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Chapter 79

The last two weeks had been an exercise in frustration for both the conscripts and the guard units. Ever since they lost the bugs the two future barons had formed a firm front to take every precaution before accepting a battle. This had lost them almost all of the ground they had gained with the ...

Chapter 78

With the new loot being taken care of, Ajax proceeded to enjoy his meal. There was quite a bit he wanted to talk about with Tom and Kate but all of that would need to wait until they were in private. Despite the rarity of the shadowcat its presence was little more than a short interest to the res...

Chapter 77

The trip back to the camp took quite a while longer than Ajax would have liked. The sun was already starting to go down despite him leaving late in the morning. It wasn’t something that could have been helped however. Had he known about the location of everything it would have been a much short...

Chapter 76

Both Ajax and the fish were locked in a stalemate. The fish was not as strong as Hatchet and Ajax had gotten pretty close in power to him so with the difference in strength it should be an alright risk to take under normal circumstances.

But these weren’t normal circumstances. Not only wa...

Chapter 75

Ajax woke up late in the morning, he had a hard time going to sleep from the itching, not only that but his stamina was near bottomed out from the day of fighting. He was used to spending his stamina but not with the repeated use of it for an entire day was something else that left him drained. 2022-07-12 14:07:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 74

Ajax was mindlessly petting Fluffy while Kate was finishing up on his wounds. Both the cut on his arm and shoulder were fully healed while the one on his shin was halfway there as well.

“This is as much as I can do for now.” Kate said as she bandaged his leg. “According to orders, we ...

Chapter 73

After a good night’s sleep the whole army came together early. They started marching right as the sun began to rise. Everyone that was going to fight today had been told to go to sleep early and those that stayed behind had to pull a double shift on the lookout. Not only that but they were also...

Chapter 72

As Ajax and the rest of his unit made it back to the main campgrounds they reunited with the other two guard units that were thwarting flanks. They had an even larger success than we did as while their flanks were larger in number, they were also on foot and only contained one guard unit instead ...

Chapter 71

The next morning the entire unit woke up early. We moved together and headed to set up our ambush. It could have been argued that our tactic of using the horse trained commands and an amplification spell to get the cavalry to stop and run into each other was an unfair move, but the commands could...

Chapter 70

As the shadow cat polished off the reminder of the food the commander inspected it. He seemed to also be looking for something specific.

“How do you know that this is a shadow cat?” he finally asked.

“The prompt I got for forming the bond said that a shadow cat wanted to form a ...

Chapter 69

Ajax was extremely pleased with how today had gone, it was the final day of their solo trapping and he had managed to not alert the camp of his movements in the area. That is not to say that he didn’t trip any of the traps, he knew he wasn’t good enough for that, so instead he worked his way ...

Chapter 68

Tom P.O.V

I watched as Ajax quickly left the main camp and made for ours. I was surprised to see how quick he reacted and managed to put a defensive position not just for himself but also for me. The speed with which his mana reacted was what surprised me the most. I had never seen a mage u...

Chapter 67

That discussion had ended with both Tom and Kate taking their time to comprehend his situation. Ajax was most likely one of the top five fighters in this unit and could make the push to get into the top three, which was not something they had expected.

Tom knew that both the commander and h...

Chapter 66

The rest of the day Ajax spent doing the same tasks as all the other hunters. As he got assigned to another of the quadrants that they had split the surrounding area into and proceeded to hunt for a few boars. The area was relatively full of them and by the end of his time there he had killed fou...

Slight delay

I'm really not happy with how chapter 66 has turned out so far. I've rewritten it twice and am still not happy with it. Therefore the chapter will be delayed a bit but I will make sure to still get it out today. 

Chapter 65

Ajax was conflicted about how to go about reporting that the bug had been placed. On the one hand he didn’t want to draw any more attention to himself than absolutely necessary, on the other hand he wanted this whole thing to end as quickly as possible, which is why he went to plant the bug in ...

Chapter 64

As they were finishing setting up their tent one of the two guards they saw at the command tent came over to grab Tom.

“Tom, you are to get ready to meet the nobles. It seems the final group will arrive at the base camp in a few minutes.” he said.

Tom nodded and proceeded to get c...

Chapter 63

As Waleter led the three towards their commander’s tent they all exchanged some worried looks. After the conversation he had with Kate the previous night as well as the talk through their whole march Ajax was feeling rather good about this whole situation. Sure being conscripted was not exactly...

Chapter 62

The guards working under commander Grievous managed to set up a much better camp than I expected. After all this was only just a one night stop before we would reach the meeting place where the Baron’s son and whatever other noble commanders would join us and the rest of the conscripts. The ter...

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Chapter 61

Tom P.O.V.

“Wow, he must be really talented then. After all, he caught up in level with you.” His light statement rendered the room silent for a few long seconds.

“HE WHAT???” Kate, the commander and myself all exploded after we processed what Walter just said.

“How do...

Chapter 60

After Kate dropped that bombshell Ajax went through explaining everything that happened again and how he got conscripted. It was quite heartening to see that the captain had the same reaction when he thought that a member of the guard conscripted him as Tom did, both having been very similar to K...

Chapter 59

As Ajax started to walk away from the amused receptionist and the fuming recruiter a wave of laughter broke out from the tables across the room. All of the attendees were adventurers and despite their merry attitude and drinking they all had enough perception and innate curiosity to pay attention...

Chapter 58

“Hello, by order of the lord you are hereby conscripted, you are to present yourself to the Guard hall in two days time”

The words ring in my ears, I stay there motionless trying to comprehend what the man is saying. It all seems so surreal to me. After all this effort I spent trying to...

Chapter 57

Thinking through what the most recent Achievements he received meant I calmed down a lot. It seemed that 500 was the minimal threshold for which someone would receive an Achievement like this. Getting a total of 500 in four of the stats by the end of the Apprentice trait didn’t seem that diffic...

Chapter 56

I was breathing hard from the floor of the cavern where we had our little spar. For the first time ever [Judge Threat] had given me no indication of anything. Before I spent my free stat points it used to give me a sure death feeling when used on Hatchet but now it returned absolutely nothing. Th...

Chapter 55

With his new punishment in effect Ajax found himself a lot more restrained. This worked out very well for his new training regiment. Hatchet took the time that whole first day in sparring with him to ensure that he wouldn’t hurt people accidentally with his new strength. Most level twenty-fours...

Chapter 54

Ajax was quite miffed at the achievement. He was also a little upset that he wouldn’t get the weaker version of the +5 to all stats as well as the +10. Even so the amount of stats he gained was four levels worth so he was definitely glad about it.

That was not the only notice to be flashi...

Chapter 53

The appearance of the Punishment was a great surprise to Ajax. Despite the fact that this punishment will be all but obsolete in the coming weeks, with him spending his free stats any experience he was going to get from fighting things that far below his level would have been shot from the extrem...

Chapter 52

Hatchet P.O.V

It might have taken almost five years of constant training but the kids' dedication sure paid off. Despite not having placed any points his stats were all at least above 50, at least from what he had been able to figure out. It was hard to get a read on the exact levels consid...