Lester Yong & Rosa Fontelera-Yong

CoESC Book 12-13.1: Adventurer's Guild

The single droplet of Ambrosia glimmered in the dim light. Gwendith pursed her lips. The entire point of their mission had been to help the team in Bella harvest Ambrosia, and here’s the trick of...

CoESC Book 12-12.3: Three's A Pattern

The entrance chamber was empty, Alejandro noted.

Crunch.

He stared at the cavern floor, which should have been slick and slippery with a thin layer of water that was perpetuall...

CoESC Book 12-12.2: Three's A Pattern

“What was that?” Alejandro muttered to himself. The team of adventurers around him were similarly confused.

“Light Element?” Laura Mondero, Adventurer Vigilant based in Nirlith, mutte...

CoESC Book 12-12.1: Three's A Pattern

Alejandro Martelli froze when he heard the alarm. His eyes darted to the mechanical clock, then to the window to check the sunlight. The constant hum of Waterlow’s falls was a soothing melody tha...

CoESC Book 12-11.3: Overflow

The living statues marched straight towards Norrington from the Chaos gate. There were other settlements nearby, hamlets, small villages, and farmsteads. She noted a couple in the opposite directio...

CoESC Book 12-11.2: Overflow

The Wind Darter settled with nary a thump on the other side of the town. Crossing the ravine had posed an issue with the sloop’s levitation runescript not being strong enough to lift them that hi...

CoESC Book 12-11.1: Overflow

The clothier shop Gwendith found a block off the western square was filled with ready-to-wear garments that ran the gamut from blouses, shirts–short-sleeved and long–trousers, skirts, coats, ca...

CoESC Book 12-10.3: Forays

Since Heron’s Anima wasn’t as flexible and stretchable as Yuriko’s or Gwendith’s, he had developed another tool to enhance his senses. His eyes and ears were as honed as they could possibly...

CoESC Book 12-10.2: Forays

The rest of the Chaos Fount was just as easy to subjugate, Yuriko thought. Her sunblades were more than capable of exploring everything since the whole space was less than half a longstride wide. N...

CoESC Book 12-10.1: Forays

The forest was thick enough that Yuriko had to aid the levitation runescript to reach the Chaos Fount’s entrance in the middle of it. The trees grew close together and the undergrowth was too thi...

CoESC Book 12-9.3: Arrangements

By noon, the Wind Darter had travelled roughly twenty leagues. Yuriko could have pushed faster, but not by that much. Maybe another ten leagues or so. She could fly faster, but pushing the Wind Dar...

CoESC Book 12-9.2: Arrangements

Almost as soon as the restriction cuffs closed over Desire’s and Devotee’s wrists, both Chaos Lords shuddered.

“What?” Yuriko asked quickly.

“That’s so strange,” Desire mu...

CoESC Book 12-9.1: Arrangements

Yuriko paused at the threshold. Behind her, Gwendith peered over her shoulder to look at the two locals. Heron, being farther back, saw nothing, and simply waited for her to enter. The Sha’ledras...

CoESC Book 12-8.3: An Invitation

Yuriko didn’t say anything about her revelation to her friends. Not for the rest of the night, and not when she wasn’t really sure. The insight did prompt her to ask the others what they could ...

CoESC Book 12-8.2: An Invitation

The Bresian soldiers dug into the corpses’ torsoes, into the ribs and probably towards the heart. Yuriko’s perception caught most of it, though she still couldn’t press up against the people ...

CoESC Book 12-8.1: An Invitation

Cillian Coinoch carefully watched the foreign magi as they approached. All throughout the journey, he had been reviewing Corporal Ortiz’s report mentally. And he had been nervously fidgeting the ...

CoESC Book 12-7.3: From Duskfoot Guard

Yuriko stared curiously at the bird beastman. She didn’t know what his tribe was called, else she would have referred to him by it instead. The man had been startled at her quick arrival, that sh...

CoESC Book 12-7.2: From Duskfoot Guard

Corporal Adan Ortiz could do nothing other than his role in the company. He flew nearly a longstride above the ground and watched with glee as the patrol wiped out a sizable fraction of the herd. T...

CoESC Book 12-7.1: From Duskfoot Guard

With a pleading glance towards Yuriko, Gwendith grinned when she saw her beloved silently acquiesce. She knew that the current fight would be trivial if the other fought, but it wasn’t as if Yuri...

CoESC Book 12-6.3: On Strange Shores

The wind blew pleasantly against Adan’s feathers as he flew up high enough for the air to thin. Tendrils of arcana helped support his flight, despite the altitude, and it warmed his small body, i...

CoESC Book 12-6.2: On Strange Shores

The darkness seemed to last forever, but Yuriko’s timesense, even though it wasn’t tethered to Imperial Standard, still told her that the trip across whatever it was took less than a minute. Th...

CoESC Book 12-6.1: On Strange Shores

To say that the Chaos Storm was a surprise would be false, Yuriko knew. The Imperial Calendar told them that they were still just past the middle of the Season of Water, which was when the Sea was ...

CoESC Book 12-5.3: Resource Gathering Mission

The budget for the mission was five hundred thousand Sovereigns. It sounded like a lot, but when Yuriko looked at the equipment menu and saw the prices there, it was apparent that it was not. The s...

CoESC Book 12-5.2: Resource Gathering Mission

The Fortuitous Stone followed along the tethers to get to Delovine plane, rather than forging a new path through the raw Chaos. Yuriko understood, even if she felt the days crawl by. There had been...

CoESC Book 12-5.1: Resource Gathering Mission

“At your earliest convenience, bring yourself, and your support team to Delovine’s Legion Command,” Tribunus Mariko Manuella said to Yuriko after she accepted the Ambrosia gathering mission. ...

Holiday Break!

We're taking a break for the holidays so there will be no chapters next week (December 25 to December 31, 2023). New chapters will resume on January 1, 2024! ^_^

CoESC Book 12-4.3: Serene

Later, Gwendith held Yuriko throughout the night. The torrent of grief and despair nearly brought her back into that strange funk that lasted two Seasons, but…with the shared grief with her paren...

CoESC Book 12-4.2: Serene

Yuriko’s eyes fluttered open and she stretched languidly on her bed. For a long, long moment, she simply luxuriated in the strange sense of tranquillity that overcame her senses. It was as if she...

CoESC Book 12-4.1: Serene

“Congratulations!” Yuriko said when Gwendith entered her bedroom. The other girl gave her a tremulous smile and fell on her knees in front of Yuriko’s bed. “Gwen?”

“I…did you fe...

CoESC Book 12-3.3: Squires

Edward Turner absently glanced at his scrying mirrors, each of which was randomly flitting through the empire’s many different Chaos Founts. A group of Apprentices and a Journeyman were featured ...