[So I woke up this morning and realized that I had completely forgotten to post this yesterday. Extremely sorry. No excuse. Think I came up with a better title than I would have though.]
[Notice: Next chapter will be on the 20th]
“Buy these from me, would you?” I say, dropping a bundle of mass-produced magic weapons on Greg’s d...
2025-11-16 15:28:02 +0000 UTC View Post“I see,” I say, “Um… I’m not certain what to say. But suppose I am this person you seem to think I am, I don’t see why you would say that. After all, I am favoured by the Empress. Why would you not assume that I have turned over in earnest?”
He chuckles. “There’s no way you would convert, at least not so quickly. You’re...
2025-11-12 20:34:30 +0000 UTC View PostAfter grabbing my thrown blades, I liquify everything and clean up, grabbing only their coins and two enchanted weapons: Briarhart’s sword, which is iron-phasing; and a basic enchanted dagger of standard imperial army form. The latter is so common as to not be a risk for divinations, and the sword, while having a slightly more interesting form...
2025-11-10 00:57:04 +0000 UTC View PostI try desperately to go to sleep before the boon fades, hoping to acclimate to the slowness and weakness while unconscious. Not that there’s much chance of that. So, I just lay there, staring at the cave ceiling whose darkened details I will shortly not be able to make out.
I always feel like I’ve lost something irreplaceable when comi...
2025-11-07 02:38:47 +0000 UTC View PostI leave Lingonhill more laden than I arrived: three extra heavy crossbows, a handful of magic bolts, a light item, a spyglass and a tidy amount of assorted coin. I first head to one of the towns that Bart’s agent was headed to and kill the contractor – another poisonous innkeeper – he intended to hire against Ser Terry.
It’s probab...
2025-11-04 04:10:49 +0000 UTC View Post“We had them. The plan worked flawlessly. They were cornered like rats, and our mage was burning them out. Then we were attacked from behind. Dozens of large chimeras swarmed us, allowing Ser Presley to slip through. I deemed it too costly to pursue.”
“You deemed it?” Vincent asks with scorn, his horse prancing about anxio...
2025-11-01 01:45:46 +0000 UTC View PostI tell the chimera leader to clear his pack away from Ser Terry’s route, and he complies, but a few attacks still come. Ligryn leads the way, cutting down any that come while Emily pre-emptively explodes an ice orb in any chamber they come to that’s big enough for an ambush.
Like this, they quickly find themselves out of the tunnels us...
2025-10-28 21:51:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, I got a new story, "The Boundaries of Light"! Be sure to check it out.
Allia Tredwel’s days at the Thistlehow Academy for the Magically Gifted are filled with fruitful study mixed with the pleasant leisure of times with friends i...
2025-10-25 20:31:37 +0000 UTC View Post
[Good news everyone, I have a new story! In celebration I’m going to be increasing the release schedule for this story, "a bright and shiny life", to once every 3 days! (until the 15th at least) I should say that, despite having stumbled in...
2025-10-25 20:29:33 +0000 UTC View Post[So Grammarly has apparently been down for the past 8 hours. I find it more amusing than anything because I just use the most basic features (free with generative ai option turned off) to act as a standard spelling/grammar checker so I'm not dependent on it. But I thought some of you might be amused by the knowledge too.]
As it turns out, ...
2025-10-20 21:27:22 +0000 UTC View Post[I'll be out of town tomorrow so I decided it would be easiest just to put this out the night before]
Not having time to let the lord overcome his drug induced slumber on his own, I plant a seed and target it with rapid growth. A minute later, a two foot tall leafy stalk has grown with red berries. I pick several berries for myself for lat...
2025-10-15 02:53:13 +0000 UTC View PostLingonhill is a sleepy little village in the valley created by three nearby lightly wooded hills. I look down on it from the southwestern most one and watch as people amble out of bed and go to work in the morning mists.
If I recall, the cave system is on the titular northern hill. It’s larger than the other two, less wooded and covered ...
2025-10-10 19:40:47 +0000 UTC View Post“…This bond you said I’m forming with the dagger? If I used it for the Anar sacrifice ritual, would that strengthen it?
“Um…” The Mynharran hesitates.
“Because I should really kill you.” I stand to loom ominously over his sitting form. How dare he? How dare he think he can manipulate me just by mentioning my mission a...
2025-10-05 21:10:31 +0000 UTC View PostPelliphos is fatigued from the gallop, so I ride the agent’s larger horse, who also carries the corpse ball without complaint. I divine the nearest stream to be only ten minutes away, so we go there before stopping to finally tend to Pelliphos as promised – breaking the ball in the stream while I’m at it. I also attend to the new horse, th...
2025-09-30 20:37:07 +0000 UTC View PostI don’t dare use my concealment spell to escape unaccosted, but it turns out changing my cloak from mirror to concealer suffices. Eventually, I do find a spot to use my silver divining rod and easily find my way through the unorganized searchers. Their own divinations are sloppy and, like in the exam, they get in each others’ ways. Which, to...
