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Chapter 81

It was actually kind of impressive just how deep the new road penetrated into the forest, but then again, Nym supposed a few thousand industrious soldiers could fell a lot of trees very quickly, es...

Chapter 80

Without the military presence, Ebalsan would have reminded Nym a lot of Zoskan. It was on the eastern border of the same forest instead of the north, and it was probably two or three times bigger, ...

Chapter 79

Valcort proved to be just a brief stop on their trip. They topped off their supplies, inquired about any other large dangers roaming the local area that they should be aware of, and left. There was...

Chapter 78

There was no way he was going to make it in time. The bird, which looked ridiculous in the air with its two long legs trailing behind it, was already diving down at the wagon. It would be seconds a...

Chapter 77

The wind flowed past them as they stood in the sky, nearly half a mile straight up. Analia tried to say something, but Nym couldn’t hear her over the noise. He hardened the air around them in a d...

Chapter 76

“So obviously something is messed up here,” Ophelia said. “But I cannot for the life of me figure out what I did wrong on these calculations. I expected it to be high just because it took thr...

Chapter 75

The Earth Shapers showed up about an hour after Nym and Analia got there. The two waited outside of the city a ways, with Analia guarding Nym while he scried up and down Sunset Lane watching for th...

Chapter 74

The Quarterhouse was as full as always, but there were already two empty chairs between Bildar and Ophelia waiting for them when they got there. The host waved them past, pointing out the table the...

Chapter 73

“Come eat with us tonight,” Ophelia said.

“I… really can’t afford to,” Nym replied, not looking up from where he was inscribing the runes on the blocks. He’d learned that they w...

Chapter 72

They briefly got caught up while they ate, with Nym giving her the abridged version of how he’d killed the hive queen and Analia giving him a dubious look. “How did you manage to hold three sep...

Chapter 71

True to her word, Ophelia was waiting for him in the common room the next morning. She was demolishing her breakfast, on her third plate at least judging by the amount of flatware scattered across ...

Chapter 70

By the time they caught up with the earth mage crew, they’d already finished the job and had gone to the Quarterhouse for dinner. When Nym and Berndart got there, they asked the host to fetch Bil...

Chapter 69

“Nice,” Nym said.

Bildar looked up from where he was cleaning dirt out of his ear. “Sorry, what was that?”

“Nothing. Just felt like the right thing to say in the moment.” 2022-10-31 15:42:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 68

Nym approached the table Ophelia claimed cautiously. He couldn’t remember if he’d ever told them where he was staying, and the whole crew liked to drink after they finished a project, so he was...

Chapter 67

The twins took the lead on the conversation, as they were the youngest and had most recently obtained their licenses. That was still six years ago, but Bildar had been a licensed mage for two decad...

Chapter 66

Apparently, in Thrakus they called the local guard constables. Nym had no clue why. Everywhere else he’d been, the guard was just the guard. Also, apparently in Thrakus the constables were quite ...

Chapter 65

The Quarterhouse was probably the largest restaurant Nym had ever seen. It wasn’t as fancy as the inside of the Felstal manor, but it was plenty expensive. In fact, it was too expensive. Nym coul...

Chapter 64

Thrakus was not what Nym expected in a city. He’d pictured something like Abilanth, just scaled down to a smaller population and a lot flatter since it wasn’t built on the side of a mountain. I...

Chapter 63

Nym told the matriarch all about his fight with the hive queen, and when he got to the part where it had attacked him through his arcana, he asked, “Do you think it could use third layer arcana?<...

Chapter 62

Arcana dribbled along behind him as he trudged forward, leaving a trail from the larvae clutch to his current position. Nym tracked through the hive queen’s body blind, taking turns seemingly at ...

Chapter 61

Nym was tossed around in the snow. He layered a kinetic barrier over a thermal barrier and tried to escape the maelstrom, but there was nowhere to go. If he got caught between those icy teeth, he�...

Chapter 60

It took a week total, from the time Nym had first woken up and caught Cold Paw raiding his pack for food to where he currently stood, at the top of the now shattered pit, looking down at what he no...

Chapter 59

There were enough unexplained anomalies in Nym’s life that he couldn’t honestly rule it the idea that he might not be human. If that was true, he was even more confused about where he came from...

Chapter 58

Nym didn’t remember much of the trip back. There was flying, and Cold Paw getting them back under the snow, and after that, he mostly just followed the wolf in a daze until they were back to the ...

Chapter 57

The plan was simple. Nym was going to hit it with an arcana injection. For something that size, and the amount of arcana it was putting out constantly, it would have to be a massive attack, but he ...

Chapter 56

Nym needed to take a break, but he was afraid of a repeat of the worm monster incident. Cold Paw seemed to be getting more anxious as they traveled too, coming back to tug at his sleeve every time ...

Chapter 55

As it turned out, Cold Paw had more going for him than just telepathy. In hindsight, it was obvious, but watching him plow through hardpacked snow faster than Nym could crawl after him would have b...

Chapter 54

The road leading away from Abilanth was treacherous, deliberately so. In his studies of geography, Nym had learned that he’d been living in a capital city, one that they’d built on the side of ...

Chapter 53

Jorak was once again manning the clinic, and Nym was silently thankful both that the man always worked the same shift and that every time he’d needed healing, it had been at night. The healer gav...

Chapter 52

Nym didn’t want to say the last week was a total waste. He’d learned a lot about magic fundamentals and a few new spells. More importantly, he’d recovered a second memory that had showed him ...