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I am back! Here is a chapter of Unto the Ages, I will post Of Arms and Arcane tomorrow.

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Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 143

Eventually, the argument devolved into the Duke pleading with his daughter not to get the Dutchess involved in this matter. While that was happening, one of the knights who looked to be on the older side took the initiative and escorted me out to rejoin my class in the stands.

As I walked back to rejoin my class, I was still confused about...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 142

After my victory was declared, Lavinia was led off the stage while I was instructed to stay by the referee. That was when the announcer said, “Now, please welcome to the stage, our king, King Argus IV, to present the champion’s sword to our winner!”

At the Pit’s wall below the balcony where the royals were sitting, the huge stone s...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 141

At this point, as we were facing each other while Lavinia was giving me crazy eyes as we circled one another, changed our stances as we went along.

As Lavinia changed her stance high, I made my move and lunged forward, aiming for her “injured” shoulder, and threw in a few more probing strikes, but all of them were parried off easily en...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 140

“So, you this Luke Ironcrest I have been hearing so much about, nice to finally meet you while we are alone.” Lavinia Castilene said to me as offered her hand.

So as formalities dictate regarding our families’ respective ranks in the hierarchy of nobles, hers being from a Duke house while mine being just a Baron house, I reciprocate...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 125

When they made it to Adana’s room, Grud laid her naked body on the bed and spread her legs, and plunged tongue first into Adana’s sopping wet pussy to lap up her pussy juices, making her cry out in surprise.

As Grud’s tongue explored her hole, he came into contact with a membrane he was familiar with, and would soon destroy.

Th...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 139

Toman knew and was taught to keep an eye on the opponent’s body movement, for that dictates the movement and trajectory of the weapon, but at this moment, he was finding his attention split between Luke Ironcrest’s hand movements and his spearhead which seems to lag slightly behind his movement due to his weird bending and warping spear.

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 138

After cleaning off my plate and going for seconds and polishing that off too, I decided to get something soothing and went with that Imperial Garden White Tea the bartender recommended.

As I was sipping my tea, the last of the first-round elimination winners were making their way into the waiting room, I looked up to the tournament board t...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 137

As Luke walked off the stage, King Argus IV leaned back into his chair, his eyes locked on Luke’s back. “Is that the Ironcrest lad that your men mentioned?” the king asked his Lord Chamberlain, Lord Aldric Valemont.

“Yes, Your Majesty. Luke, of the recently appointed baron house, Ironcrest, from close to a decade ago.” said the L...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 136

Donson Hazat looked at his opponent with some hope, unlike all the times he had seen Luke Ironcrest training, he had been using a sword like he had wielded it while still in the cradle, but what could possess him to switch weapons at such a public and high profile event? Donson did not know, but he hoped it was pure hubris, only then did he thin...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 135

The day of the tournament came around and I, along with every student from the academy was sitting with my class in the stands while the general populace was filing into The Arena, but when compared to the number of seats available in The Arena, it was but a small fraction.

The only other time I have seen this many people packed into one l...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 124

“In exchange, you will be my woman from now on.” The Monster, Grud, told Adana. She had hoped that it would not come to this, but as far as she knew, she was the last living member of the ruling family and saw it as her final duty to sacrifice herself for the safety of what was left of her people.

Instead of despairing, Adana decided t...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 123

As the only remaining daughter of the village chief, Adana naturally fell into the role of caretaker for the non-combatants hiding behind the inner wall, and ever since the gates were shut a few hours ago, the sounds of battle seemed to be drawing ever closer to their position, which was very worrying indeed, and she was starting to have trouble...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 134

“Danm, these are good, they are also generous with the filling” I commented after swallowing a mouth full of a meat-filled bun.

When no reply came, I looked up to see Dave and Sam too busy stuffing their face holes to dignify my comment with a reply.

When they were done stuffing their faces, they did not even have the decency to ...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 133

Honor, glory, and prestige. Such ephemeral and intangible concepts, yet, it has great effects in this society. Those with great potential get showered in money and power, in the hopes that their investment grows and brings them higher.

