Mist of Shadows

Copy Protection Void Part 27

Egwene pulled her attention away from the naked teenage girl that was picking up dishes from one of the empty tables in the Winespring and focused on Mat. "Has anyone figured out why only certain people can use the obelisks or where they came from?"

Mat glanced over at the table where the gleeman was drinking an ale then focused on Egwene and Mist. "I've heard stories and everyone has a theory but the only thing we know for sure is that they showed up twenty years ago and project...

Copy Protection Void Part 26

Apple smiled as a well dressed man with a sneer on his face walked into the warehouse they were renting for the weekend. "Welcome to the warehouse of trouble, how can I help you?"

"I'm looking for a new maid, the pay is excellent," the man replied with a smirk as he held up a gold coin, looking forward to having some fun with the attractive woman before he killed her.

"I'm not interested," Apple replied with a smirk as she adjusted one of her cursed stockings, giving the ma...

Copy Protection Void Part 25

Mist did his best to ignore the way Egwene's clone was pressed against him on the bed as they watched an attractive and rather busty blonde teenager strip out of a naughty police uniform with a skirt that was a fair bit shorter than regulations. He glanced at the familiar coat of arms on her chest and the name tag on her uniform, 'Seras Victoria, at least you look the part.'

"Best spell ever!" Vanessa offered cheerfully as she caught the uniform the girl tossed her.

"Second...

Copy Protection Void Part 24

'This would be a lot easier if I had a decent source of spell creation tokens, at least there isn't a timer counting down,' Mist mused as he looked at the various options and ways he could customize the spell he could create. 'Changing the color of the effect is cheap, changing the area increases or decreases the mana cost a decent amount, adding the ability to shape the spell on the fly increases the cost and making it selective increases it by an order of magnitude.'

He selecte...

Copy Protection Void Part 23

"This is completely unfair," Frank complained as he walked across the village green with Mist, Egwene's clone and Samara. "If you'd given me fantastic magical talents, I'd totally let you watch me have sex."

"Different morals…" Mist trailed off as the bunny ears covered Frank with magic, transforming the ancient man into a tall and busty teenage girl with long green hair and purple irises that was a good four inches taller than him. "How do you feel?"

"Fantastic," Frank a...

Copy Protection Void Part 22

Edelle Gaelin glanced between Samara, the strange chalice sitting on the table and the strangers in the meeting room. "Let me get this straight, you want us to drink water from a chalice that will turn us into dwarves so we can haul a magical mirror through another mirror so we'll have a better connection to another version of The Two Rivers?"

Egwene smiled at Watch Hill's wisdom. "At which point we'll let you use a ter'angreal that turns you into a sixteen year old girl."

...

Copy Protection Void Part 21

Lan absently used his legs to stop his horse as they rode out of the forest and saw thousands of trolloc corpses being tossed into huge piles by an unseen force. "How large of a circle would it take to do that?"

"I don't know," Moiraine admitted as she focused on the people she could see in the distance, wondering if they were Domani because they seemed to be showing a lot of skin from what she could tell. "I can't feel anyone channeling saidar."

"False dragon?" Lan asked w...

Copy Protection Void Part 20

"Are you dating anyone?" Nara asked as they headed over toward the cage of air filled with a couple of hundred trollocs, trying to distract herself from the thousands of dead trollocs.

"Not exactly," Egwene as she used mana to sweep an area around the cage clear of dead shadowspawn, wanting to make sure they weren't just pretending to be dead. "I was dating Rand but things didn't work out in the memories I picked up and he met a cute girl from Baerlon so we sort of broke up."

Copy Protection Void Part 19

Apple barely managed to stick the landing after falling out of the portal thanks to the mirror she was holding and her two left feet. She glanced around the windswept area that looked much the same as the clearing she'd just left if you ignored the absence of the giant crystal snowflakes. "Everything seems normal…" she trailed off when she heard the sound of metal hitting metal from somewhere behind her. She spun around and stared when she saw a handsome red haired shirtless human wi...

Copy Protection Void Part 18

"This feels like cheating," Mist admitted as he watched the swarm of draghkar die by the dozens as Egwene's clone swept the purple and blue beam of crackling lightning that was coming out of the end of his upgraded wand over the creatures.

"We'd probably die of old age if we had to wait for you to kill an army of shadowspawn with a bow every time you wanted to kill something with the wand," Egwene's clone replied as she embraced the source through her angreal and sent a large fir...

