As I trudged along throughout the day, I was once again left more or less unscathed. While I did have to spook away another small pack of coyotes, and one arctic fox got a little too defensive over my intrusion into its territory, but all things considered, it wasn’t too terribly difficult.&nbs...
2024-06-25 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostI bit my lip.
Surely Edgar couldn’t object to me taking a few of the bulbs, right? I would leave plenty of them growing in the surrounding area, which should ensure the environment was able to make up for the small loss.
Extending a touch of life mana into Enhance Plant ...
2024-06-24 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostTrenton Elide was sitting in his wheelchair, turning over four potion bottles in his hands. All four were for the magesight arch-star, and each one had been an incredible resource.
But he couldn’t give all of them away. The other noble houses would never allow that.
That...
2024-06-23 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostJanice Littlefoot was hawking her goods in a medium sized farming town when the light exploded from the clock towers. Caught off guard, she dropped the book she’d been waving around, and had to dive to catch it before it splattered into the mud.
As she stared into the light of the t...
2024-06-22 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis next bit will probably read a lot smoother as a book than as a serial, but I really want to give a sense of just how big the magic really was. So there will be three parts to this intermission. If you get annoyed of it by the third day of it, I'm sorry!
- 2024-06-21 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Book One of Mana Mirror is now out on Amazon! It has a chapter that was added in, not seen on Royal Road, and has a lot of polish, as well as a few lore drops that have been sprinkled in.
It is up on Kindle Unlimited, as well as for normal ordering. The audiobook is up for ...
2024-06-20 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThere will be a post about this later, but Mana Mirror is out now, and the Archmage is up for pre-order!
Mana Mirror: https://www.amazon.com/Mana-...
2024-06-20 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostOut of the eighty plus people who were standing there, more than twenty of them immediately broke through to ascend. I wasn’t entirely sure how they all managed it, without the excess amounts of mana that were needed to manage the breakthrough, but they did.
I had theories, of cours...
2024-06-19 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s… a lot,” I said as I gave the tortoise some dried apple slices from dusk’s realm for it being so helpful.
“I can imagine,” Kene said. “You’ve got quite a mishmash of beast magic at this point. Primes, you might be as inhuman as me or Kamal now.”
T...
2024-06-18 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostI scratched my chin in thought, and then my eyes flew wide as I let out a gasp.
“What?!” Kene asked, magic spiraling out of his hands already.
“Feel my chin!” I said, elated, jutting my chin out a little bit. Kene ran their fingers over it, feeling the tiny amount ...
2024-06-17 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostI leapt out of my seat and floated down into the arena, landing next to Willow. One of the guards actually tried to release a force lance right at me, but I broke it apart before it could even finish forming.
“Congratulations!” I beamed.
I had wanted to congratulate he...
2024-06-16 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIf I had been Willow, I would have attempted to draw out the fight. Use less burners than my enemy cast spells, and rely on the fact that I had two charges of force armor – one of which was hyper-efficient – to hold out.
Willow, apparently, thought differently, as she whipped thre...
2024-06-15 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostBeen in a bit of a short story mood recently, not sure why... Ah, well. What can you do?
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While estragon might clutch yearly, and even terragon have a successful mating cycle once every decade, dragons rarely have more than one child a century. Some ...
2024-06-14 21:30:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe second day, I was far less accosted by nobility. I wasn’t sure if that was their way of attempting to punish me for the stunt that I’d pulled the day before, or if they’d just burnt themselves out the day before, but I was grateful for it either way.
Once again, there were l...
2024-06-14 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHeya! This is just a heads up that there may be a short lag in Archmage chapters during July 4th - 7th, as I'll be traveling to visit my grandparents, who are across the country. I'll try to get out what I can, but I can't guarantee chapters that week, sorry!
- 2024-06-13 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a warning, this one has a lot of curse words and a mention of drugs. Reader discretion is advised.
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A sharp pulse of abnegation mana struck Cora’s left arm, slipping through the table she was crouching behind a a shield. For a moment, the dul...
2024-06-12 18:07:22 +0000 UTC View PostEdgar and I spoke for nearly an hour about Dragontooth’s environment. The tortoise was ancient, well over two hundred years old, and remembered when the glaciers had been in entirely different positions. He told me that these were slow glaciers, but even still, across the span of his life, they...
2024-06-12 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostIt took us nearly two hours, but eventually, the shop was clean. Agnes seemed to know with uncanny accuracy when we’d missed even the smallest patches of dust.
The old woman, of course, would never do anything so helpful as tell us where it was, just telling us that we’d missed a ...
2024-06-11 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostPuinen, as it turned out, was absolutely frigid. Coming from Mossford, I thought I was used to the cold. Even the snowy port city we’d landed in had been chilly, but manageable.
As we left the station and walked into Puinen, however, I could feel the freezing cold energy biting thro...
2024-06-10 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostIt was always fun to watch an archmage approach, and I was curious to see how someone who Draven notably looked down on would manage it. Of the three that I’d seen, I honestly thought that Frank’s had been the most impressive. For all that he had been an abusive father, callous murderer, and ...
2024-06-09 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOpe, sorry about that! Poll has been deleted, but I clicked too early!
2024-06-08 16:19:22 +0000 UTC View PostDuring the weeks my classes were working on their final projects, I rounded out the work with the spell that Oberon had traded to me while also starting working on the metal spell I’d use to carve the relays.
The metal spell, at least, was a fun challenge, and getting it to manipulate all...
2024-06-08 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Welcome, everyone,” I told them, smiling, even as I fed power to the foci Mellt and I had created for practice. “I’m afraid our final unit is going to be a bit of a boring one, but if you manage to ride through it, I’m confident you’ll find it useful. Now, something I’ve tried my b...
2024-06-07 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostI completed Oracle’s bracer the following week, alongside the veils for Osheen, to give him some time to practice with them. After that, I started working on the training wands.
Those proved to be an interesting problem to puzzle over. Building them with human magic was a well-estab...
2024-06-06 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt was easy to dismiss Ed as stupid. Even he admitted that he’d struggled in school, and he’d been called stupid plenty by the kids who he’d gone to school with. It was a nice school, after all. Not one his dad would normally have been able to have them attend, if he hadn’t plopped his ba...
2024-06-05 12:16:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe vendor sold long strips of smoked eel with a lovely tangy mustard. I’d never had eel before, be it smoked, fried, raw, or any other way, but it was pretty good, and it was more than long enough for Kene and I to share.
Kene’s grandmother apparently asked to leave Dusk’s real...
2024-06-04 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Sure,” I finally said. “As long as you’re fine with it?”
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Kene and I disembarked the boat at the Dragontooth stop before hurrying to the harbourmaster’s office, which had four lines for people coming into the country, a faster one for simple one day or less visits that...
2024-06-03 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ve got a solution to our power problem,” I told our little group as we sat around one of Tara’s tables.
“Oh?” Tara asked, giving me a curious look.
“We’ll use Yesgol’s aura and remaining life force to power it,” I said.
“What do you mean, rem...
2024-06-02 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post