Lester Yong & Rosa Fontelera-Yong

CoESC Book 14-7.1: Dragon Fall

“Please vacate the premises within ten seconds. Please vacate the premises within nine seconds.” 

A modulated voice greeted Yuriko as soon as she and the others exited the portal...

CoESC Book 14-6.3: Challengers

It took five days before Yuriko returned to Herrera City, her backpack filled with Elemental Beast cores. Five days in the Sandsea Conflux had not been the adventure she expected. Yuriko landed on ...

CoESC Book 14-6.2: Challengers

Heron fingered the spear he was given when he asked for weapons. It was a solid construct made of flexible wood for the shaft, and tough metal for the head. It wasn’t the Empire’s collapsible s...

CoESC Book 14-6.1: Challengers

After seeing the Portal Gate in action and asking the guards and the attendant in charge, they found out how much it would cost to activate the gate. It turned out that the two thousand gold coins ...

CoESC Book 14-5.3: Herrera

Herrera City didn’t have walls, not in the conventional sense. From what Yuriko read, the Prime Clan controlled twelve oases and built the city around it. Unlike Boata Port, the houses, while sti...

CoESC Book 14-5.2: Herrera

Puchi!

The sand shark was split right in half, from nose to tail. Its stubby, yet powerful legs wiggled nervelessly for a couple of moments before they seized all movement. Blood wou...

CoESC Book 14-5.1: Herrera

Hilfers Caravan started assembling early in the morning, a couple of hours before dawn. It would not depart until midday, but most of the passengers and merchants joining it were asked to arrive as...

CoESC Book 14-4.3: Targetted

The next day, Yuriko headed to the Adventurers’ Guildhall and paid a silver coin to access the spell book library. The spell Endure Environment was a three-circle spell and required thirty nodes ...

CoESC Book 14-4.2: Targetted

“What’s your name, kid?” Heron asked their guide as ‘she’ led them along the narrow alleyways for the past ten minutes. Yuriko was in the middle of the group, with Fluffington trailing be...

CoESC Book 14-4.1: Targetted

The bunk beds had been too narrow to really have fun in so Yuriko, Gwendith, and Heron put the mattresses on the floor in between then just made do with cuddles at night. Yuriko didn’t really min...

CoESC Book 14-3.3: Cost and Price

With all their luggage stored in the carriage’s compartment, Yuriko and her companions booked a ride towards the city’s docks. It was the day after her meeting with the dean of the other academ...

CoESC Book 14-3.2: Cost and Price

More than a dozen things were listed on the pillar and Yuriko didn’t recognise any of them. She moved towards the teenage guard and asked, “What and how can I get those things listed on the ste...

CoESC Book 14-3.1: Cost and Price

Councilor Carlos Varro entered the small formal meeting room in the palace’s east wing. Since only three Councilors were in attendance they did not need to use the Rising Sun Chamber reserved for...

CoESC Book 14-2.3: Leave

It wasn’t that simple to take two sixth-year students with her to the Tower. However much Sofia and Juliette protested that they could make their own decisions since they were already in their ag...

CoESC Book 14-2.2: Leave

Carrying everything with her Anima, Yuriko and her companions were only able to reach Greyith Strip, a distance of about a hundred and fifty leagues as the crow flies, but considerably more if one ...

CoESC Book 14-2.1: Leave

Cleaning up the next morning was simpler, somewhat. At six o’clock in the morning, Yuriko untangled herself from several grasping limbs and went straight to the bathroom where she filled the tub ...

CoESC Book 14-1.3: Complete

A few hours passed while Yuriko meditated. Looking into herself and finding things that she never expected had been both enlightening and annoying at the same time. The Mishala Mien…she never kne...

CoESC Book 14-1.2: Complete

Yuriko took the Tower Entry Token with her hands instead of her Animakinesis. It was rather clear from the way Gwendith removed the sphere from her backpack, that the token was more than a simple i...

CoESC Book 14-1.1: Complete

Consciousness returned rather abruptly and Yuriko’s eyes opened, and she found herself staring at the back of Gwendith’s head. The golden curls were pressed against her cheek, and the other gir...

CoESC Book 13-23.3: Diplomatic Aggression

Perhaps it was because the Chaos Yuriko had been exposed to–and absorbed–was mixed in with fragments of the Realms of Thought, Ideals, and Desires, but her sleep had been anything but quiet. Sh...

CoESC Book 13-23.2: Diplomatic Aggression

Carlos Varro, Academic Dean of Niria Academy of Elemental Mastery, Grand Magus over the Dominion of Effervescent Flame, and Councilor Nirlith of the Bresian Republic, grumbled under his breath as h...

CoESC Book 13-23.1: Diplomatic Aggression

Chaos gushed through the tear in the fabric of reality. At least, that’s what Yuriko assumed would happen. Not that she was wrong, just that Chaos wasn’t the only thing that seeped through. 2024-06-27 15:40:24 +0000 UTC View Post

CoESC Book 13-22.3: Storm: Dominion

As they took shelter within a shallow cave, Gwendith stared at the cloud-covered skies. Lightning danced amongst the clouds and was beset by a feeling of foreboding. Snow suddenly started falling, ...

CoESC Book 13-22.2: Storm: Dominion

The voice sent a thrill down Yuriko’s spine. It was nearly irresistible, each layer tugging at her reason, her Anima, and her body. The urge to follow and the urge to fight intertwined within her...

CoESC Book 13-22.1: Storm: Dominion

The myriad bolts slammed down on the dome, tore up the amalgam of energies then powered through the Radiant energy coating the underside. The lightning slammed into the camp and struck the temporar...

CoESC Book 13-21.3: Together

Gwendith’s body was flushed with Animus as it cycled in a pattern that boosted her physique, maintained her endurance, and improved her body at the same time. Boost Physique was an old technique ...

CoESC Book 13-21.2: Together

“How far across is the Vallavega Pass?” Gwendith muttered as the four of them trekked towards the village. There was a light covering of snow across the road and the fields, and they left footp...

CoESC Book 13-21.1: Together

Roland Turner vi Ishodir was nervous being inside a foreign nation, even if it was one his forces were invading. He was only at the Magus level, after all, and any Bresian elite could take him easi...

CoESC Book 13-20.3: Return

The campaign had already lasted more than nine weeks. Two-thirds of the Season, and most, if not all of it, was consumed by the soldiers marching across the terrain, ensuring they were warm and pro...

CoESC Book 13-20.2: Return

The gate shimmered for a long moment before it burst into bright light. A moment later, Gwendith stepped out and immediately went to the side. Heron, Saki, the Devotee followed her out of the Hills...