You could think of it as letting the gods write the contract versus writing the contract yourself. Soon after Noah arrived, he encountered someone he did not expect. Sorn Highroar.” Noah didn’t recognize him from the brawl, meaning he was probably a mage. He had three spells so far: turning invisible, creating an illusory clone of himself, and taking on the appearance of the freshly slain, but none of them produced any visible runes. It got scratched up during a mock battle.”
He undid the bandages and showed her his wounded palm and fingers. “If you have the affinity, it is surely possible to cast this spell on your own. When its weight proved unwieldy, he’d kick the blade towards her, both to enhance the attack and to try to catch her off guard. Might makes right in this world, does it not?
