A Novel Approach chapter 129
Arranging Perit’s resurrection took longer than expected. We had to arrange things with the body, wait for my points to be available, then wait until someone could be sent by the family to take c...
2025-09-15 22:30:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the ceremony was mostly just smiling and nodding, unfortunately. I shook the hands of an endless parade of relatives, and they definitely took me up on my open door policy. My head was ...
2025-09-12 19:14:59 +0000 UTC View PostStepping out of the shuttle, I took in the location of the ceremony with fascination. I’d expected something ostentatious, maybe a huge castle or some kind of formation. Instead, we were standing...
2025-09-11 23:56:46 +0000 UTC View PostIt was the day of the ceremony. Not my coronation. That had been made clear. The actual anointing of my position would be undertaken at a later time, in front of a LOT more people. This was more of...
2025-09-10 19:29:16 +0000 UTC View PostIt took a week for the competition to officially come to a close. The succession war wound down in the background, and I didn’t do a single thing to participate. No alliance meeting, no trials, n...
2025-09-10 01:09:57 +0000 UTC View PostMaking it back up to the surface was exhausting, but not in the one you would expect. The slow, plodding rise out of the depths of perdition should probably have been grating. A pool of dread filli...
2025-09-08 22:32:22 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Wise rose from the shattered remnants of the mirrored wall, his face was…wrong. Broken like the glass. The visage of me that he’d been using was cracked, and black mist leaked from inside ...
2025-09-05 19:17:25 +0000 UTC View Post“You want…to surrender your forces?” he said slowly, his tone obviously disbelieving. “The ones with all your friends and your PARENTS in them? Those forces? You want to just…hand them ov...
2025-09-04 20:24:01 +0000 UTC View PostDown, down, down into the deeps. The ritual, to no one’s surprise, was taking place on a much lower level, one much closer to the center of the planet. Not TOO close, mind. Our B-rankers and thos...
2025-09-04 00:09:03 +0000 UTC View PostI expected my dad and mom to leap into action. His shadowy black soul army spread out around them, taking up a sort of formation shaped like a series of concentric stars, easily thirty of the thing...
2025-09-02 20:19:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day was hectic. Arranging the full court press of searchers we needed required calling in a lot of favors with a lot of people. Some of those favors I called in personally, some my parents...
2025-09-01 20:21:22 +0000 UTC View PostCreating my scrolls the next day was anticlimactic. There were nine of them now, which was new, and they were C-ranked, which was new, but they were…just scrolls. The same ones I always made. Aft...
2025-08-29 16:30:34 +0000 UTC View PostI regained consciousness slowly, seeing a familiar cheerful red haired face hovering above me, a wide grin on her lips. “Hey there little lord, how ya feelin?” She backed off as I sat up, groan...
2025-08-28 21:36:57 +0000 UTC View Post“This is your worst plan ever,” my best friend informed me cheerfully as I stood across the ring from my mother’s apprentice. “You know you’re going to lose, right? Like yes, you’re the...
2025-08-27 22:08:33 +0000 UTC View PostWe headed back up to the surface after a bit more searching. We’d found two more anchors leaving, but since we knew the levels wouldn’t shift for another two days or so, we just recorded their ...
2025-08-26 20:16:15 +0000 UTC View Post