As Jack stood at the fore of the Jolly Rancher, tasting freedom for the first time since he became a fairy, he could not help but reflect on how truly monstrous the Back of Atlas technique was. When he originally saw it, he thought it was the least remarkable and the safest option from the list of rewards.
He was now beginning to think that he had misjudged the situation. The hints were all there, he'd just hadn't noticed them before. He got this technique from a Life level reward token, which had presented him with three options.
There was Pentegal's Mantle scraps, the Proscribed Path, and the Back of Atlas. The first two seemed tremendous. After all, the mantle was a remnant from an entire universe, and the Proscribed path had something to do with reincarnation. On the surface, they both seemed highly impressive.
