Malcolm Tent

A Novel Approach chapter 135

Five chapters left on this one folks, should be finishing off at 140

Wish upon the Stars chapter 989

Aiden escorted me back to the suite of rooms my people were staying in. The walk was…informative. The WCP reminded me of nothing so much as a walled city. It wasn’t a building, for all the it was in one piece. Huge towering chambers, spatial manipulation, artificial sunlight, parks, there were amenities inside the palace that I hadn’t seen in actual cities, and the walls themselves were at LEAST A-rank materials.

The tour was educational and very entertaining, but the company suck...

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Wish upon the Stars chapter 988

Someone who wasn’t me might wonder why I was so excited. I’d met my ancestor, he’d said almost nothing to me, then he’d kicked me out. Which…honestly had been what I’d expected. He was the Wishmaster. As a god centered around deals and contracts, once I was no longer relevant to him it wasn’t surprising he had no use for me.

He’d answered no questions, given no advice, and hadn’t even really acknowledged me as a relative with more than a passing comment. And despite th...

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We didn’t stop inside the Palace. I expected to be taken to a throne room, or maybe some kind of study. Instead, Aiden brought me deep, deep into the heart of the structure, and then we left it behind to enter a deeper area.

After an hour or two of walking (ignoring everyone we passed), we came to a pair of huge dark wood doors. When Aiden pushed them open, I was expecting us to step into some kind of howling abyss. But instead, when we stepped through the door, the world fell away an...

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We made our way through the bleak rocky landscape pretty easily. Not that I expected trouble with Aiden around. I was sure my grandparents were tougher, given my grandpa was a demigod, but something about having the ACTUAL Wishmaster on hand in case of trouble was, admittedly, soothing.

When we reached the edge of the rocky entry path, though, that was when the place got really interesting. The first thing we ran into was…well, mist. A lot of it. A huge wall of mist. And it was mist I...

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Reaching out to the gate was an odd experience. It was a bit like calling for my soul weapon, but also not. For one, I could FEEL the doors, and they were much more powerful than my staff was. Something in me though, my bloodline, or maybe my position, seemed to resonate with the massive metal slabs though. I focused hard, and there was a flash of power through those skeletal eye sockets.

The skull, to my surprise, began to open its mouth slowly. Inside the mouth, a slow vortex of purpl...

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Finally, the last day or two passed, and it was time to go. I had to admit, I was nervous. Coming here had been amazing. Feeling the warmth of family, spending my days relaxing, I had learned and grown so much in ways that weren’t possible to track on my stat sheet. But now…now it was time to go back to the real world, where the kind of growth I’d need was ONLY the kind that showed up on my stat sheet.

The closer I’d gotten to this day, the more afraid I’d become. Not that I w...

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Dinner was a busy affair. Everyone from the family who lived nearby had shown up to see us off. My Uncle Anders had brought his daughters Sonya and Lara, who were losing their minds over the fact that Bethy was at the dinner. They were younger than I had been at the beginning of my journey, only fifteen or sixteen, and were HUGE fans of her music.

“I can’t believe you know Lady Nightmask,” Sonya gushed excitedly. My younger cousin was a redhead with bright green eyes. Her dimples ...

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Getting back to my mom’s estate didn’t take much work to arrange. We could have taken a shuttle, but after some deliberation we decided to fly back. The angels, Callie, Bethy and I all had wings, but my sister didn’t, so Sera and Holly took one arm each and carried her. Bethy seemed mildly put out by that fact, and insisted on doing it herself, but Chelsea found her offer of “whooshing around on a cloud of bats” less than enticing so the sisters did it.

One of the things I had...

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After the unfortunate revelation that some kind of…something was going to try to kill me at my coronation (probably), I made Isaac an offer. With over seventeen hundred scrolls to burn, finding enough people to use them all with any expedience would be tough on my own. Luckily, I was in the presence of the tower master of the Seraphim Tower, and after I made the offer, he was more than happy to make the arrangements.

On the upside, this let me target my stat gains a little more narro...

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Callie was in a great mood when we finally met up with the others. I was really happy for her too, of course, but also somewhat terrified of where they’d BEEN. “Hey guys,” I greeted my sister, Bethy, and the angels. “Where did you wander off to?”

Bethy beamed. “I was trying to become an angel!” At our confused silence, she put her hands up to clarify. “Oh, not like…forever. But I decided that I could totally do it. I can turn into bats, and bats have wings, and I can t...

A Novel Approach chapter 131

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Wish upon the Stars chapter 979

We ran into a slight problem with Callie using all my scrolls…she couldn’t pay for them. If she’d just been reshuffling her points it would have been fine, point for point, but unfortunately, wishing for MORE stats meant cost, and she just didn’t have enough to pay for it. We’d tried paying with stored attacks, but the bond gave me full access to her Heretic Flame, so it didn’t work as payment. In the end, she’d been forced to postpone the scroll usage until she could find a sou...

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Dinner with Ariel was really nice. She was an extremely warm and welcoming person, and Holly and Serah both adored her. But despite that, throughout the entire meal, I couldn’t help but notice Callie was…distant. I’d expected after contributing her flicker to the flames of eternity she’d be excited or energized. Instead she seemed mostly out of it. Isaac, once we finished eating, offered us a room at the tower, and we accepted, so after we finished eating we headed out for a tour, and...

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The Seraphim Tower was…big. Not intimidating, or imposing, exactly, just big. If anything the building was strangely comforting in its size. Like a big reliable bodyguard that loomed over the nearby area. It sat in the middle of a valley, surrounded by fluffy golden clouds, and the top of the tower exploded out above the skyline like a great beast rising from the sea.

We flew in to reach it, of course. Seraph, unlike many of our other destinations, was an A-rank planet. We COULD withs...

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Time. The more of it that I endured, the faster it seemed to flow. A day. A month. Six. The trip to Seraph (the capital planet of the Holy Dominion) only took a month in the Acheron. The other five went by in a blur of revelry, meetings, and general contentment. Meeting relatives, bonding with my sister, spending time with my wife and parents. I felt…whole. Normal.

 Paradoxically, the time following my ascension to Wishmaster status (or partial ascension given my lack of coronati...

Secret Ending chapter 104

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It was time to leave. Two days since the resurrection, one hundred and eight scrolls on hand, all my locals paid up and ready to head off…and I was going my own way. “You need to be careful with that dragon,” I told Benny sternly. “I know Sebastian is going to be helping you learn to work with it, but it’s still a dangerous animal. You need to treat it with respect, and feed it, and take it for walks.”

“It’s undead, Shane, it doesn’t eat. Or atrophy. Or care if it goes...