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Ch.74: An Awkward Conversation

It was well past midnight by the time the festivities ended.

Cass found herself on the edge of a Spire, the city of Velillia below her, Alyx’s mother’s workshop behind her. Alyx at her si...

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Ch. 73: Afterparty

Kohen led Cass to the banquet hall. Music played loudly. At the head table, the duchess’s dragon overlooked the room. On either side sat the dragonlings and their knights. Or Cass assumed it was ...

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Ch.72: Command

Kohen’s mouth slammed shut. His body froze in place.

Silence enveloped the courtyard.

Is there any way that was anything else? she asked.

Maybe it’s the scalpel? ...

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Ch. 71: Unwilling

“Why do you have that?”

His voice jolted Cass out of her internal discussions with Salos.

Her bed was not the only one in the infirmary, and she was not the only occupant.

Koh...

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Ch. 70: Stats

Congratulations on reaching the Gate, by the way, Salos said.

Oh, right. With everything else, she’d just about forgotten. It was a blatant topic change, but Cass ran with it.

<...

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Ch. 69: Respite

Cass gasped as she regained consciousness.

CASS! Salos’s relief hit her like a wave, rolling over her and pulling her under. He could barely breathe and neither could she. Are ...

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Ch. 68: Dexterity

Cass rubbed her forehead. She sat on a glass floor. The color was simultaneously burnt orange and midnight purple and entirely unfathomable to her tiny mortal mind.

Looking at it made her hea...

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Ch. 67: Reunion

Cass and company were held at the scene for entirely too long. All Cass wanted to do was pass out. Her little campfire wasn’t refilling her Focus nearly fast enough to keep track of everything ha...

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Ch. 66: Rescue

Cass felt them long before she saw them. The air alerted her first. A large party of people stormed down the corridors of the Hall of Fortitude. Most humanoid, several draconic.

But it was mo...

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Ch. 65: The Point of Power

Cass sagged as the fainted Kohen released her. She didn’t have the energy to catch Ahryn, and he fell off his brother’s shoulder to the ground beside him.

Was that it?

Had she stopp...

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Ch. 64: Souls

Cass kicked at him. She didn’t have the Focus or raw electricity left for skills; it was just whatever her Strength could do.

It did nothing to slow the advance of his phantom hand toward h...

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Ch. 63: Body of Storms

Energy surged through Cass. It was different from a level up, which almost felt like energy washing over her from above. This surged out from her chest, rushing out over her arms and legs and coati...

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Ch. 62: The Demon

Cass breathed with relief as the paladin captain staggered under Alyx’s blade and slumped to the ground with a crash of metal on glass.

As he collapsed, the air burst, no longer contained w...

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Ch. 61: Alyx: Dragon Knight

Alyx's conscience surfaced as she was torn off Kelstor’s back by the paladin captain.

Warning: Too many Concepts. One may only possess 3 Concepts. Please fuse Concep...

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Delay in today's chapter

For personal reasons, today's chapter is going to be a few hours late. Expect it in the next two.

Sorry for the delay.

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Ch. 60: Alyx: Concepts

Alyx found herself in a garden. The sun overhead hung low on the horizon in a sky painted soft pinks. Flowers filled the beds, their petals a riot of color, their scent sweet in the air. Somewhere ...

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Ch. 59: A Goddess Problem

Cass watched in horror as Ahryn’s soul exploded.

One moment, it had been obviously damaged, all but turned inside out. The next, its edges surged until there wasn’t so much a singular cor...

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Ch. 58: Ahryn: Purpose

Ahryn’s heartbeat was the loudest thing in the room. The paladin captain stood in front of Emenie. His sword was raised.

And he couldn’t do a thing. The very air held him in place. Like i...

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Ch. 57: Hold

The dragon fire pressed against Cass’s control. It bucked and rolled with an indomitable will, rebuking Elemental Manipulation.

Stamina: 56/141

Focus: ...

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Ch. 56: Alyx: Endless Assault

Alyx carried her momentum into the captain, darting around his side and slashing while he blocked another blade of Cass’s lightning. Her sword bit at the plate, breaching the metal with a spray o...

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Ch. 55: Alyx: Melee

Alyx charged across the cathedral, aura trailing from her blade, her eyes fixed on the paladin captain. He blocked a sword swing of the demon with a thick metal shield.

The demon’s lightnin...

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Ch. 54: Reunited

Cass released the breath caught in her throat as she watched Kohen eviscerate the paladin attacking Ahryn. The boy stumbled back as Kohen rammed his sword through the man’s chest again and again,...

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Ch. 53: Ahryn: Trust

Ahryn watched the fight, his heart in his stomach.

He had wanted to help. He had thought this was his chance to help.

Kohen was always helping him. Miss Cass’s encouragement had been ...

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Ch. 52: Souls and Lightning

Up close, Cass could see Kohen under the mutations of the demonic energies. The set of his jaw under the pulsing flesh. The sharpness in the eyes, unmitigated even by the hungry madness. The color ...

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Ch. 51: Blood and Lightning

The cathedral was chaos. Kohen and the dragon ripped through paladins like tissue paper, the screams of paladins ringing through the air.

Cass had made a promise. Now, the question was, how d...

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Ch. 50: Pellen: Her Place

Pellen knelt over her spell array in the storeroom. The sound of dragon roars rumbled through the wall in front of her. Sir Marco remained at his post by the room’s one door.

“I’ll ha...

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Ch. 49: Alyx: Assault

Alyx paced the storeroom as Pellen triple-checked the runes of her teleportation array.

They were as close to the seal space as they could go. Cass was in the space on the other side of the ...

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Ch. 48: Affliction

How did the blade go through that time? Cass asked.

Behind her, she could hear gasping as Salos’s claws dug into the lightning-stunned lvl-29. Abyss if I know. The kid said I ...

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Ch. 47: What She Can

Cass Sprinted across the room.

She had a choice here.

1. Fight alongside the dragon to find an opportunity to one-shot the demon.

2. Sneak around behind the paladin lines and at...

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Ch. 46: Demon of Blood and Lightning

Salos, Fairy Fire the demon! Cass said.

The purple flames around her went out, reappearing around the demon.

Every eye fell on it.

The fleeing paladins faltered, a...

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