Wizardly Dude

[EOE] (181) 3.46. A Midnight Pick-me-up

Vin had to admit, he was equal parts curious and concerned based on how secretive Myers was being as she grabbed a bag from the supply room before leading him past the outer wall and away from camp. Though seeing as she’d just helped him interrogate a dead body for the better part of an hour, h...

[TEA] (51) 2.2. Evolution Spree

After trying desperately to save one of his only friends from being tortured, being extorted to work for the city’s largest gang leader, and nearly being buried alive under a few metric tons of earth and rock, Asher quite enjoyed taking a break from everything and just hanging out with Brian an...

[EOE] (180) 3.45. A Head Start

The moment Vin woke up, he grabbed a quick bite to eat before shutting himself away in his room and getting to work. The longer this murder went unsolved, the more chances this mysterious killer would have to strike again.

Luckily, it seemed Lumel’s assessment of the spell was correct. Af...

[EOE] (179) 3.44. Not an Intervention

Vin spent the rest of the evening regaling Lumel with stories of the different fragments he and his friends had been to. At first, he’d been worried that he was talking too much, but Lumel continued to reassure him that she was extremely invested in his stories, even going so far as to ask him ...

[TEA] (50) 2.1. The Shadow Thief

Asher held his breath, his muscles trembling as he did everything in his power to remain silent and unmoving. He’d been hiding for what felt like an hour now, and as much as he wanted to relax, he knew the moment he let himself grow complacent his target would detect his presence.

Focusin...

[EOE] (178) 3.43. An All-round Excellent Day

Vin’s predictions quickly proved to be true, and he managed to recreate the runic formation for Sense Death in record time. Barely an hour after he’d gotten started, he leaned back against the wall of his tiny stone box, reading over his newest notifications.

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[TEA] 49. Book 1 Epilogue

Flickering torchlight danced off the dark cloak of the eighth Finger as he waited silently to be seen by the Head. Despite having risen through the ranks of the Assassin’s Guild to become one of the ten Fingers, the ten most deadly assassins in the entire kingdom, there was something about deal...

[TEA] 48. Homecoming

Gasping, Asher woke up, jerking upwards in bed as he looked around for Loratta. The last thing he remembered was putting an end to the gang leader’s rein before accepting his death within the collapsing compound. The fact that he was still alive…

Asher blinked as he finally realized whe...

[EOE] (177) 3.42. Heart to Heart

“I’m guessing this means you need to put Dimensional Sheath on hold for a bit, huh?” Lumel asked him as they returned to the Underside and made their way back to the Earthers’ fragment. Vin was surprised to pick up on the tinge of dejection in her voice, and he offered he...

[EOE] (176) 3.41. Your Friendly Neighborhood Necromancer

As far as first dates go, this is kinda weird, Vin thought as he and Lumel walked out of the surprisingly harmless dungeon and into the bright light of the grassy fragment. The dungeon connecting this one to the Underside was filled with incredibly slow moving but difficult to navigate a...

[TEA] 47. The End

Asher gasped as a somehow both powerful yet gentle pulse erupted from his body, washing calmly across the empty cavern and stopping Loratta mid-sentence. Immediately after purchasing his final skill, he suddenly felt more than he had in his entire life. As though he’d finally found his...

[TEA] 46. The End?

Now that he knew where he was going, it didn’t take Asher long to navigate the maze-like corridors and make his way toward the source of the quakes. It turned out the secret room Loratta was most likely fighting within was actually located underneath the rest of the compound, which exp...

[EOE] (175) 3.40. So… Dead Bodies, Huh?

“How did my people solve crimes?” Alka repeated, turning to face him and giving her Slayer-trainees a very much needed break based on the thankful looks they were giving him as they doubled over and focused on catching their breath. It appeared as though she’d somehow managed to construct a...

[TEA] 45. Best Two Out of Three?

Asher stared at the burly man standing before him as he waited for an answer. For some reason, Crush was giving him a strange look, almost like he wasn’t sure if he should help him or attack him. While Asher waited for the big man to come to a decision, he noted how the brute’s skin seemed to...

