Chapter 702 - Red
“What in the Ashen Fields was that?” Cassandra demanded as she, Leon, Maia, and Penelope finally sealed the door of the conference room behind them.
They’d emerged from the bla...
2022-01-12 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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Chapter 701 - Round Three
The gorge was deep and dark, certainly unnaturally so. Leon’s magic senses could only penetrate so far before the darkness became like a shroud, making the gorge appear like it led down into the ...
2022-01-10 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 700 - Preparing for Round Three
“I didn’t need your help,” Penelope vehemently claimed. Leon gave her an exasperated look, and a moment later, she added, “… Though, it was appreciated. Thank you.”
Leon nodded in...
2022-01-07 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 699 - Second Round
The ark moved quickly, and that speed was needed, for it had barely taken off before Leon’s party received word that another hunting group of twenty-five had been wiped out by the black wyvern an...
2022-01-05 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 698 - Wyvern's Retaliation
“All right!” Leon loudly said as he and his retinue spilled out into the main room of his fortified portable villa. “Let’s see what we’ve gained!”
With a wave of her hand, Valeria...
2022-01-03 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 697 - The First Round
Leon, still wreathed in darkness and invisible to all senses—or so he was supposed to be—rose into the sky, the air all around him under his complete control. However, for all his supposed invi...
2021-12-31 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 696 - Ransacking the Aeries
Leon’s retinue left their camp early the next morning. Only Elise and Talal stayed back in the safety of Leon’s magically fortified villa, everyone else accompanied him out into the mountains.<...
2021-12-29 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 695 - Eagle Scout
[Finally assumed proper form, have you?] the Thunderbird drawled as Leon, for the first time in a long while, spread his wings and took flight, his family and retinue at his side.
[I...
2021-12-27 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 694 - First Kill of the Hunt
The wyvern bearing down upon them was large, sixty or seventy feet from snout to the tip of its tail. Its two massive bat-like wings stretched well over a hundred feet, and its two huge claws were ...
2021-12-24 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 693 - The Hunt is On
Leon and the rest of his party, as soon as the meeting between Maia and her Naiad contact ended, returned to Vyrias to link back up with Elise and Talal, their plans to spend the night out in the w...
2021-12-22 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 692 - Southern Nymphs
After the lackluster testing of his new lightning weapon, Leon was much more gratified to find that his armor was in far better condition—for the most part, at least. Nearly all of the enchantmen...
2021-12-20 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 691 - Princess Cassandra
The Princess sat upon her throne, the seat wrought of plain gray stone that lacked any real ornamentation. The thing looked as if it were just several slabs of stone thrown together. The Imperial P...
2021-12-17 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 690 - Vyrias
The Scorched Fields were far to the southwest of the Ilian Empire. The entire breadth of the Empire had to be traversed before the ark even reached the halfway point of their journey, though, fortu...
2021-12-15 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 689 - A Wager Between Hands
Leon was excited, for in his ten years in the Ilion Empire, this was to be the first time he’d ever ridden in an ark before. Not even as a Hand of the Director had he had the privilege before now...
2021-12-13 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 688 - Increased Capabilities
Leon stared at his work, now finished, a strange feeling of relief, apprehension, and pride in his heart.
Pride in what he’d created. Apprehension at how it might perform. Relief that it wa...
2021-12-10 16:01:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 687 - Metallurgy
Leon wanted to throw himself directly into his work. He had the iron he’d received as payment for Sunlight, and he had a few other metals to alloy it with, but he still needed a host of other too...
2021-12-08 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 686 - Designing Armor
Damn, all of you making me look bad with those fantastic chapter names for 685. Seriously, I didn't see a single bad one there. Unfortunately, only one could be chosen, and I wound up g...
2021-12-06 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 685 - A New Vision
Not going to lie, really not happy with the title of this one. If you have a better one in mind, drop in the comments, I'm open to suggestions! ;)
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2021-12-03 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 684 - Embezzlement, Theft, Treason
Leon made his way over to the door that had more scratches upon it. The edges of the trapezoidal door made it seem like whoever had tried to force it open didn’t realize it slid into the wall, an...
2021-12-01 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 683 - Katerina's Villa
The supposedly haunted villa was a fairly large place, and one that was in a very desirable part of the Empire—in suburbs extremely close to the wealthy farming estates between the Scamander and ...
2021-11-29 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 682 - Sunlight
As with the rest of the Ilian Empire, flight in public spaces was illegal. Leon couldn’t transform into his avian form and fly around as he pleased, he couldn’t ride Anzu places unless Anzu rem...
2021-11-26 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 681 - Ten Years
Leon submerged the glowing piece of metal in the quenching oil, letting it rapidly cool with a loud hiss to keep its hardness. Aiding him in this endeavor were ice runes inscribed upon the metal ba...
2021-11-24 16:02:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 680 - Troubles Across the Sea
Jaguar of the West. That was what they called him back in Stormhollow. As he gazed out at the broken ships, listening to the death rattles of dying sailors, he felt like it was a title he deserved,...
2021-11-22 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 679 - Concerns of the Mighty
Anastasios sighed as he stared at himself in the mirror. He was dressed incredibly well, with resplendent robes dyed deep crimson and a sash across one shoulder and down to his waist colored in bri...
2021-11-19 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 678 - Settling Into Occulara
The ride down the magic lift out of the Hexagon was rather awkward. Neither Leon nor Talal had said a word to each other since Leon left the Director’s office, and though the Samarid was now to b...
2021-11-17 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 677 - Gambling With Pearls
After the momentary shock of the tau’s visit to the ship wore off, Leon sprang out of bed, pulling the pearls in his hand into his soul realm. He then set about waking everyone up as quickly as h...
2021-11-15 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 676 - Tau
A waste of time. That was the prevailing feeling among Leon’s family and his retinue. Only Anzu seemed to be having a good time, having spent much of their short excursion running around in the g...
2021-11-12 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 675 - Investigating the Village
Leon stood on the prow of his ship, letting the rain wash over him, his body filling with power in the light of distant lightning. He needed the energy, even if it wasn’t the sort that was most u...
2021-11-10 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 674 - Preparing for a Hunt
“This is fucking horse shit,” Alix muttered, speaking the words that were on everyone’s mind.
Leon had returned to his family and retinue, who’d been shown to what would be their qua...
Chapter 673 - The Director
Occulara. They’d finally arrived. After almost half a year, they’d reached their destination.
They were hardly in a place where they could start getting settled in, but it was an enormou...