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[daozhangs]

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[daozhangs]

I am biased. I am also more than capable of speaking from an unbiased perspective.

Do you deny the inherent value of insight provided by those with relevant experience? Or do you simply deny that your chosen god possesses the wisdom to recognize such value?

You are, of course, welcome to simply admit that I'm correct. Rest assured that it would remain in strict confidence.

[legbreakings]

Look who is in a fighting mood!

Fine, fine, I will admit to my insight. And yours. [ Best to cover all his bases. ]

Which isn't the same as admitting you are correct, just for the record.

The Fourth God in Ryslig appreciates our experience, so I would assume the E+L of this place does, too. I think you would do well doing what you did at home. Focusing more on helping people than on seeking glory on the battlefields. So maybe you won't enjoy the work I do much, though I would like to have you my by side at least part of the time. And I hope your insight will soon be appreciated, and you can rise in rank. I would like for both of us to do so. Happy now?

[daozhangs]

You implied it acceptable that the value of your contribution be determined by nothing more than the arbitrary rank assigned to you by the subordinates of a god whom you've never met. How very shocking that I'm just as willing to argue the matter as always I've been.

This answer is better. Yes, I am happier now. :)

Have you had the opportunity to learn more of your artifical talents? ( the ones granted by e&l. they had both intended to take any lulls in their time on duty to explore a bit more into the parameters thereof, but it's not unlikely that wanyin had lacked time or opportunity, if it was truly so busy. )

[legbreakings]

[ Pah! The nerve of his husband!

And yet, that change of topic has him intrigued enough he decides to grudgingly let him have this win. Grudgingly. ]

A little bit more, yes.

I have been trying to use the electricity together with Zidian, and I tried to teleport, but attempting to fit them into battle has been more of a distraction than a help. I'm still getting used to using my cultivation again at all, let alone with these new skills.

[daozhangs]

If I might offer a thought — Yunmeng Jiang had their sword forms, did they not? Perhaps at your next opportunity to train, you might work through such forms, but place in between them a moment of teleportation, or a flourish by Zidian. The unfamiliar amongst the familiar. I find that such a thing lends a sort of momentum which simply attempting the unfamiliar does not.

[legbreakings]

That is sound advice. I will admit I have focused just on adjusting to going through my sword forms with my cultivation reachable again, and studied my new powers separately.

[ A moment of hesitation, but this is his husband, and with whom else would he share such thoughts? ]

I will admit I have shied away from the thought of mixing one. Not wishing to taint Yunmeng Jiang's ancestral forms with such foreign, unnatural powers. But that is no way to go about learning to combine them, is it? And I will need to combine them on the battlefield.

fuck i swapped back to blindfold

[daozhangs]

Far be it for me to suggest that you disrespect those who came before. I only meant to suggest that these new techniques might come more easily in a context which otherwise feels like second-nature rather than they do in isolation.

Re: fuck i swapped back to blindfold

[legbreakings]

No. You are right. It is sensible. And we are at war so sensible is what matters. The things that protect lives rather than sensibilities.

It is just strange to think something was put inside our bodies to let us do these things.

[daozhangs]

You aren't incorrect. It is a little bit strange, now that I've considered it.

But I don't suppose it's any more strange than new skills which arise from monster parts grown unwillingly from our flesh, or from skills which seem to come from naught but the will of a magical being in exchange for coins which appear from the ether in our homes.

[legbreakings]

That's true.

At least we chose this, even if it all happened awfully fast. But they said there is no time to waste and I can't deny it.

It just reminds me of being a Simulacrum to have metal and machines inside me.