Chapter 46
Kai struggled to open his eyes.
He could feel his sweaty palms clasped together as he tried to breathe and the dust which made his breath caught in the throat.
Finally, after what seemed like an endless struggle, he managed to open his eyes, flinching at the sudden noise from the familiar door.
His eyes adjusted to the dim light as they raked over the broken furniture strewn around him. The door. The broken shelves, the disorganised library. The thrum ...
Chapter 45
Kai walked towards the tree, his spear straight ahead, looking out for anyone who jumped out at him. Sweat slicked his brow from his previous session, but with a cast of a [Refresh] spell, he felt much better.
He got to the trunk of the tree and stared at the branches, trying to make out a figure and the next second, a ball of flames appeared in his left hand.
“Come out right now or you will be burned!” He said, giving out a final warning.
Not even...
Chapter 44
Kai took his time to observe the individuals slowly, noting their reactions on the mention of the larvae. By the way they had stiffened when he had come in, he knew they hadn't talked to nobles before.
Much less one who was a Mage.
Though, they had hidden it pretty well in a matter of seconds, aside from the twins who still looked at him nervously.
Gorak seemed to be in thought for a moment. Raven, Finn and Finnigan patiently waited for him to say som...
Chapter 92
“May the light of Luxfuria look over the spirit with warmth and show her the right direction! May it forgive her sins and praise her for the good! May it heal the wounds, regrets and desires she might have kept in the deepest corners of her heart!”
A man with a long white beard growing through his chin looked over at the body on the platform. He wore a white robe with distinct patterns in yellow growing on his arms. As he said those words, a golden light flashed ...
Chapter 91
Rebecca stared at Cyrla, her face paling as the body fell on the ground with a loud thud. Her hands shook as she took a step towards her body, the blood pooling around it making its way towards her foot and she stopped.
Her body still quivered slightly, but Rebecca knew she was dead.
Cyrla's eyes stared into the distance, hollow, but the purple gleam in it disappeared like a flame had been extinguished.
Maybe it was her mind playing tricks on her, but...
Chapter 90
When Seth first saw Cyrla appear in the corridor, he understood what was going on. Just the abyssal mana subtly flowing out of her body was enough of an indication.
In the only time he had talked to her, she had come across as an over enthusiastic researcher whose mana he hadn't been able to sense and he had seen no reason to appraise her level and class, but in their second encounter, she wasn't hiding anything anymore.
He finally understood why she had want...
Chapter 43
Having the space of a large estate had its own perks. One of them, Kai realized was the number of rooms at his disposal.
The majority of the guest rooms were empty, and storage rooms overflowed with forgotten trinkets, gifts received by the previous lord and just general items that had long been replaced— leaving more unused space.
He had decided to use one of those storerooms as his alchemical workshop.
As he opened the wooden door with a creak, t...
Chapter 89
A cane revealed itself first, followed by the appearance of the hooded figure.
Everyone froze, looking straight at the person and next to Seth, Rebecca gasped and widened her eyes, momentarily forgetting the feeling of exhaustion she felt from running away from the lesser abyssal horrors.
Her whole body trembled as she stared at the figure in front of her. It was the person she had encountered when they had entered the academy and hadn't expected to meet her ...
Chapter 88
Although they had taken significant rest before entering the fury's chamber, most of them were too strained from the battle with their injuries still recovering, so the sight of lesser abyssal horrors shifting through the door towards them was the last thing they wanted.
“Oh fuck! Why are these heinous creatures still alive? How many of them are there? Is there a nest in the ruins or something?” Log frowned, picking up his weapon reluctantly.
“Were they...
Chapter 87
As soon as he pressed yes, a long screen popped up in front of him with all the options of classes he could evolve into.
He fought off his drowsiness as he looked at the options, hoping to choose one for a stat boost, so he would be able to stay awake and shake off the mana exhaustion.
You have decided to evolve your class.
You can choose from these four options:
Servant of the Void: A class that is only chosen by those who had decided to sacrif...
