Mayalyn Aloyhee
“Mayalyn, please, we need to go. We’re going to be late, again,” Olive prodded her arm in an attempt to get her to put down the stone slab covered in archaic runes.
“Yes, yes, go soon. Wait, no, where go?” Mayalyn mumbled in broken imperial, finally focusing on the princess’s shining blue eyes.
“I knew you weren't listening!” Olive scowled with her hands on her hips. Her stern expression only lasted a sec...
2023-08-23 23:53:56 +0000 UTC
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Jiran swept his gaze across the gathered soldiers, noticing their downcast eyes and dented armor. Forlorn and rife with exhaustion, they stared at the stone floor. He felt a deep respect emanating from his chest at these men and women who had joined the Imperial Army, knowing they were unlikely to ever return home. Too low-tier to make a real difference, yet here nonetheless, putting their lives on the line to protect the civilians of the empire.
He saw something else in the cut of thei...
2023-08-21 21:49:33 +0000 UTC
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Duke Reihnhardt Le’ Mortan
“Tell me some good news, Melckaer,” a stern voice ringing with authority demanded.
Refusing to meet the duke’s eyes, a bookish fellow with long, scraggly hair took a moment to think before responding, “Duchess Ravenna is stabilized and recovering well, my Lord. Her arm is –”
“I don't care if that old hag is unconscious for another century. You were supposed to be investigating why the wards are...
2023-08-20 23:08:47 +0000 UTC
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“There’s got to be well over three million of them now. It’s only been a few hours, how are there so many?” Jiran held his hand over his eyes to block the First Father’s rays as they clung to the horizon.
“Nobody knows. Maybe some of the upper class do but they sure haven’t bothered to tell us lowborn.”
Jiran purposefully ignored her shot at the empire's nobility. After meeting Olive and Cameron, he wasn’t so sure they all deserved such unremitting, broad vitriol...
2023-08-18 23:17:22 +0000 UTC
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Jiran’s heart was shredded into a dozen pieces as he pulled every single channel out of it with one, swift tug of his manabody. His life’s blood tried to explode through his chest but was held in place by his aura as he commanded his mana to repair the damage before he died.
Restoration!
Flesh reknit, muscles were forced to pump once more, and fluid was returned to where it was meant to be. He took a ragged breath and rubbed the phantom hole ...
2023-08-16 20:20:51 +0000 UTC
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“How can you possibly have a kid if you’ve been asleep for the last year?”
Jiran laughed, enjoying constantly getting under his uptight cousin's skin.
“It’s a technique Lenton taught me to speak with an entity connected to Madra. You’ll see. Well, never mind. You won’t see, because she’s invisible to everyone but me,” Jiran shrugged before moving toward the edge of the woods with a growling Niya on his heels.
They moved slowly, soon leaving the cover of tre...
2023-08-14 21:18:02 +0000 UTC
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Jiran’s aura wrapped around the Graymin and it stopped shuffling forward, held fast by immutable intent. It struggled mightily just to lift its head toward the sky and a mouth full of dark teeth cracked open. Jiran could feel vibrations smashing into his aura, though there was no discernable sound from the creature's scream. Leaves danced above as the unheard call ripped through the air.
Must be a pretty high frequency if I can’t hear it. I’ll have to be on the lookout for the...
2023-08-13 23:28:44 +0000 UTC
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Mayalyn Aloyhee
- South of Mortan: Eastern fortress city, Finlest Empire -
Cameron’s hand flew past her face, embarrassment coloring his emotions as he startled Mayalyn by moving faster than he meant to. He gripped the cloak that hung over her shoulders, his mana fueled a burst of Forming that rapidly created a large hood which he pulled over her head, hiding her ears. He stepped back and asked h...
2023-08-11 21:20:31 +0000 UTC
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Mayalyn Aloyhee
- Two days previous, northwest of The People’s Cavern -
Mayalyn threw her head back and laughed as Cameron scrambled unsteadily down the hard-packed dirt road. He looked over his shoulder at her, the distraction causing him to narrowly miss the handle of his hammer once more. The royal boy stumbled, again, falling flat on his face and sliding through the mud. Olive joined Mayalyn in laughing at he...
2023-08-09 21:54:45 +0000 UTC
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Jiran and Niya flew side by side over a dense forest that swept across the northwestern regions of the Finlest Empire. Each was held aloft by the strength of their manabody—a malleable extension of the soul wall. Their auras pulled them forward by pushing and pulling on the framework which permeated the air—a nearly undetectable web-like structure of density that existed around and inside of all things. Jiran slowed his flight enough for Niya to keep pace with him, enjoying the moment of ...
