Wizardly Dude

[EOE] (181) 3.46. A Midnight Pick-me-up

Vin had to admit, he was equal parts curious and concerned based on how secretive Myers was being as she grabbed a bag from the supply room before leading him past the outer wall and away from camp. Though seeing as she’d just helped him interrogate a dead body for the better part of an hour, he figured she deserved at least a little bit of faith.

The two of them weren’t exactly trying to be stealthy, but they did move under the cover of darkness, and Myers continued glancing around...

[TEA] (51) 2.2. Evolution Spree

After trying desperately to save one of his only friends from being tortured, being extorted to work for the city’s largest gang leader, and nearly being buried alive under a few metric tons of earth and rock, Asher quite enjoyed taking a break from everything and just hanging out with Brian and Samantha.

But it wasn’t long before he started feeling that new itch he was still getting used to.

Ever since his first battle with the demon in the wizard tower he’d originally esca...

[EOE] (180) 3.45. A Head Start

The moment Vin woke up, he grabbed a quick bite to eat before shutting himself away in his room and getting to work. The longer this murder went unsolved, the more chances this mysterious killer would have to strike again.

Luckily, it seemed Lumel’s assessment of the spell was correct. After looking over the runic formation for a bit, Vin realized while it still contained a lot of little parts, the overall foundation of the spell was fairly straightforward.

According to what Alk...

[EOE] (179) 3.44. Not an Intervention

Vin spent the rest of the evening regaling Lumel with stories of the different fragments he and his friends had been to. At first, he’d been worried that he was talking too much, but Lumel continued to reassure him that she was extremely invested in his stories, even going so far as to ask him all sorts of curious questions. Many of which he didn’t actually know the answer to.

No, he didn’t know how one actually became the elder of Sakis.

No, it hadn’t occurred to him to a...

[TEA] (50) 2.1. The Shadow Thief

Asher held his breath, his muscles trembling as he did everything in his power to remain silent and unmoving. He’d been hiding for what felt like an hour now, and as much as he wanted to relax, he knew the moment he let himself grow complacent his target would detect his presence.

Focusing on the Eternal Mark he’d left on the target ages ago, Asher closed his eyes and monitored his target’s movements as they steadily grew closer. His timing had to be flawless, or the target might ...

[EOE] (178) 3.43. An All-round Excellent Day

Vin’s predictions quickly proved to be true, and he managed to recreate the runic formation for Sense Death in record time. Barely an hour after he’d gotten started, he leaned back against the wall of his tiny stone box, reading over his newest notifications.

New spell learned! Tier 1 Death Spell (Sense Death). 2,500 exp gained.

Magical Explorer lvl 33!

+3 attribute points

Vin ...

[TEA] 49. Book 1 Epilogue

Flickering torchlight danced off the dark cloak of the eighth Finger as he waited silently to be seen by the Head. Despite having risen through the ranks of the Assassin’s Guild to become one of the ten Fingers, the ten most deadly assassins in the entire kingdom, there was something about dealing with the Head that always unnerved him.

“You requested a meeting, Eight?” A voice called from both seemingly nowhere and yet everywhere all at once. The unseen speaker sounded more bored...

[TEA] 48. Homecoming

Gasping, Asher woke up, jerking upwards in bed as he looked around for Loratta. The last thing he remembered was putting an end to the gang leader’s rein before accepting his death within the collapsing compound. The fact that he was still alive…

Asher blinked as he finally realized where he was. Somehow, someway, he was currently lying in bed back in Samantha and Brian’s house on the edge of the kingdom.

What..?

Before he could figure out what was going on, h...

[EOE] (177) 3.42. Heart to Heart

“I’m guessing this means you need to put Dimensional Sheath on hold for a bit, huh?” Lumel asked him as they returned to the Underside and made their way back to the Earthers’ fragment. Vin was surprised to pick up on the tinge of dejection in her voice, and he offered her a reassuring smile.

“It’s only for a bit! I have a feeling that Sense Death and Decay shouldn’t take me very long to figure out, and you said it yoursel...

[EOE] (176) 3.41. Your Friendly Neighborhood Necromancer

As far as first dates go, this is kinda weird, Vin thought as he and Lumel walked out of the surprisingly harmless dungeon and into the bright light of the grassy fragment. The dungeon connecting this one to the Underside was filled with incredibly slow moving but difficult to navigate around slime monsters. Vin didn’t even have the first idea as to how he’d fight those things on his own, but thankfully, he didn’t have to.

It hadn’t even occurred to him before this as t...

[TEA] 47. The End

Asher gasped as a somehow both powerful yet gentle pulse erupted from his body, washing calmly across the empty cavern and stopping Loratta mid-sentence. Immediately after purchasing his final skill, he suddenly felt more than he had in his entire life. As though he’d finally found his place in the universe and was ready to fill the role that was expected of him.

Loratta clearly understood what had happened, as she raised an eyebrow, smirking at him. “Well you’re certainl...

[TEA] 46. The End?

