Mana churned around her. Althea looked at the forest before her and found herself wondering where she had landed. There was a difference in mana itself, a…aggressiveness that did not belong.
Where the First Empire did not extend. The First Empire extended on every continent, except…the Southern Continent. So she was still in the right ...
2023-07-20 18:49:40 +0000 UTC View PostAlthea looked at the tree, trying to get a feel of whether she should trust the tree. What it was saying was worrying, but only if it was true.
"I can hear it as long as I am touching it." she mentioned, looking at the tree. Oh, she hadn't done that for a while. Not since that horse so long ago. But she could. There was no visible reaction...
2023-07-20 18:29:38 +0000 UTC View PostAlthea found herself on a beach full of sand. A beach having sand went without saying, but it was important to mention when said sand was in her hair. And eyes. And inside her dress. There didn't seem to be any part of her body that the sand hadn't entered.
Standing up wobbly, she looked around as she shook the sand out of her. Mana was sp...
2023-07-19 13:43:30 +0000 UTC View PostIn a dark room, the same one as before, a creature of light and darkness was fuming.
"What do you mean the Countess has disappeared? This is an immature Druid we are speaking of. This planet literally tells you where they are. How do you lose someone like that?" the Master scoffed.
The young human kneeling before him shivere...
2023-07-14 17:55:54 +0000 UTC View PostFire was a funny thing. So very destructive, but also strangely hard to peg down. Thankfully for her, she was its friend. And she knew it wanted to burn. To live. There was no way fire would be able to resist a place where it would be able to burn for a long time.
Like that forest Feng had talked about. That was what had given her that ide...
2023-07-12 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostA vase.
A bloody vase.
That was what was on the pedestal. Althea had to say, she had expected something more...weapon-like. Or perhaps a rare herb. Or beast. But no, a vase. Well, maybe it was valuable. An old artifact, perhaps?
"Don't be surprised by its simple appearance." the Golden Turtle floated down. "This vase contains e...
2023-07-11 19:41:53 +0000 UTC View PostAlthea stared at Feng, smiling slightly as she began. . "A pleasure to meet you, sir..."
Feng simply looked at her, staring at her with a gaze that made her feel uncomfortable. The gaze was filled with scorn and disappointment.
"Feng." he said. Not telling her who he was, huh.
"A pleasure to meet you, Sir Feng. I am Althea Dier...
2023-07-10 19:39:47 +0000 UTC View PostDear Readers,
As you've probably noticed by now, the chapter is missing again today. A part of its a spiral delay from before in the week, but really it's just me not wanting to write. The last chapter felt unsatisfactory to me, and even though I tried, I just couldn't figure out how to get the next few chapters there in the emotional spe...
Althea adjusted her posture, making sure her hair looked fine, as she conjured a little water to check her reflection. The Golden Turtle’s ship made an utterly unnatural stop just a few meters from her ship's edge, almost making her jump in fright. Had it gone on for one second more, it would have torn the fleet in two.
The Golden Turtl...
Althea
Althea sat in her bed, staring at the mirror. Mana revolved around her as she narrowed her eyes, trying to focus on her reflection and find something out.
This was her third attempt. The first had been just generally sensing into her body, trying to find some particular way mana moved. That was a success, somewhat. Mana moved ...
2023-07-04 20:53:00 +0000 UTC View PostNathan
The question, or rather, the idea of devouring the Senesor duchy stumped him.
"That would be cruel." the Princess said. "The Senesor duchy did not devour us when we were weak."
The Minister raised an eyebrow. "What makes you think that? That's exactly what they did. The county became independent less than a year ago. The...
2023-07-04 20:17:50 +0000 UTC View PostWell, someone cut the fibre optic near my house and that means the net is dead. Mobile data was dead to begin with. I had to walk to the rode just to send this post out. There shall this be a delay. I will try to release two chapters together to compensate.
On the other hand, my mom has a dvd of Titanic for some reason. And I am gonna be ...
Althea
The voyage was boring.
This was what she had concluded days ago, and had continued to conclude every day since. The voyage had also just begun. The journey from the Northern to Southern continent would take six months. Althea had been on the ship for less than a week. And she was already bored out of her mind.
For once, ...
2023-06-30 20:23:25 +0000 UTC View PostImagine you are in Nathan's place at the end of Chapter 116. Will you
2023-06-29 18:45:12 +0000 UTC View Post"Are you done?" the Princess asked, her voice dripping with disdain.
Nathan groaned even as he tried to think over the information Pulsie had told him.
The Minister of Defense looked disgruntled at the Princess' disdain, but thankfully didn't provoke her. Perhaps he had some self-preservation after all.
