The great hall felt different to Margret as she entered for the second day of proceedings. The marble pillars still stretched toward their vaulted heights, the gold veins still caught the morning light, but now she saw them for what they truly were—a stage.
Once more, she took her seat among the elven delegation, the gossamer robes settl...
2025-07-02 13:15:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe heavy oak door closed behind Margret with a soft click that seemed to echo in the sudden stillness of the study. She had rehearsed her report a dozen times on the walk from the great hall, organizing every detail, every nuance of expression she'd witnessed. Yet now, standing before her lord's desk, the words caught in her throat.
Not b...
2025-06-30 14:07:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe great hall rose before Margret like a monument to neutrality. Pillars of white marble veined with gold stretched toward a vaulted ceiling that seemed to capture and amplify every whispered word. She adjusted her robes for the third time, the gossamer fabric still feeling foreign against her skin despite the months she'd spent among the Child...
2025-06-27 13:49:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe portal flared to life with a spatial resonance that shook the very air. Zeke stood at the head of his assembled household, hands clasped behind his back as the first delegation emerged from the swirling vortex.
A group of stocky dwarfs poured through in orderly rows, their heavy boots striking the platform in perfect synchronization. H...
2025-06-25 15:55:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe elven Mage's fingers traced patterns in the air, and the oak responded like a lover to a caress. Branches twisted upward, weaving themselves into elegant spirals that defied everything Zeke knew about structural engineering. Wood shouldn't bend that way. Shouldn't flow like water while maintaining the strength of steel.
"How does she d...
2025-06-23 14:30:42 +0000 UTC View Post
The chamber hummed with nervous energy, a dozen conversations overlapping like waves breaking against stone. Zeke arrived precisely fifteen minutes before the appointed hour—neither fashionably late nor desperately early.
Half the Lords had already gathered, clustered in their usual factions like iron filings around magnets. The pro-Empi...
2025-06-20 16:38:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe invitation arrived less than an hour later, appearing in his hands the moment the messenger handed it over. Zeke caught it without looking up from his preparations, the council's seal already familiar to his touch.
Emergency session. Sunset. Mandatory attendance.
He frowned at the timing. When the Empire shattered decade...
2025-06-18 13:18:50 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the late realease, I had some technical problems. However, this delay will not influence tomorrows release. It should be on time again.
Zeke sat cross-legged on the stone floor, a dozen droplets of blood suspended in the air before him like rubies caught in amber. Each one pulsed with its own rhythm, mai...
2025-06-17 19:56:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe light faded, leaving spots dancing across Viola's vision. When the world reassembled itself, the hooded figure had moved twenty paces forward, standing alone in the grass between their small group and the vast elven host.
The morning breeze died completely. Not stilled—murdered, cut off mid-breath as if the air itself recoiled from w...
2025-06-13 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe wind carried the stench of smoke and fear.
Viola descended from the cloudless sky, her boots touching down on scorched earth that had once been farmland. The grass crunched beneath her feet, brittle and dead. Three weeks of this. Three weeks of flying over burning villages and fleeing families, of counting the columns of smoke that ros...
2025-06-11 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostDavid found his lord in the underground workshop, exactly where he’d expected. The moment he approached the heavy metal gate, one that would have given even him trouble to break through, it swung open, just as always.
The familiar scent of oil and metal hung in the air, mingling with the faint ozone tang of active enchantments. Zeke sat ...
2025-06-09 20:02:31 +0000 UTC View PostA projection shimmered to life, drawing startled gasps from all around.
David leaned forward slightly in his seat, arms resting on the carved armrests of his chair, watching as the image above the long obsidian table took form. Smoke gave way to light, light gave way to clarity. A great floating pavilion emerged within the swirling frame, ...
2025-06-06 18:03:33 +0000 UTC View PostLue’s legs trembled as she stepped forward.
Maya watched from just a few steps behind, her heart pounding. She could feel the tension radiating from Lue’s small frame. The girl looked as if a single breath might break her. Yet somehow, she moved. One step. Then another. Until she stood before the crystal.
It loomed above her like...
2025-06-04 23:26:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe silence that followed struck like a thunderclap, sudden and absolute. Kieran remained kneeling, the folds of his white robe pooling around him, unmoving except for the faint twitch of a muscle in his jaw. For a moment, it seemed as though he hadn’t heard. Or perhaps he simply didn’t believe it.
Maya stared at her brother, stunned.<...
2025-06-03 23:06:44 +0000 UTC View PostThomen stood frozen before the crystal, bathed in its flickering light. The glow had shifted from soft orange to a deep, vibrant red—a color that danced like embers across his awestruck face. For a moment, no one spoke. Even the windless void surrounding the pavilion seemed to hush, as if straining to witness the outcome.
Then, with a fi...
2025-06-03 02:10:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe red-haired man began to pace, his steps measured, each one ringing faintly against the white stone beneath their feet. The pavilion remained eerily still, the swirling clouds below and the distant thunder the only signs that time was moving at all.
