Chapter 390: Silvi’s Initiative
Derek watched Sabrina’s future mother-in-law drag her out of the Throne Room—her maid, Jessica, trailed behind, and Elouise soon followed. Soon enough, it was just the men left in the room. Well… I’ve done my part, he thought.
“Okay, I have things to do,” Derek said. “I’ll come back to get you one last time for free if the teleporters aren’t connected by the time you need them. Make sure you’re all ready by then. Who k...
2023-12-01 00:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 389: Of Course
Derek stepped out of the void, carrying a crimson-faced Sabrina. In front of them, Ryven, Edwin, Adviser Musgrave, and Sabrina’s maid, Jessica, waited in anticipation—Ryven already had a stern look on his face. With a shake of his head, barely believing where and how he found Sabrina and Elouise, Derek let go of the soon to be queen and closed the void tunnel once again.
“Sabrina!” Ryven spoke loudly to his daughter. “Where have you been? You were ...
2023-11-29 00:45:00 +0000 UTC
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Happy Thanksgiving to all my Americans out there! I hope everyone has had a great week!
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Chapter 388: As Thick as Thieves
With Ryven covered safely in the void, Derek carried him out of the tunnel formed by Void Travel and into the Throne Room in Cydaria. Once he made sure that the duke was completely out of harm’s way, he released Void Creation—causing the void to be removed from the elf—and made to shut the portal behind them. With...
2023-11-24 00:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 387: Efficient
Derek, with Silvi still perched on his shoulder after coming out of the vault, left Tyler alone in the treasury to clean up while he sneaked away. As for Tyler? The young man was still standing in the center of the room, staring stunned in Derek’s direction as they moved out of his line of sight.
I’m sure he’ll figure everything out. If nothing else, it will give him something to do to get his mind off of everything that has happened recently,
2023-11-22 00:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 386: Heist
The heat was everything Derek had come to expect from Silvi’s flames. In fact, with it being so concentrated and on a small area, and the fact that this was pretty much the closest he’d ever been to the flames, it may have been even hotter than usual. A bead of sweat even appeared on his forehead and he had to wipe it away with the back of his hand. After that, he decided it best to take a step back.
“Oh, wow!” Tyler muttered from behind them.
Dere...
2023-11-17 00:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 385: Treasury
Derek watched for a while as Edward, Osian, and Tevara made their rounds between all the nobles. Everyone was trying to be as cordial as possible to what was essentially the new leaders of the kingdom, so it didn’t seem like he needed to worry about an attack coming out of nowhere against Edward. As for Osian, he could take care of himself.
He’d only gotten a few glances at Osian fighting, but from what he saw, the man was holding back quite a bit in orde...
2023-11-17 00:40:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 384: Mandatory Gathering
Derek followed along toward the back—the announcements were for Edward and Osian to make, and he didn’t want to be anywhere near the front. Diana—keeping to her currently helpful role—chose to lead the part back out of the palace. Everyone agreed that as the leader of the highest noble house there, she would be the perfect person to introduce them all to the rest of the nobles of Astrus—at least, the ones who chose to show up.
Tevara had ...
2023-11-15 00:45:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 383: New Leadership
They finally made it to one of the topics they needed to discuss before announcing to all of Astrus that it was going to be under new leadership. The new king or queen, or both, would play a part in how everyone felt about such changes.
“I believe that with Tevara and Tyler staying on and standing beside a new ruler, it will make the transition go much smoother,” Edward said. “Allowing the people to see leniency even with the former noble family w...
2023-11-10 00:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 382: Fate of the Siblings
The young man and woman staggered inside the Throne Room as they were pushed forward by Finn. Derek eyed each one. Both siblings took after their father, and it seemed that each had the same dark ice affinity that Tevarian, Terrin, and Traven had. Derek had half expected the girl to have some sort of poison related class like her mother had, but that didn’t seem to be the case.
Both siblings looked to be confused, angry, and afraid. The confusio...
2023-11-08 00:45:01 +0000 UTC
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It looks like Patreon fixed the italics issues in their online reader. Back to regular posts.
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Chapter 381: Try This
Finn and Garrett quickly entered the palace to handle the tasks assigned to them by Diana. It was interesting for Derek to see how the two other leaders of major noble houses quietly took orders from the older lady without any questioning or concerns. It went to show that either her family was that much more p...
