Chapter 126

Upon arriving at the cloud palace Jason Asano is greeted by Clive Standish and Gabrielle Pellin, the latter bearing gifts from Knowledge. Jason gets in a bit of a theological argument with Acolyte Pellin turning down the VERY outlandishly great gifts, crafted by the God herself:

* Divine Awakening Stone of Inevitability - transcendent rank, epic.
	+ An awakening stone crafted by a god to bestow a specific aura power.
	+ Requirements (for Jason): Doom essence, unawakened doom essence ability, no aura essence ability.
	+ Effect: Awakens the aura essence ability (for Jason) [Inevitable Demise]. (He did not meet the requirements at this time)
	+ Aura (magic). Cost: None. Cooldown: None. Effect (iron): Enemies within the aura have any affliction immunities, including inherent immunities, treated as complete resistance. This resistance can be reduced by ordinary resistance-reduction effects. This is a magic effect.
* Soul-Purgation Tablet (aura) (transcendent rank, lengendary)
	+ A tablet with the power to remove an aura essence ability. Effect: Removes an existing aura essence ability.
* Divine Awakening Stone of Persistence (transcendent rank, rare)
	+ An awakening stone crafted by a god to bestow a specific spell.
	+ Requirements (for Jason): Dark essence, unawakened dark essence ability. Effect: Awakens the spell essence ability [Curse of Isolation].
	+ Ability: [Curse of Isolation] (Dark). Cost: None. Cooldown: None. Effect (iron): This spell cannot be resisted. Periodically inflicts an instance of [Dark Decent]: this is a curse effect.
		- [Dark Decent](affliction magic stacking): Target has their perception distance, the effect of their perception ability and resistance to all afflictions reduced by a small amount. Additional instances have a cumulative effect.

Things continue to get heated after Jason turns the gifts away and Knowledge steps in. There is a decent back and forth between the two in which Knowledge pointedly calls Jason out for acting very similar to Sophie Wexler as Knowledge is just trying to help him, the caveat and clearly not something Jason is going to let slide over his head is the black mail of accepting the gifts is also faith in her. Jason spurns the god and she leaves. Emir Bahadir arrives and gives Jason some knowledgeable words and the plot continues.

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Volume II

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Volume III

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Volume IV

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