Scarlett knitted her forehead as she compressed the two fire spheres in front of her further and further, trying to focus on, and grasp, the strands of mana that made the magic up. It was like tryi...
2022-09-29 20:23:23 +0000 UTC View PostScarlett pushed aside a branch with annoyance as she sidestepped a root jutting out from the ground, avoiding the soggy pool of mud next to it. She hated wet forests.
It just had to rain the ...
2022-09-25 20:25:24 +0000 UTC View Post“My Lady.” Garside lay on his bed, back prodded up against the wall behind him. “This servant is humbled that you would take time out of your day to come visit.”
“Think nothing of i...
2022-09-22 20:23:41 +0000 UTC View PostJust a short notice that there won't be a chapter this sunday, as I'll be gone for a few days and won't have time to post and edit in time. So the next chapter will be a week from now.
2022-09-15 20:50:18 +0000 UTC View PostScarlett sipped a cup of warm tea as she waited in the east wing’s guest parlor. It was nearing late afternoon. She had spent much of the morning training, dealing with paperwork and reports sent...
2022-09-15 20:45:23 +0000 UTC View PostScarlett wiped a bead of sweat from her forehead, looking out across the training grounds. Some of the items she used for her training were lined up next to the wooden shed towards the edge, but th...
2022-09-11 21:03:49 +0000 UTC View Post“The Field of Broken Pacts.” The man’s voice drifted across the room as he regarded the painting in front of him. “That is its name.”
A brief silence hung over the room.
“It...
2022-09-08 20:23:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe day after the Cabal’s attack, Scarlett was once more walking down the mansion’s hallways to receive another sudden guest.
There were a lot of them lately.
And while this wasn’...
2022-09-04 20:47:17 +0000 UTC View PostScarlett stared down at the motionless bodies on the hallway floor. The Hallowed Cabal had made their move.
“There are more of them,” Fynn said, sniffing the air. He paused. “…They’...
2022-09-01 21:33:01 +0000 UTC View PostLivvi Knottley and Raimond Abram—or rather, ‘Ray Abraham’—were waiting for them when they arrived in the parlor. The two were sitting opposite each other on the room’s couches, partaking ...
2022-08-28 21:15:37 +0000 UTC View PostAs was becoming more and more common when back in Freybrook, Scarlett was spending her afternoon in the office, looking over some documents Evelyne had sent over. Most of them were regarding the bu...
2022-08-25 21:14:59 +0000 UTC View PostRosa woke up skin clammy with sweat, breath caught in her throat. The air was pressing down on her chest, as if the room itself was closing in around her. The shadows lurking on the ceiling crawled...
2022-08-21 21:22:33 +0000 UTC View Post“My Lady. A Mister Smith is here.” Molly stood at the entrance of Scarlett’s office in the Freybrook mansion. “He said he had prior plans to meet with you?”
Scarlett put down the le...
2022-08-18 21:04:35 +0000 UTC View PostA woman sat by her lonesome behind an ornate, black wooden desk, peering down at an array of thick, text-laden papers. Bookshelves lined the room, lit up by the enchanted candles that hung from bro...
2022-08-14 20:52:13 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re back!”
“Bro!!!”
A group of children came bolting towards Scarlett and the others, jumping at Fynn like a gaggle of monkeys. Scarlett watched as he tried to hold them b...
2022-08-11 19:29:39 +0000 UTC View Post[Quest completed: Cleared The Howling Gale’s Haunt (1/3)]
{Skill points awarded: 7}
Scarlett skimmed over the quest completion window before her. It hadn’t appeared un...
2022-08-07 20:32:15 +0000 UTC View PostLike the mini-boss room, the true boss room looked more like a cave than a man-made construct, with uneven walls and sharp edges here and there. A shallow pool of water took up the center of the sp...
2022-08-04 20:59:15 +0000 UTC View PostAn eerie smile covered Rosa’s face.
Scarlett stared at the woman. Some instincts hidden deep down were screaming to run away, but her gaze was locked inside Rosa’s pitch-black ey...
2022-07-31 21:37:50 +0000 UTC View PostScarlett’s eyes were locked on the wall of stone, blocking them off. A groan escaped from beside her, where Rosa was slowly raising herself from the ground.
“H-Hello?” the woman’s voi...
2022-07-28 20:48:47 +0000 UTC View PostWhen she opened her eyes again, Scarlett found herself at the top of a platform on the side of a mountain. Spread out before her were countless white peaks continuing for miles, jutting up towards ...
2022-07-24 22:40:09 +0000 UTC View PostScarlett held the thick wool shawl close as she looked out across the water. She stood at the bow of a ship, traveling northeast, down a steady stream that stretched out miles before her.
The...
2022-07-21 20:31:01 +0000 UTC View PostAllyssa swung her legs back and forth as she looked at the people working outside. She saw on the window ledge in Shin’s room, and the people outside were walking around, cleaning away uprooted b...
2022-07-17 20:20:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is a basic map of what the empire that the story takes place in looks like. While it is lacking in details, and I am far from an expert map-maker, it depicts several—though not all—of the ...
2022-07-14 20:50:20 +0000 UTC View PostThis was too early. Far too early. Scarlett never imagined Fynn would awaken this soon.
This scene was similar to the game, but seeing it like this gave a whole new weightiness to th...
2022-07-14 20:49:49 +0000 UTC View PostScarlett walked through the mansion, absentmindedly taking in the various expensive decors spread throughout the hallways as she passed by. A few days had gone by since her meeting with Gaven, but ...
2022-07-10 21:18:07 +0000 UTC View PostScarlett gaped at the scene before her. A gust of wind swirled across the courtyard as Fynn jumped out of the broken window, touching down next to the person who’d flown out the window.
“...
2022-07-07 21:38:01 +0000 UTC View PostLater that day, after spending some surprisingly enjoyable time catching up with Kat, Scarlett returned to the mansion by herself.
Shin and Allyssa were at the Guild branch. She wasn’t abou...
2022-07-04 21:41:29 +0000 UTC View Post“My Lady,” Garside’s voice called out from the other side of her office door. “We have received a notice from the Shields Guild branch.”
“Enter,” Scarlett said calmly as she fli...
2022-07-01 18:53:23 +0000 UTC View Post"Welcome back, my Lady," Garside's raspy voice sounded out. The old butler bowed in greeting as Scarlett exited the carriage in front of the Freybrook mansion's courtyard. "I presume the latest exc...
2022-07-01 18:52:23 +0000 UTC View Post"Now that the Light Fest has ended, I will soon be returning to Freybrook," Scarlett said, looking across the table to where Allyssa, Shin, Fynn, and Rosa sat. They were still in the dining hall, b...
2022-07-01 18:51:36 +0000 UTC View Post