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Sung Jin-woo- Who are you?
Drecarios Frost- Son of a bitch, don't use my own spells against me!
Shiroe of Log Horizon- 😂🤣
Sirius Black- I like this new guy, he's got spunk 👌
Harry Potter- Why are you thinking of his spunk mutt? Are you 'coming out'...?
Sirius Black- 😑😑😑😑
Tony Stark- Hahahahahaha *WHEEZE* HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 🤣😂🤣😂
Drecarios Frost- *sigh* You can just call me Draco or Elsa, everyone else does...
Sung Jin-woo- Jin Woo. Now, can you tell me what this 'chatroom' is all about?
Drecarios Frost- It is a chat room, heh, that allows us to transport to one another, communicate as we are doing now and a lot of other things... Such as the mission that was just declared...
Sung Jin-woo- I see. That mission seems difficult... Maybe it is a good opportunity to collect soldiers...?
Shiroe of Log Horizon- Soldiers??? 🥴
Sung Jin-woo- Mmm, i'd rather keep it personal for now...
Tony Stark- ~StInGy~
Drecarios Frost- Sure, anyway... The time dilation has ended on our end and probably on all of your ends as well...
Tony Stark- I'll hop back to our universe Elsa and make sure everything is A-Okay there 🦾
Drecarios Frost- 👍
Aegon Targaryen- Everything appears to be the same in Westeros, that may be a premature assumption however.
Loki Odinson- New Asgard is experiencing nothing unusual, but I will have Doom and my soldiers at high alert regardless
Luke Skywalker- Mmm, there are a few fluctuations in my universe but they appear to be originating from outside my galaxy... It could be aliens of some kind but I'll contact the New Republic about a potential threat besides Thrawn
M. Sam Carter- Nothing on my end besides a visit from the Asgard; they're working with O'Neill to solve their cloning problems... Apparently we are going to be the fifth race in the Great Alliance!
Drecarios Frost- Hmmm, warn the Asgard about the war that has just started
Loki Odinson- I'm sorry, what? I am a part of the chat room, I don't need to be warned any further?
M. Sam Carter- Our version of the Asgard Loki... 🙄
Drecarios Frost- 😅
Loki Odinson- My apologies... 😓
Sung Jin-woo- I'm going now.
Drecarios Frost- Bye, i guess?
There was complete silence from Jin Woo after his statement.
Tony Stark- A really chatty guy we got here
Jester Lavorre- AH! THERE WAS A NEW GUY~!~!~!????? 🤬🤡🍕
Drecarios Frost- Yes, Jester
Jester Lavorre- OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG, is he LIKE, COOL and STuff...???
Loki Odinson- Very cautious, from what I could grasp of his character
M. Sam Carter- You do all know that he can probably see all of this right?
Drecarios Frost- Meh, he chose to leave, sucks to suck 🤷♂️
M. Sam Carter-fair
Jester Lavorre-Well that BLOWS! 🙄😫😴
Ciri- I don't feel any dimensional breaches on Westeros or on the planet, we should be fine Aegon
Aegon Targaryen- Ah, thanks Ciri
Drecarios Frost- Good. That hopefully means that the war has just started and we have some time to escalate our own powers and forces
Aegon Targaryen- I'm thinking of journeying to Old Valyria, there are bound to be some Dragon Eggs there that I could hatch, and I could also find some Valyrian steel for you to copy... Perhaps even some sorcery? I wonder if I could learn magic apart from the God Slaying Magic?
Drecarios Frost- Let me know when you want to go, I'll bring Keraunos and a starship along and we can make a day of it 👍
Ciri- I'm in, that sounds exciting
Loki Odinson- Whilst you all are going on an expedition I'll be finishing the construction of New Asgard and attempting to create a few hundred-thousand Destroyers... I feel like we'll need them...
Tony Stark- Hmm, let me know when you start making them, I can use Technomancy to add nano-tech to them
Drecarios Frost- Yeah, let me know as well... I've got my hands on a power source that is practically infinite so we can work on a new design that shoots the output of entire star in one laser beam if you want?
M. Sam Carter- ZPMs?
Drecarios Frost- Mhm, ZPMs
Tony Stark- The fuck is that? Have you been keeping stuff from me Elsa!?
Drecarios Frost- Yep. I downloaded over 1 million years plus of information from an Alien civilisation... I can make city-ships now
Loki Odinson- Can the Asgard commission one? For an emergency precaution?
Drecarios Frost- Sure! I'll get Hestia and Hermes on it.