Now that he knew where he was going, it didn’t take Asher long to navigate the maze-like corridors and make his way toward the source of the quakes. It turned out the secret room Loratta was most likely fighting within was actually located underneath the rest of the compound, which explained why he couldn’t find it. He didn’t doubt Moxy’s directions in the slightest as he rushed down a hidden stairwell and felt the shaking gradually grew more and more powerful the further he ...

[EOE] (175) 3.40. So… Dead Bodies, Huh?

“How did my people solve crimes?” Alka repeated, turning to face him and giving her Slayer-trainees a very much needed break based on the thankful looks they were giving him as they doubled over and focused on catching their breath. It appeared as though she’d somehow managed to construct a rather intense looking obstacle course for them to run through, one complete with quite a surprising number of sharp objects they were expected to avoid. “I’d say poorly, seeing as none of them m...

[TEA] 45. Best Two Out of Three?

Asher stared at the burly man standing before him as he waited for an answer. For some reason, Crush was giving him a strange look, almost like he wasn’t sure if he should help him or attack him. While Asher waited for the big man to come to a decision, he noted how the brute’s skin seemed to have a dull shine to it, almost as if it were made out of metal.

After a few strange seconds of silence, the brute finally seemed to get over whatever thought was plaguing him.

“We don�...

[EOE] (174) 3.39. They’re Back

The whole ordeal involving Kyle out of his hands, Vin managed to get in a few more hours of practice with Dimensional Sheath before hitting the hay. He even had the bright idea of pushing the bounds of the runic formation a little and doing more than he knew he was ready for because he still had his divine boon prepped and ready to go.

Sure enough, he managed to get in a few minutes of impressive progress before he made a mistake and triggered a runic backlash.  2025-06-06 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post

[TEA] 44. Death Itself

As usual, things weren’t going quite as planned.

Crush growled as his opponent’s hair struck against his hardened body yet again, squinting to keep the resulting sparks out of his eyes. Hairslay, a stupid moniker if you asked him, was doing everything in her power to keep him out of the main fight. While her sharpened hair capable of bisecting a regular man in moments couldn’t get through his iron-like skin, she was too nimble for his own powerful attacks to land, forcing them to ...

[EOE] (173) 3.38. The Big Three

Vin spent the rest of the evening working on his magic. For some reason, when he went back to talk to Lumel tomorrow, he wanted to be able to say he’d made at least a tiny bit of headway on learning Dimensional Sheath, even if it was only the first step.

Thankfully, his Flexible Formation passive finally proved its use.

As far as he could tell, Dimensional Sheath was a spell so complicated it was actually carried out in multiple steps, which mea...

[EOE] (172) 3.37. A Reassuring Conversation

“Vin!” Lumel gasped, making her book vanish with a flash of purple as she jumped up to greet him. “I wasn’t expecting you back so soon!”

Before he’d surprised her, Lumel had been lounging in a remarkably fancy looking chair only a few dozen feet from the corridor entrance to the Earthers’ dungeon. Based on the book in hand and the plate of crumbs lying on the ground beside her, it looked as though he might have interrupted her lazy morning.

“Sorry, Lumel, I didn’...

[TEA] 43. The Great Escape

Asher stared in horror at Rosh’s mangled legs. It looked as though someone had stuck them in a woodchipper, and then tried using a sledgehammer to put the pieces back together. He could only assume there was some sort of magic at play to stop the bleeding, else he imagined Rosh would have died hours ago.

“Rosh… What happened?” Asher said blankly, unable to take his eyes off the man’s legs.

“What do you think?” Rosh asked, his voice dripping with venom. “Loratta nee...

[EOE] (171) 3.36. Rabid Dog

Vin knew he was exhausted from everything that had happened with Neurol and the blue fur clan, but he hadn’t realized just how tired he truly was until he groggily woke up the next day and spotted the sun high in the sky. Cursing his decision to try out Kark’s remarkably soft blanket last night, he barely had time to run by the mess hall and grab a bite to eat before making his way to the day’s council meeting. He made it through the door just in time to catch Witherson’s update on th...

[TEA] 42. Is This Habit Forming?

Not wanting any of the invading elites to stumble upon Moxy’s body and finish her off due to some grudge or just a desire for shards, Asher grabbed her by the arm and unceremoniously dragged the warrior’s unconscious body into one of the side rooms. Only having one working arm himself made the task far harder than it should have been, but he owed the warrior for spending so much time teaching him over the past couple of days.

Even if her ‘teaching’ was just to fulfil her own cra...

[EOE] (170) 3.35. The Confident Confidant

It turned out he’d been chatting with Lumel for even longer than he’d thought. As Vin exited the Underside and set foot into the forest dungeon of his people’s fragment, he was surprised to find that the sun had already gone down. Glancing around, he spotted a handful of brutally slaughtered monsters, as well as a note tied to a nearby tree branch.

-Vin, 

Got tired of waiting for you to finish up with your girlfriend, decided to head back to camp and make a...