Chapter 42
Frosania was coming to an end. Amyra could feel it as she looked outside the window. From the position where she was, she could see the frost that hung tenaciously to the landscape for months was finally loosening its grip, revealing patches of green.
The syncing thwack of training swords echoed from the distant courtyard.
She inhaled to sigh, but the aroma of warm bread and honeyed fruits filled her nostrils.
Amyra picked up a piece of bread. It was...
Chapter 86
The fury moved its axe to aim for his shoulders, but it only touched air as a surge of mana burst out of Seth and his blade struck the chest of the golem, taking out a large chunk of it.
Earlier, he was only able to scratch it, but now it was different.
With the power he felt, the fury was no match for him.
The fury yelped in a painful screech, but moved its axe again. Its mechanical arms were too slow for Seth as he flickered away, appearing right on...
Chapter 41
The morning coldness bit at Kai’s skin, but it couldn’t cool away the fire that simmered in his gut.
After he came back from the square, he was notified that the bandits were tied up and the slaves were helped. They were also in a process to get them back to their families. But it wasn’t what gave him a weird knot in his stomach, it was about what lay in the future. It was about what he saw inside the mine.
He sighed.
I should do something about...
Chapter 40
A low roar came from the monster who spotted the group of individuals. A red glow radiated from its multifaceted eyes. The sight was scary, but at that moment, they couldn’t afford to run anywhere else.
Kai started slowly moving, one step behind the other.
He wanted to get out of there as soon as possible, but before he could turn around, a sickening skittering sound broke the silence. The monster launched from the ceiling, its segmented body twisting and t...
Chapter 39
The metallic tang of blood hung heavy in the air. Loud heaves and groans escaped from the wounded bandits who were scattered around the clearing.
Kai looked around the aftermath with a grimace. More bandits remained conscious than he had anticipated.
Over a half, by his count, lay groaning or slumped against trees, binded with their weapons abandoned in different places and their eyes widened with a mixture of terror and defeat, nervously looking at Kai, who ...
Chapter 85
The arrows shot through the air like missiles and hit a barrier that Rebecca haphazardly created, but it wasn't able to stop the impact as the three of them flew away.
Seth tasted dirt as his knees scraped through the stone floor before he balanced himself in front of a wall.
Looking down on its bleeding knees and feeling his bruised face, he frowned.
This isn't good.
He hadn't expected the fury to have some sort of a second phase, but it seeme...
Chapter 38
The archer’s approval was the only thing Kai needed.
Kai squinted his eyes towards the distant watchtowers. He raised a gloved hand, silencing the murmurs of his men.
They were probably discussing the plan and if it was even going to work.
“Hold,” he commanded.
Then, he whispered the incantation, a faint blue light coming from his fingertips. It swirled for a brief moment before changing into a miniature hawk.
If flapped his wing...
Chapter 84
“So, who's gonna try it?” Log asked, breaking the silence and looking at everyone.
“Not me.” Zacky shook his head. “Those runes there might as well activate if we touch it. They look complicated, so it's probably a high tier spell.”
Seth looked up at the runes on the edges. They gave off a crimson hue and certainly were complex, looking like mathematical symbols stitched together.
“Can we simply ruin it? Like how I did with the wrath?”...
Chapter 37
Ansel scrambled back from the road, his heart hammering against his ribs. He was galloping on his own horse towards the guards who were moving with a steady pace— he had to double his speed to catch up.
When he finally reached the front, he went a bit forward, towards the middle of the road. The guards halted in their way— a hollow silence filled the air.
He got down from his horse, and looked up at the towering figure who quickly made his way towards Ans...
Chapter 83
For the next hour, they thudded through the corridor. The occasional arrows that would fly their ways would be blocked by the moving, floating barriers around them.
Whatever arrow that would phase through them would be blocked by the body of Xarth who easily stunted the pointy arrows by his large axe.
By this point, they were too used to the strategy that they moved with a brisk pace.
The problem was more or less the flame spewing traps as well as pan...
