Rescuing Astra is More Difficult than Fred et. al. Would Think

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 10090

After some debate, Fred, Exotica, and Velus decided that the best course of action would be to rescue Princess Astra from the Dragon's caves and deliver her to Aqualaria. They told this to Charles. "I'd like to know one thing," said Fred. "To rescue Astra, we'd have to counteract the anti-leaving spell cast by the Dragon. [ref: 172] Obviously, you were able to do that. How?"

"Well," said Sir Charles, "I didn't really counteract the spell at all. If Kharven was indeed in league with or the same person as the Dragon, I didn't want him to become suspicious that I was moving against him. I have a very distinctive magical style, one that would be easily apparent if I directly destroyed the spell. So I didn't. I effectively pulled you out a side door, through the interdimensional transport system that was used by the people who built this tower. I also subconsciously guided you to this tower. Since the transport system's magical field was both more powerful than the anti-leaving spell and harder to detect than direct intervention, I was able to pull you out without the Dragon being aware of it. He probably thinks you're dead. I don't reccomend that you destroy the anti-leaving spell by killing the Dragon, for the same reasons. Kharven is a much bigger fish, and it's more important that he be stopped. If he's in league with the Dragon, then he'd be alerted that something was going on. If he is the Dragon, then we wouldn't want him to die so suddenly and inexplicably, because then his followers would think he was assasinated, and he would die a martyr. His movement would get a lot more intense after his death. Although they probably wouldn't be able to penetrate the temple anymore, they'd still cause a lot of death.

"So you effectively have two choices. First, free Astra from her chains and take her into the gate systerm. I'd then guide you here with her, and then materialize you in Aqualairia. The problem with this is that the tower is about to enter into its dormant state, in which it's not materialized in any particular dimensional plane. You see, the tower is a living thing, and it needs its rest. It could be in this state from anywhere from a week to several months, and we may not have that kind of time.

"Your second choice is to find the Wizard of Kamiro [ref: Episode 42], and convince him to help you free Astra. The only problem is that, while I know that he's somewhere in the forests near the Dragon's caves, even I don't know specifically where he is, and it may take a while to look for him. And it would also take a while getting to Aqualaria directly. So which will you do?"

  1. Go to the caves and risk the transport system.
  2. Search for the Wizard of Kamiro.

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