There's something different about this next world. He can tell by the way his magic reacts to it. It's almost like it's... eager.
He doesn't dare hope.
He opens a door, in the middle of nowhere, and Crystal flies through before him. What he sees on the other side is—
Colony development proceeds, as does research. They get Sparkles to make self-sustaining arcologies around the world for future expansions. They find mineral veins both on the planet and on a nearby asteroid belt which should be sufficient to sustain their endeavor. Organic resources are more than well supplied thanks to Sparkles. They learn sorcery. They work out a plan to rescue people from the Feds.
There is an accident with someone that managed to break his legs while experimenting with a new vehicle and falling in a chasm. The tons of lifeforce meant that his legs kept healing, while the cramped space bent them in a weird way, which further prompted the healing. He is fine once they get him out and the legs even unbend on their own.
He developed a sorcery gift to "hold" inertia.
Only those things? Is he sure there is no other way?
(Lord is very curious about this.)
It is possible to get gifts by meditating and channeling your lifeforce to the correct place. The huge amounts of lifeforce he's given everyone help.
Temperance and Lord develop gifts.
Temperance got hydrokinesis that allows her to also freeze water (by which point she stops being able to move it.)
Lord got the ability to create a protective "shell" around himself. He can't move while using it, but it bounces off damage while also being camouflaged to match the environment.
Extremely! Not everyone is immediately acquiring gifts and most are not as fast as Temperance and Lord, but they eventually acquire more things like...
...Anti-magic.
That one is definitely going to be useful for the rescue mission. Henry cries over that.
"—there's an alt of yours in one of my mates' worlds," she tells Henry when that gift expresses itself. "I never met him but they have someone called Henry with that same gift."
"I don't, time was stopped in their world for most of my time with my mates and I never got to meet him and we didn't talk much about them. Wouldn't be surprised, though."
"Okay." Pause. "Thank you for telling me this."
Henry leaves in the sort of worry that signals that he needs to be alone.
...Trevor gets earth manipulation!
And each of these gifts interacts nicely with the local magic. They can make elemental runes at a much faster rate than an experienced elementalist.
And he gets illusions!
"Ooh, these are pretty cool," he says, making a tiny illusionary replica of their ship.
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