NokiMo
wardenraime

wardenraime

patreon


wardenraime posts

Chapter 533 - An Unexpected Request

Leon felt immeasurably better when he left his soul realm than he did when he entered it. He knew what he did and didn’t want to be, and he had the next few moves of his life planned out. He woul...

View Post

Chapter 532 - A Spark of Ambition

After his short talk with Nestor, Leon wandered the forest in his soul realm for a long time. He opened himself up to the sounds of nature, but since it was his soul realm, it was unnaturally quiet...

View Post

Chapter 531 - Values of the Old Clan

Leon sat in his villa staring at a wall, at a loss as to what he should be doing with himself. The King and Penitent had an enormous amount of work to do with the western revolts, so after agreeing...

View Post

Chapter 530 - Hasty Return to the Capital

Leon numbly listened as Ajax narrated the events of only two days ago from the report he’d received. Octavius had escaped from the dungeon, broken free by unknown persons who were possessed of al...

View Post

Chapter 529 - Raid for a Prince

The capital was fairly quiet; surprisingly so, in Jormun’s opinion. It had barely even been a month since the Bull Kingdom’s civil war had ended, so he’d expected to see their capital in an a...

View Post

Chapter 528 - The Card

Another long chapter today, almost 6k words.  529 will also be of comparable length. ;)
---
---
On the plane of Aeterna, the Heaven’s Eye Merchant Guild had a virtual monopoly on al...

View Post

Chapter 527 - Regaining Some Pride

Chapter further below, this is just something I wanted to say beforehand.


A lot of patrons not returning in December, so I'd figured I'd leave everyone with a 6500 word chapter to end the...

View Post

Chapter 526 - Introspection

Leon’s heart was conflicted as his group returned to Teira. The weight on his mind from the thoughts he’d had in the control room of Xaphan’s prison had eased a little, but the problem persis...

View Post

Chapter 525 - The Future II

Asking Valeria to be a part of his future was a spur of the moment decision, but it wasn’t one that Leon took lightly. Neither Elise nor Maia seemed to be too surprised or perturbed by his statem...

View Post

Chapter 524 - The Future I

“What in the name of the Ancestors is this place?” the Heaven’s Eye diplomat asked in wonder as Leon led them through the halls of Xaphan’s prison. He was asking the question on ev...

View Post

Chapters 73-76 Revised

Well, I was surprised for the reaction when I mentioned I had decided to cut Chapter 73.  Every piece of feedback I got back about that decision was that I should leave it in, and I mean e...

View Post

Chapter 523 - A Few Days of Rest

When Elise dragged Leon and Maia off to bathe, Leon didn’t even question it. He was looking forward to being with his fire-haired lover again even though neither he nor Maia were in moods to phys...

View Post

Chapter 522 - Back in Vale Town

Leon stared back at the Forest of Black and White from the mountain pass that lead back to the Brown Bear’s vale. Everything had worked out in the end, but he couldn’t say that his time being b...

View Post

Chapter 521 - A Second Departure

All too soon, Leon and his group’s time in the Heartwood grove came to an end. Leon didn’t want them to stay too long, even though the grove itself seemed to revel in his presence as much as he...

View Post

Chapter 520 - Maia's Answer

The further Leon went into the Heartwood Glade, the more furious he became at Justin’s ‘apology’. While the apology itself had seemed genuine enough, Justin had not once said anything about f...

View Post

Chapter 519 - Justin's Request

When Leon’s group awoke in the Heartwood Grove, the sun was already high in the sky, showing that they had all been much more tired than they had realized—they’d slept for more than twelve ho...

View Post

Chapter 518 - Leaving the Lab

It was a fairly short night for Leon, mostly because of his conversations with the Thunderbird, Nestor, and starting his tutelage under the latter. A lot had been given to him to think about and to...

View Post

Chapter 517 - Death of the Thunderbird

For several long hours, Nestor and the young Raime spoke at great length, with Nestor getting a feel for Leon’s current skill in enchanting. By the end of it, he wasn’t particularly enthused ab...

View Post

Chapter 516 - Leon's Offered Deal

Leon had no reservations about leaving Valeria and Justin alone again. If they hadn’t run away the first time he and Maia had left, then he doubted they’d vanish on him now. So, after seeing Va...

View Post

Chapter 515 - Khosrow's Law

“So, Kamran has enemies,” Leon continued, not letting Justin stop even for a moment, “how about the old Thunderbird Clan? Do you know of any old allies of them that might be willing to aid me...

View Post

Chapter 514 - Titles

For a while, Leon and Justin’s conversation was dry and without too much emotion. Leon, after everything that had happened over the past few hours and days, was just about done with being passion...

View Post

Chapter 513 - Leon's Questions

Retrieving the crystal that stored all the power in the facility was fairly easy, at least compared to the moon stone. Leon’s only concern had been what might happen to the lift and the rest of t...

View Post

Chapter 512 - Valeria and Justin

For a long few seconds after Leon and Naiad left her alone with her father, Valeria stared at the door, simply contemplating the implications of what Leon had just done and all that had happened ov...

View Post

Chapter 72 Revised

Well, this one's a little late, I apologize for not getting it out the Monday after the last revised chapter like I'd been hoping.  Originally, I was planning on keeping most of the details of...

View Post

Chapter 511 - The Moon Stone II

[I couldn’t get a good look at it, but if I’m right, then that rock was touched by a Primal God,] the Thunderbird said, her tone grave. [Probably more than touched, though, if these wards are t...

View Post

Chapter 510 - The Moon Stone I

Leon exited the magic power generator room—he couldn’t think of anything else to call the place—with Justin still limply slung over his shoulder. A part of him was still demanding that he set...

View Post

Chapter 509 - Justin's Weakness

Leon sat down upon the platform that Justin had been imprisoned on, his eyes wandering the room. He felt surprisingly at peace despite the magnitude of what he’d just done; Justin would likely wa...

View Post

Chapter 508 - Vengeance or Forgiveness

There he was, in the back of the room. Justin Isynos. One of the men responsible for the murder of his father, his uncle, his grandfather, and the destruction of his House.
Everything else in th...

View Post

Chapter 507 - Obsolete

Valeria sighed deeply as she stepped back from the lift panel.
“There’s no way I’m going to get this damn thing to move,” she said with a deep scowl. “The power requirements are too gr...

View Post

Chapter 506 - Round Two

Leon waited with bated breath, his eyes unwaveringly locked on Nestor. He saw every tiny movement of the older man’s magic body, and at the first sign of his return to Leon’s soul realm, Leon w...

View Post