Aura - Scenes of Nature and Civilization 2

The user of Scenes of Nature and Civilization could choose one of a hundred different overlays for the alternate world.

For example, it could be a lava zone that dealt continuous fire damage, a freezing zone that dealt continuous chill damage, a shock zone where a lightning storm struck at fixed intervals, or a world with horrible visibility due to rainstorms or fog.

One strange option was an encircled battlefield. At set intervals, a sizable amount of reinforcements would show up to fight the enemies. But the reinforcements would be only about 60 percent as strong as their opponents’ average strength, so they wouldn’t be useful for much more than chipping away at the enemy and wearing them out.

The single combat battlefield overlay allowed the summoning of powerful fighters who had 80 percent of the user’s strength and in enough numbers to evenly match their opponents. If defeating the enemy was the goal, this was the best option.

The most fearsome property of this item wasn’t that it sucked people into an alternate world but that the user was able to select who the effects would apply to. In other words, even if the user created a lava zone, they could selectively grant some people immunity to the fire damage.

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Volume 11, Chapter 5.4