2023-11-02 23:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Happy Halloween!
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Chapter 380: Blow it up?
Derek and the others were escorted through the gates of Icecrest by the leaders of three of the most prominent noble families in the entire kingdom of Astrus. As they walked through the gates and entered the outer part of the city, their group was met by numerous lower-level guards with their weapons raised and uncertainty in their eyes. It seemed that the people of Icecrest didn’t quite know what to m...
2023-10-31 23:45:00 +0000 UTC
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Well, I actually finished this a little sooner than I thought. Here you go!
Edit: Forgot to upload the pdf file. It should be up now.
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Chapter 379: The Nobles
“You sure sound awful excited about everything for someone who just floated in the air and watched almost the whole time,” Derek said with a chuckle.
“I did what I came here to do,” Marrick said. “Nobody needed any more help but that.”
“That ...
2023-10-26 23:52:25 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 378: One by One
Derek noticed a significant decrease in the number of soldiers trying to fight against him when he felt the icy aura that was emanating from the former king Traven disappear. He had done his best to see what caused the change, but when he found the old elven elder, the other man was nowhere to be seen. It didn’t take a rocket scientist to put together that the former king had died already, and that those who were directly under his command took that chance to g...
2023-10-26 23:45:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 377: Cassandra
Alanah and Queen Cassandra had been fighting for some time—if one could call what they were doing fighting. At the very beginning of the battle, Cassandra had tried striking first and catching Alanah off guard by throwing dozens of poison laced needles at her. Alanah had, of course, easily dodged the needles before returning the favor.
Once the fighting began, Alanah kicked off the ground and, to Cassandra’s bewilderment, grabbed hold of the queen and ca...
2023-10-24 23:45:00 +0000 UTC
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I'm not sure how the audiobook is doing because Amazon's audio rankings seem to be lagging really bad right now, but whether good or bad, thanks everyone for the support!
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Chapter 376: Marrick
While a battle of dismemberment and destruction—two versus many—was happening on the ground, an entirely different kind of fight was occurring in the air. An old elven man with a hunched back was standing steadily with a cane atop a cloud of...
2023-10-19 23:45:00 +0000 UTC
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Book 4 audio is out tomorrow! With whispersync!
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Chapter 375: Charge and Chop
Derek reappeared in front of the remaining army. He was standing between them and the line of fire that Silvi had made that had finally begun to calm down. As soon as the soldiers up front saw him appear, they came to a rapid halt—some even crashed...
2023-10-17 23:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Here's an extra chapter. Let me know if the PDFs look good and I'm good to use them til they fix things.
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Chapter 374: Watch
“As you can see,” Edward’s voice sounded out, once again, he projected it so that all could hear over the remaining crackling of the dying dragon flames. “We came prepared. The dragons? They’re all for show. The real threat is in those we brought along. Mr. Hunt has proved time and time again that one person, if stron...
2023-10-13 00:05:12 +0000 UTC
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Heya. I'm attaching a pdf of the chapters for the next couple weeks--until Patreon fixes the italics issue. They are working on a fix, but there's not time frame for it.
Chapter 373: Trigger-Happy
The combined might of Derek’s and Silvi’s auras first fell over the small group of nobles and top brass of Astrus. Derek and Silvi made sure to control the aura and focus it directly on those in front of them—careful not to let it spill over. He wanted it to be as concen...
2023-10-12 23:45:01 +0000 UTC
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I really hate this new Patreon update. Half the time, italics don't show up, they made it much harder to edit and make posts... idk who thought it was a good idea. Hopefully they'll do some other fixes, I know a lot of creators have been submitting tickets and stuff. (including me)
I'll look posting chapters with an epub attachment if that's something you all would like, and things don't get fixed soon.
Chapter 372: Not Giving a Damn
“Okay, everyone, calm down....
2023-10-10 23:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 371: Icecrest
“We’re almost there,” Alanah’s voice sounded out from beside Derek.
Derek noticed when she had stood from her meditation long ago, but he remained seated and continued his own meditation. He knew that she would let him know if something came up, and now she was. Derek instantly broke out of his meditation when he heard her voice. He opened his eyes and stood before looking around. The dragonkin were all flying relatively close to one another, and he c...