2025-09-25 17:49:05 +0000 UTC View PostDespite the muffling enchantment on my boots, my footsteps seem thunderously loud. What is going on? Why does the Empress even know my name? The quarrel with Vincent? The mysterious mandate that got me into the Academy? Neither of those seem worth calling me up in front of hundreds of the most important nobles in the empire, especially not in th...
2025-09-20 19:50:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe empress’s colour is crimson. Not the blood red I imagined, but something vibrant and vital. Gold is the secondary colour, spread through her attire like strangling vines. Her outfit’s form is domineering, but not quite militant. A neckline all the way up at the jaw, pants and long sleeves tight against her body, yet creating a sense of f...
2025-09-15 18:56:29 +0000 UTC View PostSer Terry doesn’t try to recruit me. He does end up talking with me after law class, but it’s just to tell me he’ll be gone during the break, so regretfully he can’t socialize with me during it. I act surprised and thank him for proactively informing me.
So, I guess I’ll be following in secret after all.
A few days pass, an...
2025-09-10 19:31:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe servant Princep Theodore promised to send doesn’t come by for another two days, and by then the meeting time everyone agrees to is earlier in the week. Likewise, we have next week off for the Equinoctial, so it turns out that the first meeting won’t be until the week after. Still, I don’t see Talia having reason to object to my progres...
2025-09-05 19:33:44 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s odd. It takes a few hours to go through everyone’s wounds, during which I do unfortunately have to grow a few herbs for some lingering ailments. I expected the itching to intensify from being stuck here, but instead, it subsides and stabilizes at a manageable level.
It’s the act of healing, I think. Their emotions as I examine t...
2025-08-30 20:57:16 +0000 UTC View Post[I’m going to be honest, I struggled having Jules say her questions and Malichi answering in a way that reflected both her education level and the conceptions of the setting. Like I say force when I mean energy because I think that energy is too advanced of concept in the way we use it for the setting. Even though the internet says early 1700...
2025-08-25 06:11:02 +0000 UTC View Post[I added a small section in ch96 talking about how most of the Anar spells have more formal names, which Malz ignore in favour of more descriptive ones. The concealment spell being the Veil of Mithlemar, and the liquefying beam being the Lance of Absolution.]
Allan doesn’t have much to say when I get back. He was pleased that the ...
2025-08-20 23:53:34 +0000 UTC View PostWhat was Princep Talia trying to say, and why was she trying to say it? The crux of her claim was that the empire had access to methods that would have cut short the Caethlain conflict but chose not to use them. Moreover, they chose not to use them for calculated reasons rather than emotional ones. Which means that the empress thought that the i...
2025-08-15 23:05:44 +0000 UTC View PostPrincep Cecilia does not show for the Dialectical Magicalism club. Erika is upset at the disinterest from her royal patron, but I think everyone else is relieved, except Ligryn, who seems troubled for some other reason.
The session is once again just everyone giving reports on their findings. Ligryn passes again, which upsets Erika more, b...
2025-08-11 01:49:02 +0000 UTC View Post“If you’re both going to sit by me again, then I am going to move.” I say to my two friends who happened to come into the law classroom at the same time but by opposite doors and are now making to do just as I warned against. “If you both want to, then decide between you for today, then alternate from there.”
Best to make them fi...
2025-08-05 18:54:44 +0000 UTC View Post[I suddenly realized while writing this that I somehow added a class to Malichi's schedule from what he had the previous week last chapter. It's just a minor mention, but it may turn out to be more tedious to rewrite than it's worth since I had made earlier decisions based on it being there. No major changes on chapter 92.]
“The b...
2025-07-31 06:55:10 +0000 UTC View Post[Sorry I got this out a bit later than usual. Been a bit busy the last couple of days.]
Riley agrees to the mutual surrender, but is rather particular about the details of the written element of my stake, though I suppose I’m the same way about his. I don’t think either of us is trying to sneak one last one over on the other, bu...
2025-07-26 04:49:43 +0000 UTC View Post“You’ve been spreading rumours about me, Riley!” I half shout, slamming my open hands on the desk in front of him for emphasis.
I managed to focus on the history lecture, but had to excuse myself from the following Lucas/Preston debate (Lucas once again argued that history is a process, while Preston denied this), citing overwhelming...
2025-07-20 21:17:57 +0000 UTC View Post[A couple of things. To avoid the mistake of two chapters ago, I have decided to forgo the file upload in favour of copying the text over. Let me know if this causes any problems. Second, recently my 'paid member' view hasn't been showing the 'names' post as being pinned, and I also found out that pinning doesn't even work for public view after ...
2025-07-16 02:46:56 +0000 UTC View PostSo sorry I messed up last chapter. I only just now noticed that I had downloaded the first part of this chapter instead of 92. It should be fixed now.
2025-07-10 23:56:03 +0000 UTC View Post