Copy Protection Void Part 17

Egwene pulled her attention away from the open waygate that led back to the mountains and focused on the spheres of light that were floating in the dark that Mist had created to serve as an early detection method for the Black Wind. "How long do you think it will take for Candy to pick up all of Amico's talents?"

"At least a couple of hours," Mist replied as another leather bound book appeared out of thin air thanks to his taint eating lab coat, making a dull thump as it hit the ...

Copy Protection Void Part 16

An: Yeah... the chapter is a bit longer than normal but there wasn't a good break point and it lets me warn people that if talking about the crazy experiment makes you uncomfortable... you might want to be prepared to skim once they start) Nothing is overly graphic but the mc isn't in a good head space and he's looking for advantages that someone that isn't risking getting stuck in a never ending cycle of hell probably wouldn't consider. (to be fair to him, he doesn't have all the details o...

Copy Protection Void Part 15

Mist would have felt worse about hitting the unsuspecting man in the back of the head with a hammer if it wasn't for the swirling cloud of gray surrounding the old man's head. He brought the hammer down on the back of Pedron Niall's head a second time, making damned sure the asshole was dead then stepped out of the gateway that Egwene had opened.

"Do you hate the whitecloaks that much or are you just blowing off steam from putting up with Calle playing with your breasts in front ...

Copy Protection Void Part 14

Mist froze when he saw a pair of men with midnight black fog surrounding their heads stalking toward the tent with the girls like they owned the world. Even without the pitch black cables that exited the back of their heads and vanished in the distance he probably would have recognized them thanks to the leather mask Balthamel was wearing and Aginor's withered and corpse-like appearance. He focused on Balthamel who had stopped to stare at some of the half naked girls walking around.

"I...

Copy Protection Void Part 13

"Can you help Twist?" Twist asked Egwene as the other girl walked into the tent.

Egwene glanced at Mist who was sprawled out on an ornate bed that a noble wouldn't complain about then focused on the attractive teenage girl with bright red hair and indigo colored eyes that was sitting on the cot wrapped in a blanket that didn't look warm enough for the weather. "What do you need help with?"

"Twist needs fabric to make clothes out of," Twist admitted, not wanting to steal anything b...

Copy Protection Void Part 12

Mist stared at the description next to the crown. 'Dragon Crown of Incest? Having sex with blood related relatives while wearing the crown has a ten percent chance of permanently giving the channeler wearing the crown a copy of one of their partner's magical talents if they don't have it or increasing their own talent if they do? The chance increases to twenty percent if I'm watching? Great, they're trying to get me killed. If I'd forgotten that a bunch of demons were watching my life ...

Copy Protection Void Part 11

"Are you decent?" Bodewhin asked from just outside the tent.

"Yeah," Mist replied as he tucked a blanket around Twist, wanting to make sure she didn't freeze to death while they waited for the bunny ears to transform her. "What's up?"

Bodewhin slipped inside the tent and paused when she saw Twist, the blanket doing a poor job of hiding the shape of her limbs. 'So much for using the chalice.'

Mist smiled when he realized Bode was wearing a loincloth and the halter top...

Copy Protection Void Part 10

"How much sleep did you actually get?" Mat asked when Mist finished his bowl of stew, figuring he might get a response now that he wasn't practically shoveling food in his mouth.

"Not enough," Mist admitted as he glanced around the mostly empty common room, wishing he'd managed to sleep a couple more hours but too excited about getting started on various projects to actually go back to sleep. "Did Bode manage to badger the blacksmith into letting her use his forge?"

Mat lau...

Copy Protection Void Part 9

Egwene waited for Nynaeve to leave the infirmary then asked, "What did you get that you didn't want Nynaeve hearing about?"

"A couple of things," Mist admitted as he pulled a silver bracelet out of his gift menu and examined it with his sunglasses, wanting to make sure there weren't any surprises. He slipped the bracelet on and conjured a tennis ball sized sphere that looked like blue jello on the table.

"What is it?" the clone asked.

"It's a portable cleaning device,...

Copy Protection Void Part 8

"What happens if we find someone that isn't a fanatic or a darkfriend?" Egwene's clone asked in a whisper as they made their way toward the whitecloak camp, following the trail she'd found in the dream world when she'd scouted out the camp.

"Even if they're not a fanatic or a darkfriend, they willingly joined a group that hangs innocent people after torturing confessions out of people," Mist replied, not feeling particularly generous towards the entire organization.

