[A Very Early Sunday Morning of 20XX]

  [Sometime in The Month of what is March]

  [The Ritual Room] [The Atelier]

  [The Skylark/The Harrier] [The Docks]

  [Holdport] [Somerset] [UK]

  [3rd Person]

  The pair of 9mm Electromettle Pistols of EM-9As she’d made, the guns on her belt, what shined like polished silver? They were added to by telekinetic gloves, seventy metres per second boots, and Firework bracers. Gloves made of black Mushroom Leather like the Bracers and Boots.

  The Pistols were based on an Automatic Webley Pistol being sold to the Naturals, ones with a little magical work of invoking various beings to also set the guns up with the government? Katie had a licence for both in her normal ID and was registered for with The Home Guard in her heroic identity.

  Magic which came in handy again by invoking the Goddess Athena to help get it set up.

  Electromettle Pistols each with the ammo of twenty bullets in each magazine, with an Electromettle creation spell to replace each bullet in every fifty milliseconds. So, each could fire twenty a second and replace them in the same amount of time, or one thousand two hundred bullets a minute from each. Of what she’d improved upon from just a simple revolver set up.

  The Revolvers were made out Argyros and would imbue every Electromettle bullet with an enchantment of Argyros. To be two out of the four properties of Electromettle of either Cold Iron, Silver, Rowan Wood or being sacred/holy. With the two parts chosen by the person shooting them with touch telepathy. To go between a Self-Loading and an Automatic Webley pistol mode with touch telepathy too.

  Yes, I’d like to note, it was a Self-Loading and not Semi-Automatic. The term from Self-Loading had remained and persisted on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1, the term Semi-Automatic was a thing. The more precise term of Self-Loading remained and was used, especially about various Self-Loading Webley Pistols.

  A pair of those pistols were also in her boots, there was a variety of them in her Pocket Space, including a pair of Electromettle Revolvers as a backup just in case. Namely if someone had some form of belief magic to make them think they’re a Walking Techbane. Or someone actively exploiting said belief magic to do so.

  Even if The Automatics were enchanted, plus the guns having computing built into them running an LCI of an Elsie run by a Quartzenate Computer Crystal. One also provides backup power to The Infinite Sea based Enchantments and Elemental Realm of Energy based Enchantments.

  Namely to tap into power from The Ambient from the Quartzenate Crystal at one millionth of matter to energy conversion as Civilian grade Quartzenate. Each of a one gram crystal capable of providing a maximum of 21.481 kilograms of TNT of power per second, or 89.875 megawatts. Rather than a military grade Quartzenate crystal of one hundred thousand of matter to energy, or 214.81 kilograms of TNT of power per second, or 898.75 megawatts.

  Those pistols gleamed of silvery like metal, and the proposed modification to instead of shooting Electromettle but being magical lightning guns? Was something Katie McCabe was considering to do at some point, it was just on the back burner for currently having Electromettle guns.

  The new boots, based on Seven League Boots, or what are more accurately called Seven League per Second Boots. (21 miles per second, 75,600 mph boots, 33,796.224 metres per second boots, or 33.796224 km per second boots.) Well, the actual real deal of Seven League Boots? With their veritable speed up to said maximum speed? Would turn someone into a Celeritas of what is the official term for a Speedster for someone with superspeed.

  These were not those boots. It was a very basic working and enchantment based on said magic. And not the faster Seven Nautical League Boots, or the Seventy League Boots, or the Seventy Nautical League Boots people in the far more advanced magicks were working on.

  Regardless of said Superspeed not approaching the Super Speed of One Percent, of his one percent Lightspeed. What is 241.66 miles per second of those Seventy Nautical League Boots compared to 1,860 miles per second. Of what is about just over seven and a half times (around 7.69676404866 times) faster than those still theoretical boots

  And not the still theoretical seven light second boots to let a person move at seven times the speed of light per second. (Of 2,098,547.206 km per second, or about 1,303,976.779280199 miles per second.) Though seven light second boots are workable under all the magical theories, making what would be a practical personal FTL drive of magical boots is harder.

  Nor faster people, like Flight with his flight based superspeed of Faster Than Light packed in with ordinary superspeed at the same time. How Flight, who draws on The Acceleration for his powers, was at least ten times faster than the lightspeed Heulwen when both were at their top speeds.

  However, from big acorns grow little oaks ... wait, let me reverse my words! From little oaks grow big acorns ... No, still wrong. Third time’s the charm! From big oaks grow little acorns ... Oh, screw it! Moving on!

  What was 156.58554 mph or 252 km/h an hour of what were Seventy Metre Boots of a speed of Seventy Metres per second, as a basic magic. Slightly faster than the planned Flight Backpack. What was made for some basic movement capabilities, along with being able to boost it with Elan Vital, to use it as a base?

  It was decent enough. And so were the telekinetic gloves, modified versions of the ordinary red gloves. To boost existing telekinesis, or for someone without telekinesis to give two and a half kilograms of telekinesis for each hand.