M. Sam Carter- I hate how easily you can just make these things... 😕
Tony Stark- Don't you have Alchemy and shit? Just make a circle or something that can automatically create items and objects as soon as material is input... You just need to have the resources to do it...
M. Sam Carter- Ah, i didn't think of that.
Tony Stark- Heh, don't worry... Not everyone is as smart as me
Drecarios Frost- Yep, only you could get so drunk that you drank vodka from a woman's asshole whilst her friends was pegging you...
Tony Stark- YOU SON OF A BITCH!!! I TOLD YOU THAT IN CONFIDENCE!!!
Drecarios Frost- Don't try to inflate your ego so much then... 😋
Loki Odinson- What is pegging?
Jester Lavorre- AH! I know what this IS!!! My mama did it quite a lot to one LoRd!!! It's when a woman wears a 'toy' around her waist with a DICK on it and GBQ*V(BQBOOQVBBVQL: QVN
Jester Lavorre- SON OF A BITCH, THE VOLCANO JUST EXPLODED!!!!
Jester Lavorre- I'll be... Right back~! 🎇🎇🎆🎆
M. Sam Carter- Sometimes I wonder what happened to my life...
Tony Stark- It got interesting! Now, I'm going to go check on our universe traitor
Drecarios Frost- heh 👍
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"Hermes, Hestia." I intoned as I stepped out of Shiroe's room, Shiroe's book completely memorised inside my mind.
"Yeah dad?" Hermes appeared in a bead of light from my watch, his footsteps matching mine as I stalked through the upper floors of the Black Townhouse.
"I want you to start producing 100 city ships. Redesign them to be completely military focussed with millions of Ancient Drones... I also want each city to have point-defences on every single structure and walkway. All of them should be equipped with the Multiversal Stargates and locked to a specific channel." I listed off as I opened the door to the black library, walking over to the nearest bookshelf before skimming a book on wards, my mind hoovering the information like a vacuum cleaner does to dust.
"Sure, it'll take a week for that amount and for a new design to be created but it should be easy." Hermes shrugged as his sister, Hestia, emerged on the opposite side of me.
"Hmmm... I also want you to completely redesign Italy's defences. Rome should have a shield much like Atlantis that is powered by ten ZPMs. Feel free to choose the locations yourself, just ensure that they have FR2s and Spider-tanks assigned to protect them." I paused and looked at Hestia. "Tia, I need you to work on enhancing the training of pilots and fleet staff from Rimecrest... Could you also tell Discordia that I want to declare that I am forming a nation officially, it's name will be: 'The Roman Imperium'."
Hestia nodded, "Sure dad, I'll get to working on it. OH, Mjollnir has been missing you by the way, the little guy is constantly bobbing around us whenever we enter your office before slumping when he doesn't detect you..."
I quickly started feeling sad for Mjollnir as I considered how horrible it must have been to choose a new master after his old one died and raised in Death's army.
"Mmm, I'll set up a Stargate in the backyard and go grab him soon." I softly informed as I closed the book on household wards, the knowledge mixing with my Sith training; promising some intriguing mixtures of intent-based wards.
"Great, anything else dad? Or...?" Hermes asked impatiently, his feet tapping against the floorboards loudly.
"Have Athena reach out to the American Government and see if they are willing to turn Frostborn Dynamics' HQ into an Embassy in the future. If you could also get Apollo to start producing his nanite-animal plan... We can use them in the city ships, Italy and Rimecrest. Artemis should also surreptitiously contact my universe's Doom and see if he is willing to consider a defensive pact or at the very least a trade agreement between our nations." I looked towards Hermes as I finished and noticed he was nodding along in mild frustration.
"What's wrong Hermes, you're acting strange." I asked a few moments after finishing my orders.
"Ah, nothing... Just, I was busy, that's all..." He looked away in embarrassment, his feet coming to a stand still for the first time since he exited my watch.
"Have you been watching porn again Hermes?" Hestia questioned with all the tact of a nuclear bomb.
"NO! No... I was, well... I was meeting with someone." He mumbled, his head turning to the side as he tried to ignore our presence; it wasn't working well.
"Ah, so you found a girlfriend." I casually commented, laughing as my AI son sputtered in indignation. "So you have! Great, well just ensure that you have done all the background checks." I laughed as Hermes blushed whilst rubbing the back of his head.
"Um, she's from Sokovia and is a mutant... She's, well, she's really nice and beautiful... Um, her brother is also a mutant and has superspeed." He mumbled out, his eyes looking somewhat distant as his lips curled upwards slightly.
"Interesting, didn't think I'd hear about Wanda for a while." Hermes snapped his head up in my direction. "Her brother is Pietro Maximoff, am I correct?" I glanced at him as another book on warding was placed into a shelf; another soon being pulled out.