2023-08-07 22:05:43 +0000 UTC
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Jiran’s heart began racing the moment he saw the multicolored lights flickering beyond the foreboding doorway. The flashes failed to push back the darkness or illuminate a single detail about the passage, leaving Jiran and Niya burning with curiosity. Jiran took a step toward the doorway, but a hand on his wrist stopped him. Thinking she wanted help standing, Jiran reached for her but she brushed it away, standing on her own with a deep moan.
“Thank you,” Niya held her side while ...
2023-08-06 21:00:38 +0000 UTC
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Jiran’s mana poured through his cousin, Restoration flooding her cells with new life and supplying the vital energies needed to reform. He focused his mana on her organs and circulatory system, the rest would have to wait until he found a source of density to replenish his mana. He quickly tried adding her to his party so he could see her health but it didn’t work, which he assumed was because she was unconscious.
Coating probed every centimeter of her, flooding him...
2023-08-04 19:26:32 +0000 UTC
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Amiguruleigh here.
First of all, let's congratulate ToraAKR for 100 chapters!
We've come along way since the original story. I'm glad you all are sticking with us, the support means a lot. Now on to more important matters, how awesome is our art getting, huh...
2023-08-02 22:47:41 +0000 UTC
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Jiran arrived in the People’s Cavern. His eyes roamed over all the changes, he couldn’t help being impressed. A little over a week had passed since they were exiled from their home with almost nothing to their names. Depression and misery had suffused their hearts like a sickness. Now, children laughed and a constant buzz of chattering and activity could be found in every corner.
Touches of their culture covered everything in sight. A rug made from woven fur rested before each stone...
2023-08-02 21:49:27 +0000 UTC
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Jiran stepped into the Valley of Melodies. His aura expanded in every direction, the information it fed to his brain caused him to flip around in a blur of movement. A group of unusual people inhaled sharply at his sudden action. They jerked away from him with what he assumed was fear or terror. It was hard to tell since the only outward change to their appearances was vibrating… leaves?
Leaves and bark sprouted from their heads and shoulders, and in two cases, actual tree branches. J...
2023-07-31 23:11:06 +0000 UTC
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Jiran’s eyes snapped open and a reedy gasp of air filled his lungs. He saw green and purple skies above him, the feel of soft grass tickled the exposed skin of his neck and ankles. Unfamiliar, bulbous trees with bright orange boughs framed the clouds.
His aura exploded from the confines of his skin to scour his surroundings, covering a fifteen-meter radius and bringing a wealth of information to his brain. The ground, air, and trees were devoid of life. Even though the space around hi...
2023-07-30 23:34:00 +0000 UTC
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Despite the tingling foresight, greed flashed in Jiran’s eyes as he leaped into the air.
Sorry Mayalyn, this is too perfect an opportunity to pass up.
Hydrogen and oxygen blasted from his feet while his aura condensed around the flames to propel him toward the closest shamblers. He arrived in a handful of seconds, his channel thrumming with condensed elemental power. Twenty percent of his mana was devoured to feed the raging True Origin of Fire boiling ...
2023-07-29 00:23:22 +0000 UTC
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As the shambler charged, Jiran carefully observed its movements. Hunting in the Outlands had given him significant experience when it came to judging the relative attributes of tier fives and he put all of that knowledge to use.
Low HP for their tier but fast and strong. Bones seem ...
2023-07-27 00:50:28 +0000 UTC
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The sea of red wrapped around Jiran with a feather’s pressure as he stepped through the portal. He couldn’t see far through the oscillating liquid and felt no sense of danger from its touch. His mind tried in vain to detect patterns in its movements but the fluid remained secretive, obscure, and undefinable.
Its embrace caressed his clothes in probing movements that shifted the fabric of his thick cloth shirt and pants. A tingle coming from his fingers holding the beast corpse cause...
2023-07-25 00:51:36 +0000 UTC
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It only took Oliviala two hours to claim the density in her lungs to mana. During that time, Mayalyn worked diligently on their combined alphabets and Cameron continued to train in his circle of enhanced gravity.
Jiran was blown away by how quickly Mayalyn was learning the Imperial dialect. After only two days of consistent practice, she was asking questions about grammar and syntax. He assumed it was a combination of how the intelligence attribute improved memory and her innate brillia...
2023-07-23 22:32:25 +0000 UTC
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“You’re… so fast,” Cameron huffed with one hand on his knee.