[EOE] (174) 3.39. They’re Back

The whole ordeal involving Kyle out of his hands, Vin managed to get in a few more hours of practice with Dimensional Sheath before hitting the hay. He even had the bright idea of pushing the bounds of the runic formation a little and doing more than he knew he was ready for beca...

[TEA] 44. Death Itself

As usual, things weren’t going quite as planned.

Crush growled as his opponent’s hair struck against his hardened body yet again, squinting to keep the resulting sparks out of his eyes. Hairslay, a stupid moniker if you asked him, was doing everything in her power to keep him out of the...

[EOE] (173) 3.38. The Big Three

Vin spent the rest of the evening working on his magic. For some reason, when he went back to talk to Lumel tomorrow, he wanted to be able to say he’d made at least a tiny bit of headway on learning Dimensional Sheath, even if it was only the first step.

Thankfully, his F...

[EOE] (172) 3.37. A Reassuring Conversation

“Vin!” Lumel gasped, making her book vanish with a flash of purple as she jumped up to greet him. “I wasn’t expecting you back so soon!”

Before he’d surprised her, Lumel had been lounging in a remarkably fancy looking chair only a few dozen feet from the corridor entrance to the...

[TEA] 43. The Great Escape

Asher stared in horror at Rosh’s mangled legs. It looked as though someone had stuck them in a woodchipper, and then tried using a sledgehammer to put the pieces back together. He could only assume there was some sort of magic at play to stop the bleeding, else he imagined Rosh would have died ...

[EOE] (171) 3.36. Rabid Dog

Vin knew he was exhausted from everything that had happened with Neurol and the blue fur clan, but he hadn’t realized just how tired he truly was until he groggily woke up the next day and spotted the sun high in the sky. Cursing his decision to try out Kark’s remarkably soft blanket last nig...

[TEA] 42. Is This Habit Forming?

Not wanting any of the invading elites to stumble upon Moxy’s body and finish her off due to some grudge or just a desire for shards, Asher grabbed her by the arm and unceremoniously dragged the warrior’s unconscious body into one of the side rooms. Only having one working arm himself made th...

[EOE] (170) 3.35. The Confident Confidant

It turned out he’d been chatting with Lumel for even longer than he’d thought. As Vin exited the Underside and set foot into the forest dungeon of his people’s fragment, he was surprised to find that the sun had already gone down. Glancing around, he spotted a handful of brutally slaughtere...

[TEA] 41. A Desperate Plan

After spending the last few days fighting Moxy in the large, underground arena, Asher had felt as though he’d gotten a fairly solid assessment of the warrior’s strengths and weaknesses. She preferred to stay at range, pelting her opponent with lightning fast barrages of air blasts capable of ...

[TEA] 40. The Reaper Comes for us All

Loratta frowned, going over the list of elites for the third time that her people had spotted heading in and out of Draken’s territory over the past few days. From what information she’d managed to gather, that blasted nobleman playing at gang leader had managed to pull together a few dozen p...

[TEA] 39. Killing Intent

Draken was a tall, lanky man wearing a charcoal suit and tie. With his short, cropped hair and clean-shaven face, he looked more like he should be golfing with the CEOs of a major company than leading the second largest gang in all of Whikoga. His face pale and impassive, the man’s gaze slowly ...

[EOE] (169) 3.34. Surprise Visit

Just as Vin had predicted, the dangerous monsters with their long, clawed hands and their mace-like tails didn’t stand a chance against a ferocious Alka. Knowing that they weren’t strong enough to tie her down and that their attacks couldn’t actually harm her, Alka went pure offence, disreg...

[EOE] (168) 3.33. The Blue Fur Clan

In the end, it ended up taking them the better half of the day to search through the crystal-covered fragment and find the blue fur clan. They stumbled upon a few signs here and there that indicated the clan was nomadic, and Vin got to flex his Tracking skill for what felt like the first time in ...

[TEA] 38. Belly of the Beast

As the moon rose into the night sky, its eerie glow illuminating the slums of Whikoga’s second ring under Draken’s control, Asher walked down his seventh dark alleyway of the night.

Why is it when I want to be accosted by a bunch of thugs, I can’t seem to find a single on...