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Chapter 220: Ashford

Expecting Aunty P to rush out of the castle and into the battle, Leland was surprised when she veered off into a room rather than exiting through the main gate. He supposed it made sense, she was, after all, the regent queen, and couldn’t exactly waltz into battle. Still, he paused, causing Isobel to pause as well, and considered: follow Aunty P or rush into battle himself.

The choice was obvious, and instead of entering that room, he exited the castle, wings already appearing on his ...

Chapter 219: Doom

“Brigade one halt! Brigade two fire!” a nameless soldier yelled.

“Brigade one halt! Brigade two fire!” the Palemarrow army repeated.

The wave of attacks were weaker than the first brigade, at least at the start. They ran, all melee forces as well as adventurers and guards. Glenny and Jude were among this force, as well as their parents. Carmon, Diana, and Roy darted in and out of the action, each making use of their steep power to do what ...

Chapter 218: Boil

Fires spread from the battlefield, igniting buildings and burning infrastructure. Guards, Inquisitors, adventurers, and even a few mundane shopworkers, laborers, and even retired elders worked in tandem to battle the flames.

Those who could create water, through Legacy or not, pooled their resources, creating a haven within the heat. Buckets were summoned or taken from houses, each pailing out palpable amounts to quench the worst of the flames.

Somewhere in the mess, High Inquisit...

Chapter 217: It Is Time

In a twist of fate, the Witch who toyed with fate, died thinking herself invincible. At least, that was how Ashford understood the situation. It was nearly time, and Charlotte had missed the last three check-ins.

She was dead, Ashford was certain. She had always toyed a little too much. Still, he couldn’t say he would miss her. People called him a monster, but she was something far beyond, she was a Witch. The amount of lives one has to take, in cruel means, to be branded as ...

Chapter 216: Aunty

Youngest Princess Sybil Palemarrow, now to-be-crowned queen, sat curled up, a gray eggshell cocoon around her. Through the membrane and calcified outer layers, she looked asleep and uninjured, but a slight dulling whine of magic slowly released from her.

If Leland wasn’t a mage, if he hadn’t pushed himself to see through Sybil’s divine mask, if he had not stood before Lords and spoken to them as equals, if he had not fought against their magic and lived, he wouldn’t have noticed...

Chapter 215: Castle

“Good work!” Spencer said on the other side of the portal. “And to answer your question, no, I do not believe there are any bombs in the city.”

Sitting on Leland’s shoulder, the big crow disappeared into the ether, returning to its home realm. For a first outing using Crow Massacre’s new “leader” evolution, he was pleasantly surprised with the crow’s ambition. They didn’t even need to communicate verbally, the crow knowing all of Leland’s thoughts as he had them. 2023-11-20 07:02:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 214: Witch’s Soul

“She’s just… standing there… menacingly.”

Isobel sighed, turned to Jude, and said, “She’s watching her surroundings without moving her head.”

Jude scratched his head. “Are you sure? It looks like she is just standing there to me.”

Even Leland rolled his eyes at the question. “She’s reading fate.”

“Is she? How do you know?”

“That’s what she does. What else would she be doing standing still like that? She knows she’s being hunted...

Chapter 213: Fate

The shadows around families and households deepened and darkened. The surrounding fog silently hid many secrets, most of which were hideous terrors hellbent on the destruction of the city. Out here, far from the castle and the many protectors killing cultists and battling the dark, were the true masterminds.

One particular mastermind was a woman who controlled fate to a certain degree, allowing herself ample opportunity to move between different portions of reality. Wh...

Chapter 212: Go

There was no time to think, only go.

Pages flipped, palms slammed. Wings sprouted, dark feathers plumed. Four more came, pure white. The rush of the air barreled down on Leland as he took flight, the fog suddenly like the pressure of the deep ocean. A snarl pulled his face taut, and mana flowed.

Faster than Isobel. Faster than the woman who otherwise would trounce him in combat. Lifeforce and mana, each heightened to their limits, ignited his flight.

The fog became ...

Chapter 211: War

Across the city of Ivory Reach, in strategic locations, bells tolled. They boomed with the force of emergency magic, the signal to all to huddle down and prepare to be attacked. What little population that wasn’t heeding the extra guard patrols and cult rumors rushed to their homes, locking their doors and hugging their families. Those who had heeded the warning could only pray.

With six major guard barracks sporadically located around the city, an army of marching soldiers took to th...

Chapter 210: Cracks

Apprehensive silence flooded the inn at Glenny’s words. None had spoken about it, but everyone had noticed the lack of real battle. Ivory Reach was supposed to be under attack, and yet, besides a small raid on the warehouse district, there was only waiting.

But now? Now the drums of war had been sounded and the mark of the enemy filled Glenny’s mind with whispers.