But it is not just a tool for growth, in some way, it is also protection from those who would aim to do m...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 132

After my slight altercation with Osawald and the other boys in the hallway, turns out, from what I heard, my brief scrap almost filled up the clinic, and the healers and nurses on duty were none too pleased with me, or the whiny brats they were treating.

Other than that, reports were filled, parents were called for those who ...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 122

Grud yanked his spear out of the wall it was embedded in, and in his other hand was the severed head of who he thought was most likely Tovak, Village Chief of the Blazebringer village, still in its decorated copper helmet. “At least I hope I am right, it would sure be embarrassing if I held this head up and they told me it was the chief of som...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 121

No longer burdened by the hex, Grud decided to take it easy on his way to backstab the Blazebringer’s battle line as he once again felt his mana flow freely through his body, not to mention giving his body some time to shrug off the effects of the other hexes cast upon him at the last moment, even now, through sheer will, he was keeping the bi...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 131

I kept kneeling as Instructor Greyham’s aura weighed down on my being like there was a pile of sandbags on my shoulders.

A few minutes later, a bunch of Royal Guards that I usually see around the academy came marching up to us, and Greyham pointed out my assailant to be detained.

As one of the Royal Guards came up behind me to app...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 130

It was that time of the month again, and Greyham was dreading what was most likely to be more than two hours of briefing, updates, and addendums to school policy, 90% or more of which would most likely have nothing to do with him or his department.

And all of that was not even mentioning the politics that go on during that meeting, but bei...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 129

Me and the group of boys who attacked me stared at each other, waiting for each other to make the first move. While we were waiting, my “weapon” was groaning and trying to sit up, so I whipped his whole body against the ground, eliciting a groan from him, but surprisingly still managed to maintain his aura.

Not wanting to let my oppone...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 128

Being called out on his own call out in front of commoners and nobles alike, regardless of being involved in this confrontation, did not leave Oswald much choice but to square up and follow through with the implied threat that was bringing together so many people just to confront Luke Ironcrest to knock him down a few pegs.

He knew what he...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 127

Before I knew it, the school break was over and I was back at classes, as for all the ruckus caused by my attempted kidnapping, it turns out the king’s shakedown of the criminal world revealed more than he was asking for.

Turns out that quite a number of high-profile people were implicated in some really bad shit, and from what I hear, t...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 120

As Grud engaged in a contest of strength with the many warriors on the other side of the gate trying to fully close the gate to re-barr it, Grud and his men were fending off spears that were stabbing at them from the slightly ajar gate.

Fortunately, Grud did not have to wait long as his main force joined the push, almost crushin...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 119

Days passed, and Grud’s forces strengthened their hold on the surroundings of the Blazebringer’s village, and now it has turned into a true siege.

Day and night, Grud’s forces would launch probing attacks, shooting flaming arrows on and over the walls in an attempt to catch something on fire. This approach was met with lim...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 126

The next day, at 4am in the morning, before people usually woke up to start the day, at each garrison station throughout the whole capital city, a Royal Guard pretty much kicked in the door of each garrison’s commanding officer’s sleeping quarters and shoved royal orders in their face.

Within half an hour, troops were flooding out of t...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 125

After I took everything I could find on the two lizardmen’s bodies, I could hear the sounds of armored boots so close now, that if I were to take down the wall I created, I think they would be just outside of it.

So before they decided on what to do with the unknown wall in their way, I hopped to the top of the dead-end wall and peeked t...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 124

I started the fight once again with a one-two push that sent paving stones on either side of me flying at the lizardmen, but in response, I hit nothing as the two of them disappeared almost instantly, leaving behind two webs of cracks on the ground where they once stood.

My eyes went wide as I remembered enough anime to know what was going...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 123

With the first lizardman lying on the ground and the second lizardman crawling out of the dirt trap, I decided to take inspiration from my previous life, with all the cartoons and anime I watched, and also put all those martial arts lessons I learned to some use.

I started slow, going through the different forms I could remember, infusing ...