As the grafters progressed, so too did Krahe gradually notice improvements. Less reso first, and thus, less pain. From thereon, however, the resourned, but this time, it was cold, almost f. After Fidelia finished a thirteen-hour session of meticulously adjusting tiails oerior of Krahe’s Soul Furhe high grafter had deemed that all that could be done, had been done. Now, when Krahe ran through the usual tests, she noticed the greatest ges. While diving, the world was slower than before, just a bit, and she could dive again after emerging soohan before. Simirly, she could skim further, and could skim more often. But perhaps the thing that stood out most was the moment. That instant after skimming, when the world nearly halted around her — it had grown ih by about half. It was a simultaneously tiny, yet also impactful ge. All of these ges were also reflected upon the system readouts, and first among them was that the dive recovery time and skim recharge time had both shortened. Her Astro Dive time dition factor had also grown by 0.2x, and, somewhat vaguely, one line in the description for Astro Skimming had ged by a single word: from “upon arrival, the holder experiences a brief moment of extreme itive time dition,” to “upon arrival, the holder experiences a moment of extreme itive time dition.” Besides these ges, Krahe had an inkling that the resonance had maghe Liminal Coil’s passive bes, even if only slightly.

  [LIMINAL COIL]

  [Status:]

  Sacred

  [Details:]

  This graft bestows the “Silver Key of Kadath” Boon.

  This graft brings the holder’s Astral Body (Material Soul) and Physical Body into resonance. All of its attribute-modifying effects are at least partially resultant from this fact.

  This graft reduces the risk and severity of graft reje and accelerates the iion of grafts.

  This graft accelerates recovery of blood, improves blood quality, and strehe immune system.

  This graft signifitly reinforces the holder’s base trol attribute.

  This graft reinforces the holder’s base Durability attribute.

  This graft reinforces all of the holder’s base Thaumic attributes and improves the efficy of Thauma-burning as well as Thaumic Fusion to a minree.

  This graft’s full characteristics will bee avaible when the holder fulfills the requirements to make use of them.

  [SILVER KEY OF KADATH]

  [Tags:]

  Graft Source (Liminal Coil)

  Astro Diving

  Astro Skimming

  [Details:]

  The holder is capable of Astro Skimming and Astro Diving unassisted at a reduced efficy. The holder’s capabilities for Astro Diving/Skimming will improve signifitly if the holder impnts a voidkey with the Astro Diving and/or Astro Skimming Tags.

  Astro Skimming

  Astro Skimmiails entering a semi-astral state and skimming the realspace-adjat region of Kenoma (the Astral Gulf) for an infinitesimally short period of time. In practice, this allows the holder to near-instantaneously transport herself a limited distan any dire. The holder has limited trol over her retive fag aion of momentum upon arrival.

  Upon arrival, the holder experiences a moment of extreme itive time dition.

  One ot Skim to a location where one’s body would intersect with crete matter; in such a case, the holder will be rebouo her starting location and her retive momentum will be ied.

  Current Skim charges: 2

  Current Skim recharge: 4 seds per charge

  Current Skim range: 4.3m

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  Astro Diving

  Astro Diving ehe holder to wholly transition into an astral state of being and dive into the Astral Gulf. Unassisted, without special preparations, only a Partial Dive is possible, wherein the diver is partially present both in realspad the Astral Gulf; a Full Dive, allowing Kenomaic exploration, may be achieved with appropriate preparatory measures. Unless specified otherwise, all refereo Astro Diving within this Boon description are iion to Partial Diving.

  Sustaining a dive tinuously builds up Hard Entropy.

  While Astro Diving, the holder bees partially disentangled from realspace, effectively being semi-intangible. Most Thaumaturgies will have no effe realspace, most artifacts ot be activated, and most other means of directly affeg realspace will have no effect. The diver’s subjective flow of time accelerates iion to realspace while diving.

  Upon emerging from a dive, the diver will not be able to dive again for a short time.

