The last class choice puzzled Orion for a while. It wasn’t that he couldn’t understand why he’d gotten it, since he had certainly spent enough time around witches of the Lunar Sanctum and the worship of the Moon Mother, but while for every other class, he could identify one moment that trig...
2025-10-28 18:00:28 +0000 UTC View PostFor a moment, Nick thought he was back in Floria, witnessing a goddess walk the earth, wearing the skin of a man who had dedicated his life to her, and who would be left an almost empty shell.
Then reality asserted itself again, and he was back in Alluria, flying over the rooftops while his...
2025-10-28 18:00:27 +0000 UTC View PostThere was pressure at the back of Orion’s mind, and he knew that if he allowed it in, he’d start the rank-up process.
After so long working tirelessly in his lab, chasing down creatures he, by all rights, should have kept far away from, it felt strange that it was finally here.
He...
2025-10-27 18:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostFire magic wasn’t a field Nick had ever taken an interest in.
He knew its potential, even beyond the sheer destruction it could cause, was enormous. It was perhaps the oldest form of elemental magic, dating back even before man’s attempts to communicate with higher powers, and that was ...
2025-10-27 18:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe lots auctioned in the second block were clearly of higher quality. Even beyond the Shadow Ore, which Nick had tried to subtly examine for remnants of his father’s mana signature but hadn’t been able to get a good read on before it was taken away, the Fossilized Thousand-Year Root, Golden ...
2025-10-25 17:08:07 +0000 UTC View PostA low hum filled the hall as a third set of wards activated, and the doors closed, sealing everyone inside. This new layer seemed more designed to cloud and muddle the senses of anyone attempting to scry into the theater rather than acting as an additional defensive barrier, but Nick wasn’t sur...
2025-10-24 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostCrystalline plates jutted from the new lizard’s shoulders and spine like knives. Veins of yellow-white streaked through the mineral, pulsing faintly with stored light mana. Its eyes were pits beneath a crown of glass, and its tongue was a rope with a spike at the tip, flexing in wait.
It ...
2025-10-24 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, isn’t that something?” Devon chuckled, eyeing him up and down.
Nick resisted the urge to tug at his clothes. He would have preferred wearing his usual outfit of a cloak and sturdy adventuring clothes underneath, but while it might have been acceptable for him to enter the castl...
2025-10-23 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe ceremonies after the vote were supposed to be private, since oaths needed to be taken to make sure Antares had only the best intentions toward the Collegium before he could take his seat, but the man found the time to pop up to the balcony and tell them he’d like to see them again soon.
... 2025-10-23 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostGetting any time alone with Tholm proved to be surprisingly difficult. The man always seemed distracted, either by his apprentices needing his help with their projects, by other mages passing by his floor to commission work or request help restoring ancient artifacts, or even by messages he appea...
2025-10-22 17:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostJeers erupted. Several conversations quickly turned into arguments as three people tried to jump down from their positions and directly address the two main parties. The chamber was heading toward chaos.
Yztet raised a weathered hand and snapped his fingers, and thunder answered his call. 2025-10-22 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Nick waited to see if the big guy would join his fellow guards in chasing down the shadow thief, but unfortunately, this one seemed skilled at his job and ignored anything that would pull him away from his post.
Should I go back outside and enter through the window? No, it’s heavily d...
2025-10-21 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostNow that the worst seemed to be over, Orion tugged at his mother’s sleeve and was finally let go.
“What’s going to happen now?” He murmured as the crowd of Archmages whispered, moving toward the Senate building while the two contenders eyed each other but made no further hostile mov...
2025-10-21 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostFor a moment, Orion feared his good luck had finally run out and that the tension would finally explode into violence.
The two robed men who blocked their path to the Senate clearly seemed to have aggressive intentions, but for some reason, they stopped a few steps back, keeping their hands...
2025-10-20 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post“Haven’t you done enough damage? Any sane man would lay low for a while after stirring up that vampire nest. Now you want information about which noble to rob?” One-Ear asked, exasperated, but the fact that he was still standing there and had answered Nick’s summons meant he wasn’t as m...
2025-10-20 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostLife was strange. Similar to magic, using the same exact components at different times could produce very unexpected results, especially if whoever was in control lacked complete mastery of the process.
Osmod would know. He had been exiled from the Tower less than four months ago. His...
2025-10-19 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“And this is the last of it,” Mr. Bloom sighed as another pouch of jingling gold coins was placed on his desk by his aide.
This past month of partnership with Nick to sell the Thunderhoof herd clearly benefited the man, as his warehouse had expanded into the next one over, and his once ...
2025-10-18 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“You can’t be seriously considering this!” Naerys shouted. Without his glasses, which were sorely missed, he couldn’t get a clear sense of her power, but given her position as Antares’s only apprentice, Orion thought she had to be at least in the second tier, especially considering her ...
2025-10-17 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“You must understand, the only potential buyers for this beyond House Alluria are all local noble houses. Establishments such as the Antler & Ink, for all that they wage a fierce war for high-quality monster meat, lack the cash reserves to buy out that many matriarchs," Statius said, leanin...
2025-10-17 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostThat night, Nick would have his last session with Lasazar for the foreseeable future, which, if it was anything like what he’d just gone through, would require him to be at full strength.
Fortunately, he only had one task to complete today before he could finally get into bed again and le...
2025-10-16 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostOrion could see the question form on the girl’s lips, the demand to know who the hell they were, before her brain caught up with her eyes, and she swallowed it back.
He wasn’t much better. There was a clear resemblance between them, though not as strong as with Antares, which couldn’t...
2025-10-16 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post[Corruption’s Bane] proved more than capable of reversing the damage caused by the Footman, and once its miasma was thoroughly cleansed, Nick was able to direct it at the demon itself.
Eerily, it emitted no cry of pain, nor did it appear to suffer at all, though it was hard to tell, given...
2025-10-15 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostYue and Siuth disappeared soon after, presumably to deal with the most aggressive of Ulysses’ supporters who might try to block their way. Or to prepare in case our attempt goes wrong. Who knows with the Elder?
Orion wasn’t sure how a witch’s presence could be justified here,...
2025-10-15 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostNick watched Lasazar work silently, trying to understand how this latest revelation made him feel.
That Archmage Hone would interfere with his education directly annoyed him, but realistically, there was little he could do to make the man pay now, other than taking it out on his son and app...
2025-10-14 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostA tiny problem came up in Orion’s mind after hearing what they were asking him to do.
“You do know I’ve only talked to the man once, right? He didn’t strike me as the sentimental type either, so I doubt I could convince him to change his mind when he’s made it clear he doesn’t w...
2025-10-14 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThough Nick was tempted to grab the two thugs and parade them around the Tower to send a message, he wasn’t sure he could handle the backlash that would come from openly challenging Hone’s authority, so he left them in the dueling room with only a few parting words.
“I don’t care ab...
2025-10-13 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostOnly one level remained before Orion could rank up. The urgent desire to do something, anything, to earn the remaining experience was incredibly hard to ignore, but he’d just spent two days locked in his lab working on [Null Light], and he was pretty sure that if he stayed there a little longer...
2025-10-13 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostCONGRATULATIONS!
You have defeated [Warren H. Gardy - Lv 52]
+31.010 Exp
That’s way too little experience, but then again, I’m not killing him, and I kinda dominated the fight. Hopefully, his friend will give me a little...
2025-10-11 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostAnd things had been going so well, Orion had the time to lament, before the urgency of the situation grew too great, and he prepared for what he was pretty sure would be be a suicidal fight.
That was, until the two vampires who had tried to hit on his mother were swallowed by a wav...
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