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My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est:Lilith is lying to Eldor since she had learned the spell just a few days earlier. She has never played with open cards since the encounter with Eldor in Monster #56, which chronologically happened right before Breaking All Barriers #123. It only becomes clear how often she didn’t tell the whole truth or even lied when you read the comic a second time. However, she really did suffer greatly from having to read the two dangerous magic books and having her soul robbed from her.
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I’m lost in the plot again. I was feeling that this time it would be different because of the help of the spoilers (which I enjoyed greatly). If the spell is easy to resist, why was Master Langford all that concerned about reporting it immediately? What am I missing? Or what am I overthinking?
MBC wrote:
“It must be about a specific topic and there must be a clearly defined and achievable end condition.”
Maybe it’s not possible to achieve destruction of the shield? That would give Lili a way out of the spell, possibly without Eldor realizing it.
@ thysi:
Thanks for answering!
I meant feeling lost about the “seriousness of the situation” shown by Master Langford a few days ago when some pages of a dangerous(?) book were ripped off and stolen. The felt gravity back then (“must report immediately!” vibe) doesn’t match the way Eldor dismissed the spell as “easy to resist”. If it was easy to resist, Langford reaction would have been puzzled, not worried.
That’s why I asked about what I was missing/overthinking.
MBC wrote:
Even if it is a spell reasonably “easy to resist” (although it seems that once you surrender to it, you cannot resist it anymore, so not so simple), a book magically ripping its pages and sending them flying over some unknown places is worrying. It is a redstream spell after all, most peopke on Gaia are uncomfortable around those, and such a thing could be a very bad sign.
Plus, keep in mind that Eldor is really old and good at very advanced spells. He would call “childish” even advanced human spells.
So the Dialogue was Changes?
MBC wrote:
At this stage, the two people having that conversation are probably the two most powerful mages in Gaia. Being easy to resist for them doesn’t mean it is easy for everyone: it can probably be combined with others to do evil things, etc. It’s clearly dangerous: imagine someone not knowing they’re supposed to resist because they don’t realise the spell is being cast.
@ MBC:
Eldor’s standards for “easy to resist” may be wildly out of step with normal peoples’ capabilities. Eldor has lots of skill, and a fair amount of conceit to go with it.
Won’t this spell require Lilith to reveal the calculation error she caused Eldor to make? She’d have to resist to avoid doing that. And how is Eldor going to check whether she has resisted the spell?
@ Owen Smith:
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Since she has partitioned her mind, only one part is getting hit with the spell, the part that does not know about the calculation mistake.
That’s the most plausible explanation, otherwise “to the best of your ability” would have required her to tell the truth about the mistake.
Why doesn’t Eldor turn insane at the sight of the Source? He didn’t go the ‘long’ way…
@ NaN:
Note that he entered alone, having a lot of soldiers outside. One matter never explained in Gaia is why he lives that much, being several hundreds years old (he is Isaac’s son). He clearly has huge powers. So the question is not why he can stand before the Source, but why he couldn’t enter *before* now. And, btw, he is “parasitizing” Sandril’s body, somewhat Sandril’s soul must be protected (or sleeping, or whatever), or he (Sandril) surely will die and his body with him.
A secondary fact is Sandril was not prepared and he will never be able to stand before the Source. I don’t think he cares about.
@ Sekhmet / aaaaaa123456789 / Chris:
Thanks a lot for pointing out these. I was both missing a point about Redstream and Eldor and Lili’s competence, while also overthinking. Great =D
Thanks for replying this thoroughly.
@ MBC:
@ thysi:
Lili knows that she will fail aiding Eldor because she messed up his calculation (back then when she made him write down 13 instead of 12). She created a second partition in her mind where she has hidden this knowledge away, such that she herself can’t access this information while under nikos strict order herself (at least not without her soul sphere that eldor just took away from her again), this is why she can’t warn him about it as it is not withhin her ability to do so.
This is why the chapter is called the bipartite mind.