Wizardly Dude

[EOE] (342) 5.38. Now You See Me…

Vin’s creation of Mage Hand had actually given him the experience needed to reach level 46, and seeing as his endurance, magic, and focus were all above 70 at this point, he decided now was as good a time as ever to start trying to keep his other attributes from lagging too far...

[EOE] (341) 5.37. Force Me to Study, Will You?

Vin’s eyes flew open, and he gasped as he rocketed up off the rough cot he was sleeping on. The events leading up to him getting knocked unconscious came back to him in an instant, and he felt at the back of his head. To his surprise, there wasn’t even so much as a knot where he’d been stru...

[PLD] 38. So Good it’s Bad

Unfortunately, even after all the effort they put into taking it down, the beaver didn’t really have any skills either of them were interested in. Rather than the Grade 22 magical beast they’d been hoping for, the beaver ended up only being Grade 18. On top of which, it was also the first thr...

[TEA] (209) 4.51. What is Life?

Asher stared at Wilna, struggling to comprehend what she’d just told him. A part of him had entertained the idea that he’d potentially live forever from his Eternal Regeneration constantly working in the background as a passive skill, but not aging? At all? 

His mind briefly went t...

[EOE] (340) 5.36. The Ranker King

Vin wasn’t sure exactly what he was expecting after learning that the rankers’ king was the strongest of all of them, but he certainly wasn’t disappointed by the man he found waiting for him beyond the gilded door.

Standing a full head above him, the king was a large, muscle-packed ma...

[PLD] 37. Angry Beaver

Following their surprise encounter with the camouflaged spider, Leo and Taylor were even more cautious as they navigated around the gigantic trees. It didn’t help that the colossal plane ended up being filled with countless species of regular wildlife as well, causing the two of them to flinch ...

[TEA] (208) 4.50. A Cracking Good Time

Asher ended up spending most of the evening chatting with Rosh. Not only was it nice getting the chance to catch up with his old friend, Rosh proved to be quite the font of information. While everything he shared was in fact related to logistics in one way or another, the former professor proved ...

[PLD] 36. Where’s the Chicken Noodle Soup?

Unlike cultivating from magical beast gems, where trying to take in all that concentrated power was a death sentence for gems more than one or two Grades higher than a person’s soul rank, absorbing the ambient power in the air that came from a magical beast’s corpse was a different story. The...

[EOE] (339) 5.35. Cat Got Your Tongue?

Vin spun around, his golem arm already flaring blue and ready to defend against whatever surprise attack was in store for him. Yet rather than an assassin with a knife ready to stab into his back, his eyes found a thin beastkin with a mischievous mirth in her eyes as she hopped back a few steps.<...

[TEA] (207) 4.49. Furora

The sight of Furora spread out across the plains with the setting sun lighting it up from behind was almost picturesque, and Asher enjoyed getting to see the city in such a way as Samantha slowly brought them down to the ground. Not only was the city utterly massive, stretching from practi...

[TEA] (206) 4.48. Unfathomable

As Moxy so helpfully pointed out, Asher did in fact have a solid couple of hours to go over his gains from their surprise fight against the Head’s team of Knuckles. He was still trying to figure out whether or not to start thinking about the Knuckles as simply the Head themselves, seeing as the...

[EOE] (338) 5.34. Within the Keep

Sure enough, Vin received quite a number of angry looks from people as they walked through the keep. Countless eyes landed on his prosthetic arm and narrowed, before they found Tarnis’ seal tied around his bicep and they begrudgingly walked away. It seemed in a society built around ranking the ...

[PLD] 35. Down Came the Rain

Having never before ventured into a completely new plane that was still in the process of being mapped out, Leo hadn’t really known what to expect.

Though he definitely wasn’t prepared for the base camp they found surrounding the rift they needed to go through.

Leo blinked in conf...

[TEA] (205) 4.47. Did We Do It?

A vast void, empty of even the concept of matter, let alone the real thing, stretched out all around him as he drifted there without his mortal form. Somehow, Asher knew that the void stretched on forever and always. That there was no true end to the void, and that he could spend the rest of all ...

[EOE] (337) 5.33. Please Take a Number

Vin walked alongside Tarnis as the three of them made their way toward the keep in the center of the fragment. Hanrik, the woman with some orc traits that he was still curious about, walked behind them, in a position he wouldn’t have been very comfortable with if it weren’t for his divine boo...

