PathOfPen

Chapter 402 – Good matchups

Two domains landed on Percy with crushing force, causing him to sink deeper into the snow, his feet stepping on the bedrock beneath. Rather than panic, he merely grinned, however.

‘As expected, one of them is much weaker than the other… Micky, do you think you can take him down by yourself?’

Between the man’s pure affinity, his relative inexperience and weaker domain, Percy was confident his familiar could win without help this time, even while having to resist a ...

Chapter 459 – Wager

“I’m listening,” Kassorith said, the curiosity in his soul matching Percy’s.

“Do you still have any of my sect’s ingredients that you haven’t used?” the woman asked. “I’ll bet mine against yours. Anything you have, as many as you have – both the primary and the secondaries. One for one, winner takes all.”

Kassorith creased his brow, though he didn’t rush to answer. He’d already used his own ingredients, so they only had Percy’s. Naturally, it was up t...

Chapter 401 – The hunted or the hunter?

Percy raised an eyebrow as he examined the footprints a little more closely through Micky’s eyes.

‘Only two sets?’

They should have sent more, shouldn’t they? Hadn’t they heard about the dead Blues from Femel’s House?

Then again, Percy expected the people hunting them to be somewhat disjointed. There was the Divine Root which was looking to punish him for his crimes and potentially extract his secrets. Then, there were the families of the Green-borns he�...

Chapter 458 – Sixth round

To nobody’s surprise, the gravity user had prevailed against his previous opponent, earning his place in Kassorith’s sixth match.

He was one of the strangest mages they’d faced in the tournament. His attacks weren’t lethal – or even that dangerous, however. He simply fired the occasional blast of concentrated force, mostly to keep Kassorith under pressure while conserving his own mana.

Most of his efforts went into veering Kassorith’s longswords off course – he accom...

Chapter 400 – Consumption

Percy’s heart skipped a beat upon reading the notification. Any new spell was cause for celebration – even the Crude ones. Due to the way Phoebe’s Decree worked, registering anything in his Status meant that it was sufficiently different from his other spells to open up new doors for him. Even if the spell in question wasn’t that powerful at first, it could always be upgraded or merged with others in the future.

It was especially so for a Masterful one – the highest t...

Chapter 457 – Bath

‘So what, do we just empty the vials into the water?’ Percy asked.

‘I guess. That’s all the instructions say,’ Kassorith replied, retrieving the three ingredients from his spatial pin.

The organizers had spaced out the matches in the second phase of the tournament more – partly to give the participants a chance to rest, and partly to milk the audience as much as possible. There was a three-hour break between fights, and another two days between rounds...

Chapter 399 – Silk

Percy was sitting against the boulder, using it as cover from the howling winds. It was slanted, shielding him from the snow, though a few flakes still made their way to him every now and then. They formed three small mounds – one on his head, and another on each shoulder.

The cold itself didn’t bother him much – it would have been strange if it did, with two Yellow cores filling him with strength. Yet, he did have to release a burst of mana every couple of minutes to shake the sn...

Chapter 456 – Clash of steel

‘Just how lucky do you have to be to end up with both a composite affinity and the right blessing for it?!’

In theory, it was possible to acquire both with the right treasures and a matching Ring of Sacrilege, but Laathsalath’s background was already known. It was clear he’d been born like this, having inherited everything from his mother who was a goddess. Of course, Percy had expected to meet prodigies of this calibre in the finals, so this didn’t surprise him that ...

Chapter 398 – Concept suppression

Holding his ground inside a hostile body wasn’t the only ability Percy wanted to master before looking for a Blue host. Ideally, he also wanted to learn how to hide his blessing, to avoid having to answer any difficult questions about its origin.

Of course, soul affinities were rare to begin with. Even on a greater spring, most of the younger and weaker mortals might have never seen one. Blues were typically much older and enjoyed an elevated status, however, so Percy couldn’t count...

Chapter 455 – Fifth round

Kassorith – and, by extension, Percy – stood at the side of the arena, waiting for the battles to begin. The pillar they were on looked identical to the other seven, both inside and out. The stadium had the same number of seats, all of them filled with cheering spectators. The air trembled with the collective hum of thousands of voices, a living tide that ebbed and swelled with every movement on the stage. The faint scent of hot oils from snack vendors drifted between the rows, making Kas...

Chapter 397 – Clone adventures

Percy found himself inside the body of a Green armadillo-esque creature. His vessel was large, round, and covered in lots of hard, chitinous plates. That said, he didn’t much care about the beast’s physical appearance right now. He was far more interested in his host’s soul, as well as the very process of possessing it.

Convincing the creature to let him in hadn’t been difficult. The promise of patching its soul up and saving it from the verge of death had been alluring as alway...

Chapter 454 – Jade tree

Percy double and triple checked his math, to make sure he hadn’t missed anything. No matter how he reasoned about it, the result was clear as day, however. Even after eating the leaf, he’d fall short of reaching Violet by over three thousand years.

And the worst thing was the knowledge that this could have been avoided, if only he hadn’t lost so much time during his childhood. Had Percy consumed a leaf, obtained his second core, and gained access to the Aurora Dew as soon...

Chapter 396 – Side-projects

As soon as the object entered Percy’s soul, ideas had started sprouting in his mind one after the other. The effect had initially been weaker than the Wiseman’s Dust, but this was rapidly changing as the pyramid rose closer and closer to his head.

By the time it reached his brain – or at least the part of his soul resting inside it – and once he resumed working on his spells, Percy was confident the effect would far surpass it. After all, he currently had a lot more of ...

Chapter 453 – World Tree

Percy gasped upon listening to Kassorith’s question.

As a matter of fact, he had heard of the World Tree during one of Mrs. Lia’s classes on Felmara. It was one of the examples she had given her students while teaching them about Elemental Sources, since it was one of the most famous.

It was a special case even among the others of its kind, as it manifested as a living being rather than an inanimate object. Perhaps that was only to be expected, considering that it was...

Chapter 395 – Trust

In the end, the most recent clone hadn’t brought anything particularly interesting back. Having spent most of his time looking for – and failing to find – a sapient Green host, he’d possessed a beast instead.

Percy had found himself in the body of an avian creature that had looked a bit like a four-winged bat. He had searched for signs of civilization or rare herbs, only to come up empty-winged. Eventually, he had been forced to deem the trip a failure, returni...

Chapter 452 – Jade leaf

Percy watched with curiosity as Kassorith’s new pin projected a glowing, circular screen, hovering a few metres in front of them. It was taller than a person, countless flashing colours swirling chaotically within it. They only lasted for a moment, before settling into the familiar image of Syrreneth’s chamber, still thick with mist like the last time Percy saw it.

The process reminded Percy of the portals to the Vault of Magic he could summon through Metatron’s Decree, but the co...

Chapter 394 – Sculpture

“There. Looks like a decent spot.”

Micky descended to the tundra below them, landing behind a small hill. They could have probably hidden themselves better in the forest, but it would have made it harder for them to detect a potential ambush too. Besides, they’d wanted to put some distance from the location where they’d killed the Blues, in case their opponents had informed others of their whereabouts.

As soon as he set foot on the ground, Micky finally deactivated his boo...

Chapter 451 – Top sixteen

Percy couldn’t – for the life of him – understand how reading Kassorith’s shadows helped the plasma mage in this situation – especially since his host was constantly enveloped in a steel barrier that obscured his body’s movements. Were the rigid shadows of the metallic shield and the flying greatsword enough to improve the man’s predictions?

‘Well, it’s not just the shadow sense on its own – it’s the combination of all these separate streams of information…�...