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Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 228

There was silence between us for a few seconds while I stared at Santon suspiciously. “What kind of favor?”

“Oh, nothing much, just two jobs that are in the nearby regions. Easy, right?” he said as he took two folders from his suitcase and slid them over to me.

I took the fold...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 227

When the chirps of alarm started, hippogriff chicks, that were the size of medium-sized dogs, all got to their feet and backed away from me, to the back of the nest. Most of them cowered behind the front row of their siblings, while eight of them stood in front of their siblings, chirped at me ag...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 226

After an hour of entering the woods, we had to leave the horses behind due to the thick vegetation and go on foot. As for the direction, it was an easy assumption to make, as beasts are not in the habit of leaving false trails, so we just followed the straight line of where the blood trail led fr...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 167

That night, as almost everyone went to rest in preparation for what was to come tomorrow, Grud spoke to Mita, who was resting inside of him.

That night, as almost everyone went to rest in preparation for what was to come tomorrow, Grud spoke to Mita, who was resting inside of him. [Mita, ca...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 166

After chasing off their pursuers and checking on their casualties, despite losing three men and a few others sustaining minor injuries, this haul was a great victory. And as the men distributed the loot to where it was needed the most, Grud gave and received a few congratulatory backpats before e...

Update

Hi Guys

I am still alive... barely. Sorry for the late uploads, I have been swarmped my my day job, and by the time I get back home, I am too tired to do any writing. But my tasks are done and out of the way, so I can get back to it.

Here is a chapter of UtA, there will be another ch...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 225

“Hammel, why are you acting this way? What is wrong?” Dad asked his old friend, who gave him an aggrieved hug.

“I can’t take this anymore. Day in and day out, people come to me with inane and petty problems… I thought I would be able to sit back, happily manage a town, and kill an...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 224

During the couple of days of travel to inspect the pioneering villages, there were no incidents. The mercenary scout reported signs of goblins in the area, but with the size of the caravan, they were not bold or stupid enough to attack. So if the mercenaries play their cards right, they are in fo...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 223

When I got home after completing my job, my parents were rather surprised by the small chest of gold coins I placed on Dad’s study desk.

“How much gold did you say was in here again?” Dad asked to clarify if he heard me right the first time.

“You heard me right the first time....

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 222

During the few days it took to transport my three “packages” to my client, said “packages” were most uncooperative. They first tried to free themselves and each other from their rope bindings, and they were pretty successful in doing so until I knocked them out and acquired iron manacles ...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 165

Chieftain of the Swift Swallow tribe and alliance commander of the north wall, Jahro, was in the middle of shouting more men to an area of the wall that needed reinforcement, when he saw another battering ram coming toward his part of the wall where the gate was.

His first instinct was to t...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 164

Grud swung his spear over the top of the wall, splitting the heads of three men in half, only to be forced to take cover when a hail of arrows concentrated on him. This had been an action Grud repeated over a hundred times by now in an attempt to stem the tide of the horde assaulting the walls an...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 221

AN: Sorry for the late upload, my day job had be busy.

With my targets in sight, I shrouded myself in darkness magic and climbed out the window. I slinked from shadow to shadow until I was in the darkness of the alley closest to the kissing couple. With the tall bu...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 220

After the chanting meditation was done, there was a sermon about being one with nature and the moon. When they closed out the sermon, the cart holding the two barrels was brought over, tapped, and they started having a drinking party there and then.

Is this just a gathering of hippy chuckle...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 218

Santon set aside my gift, and rather than presenting me with a selection of jobs to choose from, he only took out one folder and pushed it over to me. “To make up for the time you have not been active, this is a challenging yet lucrative job that just came in and is somewhat urgent.”

I ...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 163

When Grud declared his intention about the children, there were a few disgruntled faces, but they were young, in the minority, and had no place questioning their chieftain.

As for the loot, the men were more than happy with their haul. Coin, jewelry, trinkets, and resources were all in diff...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 217

When I started crafting my first piece of work in my new workshop, I decided to test things out by making a normal steel longsword blade. It took a couple of hours to get the hang of the different quirks and make some slight adjustments to the tolerances, but what used to take around fifteen hour...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 216

~Lady Amara Ironcrest (Luke’s Mum) POV~

“FUCK! SHIT! MOTHERFUCK!” CRASH!

Those were the sounds that rang out from Luke’s workshop, and it has been going on since morning.

Amara was sitting with her husband, Alden, having some tea. “Are you sure he is okay, dea...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 215

It took a few hours of discussing my designs with Mum to justify my need for the gold. Even though she wasn't savvy on the technical aspects of what I was explaining, she understood that with better tools, I could increase production on more complex pieces with greater precision and speed. And if...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 214

When I got out of my bath, one of Dad’s knights was waiting for me, “A man who says you are expecting him is here. He says his name is Santon.” he reported.

Wow, that was fast. I thanked the man and got dressed before going down to the inn’s lobby and to one of the private booths wh...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 148

I am re-uploading this in PDF form because one of you flagged it.

Unto the Ages: Chapter 161

After one and a half days of hard riding, or in Grud’s case, running and jumping, Grud and his riders neared the Thunder Strider’s tribe.

Along the way, Grud and his men took down some lookouts. At first, they were lookouts from other tribes that were close to the route they were using,...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 160

As Grud expected, the Thunder Striders were slowed down to the point that they needed to set up camp at a cave.

Tents were raised, torches were lit, and guards were posted. But even with the posted guard, sleep came hard to everyone. Something felt wrong.

The insect life that came bac...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 213

I arrived at the Eldermere estate, introduced myself to the gate guards, and was ushered to the back garden by one of the butlers, where tables and chairs were set up. There, just like in the drawing from Stanton’s info packet, I saw my target talking to three other noble lordlings. In fact, th...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 212

Santon took out a binder from his suitcase and flipped through it. After a few flips, he took out a piece of paper and pushed it to me. “Seeing that this is your first job, let us start with an easy one.”

I took the paper and gave it a read-through. After going through it, I did not bel...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 211

When Santon mentioned The Steward’s Guild, I held back from striking him when he extended his hand for a handshake, but I kept my spells at the ready.

Prior to this meeting, Professor Sageira had given me a brief rundown of The Steward’s Guild. On the surface, it was an association of a...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 210

With the problem laid out before us, we sat down as a family to brainstorm ideas.

“The first and most obvious step is to get more people on our new land to pioneer farming villages.” Mum said.

Dad, who still had his face buried in his hands, replied, “Yes, but it’s going to ta...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 159

Ba’Rak was in a foul mood. His march to war had been interrupted, his men were killed without even seeing the enemy, and now, the stench of a dead woman's blood had seeped into the wood of his carriage, spoiling his appetite.

It had taken over an hour to get on the march again, and Ba’R...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 158

In the following days, Grud and his riders attacked three additional tribes, swiftly overpowering or defeating any resistance. These tribes were situated along the evacuation route that the retreating tribes intended to use in their journey toward the more powerful tribes near the Thunder Strider...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 209

Back home, life went back to normal… well, as normal as having a dragon fly Dad and I in the middle of some god-forsaken forest to train and experiment with new techniques could be normal.

On that front, it has been a couple of weeks since coming back from the capital, and both Dad and I ...