There was some fallout from Leon’s killing of the dragon turtle, but it was brief. Isabella wanted nothing to do with him, and so avoided him for the rest of the day. Cristina did likewise, thoug...
2021-09-03 15:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostSantiago’s group was surrounded by three sixth-tier beasts, but instead of looking at them, Santiago’s eyes were instead trained upon the Royal box. More specifically, they were first locked up...
2021-09-01 15:03:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe snow lion and the six-legged fire horse-thing were still alive, though both had suffered some injuries. The fifth-tier ape had been brought low by the gladiators; perhaps because it didn’t us...
2021-08-30 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Leon Raime!” Alfonso boomed as everyone filed out onto the balcony, the games set to soon begin. “Please, sit with me!”
The King’s request was polite enough, and if taken at face ...
Leon and the rest of the caravan were to stay in Andalus for about a week or two while they restocked and prepared for the rest of their journey. They were about a third of the way to the Ilumerian...
2021-08-25 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostLeon and his family meandered their way through the market of the city they were stopping at for the night. Only two days remained until they reached Andalus, the capital of the Cortuban Alliance, ...
2021-08-23 15:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostLeon’s first opportunity to speak with Santiago came the night the man was captured. The Heaven’s Eye convoy traveled through the raided village, but they couldn’t do much to help. They weren...
2021-08-20 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostLeon and his retinue pursued the silver-eyed bandit with ferocity, cutting down many bandits that weren’t able to flee fast enough. All of Leon’s retainers, and even Anzu, spilled their fair sh...
2021-08-18 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThings started off fairly quietly when the Heaven’s Eye convoy got moving again, but Leon couldn’t dispel the disquiet in his heart. While he fully hoped that no one would be so stupid as to at...
2021-08-16 15:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Leon imagined his group leaving Akhmim, he imagined that it would be quite extensive, but when he finally laid his eyes upon the convoy that Emilie had arranged, he found that his imagination ...
2021-08-13 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostLeon and Talal stood there, staring at each other, surprise and just a hint of displeasure on the former’s face, while shock and rapidly deepening regret and fear graving the latter’s.
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2021-08-11 15:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostAlix’s fight started with a bang. Neither woman seemed willing to take the more defensive posture that Marcus and his opponent had, and so launched themselves at each other with all they had.
... 2021-08-09 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe doughy-man’s champion was a man that was, somehow, even more muscular than Alcander. The latter was practically a giant, standing a head over Leon and built like a mountain; but his opponent ...
2021-08-06 15:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe Tyrrhenian River was wide and deep, and though it continued for a long ways past the city where Leon and his people would be proceeding on foot, the Heaven’s Eye yacht was much too large and ...
2021-08-04 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostLeon watched Ariminium slowly recede as the massive Heaven’s Eye ship slowly pushed its way up the Tyrrhenian River, bearing him and his followers away from the Bull Kingdom, possibly never to re...
2021-08-02 15:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe mood on Leon’s ship as it pulled into the port of Ariminium was somber and quiet. Asiya and Iset had been rescued, but Khayu had been killed by Mansur before their escape could be completed.<...
2021-07-30 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostLeon, Khayu, and Iset were spat out onto the deck of Leon’s ship without much consideration; Maia was many things, but gentle was not one of them. The river nymph herself leaped from the water an...
2021-07-28 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLeon worried about his retinue, but he trusted Asiya would explain to them his plan. So, invisible, he sprinted across the sandy dirt of the Samar coast back toward the Kingdom’s capital city, wh...
2021-07-26 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“What about… my parents?”
Just four words. Words spoken with a quiet desperation that he understood completely. From her tone, he could tell that Asiya knew her parents weren’t long f...
2021-07-23 15:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post“I’d like to request and audience with your Sultan, if possible,” Leon said, smiling at the three seventh-tier Samar warriors that had him surrounded, a thousand Samar guardsmen at their back...
2021-07-21 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLeon dropped his captured Samarid sixth-tier warrior on a hill several miles out from the Samar side of Ariminium, close to the Gulf. The man, disoriented from the rapid capture and subsequent flig...
2021-07-19 15:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostI am terribly sorry this was late, thought I set it up for automatic posting, but that was at like 3 am and I guess something went wrong. Didn't notice the mistake until just now.
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“Look at him go,” Valeria marveled as Leon scrambled about their guest house, putting himself together as quickly as he was able. He’d spent most of the previous night having his endurance as...
2021-07-14 15:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe first day after their arrival in Ariminium, Leon and his family met up with his old friends from the Knight Academy after parting with Asiya after the disappointing chariot races. It had been m...
2021-07-12 15:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostA little more than five months after returning to the Bull Kingdom, it was time to leave. The investigators sent by Heaven’s Eye had finished their work and sent back their recommendation that Em...
2021-07-09 15:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Hmm, like this?” Valeria asked as she slowly drew runic circle after runic circle on a sheet of cheap spell paper.
“Yes, perfect,” Leon intimately whispered into her ear, feeling alm...
2021-07-07 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few weeks proceeded quite peacefully for Leon. Apart from some wedding plans he had to make with Elise, there wasn’t much he had to worry about. With Emilie on his side—at least, as mu...
2021-07-05 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLeon flew in lazy figure-eights over the section of the noble district that his villa was in, reveling in the way the wind blew through his feathers and the dampness of the clouds that he passed th...
2021-07-02 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s done?!” Leon exclaimed as he arrived at the copy of the transformation cave in his soul realm, his tone joyous yet tempered by mild apprehension as his fear led him to think he’d misu...
2021-06-30 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostLeon and his retinue had been home a month, and he knew that it was time to head east and return Lapis and its fellows to their people. His heart madly raced and his face burned with shame for brin...
2021-06-28 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post