Chapter 5 - 5

When you entered the spirit world that day, you had an idea of what you were looking for. You fended off the spirits that swarmed around you as you pressed deeper into the realm.

The world was hazy and indistinct, and you found it nearly impossible to focus and concentrate on anything in particular. Everything there was gray, diffuse, like a twisted parody of the physical world, as seen through frosted glass.

You found the laboring demon you sought, in the form of a large cyclopean creature with legs and arms thick as tree trunks, in the center of a vast wasteland, the ground a cracked dry white plain.

Summoning this helper into the physical world indeed gave you good practical experience in the issues involved with incarnation. Working with it has also helped you practice phrasing orders for demons in such a way that they can understand and carry them out.

It has been a bad time for farming. The drought has been particularly bad in recent years. How are you faring for yourself?