Well, Part Two is up, and we have new reviews!
Fixed! I swear, that’s what I get for posting the chapter as soon as I rolled out of bed.
To respond to something you said elsewhere, you needn’t worry; your “spoiler” reviews are not too spoilery. If they were spoiling future chapters, then we’d have to talk.
The funny thing is that she was originally supposed to be an English major, and then I realized that I had to introduce this whole new theology/magic hybrid discipline, and it would make things a lot easier to just have her majoring in that. It also gave her a reason to get involved in the stuff that happens later on.
Well, you said a human champion bested him and his followers, but you never said the champion couldn’t have help!
Yeah, I kind of chuckled at the idea of her doing that, since for the moment everyone is still treating Luzurial as just another person. Had she been introduced to her as the Archangel Luzurial, Calista never would have done anything like that.
The fourteen billion exchange was one of my favorite things to write, especially Kevin’s “Billion? Like...with a B?” And yeah, I thought it was kind of cool to play up just how old an angel would be in a universe that is as old as science tells us this one is.
In these early chapters, I tried to write Chloe as someone who is both highly skilled and a little nervous, though the longer the story goes on the more she adjusts to the insanity going on here. Her shooting Luzurial mid-sentence, in particular, is a mix of trying to save the world...and nerves. This extradimensional being, which she still thinks may be dangerous, just started moving toward her, after all. I also kind of chuckled when I wrote Luzurial’s reaction. If a .49 caliber hypersonic round didn’t do more than bruise her, then a 9mm handgun round isn’t going to do anything. The “Ow” is more out of a slight annoyance than any actual pain.