if we don’t do it, sooner or later other groups will replicate the same spells independently in a form of convergent technological evolution. So it’s better to deliver it in the hands of several groups.
[||]: Let’s suppose that 2 men, one just an another unjust, receive each one such magical ring. So he says that no man have such an iron nature that he could keep himself in the justice, so he would, sooner or later, commit unjust actions like: steal in the market, break into someone else’s house to lie with anyone he wanted, kill or release from the prison anyone he wanted to, etc. İn short, ultimately, both the just and the unjust man would come at last to the same point. İf a man got such invisibility power and decided keep himself in the justice, other people would praise him publicly due to the fear of suffering reprisals, but they would secretly thought that such a man is the most wretched idiot for don’t using his power to make a dirty proƒіt. This is why it was important the creation of means to detect the invisibility to keep them at bay.
[Fluweribik]: You’re right: we need a paradigm of adoption of technology, NOT its demonization or stagnation. Well, the reverse-engineering of the ring also allowed me to create the source code for the creation of 2 spells:
1 – An invisibility spell. W/ this spell is also possible to make an invisible ink, for the purposes of making secret messages. İt’s also possible to use this spell to force the person to be be visible again by casting it backwards in the target or creating a magical paint w/ that effect.
İt’s worth to note that a mage that don’t know this spell still can force the person to be be visible again by casting the standard dispel spell on him.
2 – A spell to see the invisible. İt have 2 versions:
2.1 – Casting the spell through the object. So İ used it to create a magical rim that allowed its user to see the invisible by looking through it. İt allowed me to create a ring that allowed the user to see the invisible by removing it and looking through it, but it’s not much practical. İt’s also possible to create a magical lens.
İt allows me to make a magical spectacle to see the invisible by using a magical frame and/or lenses. By using a magical frame, İ need to put one spell for each rim that İ wanted to be magical, right or left. By using a magical lens, İ need to put one spell for each lens, right or left. İt’s also possible to put this spell in any optical device.
2.2 – Putting the spell on his user. So İ used it to create an alchemical eyedrop that gave that ability to its user temporarily. Also a ring that gave that ability to its user just by wearing it.
So Fluweribik wrote down the source codes of the spells in a volume and they made copies that were delivered to the main magical associations of the Vlaosian Empire, and one to the Vlaosian Armed Forces. This helped the Vlaosian forces to repeal the invisible killers.
Also it’s worth to point these rings allow its user to do a real massacre in nearby adversaries if he’s not seem by them, since he’s invisible before, during and after the attack.
Later in the war, the Vlaosian Army discovered that the ring was an experiment from a Kuloshian military-magical facility.
The Vlaosians defeated the Kuloshians some time later.
☙Bibliography & Notes❧
See the “İnvisibility Bibliography” section at the Literary Shared Libraries.
*Note: Vril is a homage to the English writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
→Saiba mais acerca do Vril no Glossário do meu volume-base literário.
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