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Book 4, Chapter 46

The biggest sticking point was that the gestalt, for some inscrutable reason, wanted to bring its entire room of black-glass stone with it. It wasn’t impossible, but it was an expensive and time-...

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Book 4, Chapter 45

“That’s unexpected,” I murmured as I settled into a sitting position in the air next to the ‘tree.’ “Sapient creatures.”

I couldn’t find a singular mind to connect with to ret...

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Book 4, Chapter 44

My shield ward flared to life, protecting me from the impact but not extracting me from the pin. Whatever had smacked into me, I still couldn’t see or sense anything at all. I scrunched my eyes c...

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Book 4, Chapter 43

With just about everything else on my list of immediate tasks finished, I began searching for my entry point into the deep tunnels and caves under Derro. Worst case, I knew where to dig straight do...

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Book 4, Chapter 42

The next morning, a niggling sensation in my mind prompted me to pull out my scrying mirror. I was expecting someone from New Alkerist, probably my family since the transmission stones should have ...

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Book 4, Chapter 41

Three transmission stones sat on the table, one for Senica and one for each of my parents. Nothing against Nailu, but he needed to learn to talk in person before I gave him a magic rock to talk int...

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Book 4, Chapter 40

I left two transmission stones with the council to be given to whoever they saw fit. One was immediately claimed by Oramo, which I supposed made sense. The man in charge of keeping the town safe wo...

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Book 4, Chapter 39

Once things calmed down, the pair of arguing farmers were kicked out. They protested in booming voices, somehow still caught up in their struggle to shout over each other. One of the councilmen mut...

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Book 4, Chapter 38

I stopped back home to use my crucible and let Querit know what happened to the mage I’d gone to collect. Without the planned second set of notes, it was going to be far more difficult to confirm...

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Book 4, Chapter 37

Based on some testimonies from a few of the flock’s primary hunters, we eventually narrowed Ammun’s mages’ entry point down to three possible portals. I gave all three a thorough examination ...

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Book 4, Chapter 36

Eyrie Peak was the largest mountain in the range by a mile. In fact, it was one of the largest I’d ever seen, its height dwarfed only by Ammun’s tower thousands of miles northwest of here. The ...

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Book 4, Chapter 35

I ended up with an entire notebook of sketches from Hebrem, who grew more and more cranky about the work I was forcing on him with each passing minute. His mental defenses remained solidly in place...

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Book 4, Chapter 34

Interrogating all my new prisoners was a waste of time. Other than sorting out the ones who were there voluntarily from the ones who’d been coerced into it, I learned absolutely nothing of any va...

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Book 4, Chapter 33

It was a matter of efficiency that I had to leave the orb tracker in the area. If it were only a single connection, it wouldn’t have made much of a difference, but with hundreds of links between ...

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Book 4, Chapter 32

Sand worms weren’t that smart, something I’d known intellectually but hadn’t really internalized until I’d wasted two hours following my scrying beacon around as the worm crawled around the...

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Book 4, Chapter 31

Querit agreed with my theory after I explained it, though he didn’t seem all that excited about it. Considering that I’d potentially gain a huge source of mana generation and kill...

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Book 4, Chapter 30

“I don’t want to commit to anything,” I said. “There’s a lot going on right now and it’s all kind of time-sensitive.”

“I understand, but hear me out.”

Querit cast a qu...

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Book 4, Chapter 29

Querit took the news that I’d plundered his homeland’s most valuable artifacts better than I’d expected him to, if only because the fact that I’d modified the rune scheme through multiple l...

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Book 4, Chapter 28

The connection to Querit’s scrying mirror snapped abruptly, meaning he’d either cut the mana feed or the mirror itself had been broken. I quickly cast my own scrying spell on the area I’d dro...

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Book 4, Chapter 27

Querit and I walked through the petrified forest together. He brushed a hand across the stone trunks, still textured like bark years later. “Amazing,” he said.

“I can’t take all the c...

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Book 4, Chapter 26

I had far too much to do, and not nearly enough time to get it all done. I’d made my modifications to the mysteel pillars I’d relocated from beneath Derro, but I still hadn’t gotten a chance ...

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Book 4, Chapter 25

Three hours later, I’d finally finished checking every single piece of decorative armor I could find. The good news was that none of the ones I was planning to steal were secure in any way. The b...

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Book 4, Chapter 24

Querit had been my guest for a week now while I attended other business. During that time, he’d been perfectly reasonable in all ways but one, and that was that he was the most mana-hungry creatu...

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Book 4, Chapter 23

Nailu clung to my leg and stared up at me with big, blue eyes. He wanted something, but I wasn’t sure what it was. I was afraid it was for me to pick him up or play with him, neither of which I w...

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Book 4, Chapter 22

I set Querit up in a set of rooms near the outer edges of my demesne, a place where there was enough ambient mana that he wouldn’t drain himself dry just existing, but where he wouldn’t be anyw...

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Book 4, Chapter 21

I summoned Querit out of his cage after a few minutes of discussion. It was obvious he was having trouble processing some of what I’d told him, and I thought an in-person meeting in an area compl...

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Book 4, Chapter 20

There was no way that body was actually human. For one thing, it was far too small to properly fit the body of the armor, if that’s what the golem truly was. For another, it was perfectly preserv...

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Book 4, Chapter 19

The whole world, as least as far as I’d gotten around to exploring it, consisted of a thousand little villages, most with populations of less than three hundred people. Sometimes they had connect...

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Book 4, Chapter 18

After draining the mana from all three of them and taking a few minutes to stabilize the woman—and drop a sleep spell on her while she wasn’t in the right state of mind to resist it—I turned ...

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Book 4, Chapter 17

I spent the next six hours scouring the lands being absorbed into the new Ralvost Empire. My first project was to confirm the locations of the other seven facilities I was guessing existed, which w...

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