Wizardly Dude

[TEA] (125) 3.24. Coming Clean

Despite the entire ordeal of being attacked and nearly drowned by a mysterious foe, Asher had to admit the bath house was still an overall pleasant time. The warm, flowing water washed away the blood on his skin and left him feeling more rejuvenated and relaxed than he’d ever felt after one of ...

[EOE] (256) 4.35. Who Needs Sleep

“Vin!” Lumel shouted, running over to him the moment he entered the small cloud tent and throwing her arms around him. Despite the fact that Shia, Scule, and Reginald were all lounging off to the side, next to a tiny, glowing pile of what looked like moss used to illuminate the tent, she held...

[TEA] (124) 3.23. Naked, But Not Afraid

Dozens of white-hot stabs of pain shot through his legs as Asher’s unknown assailant lodged itself into his legs and yanked him under the water. His head slammed into the tile floor of the bath, disorienting him for a moment before he was suddenly dragged through the grate he’d just ...

[EOE] (255) 4.34. In the Arms of An… Angel?

When gravity finally equaled out their upward moment, in that split second where the four of them hung there in the air above the sky, with dozens of icy clouds spread out across the horizon, Vin felt strangely at peace. It was awful that three of his friends would end up perishing alongside him,...

[TEA] (123) 3.22. Clean as a Whistle

It turned out Owl had outdone himself, as the three of them ended up needing to mine their way through nearly ten feet of rubble in order to get back to the main tunnel. By that point, they’d been mining for hours, and they were all thoroughly exhausted.

Tossing their pickaxes and helmets...

[EOE] (254) 4.33. Run

“Shia, if this is your idea of a joke…” Vin trailed off, his eyes widening as he looked down and realized what she meant. There should have been absolute nothingness beneath them, seeing as all the clouds were up above their heads. Yet even with the darkness of night, he spotted what looked...

[EOE] (253) 4.32. A Tiny Crack

Once they’d all managed to recover at least somewhat from their heart-stopping fall, they quickly took stock of their current situation. While Shia healed Reginald’s arm and the rat got a stern talking to from Scule, combined with a lot of worried hugging, Vin tried to figure out their odds o...

[TEA] (122) 3.21. Weak at the Knees

The moment the scream rang out from down the tunnel, Asher didn’t waste a moment. 

But he didn’t run after Brian and Samantha.

Creating a compressed tunnel of space, Asher leapt toward Owl, tossing his pickaxe aside and grabbing two daggers off his bandolier while simultaneou...

[TEA] (121) 3.20. The Children Yearn for the Mines

While Asher no longer had to worry about finding and taking care of Leighann before she could be resurrected, he still had plenty of things on his plate that needed to be taken care of. Figuring out what to do about The Council of Death. Finding the location of the Head and taking them out...

[EOE] (252) 4.31. Group Tumble!

Vin did what any self-respecting person would do when they suddenly found themselves plummeting through a potentially infinite sky with no parachute.

He screamed. Rather loudly.

After a few seconds of screaming and tumbling head over heels as the wind whipped past his face, a sharp st...

[EOE] (251) 4.30. How Dense Are You?

The next few hours were spent leapfrogging from cloud to cloud across the sky fragment. The group slowly made their way toward the center of the fragment, keeping their eyes peeled for anything out of the ordinary.

While they didn’t find any bird-people, they certainly stumbled upon a few...

[TEA] (120) 3.19. How Does That Make You Feel?

“So, how did it go?”

Asher blinked, spotting Samantha sitting in the corner of their room, her fingers busy working on what looked like a new blanket if his meager crochet skills were anything to go off of. He barely even remembered Gran dismissing him after laying what felt like the we...

[EOE] (250) 4.29. Air Heads

The trek through Alka’ fragment was even easier this time around than the last. Seeing as Lumel was a lot more vulnerable than Alka, Vin decided not to take any chances and fired off the occasional Sense Life pulse, just in the off chance that they missed one of the hiding snak...

[TEA] (119) 3.18. You Know Nothing

The first thing Asher noticed after the world shifted from his Recall skill and he found himself standing within the healer’s room, was that her accommodations were a lot plainer than he’d been expecting. The room was small, and filled with little more than some simple, albeit extremely comfo...

[TEA] (118) 3.17. Theorn in My Side

The sight of Theorn landing his pegasus on one of the designated landing zones and hopping off caused Asher’s head to whip around so fast he felt his newest skill nearly flicker and die from the sudden movement. 

