Phoenix awoke about five hours later, which is all a Crystal Caster really needed to feel fully rested, to find a small black murder-kitten curled up on her chest and her heart rate soared in her temporary panic.
“Whasit?! Whaswrong?” Saiya yelled, sitting straight upwards in the bed nearby and blearily searching the room for enemies. This shout in turn had Rayna practically jumping upward...
2024-03-26 00:00:02 +0000 UTC
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The next few fights were much the same only with Tala, Snowbelle, and Rex joining the other Familiars and Summons in the chaotic fight of fur, feathers, and scales. With their overwhelming numbers, they were able to dominate the few packs of Crystal Caste monsters they encountered.
Most Summoning abilities were on an hour-long cooldown and would last about half that but, between the groups' ab...
2024-03-23 00:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Phoenix smiled at the sight of the Emerald Caste voxen speaking with another priest she didn’t recognize so she decided to forgo distracting him and stayed with her party as they were arriving at the Western district’s small portal grounds. She hadn’t seen the man since he had cleared her for duty during the battle for Tulisuda after she had wrecked her body in a fight against a Sapphire arche...
2024-03-22 00:00:04 +0000 UTC
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“I’m still a bit surprised you encouraged her to go,” Uriel said as they watched the Wayfarer chatting happily with the voxen while they perused the precarious shelves of Mother’s Cupboard.
The current attendant at the counter had informed them that Madam Malik had gone out for an errand but was expected to return soon. Since Phoenix needed to retrieve a special order from her, they de...
2024-03-21 00:00:03 +0000 UTC
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King’s Dream made their way to the AOA building where they had been told to meet to go over their next mission which they had been specifically chosen for along with a few other select parties.
They were escorted to a large meeting room on one of the upper floors of the building where rows of chairs were set up, all facing the front of the room where a podium sat with some kind of device tha...
2024-03-20 00:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Paul stood, placing himself in the center of the finished ritual circle, and pulled his slick silver undershirt off. Like most Adventurers that conjured their armor, he wore the enchanted [Sliksilk Compression Gear] underneath. It was difficult to grapple and wouldn’t snag on anything, along with having cleaning and mending enchantments to keep it and the wearer fresh. His was Emerald Caste and al...
2024-03-19 00:00:02 +0000 UTC
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“This One meets Little Wayland now?” the familiar monotone voice echoed in his mind.
Paul chuckled and finally answered, “Yes, Bela. You get to meet Phoenix now.”
As he opened the door to the ritual room, he had to head off his Familiar’s enthusiasm by clarifying, “Wait for me to tell you when. I want to properly prepare her.”
“Prepare...
2024-03-16 00:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Phoenix was clenching Paul’s arm in a death grip of anxiety as she nervously stood beside her mentor and now… father? It was both easy and difficult to think of him as such. He definitely acted like one towards her, especially after they had gotten to know each other more, but she wasn’t a child who required a parent. Despite that fact, she was glad he stood beside her now.
Paul patted h...
2024-03-15 00:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Author's Note: I've updated Book 3's Chapter 6 - All Tied Up to include a few more paragraphs of introspection on Dazien's part near the beginning. Nothing super plot-changing, so I didn't want to ping everyone about the update, but just noting here if anyone is curious.
“Phoenix, hurry up. It doesn’t take that long to find the Rabearus and lure it out here
2024-03-14 00:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Phoenix also managed to remember to give Madam Malik the bonus reward from defeating a swarm of flaywings that had also been collecting metaphorical dust in her collection to see if she could make anything useful out of it besides turning it into an augment that wouldn’t last her long.
Item: Crystal Eye
The preserved eye of a flaywing.
2024-03-13 00:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Phoenix was rubbing her temples as she sat on the couch in her room, half naked in her undergarments, while Patricia and Rayna were heatedly discussing which outfit she should try next.
She hadn’t entirely believed Dazien at first when he said conjuring things to and from her collection cost mana but here she was with a mana headache from the mountain of outfits she had attempted to swap thr...
2024-03-12 00:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Phoenix sat excitedly at the edge of the room with her back against the wall. Uriel was on her right as he watched calmly and Dazien sat on her left, grinning like a fool, with Saiya on the Defender’s other side, oddly not touching anyone except the large snowy Familiar sprawled in her lap demanding belly rubs. She hoped the Healer would adjust soon, finding the lack of her hugging behavior so dis...
2024-03-09 01:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Saiya was struggling to make her way through the city with Rayna leading her by the hand towards the Wayland estate and Snowbelle gliding after them. It had only been a few days since her abnormal ascension and she still hadn’t quite gotten to the point where she could shut out the influx of emotions from people and objects she touched to the point where it was second nature.
She could alrea...
2024-03-08 01:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Phoenix pulled out the [Crystal Caster Party Pack] from her collection that she had received for helping fight against the Renseres as she sat in the middle of the open space of the [Fortress of Solitude] and began pulling out the various pieces to it and the small parchment pamphlet explaining how things worked.
Dazien and Uriel were leaning against Rex’s golden side, the l...
2024-03-07 01:00:04 +0000 UTC
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It was Rayna’s turn to laugh maniacally as she ran through the Whistling Gorge to the west of Tulimeir. The slightly winding crack in the landscape made for an interesting gauntlet of sorts with its arches of ice sporadically spanning across the chasm and sharp stalagmites rising from the base that were usually covered in thick ice.
Her new Sapphire Caste attributes had caused a sudden three...
