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Book 3, Chapter 67

Everyone at the table was staring at me. I stood in the doorway, nonplussed, and stared back. After a few moments of silence, Senica said, “Go on, then. Let’s see it this time.”

“See ...

Book 3, Chapter 66

If I’d been limited to a single workstation, it would have taken me months to make all the potions and elixirs I needed to transition to stage five. As it was, I’d been doing the prep work on t...

Book 3, Chapter 65

“This… is incredible,” Averin said. “How did you ever find this?”

“A lot of patience and scrying magic,” I told him, somewhat grumpily. I’d only gotten a few hours’ sleep be...

Book 3, Chapter 64

Averin was faster than I’d given him credit for. Barely eight hours had passed before one of his messengers arrived at the safehouse to let me know that the connecting platform was in place and r...

Book 3, Chapter 63

Nobody bothered to ask what I’d been up to, and I didn’t go out of my way to volunteer. They were more interested in the teleportation circle I’d built in their safehouse. Specifically, they ...

Book 3, Chapter 62

Nobody had returned to the safehouse to check up on me by the time I returned. I was not surprised, given the location and the obnoxious amount of work it took to move between floors. Every five fl...

Book 3, Chapter 61

The good news was that I was completely right about the incorporeal monsters in the tunnels being mana fiends. The bad news was that there were already fifty of them flooding into the maintenance p...

Book 3, Chapter 60

The safehouse on floor one was sparsely furnished and in what I supposed they probably thought of as a bad neighborhood. Everyone had an ignited core, at least everyone who walked within a few hund...

Book 3, Chapter 59

Averin sped through the options on the interface, growing more and more excited as he went. “This is fantastic,” he muttered. “There are so many possibilities here the normal interfaces are m...

Book 3, Chapter 58

The tunnel was short, barely ten feet long before ending with a locked door. I examined it thoroughly to confirm there were no magical traps, then stepped aside to let Averin do the same. Our third...

Book 3, Chapter 57

We didn’t go to the platform that had the Breaker spy stationed there for the simple reason that the rest of the crew wouldn’t be so willing to overlook a strange group appearing. The operator,...

Book 3, Chapter 56

Senica looked at the glass orb I’d handed her. A little ring of brass floated inside, its surface covered in tiny runes. “What does it do?” she asked.

“It’s your emergency escape to...

Book 3, Chapter 55

The sentinel manning the interface for the ward system probably wasn’t supposed to have a chair—none of the other facilities I’d been to did—but that hadn’t stopped her. I wondered where ...

Book 3, Chapter 54

The dims might not have understood what it meant to be rendered invisible and silent, but Nelgith and his partner mage were both giving me disconcerted looks. The mass versions of those two spells ...

Book 3, Chapter 53

The reaction was immediate and violent. Spells exploded into the air from both mages, one casting some form of force restraint designed to latch onto me and hold me still, the other a long, spinnin...

Book 3, Chapter 52

The cave I’d excavated and warded for use as our base camp had gone undisturbed the entire time we were gone. As soon as we teleported in, I started going through the wards to ensure they hadn’...

Book 3, Chapter 51

Understandably, the silver-feathered brakvaw didn’t trust me to just randomly teleport her across several islands to the mana-rich environment outside the Sanctum of Light. I couldn’t even hold...

Book 3, Chapter 50

Magic could do a lot of interesting things, including grafting properties from one type of material onto another. But I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to make Hyago’s idea work. Living ston...

Book 3, Chapter 49

I found Hyago down in the valley floor taking mana measurements off our sample trees a few hours later. He glanced up at me as I flew down through a gap in the canopy and said, “Hey, boss. I didn...

Book 3, Chapter 48

Father looked up from the kitchen table in surprise when I opened the door to our house and walked through. “Gravin! I wasn’t expecting you back so soon. Did everything go well?”

“A b...

Book 3, Chapter 47

I watched six brakvaw wheel around the village up in the sky. They were too far away to hear, not that I could have understood their strange screeching language anyway. There was no doubt in my min...

Book 3, Chapter 46

It only took me an hour to fly to the meeting point. We were using the same empty peak we’d used the last time we talked, though we hadn’t set a meeting time. I trusted Grandfather to sense whe...

Book 3, Chapter 45

We stepped off the teleportation platform at Sanctuary and were met by a small crowd of people. Our father was there, along with Ryla and a dozen of her traveling merchants. I spotted Juby lurking ...

Book 3, Chapter 44

With limited time left before we hit our self-imposed deadline, I roughed out a cave with a series of transmutation spells focused strongly on compressing the earth and stone or reshaping it into m...

Book 3, Chapter 43

As we got closer to the Sanctum of Light, I got a better look at the landscape. It sloped upward like a puckered wound in the planet itself, rising in height to over a mile as it curled up around a...

Book 3, Chapter 42

We flew relatively low, only a few hundred feet over the ground. It didn’t make a lot of difference to our overall speed, but this way, we could scout out everything living in the area. I managed...

Book 3, Chapter 41

With a firm direction in mind and Senica’s endurance steadily increasing, we stopped moving randomly across the landscape. Miles rolled away beneath us as we flew without stop. When night finally...

Book 3, Chapter 40

Our projections stared at each other, neither speaking while we gathered our thoughts. There was no fight to be had here, not as far removed as we were from each other. My own preparations kept my ...

Book 3, Chapter 39

I wasn’t exactly sure what the normal sleeping hours were for a giant, magical bird, but most of the work I’d done with Grandfather had been in the evening. Since it was already evening right n...

Book 3, Chapter 38

Our typical pattern of flying around looking for interesting places, had served us well for months, but now we were starting to see small towns popping up all over. Even though I deliberately steer...