“North ridge. Cluster of roughly 40 to 50 targets. Several mixed-in demon elites. They’re pushing hard toward the grain stores. Another wave of 20 to 30 is trailing behind. Veronica, you need to—”
“I see them,” she said, voice coming through as the sharp winds passed by.
She stopped mid-flight high above the town, robe snapping at her heels from the sudden pause. She squinted past the rising plumes of fire and smoke toward the north ridge. Beneath her, several building...
2025-12-28 00:57:17 +0000 UTC
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Hello, all! I am proud to announce my new story: The Exalted Mage.
I've been writing this story for the past couple of months now. I have nearly 40 chapters already written. I am planning on releasing the first batch of chapters on RoyalRoad soon. As for Patreon, paid members will have access to 10 chapters ahead of the RoyalRoad release!
It is a story that follows Veronica Everwells, a powerful mage that specializes in destruction magic. This is a story about ki...
2025-12-28 00:55:50 +0000 UTC
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Mr. Bones circled and charged again atop the horse. The man was forced to strike once more, meeting the greatsword with his own.
Another clash rang out.
The swordsman was knocked back several paces, but aside from that, he was unharmed.
Mr. Bones, on the other hand, felt a tremendous impact run along his blade. Bone cracked. Chips flaked free.
Enya raised her hand, forming a spell circuit, and repaired the damage immediately.
Beyond her vision, the other swordsma...
2025-12-25 21:32:01 +0000 UTC
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Enya and Pell walked slowly toward the outside of Amberdean’s estate.
There were no guards posted along the perimeter. It was strange—but Pell didn’t remember there ever being guards here in the past, either. Maybe it hadn’t been necessary. Maybe the guards were stationed inside instead.
Either way, Pell bent the steel bars aside with ease and stepped through.
They reached the center of the front courtyard. Ahead of them, on the second floor, a window partially cover...
2025-12-23 22:48:41 +0000 UTC
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Inside her Sanctum, Enya was making full use of her maxed-out Soul-Energy. She guided spirit thread and metal chains around the skeletal goliath, slowly mixing in the five hundred liters of blood stored inside her ring.
The spirit thread secured the skeletal spine, running along it and holding most of the structure together. The metal chains were cut apart, portions wrapped around the major appendages and limbs of the dragon. They set the limbs in place, reinforcing and supporting the j...
2025-12-18 23:19:46 +0000 UTC
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Pell led the children out through the orphanage’s back entrance. Everyone had successfully recovered their belongings, including Enya and Pell. Enya had her dress back, Elria had returned to her spider body, and best of all—Enya had extracted an abundant amount of soul-energy from the Veiled Ones.
Soul-Energy: 736/800
It was a hefty harvest. Each dead body had yielded nearly fifty points on its own.
Of course, that also meant Enya had killed eve...
2025-12-16 23:01:36 +0000 UTC
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Half an hour passed by. Enya stared with hand-covered eyes, peering through her senses in the ceiling at the crowd below. Roughly nine black-robed figures—the Veiled Ones, stood around, eating and talking. She spotted that at least seven of them had taken a drink of the poisoned alcohol already. It was only a matter of time.
Skill: Insight has been activated.
Target: Tami Herenegir
Revealed Information: A woman in her thirties that has the class “Mistwa...
2025-12-12 00:14:48 +0000 UTC
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Enya sat huddled in the far corner of the room, knees drawn up, her voice low as she spoke with three of the other children—Talon, Ren, and Mirra. They had considered including Billy, but Talon shut that down immediately.
“He’s too immature,” Talon whispered. “One loud tantrum and we’re all dead.”
No one argued.
Talon was the oldest and the most calm and collected of the bunch. He was actively trying to come up with plans to escape. Ren was the merchant’s son...
2025-12-09 22:27:53 +0000 UTC
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There was a rumbling around her. A darkness that pressed close, washed in muffled noises. Her body felt stiff. Her head throbbed.
Enya groaned—at least, she tried to. Something covered her mouth. Her attempts came out as the same muffled sounds she heard around her.
Her eyes slowly fluttered open.
It was dark. Only thin streams of light seeped through cracks in the walls around her. Shapes sat nearby.
Breathing shapes.
These were people. She was surrounded by o...
2025-12-04 23:03:21 +0000 UTC
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The city was ablaze. White stone had become smeared with red, orange, and black. Fire plumed over the walls, swallowing the sky and raining ash like snow.
Talo’s massive barrier—normally transparent and serene—now shimmered violently, pulsing with every impact that struck it. Constant hammers thundered against it as warbeasts hurled themselves at the city’s defenses. Adventurers, War Paragons, alchemists, and even crafters stood along the battlements, launching spells and skills...
2025-12-02 23:09:37 +0000 UTC
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“Thank you very much, young girl.”
