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B3 Chapter 12 - Stories

The pen fell from Vivi’s hand. “He’s… awake?”

Senith nodded. She smiled, the type of smile one inch of happiness away from tears. “Your grandpa is awake. But, um, he doesn’t sp...

B3 Chapter 11 - Science of Ether

After dropping Eem off at the mines, Vivi returned to the Lost Raindrop, feeling a little nervous herself. She already missed not having Eem on her shoulders. But on the other hand, she was glad to...

B3 Chapter 10 - Miner

Vivi never thought of Eem as the type of person to get nervous. The fiend bounced around wherever she wished, living life as she liked, while annoying demons with a wide smile on her face.

I...

B3 Chapter 9 - Energetic

Eem didn’t say much on the way home. She clung to Vivi, occasionally scowling at Lortel as if the concealer was some devil. Vivi chuckled and mentioned that Lortel was the one who saved Eem. Eem ...

B3 Chapter 8 - The Fiend

Vivi travelled back to the Lowmoor district in the carriage that was supposed to take her up in the first place. She received mild scolding from Lucas for her escape stunt, but he was smirking whil...

B3 Chapter 7 - Exalted Knight

Lucius’s tail puffed, his carefree mood crushed in an instant at the mention of the name. “We need to go,” he said. “Where’s the secret exit?”

Coshi frowned as ...

B3 Chapter 6 - Money

Vivi entered the Luminary’s palace with nervous steps, mind distracted from what she’d originally come here to accomplish.

Eem was alive. In this very same city, but still captured by In...

B3 Chapter 5 - Like Nimrods

The crowd that used to wait outside Vivi’s smithy, it turned out, had not disappeared at all. Everyone had simply been kicked back a few streets.

Vivi sneaked past construction through a n...

B3 Chapter 4 - Excessive

Vivi required a moment to process what she just heard. “The mountains? They can be reanimated? Into monsters?”

“Anything dead can be reanimated,” Lucas said. “If a storm brews in t...

B3 Chapter 3 - The New Lowmoor

Vivi’s consistency with three-runed swords had improved drastically within the last two-weeks of daily runesmithing. Her completion rate was nearly a hundred percent, so long as she warmed up and...

B3 Chapter 2 - Improvements

The problem with owning a good bed was that each night was extended by thirty minutes minimum.

Vivi lay in a cloud, with a mattress so comfortable she could have paid fifty thousand ether for...

B3 Chapter 1 - Arbitrary

I can see it.

The flow of ether moved within Vivi’s consciousness. A school of wisps swum like fish in the river of her blood, enhancing everything they passed. Vivi guided the flo...

StLQ - Afterword

Thank you so much for reading and supporting Saving The Lich Queen! I hope you enjoyed reading my passion project as much as I enjoyed writing it.

First off, let’s get the information regar...

Saving The Lich Queen - Epilogue

After living in Lokora for over fifteen years, Luna was embarrassed to admit she still didn’t recognize almost any of the townsfolk sitting at the tables around her.

The loud middle-aged w...

Interlude 4 - Start of Storm Season

“So, you’d still suggest I should become a tea farmer?” Samentha asked. She tried not to smirk, but the expression came involuntarily. She couldn’t help but feel smug when faced with her gr...

Ethersmith Book 2 Epilogue

“Is he going to live?” Vivi asked.

Grandpa was frowning even in his sleep. He lay on a small water mattress inside one of the igloo-like stone homes. This building was intended f...

B2 Chapter 50 - Allies

Upon activating her skill, the ground seemed to fall, her footing disappearing. Vivi felt a rush in her gut from the sudden change in elevation. Her head spun, until her eyes finally realized the g...

B2 Chapter 49 - Runeblessed

Nobody attacked Vivi. Despite being surrounded by hunters, Vivi wasn’t ambushed from behind. For the first time, the ether hunters seemed ready to hear Vivi’s words as if she was an actual huma...

B2 Chapter 48 - Surchester

“If you want a lighter sword, bring me my tools and lighter ether roots,” Thomas Warren’s Son complained. “Not one runesmith in the world’s going to place a swiftness rune in a f...

B2 Chapter 47 - The Luminary

The meeting took a full day to be arranged. That was fine by Vivi—she had work to do before leaving regardless. She headed to the smithy and forged as many two-runed swords as time allowed, which...

B2 Chapter 46 - The Sword

The four hunters were far from amateurs. Vivi spotted Henric Barrowbow—a hunter who she had dueled and lost nearly instantly, though that was over a month ago. His allies wore the same uniform wi...

StLQ Chapter 24 - New Home

Holy fucking shit, I thought, surprised I was still alive. Somehow, no stray magic had hit me.

The explosions and chaos around me finally calmed down. My ears still rung from spells ...

B2 Chapter 45 - Showmatch

Vivi teleported straight to Ythar’s dream island. The skies, contrary to the usual perfect weather, were gray and cloudy. Cool wind breezed the skin of her legs under her skirt and caught her hai...

B2 Chapter 44 - Swordmaiden

“You declined an audience with the Luminary?” Senith asked with a look of horror. She stood carefully next to Vivi’s nightstand, away from her runesmithing equipment. Runesmithing to...

B2 Chapter 43 - Comeback

To Vivi’s surprise, her hands hadn’t forgotten how to shape veins.

She wasn’t as accurate as she was on the final days of the competition—the level of concentration required to craft ...

StLQ Chapter 23 - Speck of Weak Light

A metallic crash echoed loudly from Luna’s left.

The room filled up with active mana—a similar feeling to a powerful mage casting a spell at full power. The feeling was even stronger than...

B2 Chapter 42 - Rebuild and Recover

Vivi lifted the odd bar that had a weight on each side. She lowered it down, and she lifted it again.

Lucas had called it a “dumbbell.” It was an exercise device to gain strength back. Vi...

B2 Chapter 41 - Millionaire

The widest grin appeared on Lucius’s face, hearing Lucas’s proposal. “Ten million ether. For one sword.”

Ten million! Vivi shouted in her head. That’s insane!<...