What is he doing here?!

Theorn was not only the...

[EOE] (249) 4.28. Game Plan

The next morning, Vin found himself leaving Terra and heading north with Lumel, Shia, Scule, and Reginald by his side. Shia had in fact wandered in early that morning, looking once again a tad disheveled and stating she didn’t want to talk about the training she’d gone through with her master...

[EOE] (248) 4.27. Prepare to Celebrate

After lounging on the ground for a while, Vin finally retreated back to Terra to reveal the good news. To his shock, he didn’t make it two feet into his apartment before Lumel spotted him and her eyes widened.

“You prestiged!” she exclaimed, warping over to him in a flash of purple an...

[TEA] (117) 3.16. Near Death Experience

Asher had expected the hardest part of infiltrating the first level and carrying out his mission would be getting past all the nobles with their unique skills and elements crawling around. Or finding a way through the magical defenses they no doubt had in place. Or perhaps even simply finding Lei...

[EOE] (247) 4.26. Level 40

As he stared at the message prompting him to select his next class, the familiar thrum of energy that one experienced when earning a Capstone or prestiging washed through his body. The wave of energy felt more powerful than ever, and Vin actually stumbled slightly at the unexpected force...

[TEA] (116) 3.15. Window Shopping

Having spent most of his time back on Earth as a single man, Asher hadn’t really spent all that much time in jewelry stores. Sure, he’d made the occasional trip to the jewelry portions of large department stores to pick up something for Mother’s Day, but he’d never set foot in an actual, ...

[TEA] (115) 3.14. More Than a Little Shady

Just as Rosh had promised, it only took a couple of minutes after Asher removed the Bracelet of Observation from Brian’s wrist for the twelve-year-old to come to. Groaning, he rubbed at his head as Samantha held him.

“What happened?” he asked, squinting up at them. “And why does my�...

[EOE] (246) 4.25. Flame On?

As they’d discussed in the council meeting, there were a couple of different problems the infernals were currently facing. Picking a spot to settle down. Constructing a village to replace the one they’d lost. Staying close by to their new allies while still maintaining a healthy distance from...

[EOE] (245) 4.24. The Devil is in the Details

Vin paused in the doorway to the council room, his mind going blank for a moment as he tried to process what he was seeing. Phil and Witherson were having a quiet conversation at their seats, discussing something regarding the town’s defenses based on the occasional word he was picking up. Alic...

[TEA] (114) 3.13. Who Needs Helmets?

The mogrants didn’t even slow down when they hit the steep incline headed up to the city, which was even more remarkable considering they’d been walking for nearly three and a half days straight at that point. Like Samantha has guessed, it took them a good hour and change to make it up to the...

[TEA] (113) 3.12. The City of Dormaul

Other than the discovery that someone had been spying on him for who knew how long and the surprise bandit attack, the caravan ride between Whikoga and Dormaul proved to be rather uneventful. Brant had proven that his earlier claim that few things were willing to tangle with a herd of mogrants wa...

[EOE] (244) 4.23. Sherly, You Can’t Be Serious

The rest of the evening was spent lounging around in the apartment chatting with Lumel while the two of them filled the other in on everything they’d missed. Vin learned all about how she’d spent days trying to understand the bare basics of the spatial magic the Gods had used to design the Un...

[EOE] (243) 4.22. A Deadly Lesson

In the end, neither of them came even close to mastering their spells before lunch. Ronald didn’t seem too upset by this, especially after Vin explained how long it had taken him to learn his first couple of spells, but Wanda was clearly frustrated. It was obvious that she held herself to some ...

[TEA] (112) 3.11. A Calm and Relaxing Trip

After three straight days with not much happening besides a gradual change in scenery to more hilly terrain and the mountains in the distance slowly growing closer with every passing hour, Asher began to think they would make it all the way to Dormaul without any incident. They passed the occasio...

[EOE] (242) 4.21. Time for Magic!

Like all things in life, it was the things Vin was dreading that seemed to rush up on him in no time at all. Before he knew it, he was standing in the meadow he’d picked out, facing two of his three potential students. Ronald and Wanda must have run into each other on the way out here, as they ...

[TEA] (111) 3.10. Triple Down

It wasn’t long before the caravan was fully prepped and Brant made the order for them to leave the city. Not wanting to miss the mogrants in action, the three of them walked alongside the caravan to start, watching the large beasts start lumbering forward, dragging the trains of wagons behind t...