“I’m listening.”
“I can give you a powerful spell that anyone can use, regardless of their affinity. It takes some effort to meet the requirements, but I promise you it’s worth it.” Percy explained.
“What tier?”
“Refined.”
Some disappointment flashed in...
2025-03-24 07:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostPercy dragged Nesha through the Whistling Woods, the two sprinting in the darkness. The moonless sky wasn’t doing them any favours as they struggled to avoid crashing into a tree. Plus, they were out of breath already. Still, he ignored the exhaustion, striving to buy as much time as possible a...
2025-03-24 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“You know… saving you would have been a lot easier if you’d tried running towards me instead of standing there, waiting to be rescued like a moron…” Percy said once he was back on his feet.
Then, he helped the prisoner up, as the guy seemed incapable of standing by h...
2025-03-23 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostEarlier
Jason had grown sick of tasting his own blood, but he couldn’t help it. Biting his cheek was a habit he’d inadvertently picked up over the last couple of months. By now, it had grown a little out of hand.
He’d already chosen to ignore multiple calls from...
2025-03-23 07:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe wine glass shattered into sand, the liquid vaporizing instantly as a tremor ran through the mansion.
‘What the hell was that?!’
It made no sense! At first, the kid had merely screamed his lungs out like a lunatic – just like he’d done last year. But he hadn’t se...
2025-03-22 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostPercy allowed his thoughts to sink into the ethereal cord in his sternum, watching the live feed provided by Micky with bated breath, as the crow shared his senses with him.
His blood flow had greatly slowed, an oppressive feeling of numbness enveloping his body from beak to talon. Micky di...
2025-03-22 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMana spilled out of the prisoner’s pores, shrouding his body in a cyan mist. Like with Percy’s Synchronization, the influx of mana was simply too much to fit inside one’s channels. The only way to survive the technique was to let this excess out, essentially storing it externally.
But...
2025-03-21 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostTwo weeks went by in a flash, as everyone pushed themselves to their very limits.
Percy didn’t actually get to spend much time with Nesha. Even when the two got a few minutes together, they were typically too tired to talk. From what little they did speak, however, he understood she was a...
2025-03-21 07:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe trio’s hurried steps echoed through the long corridor as they rushed to reach the auditorium on time. And they weren’t alone, several latecomers practically running by their side. Yet, Percy’s thoughts were far removed from the Mana Flow lecture right now.
‘I can’t believe...
2025-03-20 07:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next hour or so, Percy brought Baldy up to speed on the mushrooms. Of course, he’d already briefed him on his plans previously, but it wasn’t until now that he’d come to understand his ingredients better.
At first, he didn’t expect his grandpa to be too intere...
2025-03-20 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you sure about it?” one of the guards asked.
“Look at it yourself – the runes are blinking!” the other replied. “This only happens when the tanks drop below 25%.”
The first guy raised an eyebrow.
“Is there’s something wrong with the enchantment?” he aske...
2025-03-19 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostPercy spent the next few hours brewing Aurora Dew and healing potions, though his mind had drifted elsewhere. He was thinking over his idea, fleshing out the details. Alchemic principles were typically quite broad and could be applied in several ways. While pacification, redirection and deattunem...
2025-03-19 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAll things considered, going through the notebooks had been relatively straightforward. Percy had merely had to replicate a few well-defined exercises, without much room for interpretation. And he’d been generously rewarded for his efforts – both at a personal level and with respect to his ho...
2025-03-18 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostPercy’s training session only lasted a couple of hours, though to him they felt closer to years. And that was despite Galahad cutting him some slack every few minutes or so, to keep him from passing out. By the time they were done, Percy wasn’t even sure he had improved in the slightest. If t...
2025-03-18 07:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSomething warm trickled down Percy’s chin, soaking the fur on his neck. The smell of iron filled his nostrils, his brain feeling like jelly. But he endured.
More importantly, his concentration stretched like a rubber band – or perhaps, like a slingshot, shooting shrapnel through his sku...