2024-03-06 01:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Dazien was sitting with his party in the center of the large room that Uriel had constructed for them with the Mage’s [Fortress of Solitude] ability at dawn. Taking advantage of both the ice fortress and Saiya’s soft singing with [Meditative Guide], they were cultivating their experiences at a good rate, finding it increasingly easy and intuitive to focus.
2024-03-05 01:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Phoenix practically flew across the snow as she laughed wildly. They had finally been sent back out on the tundra to clear out monsters after the few days of rest they received once they had successfully regained control of Tulisuda. Her new armor, [Shifting Twilight], was giving her the freedom of movement she had been sorely lacking before and she felt exhilarated as she ran, using her gravity tec...
2024-03-02 01:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Paul could feel the young man’s nervousness radiating throughout that aura the Defender had actually lost control of. The noble had known the gemite had poor aura control but he hadn’t realized exactly how bad until the moment the kid let it get away just from being excited. Anger was the more common reason for people to lose control of restraining their aura, even he did at times since it was s...
2024-03-01 01:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Camrin Ruwena was exhausted. Ever since his older sister, Murinah, had decided that she had to murder any potential competition over her fatalistic obsession with an orphaned gemite, his life had gone completely off the runerails.
He had been horrified by his own part in tricking the young woman in order to kill her –who he had more recently learned was a Wayfarer and Protégé to the most p...
2024-02-29 01:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Paul was nervous as he led the way up to the roof, taking the green-tinted lift up the dozens of floors. It wasn’t the fact that he was uncertain about Phoenix finding the area interesting; if anything, her curiosity was the one predictable thing about her. No, his nerves currently came from the person he knew was likely to be there already.
“Elder Flower will not be unkind to Little M...
2024-02-28 01:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Things were not progressing well in this reality for Roimeldor. After losing almost half of his forces to the opposition they discovered on the planet Erythrós, he was not happy about some of the resource losses they were receiving on its sister planet, Makera. Even more frustrating was the fact that the initial Erythrós force wasn’t even in a retrievable state. At least if they had died he coul...
2024-02-27 01:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone 👋
We made it through the second book of the Wayward series! Part 2 of 4 for the Tulimeir Arc is now completely released. (Yes, the last book ending said 1 of 3 but things happened.) Fun fact: the original version of this portion was 79,998 words while this rewritten version ended up 137,889 words long! It's also time to see all the DATA again!
Book 3 will also be continuing Monday along with keeping the 5 chapters per week pace! I hope you’ve all enjoy...
2024-02-24 01:05:00 +0000 UTC
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It was the first time Phoenix had woken up from death already feeling victorious. She had actually managed to help her mentor. Sure she had died but for once it had felt worth it. The sense of pride and accomplishment filled her with a joy that she rarely got to experience and she just lay there naked on the bed basking in the feeling.
On a whim, she pulled out Sky from her collection...
2024-02-24 01:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Dazien grimaced as the Sapphire Healer finished healing him, which he had been quickly handed off to once Everin Starlark had mended the worst of it, and Saiya explained why she had returned without their final party member. He ran his hand through his hair which was beginning to get much longer than he normally wore it and immediately regretted the smear of blood and sweat. He didn’t have to ask ...
2024-02-23 01:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Despite Paul spending much of his time in the air, he didn’t actually possess a flight power to keep him aloft. His Familiar being merged within him did grant him a bit of control when traveling through the air along with a slow fall effect though, so he kept Orebela’s enhancing Boons within him.
This allowed him to use the abilities that gave him short bursts of speed or launched...
2024-02-22 01:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Phoenix barely paid attention to her [Guide Book] as she, Dazien, and Rayna moved into the melee while Uriel and Saiya joined the other ranged attackers which included the strange woman who had caught Phoenix’s attention earlier. Apparently, the friendly cinderen woman and the rest of her Crystal Caste party were adding to the fight with a variety of creatures to assist alongside ...
2024-02-21 01:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Phoenix was both fascinated and annoyed by the desolate landscape interspersed with lava flows. The heat was getting worse and the Wayfarer found herself swapping out clothing for something that wouldn’t have her pass out from the extreme temperature.
Even pulling out her [Drifter’s Umbrella] seemed to have minimal effect on the Sapphire Caste heat suffusing the area. Luckily, none of her c...
2024-02-20 01:00:04 +0000 UTC
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King’s Dream regrouped with the rest of the Adventurer forces, bringing their prisoners with them and depositing them onto the other side of the Rift to be dealt with by others more specialized in detaining and transporting captives. Phoenix spared a wave to Bliss, who was with her own party, having been tasked with said prisoner handling. The Wayfarer’s party, however, wasn’t done with their ...
2024-02-17 01:00:06 +0000 UTC
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“Well, you seem fit for battle to me,” the voxen man said with a grin as he added, “Now, I hope I don’t have to tell you not to go stacking recoil effects again; unless you think your death is the only way to win, that is.”
Phoenix’s eyes went wide as she blinked at the Emerald Caster before glancing over to where her mentor stood speaking quietly with the AOA Director, “You’re...
2024-02-16 01:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Phoenix stared down at her lap where Tala materialized to snuggle her, giving soothing chirps as the summoner held back tears. She knew that something had been wrong with her friend and having him confirm her fears that it was her fault, that she had messed up again, had her frustrated with herself once more.
Rayna moved her chair closer to put a furred hand on her shoulder and said, “Hey, d...
2024-02-15 01:00:03 +0000 UTC
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