“I see the excitement in your eyes,” he said after a moment, “the hope, the wishes...
2025-06-02 01:15:32 +0000 UTC View PostMaya walked at the head of the group, her hands clenched tightly around the folds of her robe.
Behind her came the others. Lue, the twins Kallen and Kieran, Thomen—all the children who had followed Zeke’s teachings and joined his meditation experiment. Trailing them in a solemn, hesitant procession were their parents and families, whis...
2025-06-01 00:37:52 +0000 UTC View PostMaya’s eyes fluttered open.
For a moment, she didn’t move. The blanket clung to her skin, her breath held still in her chest—like the world might shift if she exhaled too early. Her heart thudded, soft but quick, as though it too knew what day it was.
Awakening Day.
She blinked once, then sat up.
The morning light s...
2025-05-30 23:01:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe machines hummed on, undisturbed by his silence.
Zeke remained seated at the edge of the worktable, his sisters’ old drawing still clutched in one hand, the flicker of warm lamp lights catching on the charcoal lines. A flower—unevenly drawn, hastily shaded, a dozen petals too many.
He let the paper fall.
Across the chamb...
2025-05-30 00:24:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe droplet hung in the air like a captured ruby.
Zeke sat cross-legged in the heart of his underground workshop, the faint scent of oil and cold metal lingering in the air. The space was vast, carved directly into the bedrock beneath his mansion.
Shelves packed with enchantment components, crystal-threaded instruments, and intricate...
2025-05-28 22:20:29 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
I battled a brutal case of writer’s block all week and couldn't finish a single chapter to save my life, but this morning the words finally started flowing again (hurray!).
I’m still behind, so while this burst of inspiration lasts, I’ll post a new chapter every day until I’m caught up (or until the ...
2025-05-27 16:15:59 +0000 UTC View Post
The storm of flying objects had become a constant companion over the past few weeks.
With the expanded range of his Sphere of Awareness, Akasha’s influence had grown in kind. Zeke no longer saw her as just the dainty woman across from him, but as a formless entity with a thousand hands and a thousand minds—always working, always creati...
2025-05-19 19:09:43 +0000 UTC View Post“Honored Lords, thank you for coming on such short notice,” the Speaker said, his usually immaculate appearance looking slightly disheveled. Clearly, he too had only just received word and dressed in haste.
“I won’t insult your station by pretending otherwise. I’m certain all of you have heard what’s happening in Rukia,” he c...
2025-05-16 23:17:02 +0000 UTC View PostA dozen quills danced.
In perfect silence, they glided across parchment, guided by invisible threads of force. Letters wrote themselves in elegant script, wax seals pressed down by unseen hands, ribbons tied and tagged with flawless coordination. Each piece of correspondence vanished in a flash of light as it was sorted, signed, and sent a...
2025-05-14 23:11:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe wind whispered in high tongues.
Lyriel stood at the edge of the living platform, her gaze drifting beyond the emerald latticework of Yggdrasil’s crown. Far below, the world spread out like a living map: verdant valleys, winding rivers, great mountain spines slicing through the land. And there, to the southeast, faint but unmistakable...
2025-05-12 21:52:06 +0000 UTC View Post
No break this time—I'm diving straight into the next volume!
Book 7 – War of the Elves officially begins today. This one’s going to be packed with action, and the pace will really start picking up (assuming I manage to stick to the plot—toi toi toi).
I wanted to have the fu...
2025-05-12 15:44:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe ground trembled again.
Viola crouched atop a slab of rock jutting from the tunnel wall like a broken tooth, her silhouette framed against the ghostly lights of the distant excavation teams. The tunnel never stopped growing. Neither did the silence.
She shifted slightly, letting her eyes drift shut.
The wind changed.
N...
2025-05-09 20:17:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe camp had already begun to stir by the time Leo reached his post, the rising din of distant horns setting the air on edge.
Boots pounded against packed dirt as squads hustled into formation with practiced urgency. Across the field, Mages activated pylons of light, establishing stable waypoints for teleportation teams. Crates snapped ope...
2025-05-07 20:33:21 +0000 UTC View PostSmoke curled lazily into the dusk sky, carrying the scent of seared boar, pine tar, and a dozen half-mended battlefield cloaks drying on makeshift lines.
Leo sat cross-legged on an overturned supply crate, fingers stained with ash and oil, sleeves rolled past the elbow. His saber rested nearby, propped against a stack of spent affinity cry...
2025-05-05 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe aroma of fresh ink, roasted nuts, and old paper drifted through the study.
A pot of tea steamed gently between two mismatched cups, one of them chipped, the other pristine. Zeke lounged in the leather-backed chair near the hearth, one leg slung casually over the other, a half-read ledger resting on his knee. His robes lay folded over t...
2025-05-02 13:20:01 +0000 UTC View Post