"And if...

Copy Protection Void Part 7

Mist followed the girls outside and did his best to ignore the pair of whitecloaks he could see walking down the street toward them, a touch annoyed that the young man on the left didn't actually have a cloud of gray around his head. 'Is that because you're a halfway decent person or because you're an asshole that didn't buy into their shit?'

Egwene's clone turned and walked into the alley, knowing it was easier to open a gateway from places that you knew or places that you'd ope...

Copy Protection Void Part 6

'They shouldn't be able to see you and you have the bracelet,' Mist told himself as he quietly 'snuck' closer to the group of goat headed trollocs that were standing around a campfire arguing over a charred deer. 'Five trollocs, no fades or dark hounds, you've got this,' he told himself as he drew an arrow from his quiver.

His first shot hit one of the trollocs in the back, causing the monster to spin around and look right past him thanks to the dagger. 'At least I know the dagger works...

Copy Protection Void Part 5

Mist glanced at the white haired gleeman when he sat down at his table. "Morning."

"How are you doing?" Thom asked, curious about the young man that hadn't shed any tears for his father that he'd seen.

Mist glanced toward the kitchen where he could hear Egwene's mother rattling around, trying to get an early start for the Bel Tine celebrations. "I keep telling myself that it could have been worse, my father died a hero and I didn't much like the other two."

"Does it h...

Copy Protection Void Part 4

Nynaeve focused on Mist once the older boys had left. "How are you wrapped up in this mess?"

"The crystal gave me knowledge of a possible future, I know things I shouldn't and I can see the corruption around cultists. I would really appreciate it if you don't tell anyone about that particular ability because the Dark One is also the Lord of the Grave, he can get information out of his dead followers. I'm not actually sure if he can pull that shit with people that aren't his minio...

Copy Protection Void Part 3

"How are you holding up?" Perrin asked as he sat down next to Mist.

Mist pulled his attention off the cute and rather busty teenage girl that was talking to Mat at another table and focused on Perrin. "I'm alive and it could have been worse."

"It was bad enough," Perrin complained, thinking about the dead.

"We got lucky," Mist argued as Bodewhin and Mat walked over. "How are you doing?" he asked Bodewhin, wondering if some events were destined to repeat themselves or if it w...

Copy Protection Void Part 2

Moiraine followed Lan into her room and focused on the strange villagers. "Where did you find the crystals?"

"In a box," Mist replied, not seeing a reason to explain that he'd pulled them out of his gift menu or that he could probably get more by killing shadowspawn at the moment. "I have three left, two of them grant skills related to blacksmithing and the other is for the Unbroken Queen."

"The Unbroken Queen?" Lan asked, not familiar with the title.

"I don't know, I...

Copy Protection Void

An: Because of my brain trying to melt from the heat and because I had to check things that took longer than I thought, I posted this instead of the regularly scheduled chapter.

Mist opened the mailbox to check to see if there was actually anything interesting in the box. He froze in shock when he saw a void where the inside of the mailbox should have been. He was still trying to process what he was seeing when a hand reached out and grabbed his hand then yanked him into the box. 2024-07-09 07:38:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Traveling Magic Shop Part 35

Amy glanced away from the adventure book that was sitting on the table, wondering if she was crazy for jumping into a dangerous situation just to put off spending the holidays with her family and focused on Rose who was sitting on the table. "Do you have any advice?"

"Have fun and cut loose, just don't die or sign your soul away," Rose warned her.

Amy rolled her eyes. "I wasn't planning on it and Myst gave me a couple of defensive items that should make things easier."

Traveling Magic Shop Part 34

Taylor pulled her attention off the house where she could sense two parahumans and looked in Harry's general direction, not actually sure where he was since they were both invisible. "We're crossing a line."

"That's why we're invisible," Harry replied in a whisper.

"That doesn't change the fact that heroes aren't supposed to sneak around at night and kill people," Taylor complained.

"Generally speaking heroes protect the innocent and try to make the world a better pla...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 33

"Penny for your thoughts," Harry offered as they lazily flew back toward the shop with their purchases from the new age shop.

"I was thinking about Winslow. How hard do you think it would be to enchant a plaque with rules, like no weapons if you're not a registered law enforcement agent, no vandalizing things and leave the gang shit at the door?" Myst asked, figuring a couple of basic rules that people can't ignore would go a long way toward making the school a more reasonable pl...