[You have gained your first Nemesis. One hundred development points awarded. After divisor, six development points have been received.]
Wait, what? SIX points? Out of a hundred? What had I just stumbled into?
[Nemesis System. Your Nemesis will grow in power as you do, in addition to...]
<System. Save to file and dismiss.> I sent, waving an arm from right to left to clear the letters from my vision. Survive now, understand later.
Mara chuckled in a way that sent water droplets upward from the surface of the river.
"O Mother Moon, it is I, Mara, spirit of your divine gradient..."
"Move Water!" I shrieked. "Water Wall!"
I remember, now, how I had nearly died incanting such effects, let alone the more hasty casting I did then.
I threw the soap powder into the water, hoping to occlude it. "Shroud! Deeper Shroud!"
[You do not know the spell [Deeper Shroud]] my System reminded me.
I'll start the endcaps again soon, I promise. Right now, I'm just trying to remember to do a chapter a day.
And don't panic; System resets of this nature are epic events, not something that ever happens again in Servant of the Axe. And, as Mara is about to learn, they are VERY costly, and also **FORBIDDEN**.
As always, thank you for reading! I'm not even going to try putting how much that means to me into words.