2023-10-05 23:45:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 370: Prepare for the Worst
The flight from capital to capital was long, to say the least. Without the ability to teleport from city to city throughout the kingdoms because of the massive dragonkin, they had to fly the entire way. Just as planned, Blitz met the group before they even left the Cydaria border, and Edgar moved to his own companion from Edward’s, leaving the king and crown prince to take care of babysitting the Duke of Astrus.
Even with the straight line spee...
2023-10-03 23:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Let's squeeze one more chapter in before the patreon reset.
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Chapter 369: Taking Off
They, unfortunately, were not up in the air by the end of the day. The problem wasn’t in how long it took Edward to contract with the amphithere; it was in how long it took for the dragonkin to evolve. It seemed like it teetered on the cusp of evolving just like Lyra had—which most likely would have brought Edward’s class rarity up a notch an...
2023-09-30 17:59:56 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 368: I’ll Tame It
Edward and the amphithere clashed over and over, neither giving the other any leeway or backing down. Even with the crown prince’s lack of power, Derek had to admit that he was still very fast. It was no wonder that the royal family had chosen the lightning element to pass down—however they did that. Derek wondered how close Edward, Edwin, and Edgar’s classes really were to one another while he watched Edward try to tame the winged serpent.
For we...
2023-09-28 23:45:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 367: One Down
It wasn’t hard for Derek to find the area that he originally left from—near where they were holding the dragonkin. He could see Tyron, Avery, and surprisingly, Alanah’s aura all close by, but he chose to appear a good distance away so his skill wouldn’t spook any of the dragonkin. He was surprised that Alanah was already there because she couldn’t have left much earlier than he had. She must have come straight here without any stops, he thought.<...
2023-09-26 23:45:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 366: Taxi
With all the nonsense about marriage settled—Well, it wasn’t nonsense until Derek had been included in the talks; before that, it had been fun—everyone made quick plans about what was going to happen next. Derek would take everyone he needed to back to Cydaria, including Sabrina. Also, it seemed like nobody wanted the pleasure of being carried around in a pot. So, he would have the privilege of being a taxi after all.
No matter how much he wanted to stuff S...
2023-09-21 23:45:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 365: Marriage?
“What was that? What did you say?” Osian leaned forward and looked at his niece.
“I… I said that we could… h-have a m-marriage between our two kingdoms.” The longer she spoke, the more confident Sabrina seemed to become. “Yes, a marriage. Wouldn’t that solve all of our problems. It would tie our family to Cydaria. It’s the perfect solutions. What better way to c-consumma—” Sabrina’s face instantly turned crimson once again before she ...
2023-09-19 23:45:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 364: Concessions
“So,” Derek said. “If I go out and look, you’re telling me that I’m not going to encounter a single person who has a slave? In the entire kingdom?”
“I didn’t say that,” Osian replied. “I said that we make slavery illegal and punishable. By that, I mean that if any elf is caught doing business with slavers or using a non-standard servant contract on a new servant, then they are punished. And, because our population is small, and our moni...
2023-09-19 23:30:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 363: Soul Contracts
For Derek, the rest of the night went by in a blur. As soon as Callum stepped foot in Indria, he went to work without asking any questions about what exactly was going on. Basically, to the man, what he was seeing seemed to be way above his pay grade. He knew what he was needed for, and that’s what he did—not more, and no less.
The process was both simple and elaborate in many ways. It was simple in the fact that when Callum was writing up a contrac...
2023-09-14 23:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 362: Decision
The king and everyone else on the opposite side of the table stared at Derek slack-jawed after he made such a declaration. “What?” he asked. “Don’t think I can’t do it. I want all this bullshit over and done with so my people can go back to living their normal lives. This stupid fighting has delayed their growth long enough. I don’t care about your petty feuds, but when they start affected me and mine,...
2023-09-12 23:45:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 361: Meeting
Derek counted six elves sitting around a long table that had been placed in the center of the Throne Room. There were four men and two women. Three of the male elves looked somewhat similar with their long, flowing silver hair and emerald green eyes. If he had to guess, Derek would say that one was the king, and the other two were his sons. Hmm… how many sons does this king have? He thought to himself. It...
2023-09-12 23:30:00 +0000 UTC
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