Forcing + 2
Coating + 1
“Why are you so durable? I might as well be pummeling a stone,” Jiran wiped the overflowing sweat threatening to stream into his eyes.
“Hah, you can thank my old man for that. The arse talks with his fists. None of my siblings has less than two acclamations for taking blows that should have killed us. Do you have one for speed? Is that wh...
2023-07-21 23:23:37 +0000 UTC
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Oliviala Le’Cruex
Hours passed and Olive still sat against the same tree. Her mind whirled with the devastating potential of what had been revealed to her. Every instinct in her body ached to flee from the enormity of this problem, to offload it onto one of her far more capable siblings, or better yet, her father. But how could she run and still call herself an Imperial Princess? What would happen the next time something came up? Would she be run...
2023-07-20 00:26:32 +0000 UTC
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Jiran flew the group deeper into the outlands after asking the cousins why they didn’t know how to claim density. Mayalyn looked bored after hearing his question. She yawned and leaned against his aura. Olive and Cameron were both clearly confused. After chewing on his words for several seconds, Olive responded.
“If you know who our parents are, then you know who we are? Why did you pretend otherwise when we first met?”
“Until your conversation last night, I didn’t know ...
2023-07-17 23:56:46 +0000 UTC
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Mayalyn Aloyhee
“Boil mor voruuta gu soaer!” Olive shouted from somewhere behind Mayalyn.
Cameron was standing at Mayalyn’s side, already banging his gold-inlaid hammer and shield together. Jiran’s hand rested on her shoulder, his smooth, deep yips and growls rumbled through her chest as he translated the nonsensical imperial tongue.
“On the count of three.”
Olive clapped once and Mayalyn released her emotions to coil ...
2023-07-16 17:06:30 +0000 UTC
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Jiran tossed and turned throughout the night. He maintained a strong focus through his aura, unable to sleep soundly with the two newcomers snoozing just a few meters from the entrance to their burrow. Mayalyn, on the other hand, slept like the dead, as usual. He had tried to wake her when he discovered the identity of their guests, but she told him in no uncertain terms that since it was not a ‘life or death emergency,’ it was certainly not worth waking up for.
Jiran’s eyes snapp...
2023-07-14 22:06:44 +0000 UTC
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Oliviala Le’Cruex
“He sealed us off again,” Cameron grumped beside her as he leaned against the comfortable cushion of aura holding them both high in the air.
“His connection with his manabody is superb. I bet he could give Master Lentara a lesson or two. This Aahmra must be extraordinary to teach him so much in a single year.”
“No kidding, I’ve never felt a sound barrier this soft before. How do you think he’s doing it?” Cameron idly poked...
2023-07-13 00:22:20 +0000 UTC
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Mayalyn took advantage of the Landshark being distracted by Cameron. She jumped onto its neck just above the mass of protruding hairs. Her body thrummed with blue sparks as her claws plunged into tough flesh at the base of its skull. Arcs of energy sprouted across its long form, sparking to the ground and through the air, -849.
The beast threw its head back in a soundless scream as it convulsed. Mayalyn was tossed from the wild bucking of its body and slammed into the ground. She was ba...
2023-07-10 23:48:19 +0000 UTC
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“You’re Jiran of Feylon!” Olive shouted as she pointed her hunk of meat in his direction.
Jiran cringed as her shout turned her voice into a shrill screech. Mayalyn jerked into a defensive crouch with lightning springing between her extended claws. Cameron continued to beat himself to death while making gurgling sounds as his dinner tried to end him.
“What is happening?! Are they going to attack again?” Mayalyn spoke quickly, her eyes dancing between the two.
“I ...
2023-07-08 01:23:13 +0000 UTC
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“My name is Oliviala Le’Cruex. We did not come here to cause you harm, we are no threat to you.”
Not ‘of’ Cruex but Le’Cruex. She’s the daughter of a high noble of the Central Imperial Metropole?! This is perfect! Though I’ll need to play my cards right.
“I am fully aware you are not a threat to us, Oliviala,” Jiran narrowed his eyes, causing her to swallow nervously.
“We came here seeking aid and my cousin disobeyed my orders. Please ...
2023-07-06 00:50:11 +0000 UTC
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“Repeat it all back to me again, I want to make sure you’ve got it before we try the first test,” Jiran rubbed his hands together, unable to contain his anticipation after his long, meandering explanation.
“Lightning is the flow of charged energy across innumerable free things. This charge can travel across these free things after they break free from other small things?” Mayalyn cringed, showing her sharp canines.
“Free electrons and molecules,” Jiran supplied.
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2023-07-03 23:44:05 +0000 UTC
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