Epilogue
Zelktor Castle, Capitol of Piran
Visions flowed past Queen Zelkie’s mind. These weren’t her visions, not instead these were the visions being performed by her own bonded dragon. The dragon whose very eyes now glowed white and covered with thick film to protect the dead organs. Eyes who had long ago been traded away for the gift of prophecy.
Zelkie watched as the golden bubble that had been over the land finally faded. With that bubble bursting, part of Zelkie’...
2022-05-02 08:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Everyone,
Thank you all for continuing to be a beloved Patreon reader. Know that I intend to keep the two chapter a day schedule that will co-inside with the Writeathon from Royal Road. After the Writeathon is over I will change my release schedule for both platforms.
On here I will release a minimum of four chapters a week (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday).
On Royal Road I only intend to have a Monday, Wednesday, Friday release schedu...
2022-05-01 17:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 69
Metamorphosis
Burning pain awoke Lykan to the state he was in. On the bright side, he felt that he could now survive, if barely the contamination that had taken root within his body. Yet, there was something wrong. Something horribly wrong.
Magic, or the guiding force in the world was being denied to him. His control and feel of magic was being severed, all while the pains he was feeling from the corruption inside his body were burning away slowly. Only then to le...
2022-05-01 08:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 68
Fight Fire with Fire
Nayali’s newly awakened mind allowed her to feel and merge with the spirit of the high wood elf priestess almost instantly. From this connection it was clear that while a connection existed for both parties, the amount of information Nayali was able to gain was superior to the information the helpful priestess was able to get. From the connection it was clear that the being who had been sent to help was none other than Octavia.
Not just any ...
2022-05-01 08:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 67
Emergency Union of Souls
Octavia awoke with a sudden jolt, as she received a message from the great forest spirit.
Sister in need. An emerging sister has sent out a call for help. Gather with the High Priestess to form a Soul Union and save a future priestess of the order.
Seeing the words in the language of the gods, Octavia couldn’t help but feel a flood of emotions wash through her mind. A new sister? Did this mean tha...
2022-04-30 09:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 66
Courtly Intrigue
Guests remaining 97 of 100.
This time a guest on the far-right side had been killed. Nayali watched in horror as this caused multiple ripples of actions and reactions. Inevitably a group of people were drawn in, trying to either tend to or gawk at the fallen individual. While others turned away at the ghastly sights.
To put a word to it, the sight was chaos.
Worse multiple people were speaking with au...
2022-04-30 08:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 65
The Monster
To put it simply Nayali didn’t quite understand the hesitation she saw in Lykan’s eyes and body language. His entire body seemed to contract in on itself. Shoulders that looked like they could carry the world buckled and faltered at the mere sight of a psychic dragon. Granted this dragon, like all dragons, was intimidating. It should also be noted that this dragon was feasting on the corruption of the pillar.
Even before her eyes the vast power of ...
2022-04-29 09:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 64
Spirit Prayers
“What?” Nayali asked not quite understanding what had just been asked of her.
“Could you pray to the great forest spirit and offer up this bounty?” Lykan asked again in a slower tone. This time making sure the concept of what he was asking was carried.
Nayali fought against the idea immediately, but her mind slowly wandered back to the few logical points. She had been raised to be monotheistic, that there was only one true god for the ...
2022-04-29 08:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 63
Chamelovores
Nayali stood; spell ready focusing forward. She felt her mind trying to relax itself as she readied herself for battle. With a legendary beast, she knew she would have to be at her best. She wanted to take a glance back at Lykan to see how he was doing but knew that if she took her eyes off her invisible opponent for even a moment, she would lose him. Then after she lost sight of him, she and Lykan would be good as dead.
Zzz.
The mana c...
2022-04-28 09:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Interlude VIII
Princess Larela Philipon, Sidherthan Capital
Being the youngest princess wasn’t easy. She had many classes on manners, etiquette, and geography that were all so boring. See Princess Larela knew she was destined for greater things, for she was a natural Seer. Or someone whose first magical ability was that of a Seer. Even before her awakening day she had known what the readings would be.
“Larela Philipon, youngest daughter to king Philipon. Skills: Beginner...