Chapter 36
Kai’s expectations came true.
After he dragged Erasmus out in the street, the whole town knew that Kai paid off the debt and dealt with the Tradeheart Merchant company.
And with that, the headquarters were deserted. Even the low-level clerks left the city behind, not wanting to get caught and being scared of actions against them.
It wasn’t something major to care about, as Kai’s main intention was to state his authority to the public. Every orga...
Chapter 82
“So, like I said, they are pawns of a larger, more gruesome monster called an abyssal horror. That's why they are called lesser abyssal horrors,” Seth said, taking a look at the faces of everyone in front of him.
They were engaged with his explanation as he went on with talking about the abyss, the horrors that resided in it and other stuff.
“So, there's a monster that's like a huge, grown up version of them.” Zara squinted her eyes and gulped.
Chapter 81
Everyone gasped as the blades streaked towards Alvert. Log moved to take the attack on himself before it could hit the old man.
Seth cursed and simply made the blades change directions and hit Alvert on his arms and legs. He didn't try to move out of the way and a shrill cry escaped his lips as blood spurted out.
The blades pierced his flesh before dissipating and Alvert put a hand on the wound and sprawled on the ground, screaming in pain.
“Seth! I...
Chapter 35
Kai was at the forefront of the guards.
The Tradeheart Merchant Company's heavy oak doors opened with a groan. Kai stepped forward, his eyes fixed on the interior of the building.
A gaggle of guards, wearing their uniform and armed with short swords came forward from behind a nearby pillar. Their faces showed fear and defiance.
The guards were composed of Bord and Feroy, since the rest of the Enforcers were taking rest due to the awakening. The four o...
Chapter 34
It had been a month since the necromancer was killed. Kai, Killian and Francis were busy doing their own things.
Kai had conducted more trials. Not more for the general population, but for the guards they already had.
Each of them had gone through a testing and results had given them two more candidates to become Enforcers. One of them was named Henry, a guard Kai had never interacted with before and the second one was someone familiar— Feroy.
He had...
Chapter 80
Seth was the first to venture into the dungeon. Tall golden statues surrounded the chamber and it was as big as the one with the wrath in it. The statues were of Rackus situated on top of a platform as he raised the Weather Staff in the air.
On the walls, murals were made of Rackus leading the guardians and carriers against an army of humans, elves and beastman. He looked like a heroic warrior, surrounded by holy light while the army was deliberately made to resemble...
Chapter 79
He walked up to them and realised they had started a makeshift campfire. He wondered where they had find the wood from, but the whole place had tons of things. They might have just used the wooden chest containing the gold coins.
As he sat down, he saw that everyone other than him looked fine. Zara's arm was wrapped in bandages and Log had a gash running down his cheeks, but other than that, everyone looked to be in fine shape.
“Slept well?” Xarth asked, ...
Chapter 33
For the next few days, the recruitment continued as Kai and Killian looked for more Enforcers. At the beginning, a steady stream of recruits lined up and walked through the makeshift processing area.
Killian ushered men forward; men who lived in the city and a few smaller areas outside the city. The result was unsurprising, some approached him with bravado, chests puffed out and muscles tensed. Others shuffled in nervously, their eyes avoiding eye contact with Killia...
Chapter 78
The air thrummed with the arrows launching themselves towards Seth. He gulped before making a run for it, adrenaline coursing through his veins as the arrows chased after him.
A few of them hit the ground and an explosion shook his eardrums.
It made him run faster and out of the corner of his eye, he saw Log and Zacky ducking under the wild swings of two axes as they stood against the guardian. It looked like they were keeping their distance and waiting for a...
Chapter 32
Gareth stood outside an inn, scraped the dust off his calloused hand, the grit clinging stubbornly beneath his fingernails.
He had helped out in transporting a merchant's sand bags onto his carriage and it had stuck to him.
The job didn't pay anything, but it was a chance to make a connection. His hope was that the merchant would get him a job if he kept helping out.
Though, there was no guarantee. That's why he was here.
He took a deep breath...