“And that, my friend, is a golden nugget that should be shared with your teammates,” Baelin said to Thundar, giving him an encouraging smile. “Would you mind expanding on that point?”
The minotaur looked uncomfortable. “Well…I know I was talking like I was a twenty foot...
2022-12-28 22:13:06 +0000 UTC View Post“A spectacle?” Alex asked, settling into a wide, cozy chair with Theresa beside him, arms wrapped around his. She snuggled up while Brutus curled up at their feet.
“Indeed,” the chancellor said. “Unfortunately, that conflict was…taxing, shall we say? Very taxing. You were combat...
2022-12-27 21:53:11 +0000 UTC View Post“You leave them alone!” Hart roared, an uncharacteristic note of fear in his voice. The champion cut down all demons in close proximity to his blade as he pushed ahead, stalking the towering fiend like the reaper. “I’ll split you from crotch to crown!”
He shot forward with a war c...
2022-12-24 20:53:05 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ll be takin’ the last one’s head!” Cedric shouted, flying toward the demon, his spear blazing with Uldar’s divinity.
Alex raised his staff.
But a slight doubt kept nagging at the back of his mind.
They’d come to the hells with a lot of power and they’d hit the...
2022-12-23 23:10:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Bang! Bang! Bang!” Osshar grumbled, his fangs grinding as the chamber’s main doors boomed on their hinges. “All this banging’s driving me mad! Why aren’t we attacking?”
He scrutinised his brothers—lip curling in distaste at minor imperfections marring the otherwise perfect ...
2022-12-23 00:30:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe slaughter was just that: an undeniable rout; quick, brutal and one-sided.
Minus their wizard, the demons fell into chaos, trampling each other, fighting to get claws and fangs into prey bold enough to attack their necromancer. More frenzied tiashivas seemed to lose all reason, slashing ...
2022-12-21 23:49:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Dammit,” Alex swore to himself, replaying what had just happened in his head.
The image of that hellhound clamped onto Theresa’s arm was seared in his mind, along with the thought of what could have happened if she wasn’t wearing magical chainmail. Considering he blamed himself, it...
2022-12-20 23:49:13 +0000 UTC View PostDuring the time Alex and company were considering the best way to infiltrate Cawarthin and accomplish the mission Baelin had assigned to them, they’d agreed that a silent intrusion into the demon domain would be their best chance. The plan was to slip into the realm like ghosts, enter the Hold,...
2022-12-17 23:23:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe massive hinges groaned, screeching like blue annis hags as Grimloch and Claygon pushed the door shut.
“Shit,” Alex swore, looking down the abandoned hallway for guards poised to sound the alarm.
Around him, the party tensed…but no guards appeared and no alarm was raised.
... 2022-12-17 00:36:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe hellish jungle reeked. A harsh stench like ammonia, mixed with rot, rankness, and a miasma of composting floral scents assaulted Alex’s nostrils like a weapon. Grimacing, the young wizard exited the portal, quickly wrapping his cloak tail around his nostrils; ahead, he could hear Brutus whi...
2022-12-16 01:27:18 +0000 UTC View PostHello everybody!
I can finally announce that MARK OFTHE FOOL IS GETTING A COMIC! I'm so excited. A lot of my web novel reading came as a segue from manga and so this is truly, truly exciting for me. :)
2022-12-16 01:27:06 +0000 UTC
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“What do you mean?” Alex asked, concern plain in his tone.
Baelin turned back to his class with a grim look. “In short, my spell-marks cannot transfer you across planes.”
A heavy silence filled the air as Drestra raised her hand. “What are these spell-marks?”
“I sh...
2022-12-14 21:09:47 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh that sounds bloody charmin’,” Cedric growled. “The hell’s a terror-field?”
“Yes, it most assuredly is since it does carry an aura of terror that hangs over the entire domain,” Isolde said. “This aura is concentrated within the hold of Ikarrash himself. It attacks the m...
2022-12-13 20:40:34 +0000 UTC View Post“Hello to you all and welcome to a new semester and our first session of the Art of the Wizard in Combat. It promises to be a rather special session indeed,” Baelin addressed the class as his students collected themselves. “As you know, within the hour we will be venturing into the hells on...
2022-12-10 21:29:21 +0000 UTC View PostCarey felt like she was going to be sick. Frayed nerves and anxiety ran through her like carpenter ants gnawing through rotten wood, consuming her peace, cold sweat beaded on her skin since she’d awoken that morning.