The old man patted Enya’s head as he took the small brown bag from her—just a simple set of lesser healing potions, perfect for patching up small wounds on the road.
He turned to Pell. “And you too, kind skeleton. This really is a life-saver.”
“Don’t mention it. You pay, we give,” Pell replied. He rolled a small gold coin between his fingers. It was nothing compared to his new wealth of dozens of platinums, but coin was co...
2025-11-26 00:04:12 +0000 UTC
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The moment Winsley raised his fan to begin the bid, three placards rose from section 0 like wolves who had smelled fresh meat.
“Six platinum.”
The voice belonged to a tall, wiry man with steel-grey hair tied back in a short ribbon. His eyes were sharp and discerning as he stared at the showcased pill. Ravien Ketter, a former dungeon hunter from the third layer turned auction hunter. His treasury was infamous—wealthy enough to buy out entire noble estates.
“Seven plat...
2025-11-20 22:57:35 +0000 UTC
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“What in all the hells do you think you’re doing?” Pell hissed.
Enya didn’t look away from the stage. She kept her paddle raised like it was an extension of her arm. “I need that item. I just got a class quest for it.”
“A class quest isn’t worth a hundred and ten gold coins!” Pell rasped. “That’s an entire platinum coin, Enya. An entire platinum. Ulter only gave me four to work with—and after buying that stupid bitterbloom leaf, we’ve barely got a hundred...
2025-11-18 23:01:34 +0000 UTC
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Enya and Elria were inside the sanctum again. Hours slipped by—morning to noon, noon to evening, evening to night. All that time was poured into a single project.
The skeletal goliath.
The once-small stone chamber was now filled with the expanded exoskeleton of a wyvern. Bones of every shape and density hovered in the air, suspended by Elria’s witchcraft. It let them arrange the structure in three dimensions, aligning each piece exactly where it needed to go. The design was ne...
2025-11-14 00:13:25 +0000 UTC
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“So… you want me to become your backer—a hidden sponsor?” Ulter asked. He took a sip of tea. Although the man seemed lighthearted and jolly, he made a point of only serving tea to himself. There was no hospitality offered to Pell. Even now, there were several of his noble guards, dressed in their fine black suits and insignia’s watching his every move.
Pell couldn’t help but think that they all knew what lay beneath his cloak. None of them were hostile to him, so ma...
2025-11-11 22:44:52 +0000 UTC
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Enya began the crafting process for the Soul-Cleansing Pill.
Chilled-Soul Cleansing Pill (Bronze Tier)
Description: A pill that can cure the symptoms of the Chilled-Soul ailment. Recommended dose of two pills a day, every day, until symptoms subside.
Materials:
Pill Capsule
Bitterbloom leaf
Soul-flame
10 Soul Energy.
The good thing about...
2025-11-07 00:13:49 +0000 UTC
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“Haha! What a funny chap you are, Mell! I’d sure do the same thing in your position—show them rat bastard nobles where their coin really comes from!” Lars roared, laughter booming loud enough to almost shake the dust from the rafters. He threw a thick arm around Pell’s shoulders, nearly knocking him off the stool.
“Damn—you’re all bones man! You gotta get some meat on yer’self.”
Pell could only chuckle with him. He was currently still in disguise, hiding that h...
2025-11-05 00:46:57 +0000 UTC
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“Coffee?” Elria asked.
She was at the corner of the newly installed workbench. Well, less installed, and more ‘placed.’ The main workstation was a smooth wooden surface; various compartments extended from the sides with multiple tools.
A block of ice no larger than Enya’s hand sat to the side, a decapitated rabbit skull resting on top. The ice glowed with a ghostly blue-white hue, while the skull’s inner soul-flames flickered cold and dim.
“It says it’s l...
2025-10-31 03:10:48 +0000 UTC
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Enya dropped onto the bed, face-first. The pillow gave a soft poof under her weight—warm, weightless, perfect. She couldn’t see it, but she imagined little clouds bursting from the impact, scattering feathers through the air. For a moment, nothing else mattered. Just the hush of comfort and the way the mattress seemed to breathe around her.
“It’s so fluffy,” she mumbled into the cotton. “So soooft.”
The sound came out muffled, lazy with bliss. After weeks of dirt cam...
2025-10-29 03:49:54 +0000 UTC
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“I’m tired of boar meat!”
Enya’s voice came over the crackling of the fires and the tweets of the surrounding birds.
The group was now traveling along the forest path. After they left Darsmouth, their sense of direction was lost. Luckily, someone was selling a compass on the marketplace for Pell to purchase with his skill. If his memory served correctly, they’d reach Eiyuria by heading east.
Enya sat on a small log, cheeks puffed, arms crossed tight across her ches...
2025-10-23 22:57:34 +0000 UTC
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“You want me to extort her? Are you fucking crazy?” Pell asked.
