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Chapter 111

Nym made steady progress on fixing his matrix. The techniques the Collective knew helped him reinforce the net that connected individual nodes together while he rotated holding small pieces of his ...

Chapter 110

It didn’t take long to find the new hut with Ophelia’s help. Thankfully, she was as always an early riser. Nobody else was up yet, so the three of them sat at the stone table in the middle of t...

Chapter 109

Nym sat on the wall and watched the forest night life move around him. Wide range scrying combined with night vision gave him the most coverage, but unfortunately did very little to actually find a...

Chapter 108

Once everyone who wasn’t going to be living in the house had left, Nym retired to his new bedroom to rest. His sleep schedule was all sorts of wrong thanks to the abduction and time spent in the ...

Chapter 107

The walk to the Silver Gilder was about half an hour, which wasn’t bad by itself, but considering how many books Analia had, it was going to take all day to haul her stuff to the new house. Nym w...

Chapter 106

Lord Feldstal reviewed the calculations silently while Nym, Doliar, and Navarim waited in his office. He sighed and handed the paper back to Doliar. “I’m going to assign two guards instead of o...

Chapter 105

“So that was a bad idea,” Lord Feldstal said a few minutes later after Nym had recovered. “It’s a good thing he didn’t gather enough arcana to actually cast a spell.”

“It’s li...

Chapter 104

The mage cell deactivated and Nym followed Lord Feldstal out of it. The outer-outer room was just as plain and unadorned as the cell itself, with the exception of several large arcana batteries set...

Chapter 103

Nym had once read a book that said less than five percent of all mages made it to the third circle. It postulated some theories as to why so few people were able to reach that threshold, everything...

Chapter 102

Nym was determined to free himself while he had a chance, but when he tried to forge a conduit, he found himself once again blocked. It didn’t take long to realize why. The mage cell he was in wa...

Chapter 101

Nym stood in the shabby little clinic. A few hours earlier, Faro had sent a message to the Silver Gilder asking him to come by at his earliest convenience, and since Nym had made little progress on...

Chapter 100

Nym just stared at the illusion blankly for a good twenty seconds. It looked nothing like what he saw when he looked into his own soul well, but he wasn’t going to tell the healer that. Finally, ...

Chapter 99

Weeks went by and Nym’s money slowly dwindled. He worked most morning at the bakery, gradually gaining more responsibilities and with them a very slight increase to his pay. It still wasn’t eno...

Chapter 98

Nym’s personal library grew faster than his ability to read it. Just about every single book was a hand-me-down from Analia, but he wasn’t going to complain about that. He focused heavily on bo...

Chapter 97

The week went by slowly, with Nym spending most of his time hidden away in his room. Yura would stop by twice a day to check on his progress, and occasionally he’d need a break and just walk arou...

Chapter 96

Captain Lygan didn’t look up from his paperwork. He had bags under his eyes and several days of stubble on his face. Somehow, he seemed even thinner than he had the first time Nym had seen him. T...

Chapter 95

It was two days before the healer showed up, and other than giving Nym a once over and healing the fractured rib for him, Nym wasn’t seen by the man again for another day after that. The barracks...

Chapter 94

Nym was panting heavily after just a few minutes. He’d drastically underestimated the number of ghouls coming over his section of the wall. Air blasts weren’t that draining, but doing it over a...

Chapter 93

In Nym’s experience, ghouls weren’t actually that dangerous to a prepared mage. They won primarily through numbers and ambush tactics, and they weren’t even that good at ambushes since they r...

Chapter 92

The guy in charge of the ninth outpost was a reed thin man who was sweating entirely too much for the still cool spring weather. His uniform seemed to hang off his shoulders instead of fitting him,...

Chapter 91

A pair of earth golems worked tirelessly, chucking body parts into the bonfire while Adriarc worked to make new ones. He’d been pushed back out of the trees in a running battle with three ghouls ...

Chapter 90

Nym approached the table the pair were sitting at. “Hi,” he said, a bit awkward under the woman’s glare. “Do you have a minute?”

“What do you need?” the man said, ignoring his c...

Chapter 89

Analia did not take the news well. “I’m just starting to get comfortable,” she whined.

Nym looked around the room. There was no furniture other than the bed, and it wasn’t that big. S...

Chapter 88

Nym flew back to the camp an hour later with a few spellbooks Analia loaned him in his pack and a small basket of pastries he’d picked up from a bakery she’d recommended. No one was at the hut ...

Chapter 87

Analia’s room was full to bursting with books. There were at least a hundred of them piled up on the floor, all over the bed, and stacked on her trunk in the corner. There were so many in fact th...

Chapter 86

Nym’s first army job was a lot less exciting than he expected. No one wanted him to go out and fight ghouls. He didn’t need to kill twenty of them, or bring back a certain number of plants that...

Chapter 85

“Oh you have got to be kidding me,” Nym said. “You’re seriously going to do this again?”

Babkin blinked and looked down at him. “Nym? You have grown much in the last few months! W...

Chapter 84

The problem with the limited knowledge Nym had on the subject was that it was all designed to be used on an infant under very specific conditions. Nym did not have an enchanted tank to put the test...

Chapter 83

“Nym! You’re alive!”

He didn’t see Ophelia until she crashed into him, hugging him. “Hey! Stop, what are you doing?” he yelped.

“You idiot!” she scolded, pushing him out...

Chapter 82

Nym tried to force his brain past the initial surge of revulsion he felt from seeing his first ghoul, but it was a hard thing to take in at a glance. It was human-shaped, but with mottled grey and ...