"yeah... does this mean I can't, talk, to her?" He asked in a whisper, his depression clearly evident in his tone.
I frowned towards him as Hestia continued to watch on, her face scrunched up in discomfort.
"Why would I stop you speaking with her?"
"W-well, she was the one that conquered an entire Universe, wasn't she...?" He confusedly asked.
"No, that was a different version of her. I wouldn't stop you from meeting with this version of her or her brother... I couldn't even if I wanted to, your my kids and I want the best for you. If you become close with her than I wish you and her the best. Just let me know when I'm about to be a grandad and I'll be happy." I grinned at him as I slapped a hand on his shoulder.
He sputtered for a few seconds before vanishing back into the watch and flickering away through my computer back in my office. Laughter bubbled up into my throat as I could feel his embarrassment through technopathy.
" 'Kay dad, I'll go get all that stuff set up, have fun reading books." Tia cutely commented before disappearing as well.
I shook my head in mild exhaustion before delving back into the library once again.
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An hour later and I had finished 1/10th of the Black Library, my mind starting to grasp at the meaning of magic in Harry Potter.
Magic was unique to each person and was expressed in completely different ways. One spell that created orange sparks for Harry could be a flare of blue light for me or a small explosion of green for Sirius... Each Wizard or Witch seemed to have unique aspects to their magic and that affected how spells emerged, reacted, impacted and wove into the world around them.
One of Sirius's Ancestors came across the idea of 'interpretations' of magic. Each person had some conceptual idea or meaning that attached itself to their magic and slightly skewed how easy or hard certain spells were to cast or use. The ancestor had quoted several Wizards and Witches that spoke about natural talents for transfiguration or charms and how after some significant change in their life some spells were easier to learn.
This lead me down a rabbit hole of reflection. What was my interpretation of magic? How did I perceive magic being used? Was magic or the force simply an extension of my own personality, willpower, imagination and interpretation of the world around me?
I contemplated all of this as I continued reading, my mind absorbing information on magical plant-life from Africa as I worked through what reality was to me. Reality just was, usually, it was kind, evil, benevolent, vicious and chaotic all at once. Life reflected that quality entirely... Humans being the posterchild for chaotic decisions that wildly differed from moment to moment based on whimsy and desire. Magic, felt like all of that and none of it at the same time... Much like the force.
Magic could make my other powers completely useless but could enhance them at a moments' notice. It could strip me of my powers or ascend them to levels that even I quivered at the mere concept of. It offered freedom but also offered shackles in the way that you now relied upon its infectious currents. The force was similar, as it offered true freedom but also asked for constant diligence, lest you lose yourself in its ocean-like powers and simply succumb to insanity.
So what was magic? What was the force? To me... It was chaos, pure, unbridled, chaos. However, it was also Order and creation... Which was chaotic in and of itself...
I snapped the Herbology book closed and summoned a book on Enchanting with a small tug of the force. Placing the Herbology tome back in the library I quickly flicked through the 400 page note-book on Enchanting before sending it back with a negligent flick of my finger, another book on Runes soaring towards me from the other end of the Library.
"Hmmm, hmm, hmmmm..." I hummed as Runes flittered across my mind, their intent bleeding into my consciousness as I considered how I could use this interpretation of mine to benefit my powers. "Chaos is a ladder, I suppose." I smirked as the book on Runes was smoothly banished back into its former hidey-hole as a massive Tome on Enchanting slapped into my palms.
It was time to take off the kid-gloves. The world was turning on me back home. There was now an Omniversal war, apparently, and that wasn't even mentioning the book of Shadows that I had yet to touch.
'I think it's time to start delving into the true power of my abilities.' I conjured a human-sized clump of Mithril before creating a ZPM, 5 kilograms of Metallic Hydrogen, Massless Neutronium about the size of a fist and Uru Metal.
'Some Sith rituals will useful for this.' I flicked another page in the book, 'maybe I will name this one Ares?' A chuckle escape my lips as I finished reading the last page of the book. 'Maybe some feather-light charms, some runes for timelessness, erosion-immunity, kinetic-dispersion and flight?'
The mithril slowly started to melt into a liquid before it reformed into a vaguely human form, its body made completely of the silver-like metal, standing eight feet tall; its head lightly grazing the roof of the library. 'I could create a pocket dimension inside of its head and stick one of the AI servers inside... That way his brain is completely immune to the damage dealt to his body...' Several sheets of paper formed on a table nearby, the talisman-runes merely appearing on the paper as I leveraged my matter-creation abilities to perfectly create the pocket dimension talismans on a finger-wide and finger-long piece of paper.
