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Rylan stepped closer to the others, motioning at them to try. He then looked at the soldiers.
“As for those of you who can’t use mana, we’ll start from the basics of mana gathering,” he said. “It’s an essential skill that serves as the foundation of what you’ll be learning, so we need to do it.”
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2025-08-28 00:52:25 +0000 UTC
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Rylan watched his Status Window unfold in front of him.
Status Window
Name: Rylan Flameheart
Level: 75
Race: Human (E)
Class: The Dreamer
Profession: none.
Trait: Determined
Stats
Strength: 445
Agility: 438
Endurance: 449
Body: 446
Intelligence: 493
Wisdom: 479
Aura: 30
Free Points: 27
Active Skills
Magic Missile (F), Magic Shield (F), ...
2025-08-26 00:58:40 +0000 UTC
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Gael looked through the window, his fingers drumming on the armrest. The day was bright and the sky was clear, unlike his turbid mind. Countless thoughts ran through it, all centered around a single person.
“His birthday was yesterday,” Gael said clearly.
“…I didn’t know,” came Nathan’s voice from behind him.
“That doesn’t surprise me.”
Gael pushed against the armrest and stood up, still looking at the window. He scanned Caer Rhelon’s streets that...
2025-08-23 00:23:16 +0000 UTC
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Rylan opened the door to his room, then entered it. The moonlight shone through the window, proudly displaying the starry night sky. The room was as tidy as he’d left it. Taking a breath, Rylan walked to the middle of the room and turned around.
Facing him were his parents, siblings, and Sarah. The people closest to him, who knew the truth. He looked at Elizabeth’s angry expression and smiled bitterly at her.
“What were you thinking?” she snapped less than a second after R...
2025-08-21 00:27:03 +0000 UTC
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Rylan tilted his head at Damian. At the edge of his vision, he could see that both Gerard and Elizabeth had frowned almost at the same time. Henry, on the other hand, didn’t seem to be surprised at all. He only maintained his composure, looking straight at Rylan.
“You don’t seem too pleased by your words, Damian,” Rylan said after a second.
Damian gritted his teeth and let out a deep sigh, then looked at Rylan’s parents.
“I’m sorry,” he said slowly before tur...
2025-08-19 00:59:31 +0000 UTC
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Ffs I forgot to post the chapter yesterday. My bad, fams. Here it is. Next chapter on Monday, as usual.
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Rylan looked at himself in the mirror as he fixed his black tie. A tall, black-haired, blue-eyed young man wearing a black-and-gold robe that covered formal clothing. The reflection’s piercing gaze stared back at him.
…It’s still a bit weird to look at myself in the mirror.
His past life aside, he’d spent too many years reveling in his addiction....
2025-08-16 20:51:42 +0000 UTC
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Hello! I'm going to paste below the message I wrote for Royalroad readers about the small break I'll take since this book has ended. Thank you for your patience! Remember, I'll be back on August 15th!
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Hello, everyone!
I'm here to announce that Book 2 has ended over on Patreon, so I'm going to take a short break both on RR and over there to keep Patrons 30 chapters ahead. Book 3 will start on Patreon on August 15th, exactly one week from now. Here on Roya...
2025-08-08 23:20:21 +0000 UTC
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Rylan reached Damian’s barrier, trying to ignore the burning stares, and looked around. Over half of the imperial Mages had already been killed, but it was obvious that Ceotha’s Mages were trying to capture the rest of them. The veritable storm of mana that had been created by their arrival had calmed down considerably. Rylan slowly turned around.
Calm down. You’ll just need to explain some things to Damian and your friends.
The first thing he saw was Aelfric’s sm...
2025-08-08 23:12:44 +0000 UTC
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Mana flowed throughout the floor, feeding the magic fire. Keeping his eyes on her and trying to anticipate what spell she would use next, Rylan suddenly felt like his head had been hit by a sledgehammer. His eyes lost focus, and he almost stumbled in place as his view trembled. It was difficult to even keep his balance. A single question struck him.
Is this a Mind spell?
It had happened at the worst possible time. The flames closed in like ravenous, blazing beasts. Rylan ...
2025-08-06 23:32:23 +0000 UTC
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Rylan felt like the air had become heavier. No, as if space itself were pressing him down, attempting to crush him. Navy-blue mana dyed the inferno, tinging the flames in its hue. The woman, Antonia, smiled widely, but her eyes remained chilling. The blue-haired man was completely serious.
The pressure only increased, but the fire didn’t stop coming for him. Forced to push Snowstorm to its utmost limits, Rylan ran around, still channeling Rainfall to clear the fire around him. ...
