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Mana Mirror: Chapter Sixty-Two

I thought about the old man's words as we completed our walk around the garden, then I left Ed and Liz to have some private time. I collected Dusk, who bubbled sleepily at me, and began the walk ho...

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Mana Mirror: Chapter Sixty-One

Ed was picking through the fridge when I got home, but froze when he saw me.

“What’s wrong?” he asked.

I gave him a shortened version of events, and by the end, my eyes were wet, ...

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Mana Mirror: Chapter Sixty

Good news, everyone! Three chapters this week!

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I wasn’t the best at sitting still and doing nothing, but I did like books. Surely working on the bo...

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Mission Vote

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Mana Mirror: Chapter Fifty-Nine

For those of you who aren't on my discord, I just wanted to let you know that the audible release of book 2 of Journals of Evander Tailor is now out!

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Knowledge King Vote

I mean, I feel like this is gonna be a landslide, but I felt the vote would be nessecary.

Also - yes, the Knowledge King and Meadow did collab to get the double slap combo down. 

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Mana Mirror: Chapter Fifty-Eight

I washed up and headed to the library – it was closest anyways, and since I needed to turn in my report on the spell soon anyways, I had plenty of reason to head there.

I scooped Dusk off o...

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Where to get the mana source?

As a recap, these were some suggested sources of death mana for Malachi:

Kene - Finding something in the forest, since they often have old bones or dead trees, both of which could fall in t...

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Mana Mirror: Chapter Fifty-Seven

The following morning, Ikki appeared a minute before the normal time. I frowned – that had never happened before. He was always immaculately precise.

“What’s going on?” I asked. Next ...

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Mana Mirror: Chapter Fifty-Six

By the time we arrived home, we’d decided that it’d be best to just describe Dusk as a small folk spirit that I’d picked up and would take care of. It was… Mostly true, after all, and easie...

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Mana Mirror: Chapter Fifty-Five

Don't expect Monday chapters to become a normal thing, but this is an instance where the chapters I did have ran so long that I split them up into three chapters, so the vote can be Friday ...

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Totally random poll

Someone on my Discord asked for the recipes that Meadow uses, and I thought it could be cool to do something like that. I love to cook, and I've been cooking since I was probably too young to be le...

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Lushloam Seed Use

I, uh... May have hit publish by accident. So, I guess the chapter's up early?

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Mana Mirror: Chapter Fifty-Four

Edit: I accidentally published this now, rather than scheduling it for the morning, so, uh... Chapter's up early, IG.

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“We need you to ge...

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Mana Mirror: Chapter Fifty-Three

“I… Don’t know,” I said, shaking my head. “I wasn’t expecting this, though in all honesty, I probably should have been.”

“That’s understandable,” she said, nodding sympath...

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Voice Reveal (Rolling to decide the winner)

Now, I'll note - this was CLOSE. So close that it was, quite litterally, decided by a toss of the die. 

And that's gonna be reflected in the way this plays out. Orykson's also not going ...

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Directionality (Major Poll)

As I'm sure you can guess, Wednesday's chapter meant that a LOT got shaken up for Orykson. One of the things that they discussed was that each faction would be given the opportunity to poach Orykso...

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Mana Mirror: Chapter Fifty-Two

“I’ll take it,” I said. Alvaro pushed a pen towards me, and I began to work though the paperwork and sign off. I made sure to read each line carefully, and it was in more plain language than ...

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Mana Mirror: Chapter Fifty-One

As Aerde, the Knowledge Elemental that Orykson had bound when he’d advanced to spellbinder, broke down everything that his heir project had done, he found himself… dissatisfied.

Not with ...

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Hand Reveal (Rolling for the spell)

There's technically 2 hours left, but the poll was so OVERWHELMINGLY in favor of yes that I just... Went with it.

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Experimental Spells?

Now, one trope of the genre is that they get an experimental thing, and it's god-tier. It works perfectly, maybe has one or two flaws, but it lets them outstrip others around them.

This won...

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Mana Mirror: Chapter Fifty

Woooot! Fifty chapters!!!

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“Hey. I didn’t think you’d be here today? I’m supposed to be paying off my mana debt.”

“There’s a lot m...

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Lledrith's Admission Test

This is a short story that wound up being longer than I expected. It's set around the same time as Mana Mirror. CW for domestic abuse and foul language - this one wound up being grungier th...

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Mana Mirror: Chapter Forty-Nine

“Do you have a growth item?” I asked as I looked over the table.

“No, the magic for building growth items wasn’t developed when I was beginning my journey,” he said. “I have the b...

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Major Reward

This is another big vote. Given that one of these will jump him to the peak of first gate, and the others are all growth items that will be with him for a long time, I'm super interested to see how...

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Mana Mirror: Chapter Forty-Eight

I popped open a Mana Shock and sat down on the couch to sketch out the Analyze Space spell. A half a dozen sketches later, and I felt something crack deep in my spirit, the familiar, near-painful s...

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Mana Mirror: Chapter Forty-Seven

Hey everyone! I'm releasing this chapter and the next one a bit early this week due to some scheduling stuff. This also means that you get some more time to stew on that big choice at the e...

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Mana Mirror: Chapter Forty-Six

No major vote this week, but next week's choice is a DOOZY! The kind of thing that will help shape the future of Malachi's growth!

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I let o...

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The Amethyst Mask

This is set roughly 20 years before the events of Mana Mirror

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An old woman sat by the fire, gently stoking the fire, when the stranger wal...

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Mana Mirror: Chapter Forty-Five

TW: Brief (and punished), but still there bits of animal cruelty.

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Mallory seized the edge of the barrier and leapt over it, landing next to me.

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