2022-04-28 08:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 62
Blessings of the Great Forest Spirit
What the Great Forest Spirit lacked in the ability to provide virtues and attributes were more than made up for in the fact that they understood what was truly needed. Nayali never having witnessed the power and glory of the great forest spirit was in awe when she saw the rapid changes taking place around the pillar.
The first thing to happen was the dim and overcast sky overhead began to clear, if only for their immediate area...
2022-04-27 08:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 61
Conquering A Pillar
When Lykan was fully certain that Nayali was safe, he then proceeded to lay out his plan. This was the same plan they had discussed earlier, prior to entering the jungle basin, but he wanted to make sure she remembered after everything that just happened.
“I am about to interact with the pillar. Rather than taking the power I will try to disperse it.” Lykan began. This was another point of knowledge that he had, thanks to Nayali’s prior m...
2022-04-27 08:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Interlude VII
Family Lineages
Hellena Cerusian sat in her throne room surrounded by her panel of advisers and clingers-on. Before her was a product of modern engineering, one that came from the Sidherthan Kingdom but had yet to be replicated elsewhere in the world. These were of course the memory transmission crystals, where synchronized messages could be saved up and sent to a mirrored crystal at the other end. The image before them was an operative sent to get deep into the hear...
2022-04-26 08:59:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 60
Corrupted Beasts
Of all the rules of the universe, the one universal truth is that power exposes the truth. Those with power will inevitably show their true natures as either tyrants or benevolent kings, or so the saying goes. Thus, it should come as little surprise that when an apex predator like a dread-bear is granted excessive forms of power, their true natures as territorial hunters will be revealed to all.
Dread-bears typically range anywhere from three to f...
2022-04-26 08:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 59
Mountains and Monsters
To say that the jungle basin was large would be an understatement. No one had ever managed to cross the length of the jungle basin, at least not down its center. The reason for this lack of accomplishments is simple, up until now no humanoid creature had been strong enough and stupid enough to try to reach the center of the basin and return. Even a trek around the basin was one marked by the passage of months, and even along the safely guarded pat...
2022-04-25 08:59:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 58
Farming and Superstitions
To anyone who happened to spot the young couple traversing the ever-dangerous northern jungle basin, many could confuse the two for gods playing as mortals. Such tales were not too fantastical and were seen as a classic part of most stories of the old gods. Stories where the gods would come down to the realm of mortals and wreak havoc for a bit, then ascend upwards to the heavens to watch how their mischief unfolded.
Thus, when people saw...
2022-04-25 08:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Interlude VI
Zelktor Castle, Capitol of Piran
One Week After the True Coronation of King Philipon of Sidhertha
Of all the things Ezma had expected from this formal meeting with her mother, nothing could prepare her for the horror that she now witnessed. She expected rage, anger, screaming wildly, for these were all things that Ezma herself would do and had done after being relieved from the grand coronation party that followed King Philipon’s successful rise to power.
<...
2022-04-24 09:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 57
Enacting The Third Old-World Law
For two weeks proclamations about the grand coronation event were spread far and wide throughout the kingdom of Sidhertha. At first the reports were simple; a grand gathering was to be held at the capitol where news affecting the kingdom would be said. Of course, everyone thought this would be the long-vaunted celebration of peace with the Azani, an event that should have taken place long ago. With that feedback that is what many officia...
2022-04-24 08:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 56
The Proposal
Another month went by, making a total of three months since the battle of Dunthir. Coincidentally today also marked the one-year remainder mark on Lykan’s contract to the Sidherthan military. From all appearances the Sidherthan military looked content to just let Lykan waste away in silence. Silently applying runes to ships, letting new ships get upgraded to the combat tested versions that Lykan had already developed and demonstrated during the battle of ...
2022-04-23 09:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 55
Heresy
“So how does it feel to be amongst us mortals?” A soldier mockingly asked.
Over the months Lykan had to take many such comments in stride. This was nothing new to him, he had endured as much if not worse from Ghane. At that time, he didn’t quite understand the root cause for why people would lash out. Now he understood the root cause, and while it was still tough to handle knowing that they were ultimately scared, made dealing with this situation a li...