"I find it confounding h...
2023-06-29 18:42:31 +0000 UTC View PostNathan
The council room nowadays had far more people than it did when the Countess first took her throne. And it seemed determined to keep expanding. The Princess, the Adept from Senesor, the Village Headman, and the full gaggle of ministers were waiting for him as he stepped into the room.
A smile stretched across his face, so fake ...
2023-06-28 18:23:04 +0000 UTC View PostNathan really, really wanted to let Pulsie know his opinion on that bloody plant hiding information. But his head was...making it a little...bit...difficult.
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Nathan woke up with a jolt. For a second, he thought he was being attacked. But no, it was just a maid sprinkling water on his face.
"I beg our forgiveness, sir."...
2023-06-27 19:33:20 +0000 UTC View PostWhat happened after that, he did not know. The world shook for a second, and he lost consciousness. The next thing he knew, he was on his back, outside the seed bank. The box of Silverbirch seeds was beside him.
Nathan looked at the box, realizing that he would have to put that back. Oh, no. No, no, no. The seed nearly took him over the fi...
2023-06-26 19:26:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe colors attracted him. Blazing like a second sun, the vibrant green of the plane attracted his hands despite himself. This was not wise. The seeds had remained for centuries, perhaps millennia, and they had been kept hidden for good reason. But it was difficult.
The lost art of alchemy. Magic that predated the Grandmaster Council itself...
2023-06-23 19:37:56 +0000 UTC View PostNathan
The seed vault was dark. So dark that even his Fae vision could not see within, and he needed just the bare minimum of light to see. Magic ran through the walls, humming with a frequency that he could feel within his bones. There was no need to even sense it, there was enough magic here to blind his mana senses.
Nathan was sur...
2023-06-23 19:29:20 +0000 UTC View PostTwo Adepts arguing was a disaster, a literal disaster, waiting to happen. Two Adepts arguing while a crowd watched, in the middle of a ten thousand-year-old mansion, perhaps the oldest known heritage of humanity? Nathan had no words for how bad it was.
Oh, the crowd had no idea it was even bad. And it was true, to a point. The two were jus...
2023-06-23 19:17:58 +0000 UTC View PostA ballroom could be magical. The attendees could be powerful. But a ball was still a ball. And Althea had attended far too many of those to be impressed by them anymore. Oh, it was grand enough. But food was still food, dances were still terribly stiff things with painful small talk, and she was still unwelcome.
Althea sat on a sofa,...
2023-06-23 18:51:42 +0000 UTC View PostAlthea stuck a smile on as she started walking forward. The ballroom was something she hadn't expected. The sheer crowd present, and the way they were separated around it.
Just about every major noble on the continent had arrived, making the crowd expected. That still did little to prepare her for it. At least she wasn't the sole attractio...
2023-06-23 18:32:41 +0000 UTC View PostAlthea kept a smile on her face as maids rushed around her, trying to figure out which of the hundreds of kinds of lipstick would suit her best. How Mira had even got her hands on so many shades of purple, she wasn't sure. But she had. And now they were getting compared.
The guests coming to this party were powerful and esteemed. So esteem...
2023-06-23 18:29:06 +0000 UTC View PostA foreign sensation spread across her body as she got up, muscles relaxing and contracting of their own accord. More than that, she was puzzled. The fact she had broken through was clear. The how, less so. The only thing she remembered from that time was her findings. The rest was...vague, hazy. As if someone had used an eraser on her memory. 2023-06-23 17:53:23 +0000 UTC View Post
“Empress Elara, are you telling me that this…enemy is from the time of the First Empire?” Sofret asked.
“Not at all. I am just saying that I used an artifact from the First Empire to counter the strange mana. And that Druid mana is a natural counter to this new enemy’s weapon.” Elara was still smiling. Nerusia was starting to f...
2023-06-23 16:57:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe room was white. The eight chairs were white, surrounding a white round table that trembled at the power that surrounded it.
Eight half-step Grandmasters, the peak of humanity in the Northern Continent, sat around, ready to decide the future of the continent.
Nerusia looked at the representatives.
Empress Elara of the Elara ...
2023-06-23 13:17:20 +0000 UTC View Post"Vader the First is the Diery family's ancestor?" The Empress spluttered. "That-tha-"
"Is great?" Althea prompted.
"Oh, great? Yes, it's great, alright. I don't think you understand what it means-" A wave of mana interrupted her. The Empress grimaced.
“I must go, but we will talk about this. I don’t think you even begin to ...
2023-06-23 11:15:10 +0000 UTC View Post