2025-03-17 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostIn the end, Percy managed to brew a couple healing potions by nightfall. In fact, things went even more smoothly than he’d originally expected. He only wasted a handful of mushrooms before learning to extract their essence properly. If he’d known it would be this easy, he would have brewed so...
2025-03-17 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostGlancing around, he quickly spotted a strange circle in the middle of the room. It was covered in even more enchantments than everything else, clearly protecting something extremely valuable. And Percy knew exactly what it was.
The Wiseman’s Dust.
There was an indentation inside the...
2025-03-16 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post‘Finally, I can get started on this!’ Percy rubbed his hands in anticipation.
Perhaps he was a little too excited to be working on his somewhat disturbing project… But who could blame him? He genuinely enjoyed alchemy, and he’d been looking forward to brewing potions for a ...
2025-03-16 07:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostPercy arrived at the designated lounge an hour early, unwilling to waste even a second of his time in the Wiseman’s Chamber.
“Good morning, sir.” an attendant greeted him with a deep bow.
He was an older Orange-born. Not quite at Blue yet, though a few silver streaks ran through...
2025-03-15 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostSeveral days earlier
A frog hopped atop a protrusion jutting out of the mud, its rhythmic croaks echoing within the depths of the bog. Big mistake on its part…
Suddenly, a mound of dirt surged outwards, startling the poor creature. Frightened, it leapt away, trying ...
2025-03-15 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostPercy carefully poured the contents of the cauldron into the funnel, counting each droplet as it trickled into the pinkie-sized vial.
‘…99… 100… 101.’
Technically, this was already more than a full dose – enough to meet Dugris’s objective. But Percy didn’t rus...
2025-03-14 07:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post‘I wish Percy was here…’ Micky lamented as he stuffed his face with the fifth goblin core.
While the Whistling Woods were a nostalgic place for both of them, it was especially so for him. After all, some of his earliest memories were of him and Percy hunting here togethe...
2025-03-14 07:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostA soft flame burned over Lyn’s palm, bathing their surroundings in its golden radiance. Percy had to admit, he was impressed she could maintain the spell for so long with just an Orange core.
From what she’d explained, the trick lay in diffusing the fire mana through multiple channels b...
2025-03-13 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostIn the end, it didn’t matter much whether Elaine and Nesha rushed or not, as they still had to wait for Percy to wash up too. Owain was a highly impressionable toddler by now, and Elaine had no intention of bringing a veritable caveman along to meet him.
“Looking much better!” she exc...
2025-03-13 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostMore lumps formed inside the cauldron than usual, as the fungal tar Percy had added to the concoction had greatly raised its viscosity. The good news was that the lumps caused by the mud mana were much easier to dissolve than the ones which emerged due to the healing potion itself.
The only...
2025-03-12 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostNesha stood still, basking in the water’s warmth as dozens of tiny rivulets splashed on her shoulders, before trickling down her back, gently caressing her. Only after a few minutes of silent appreciation did she begrudgingly step out of the stream. She didn’t want to keep Elaine waiting for ...
2025-03-12 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few weeks passed by in a flash.
True to his word, Percy didn’t miss a single class since he cleared the air with Dugris. Even better, he made great progress in his studies, learning all sorts of valuable things every single day.
Cosmic Studies, in particular, was the highli...
2025-03-11 07:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post“How?!” Galahad asked, unable to fathom how Nesha and Percy could have possibly taken a single Green out. Let alone four of them.
Even Archibald was taken aback, though he did know a little more than his son. Percy hadn’t mentioned Micky earlier, but the crow should have...
2025-03-11 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAs expected, the Pre-casting class was a downright humiliating experience for Percy. Even worse, unlike the hard time he’d suffered unjustly in Alchemy 10 thanks to Dugris’s pettiness, he knew he fully deserved Mr. Lonan’s cold treatment.
Against the man’s advice, he had insisted on...
2025-03-10 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostPercy was about to start explaining everything to his uncle and grandpa, when somebody knocked on the door. And they did so rather eagerly too. Grabbing his bandage again from Baldy’s desk, he was about to put it back on, though he relaxed upon hearing the person speak.
“Grandp...
2025-03-10 07:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post