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Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 184

Hammer out, fold, hammer out, heat, hammer out, fold. For three of my free days, I spent time in the workshop trying to make a simple Damascus steel kitchen knife, but due to my inexperience, I fucked up three billets when the different layers of steel split from not being forge-welded properly.<...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 183

When night came, Professor Sageira, Dad, and I were back in the forest clearing we used for refining the Primal Aura technique. The first thing we did was get Dad started with mana pathway tempering.

Fortunately for him, all the magical monitoring devices Professor Sageira cooked up just to...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 182

As the night of training drew on, I sparred with Professor Sageira using my Primal Aura again and again to the point where I could barely move by the time she called an end to the night’s training. All the while, my parents watched on.

When I trudged back to where my parents were sitting,...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 145

After Grud got his hands on the Blood Priest’s comb, he ordered everyone to vacate the room so he could have an easier time isolating the different smells with his enhanced sense of smell.

After he got a good sense of the Blood Priest’s scent, Grud started sniffing around the room, and ...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 144

As much as Grud wanted to avoid casualties, he could only kill so fast. By the time the last of the armored Blood Ascendants lay dead on the ground, Grud had lost close to a hundred men who were now dead, dying, or maimed, and Grud himself did not get out of this unscathed either.

Where oth...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 181

AN: Sorry for the late upload, this was supose to come out 2 days ago, but I had family new year stuff to do... So anyway, Happy New Year!

Deep in a forest, a ten-minute dragon flight away from the Ironcrest estate, Dad was nudging Mum awake after she passed out fr...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 180

Night after night of continuously being zapped, me and Professor Sageira worked on how to prolong and stabilize this skill. It did not even take three days to before my parents found it worrying that their boy was sleeping in till lunch a few days in a row and confronted me about it.

When l...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 179

“Alright, let's try that again without making another line of destruction in the woods.” Professor Sageira said after waking me up from getting knocked out by her.

We tried to perform the fusion technique again, assuming that with the foreknowledge of what to look out for, I would not b...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 178

AN: I added a big chunk toward the end of the last chapter to mention Luke and Emma’s younger siblings, who are two years younger than them.

AN: I will use [ ] for telepathic communication.

I spent my first few weeks back home doin...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 143

The first Blood Ascendants charged Grud with weapons raised and got a spear tip to the faces for their troubles, but when more men started charging Grud in earnest, Grud found himself in quite a pickle.

That pickle being himself. He was a big man, with a big spear, in a not so big mine entr...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 142

Over the next few days, Grud’s men and the four new Blood Ascendant war parties played a game of cat and mouse. As usual, half of Grud’s men led the four Blood Ascendant war parties on a wild goose chase or into ambushes led by Grud and the other half of his men, making sure to leave nobody b...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 177

Dave and Sam, like most of their lives growing up, did things together like brothers from different mothers. During their time in the academy, they concentrated mainly on the martial side of their education, only learning enough magic to start a fire and conjure enough water to wash themselves. 2024-12-21 17:59:49 +0000 UTC View Post

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 176

Time passed, and before I knew it, I had graduated from the Royal Academy. And besides the mandatory lessons, it has been fun. I may not have made many close friends outside of Dave, Sam, Elise, and later Alistair Arundel… and eventually Lavinia Castilene after she and Emma almost got into a ca...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 175

The next day, I got the results for my credit by examination for Advanced Combat & Tactics. While I did not get a perfect score, I scored high enough to pass the course. Immediately after getting my results, I finalized my subject selection to replace Advanced Combat & Tactics with the He...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 141

Grud yanked his spear out of the corps on the ground, the cold, frigid air freezing the blood on the spearhead almost instantly. It has been a month since Grud ran into the first group of the Blood Ascendants.

As they closed in, they slaughtered a few patrol groups but otherwise kept out of...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 140

The Blood Champion was roughly ramming himself into a crying woman beneath him, in his crimson-hazed addled mind, only brief concepts occasionally flashed into his mind, only to be blown away like mist.

What he knew of his previous life was vague, he could not even remember his old name, on...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 173

Emma and I were walking to the administration office to get the subject selection out of the way before the academic year truly began. By now, word had gotten around that Emma and I had some kind of close relationship since she was following me everywhere I went from the moment we arrived back on...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 172

Today was a day to celebrate victory, especially for my three friends who had just finished their first subjugation mission, and not just any puny subjugation, an actual drake who, if not for Dad and his knights, would have taken platoons of soldiers to take down while expecting heavy casualties....

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 170

A few days went by as I got settled back into the home that I had been away from for months. I reconnected with the house staff that had taken care of me when I was confined to the mansion due to my period of uncontrolled aura, especially my previous personal maid, Alice, who still likes to pinch...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 139

As Grud and his ten men entered the gates of the Deep Lake tribe, the first thing they noticed was that their houses were built around a rather wide clearing in the center. But then he noticed people sitting in the clearing with what seemed to be fishing poles in hand, and that was when it clicke...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 138

Grud immediately called a family meeting and announced that Zogor, Reta's third-born son, had died while protecting his tribe from inland raiders. Hearing this, Reta broke down, and all his wives began crying, especially his older wives, who had nursed Zogor and treated him like their own son. Th...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 169

It was the day after my arrival back home, and we were all sitting at the dining table for breakfast as my family had some small talk with the guest I brought along.

As far as that, everything was normal. The only abnormal thing was Emma, who had been stuck with me ever since dinner last n...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 167

Soon after the rest of the tournament events were over, and the whole tournament itself was done, the atmosphere at the academy changed because, in just a few months, the end-of-year exams were upon us.

Just like everyone else, I hit the books during this period, but it was mainly the Elven...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 166

Fame has bitten me in the ass. Not a big bite, but a bite nonetheless. From the moment I got back to my seat in the stands with my class, all the way to the campus grounds, I had people or representatives of people coming up to me to introduce themselves.

Instead of interacting with them, I...

Update

Sorry guys, there will be no upload today or for the rest of the weekend, I am down with the flu and the meds are making the words leave my head before I can type them out. I will most likely upload a chapter for Of Arms and Arcane on Monday.

Unto the Ages: Chapter 137

A month and a half from when Mita received the vision from the ancient wisp, Grud’s household, holdings, wives, children, and extended family were all secured or well on the way to being so. It was time for the big reveal.

That day, Mita did as she usually does, got an extra hard morning ...