2025-08-05 01:05:26 +0000 UTC
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Rylan jumped straight upward, his eyes fixed on the enemy. The man raised his staff.
The things limiting him have disappeared.
It was obvious that the Empire’s plan had been to assassinate him quietly. However, from the moment the Tower withstood so much damage and mana leaked out of it, the imperial Mages had been placed on a timer. Soon, Mages from every noble house in the capital, including the royal family, would come and fight the imperial soldiers. At this point, ...
2025-08-02 00:04:11 +0000 UTC
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As I've asked before, please keep giving me feedback! I'm glad you guys enjoyed the last chapter.
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Rylan could feel it – his Aura growing in real time, faster even than the green-haired man could cast.
A power he recognized. One that he had become intimately familiar with over a century of endless training and battles. A power that he had absolute control over, as its ruler. The awakening hadn’t ended.
At the same time, he pushed his concentration to its newfoun...
2025-07-31 00:03:00 +0000 UTC
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Rylan sped through the forest with Snowstorm, faster than ever before in this life. His Mana Core throbbed within him like a beating heart, making his four Circles resonate with it. He snapped his fingers and burned away what remained of the impurities he’d released, then continued to run.
Just a little left…!
He didn’t know how long he had been running for, but in the distance, through the trees, he could see Caer Rhelon’s imposing walls. His improved senses allo...
2025-07-28 23:15:44 +0000 UTC
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I REALLY want to nail these final chapters, so please, hit me with any and all feedback. I'm very open to criticism. Are the chapters hype enough? How do they make you feel? Am I managing to convey what I'm trying to? Thank you ahead of time!
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Rylan ran through the forest, feeling like his heart was about to leap out of his throat. He felt shortness of breath, and his heart thundered within his chest faster than ever. It was as if the surrounding temperature had gone up by ten ...
2025-07-25 22:51:51 +0000 UTC
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Rylan looked at his Status Window with a complex gaze.
Status Window
Name: Rylan Flameheart
Level: 72
Race: Human (E)
Class: The Dreamer
Profession: none.
Trait: Determined
Stats
Strength: 391
Agility: 384
Endurance: 395
Body: 392
Intelligence: 439
Wisdom: 425
Free Points: 216
Active Skills
Magic Missile (F), Magic Shield (F), Stormcal...
2025-07-24 00:39:02 +0000 UTC
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Rylan channeled Snowstorm and dashed forward as quickly as he could. The priority was getting out of the hallway and into the room where the Boss was before it could use the terrain to its advantage. As if it could read his mind, the humanoid Elemental raised its right arm and pointed at him. Rylan narrowed his eyes as he perceived the surrounding mana’s movements. He grabbed Silver Twilight’s hilt with both hands.
Mountainpeak Swordsmanship, Final Movement: Mountain’s Collapse.
2025-07-22 00:05:23 +0000 UTC
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Rylan sank his feet into the snow-covered, icy ground. He climbed the shattered remains of what used to be an Ice Elemental and took a deep breath. Standing on top of the pieces of ice, he looked around.
He was in the middle of a land of ice and snow that stretched as far as the eye could see. The wind howled, cold and piercing, and the land didn’t smell like anything at all. He was in the middle of a frozen lake that was partly covered in thick snow. At the edge of his vision, great ...
2025-07-19 00:48:01 +0000 UTC
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Don't worry, there won't be a bunch of other chapters of Rylan going inside another Dungeon like this one.
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For a few seconds, Rylan only focused on breathing in and out. His entire body ached. He looked down at it.
More than a dozen wounds, from small to large, crisscrossed his frame, having already ruined his shirt and most of his pants. It was difficult to move his left arm at all, and it hurt terribly, with a large gash going from shoulder to elbow. The rest of his bo...
2025-07-17 00:52:33 +0000 UTC
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The clash sent a shockwave through Rylan’s body, but he didn’t even blink. He pressed forward with his full strength before a realization reached him.
Tempest Break isn’t enough to completely crush its defenses.
The wings creaked and groaned as the mana wreaked havoc across their surface, but they didn’t collapse. His current self’s Tempest Break couldn’t overcome this barrier through brute force. As such, it only made sense to change his approach.
I...
2025-07-15 00:55:12 +0000 UTC
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Rylan pulled his blade out of the back of a ten-winged Golem and wiped his brow, his breathing a bit hurried.
“Now we’re talking,” he mumbled to himself.
He looked around. The broken bodies of several Golems lay all around him, in the center of the immense room. There were five of them, all maimed or damaged in different ways. One was missing an entire arm, while another had large gashes on its torso. All had had their cores destroyed, snuffing out the life from them.
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2025-07-11 23:33:17 +0000 UTC
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Rylan took deep breaths as he looked at the four Golems far ahead in front of him.