[PLD] 34. Unbridled Fury

No sooner had Taylor warned him than Leo heard a distant voice calling out to them.

“Hello there! Are you folks heading over to the colossal plane as well?”

The voice belonged to a man in dark green clothing, with an aged crossbow hanging from his belt. To Leo’s surprise, the ma...

[TEA] (204) 4.46. Maybe… Don’t?

Ten Knuckles stood before them in a line, staring forward with faces free of any features as shadows rippled across their entire bodies. Each one a master assassin in their own right, and each one deadlier than any senior assassin Asher had ever encountered. As his eyes went down the line, he too...

[EOE] (336) 5.32. Get Down, He’s Got an Arm!

Vin could only stare at the distant castle, taking in the large towers and moving specks that had to be guards patrolling the walls. Throughout his time on Edregon, he’d witnessed plenty of grand buildings, such as those within the citadel’s holy district or the majestic floating library that...

[PLD] 33. Strong Man

It took Leo and Taylor another two weeks to make it just shy of the colossal plane. After leaving the spiky-tree plane behind, the two of them leapfrogged from one plane to the next, steadily getting closer to their target while honing their skills and cultivating their souls along the way...

[PLD] 32. Don’t Hurt Me

Once the tree had finished burning, and Taylor’s mouth was free from splinters, the two of them collected their prize. Again, Taylor’s ability to sense precisely where a magical beast’s gems were held within its body came in handy as, rather than being forced to pry apart a giant pile of ch...

[EOE] (335) 5.31. All By Myself

The rest of the council meeting was filled with the usual boring and tedious decision making that reminded Vin why he generally didn’t bother coming to these things in the first place. Voting on specific permits for crafters and support classes. Sifting through shockingly mundane suggestions th...

[TEA] (203) 4.45. Is That Cheating?

Asher wanted to fill Moxy in on what they’d discovered while she was healing within his Personal Rift, but he didn’t get the chance. It seemed now that he’d rejected the Head’s offer yet again to join him, the Knuckles weren’t planning on giving them any additional breathers.

As s...

[EOE] (334) 5.30. All Together Again

Seeing as it had been about a week and a half since his last council meeting, once he finished up with Abby, Vin grabbed a quick bite to eat before begrudgingly making his way over to town hall. Linda received a warm smile as usual, as he never wanted her to think his reluctance toward these meet...

[TEA] (202) 4.44. How Is That Fair?

As if some sort of invisible signal had gone off, everyone sprung into action at the same time. Owl’s bow dissolved off his back, immediately reforming in his hands with an arrow already nocked that he fired directly at Asher. Through some miracle, Samantha fired at the same time, her enchanted...

[PLD] 31. The Numbers…

In stark contrast to the rain-filled plane, the next rift led them to a warm, sunny plane without a cloud in the sky. There were large, barren trees growing all over the place, each one covered in pale brown needles that looked more like quills Leo had seen in pictures of some magical beasts. Whi...

[TEA] (201) 4.43. And You’re To Blame

Thanks to the map of the Noala Kingdom Asher had already Incorporated, he knew that it would take them most of the day to fly from the capital all the way to Furora. With Samantha’s Long Flight skill, they wouldn’t have to touch down and rest for a good thirty or so minutes, so he did his bes...

[EOE] (333) 5.29. Down By The Station

“Vin. What a pleasant surprise,” Abby said, looking up from her paperwork as he stepped into her office. The guard who had let him in nodded, before closing the door to grant them some privacy and returning to the barracks. The vice-captain of the guard leaned back in her chair, putting her p...

[PLD] 30. Rain, Rain, Go Away

“The colossal plane?” Leo asked, blinking at the reveal that Steel and his companions were heading toward the same place they were. “How come?”

“‘How come?’” Steel repeated, chuckling as he shook his head. “Do you have any idea how rare discovering a new colossal plane is?...

[PLD] 29. Waterlogged Pioneers

As much as Leo disliked the scorpion magical beasts hidden within the sands of this plane, he was forced to admit that the desert was excellent for continuing their growth. The birds flying overhead only dove down to attack during the night in an attempt to utilize the cover of darkness, and the ...

[PLD] 28. Skill Synergy

Unfortunately, the birds that had nearly claimed their lives ended up being Grade 12 beasts, which explained their marginal intelligence. That meant Leo’s soul wasn’t actually strong enough to hold one of their gems just yet, and Taylor would have to give up both her gems in order to do so, w...