So the former were-bear explains

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 1807

Synzn looks up at Lord Fred, ears twitching, and then nods.

"Perhaps if I demonstrated why that wouldn't work," the little mage explains, pulling the glass figurine out of a pouch and placing it on the floor. The demi-fox then takes his staff and slams it down on the glass figure. Rather, he smashes down to a point something like two inches from the figurine. Some type of invisable force seems to prevent contact.

"The makers didn't want such a powerful item to be so easily destroyed," the demi-fox explains. "The thing generates a field of force that prevents any blow that would crush it. I can't drop it nor smash it. Nor can anyone else do it for the matter. There is only a few ways that I know of that can destroy this thing.

"First," the were-fox continues. "Let me explain what exactly this thing is. Not only can this magical item change the shape of a person or thing.....infect or cure a person of lycanthropy.....or alter my lycantrhopy to something more managable, it is also a key to the slipgates that the Atlantian built! You can tap into that system with this and transport somebody or something else anywher in the world....even to places devoid of the gates. In the wrong hands, your enemies could transport his troops into your keep....or transport anyone he meets into the ocean. Or dozens of other horrible things."

Fred mulls this over, and it looks grimmer and grimmer as Fred looks at this from every angle.

"I begin to see what the problem is," murmurs Fred, sitting down. "And you say that others are after you. Who?"

"The Dragon Circle that Minestus belong to is who's after this item," Synizn says. "They can't move directly against me, because of the rules of engagement laid down by the Dragon Council. Ironic that the same bunch of lizards that prevented Malachi from doing more of what her creed demanded now allows a friend a fighting chance. Anyway, I said that there were two ways of destroying this item. One involves puting myself in danger so it would override the safegaurds that prevents transporting the owner via the Crystallic. The other is much surer."

"What about this first way?" Fred asks, curious.

"Well," sighs Synizn. "I could put myself in harms way and thus be able to transported. However, that's DANGEROUS! I might not be able to transport in time, and get killed. I might get stuck between worlds....forever in limbo. Either way, I estimate only a one in ten chance of destoying the Crystallic in this fashion. I can't do someting like this without a better chance of success! I'd risk my life to destroy it, but......." The demi-fox shrugs.

"As for the other," Synizn says. "It involves taking this item back to the place of it's origin, along with it's last few customers.....and when we get there, YOU can take the hammer that forged it and smash it to atoms!! That is how to do it.

"When the Mage Lord Tessla set off the earthquake that sank the island," finishes up the monologue. "The building that the Crystallic was forged in remained intact. That is where we must go."

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