They were all perfectly shaped like humans, two males and two females. Each of them had ten wings on their backs, made of metal feathers intricately woven together. At the same time, he expanded his senses to cover the entire room he was in. In terms of appearance alone, it wasn’t much different from all the other rooms. Nevertheless, it was much more massive, being hundreds of meters wide and over two ...
2025-07-10 00:59:45 +0000 UTC
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Abelus nodded.
“Then, this is all I know,” he said slowly. “But it should be enough.”
Harpas nodded back. Abelus took a deep breath and started the story from the beginning once more.
“Rylan Flameheart started doing drugs at the age of thirteen and became a hopeless addict by the time he was fourteen years old. From there, because of his addiction, he ruined every relationship he had, including the ones with his family, for the sake of getting more of a drug called...
2025-07-07 23:05:30 +0000 UTC
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Vallius took a deep breath to steady himself, then looked at the double doors in front of him. Intricate carvings of hawks and eagles covered their surface, but he was in no mood to admire them. He clenched his jaw. After taking another deep breath, he slowly pushed them open. Beyond, a wide room extended itself.
The pristine, white stone walls rose for several meters before almost seamlessly turning into a concave ceiling, which was covered by a great painting of a knight sitting on a ...
2025-07-05 00:15:42 +0000 UTC
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At the end of the seventh day.
Rylan used Snowfall to leap over the Golem’s claws, which cut the air below him, then looked at his enemy. The construct was shaped like a feline, only tens of times larger. The beast-like Golem was the color of bronze, with only its eyes shining a piercing blue. Just like most of the Golems he’d found since entering the depths of Golem Haven, this one also had wings, six of them.
Almost on cue, its wings moved. The nearest two stabbed toward him...
2025-07-01 00:35:18 +0000 UTC
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Fell asleep without posting the chapter and just realized it. My bad, boys.
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Rylan’s mana roiled and revolved, coating his sword while crackling like lightning, fluid as the wind and as fierce as a storm. An ethereal blade took shape above the sword, one made of his mana and will alone. Simultaneously, his mana circulation was pushed to its limits.
Rylan swung his sword.
Snowfall’s speed and balance were added to the Movement. The blade landed square on the Gole...
2025-06-28 15:59:59 +0000 UTC
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Rylan looked around as he ran in the enormous structure within the mountain itself.
The System changed the design.
Unlike in the Basilisk Wilds, where the forest that composed the Dungeon’s environment wasn’t much different from the Veria Woodlands, Golem Haven seemed to have been altered almost entirely. Unlike Damian’s Mage Tower, there had been no stairways or floors that could be easily seen, alongside a complete lack of furniture so far. If anything, the Dungeo...
2025-06-26 00:47:14 +0000 UTC
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Sorry for no chapter last Friday, boys. Got busy with something and couldn't write. Enjoy!
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As Rylan approached the wall, the raven-haired man made his way down the stairs on the other side. Just after Rylan crossed the gates into the town, the man arrived in front of him and scanned him up and down.
“Welcome, traveler,” the bearded man started. Meanwhile, Rylan scanned him. The man was in the Third Circle as well. “I didn’t hear your conversation, but it was only...
2025-06-23 23:43:33 +0000 UTC
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In Damian’s study.
Rylan tightened the last strap of his leather armor, letting the armor embrace his body. It was a familiar feeling. The fingers of his left hand brushed against the hilt of Silver Twilight on his waist, while the ones of his right hand touched the wand on the opposite side. He looked ahead, locking eyes with Damian. The man was sitting in his chair, as usual.
“…Are you sure that’s all you need?” Damian asked, his tone making it clear that it wasn’t a...
2025-06-19 01:18:35 +0000 UTC
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Rylan carefully controlled his mana as he flew on the magical broom. Cutting through the air like an arrow at a speed that surpassed even his own when using Drifting, he looked down at the broom.
What an interesting artifact.
The fact that it was shaped like a broom was the most curious part of it. Still, for an artifact’s shape and appearance to be unusual hadn’t been exactly uncommon in his past life. It was only mildly surprising. All that mattered was that it coul...
2025-06-17 00:32:46 +0000 UTC
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For a moment, Rylan only stared at his grandfather, his mind racing.
…Surrender.
He didn’t immediately deny Gael’s words, as he understood their weight. Truthfully, it had been on his mind as well. How was Ceotha supposed to win against a much larger force that also housed Ninth Circle Mages in their ranks? Simply put, it wasn’t. There was no future where they were able to achieve victory. At the very most, they could only make their defeat affect the least amount...
2025-06-14 00:04:37 +0000 UTC
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