2022-04-23 08:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 54
The Strange Engineer
Lykan had been on prison detail ever since he ended the war with the Azani. Everything first started when after one month’s time of recuperation he still was unable to heal his meridian channels within his body. From there it was a short quick process to find out that he was no longer fit for duty as an officer. Normally this would be more than enough to start the medical discharge paperwork for the officer who was damaged beyond repair while in t...
2022-04-22 08:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 53
Three Months After Dunthir
“He has fourteen months left on his contract and you have him sitting in a hanger applying runes to ships?” Admiral Shiel asked his commander in charge of the integration project. The project designed to get every ship outfitted with the runes that proved to be so useful after the battle of Dunthir.
The admiral watched as the man in question worked to direct his team with the inscription process, while he himself worked on the finer ...
2022-04-22 08:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 52
Gone
Lykan awoke to pain. A mental scan showed that he was in a bed of some kind, his body covered by sheets. On instinct he tried to circulate the energy within his body, but for the first time since he forever changed his life from being a null, he could not feel energy coursing through his body.
Worse, he felt pain. His body and internal organs were fine, but there was a problem. The meridians and pathways that had been in his body from the beginning were gone....
2022-04-21 08:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 51
Ajimal The Great: Forced Peace
A golden halo first bound over Ajimal letting him know that his second in command, his sister, had first been bound in a binding oath before the gods. He had heard records of such events, all children’s stories of times before the rise of the Azani spoke of such moments. Yet to think he would feel the presence of such a weight on his body, mind, and very soul was too much.
For a moment he felt as if he could see the battle...
2022-04-21 08:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 50
Judgment of the Gods
Pain. That was the word that could be used to describe Lykan’s world now. Pain and agony.
He had taken a dark Qi energy bolt to the chest. While he had managed to deflect a good portion of the blast, the remainder was more than enough to shut down his nervous system. Normally this would just mean that one would collapse, fall to the floor and barring anything dangerous like falling on his face he would be fine. The only problem was he had be...
2022-04-20 09:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 49
The Battle Over Dunthir
Nayali Northstar trembled with excitement at the challenge before her. To fight, battle, and not kill the opponent before her. This meant she would have to hold back, or so she thought. The goal was never to kill, at least not kill the golden male. That was his nickname, the golden male. At least as far as Ajimal and his faction were concerned. That was the only way to describe the male who slew dragons and could never be seen until the aftermath...
2022-04-20 08:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 48
Nayali
The morning air was crisp and biting. Warm winds carried traces of sand and powder not normally seen in the region. The dirt and debris gave the blowing winds a physical presence that would otherwise be easily avoidable. The winds were so biting that the sand and dirt carried on the wind added an actual bite to Lykan’s skin as he flew forward.
He had grown a lot in his time while being an officer candidate. He went from never being able to fly and having ...
2022-04-19 10:52:47 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 47
The Battle of Dunthir
To say that the perceived battle was different than what occurred would be an understatement. Thousands of Sidherthan troops moved into position, encircling the border city with a precision never seen before. Under cover of darkness, ships breached the Azani border from north and south of the city encircling any possible chance of retreat.
Simultaneously the majority of Sidherthan forces pulled forward. Aided by the recent treaties from Piran...
2022-04-19 08:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 46
The Road to Dunthir
Choo! Choo!
The first sounds that the Sidherthan empire were mounting a counterattack were just train horns blaring at unattended cattle that had wandered on the train tracks. Aside from that the entire movement of forces from the capital and the second staging region of East Helms went off silently throughout the night.
Hundreds of air ships and three Capitol class ships, the Deadalist included, were already in position around t...
2022-04-18 08:59:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 45
Whispers of War
The day whispers of war swept through the Sidherthan capital was a cold spring day. The type of day where nature itself was all too aware of how ominous the winds of change were. The Azani kingdom had long been emboldened by their lack of any true threats to the far southeast. Now entire generations of would-be shaman kings vied for land that were clasped with by the indomitable masters. Masters who managed to strike down the remaining high wood elf warr...
2022-04-18 08:00:05 +0000 UTC
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