  She strode into the room, at the same time as a mental flick from her and of her spirits, of a hundred LED Candles, lights shot out. Not the Candle Flames from the other ritual room, the ritual room what was fireproof as a consideration when making them, what were the hundred very minor fire spirits. Non sapient ones like the light spirits. The fire spirits and light spirits not only drew their power and magic from their Elemental Realms, also it came from The Infinite Sea. From The Source of Souls, The All-Well of Spirits.

  She strode over a third magic circle, to join the other two in two different magical circles, one with Sky in and the other with Tara in it. There was a wave of Katie’s hand, light swirled around the magic circles they were in. Twenty four per magic circle, seventy two out of the hundred light spirits, and twenty eight other lights danced in between them.

  The witch paused, the short woman looked between the other two, for her to have to bring up the point of, “This isn’t going to be reversible, this is a step you’re going to make. Once this is done, you will not be able to die,” she exhaled.

  She taught, “You will be still able to shed physical form to become a Spirit, then partial Ascendance to a Semi-Ascendant, before full Ascendance to be an Ascendant. Followed by making it part way to Transcendence to Semi-Transcendent and to go to proper Transcendence to being a Transcendent. To go and become a Semi-Existant via going up higher and to become an Existant afterwards. To go possibly higher still what comes after it.”

  An Ascendant, a being of great power who can become more powerful temporarily through worship and belief. A Transcendent, a being of even greater power who can become more powerful permanently through worship and belief. After a Transcendent is an Existant, of a being of another level of higher power, and who can become more powerful without using worship and belief if they can and will still use it. To become more powerful via worship and belief.

  There are quite a few other ranks and such among the other higher powers, going up from Existant to what comes next, of positions and power not spoken of in the mortal planes. At least not for most of the time as those beings are usually involved elsewhere in the world. After those unspoken ranks there is what is an Aspect of Creation, and followed by an Inherent Property/Inherent/Property of Creation. Of becoming fundamental properties of creation.

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  Tara looked at her cousin, to tell her, “I was hoping to become immortal at some point in my life, I thought I had become immortal, I’ll take actual immortality over what I currently have. I do not want to die.”

  There was a chuckle from Katie as she replied, “Like I’ve said, I’ve been to limbo, it’s not too bad. The Monorail traversing The Great City is nice, nothing like a Simpsons’ Monorail. The whole massive and bustling city is also nice, it has some lovely parks, great beaches, and lovely places to walk through.”

  She continued to explain, “Of an endless never ending city, with some of it going over the water like something out of Stargate Atlantis and under the water like a few other things. Or like a still sunken Atlantis in Stargate and more with those vast stretches of the underwater parts of The City of Limbo. Fearing death isn’t wisdom, it’s not what you should do, well not what is your own personal death rather than saving other people.”

  Also, as an non-practising Witch without proof of an afterlife, I would like to say fearing death is Wisdom. It’s just different for Katie Ivy McCabe who has definitive proof of an afterlife, having been there and come back to a different Earth. A reincarnate is someone who knows of life after death and should logically be less scared of it, various SI’s in various online Fanfics.

  Just for me personally? I do not have enough proof to say if an afterlife exists or not, and while Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence, one of the cornerstones of myself being when I was both agnostic and now as a non-practising Witch who believes in belief. As if it counts for the possible existence of alien life in the universe? It counts for the afterlife, the gods, and the supernatural. My inner scientist can’t consider being an atheist when lacking said proof.

  Just on Earth Sierra-Hotel-1, for Katie McCabe, for example? She has actual verified proof, for herself and others, about the existence of those three mentioned concepts I do not have proof for. So, as a former agnostic herself from an Earth like ours in her first life, she has lots of proof.

  Including a magical system, one Science’d by the Supernaturals of the world of her second life. Accompanied by the fact she had said Supernatural Science as verified evidence when in The Infinite City of Limbo.

  Tara Evans shook her head, as she stamped her foot lightly, for her to insist, “I don’t want to die, you can try to convince me to be mortal and I’ll just ignore it. I know what I want.”

  Sky McCabe grinned as she brightly interjected, “And I’m not going to leave either of you to be immortal alone, you need someone to watch over you. And those of the others you’ll recruit, of the people who will be gifted this. You don’t deserve to be alone.”

  Katie paused, and then sighed. She simply commented, “Fine,” and she focused, The Vi of Elan Vital and Virality spun out, magic sang out into the Ritual and Runic Circuitry. Light lit up, as McCabe ordered, “Elsie, please. Give me the templates for each of us, as programmed in your database. Give us a little bit of a gift, if you could be so kind. Give us a little bit of power and magic!”

  There was a pause, and the Elsie Unit answered, “Understood, creator. The program is working its magic as requested. Giving you the power and might you desire, as designed.”

  The magical circuits lit up, they spun around them, as light spun up. Of a Light Cage around each of them. Bone Gift, Regenerator Gift, and the Plant Gift for Katie and Sky in said order. While for Tara it was the Plant Gift, Bone Gift, and the Regenerator Gift in the listed order.

  The power glowed and sang, white of the bone, red of the regenerator, and green of the plant. Not just the Elemental Realm of Life connection for each, and not just mixed in with The Elemental Realm of Energy for the Repair Spell.

