Ooof, summer is not the time for that. I've been running on 7-8 hours for fairly dumb reasons, but 1 usually just incapacitates me.
Yeah, and being able to actually shoot is scary. Archer Herc is reportedly strongest Herc.Herakles is definitely going the smart route here. The Legend he's been absorbing has been upping his stats around the board, and he's been taking hefty advantage of that here, as well as using it to fix some of his more... debilitating issues.
Hence why I said "Pruning Theoretical Phenomenon" among my options for explanations. I will agree that it does behave a lot like your typical fictional depiction of a black hole, so it's an obvious guess at identification, and there's some temporal distortion effects going on. I just hate almost every fictional depiction of black holes, because they usually involve either impossible mass shifts (thing suddenly pulls harder because it's a black hole) or severe underestimation of force (anything that happens on a planet). Technically I guess you could make a absolutely miniscule black hole of whatever mass you want it to be, but then you have to still explain why it hasn't fallen to the center of the earth, tunnelling through everything around it, so pretty much any way you slice it, there has to be some supernatural explanation somewhere.As for black holes, it's a void in space sucking reality into it. It might not necessarily be one YET, but it's well on it's way to acting like one, if far smaller in scope, thus Ruby calling it one. Or it could easily be that it's the form that the corrections to history takes, and Legend's keeping it from going active. What with Singularities collapsing the way they do in game, yet you're able to visit them later...
In her defense, if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, are you going to call it a duck until you know if it's something posing as a duck? The answer is "Yes. Yes you are.". The math does make sense, though. I'm mostly using it as "That's what Ruby is understanding of the situation. She's never been in a singularity mid-collapse though, so she could have it completely wrong and not realize it, considering they're in the middle of SOMETHING wonky going on, however."
Nice angry physics rant noises, though!
Neat. Do be sure to get some sleep though, going without is pretty painful.On my end, I've got a fridge with no cold air in it, a freezer with lots of ice in it, and me swearing as well.
But after that refrigerator is fixed, and the chapter's fixed, I'll put up the next chapter snippet. Sound good? Yes, it's done, and I've got a bit into the next chapter after that, as well. Erik also has a couple new tricks up his sleeve after Anarchy, though I'm not going to reveal where he gets those, yet.
Oh, I am fully aware. Also God Hand almost always gets sold as weaker than written, in one way or another. "Immunity to being killed in the same way" is pretty crazy, so we usually see that effect skipped (i.e. against Saber Alter in HF). It's explicitly justified against Gilgamesh, but in other cases, we get a handwave of "does so much damage that it consumes multiple lives before the immunity kicks in" or that property is just ignored. I do wonder if that "stock of resurrections" works as a shadow servant, though. Alcides from Strange Fake doesn't have it, though that apparently has something to do with his circumstances. It seems... relevant here, though. Admittedly, giving this Herc King's Order would make things significantly more difficult.I've been trying to balance out Herakles as both the crazy strong guy he is in Fate (and if you don't believe me? Watch both fights between him and Saber in UBW as well as Saber Alter vs Berserker out of Heaven's Feel.) with how he is sane, and kinda rational here. For a given value of "rational" at least...
Since Erik is weakened here, I suppose you can say that he wouldn't have those available, fair.I've also been trying to write this, without tapping into the choices coming up for the readers, coming up in my next chapter of Fate Anarchy. Because rather than develop upgrades for Erik, that would make him stupidly strong, I'm leaving it up to the readers for Erik and Mordred alike. Which would directly influence abilities that could be used in this story here, if Erik were stronger.