so i guess you cannot treat us to anymore cliffhangers?

lol

Looooool XD

+1 internets for you.

Beautiful, but nope. You're not going to be able to collect all the runei needed for me to hang out on the side of that edge...

Beautiful still...

Aah, a visual representation of the old non-euclidean weirdness.

That does look pretty fun, actually. Kind of like long jumping around a small planet in Mario Galaxy except huge.

Aaaaand I see that moon-looking thing with the symbol of the Temple of the Path on there. Maybe there'll be a "That's no moon." later.

You can also see that symbol on the North marker on the previous page. It may be the same thing.

I think that 'moon' might be the Haladen core from the flashback last chapter.

Good spotting. ;)

Ayy \ o /

But that does lead to the question - where exactly did the Vitrin core go? Opposite end of the world, perhaps? Or beneath the world where there isn't any air. Hmm...

I did not pay attention to the bottom image... I just thought that the sphere is a Path temple waaay out on the edge.

Nearing the end of the story.
"Fen, that's no moon... That's your mother."

"that's no a moon luck, its a ship, the Death Stars"

so they have a 'flat earth' as a default is their a group or 'round earthers?'

It's not flat, it's a chunk :p The surface is curved.

Meaning its a chunk of the former planet it was once a part of. And that gravity had to be "warped" to keep it habitable. Except the part where "the bottom has no air". Correct? :)

Seems like it, dunnit?

A chunk? Makes you wonder where the rest of it is? Did something alse take a few bites out of Alfred's world?

"Multiple mass-extention events" implies Alfred or his counterparts for each age had to fight the white death-void. And I assume each such battle came with a loss of landmass (because black creates and white consumes/destroys) along with the mass-extinction event. Its reasonable to assume that both sides want the cycle to end once and for all, but only in their favor and not their opponent's.
But I'm speculating here. ^^;

It's interesting to think about how the other extinction events went.

Afterall, the White Void wasn't simply eating the planet, it was flirting with Alfred too. Come to think about it, that artifact that nearly got Fenfen to kill Vix followed a surprisingly similar pattern with Fenfen. First it flirted, then it tried to eat her.

Baelin (or rather the Vitrin "White Void" entity that took his body and mind as an avatar) is probably aware of events in the mortal realm and what Alfred was doing. Baelin was a mathematician and a theoretical physicist just like Alfred. So I can see where it might use Baelin's knowledge to create theoretical models of what their opponent might do (in other words: use math and science to predict potential futures) and plan counters.

This is a cycle that's been repeated at least nine times over the course of nearly one million years. No wonder Alfred's so very tired.

What if that's why he set up Fen to have such powerful magic?
It could be that he wants to change the cycle and have her fight the Vitrin core instead.

She'd behave very differently, and in addition to that she has other people helping her now which could be pretty powerful too...

Lots of good speculation possible <3

He's already hinted that he wants Fen to "tag in" on the fight. Though he did say she doesn't owe the world anything, he also said that if she cared about anyone in her life, she should hop into the fight for them.

Fen's reaction was, I believe, thus: "The world can suck my d*ck, but I'll do anything to avoid hurting Vix again. Let's get this over with."

I would imagine with it repeating with varying ways each fight between them would have ended, it's possible that remnants of things that they both used might have survived along with them and the other cores for the magic of this world.

Traps. Weapons. Caches of information. Heck, maybe even certain bloodlines of this world might be leftovers of enhanced soldiers that fought in previous Seeds.

And not all of these things would be safe. It occurs to me that Stephen hawking had a theory that black-holes would periodically would shed of mass in outburst of radiation from time to time. I would imagine the Black-hole core doesn't just suck things up, it can possibly use matter it eats to make new things. There could be a few nasty surprises left from previous extinction events from both Alfred and Baelin.

Not necessarily - it doesn't have to be the same sort of extinction-level event every time.

haaa que le monde est petit, haaa que le monde est petit, ha que le monde est petit, tous petit, peeeetit

Ah, so the Path system now has a religion built around it. Not to mention that moon shares the symbol and we know the moons are the sources of the magic types of this world. I wonder what the Coil relates to?

Huh, Vix has what looks like a Chessier smile on her robes.

So instead of falling off the edge of the world, you just sort of get pulled down towards the side? That must be quite a feeling as you transition from horizontal to a vertical plane like that.

I have-- never thought of that. Gravity sure would be weird on a disk.

I'm stealing the idea!

Man just imagining all those that were dared to walk as far over the edge.

And guess she never heard of the term greed or what it means with those that collect lots of money.

Vix innocence shining through :p

I have no edge and i must swim

There are no gods, no. They're a rather enlightened people, all things considered.

