Tsaimath

Chapter 1261

We continued to talk about the local religious fanatics for a little longer, with me describing in more detail what I had observed. Eventually, that part of the conversation wound down, and I remem...

Chapter 1260

When I returned to Jademoon Tower early in the afternoon, Lia was looking incredibly out of sorts. According to Luna, Lia had been out the entire night, only returning in the morning and had gone s...

Chapter 1259

When looking at the compound of Lorgar’s merry band of sun-worshipping lunatics at a relatively short distance, I couldn’t help but be impressed. Sure, I thought these people were completely an...

Chapter 1258

“Good evening, Maggie,” I spoke quietly, right after I stepped out of the shadows directly behind Maggie, who was sitting at her desk. A part of me was deeply amused that humanity hadn’t mana...

Interlude: Reunion?

Looking out, in the dim light of the setting sun, Carnelia couldn’t help her pensive mood. Returning to Jademoon Tower, the tower where she had spent weeks in a fugue, hadn’t been easy. Some me...

Chapter 1257

By the time I was done inspecting the surrounding area with the Oculus, night had fallen. It was fascinating how much the environment around here had changed, not just with the season, but in some ...

Chapter 1256

Once we stepped out of the shadows at Jademoon Tower, Luna let out a relieved gasp, stumbling a little as she pulled out of the grip Lia and I had on her arms. 

“We need to come up wit...

Chapter 1255

It was pretty amusing to watch my daughters go wide-eyed at the description of the various dragons now living in the Temple of the First Dragon. Living and breeding, peacefully and in harmony, some...

Chapter 1254

Finding Luna wasn’t difficult. She was sitting in one of our common areas, a notepad sitting on the desk before her and a pencil in her hand. The expression of annoyance and the empty page of pap...

Chapter 1253

It was with a soft sigh that I stepped out of the shadows and back into my tower. The last few days had been seriously unproductive. Sure, I had managed to capture that Qalupalik and secured it so ...

Chapter 1252

Watching yet another small critter make its way towards the shoreline, I couldn’t help but grumble quietly under my breath. The strange, sound-based magic soon started to batter the magical shiel...

Chapter 1251

From my perch on the biggest tree I could find in the area, I was looking down on the ocean. Some ice was floating on the water, though not enough to completely cover the surface, let alone seal it...

Chapter 1250

There was something inherently liberating about feeling the wind beneath my wings. A giddy, enthusiastic sensation I just couldn’t shake, making me want to whoop in joy, to dive and swerve as I r...

Chapter 1249

Lia and I had stepped through the shadows to return to my tower, only for Lia to freeze and warn me that she could smell the scent of blood in the air. Somewhat alarmed by that revelation, we had i...

Interlude: When the Mother is away, the Maiden gets to play

Quietly whistling to herself, Luna made her way through the tower, this massive edifice of her Mother’s ambition. In different circumstances, one might have called the thing a phallic representat...

Chapter 1248

It took me a few more days to observe the giants to my personal satisfaction. Their social dynamics were quite interesting, especially as each of the three different groups seemed to develop in ent...

Chapter 1247

Somehow, through some strange, obscure phenomenon, my internal monologue sounded like David Attenborough while I was watching the Giants through my scrying constructs. Or maybe I was simply imagini...

Chapter 1246

“That was awesome,” Lia enthused, once we entered the small cave we had used months before, right after we arrived in this area. The cave wasn’t some glorious domicile, but it was good enough...

Chapter 1245

• AN: I accidentally scheduled the chapter for tomorrow, instead of today. Thanks to the subscriber who messaged me the reminder. My Bad.

Now that it was only Lia an...

Chapter 1244

It had taken almost two months of work, but it was done. My tower, all hundred and twenty metres of frozen glory, was completed. Each wall was glowing with the ethereal light of runic formations, e...

Chapter 1243

Despite my initial, somewhat hubristic, ambition, building a tower higher than the local mountains just wasn’t in the cards. The crevice containing the Nexus was in a saddle between two peaks, bo...

Chapter 1242

Thanks to our continued travels, the concept of waking up in an unfamiliar place didn’t really apply to me any longer. Two years, four if one counted the time I had spent on Mundus, of rarely wak...

Chapter 1241

Filling the crevice was an utterly exhausting task. The walls around me were made of a thick layer of Ice coating the mountain’s rocks. If I wanted the foundation for my tower to be as stable as ...

Chapter 1240

Finally, after an indeterminable amount of time, my feet set down on a perfectly smooth and impossibly cold surface. Even with my affinity to Ice, I was feeling cold here, and the moisture on my br...

Chapter 1239

Moving around the mountain’s summit wasn’t all that much easier compared to moving across it. Sure, we didn’t have to climb up all the way, but that mostly meant we were moving up and down th...

Chapter 1238

Getting the chunk of Eternal Ice and Eternal Earth into a portable form was more complicated than I would have thought. The biggest problem was its sheer weight; the thing was stupidly heavy, while...

Interlude: A Pale Shadow

On some days, Doris wasn’t sure getting out of bed was worth it. Those days had been far too frequent for comfort in the last three years, though one could argue that even in the two years...

Chapter 1237

After setting up a small stone for Sasha, despite knowing that Luna’s efforts with the coffin would see the stone buried in greenery before long, I finally let my mind wander and look at the vari...

Chapter 1236

The realisation that Sasha was dead hit me like a punch to the gut. We had dragged her along, taken her far beyond her natural range because I was curious about her physical, mental and spiritual m...

Chapter 1235

When I came back to myself, I was partially buried in a mound of sand, my head pounding and my ears still ringing. For a few moments, I was just lying there, my head twisted to the side so I could ...