Lancel watched with apprehension as Ajax and Lexi welcomed the elves to the party. For the first time the Hearthbound manor was home to a true noble party filled with some of the best of the younge...
2025-05-13 04:03:54 +0000 UTC
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Arianwyn P.O.V.
“So, what did you find out?” Leandra asked as we all gathered together for breakfast.
Unlike the others Leandra’s family didn’t send any retainers that were skil...
2025-05-10 04:19:58 +0000 UTC
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We hit the big 500! Thank you all so very much for joining me so far. Your support is very much appreciated and I hope you'll continue to read Ajax's Ascension in the future.
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2025-05-08 03:38:15 +0000 UTC
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The cold winds and low temperatures didn’t bother the elves or any of the other people who joined them. They all had enchanted items that would help with temperature control so long as Mana wasn...
2025-05-08 03:28:24 +0000 UTC
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Arianwyn P.O.V.
Leaving the capital of Gryndor felt liberating in a way I hadn’t expected it to when we had first arrived. My interest in the way humans lived was still there but it was sti...
2025-05-08 03:27:54 +0000 UTC
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The first thing House Hearthbound did when they got the news was send word to the capital about what they just found out. Including the time it would take for the message to arrive they knew there ...
2025-05-08 03:27:28 +0000 UTC
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Breakfast the following morning was just as charged as dinner was last night in House Hearthbound’s manor. While everyone might have done a lot to process everything that Ajax had revealed to the...
2025-05-08 03:27:05 +0000 UTC
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Lexi P.O.V.
I can barely hear the words Sam says as I try to process what Ajax just said. What the Trait he has gives him, more than anything what the Trait he has means. Divine Witness, even...
2025-05-08 03:26:41 +0000 UTC
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“Still… not good… enough.” Ajax took greedy gulps of air as he took a break from his training.
All around him were numerous broken rocks, wooden boards, wooden weapons and even ...
2025-05-08 03:26:13 +0000 UTC
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Xandor Gryndor Crown Prince P.O.V.
The number of visiting nobles is higher than we expected, the Republic seems to have attached a few of their own people as the elves passed through, all thi...
2025-05-08 03:25:48 +0000 UTC
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Aranor Starfury P.O.V.
My dislike for the dwellings of humans and dwarves still hasn’t gone away. They both build far better homes than the beastkin but that is a low bar to clear consideri...
2025-05-08 03:25:22 +0000 UTC
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Planting the fortress tree seed wasn’t all that exciting, the one thing that the mages had been looking forward to was Ajax’s use of Life Mana to ensure the seed would at least have a good star...
2025-05-08 03:24:52 +0000 UTC
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The small lake looked completely different from how Ajax remembered it. All around the bank of the river the forest was cleared out to make room for what looked to be the start of a small village b...
2025-05-08 03:24:09 +0000 UTC
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Tom P.O.V.
“Did you know?” Warden Grievous asks me as he sits in front of my desk. It’s been barely two weeks since the schools have started practical teaching in craftsmen professions ...
2025-05-08 03:23:50 +0000 UTC
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Ajax decided that his family was right. He was pushing himself a little too hard, and there was no reason for it. If there was a close timeline he needed to follow then maybe it would have been wor...
2025-05-08 03:23:21 +0000 UTC
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School started off rather boring for Jake. It was an issue they everyone had anticipated but there was simply nothing they could do about it. It would take at least a week before any of the classes...
2025-05-08 03:22:53 +0000 UTC
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“It was nice of you to ensure the Nestor family got some rewards from House Berrymore.” Ajax whispered to Lexi as he waited among his family for the event to begin.
“They deserve ...
2025-05-08 03:09:58 +0000 UTC
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Ajax, Lexi and Aurora could do nothing but stare at the parchment. They knew now why despite everything the former noble had struggled until the end, thinking there was a way out. Because he had ma...
2025-05-06 03:35:37 +0000 UTC
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The execution platform was surrounded on all sides by people looking to see it. The crowd was mostly people who had lived in the city for a long time but Ajax was a bit surprised to see young child...
2025-05-03 03:47:45 +0000 UTC
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As Ajax and Xavier returned both of their mood soured a little. They had been putting it off in their minds but the reason they didn’t have long to spend in the dungeon was because the execution ...
2025-05-01 03:36:24 +0000 UTC
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The guards were waiting with baited breath as they finished their preparations. All of them had taken part in repelling the salamander beast wave years ago and they had only grown since then but th...
2025-04-29 03:31:56 +0000 UTC
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Ajax was proven right. After the group moved on to the next floor the guards did actually improve. Their new location was a mountainside with a sparse tree presence instead of a thick forest, this ...
2025-04-26 03:33:22 +0000 UTC
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Most of the group entering the dungeon looked nervous. It wasn’t just the guards, some of whom were entering the dungeon for the first time in their lives, it was the crafting focused members of ...
2025-04-24 03:25:48 +0000 UTC
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A/N : Last chapter has been updated. Sorry for the confusion, yes Jake is currently Tom's and Kate's sole child and while he already has [Sense Mana] he hasn't had much luck using his mana ...
2025-04-22 03:15:57 +0000 UTC
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With the perspective brought by Lexi, Ajax was more than ready to focus on refining his recent gains and pushing himself further. At least as much as his time would allow.
“Your recent show...
2025-04-19 03:34:54 +0000 UTC
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Unlike Ajax, Lexi went for a much slower and more refined approach when it came to increasing the size of the quarry. Despite taking longer by an order of magnitude she managed to make just as much...
2025-04-17 03:36:00 +0000 UTC
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Jonathan P.O.V.
Joining the city guards was one of the best choices I made. Ever since my wife and I had made the decision to move to Lessis four months ago I knew I would need a job and ther...
2025-04-15 03:35:36 +0000 UTC
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Everyone looked in surprise towards Lancel. It was easy to forget because the man physically looked just past his prime, looking just like a man in his late forties back on Earth but the man was ov...
2025-04-12 03:39:32 +0000 UTC
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“Why is there a need for something like weaving?” A brash alchemist exploded in the middle of the meeting. “You’ll be lucky if one in fifty people will use that in the future at all.”&nbs...
2025-04-10 03:35:04 +0000 UTC
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“So you went with execution after all.” Warden Grievous said as talked with Tom.
“He deserves it.” Tom said with finality, his eyes cold as he remembered how the refugees who made it ...
2025-04-08 03:29:46 +0000 UTC
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