She’d felt lightheaded during Watcher Hill’s briefing, and positivel...
2022-12-09 23:16:50 +0000 UTC View PostA wealth of lessons followed Merzhin through a life spent in the church—his home and sanctuary. And though he did not quote them to each and everyone around him—as they had been uttered by the mouths of mortals and not the holy word of Uldar—that did not mean that he had not called on them ...
2022-12-08 23:39:14 +0000 UTC View PostCurious students paused their combat practice, watching as Alex used his staff for the first time. Calling on the Mark, he guided his mana through the fibres of powerful crystal and mana-infused wood, finding each control faster and with more precision.
He conjured elementals, devil-vipers,...
2022-12-07 23:55:42 +0000 UTC View PostAlex brought his thoughts back to present, eager to finish up and get home to his staff.
‘What was Toraka just saying?’ He wondered. ‘Oh yeah, she was talking about students and how limited knowledge was a bad thing.’
He picked up a block of iron with a sturdy pair of tongs, a...
2022-12-07 01:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Mr. Roth, I was hoping I’d find you here,” a quiet voice came over Alex’s shoulder, startling the young wizard.
“Professor Jules.” Alex wheeled around in his chair, half-rising as his alchemy professor plopped down in a seat beside him.
At the other end of the table—and...
2022-12-03 16:04:46 +0000 UTC View Post“And then! And then!” Thundar slammed his fist on the table. “She said that drinking water is bad for you! Can you believe that shit?”
Alex froze, looking up from the spell-guide for greater force armour. “Are…are you serious?”
“As death!” Thundar m...
2022-12-02 19:47:51 +0000 UTC View PostIn a panic, Thundar scrambled to get ready for his date.
“Shit, shit, why the hell didn’t I listen to Alex?” The minotaur cursed, running a stiff comb through his fur. He checked his teeth in the mirror, making sure they were sparkling white, and didn’t have any bits of food between...
2022-12-01 20:28:46 +0000 UTC View Post“I do not understand why you three have banned me from a cabal meeting!” Isolde shouted through Khalik’s door, knocking insistently. “Theresa said that Roth mumbled something about a…war council? If we are going to war, then I see no reason to exclude me in such an arbitrary fashion!”...
2022-11-30 23:39:59 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Alex Roth had so confidently declared that he would have a staff all ready for their next battle, he didn't know conflict was just over the horizon.
Though, it would prove to be far from typical.
It had all begun one pleasant morning at the Generasi dockside.
The day hadn...
2022-11-30 00:16:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Now that we’ve got our mana core liquified, we have to apply it to the false roots,” Alex explained to his golem.
‘Father…I have a question,’ Claygon said.
“I love it when you have questions.” Alex put the processor down so he could check the temperature of h...
2022-11-26 23:15:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe one incident topping the list of things that truly convinced Alex of how key having the power of Elder Blodeuwedd’s mana ejection potion at hand would be, was the invisible Ravener-spawn attack against him, his friends and the other expedition members in the Research Castle courtyard. He’...
2022-11-26 00:13:41 +0000 UTC View PostAs Alex had learned over many, many long days and nights of careful research, there were a host of methods an alchemist could use to craft a staff.
In the most ancient days of magic, wizards’ staffs were forged by way of blood sacrifice to a powerful demon, devil, or other spirit, one who...
2022-11-25 00:29:55 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, Claygon, it seems like we’ll be here for the next twenty hours or so. And, ugh—if I could slap that Govert in his stupid, unsanitary face, I would.” Alex grimaced as he finished scrubbing years of grease, stains, and hardened batter from the kitchen’s central island and flung ano...
2022-11-23 23:22:22 +0000 UTC View Post“I mean…” Alex stammered. “But…I don’t have a bank account.”
“Really?” Toraka Shale frowned. “You’ve been in the city for how long and you never opened a bank account?”
“Um…” His mind refused to cooperate, unable to string even two coherent thoughts toget...
2022-11-23 00:11:28 +0000 UTC View Post“I do have a question for you, Alex,” Toraka Shale tented her fingers before her. “This…substance, the one you indicated in your schematics. I’ve heard rumblings about something coming from that expedition of Vernia’s. I take it this has something to do with that? She’s bee...
2022-11-19 21:49:47 +0000 UTC View Post“First of all,” Khalik began, flipping to the beginning of Alex’s proposal. “Understand that these things I am about to tell come from lords beseeching their king, not a subordinate beseeching their boss. The situations are similar, but not equivalent. For example—” He ran his finger ...
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