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And then the spell would work, or not.
The manses in the student dorms were layered with a lot of protective magic. Power embedded between sheets of stone, hidden away enough that it would not interfere with complicated spells and rituals but powerful enough that it could stop most bad things from getting worse.
Ashley had to lock herself in there with the spell, otherwise she'd be endangering the entire dorm.
All her friends...
If the spell went sideways, it could be very dangerous. There were three layered magics involved, hence the three circles: the first was the one that created the passage to the infernal plane. Hell. Professor Montgomery refused to say it, but that's where it was. Hell. The second was the anti-magic field that would keep Melketh's magic from affecting anything outside the circles. The third was the magical anchor that would keep it all in place as long as she needed it to be. That one would actually be transported to Melketh's realm before it activated, which meant...
What did that mean?
Ashley had never summoned something from the infernal plane before. She'd practiced with a huge number of other creatures: elementals, faerie, animated objects, Greeks, mythical monsters, even forgotten sages from other galaxies. They were sometimes powerful in their own way, always strange, but this was something entirely different.
Her magic had never been exposed to the infernal plane, but once it was?
What would that mean?
Well, it would mean it was easier for her to contact it in the future for one. It would also make it more likely for things from that plane to contact her unbidden. It didn't happen often, but sometimes faeries tried to summon her instead of the other way around.
Why hadn't she thought of this before?
Well, Professor Montgomery didn't have that problem, right? He was not constantly fighting off demons, which meant that there had to be some degree of safety to this process.
Right?
Right...
This was the most dangerous thing she'd ever done.
It was the most terrifying thing she'd ever done.
It was the most exciting thing!
To think...
What would happen if she succeeded? What would happen if she failed?
There was only one way to know for sure.
With a deep breath, Ash grabbed two large magnifying glasses on rolling stands. She wheeled them into the manse and closed the door behind her. The heavy thud of the stone slamming felt altogether too final. She'd done this a dozen times before, and never once had the noise of the door sounded so... loud.
Loud.
Ash drew in a deep, shaky breath, then fiddled with the calibration on the magnifying glasses.
"Analyze!" She pointed one at each of the outer spells. "Analyze!" Immediately they brought up complex rectangles of light with graphs and charts that showed the magical flux of the spells she'd wrought. They were mostly calm now, showing the way the latent magic of the world flowed in and around the circles, but they hadn't been activated yet. Analyze was a more powerful version of Identify, fourth sphere, and in addition to better resolution on the information it provided it had recording capabilities.
No matter what happened, as long as she survived this, she would be able to figure out what went wrong.
"Analyze!" She used her portable identification focus to monitor the third spell, but she wasn't confident that she'd get anything useful out of that data given that that spell wasn't going to activate until it was on a separate plane of existence.
"Alright... okay. Alright." Ash paced around the exterior of the outer circle, looking at her handiwork one last time. There was precious little room left in the manse with the circles and the Analyzes happening. At the middle of each of the walls of the manse there was barely a foot of space available to walk between the circle and the wall, and three of the corners in the room were dominated by her recording spells.
She finally came to
The manses in the student dorms were layered with a lot of protective magic. Power embedded between sheets of stone, hidden away enough that it would not interfere with complicated spells and rituals but powerful enough that it could stop most bad things from getting worse.
Ashley had to lock herself in there with the spell, otherwise she'd be endangering the entire dorm.
All her friends...
If the spell went sideways, it could be very dangerous. There were three layered magics involved, hence the three circles: the first was the one that created the passage to the infernal plane. Hell. Professor Montgomery refused to say it, but that's where it was. Hell. The second was the anti-magic field that would keep Melketh's magic from affecting anything outside the circles. The third was the magical anchor that would keep it all in place as long as she needed it to be. That one would actually be transported to Melketh's realm before it activated, which meant...
What did that mean?
Ashley had never summoned something from the infernal plane before. She'd practiced with a huge number of other creatures: elementals, faerie, animated objects, Greeks, mythical monsters, even forgotten sages from other galaxies. They were sometimes powerful in their own way, always strange, but this was something entirely different.
Her magic had never been exposed to the infernal plane, but once it was?
What would that mean?
Well, it would mean it was easier for her to contact it in the future for one. It would also make it more likely for things from that plane to contact her unbidden. It didn't happen often, but sometimes faeries tried to summon her instead of the other way around.
Why hadn't she thought of this before?
Well, Professor Montgomery didn't have that problem, right? He was not constantly fighting off demons, which meant that there had to be some degree of safety to this process.
Right?
Right...
This was the most dangerous thing she'd ever done.
It was the most terrifying thing she'd ever done.
It was the most exciting thing!
To think...
What would happen if she succeeded? What would happen if she failed?
There was only one way to know for sure.
With a deep breath, Ash grabbed two large magnifying glasses on rolling stands. She wheeled them into the manse and closed the door behind her. The heavy thud of the stone slamming felt altogether too final. She'd done this a dozen times before, and never once had the noise of the door sounded so... loud.
Loud.
Ash drew in a deep, shaky breath, then fiddled with the calibration on the magnifying glasses.
"Analyze!" She pointed one at each of the outer spells. "Analyze!" Immediately they brought up complex rectangles of light with graphs and charts that showed the magical flux of the spells she'd wrought. They were mostly calm now, showing the way the latent magic of the world flowed in and around the circles, but they hadn't been activated yet. Analyze was a more powerful version of Identify, fourth sphere, and in addition to better resolution on the information it provided it had recording capabilities.
No matter what happened, as long as she survived this, she would be able to figure out what went wrong.
"Analyze!" She used her portable identification focus to monitor the third spell, but she wasn't confident that she'd get anything useful out of that data given that that spell wasn't going to activate until it was on a separate plane of existence.
"Alright... okay. Alright." Ash paced around the exterior of the outer circle, looking at her handiwork one last time. There was precious little room left in the manse with the circles and the Analyzes happening. At the middle of each of the walls of the manse there was barely a foot of space available to walk between the circle and the wall, and three of the corners in the room were dominated by her recording spells.
She finally came to
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