The five of them walked back toward the entrance of the prison. Enya walked with her hand clasped in Pell’s. Elria drifted beside the Dullahan, floating like a swimmer kicking their legs.
“The first time we met her, she snapped her fingers and changed space within the church. She can literally manipulate space. With a thought she could probably erase me—all of us—in an instant!” Pell continued.
“...
2025-10-21 22:30:36 +0000 UTC
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“Argh!” Pell shouted. His body groaned and ached as he tried to muster the rest of his strength to keep steady. The storm surrounding him was immense; any second now, it could send him flying away. But he had to hold on. One minute. Yet in this situation, it felt like an eternity.
Elria couldn’t answer him. She continued to murmur her odd words. An incantation. Whispers of nonsense that he couldn’t even begin to understand.
She had the easy part. Just stand there and whisp...
2025-10-16 23:39:54 +0000 UTC
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“And now because of you two rushing things, all my power’s gone and I’m half a ghost again,” Elria complained, dragging her words like a sigh. She floated more than walked, her feet occasionally touching the ground only to fade back into mist again. Her body shimmered faintly between flesh and incorporeal glow, like light bleeding through cracked glass.
All five of them trudged ahead. The dirt path had become less earth, and more paved marble. Wherever they were going, it seemed...
2025-10-14 22:03:32 +0000 UTC
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“P-please don’t hate me,” Enya choked out, her voice trembling.
For a long time, there was only silence.
Her sobs echoed weakly in the mist, small and fragile against the wide stillness that had swallowed the world. The fog drifted lazily, the storm of wraiths suspended midair—unsure if their mistress still commanded them.
Pell stared down at her. His jaw clicked faintly, half from the lingering anger, half from disbelief. The fire in his sockets had dimmed to small ...
2025-10-09 23:02:36 +0000 UTC
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“Annoying tricks!” Elria shouted. She flew across the sky, dodging as more bone spires erupted from the ground. Enya’s magic was birthing an entire white forest—spikes of bone rising like trees, lances of ivory stretching as branches.
“Fare Lize—decay!” she chanted, voice sharp, palm outstretched toward a cluster of growing bone. Instantly, the tips of the spires cracked and withered. White dust spilled as their structure broke down, Elria’s magic corroding the living bo...
2025-10-07 22:29:12 +0000 UTC
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Pell’s scythe cut low, scraping against the dirt. The sound was sharp. It wasn’t like the clean slice of reaping wheat or pulling weeds in a field. Each swing was similar to hacking into metal. Enya watched him strain, his grip flexing on the long handle until the root finally gave way.
The plant he sliced from the earth looked like a lily, but not quite. Its petals glowed faintly, pale veins pulsing with a soft light that breathed in and out, like it was alive. The stem twisted sli...
2025-10-02 22:51:27 +0000 UTC
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Pell’s grip on her didn’t loosen right away. His arms rattled faintly around her, bones locked as if he feared she might vanish if he let go. When he finally pulled back, the soul-flames in his sockets flickered sharp and unsteady.
“Kid,” he rasped. “What the hell happened? Last thing I saw, you were screaming, getting dragged into that cursed painting. Then nothing.” His skull tilted down, sockets narrowing as they fixed on her pale robes, her white eyes. “Now you crawl b...
2025-09-30 22:00:31 +0000 UTC
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“You sit in the Ashen Quadrant, little Empress. The land where the dead are gathered, where all who linger after death find their place. From the lowliest zombie and skeleton, to wraiths, vampires such as myself, and other undead horrors—wights, banshees, dullahans.”
The voice was smooth, rich, with a faint rasp that carried hunger. The speaker leaned lazily against a tilted gravestone, his long black cloak spilling across the cracked stone. His eyes glowed faint crimson under the...
2025-09-25 21:36:43 +0000 UTC
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The white had swallowed everything again, leaving Enya alone within its hold. Nekron’s words lingered in her mind.
It all begins with Lia.
Her life had been a lie. She was just a soul, sloppily pressed atop another, stealing what was never hers. Lia with her griffon stables, softly stroking their beaks. Lia with her enormous castle, living like a princess. Lia whose laughter still echoed through her mind. Lia whose family—mother, father, even her strict tutor—all sm...
2025-09-23 21:16:38 +0000 UTC
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The world fell away once more.
The endless white returned, blemishing everything that had stood before it.
Shadow Enya had disappeared, leaving Enya alone again. Alone, with whatever the thing in front of her was.
Her chest tightened. It didn’t feel like it belonged to this space—more like an intruder that had arrived uninvited.
The figure was cloaked in black, its frame slightly hunched, the fabric of its robes long and sprawled across the ground-that-wasn’t-gro...
2025-09-18 21:54:41 +0000 UTC
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