  Not just a repair spell for Sky, but a Repair Spell for clothes and kit worn. A bit like the power of the Powered of Cicatrix with her running around the South West and the Powered Kintsugi in Tokyo in Japan, the repair power was added to their healing factor. If the repairs on their clothes are obvious as part of their power. With the teleporter and matter via micro-foam portals for said repair power too, as well as for the Absolute Healing Factor.

  To get back on topic, for the Plant Gift? There was the connection to The Trees, of what was also known as The Woodsy or The Evergreen, of the lesser mystical force of a combination of plant life all mixed together. For the Bone Gift, a link to the magical material of Osteon was a part of it. To the magical bone named for osteon and the original Greek word.

  And to be connected to all the essence of The Repair Spell of The Fixaris Spell for their clothes and kit. To be the repair and not just the basic post-conceptual repair spell, it was to be tied into all repair spells. And just to be sure and precise when doing it?

  It was a combination of pre-conceptual magic of working energy, of combinations of Both types of Conceptual Magic of drawing upon the idea of Repair, and The Post-Conceptual Magic. The said bit of magic of The Post-Conceptual Repair Spell can’t be cancelled out or unmade with an Anti-Conceptual spell.

  The ritual empowerment was done, and Katie proceeded to gesture at the three sets of potions, with labels of each potion and what was made for each of them. They drank their potions, white, red, and green for Katie and Sky in the mentioned order. While green, followed by white, and joined by red for Tara in said order.

  Afterwards, Tara Evans, or Jaggedy Annie, she exhaled. As she had to say, “It’s like a full sugar rush, I can feel it!”

  Katie McCabe chuckled as she stated, “It’s a proper healing factor, one which is healing you. It’s not just healing the physical of mind and body, it also heals the spiritual. Healing the mystical and magical of yourself, not,” and she properly laughed as she had to quote Lord of The Rings, of The Fellowship of The Ring, with, “all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.”

  Tara couldn’t help grinning as she retorted, “Yes, Bilbo Baggins. Tell it like it is!” She shook her head, and with her powers a plant formed in her hand, and a red rose without thorns sprouted in the grip of her hand. “And this is nice.”

  Katie shrugged, to declare, “Well, you made this choice. As I may have to tell you another day, on a long day far away from this point in space and time,” she gestured out of the room. “And it’s time for you to go back to Holdport Uni, where you can’t tell people where you were, and you have to lie about how you fell asleep on a sofa somewhere.”

  Tara looked at her, to say to the other woman, “I do know what the plan and the cover story is, Cousin.”

  Sky with a manic little giggle burst out, “It’s not what Mum means, Auntie. Like how I physically can’t call her Mum and you Auntie out in The Natural World. It’ll be me being forced to call you both my cousins to help maintain the secret of The Deception. No, what Mum means, dearest Aunt? You cannot physically go against The Deception to people not in the know, it will force you to lie. So don’t even try to tell the truth as it won’t leave your lips.”

  Red Hen rolled her hands, to point out, “It’s The Deception, The Extra-Strength Masquerade maintained by The Pantheons is powerful magic and it will not be denied. There are rules, and if you did go to try to tell someone about magic? Like Mother Dearest telling your Mum of Auntie Jo about magic? Well, you saw what Auntie Jo posted on Chirp prior to her being banned for hate speech about Powered. Her reaction to magic wasn’t any better from what Mother Dearest said.”

  Jaggedy Annie sighed, with mental tiredness audible in her voice she admitted, “It’s why I haven’t told my mother about being a lesbian, or how she hasn’t accepted Jan’s,” Janet Evans, “Whole situation and stuff to do with my sister. Let alone telling her about myself being a Powered when she was calling them demons before she earned a Ban Hammer on Chirp,” she looked to her cousin. “I’ll see you later and just head home now.”

  She paused and looked at Red Hen to check, “Yes?”

  The short woman nodded, to explain, “The money from the vampires you killed has been reinvested in a portfolio made for you on The Stock Market with Plutus’ help,” she gestured to her daughter. “And I’ve done the same with the money of the vampires I killed for Sky. So, see me later today to talk about it,” there was a blink from the slightly taller woman. Katie proceeded to make a shooing gesture, “But go! You’ve got shit to do at Uni! And call me when you get home!”

  There was a nod and the vague agreement of, “Yeah, yeah, yeah.”

  Katie looked at her and had to emphasise, “The Deception may be coming down, the world may be changing, the fact was those magicks would still be there and things needing to be kept secret will stay secret. So don’t try and change it,” followed by her half joke of. “And don’t try to propagate any memetic hazards as the gods get annoyed when they lose The Game. It’s too much of a Mind Wound inflicted by a Gorgon Glance for their liking.”

  Sky laughed, at the same time as Tara groaned, Jaggedy Annie gave Katie the two fingered salute and then left the room. Katie looked to her daughter, “Go surf the net, my child. I’ve got some more work to do on what I need to make in my Enchantment Atelier.”

  There was a nod, and the bright firm agreement, “Of course, mum. There’s a VR Sim mentioned by System I want to check out!”