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B3 Chapter 41 - Inventor

A violent snap echoed from the slingshot launcher, followed by a shockwave that flared Vivi’s hair, shaking the air itself.

A gaping hole appeared in the raven’s chest. A flurry ...

B3 Chapter 40 - Slingshot Launcher

“Well, it wasn’t designed to look pretty,” Patryn said as they gathered around the finished prototype.

The weapon looked like its parts had come from a junkyard, perhaps polished a litt...

B3 Chapter 39 - Tireless

Vivi remained shaken from the events in Paradise as she exited the Luminary’s palace. It was the dead of night; Vivi had only slept for three hours out of the intended six, having jolted awake up...

B3 Chapter 38 - Beyond The Limit

Seven thousand wisps flowed freely, clashing against Vivi’s protective layer. She clung to the protective wisps with her eyes closed, still focusing entirely on the sixth sense. Without distracti...

B3 Chapter 37 - Core Protection

Rainfall welcomed Vivi to Paradise.

Heavy rain, though not quite comparable to the violent downpours of Fellwater, where droplets hammered against the steel roofs loudly enough to make conver...

B3 Chapter 36 - Theory

“In order to protect yourself from ascension skills,” Tsarvan said, “you need to understand what wisps of ether do in your body in the first place, and why having ten thousand of them wreakin...

B3 Chapter 35 - Home Defence

The ether root shot forth with speeds invisible to the naked eye. It clung against the back wall, bounced a little, before clattering to the ground, where it continued bouncing with enhanced moment...

B3 Chapter 34 - Contraption

The scientists led Vivi into a quiet workchamber. The box-like room was far from a smithy—she had tables instead of anvils; flasks and beakers instead of vises and crochet hooks—and the white w...

B3 Chapter 33 - Continuous Runes

The mass rune accepted Vivi’s ether. The adamantite root didn’t grow heavier, as Vivi had expected. The mass rune was incomplete, and thus it wouldn’t show its effects.

B3 Chapter 32 - Abandoned

“Shit,” Coshi cursed under her breath. She tapped her finger on the table. A light coating of ether oozed from her skin, as if her anger was flowing freely to the air.

More writing appear...

Chapter 31 - New Age Of Ether Storms

“Evacuate?” Vivi asked, voice hazy.

Coshi tapped her finger repeatedly on the table. “We’ve tried to contact the Exalted Knights, mercenaries—anyone who would be interested in clear...

B3 Chapter 30 - Red Dots

Ideas flowed freely on the way home.

The shockwave rune of her experiment had blown up when active, already shaped ether tried to enter. A similar effect happened when Vivi tried to ...

B3 Chapter 29 - Advancement of Science

“I believe we have mostly deduced the skill’s functions thus far,” Civar explained, facing the large blueprint. “The wielder’s ether enters here, at the core, and splits up into these thr...

B3 Chapter 28 - Lacking

Heavy! was Vivi’s first thought as she lifted Grandpa’s sword to throw.

A greatsword with all three power runes and no swiftness rune to counterweigh the mass r...

B3 Chapter 27 - Control

The storm broke in much the same way as the previous one. Wisps exploded from the ground, spinning in a deadly whirlwind before evolving to a full typhoon. A thick mist of loose wisps radiated from...

B3 Chapter 26 - Mentor

“Ah, good, you’ve come,” Patryn said as Vivi arrived at the storm zone. He offered a slight bow.

The camp, and the battalion at the front lines, was smaller this time. Only four ballist...

B3 Chapter 25 - Failed Masterpieces

The remaining time before the storm passed with hasty preparations. Vivi crafted another two tips for new missiles, while the ballistics crew practiced with the singular existing missile. Vivi perf...

B3 Chapter 24 - Ascension Skills

The next morning, after channeling ether in Paradise again, while Vivi was eating her porridge, The Luminary showed up on her door.

Her usual cheery smile was missing. For once, the Luminary ...

Interlude 5 - Fiend

“She’s impossible,” Kvim said, the words accompanied by a long sigh.

Ealan studied the expression as Kvim leaned back on his chair. They sat in the lunch alcove, and Kvim was still clad...

B3 Chapter 23 - Testing

The ballistics crew gathered outside city walls two hours later. The facets had dimmed completely as the clock approached midnight. Bright ethereal lamps lit the ballista as test runes were perform...

B3 Chapter 22 - Metal

The mold makers resided in an underground foundry near the science lab. A small reception on Shivenar’s surface led Vivi down a wide set of stairs. They descended a hundred feet or so before reac...

B3 Chapter 21 - Influential

After a few more blueprints and discussions, Vivi picked up her crochet hook and prepared to work. The vision in her head was perfectly clear now, though reaching the final blueprint had required a...

B3 Chapter 20 - Missiles

“I don’t have any coffee, unfortunately,” Vivi said. “I was about to brew tea, but I’ve been told my tea is undrinkable. I can call for Senith to bring something better if you’d like. S...

B3 Chapter 19 - Princess

The facets were dim by the time Vivi returned to Shivenar. Construction was still ongoing around her smithy, the street lit by a bright spear of light cast by a large ethereal lamp atop the Runes a...

B3 Chapter 18 - Double Exaltation

Vivi took a stumbling step toward the next golem. Her feet felt heavy. The whiplash from burning nearly twenty thousand wisps in her body at once hit as hard as she perhaps should have expected. Mo...

Chapter 17 - Golem

It had been a while since Vivi ascended by burning wisps. The thousands of ether rushed through her at once uncontrollably. It felt as if she’d activated a powerful ascension skill, one that temp...

B3 Chapter 16 - Horde

A fog of residual wisps clouded the air, blocking the facets’ light. In under a minute, the storm zone was transformed from a sunny desert to a desolate war field, where the brightest light sourc...

B3 Chapter 15 - Storm Zone

The war camp and the landscape around it bustled with demons. Easily hundreds of them performing different tasks. There were tents and large canopies. A dining hall, storage units, even a quick inf...

B3 Chapter 14 - Marathon Channeling

A day passed in work, continuing the drawing of Thorn Sword and throwing in a few failed four-runed attempts, until the storm break took Vivi out of her daily routine. Lucas welcomed her at the fro...

B3 Chapter 13 - Apprentice

Senith waited nervously on a chair outside. She was clad in a casual dress with light make-up. She sprung up when Vivi and Grandpa came out of the room.

“We found a translation skill,” sh...