"Hmmm, can I create magical components?" I mused to myself before summoning one of the pixies from the corner of the room, the little bugger screeching the entire way. Ignoring the grating noise of its screams I examined every single element of its body through my abilities, finding that the wings of the creature had some incredibly unique properties that potentially allowed them to simply phase in and out of objects. 'That could be useful for Ares and Discordia.' I waved the pixie away, its body being flung back into its corner without harm.
I pulled on some of my internal energy levels, which were getting low; surprisingly, and created a palm-sized bead of the pixie's wing material. Touching the small orb I felt my finger slide through it and jut into my palm, as if it weren't there.
"So I can recreate magical materials, biological or non-biological. Perhaps I can copy the materials used in wands and make Ares completely magically conductive?" The thought dragged on inside my mind as the Tome in my hands let out the last drops of wisdom inside of them.
'So enchanting is just bathing an object in magical power with intent feeding the process and runes used as supports for a lack of magic. Add in the Sith Rite of Endurance and I could possibly have any physical damage dealt to him become magic or pure electricity.'
'Hmmm, I should also create a bunch of Super Soldier Serum and give them out to Harry, Sirius and a bunch of the other chat members... It should help them survive if worst comes to worst. Tony will appreciate the irony of him becoming a Super Soldier.' I smiled before grabbing another book. I was 4/10ths of the way through the library now and I was only getting quicker...
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Tony stretched his back as CNN played in the background, his newly gained magical senses connecting to Jarvis and collaborating with the internet at large.
`"Breaking news! The Mutant community in North America has officially declared that they will be forming their own nation on the island of Genosha off the coast of Madagascar. This has come after numerous reports of protests and civil rights movements attacking mutants across the United States."`
The billionaire playboy philanthropist rolled his eyes in annoyance as the news droned on and on about the mutants and the socio-economic condition of America and how their remigration would impact the stock market, blah, blah, blah...
`" It would appear that Singularity's recent 'liberation' of Italy has caused a domino effect Margaret, and we may not yet know the full impact of these changes."` The reporter finished in a professional, if biased, tone. The program switched back to the studio feed as a ping resounded inside his head, Jarvis swiping a video directly in front of his brain.
"That's not nice Jarvis! I was thinking...!" He declared whilst rubbing his eyes.
"Sorry sir, but I thought you would wish to see a video of one of your fellow Avengers decrying Drecarios's actions." Tony immediately straightened up and focussed on the video, his annoyance receding at the speed of sound.
`" I have attempted to communicate with Singularity, or Drecarios, multiple times in the last few days. Many attempts have been made by me, personally, to speak with Tony Stark and Frostborn Dynamics and yet I have been ignored."` It was Steve, and he looked pissed at being ignored and righteously indignant about Drecarios's actions. `" They have given me radio-silence and thus I can only assume that they have abandoned liberty, they have abandoned Democracy and wish to only maintain their money, their power and their influence."`
"Fuck. Jarvis, do I have any miss-calls?"
"Yes sir, over 200, primarily from an unregistered phone number that is in the possession of Ms Romanov." The AI informed neutrally.
"This is bad... This could cause a lot of problems..."
`" I am here today to simply state that I stand against Singularity and that his actions are Draconian, Fascist and incredibly dangerous to world peace."` Steve stated powerfully, his hand striking the podium for dramatic effect, though Tony understood that it was the man's emotions leaking out.
"Call Natasha!" Tony roared as he mentally discarded the video and rushed towards Avenger-Tower's balcony; where one of his suits was always ready to be equipped.
"I have already attempted multiple times sir, she has failed to pick-up." The AI sounded slightly saddened at the fact that his attempts to deescalate the situation had failed.
"Shit... Text pepper, tell her to release a statement to the public that the lack of contact was due to Singularity monitoring immigration to Rimecrest. Tell her to also explain my absence away by simply stating that I was under quarantine from a visit to the station, a precautionary measure to ensure that I was physically and mentally safe after spending a few days in space, in artificial gravity."
"The text had been sent. I shall continue to monitor the internet for any sign of the other Avengers turning against you or Drecarios."
"Thanks bud." Tony said simply before rushing out to the platform and getting into the very first Metallic-Hydrogen suit he ever made.
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The idea of Interpretations of magic comes from 'Arch Mage, the Path of Magic' by Kairomaru.
I have adapted some of his ideas for my own purposed and things will be quite different to his own works, but I thought I'd give him credit for the coining of 'Interpretations' and the idea surrounding the concept.
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