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Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 208

The next day, after I woke up, one of the castle’s butlers came by to deliver two wooden cases. The first case contained a ceremonial sword with the kingdom's insignia at the base of the blade and on the pommel. This sword symbolized my duty to the kingdom. Dad has one just like it hanging on t...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 207

AN: Surprise double release! *runs back into gooning cave*

After an hour or two of Professor Sageira explaining parasitic or symbiotic soul weapons and me asking a whole load of questions, things boil down to this, as far as I can understand.

Parasitic soul w...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 206

It has been ten minutes of getting mobbed by socialites and trying to maintain the facade of interest in whatever they were saying. By now, I was not really listening to what they were saying. I was just reacting to the inflection of their voices when they spoke and replied with “Ya,” “mm-h...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 157

Jo'Pa, scout of the Grokan tribe, which was one of the tribes under the protection of the Thunder Strider tribe, neared the gates of the Thunder Strider tribe while waving his arms. In response, numerous bows were leveled at him.

Seeing that his life was in danger, he shouted, “Don't shoo...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 156

On the opposing side, the tribes under the protection of the Thunder Strider tribe were not just standing around doing nothing. They too had been gathering forces from the surrounding allied tribes to fend off the alliance’s retaliation.

At first, they thought powerhouses like Grud’s Ro...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 205

As we entered the throne room and walked down the red carpet toward the King, I observed that we were flanked on both sides by royal guards. Behind the royal guards stood a host of nobles, their eyes following Dad and his noble friends while I and the knights from my and the other two noble house...

Or Arms and Arcane: Chapter 204

[Why have you not called in a week since getting back?] Professor Sageira mentally shouted at me, making me instinctively wince away from the dragon scale.

[I was resting. Can a man not take some time to relax after coming home from a hard-fought battle?] I asked as an excuse.

[Well, ...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 203

We, the outgoing troops, marched our way to the rear, towards home. When we reached the outskirts of my hometown, Glenfell, there was a contingent of royal guards waiting for us.

From there, we handed over the reports, the once glowing swords that were used against us in battle, and command...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 155

Unlike Grud’s past few outings, Mita was not pregnant, so his current travels were far from boring.

While his wagon’s horses just followed the line of riders in front of them, Grud was inside the wagon right next to the small door that led to the driver’s seat. As for why he was insid...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 154

Since the farms were established and all the big projects were delegated, Grud found himself with a lot of free time. So, besides doing the administrative work needed to run his chiefdom and the tribal alliance, Grud had nothing to do. So, he turned his attention to what would benefit his tribe, ...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 201

What we got out of the prisoners of war was not much. According to Dad, most of the information we got could have been obtained from the spies we had in the Valorhelm Dominion. The only thing interesting was the involvement of a third party.

That being the Zagraf Theocracy, but we could not...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 200

When I made my way to the fort’s dungeon, I found Dad and a few other men looking down at a man in chains. And for some reason, that man looked familiar. After tilting my head while looking, things clicked in my head.

This was the knight who I ran my spear into his head through his eye. Y...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 199

~Valorhelm Dominion’s 3rd Legion HQ, In no man's land between the Valorhelm Dominion and Argus Kingdom~

Prince Avontus Valorhelm, the sixth prince of the Valorhelm Dominion, sipped wine in the company of Priest Advan, who was served tea by his acolytes. Both of them were waiting for their...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 198

I lay limp on the roof next to this unknown warrior as the sounds of battle raged further in the distance. Using the last dregs of strength I could squeeze out of my muscles, I rotated myself and sat up to face the onboarding battle at the back gate. Just in time, I saw the other three men in mis...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 153

Grud’s wives stared, fixated as whatever was under his towel went from side to side like it was waving at them.

Sonu, the animal lover that she was, asked, “Husband, did you find a pet snake? How did it survive in the winter all these years?”

Grud just smiled and replied, “Oh,...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 152

As the hoard of hunters made their way home, wagons from different tribes, all laden with mammoth parts, even the innards, started splitting off as they neared their respective tribes.

All this time, Grud had been sitting on a wagon from his tribe that was currently carrying the massive sku...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 197

Just as I had just finished connecting all the severed and torn muscle fibers in my body while watching the golem wreak havoc across the yard, four men who wore different armor from the Kingdom or the Dominion jumped over the wall, one after another, and seeing that the dominion soldiers did not ...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 196

I had my arms draped over two soldiers as they helped me back behind friendly lines, all while hearing the booms of the wooden golem I summoned swinging and trashing the bastard who backstabbed me by his legs.

I had already cast enough healing magic to close up my wounds and make sure my bl...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 195

~Alden Ironcrest POV~

“Luke! Get back here!” Alden shouted at Luke as he dashed out of the keep in a violet blur. But Luke did not seem to listen and was gone from his sight as he jumped from the wall towards the back gate.

But despite his son running headlong into danger, the onl...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 194

Brimming with power, I dashed out the door and examined the front and back gates to see which would provide me with the biggest fight. 

The front gate was losing ground, but their situation was not as bad as the back gate, they were getting their shit pushed in.

I jumped off the ...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 151

As mammoth after mammoth fell, the hunting groups who took down their target reinforced other groups to expedite the demise of their targets.

The mammoth matriarch who defended her herd was wise enough not to overextend herself and stay close to the herd, and when she noticed that the hunte...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 150

When news of the mammoth herd spread throughout the chiefdom, everyone was excited. It had been a good few years since anyone had eaten any meat that walked on land, and everyone was up for a change of diet.

Those who were especially excited were the hunters of the tribe who had to take up ...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 193

My spear slid past the berserk knight’s guard and streaked toward his shoulder, but it was only by bringing up his arm to divert the path of my spear that he avoided getting skewered, and my spear that was covered in Primal Aura tore apart his pauldron.

While my spear was extended beyond ...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 192

AN: Sorry for the late and slow upload. Work at my day job has been kicking my ass this week.

As the restraint array on the floor started to unravel, causing the bindings already on the two advancing knights to fall away, we prepared ourselves for battle while milk...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 191

The high-pitched dings of swords striking the defensive array on the keep’s door continue as three other mages and I, who are versed in array magic, spend mana and concentration on maintaining the defensive array.

As for the other mages, they had gone to the turrets on the upper levels of...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 190

AN: Here is a chapter I managed to squeze out from my time with family, I am now recovering from multiple Grandma induced food comas, we will be back to normal uploads on Monday.

Dad looked at the two knights guarding him and pointed at the two berserk knights movi...

Update

Hi, just a heads up, uploads will be slow for the rest of the week due to Chinese New Year. I will be going to my neighboring country to visit family. That means if I want to type anything, it will be on my handphone, and that sucks.

Unto the Ages: Chapter 149

After the arrangements for the alliance were hammered out, it took another two months before any long-range patrolling was done, and now, with more eyes on the general area, more news got back to Grud’s ears, and things were worse than he thought.

They were close to six years into this lo...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 189

We made our way to the top of the inner walls to see what was going on. When we got there, we saw the chaos unfolding. 

In both the front and back gates, there were man-sized holes with Valorhelm Dominion soldiers pushing through and pulling the gates open, while each gate had five kni...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 188

“Your Highness,” the lead priest said as he politely bowed to Prince Avontus Valorhelm, the sixth prince of the Valorhelm Dominion. “This humble priest greets you. You may call this one Advan. And as I am sure General Vash has informed you, we come bearing gifts.” priest Advan said as he ...