I'm getting the vibe of in Super Mario Galaxy when you'd be on a real small planet platform thing and a long jump would make you just kinda whip around the whole place a bunch.

Sounds amazing yet horryfing on the first jump XD

Hello, yes, I would like an entire Farelliar documentary with Vixy. About literally everything in the setting. All of it. I just want this precious bean to give her take on her whole world.

And it's cool to finally see some of this stuff shown in detail. That bridge is sketch as hell, though. I'll walk around, thanks. ;P

It's a long walk around :p Wouldn't be a bridge there if it weren't.

Me too

Wonky gravity. I like it. I had wondered about the water at the edges...

It looks to me like each time their world came to an end, Haladen had less and less to work with when he rebuilt it.

Dr Vix geography extraordinare

And im zeo the explirer of dimension and guardian of hope

Somewhat flat world with some weird physical laws on its edges...
Is that a simulation or something?

Looks dangerous, but fun at the same time.

The Coil looks just like an upside down Darkness symbol from Soul Reaver 2 to me

More like umbreon's head symbol

Guess that means the planet's flat.

no, the planet was spherical. it's just less than 1/12 remains of the outer surface. (Apparently, I'm basing that on the scaled-back shot from earlier)

Zeo the fox:I love exploring that world and of course I dont have that kind of money
BASE ON STATS:
ZEO:LVL:38
HP:80/80
ATK:45
DEF:20
SPD:35%
A.SPD:80%
M.ATK:70
M.DEF:70
DEX:90%

Love her outfit in the first panel.

that is some weird science, also monk Vix is so frickin adorable

I'm gonna have to assume that someone, long ago went WEEEE over the edge despite not being aware gravity operated differently on the edge.

Reminds me or the gravity orbs/planets in ratchet and clanks ps2 games

Me: Sees how the gravity works
My Brain: ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR 404 LOGIC NOT FOUND!!!!

SAME

i love how close to real this would be for a flat planet gravity would be 90° to side of the ground

^o0^ That gravity idea is cool and weird at the same time. I like it!

Does bring to mind a question as to the Headwater situation... I have thoughts but...

That swing looks crazy fun.

hmm so many question about The Path, but I am sure the answers I may get will lead to more questions. Oh well

Lemme go there!! I'm sure I can work a spell to breaaathh!!!! *wags fast*

Sooooo no one is gonna mention the giant orb at the world edge that is suspiciously similar to a core? Anyone? No one? Just me then? Ok.

It's similar to a core because it IS a core. It's the Hadalen core, specifically ;)

Yeah figured. That was my odd attempt at starting a conversion. That and showing my interest XD

I'd rather explore her bottom, to be honest...

"This is our muns, some people like it a lot, so much so they collect it." Please never change Vix.

Not surprising though. Vix is very well-read, but she has only left the convent once in her life.
They probably don't use money inside the convent, so most of her knowledge about money/greed comes from books.

None of my professors ever looked as good as Vix.

So you 'are' pulling a sort of Phantasy star III.

Huh, fascinating

"Monies".... oh my ancestors she's just so adorable >w<

Why dont flat earthers understand such a thing :thonk:

Thank you for giving us a tour!!!

I love sci fi physics

ICE WALL that nobody has ever seen because NASA fucks with your compasses so you can't get to it..

Every gobermen on eart keep you from truth you shill

so put on a pressurized suit with its own oxygen supply some lights and use a reinforced tether rope to bungie down>.>

I mean, you'd need a really long lasting oxygen supply, and incredibly heat resistant suits, that you'd have to wear whilst basically climbing Mt. Everest.

Reflective suits can resist heat sisnce heat can be reflected, its why they use them near volcanoes , as for the oxygen supply, maybe a really big tank or something that can recycle oxygen to supplement it?

WE don't even have that technology working properly, these guys are working with scraps of science compared to us. Also, imagine climbing a mountain in a space suit :p

didnt say it had to be a space suit, something as simple as aluminum can resist heat, and aluminium is light.

Aluminium isn't rated for wearing in a vacuum though.

true but you could coat the outside of a pressureized suit with it

Yeah, that's what I'm saying, you're climbing a mountain in a space suit :p

i mean i guess but not all pressurized suits are rated for space, lots of them are for biohazard use and can be outfitted with oxygen tanks , wouldnt be hard to wrap it in aluminimum foil is all im saying

Holy faak, that's interesting.

that religion sounds interesting as it sounds similar to what Buddhists believe with reaching nirvana, when you reach enlightenment and break yourself off from the cycle of rebirth

Oo.