With Cordelia and Hou-Jin driving the 2 trucks, we made our way along the road until we came to a blockade.
I couldn't see much so I could not tell what was going on, but it seems it had Cordelia be cautious.
Eventually we arrived at a military base called Fort Chanis. These guys knew Cordelia, I did wonder to what capacity, but right now it did not matter.
During most of the journey on the truck I spent the time meditating trying to understand the magic of this world. I did not find much apart from the pattern seems to open a huge portal of energy in the surroundings. It seems our frequent traveling between shadows is causing me to have some great difficulty in getting a fix on what parameters/requirements for casting spells in the world I'm in.
At the fort, we were given some new uniforms, although I personally referred to keep mine as they were, and a room to rest, shower and relax.
Again I spent several hours meditating trying to understand this worlds magic, in hopes I might make some progress.
In the morning we were given a few rifles and pistols that would be effective against the demons, hopefully. While there I ensured to gain a sword that might be of some use against the demons as well.
We then got back on the road but was joined by several dozen of trucks similar to ours. We drove for about an hour until we were at the black road.
I was still skeptical about the dangers of the road and voiced to Cordelia 'how bad is this road'. She took me outside and close to the road, where I felt the most unpleasant feeling in my life, truly it was a foolish errand to cross something that dangerous, but we of course had to make our way through.
We rode into the black road with the barrage of trucks firing at the road, in hopes to hit any and all creatures that might cause us harm.
Once inside the road a turret seat dispersed down, although I did not recognize it to begin with and then started operating it to try and fight off enemies. I'm glad my commanding officer was not there to witness my blunder, he would have had me running laps around the fort till my legs no longer worked, or worse.
I managed to hit one of the creatures, but one managed to get to our truck and latched onto us. Unfortunately the turret seat mechanism was defective and was not working so I was stuck there. With some instructions, Kohaku was able to operate the rifle and chase the creature away, where I finished it off.
Soon after that the sickly feeling passed and we were out of the road, we drove on for a bit longer to put some distance between us and the road.
Cordelia managed to get me out the turret by finding the manual for the truck. Just another 6 hours till we get to our destination apparently. In the mean time I would like to try something.
As the lack of spell casting is causing me problems, I think it might be beneficial to try and create some form of database of parameters for spell casting. This way I will know for any world how to cast in that world. I will need a high capacity object that could act as a medium to store the data, magically stored of course. Then I can start by storing the worlds parameters starting with the ones that closely match the ones of my own world, as I am familiar with them.
I will need to consult someone who knows more about magic and this topic before attempting, I hate to admit but I may need to speak to Fiona! I will have to ask Cordelia if there is a way to get in contact with her!
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