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Val: Okay, hear me out, let's pull massive amount of resources to turn the Ivy Leagues into aircraft carriers, filled with countless non-military personnel, untrained mages and civilians. It will solve something right. Menadion: Sure, but to be cool, they have to be chained together by highly flammable fuel line that another carrier will totally not attack. Val: Son of a b..... I'm in.
I know it's not going to happen but what I'd the academies menadion made were to bring her soul back? Like a MASSIVE phylactery that didn't need to be bound while alive? However, it wasn't researched properly, and she was unconscious the whole time? Like I said near impossible story wise but I like the idea!