I'll have another chapter for you guys tomorrow.

no it's not dropped

it's more of a 'payment for services rendered' kind of thing. if something happens to eragon and cedric helps him out, he gets paid. not that he needs to guard him indefinitely in exchange for a single vial of blood. cedric would never take a deal like that

because i am also from a 3rd world country, i know the difficulties and have considered $1 or $2 but people keep sticking their hands into my money, taking more and more. instead of 3 times as many subscribers to break even (going from $3 to $1) its more like 4 or 5 times the requires number. i wish i could give more for less, but it's difficult for me

the problem with reducing price further is flat costs. ofc patreon takes a cut, but there are also flat fees on card transactions. something like 10-30c US. so if i make it $1 I end up paying 10-30% of that in flat fees (the card companies get this money). at that point we havent calculated what patreon gets, taxes And exchange fees (because i am not from US)

They weren't working with pure silica. Anyway, the point is they have no clue about nuclear operations in the first place. Even if they did, the energy needed to fission silica into carbon is a lot, and then to arrange those carbon atoms into a diamond lattice.

When they get to Teirm.

No.

When they get to Teirm.

Brom was shown to be pretty useless in the book. He even admitted to it, though the reason for his weakness wasn't stated explicitly AFAIK. His exact words were 'every time I reach for magic, it gets a little harder' or something like that.

'studying the ancient language properly and dilligently' means giving up wild magic so Brom can teach him said ancient language.

That seems to be the general consensus x'D

That's correct, but because he doesn't have anyone to train his mind against, he uses the life drain technique's 'side effect' to train by trying to keep their suffering from influencing him. It's mentioned in a later chapter.

you realize the most powerful magical empire to ever have existed used exclusively wild magic, right?

It's still up in the air if they will even run into Murtagh. He might just show up as a badguy later.

It's not really a spoiler so I might as well mention it, but Cedric's healing is a side-effect of life draining. He is basically increasing his life-force/mana reserves by sucking the life out of animals and saturating himself to the maximum. By repeatedly doing this, he expands how much he can hold, and because mana in the setting is similar to life force, it improves his healing factor.

There's a lot, so you might want to just check where I replied to something and skim that.

like what?

Over on questionable questing, I had a multiple page argument with my readers about the magic system. I won't go into it here, but if you're interested, check on that website in the NSFW section. You will need to create an account though.

No.