Draith

Chapter 132 - Fancy Club 2.0

The metal devil lurched forward, dripping slag from its mouth as it came at me.

With no weapon at my disposal, I figured trying to fight the thing was a fool’s errand. So I didn’t bother,...

Chapter 131 - Mind The Gap

Once more, the infrastructure around Conflict had expanded since we last visited.

Sticking to the terms of my request, not a single thing had been taken from the surface. However, there was a...

Chapter 130 - Shared Culture

“You want to talk about Earth?” I asked Esbee, putting the plans for the tavern’s renovations to the side for the moment while staring at her across the tavern’s table. Despite the fact it ...

Chapter 129 - Break All The Rules

"Make me into an ensouled," Tamrie repeated, though it was as much a question as anything. Her brow was furrowed and I was grateful that we didn’t have anything urgent to attend to that morning. ...

Chapter 128 - A Step Closer

I came out of Memory Palace with a gasp.

After opening the bathroom door, I'd been sucked straight into the whole sequence of events, not a second to process during.

It felt… Well, no...

Chapter 127 - Bathroom Door

While Nexxa had made it sound like she was going to leave immediately, she was planning to wait a few more days. If the horde continued coming at the rate it was, that would be enough to push her o...

Chapter 126 - Temporary Measures

Nexxa and I flew to the narrow point for building the dam. The rocky canyon was roaring, loud enough we couldn’t hear each other, the water was rushing through so fast.

And I needed to be k...

Chapter 125 - Drop the Beat

Nexxa was understandably doubtful of my claim at first. "How the heck are you going to drop a mountain? I can't even do that, and trust me, I've tried."

"Take another look in the book," I sai...

Chapter 124 - Against the Muck

"Perry?"

I'd come looking for her, yet hearing Nexxa's voice still caused me to freeze up in surprise. Might've gotten a bit carried away with the greenhouses. After all the work we'd put in ...

Chapter 123 - Frontier Living

Lightning split the sky as far as Nexxa could see, every moment filled with yet another damned monster.

The dragon was finally dead, and oh how that would’ve sounded so glorious to her a mo...

Chapter 122 - No Autopilot

My mistake was apparent less than an hour into my flight. It was hard to do anything but think when you were the only one piloting your glider and all you could see were stormclouds and the occasio...

Chapter 121 - Soaring Wolf

The next morning was a flurry of activity as I transferred designs from Memory Palace to books, finished up the last of the corridors behind Tetherfall, and made arrangements for Bevel's next coupl...

Chapter 120 - Memoirs of Arthe Balthum

Author's Note: Chapter 2/2 for today.

I soon found the answer to my questions in Balthum's journals. Arthe was apparently his first name. He only used it in his earliest journals, when he'd f...

Chapter 119 - Simple Exchange

Author's note: Shorter chapter, which makes it the perfect time to start catching up. Chapter 1/2 for today.

...Mage Lord Isekai...

Several months earlier, shortly after P...

Chapter 118 - Home Made Storage

We had a bit of a crowd the next morning, for the opening of the safe. Banya and Bevel were there, of course. After all the work we'd put in the day before, combined with the lack of deadly traps, ...

Chapter 117 - Not So Simple

I wasn't able to simply drain the traps on the safe. Somehow, Balthum had managed to tie them into Mount Aeternia's enchantment grid.

Which meant that they wouldn't run out of power without d...

Chapter 116 - Hot Water

There was a lot to process in the books Keeper had given me. Even with the help of Memory Palace and suffering through headaches, it took me a week to process it all.

Part of that was because...

Chapter 115 - Ascension Diagnostic

Author's note: Minor edit to the contents of Nexxa's note in chapter 66.

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"That… is a generous interpretation," Tresla said, passing me the page. "It was in with your clothes. Miss...

Chapter 114 - Stairway To Heaven

While she’d remained quiet, I noticed after Keria left, that Tamrie had been standing nearby, waiting. She hadn’t said anything, leaving shortly after Keria. Deciding not to fret about it, I re...

Chapter 113 - Just Like Dancing

As we retreated to the back of the stage, “I asked… so, I didn’t just propose to you, did I?”

“Not so much,” Tamrie admitted, reaching up to stroke the hairpin and badge, a smile ...

Chapter 112 - Thoughtful Gifts

The festival had only been a vague thought in the back of my mind for most of the week, a niggling reminder that I'd have to wade through the worst part of my position as Magus Dominus.

Actin...

Chapter 111 - Into The Fire

The door shimmered in greeting. Calbern and I stepped through it together.

We arrived alone.

Wasn't a surprise. The books had indicated we'd be separated. Stepping through the door had ...

Chapter 110 - Perfection Through Destruction

With Calbern at the helm we roared over the ridgetops, the morning sun not yet poking its head over the horizon as I took the opportunity to gaze out over the eastern stretch of Cape Aeternia. Iner...

Chapter 109 - New Fields

"Really? You missed me?" Bevel asked before Keria or I could say anything, she was still hanging from a rope that was tied to a frame on the ceiling I hadn't noticed when I first came in.

"Of...

Chapter 108 - Overstepping

With Inertia helping to fit Fang's Forgeheart back in place, I made my way to Keeper with Tamrie in tow, as she caught me up on what I'd missed.

Not much, thankfully. We'd been gone for most ...

Chapter 107 - To Be Young

Down the steps, surrounding the Waygate, were several doors.

“Trials by Fire,” Conflict declared as we looked down. “Through each lies a challenge that will take you and reforge you ane...

Chapter 106 - Not The First Hurdle

It probably wasn't a good sign that I didn't have a response to the overly aggressive question from the being that looked like it'd literally been born with the singular purpose of ripping out peop...

Chapter 105 - Actually Needed

With the wheel separated from the rest of the rollerbug, it was light enough for Selvi and the other Tethered to take back on their own. They might have to stop to recharge, but I figured it was wo...

Chapter 104 - Crash Test

After our quick survey, we reconvened at the bluff. The others were all waiting for us, which told me we'd been watching the whale pod even longer than I'd realized.

Selvi wasn't even out of ...

Chapter 103 - From The Depths

As we flew towards the western peaks, the wyverns drew closer. While I prepped for an attack, after a cursory glance they left us alone. Well, mostly. One wyvern continued to follow us, but it didn...