Not much of a progress report, as it's still the same old "blow up Guards at the training camp". Instead I wanted to tell of my trip to the Essence of Strife, or, the War VII Essence. I had been spending a few keys on scroll chests, and I was only interested in the bolt War VIIs for now. Missing Force Bolt VI and Lightning Bolt VI, I quickly found them in a trade at Ayan, 3 keys for both scrolls, nice and cheap. I had a mule tied to "westward" portal, for easy chorizite potion making, so I summoned it up and ran through with my 7 War VI scrolls in my pack. Set pace to the Essence of Strife, and found it on top of a small mountain: After getting all the spells I went home to Lythelthrope, our Allegiance home, where a high level mage buffed me up, at 298 War with War Mastery VI, Focus VI and Willpower VI. After having a little fun failing to affect allegiance mates with War VIIs, I went to the walled portals to test out the spells, I think this picture speaks for itself, especially considoring no creatures were vulned: War VIIs simply own! I can't get to 50 fast enough now, and well, ad of this morning, there's 6 levels to go: