Most of the facility was underground, with only a few silos breaking through the dirt to squat amongst the rolling hills that made up the area. That did make it a bit harder to break in unnoticed, ...
2024-07-30 11:53:46 +0000 UTC View PostUnfortunately, just transplanting the mysteel pillars and expecting them to work wasn’t a reasonable assumption. Even if I managed to get them in the exact same formation, right down to the inch,...
2024-07-29 11:33:39 +0000 UTC View PostI glanced around, curious to see if any other secret panels would open to reveal guardians that had long since lost any semblance of power. Whoever had been in charge of security must have decided ...
2024-07-28 11:14:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe cavern wasn’t natural, of that I was sure. It was another five hundred feet lower than the little pocket I’d claimed earlier, well below the sewer lines running under Derro. If Keeper’s t...
2024-07-27 12:34:43 +0000 UTC View PostSenica and Juby followed me into the greenhouse. I’d explained what I wanted, and not only had my sister agreed to help, she’d volunteered Juby’s assistance as well. When he’d tried to prot...
2024-07-26 13:05:45 +0000 UTC View PostUnlike the old village, New Alkerist had only continued to grow since its founding a few years ago. I wasn’t entirely sure where all these people had come from, but the introduction of the telepo...
2024-07-25 12:41:43 +0000 UTC View PostWhatever faults she might have, Keeper was a thorough researcher. She’d pulled information from dozens of different sources, speculated on what hadn’t been written down, confirmed those specula...
2024-07-24 12:27:36 +0000 UTC View PostThere were three mages waiting for us at Derro’s platform, all of them with anxious looks on their faces. Zara froze for a second when she saw them, then asked, “What are you doing here?”
... 2024-07-23 12:03:20 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I’d first traveled to Derro, it was with the intention of breaking a cabal known as the Wolf Pack. They’d managed to set up a system where they were harvesting mana from tens of thousands ...
2024-07-22 11:59:55 +0000 UTC View PostI spent two weeks flying around the edges of the old Ralvost Empire placing scrying beacons anywhere and everywhere. Some might be found, but I went out of my way to make the objects they were atta...
2024-07-21 11:10:41 +0000 UTC View PostI’d stumbled upon lossless casting a few years ago when I’d encountered a flock of gigantic sapient birds. It hadn’t been a skill I’d needed in my old life, but now that I was living in a w...
2024-07-20 12:15:37 +0000 UTC View PostBaviru sat in one of the dozen stone petitioner’s chairs I’d shaped for the meeting hall I’d built in their administration building while I leaned against the table where the town’s leaders...
2024-07-20 12:15:06 +0000 UTC View PostCurious apprentices had asked me many, many times over the years what it felt like to be bonded to a genius loci. Place spirits, as they were sometimes called, encompassed so much more than the hum...
2024-07-20 12:14:38 +0000 UTC View PostIf anything, the refugees were understating the precariousness of their position. It had taken me a few hours to look everything over, but by my rough count, they had close to five hundred people w...
2024-07-20 12:14:09 +0000 UTC View PostIn the worst-case scenario, Ammun’s hunters finally caught up with me and came in numbers. Even if they were all stage fours, I still wasn’t worried about them actually killing me, but the fact...
2024-07-20 12:13:29 +0000 UTC View PostFor two years, I’d devoted practically every waking moment to a singular goal. I’d make compromises, I’d sold my skills, and I’d begged favors to keep the mana I needed coming in. I’d sac...
2024-07-20 12:12:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe man who broke the world has risen back out of the pages of history, and Keiran is the only one who can stop him from making things even worse.
Author's Note: Book 4 will begin tomorrow. 7/week updates will continue until August 23rd when book 3 reaches the end on Royal Road.
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For three days, I’d been ov...
2024-07-19 11:28:56 +0000 UTC View PostI didn’t hesitate to send out a dozen more phantasmal swords from my cloak. They wouldn’t be very effective against a mage’s shadow, but they would do something. If it didn’t dodge out of t...
2024-07-18 12:16:05 +0000 UTC View PostOur new arena favored Ammun. While I could process the mana here, I couldn’t do it nearly as efficiently as he could. I wouldn’t go so far as to say he had an unlimited amount of mana, because ...
2024-07-17 12:30:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe reaction was immediate and violent. Ammun whipped both hands straight up and hurled mana out in a tightly controlled burst. Telekinetic force ripped down the hallway, hitting me and everyone el...
2024-07-16 11:56:45 +0000 UTC View Post“I can assure you, you’ve missed a lot while you were sleeping,” I told Ammun. “And I’m not even close to the age this body appears.”
That wasn’t even a lie. I just didn’t cla...
2024-07-15 11:47:49 +0000 UTC View PostAverin had nerves of steel. I’d just taken out three dozen people, though admittedly none of them were actually dead. Maybe he thought that meant his life was safe, that in the worst case, he’d...
2024-07-14 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostI stepped off the teleportation platform and unleashed a spell through my staff. The dozen or so Breakers guarding it all crumpled to the floor, their shield wards overwhelmed and their minds batte...
2024-07-13 11:51:22 +0000 UTC View PostThere were six people meeting at one of the safehouses I’d put surveillance enchantments in. One of them was Averin, and another was the man who’d introduced himself as Seven. Without the mask ...
2024-07-12 12:44:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt took a week for my scrying mirror to let me know someone was trying to reach me. I’d expected them to try to drag me in much sooner, but apparently, I’d underestimated the Breakers of Chains...
2024-07-11 12:38:02 +0000 UTC View PostStorage crystals and mana crystals had a lot of similarities in function, but diverged in construction principles. Mana crystals were, for lack of a better word, a more intimate creation. At the en...
2024-07-10 12:39:36 +0000 UTC View PostIt had become a habit of mine after I mastered lossless casting to run constant divinations whenever I could. A person could seem to do everything right and still get outmaneuvered because they lac...
2024-07-09 12:25:19 +0000 UTC View PostI had to stop almost immediately once I was inside the tower, something that was actually a bit difficult to do. Heavy mana rushed by at such great speed that it affected the physical world around ...
2024-07-08 12:19:51 +0000 UTC View PostIf I’d let only gravity take me, it would have taken me close to half an hour just to reach ground level after jumping off the top of the Sanctum of Light. Speeding it up with a flight spell got ...
2024-07-07 12:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post