“What do we do?” Carmon asked his son with chalk in his mouth. He didn’t like being the one left in...

Chapter 209: Sewer

“Stop,” Leland commanded, his eyes faintly glowing with magic. “There.” He pointed to the wall.

Isobel blasted it with a bolt from her parasitic weapon.

They continued, the smell of the sewer and the fog causing the trip to go slow. Leland took the lead, the contract with the Moonless Lord active. No halo hung above his head, however, a trick his parents were most pleased with seeing.

Rushwin had given them a hesitant “okay” to explore the sewers for the cult, bu...

Chapter 208: Madness

While Rushwin teed off against Leland, a fog began to roll through the warehouse district of Ivory Reach.

Starting slowly and pouring from the sewer system, the fog slowly ballooned until it fully consumed any and all. Buildings, streets, people, none went unmolested especially when hundreds of glowing red eyes peered through the mist.

They moved like drone bees following their queen’s command, marching down the streets and ending the lives of any and all they came across. They ...

Chapter 207: Rushwin

“So, tell me, why should I not kill you where you stand?”

Rushwin’s face was a mask, his emotions hidden under layers of experience. For most of his life, he had been an Inquisitor, even becoming a High Inquisitor in his later years. During all of that, he had killed, fought, and defended against some of the most heinous criminals the world had ever seen. The type of people that would make dainty women faint and gave children lifelong traumas.

Leland, the young man ...

Chapter 206: An Invitation

An hour later, a portal opened upstairs in the communal room. Stepping out and stretching his back, Roy stepped through, wobbling slightly. He took a deep breath in, like he was trying to pick up a scent like a bloodhound, then burped. He quickly went downstairs, joining his wife and Lucia at the adults’ table.

“No Ray?” Lucia asked.

Roy shook his head. “Little brother is doing his own thing at the guild. He’s right where he needs to be, in all honesty, organizing and cr...

Not a Chapter: Jude and Glenny's rank 3s

Name: Glenny Red
Legacy: Chameleon Archetype:
Apprentice of the Chameleon Lord  
Overall Rank: 3

Chameleon's Tongue:
Type: Ability
Rank: 21  
Adopt the Chameleon's greatest weapon. Your tongue becomes a new appendage, growing in size and dexterity. Scale with [Rank]
Evolution: Your tongue's strength is now equal to your own strength + [Rank]

Evolution Two: Your tongue's dexterity is now equal to your own dexterity + [Rank]

Chameleon's camouflag...

Chapter 205: Catching Up

Lucia quietly sat listening to the boys talk about their freshly upgraded abilities and spells. She had been left to chaperone while the other adults called in favors and hopefully readied themselves for the coming battles. And while she did have her own things she could be doing, opting to sit with the boys was what she chose to do.

It felt strange to her, leaving them be. Each had been through so much already, especially her son, Leland. Being separated from friends and family, forced...

Chapter 204: Contacts

Carmon Red hadn’t been to the dark streets of Ivory Reach since Annie died. He’d sworn off the place, opting to completely ignore that side of the city. The Umbra was a cancer, a cancer his wife spent most of her life trying to cut at. And she had failed, and the cancer continued to spread.

And yet, what he needed could only be bought here.

“Carmon Red, the Echo Dancer, fancy meeting you here,” some low ranked thug said, leaning against a damp wall. He flipped a coin off h...

Chapter 203: War Council Meeting

In the minutes before Leland reappeared at the campsite, he had enough time to toy with the soul cloak. Shifting through the Void, green mist swelled in his hands. In its activated form, the cloak was entirely made of mangled body parts and crooked emotions. It was warm to the touch, and prescribed enough plain fear in Leland that he felt sick holding the thing.

But the Soul Lord had given him an overview of what it did and how it worked and while blatantly grotesque looking, t...

Chapter 202: Transcendent

Budding from the man’s back, emerald arms clawed themselves from his woven fabric shirt. Like a butterfly spreading its wings for the first time, the arms split, unfolding into wispy swirls before waning into fabric themselves. Fingers, each fidgeting like they were forcing their bones to realign, thrashing in mortal pain, broken and misshapen, the bounds of fabric contorting them.

Soon they laid flat, yet were forced to part to make way for spasming heads and convulsing faces. Souls,...

Chapter 201: Tome

Leland was the last of the boys to wake up. Jude, Glenny, and all the others were sitting around a ring of smoldering embers, eating from a pot of breakfast sausage and beans. Isobel was the only one who noticed him awake, but she quickly ignored him after a superficial glance.

Taking the moment to himself, Leland summoned his grimoire and looked over the changes.

Name: Leland Silver

Legacy: Curses

Archetype: Apprentice of the ...