  Current time dition factor: 1.7x

  Current dive recovery time: 4s

  While inally, the pn had been to seled impnt the reinforced duit lines right after the tuning, Firminus argued for a dey, based on the supposedly-impending viability of aional prototype for an improved duit line model. He asked Krahe, almost as an aside, whether she would be willing to use a prototype graft. After asking a few questiarding the graft’s properties and level of development, she felt no reason to refuse — even with the knowledge the duit lines were directly based on Abara Morph Tsetse. Thus, with more paperwork that they burned immediately after filling it out, the dey was agreed upon, and for a while, Krahe was left to her own devices within the pound.

  Besides recovery, she spent this time reading, exerg, and, as ever, attempting to crato Yao Fu’s scroll, in the subterranean pound’s surprisingly expansive library. Her progress remained as ial as ever, but progress it was, and from her improved uanding, she whittled a breakthrough — an improved Wandrei Faust talisman pattern. The improvements were small, but altogether, they added up. Remove some extraneous strokes here, shorten a stroke there, alter the angle from which a certain stroke was executed, and before long, the difficulty and thus time requirement of each talisman had been reduced. In the same mahe actual theurgy was now more effit, allowing for more offensive power and higher mobility. Not by much, but enough to be noticeable.

  Whenever she grew frustrated with this pursuit, or simply couldn’t draw anymore, she immediately redirected her focus towards something else. Whether it over her texts on the history and stru of wards or simple physical exercise in the pound’s entirely far too well-equipped gym, Krahe couldn’t bear being idle. Not here. Not now. If she couldn’t be on the surface, actively eroding what remained of Hashem’s foundations so she could get to whomever was holding them up, then she would el that energy into preparations.

  Casus just showed up at one point, walking into the gymnasium while Krahe was there. The muscuture of his right arm was darker, but besides that, he looked the same. Though they didn’t speak at length, the banisher made it clear he was relieved to see her rec so quickly. He also mentiohat he would likely not be around much during their time at Fidelia’s pound, as he was undergoing some kind of bination physical and spiritual training to help him handle his new Mamon Knight form.

  Throughout it all, Barzai slept. Less than even refusing to ahe eidolon didn’t rea any way to her call. She could feel from him no sense of exhaustion, no sense of hunger, nothing. She couldn’t even observe him within the vault of her soul. She knew, for certain, that this was no injury — s suggested anything of the sort, and her Chthonian Eels heeded her and as readily as ever.

  When she checked her Eidolon Vaults, she saw Barzai was, apparently, undergoing some kind of evolution.

  [TRUE EIDOLON VAULT NO. 1]

  [Astral Morphology:]

  Raven of Ruinous Eyes “Barzai”

  Developed via retroactive iphagy of the host upon bonding.

  [Morphological Archetype:]

  Scout/Skirmisher

  [Eidolon Status:]

  Boon Symbiosis: Deathsmoke Blessing

  When maed in its natural form, this eidolon is difficult to notice for those not inteo notice it, and may appear as a mundane raven.

  Boon Symbiosis: Phase of Earthen Jade

  This eidolon bes from the reinf properties of this boon.Boon Symbiosis: obog’s Mystic Wisdom

  This eidolon is capable of being a daemon core.

  Gestating Morphology Evolution

  Evolution Ritual Reagent: Ss of Semzar Hashem

  Fully Nourished

  Unbound

  “It’s ohing after the ,” Krahe thought. She decided to look into it when she could, going through whatever texts she thought might be relevant, as well as mentioning the matter to both Casus and Firminus. Casus’ surface-level knowledge only affirmed the fact eidolons could and did evolve, but that was all. Firminus, oher hand, knew enough to be helpful — but not an iota more than that. She questioned him oter while he was getting everything in order for her Adamas an impntation. It took p chamber that Firminus had clearly goo great effort te in a manner matg his own home turf. The trast between the absolute liness of this pd the anized mess in Firminus’ shrine-workshop was almost ical.

  Akaso