Earthchild

Chapter 68: Intermittent Paralysis

Lerko hadn't been able to go into the tunnels in days with any of the Delver teams. There were only eight of those in the entire camp, and they'd cleared out all of the surrounding tunnels already....

Chapter 67: Fundamental and Permanent

There were a few Flora spells that Caen was interested in. They all had to do with the manipulation of wood and foliage. With a boosted Flora affinity, he began adapting the spells. It was slow and...

Chapter 66: Contracted Bonds

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Chapter 65: A Farmer's Children

The air quality was deceitfully pleasant. A light breeze tousled Caen's hair even though they flew over leafless trees on Hakohnzo at impossible speeds. 

It was obviously a magical effe...

Chapter 64: Beautiful, Ugly Moon

They'd been moving through root-portals almost every hour for a good while now, and Caen’d had to Mimic Zeris's Space affinity to handle the excruciating discomfort. 

Now, having run f...

Chapter 63: Breakthrough As An Option

Vensha had not slept in days; how could she? She was furious.

Anger was easier than helplessness. Easier than terror and frustration. Her niece and nephew had gotten caught in the middle of f...

Chapter 62: Tangled

After another day of running around the tunnel system, killing ants and avoiding being grabbed by roots, Caen had healed their wounds and applied the sleep abeyance spell. They'd been forcing thems...

Chapter 61: Big Brother and Big Sister

They'd just killed a swarm of ants and had escaped back to a chamber they'd been in before. Between Zeris's map, Caen's tyyr ink markings on the floor, and the dark blood of dead ants, it was alway...

Chapter 60: Group Chat

The chamber was empty save for an antenna ant standing by the exit he'd yet to scout. The creature's soul structure revealed that it was calling out to other ants. Flickering Soul-sense, Caen shot ...

Chapter 59: Agitating The Roots

“I'm going to try something!” Caen said to them. “It might make the roots very mad.”

Whenever he'd used the sedation spell on the awakened trees above ground, they'd gone crazy and b...

Chapter 58: Here Goes Nothing

Caen quickly looked over Bwedel's injuries. His arm was not getting better, he’d lost far too much blood, and Caen was not skilled enough to help him. He cast another spell chain to mend some mor...

Chapter 57: Quite The Show

Moving through the portal was a terrible feeling. It was worse than using one of those hop pads in Chrenai. He doubled over, wheezing, and that worsened the pain from his abdomen where he'd been sh...

Chapter 56: Root-portal

They did need to kill several waves of ants on their way to the specific tunnel that Major Hulte had in mind. The reason for this was obvious: they had light sources accompanying them. If anything,...

Chapter 55: Investigative Delve

At the front zone, Caen fiddled around with some dry plant tendrils he'd foraged from the forest in the Odaton camp. Having Mimicked the tree’s Flora magic affinity, he slowly and carefully tried...

Chapter 54: Test Subjects

Caen had joined up with the Cutter team that he'd met Guinevere in some days ago, but she seemed to have moved on to a different team. After Caen had mentioned his interest in joining up with a Del...

Chapter 53: Crucial Point

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Chapter 52: Watched And Examined And Inspected

After helping out with the kitchen for an hour and a half in the morning, Caen rushed down to the Plane. He'd woken up late today because of his sleep debt. The sleep abeyance spell could be applie...

Chapter 51: A Spell Possessed In Common

Caen worked through the night, practicing various modifiers on his Blood-healing spells. He was especially pleased with how effective one of Healer naMoon's bone-mending techniques proved to be. Th...

Chapter 50: The Second Lesson

Ardor was give and take. Something passed on and received in equal measure. And he could feel this man's passion. He could hear it almost as clearly as a song echoing in the dead of night. He felt ...

Chapter 49: Serious Business

Caen sat on the stone slab, holding the bucket of frothing water as two men came into throwing range across from him. One of them was holding a catapult, a fat pebble braced in its sling. Yellow Ta...

Chapter 48: Violating The Habitation Code

Caen dropped his connection to the tree immediately. The thrashing branches had begun to still, but a large swarm of ants had now come upon the Cutter team.

He flickered Soul-sense and tore t...

Chapter 47: Inverting Moreness

Caen rushed in, flickering Soul-sense as he cut into limbs and stabbed the unempowered carapaces of the ants. Their chittering was only barely drowned out by the loud whirring of the cutting equipm...

Chapter 46: How to Pick up Vedul Women In A Plane

After parting ways with his uncle, Caen spent half an hour working in the kitchen that night.

Afterwards, as he used up four of his tokens purchasing extra food, he quietly bemoaned the fact ...

Chapter 45: To Channel The Planar Light

It took them nearly an hour to cut their way deep into the dense woodlands of the Plane. The Delver team was far more effective at putting down ants than any Attacker team Caen had seen here. They ...

Chapter 44: High Priest Sh'kteiro

At the healing tents, Caen sat on a stool, Mimicking Ergen’s Spirit-healing affinity. His father was in the middle of a cleansing session, as were many other healers here.

Caen cleansed hi...

Chapter 43: Inverted Moreness

Still very sore, Caen entered the Plane with an Attacker team made up of mostly Body-enhancers. The team lead was a chatty, barrel-chested man named Mokob. 

Caen spent three hours roamin...

Chapter 42: Scripting A Basic Alarm Ward System

Boundaries weren't always necessary for creating wards, but they often helped define the reach of the working. If Caen spun his bed on an axis, it would create a perfect circle, but that seemed to ...

Chapter 41: Hello to Zeris

“Tet’s balls, lad!” cursed the Body-enhancer. “Are you sure?”

“It's true,” said one of the Earth practicians who had hung back during the melee. “I was keeping count.” He j...

Chapter 40: Total Kills

The people in the Attacker team Caen had just joined were hardly an eclectic mix. Everyone kept to themselves, but their badges were out on full display. Three Earth magic practicians, a Body-enhan...

Chapter 39: Mashed Potatoes and Oats

Caen flung tiny balls of flame at an ant's eye two or so yards away. At the same time, the grizzly man put two crossbow bolts into its face. It fell. 

Caen reoriented himself to face whe...