Lester Yong & Rosa Fontelera-Yong

CoESC Book 12-23.1: Conflict

In the Realm of Chaos, a sublayer of the world that was beneath three other layers and only afterwards would it touch the Prime Material, a being composed equally of flesh and motes of infinite pot...

CoESC Book 12-22.3: Rescue

“I don’t think they’re are more prisoners left,” Monica said and Yuriko was inclined to agree. She hadn’t stopped checking, but the last ten cells didn’t contain anyone alive. The corps...

CoESC Book 12-22.2: Rescue

When the anti-Chaos relic broke, the only thing Cillian Coinoch felt was relief. Which was then immediately followed by a wave of fear so strong that he collapsed into a heap in mid-stride. He had ...

CoESC Book 12-22.1: Rescue

Although Yuriko was definitely not dressed for flight, that didn’t bother her in the slightest. The wind parted against her aura and she stood as if on an immovable platform. Not even her skirt f...

CoESC Book 12-21.3: Searching

Monica Coinoch was a petite woman with fierce eyes. Her short-cropped black hair had silver and red streaks, and she was clad in simple clothes. She was slender but her short-sleeved shirt revealed...

CoESC Book 12-21.2: Searching

The day after the duel, Yuriko studied the True Connection spell. A ten-circle spell was the most complex one she’d ever tried, and there were more than two hundred nodes to it. Memorising it tur...

CoESC Book 12-21.1: Searching

The standoff between Professor Davar and Professor Farran’ir didn’t last more than a couple of minutes. Blanca Ferron nibbled her lower lip nervously, caught herself, and nearly coloured with s...

CoESC Book 12-20.3: Investigation

Yuriko couldn’t help but think her sparring opponent was overdressed. Was this not a friendly contest?

Professor Farran’ir looked like he was dressed for the battlefield. She hadn’t eve...

CoESC Book 12-20.2: Investigation

Early on Darkday, the last day of the week and the day Yuriko was to spar with Eddie Farran’ir, found her distracted over breakfast. She had been paying more attention to her connection with her ...

CoESC Book 12-20.1: Investigation

To say he was surprised when he opened his eyes was an understatement. Cillian fully expected never to wake up again after being captured, and an organisation that was able to capture a Ranger lieu...

CoESC Book 12-19.3: Mysteries of the Fount

The steam over the hot springs was pleasantly warm, even if the water itself wasn’t as hot as Yuriko expected. Oh, no doubt if it went any hotter, people would boil in it, but her tolerance for e...

CoESC Book 12-19.2: Mysteries of the Fount

Heron met the Ashen Elemental’s charge. His aura spread across his spear, and he swept it at the thing’s torso. The elemental met his attack with a swipe of its arm, and when the two forces met...

CoESC Book 12-19.1: Mysteries of the Fount

While Yuriko had tutored kids and warriors back during the War for Rumiga, she had never been assigned to teach a class that was part of a greater whole. And while her early lessons were interestin...

CoESC Book 12-18.3: Tumultuous Undercurrents

“This is showing sincerity?” Sofia grumbled as she moved her body according to the sword forms Professor Davar showed them. Focused mentoring had been over a couple of hours ago, but she and Ju...

CoESC Book 12-18.2: Tumultuous Undercurrents

After an hour of trekking through the grass paths, Gwendith’s team had gathered over a dozen beast cores from the Molebeasts. The cores were of different hues though were generally a mix of brown...

CoESC Book 12-18.1: Tumultuous Undercurrents

Juliette Abad stared at the list for a long moment, the Nirian Token in hand. She could scarcely believe that Professor Davar had been willing to give these out as a prize for something so mundane ...

CoESC Book 12-17.3: Professor Davar

Standing on top of the earthen maze, Yuriko’s Anima perception had seeped right through the walls and ceiling easily. The earth and stone were temporary, conjured from a concentration of Elementa...

CoESC Book 12-17.2: Professor Davar

Sofia Garcia swallowed as she stared at Professor Davar. She had been referring to her as Yuriko in her mind, simply because that was how they met. It had only been that one time in the library, re...

CoESC Book 12-17.1: Professor Davar

After a short vacation of a week, Juliette Abad returned to her dormitory room and was just about to head to the registrar to check her new schedule of classes. The Season of Earth was the last tri...

CoESC Book 12-16.3: Obligations

It had been almost a couple of weeks since Yuriko signed on as a guest professor at Niria Academy. In the end, she turned down the label of tenured professor, saying that the title was too much for...

CoESC Book 12-16.2: Obligations

After a couple of days’ recovery, Juliette was once again back to peak condition. Her flat mate had been acting strange yesterday, but she’d been too lazy then to investigate what had Sofia exc...

CoESC Book 12-16.1: Obligations

Sofia Garcia, fifth-year Niria Academy student and aspiring Battle Magus, yawned as the dawn’s light penetrated through the dormitory’s windows. As usual, the light hit her directly in the eye,...

CoESC Book 12-15.3: Initiate

The rest of the fourth layer consisted of more arenas, training rooms, and laboratories. Yuriko watched a couple more battles, noting that the weapons were very much real and wounds even more so. T...

CoESC Book 12-15.2: Initiate

Most of the students got out by the third layer, leaving Yuriko and the others alone in the cable carriage by the time they crossed the fourth level. Now that they were close, Yuriko could see that...

CoESC Book 12-15.1: Initiate

With the primer in one hand and the basic spellbook in the other, Yuriko began her research. Which lasted about ten minutes before she had to stop and meditate to soothe her aching head. Gwendith s...

CoESC Book 12-14.3: Nirlith City

There were two ways to use a scrying spell, and Cillian was instructed to use the first. Direct observance meant that the spell had to have a target, and it would be provided by links. Those could ...

CoESC Book 12-14.2: Nirlith City

“What does an apprenticeship normally entail for you?” Yuriko asked after she put down the cup. The tea blend held fruity notes, but as she let her senses linger on the tea, she detected deeper...

CoESC Book 12-14.1: Nirlith City

Tangled in the bedsheets and panting from exhaustion, Yuriko and Gwendith cuddled in the afterglow of their bouts of passion. Gwendith’s breath tickled her neck as her lover nuzzled up against he...

CoESC Book 12-13.3: Adventurer's Guild

Laura Mondero could barely keep herself from shivering. In fear. In awe. Or perhaps to shake the surprise and keep herself from staying stunned.

Lady Yuriko.

Yuriko Mishala Davar, she i...

CoESC Book 12-13.2: Adventurer's Guild

By morning, the town had regained a bit of normalcy. Yuriko sat on the railings while she beheld the vistas she hadn’t been able to pay attention to the day before.

One of the few things th...