Wandering Agent

Chapter 248 Goodbye Princess

I looked down at the child in her crib.  She was small, less than a year old if I had to guess, with lovely blonde hair that fell over her eyes.  She cried, cried for a mother who'd never return to her, because of me.

It made sense why the would-be queen had fought now, as I stood over the babe.  For her losing meant that she'd likely see one of several horrid fates for her baby, there was no option but to fight in her mind.  I could respect that, it was...

Elevation of Mana Chapter 31 Farming, First Attempt

Months after the cold had begun it slowly began to lessen.  It ended much as it started, with one day a warm wind blowing through the village.  Sure, there was still snow, and it was still cold, but that blessed kiss of warmth told us that things were changing, that soon, very soon, things would be back to normal, and we could go back to our old lives.

I of course had some other ideas.  Our old lives were good, but couldn't they be so much better?  Well,...

Chapter 247 Rebel Base

I wasn't as fast as the knights who led the way, and they certainly didn't want me to come with them, but I wasn't going to be denied. My tracker was strapped down to my side and deactivated, and I strode forward. I had armor, even if I almost never used it, kept from my own time at the academy and maintained over the years. It was in need of an update at some point, but for now it would do.

The current portal was smaller than the last, and our men had to pass through while...

Elevation of Mana Chapter 30 Winter Part Two The Hunt

Ninden and I stood over our empty trap. There were enough in the area that we were splitting into smaller groups, everyone was nearby, but for the moment, we were alone.

Winter was in full swing and I was frankly thrilled that it only came to call once every several decades if this was what we were getting.  There'd been colder winters in the north back on Earth, but this was supposed to be a tropical jungle, not a temperate forest.  The normally green trees, with...

Chapter 246 Turnabout Is Fair Play

The thing about crying was, eventually you had to stop. It wasn't like you wanted to, or were really done, but at a certain time, you just ran out. I wasn't sure when exactly this happened, or how long it took, but after a time I was spent fully. The day had been long, hard, and brutal both physically and mentally, and the sleep that took me brought some peace.

A gentle voice, and a hand upon my shoulder woke me from my place on the floor.

"Alana, Alana a...

Elevation of Mana Chapter 29 Contract

Isha had pulled me to the side, us getting a rare moment of privacy so we could talk.

"I kept practicing last night," she said, bouncing on the balls of her feet.

"Cool, what did you learn?" I asked.

"I can make them already cooked, which is good, I think they taste better like that too, but I was hoping for your opinion." She held out one of the little faux tuber cakes for me, and without hesitation I bit down on it. She was right, it ...

Chapter 245 Grief

I was numb, cold, there was nothing.  All around me there were screams and panic, but I felt like I'd been frozen in ice.  Some people were still fleeing the room, or trying to fix the wave of mana that had been released when the queen had died.  It was still hurting me, the injuries her spells had given, but it was nothing to the feeling of my mana refusing to go into my mother.

In my head I knew what it meant, but I didn't want to accept it.  She was d...

Elevation of Mana Chapter 28 Winter Part One

The day had been long and I was tired, but there were things that deserved my attention.

I stood back and watched as mother wove the last of her magic, vines flowing and grasping as thorns sprung up along their length.  The inner net was thicker, with larger spars about an inch in width.  From the central bit more sprang out here and there along their length, those were far less controlled.  The whole thing woven around a series of wooden poles in the ground,...

Chapter 244 Fallen

It was done, and I had done it.  The emperor was dead, his rival was dead, all around me it looked like the battle was closing.  I wonder who won in the end?  Did it really matter?  Well, I supposed it would, either I'd be killed by our enemies, or have to deal with the fallout with our allies, neither sounded particularly good to me.

For now I contented myself with fixing up my sliced arm and collapsing.  I still had a bit of mana, not a ton, but a...

Elevation of Mana Chapter 27 A Plan

I had dreams of shining cities of steel and glass, beautiful in form and in function, sadly I was very limited by my materials.  Currently I was looking at a mostly destroyed village barely into the stone age, and trying to think about what kind of improvements we might make.  For now was the time for improvement, it was sad the people we'd lost, and the houses, and with winter oncoming too much work would be bad, but if we were going to make something better, it should be now.

Chapter 243 Sovereigns' Death

It had taken me moments to find them through the absolute chaos that was this attack, but find them I did. I'd teleported myself to the roof they were on and was weaving spell after spell into place to make ready for my joining of the fight. Hopefully it wouldn't be needed, but if for some reason the emperor was pushed back, or ended it and needed aid, I'd be here for him.

For the moment however, there was little I could do to get involved. They were too fast, and while I w...

Elevation of Mana Chapter 26 Burn

The rest of the village was still moments away as the monster slammed its jaws down on the hunter.  If it was smart it might have well understood the danger this man who could find it posed to it.  He definitely appeared more dangerous than the rest of us.

Most  animals would only hunt for food, but as Onai's corpse was abandoned it was clear that wasn't the intention here.  I registered the Twilight Beast looking up from his kill for the next.  The...

Chapter 242 Battles

Lorrae

Once again I pulled back my mana, readying a new spell. Years I'd trained, using ancient documents, and now this upstart was matching me blow for blow. Honestly I didn't know if I should be proud of him for growing so strong or immensely frustrated that he had.

I of course remembered Mystien from his youth. Back when I'd been but a teacher and not the man I was now he'd come through the academy, surprising all with his strength and potent understan...

Elevation of Mana Chapter 25 Victory and Mourning

The men had left us some hours ago, heading out in their group to try and destroy the last of the monsters hunting our tribe. I stood near the back of the cave, watching, keeping an eye on everyone. Ninden, was generally watching us boys, but the girls were nearby too, and I was doing what I could to keep an eye on them as well. There shouldn't be any danger, but if something did happen it was likely I would be the last line of defense.

There was something throwing me off t...

Chapter 241 Eclipse

It took only a few seconds for the first of the staff to charge into the ballroom declaring that the castle was under attack. She was shortly followed by guards from several directions, both to check on us and to inform others of the danger.

Soon enough the attackers came, but unlike the memory from my youth these fools weren't attacking spoiled nobles, most of which barely trained. No, they were attacking the leaders of a battle hardened army, and they hadn't brought anyth...

Elevation of Mana Chapter 24 Regrouping

I awoke to find myself laid down on the cold stone. While it took me several moments to realize where I was after the initial shock of waking up somewhere new my brain caught up. I'd suggested this place, there should be no surprise that I was now here.

As I rubbed the sleep from my eyes I sat up a bit and began to look around me. Here and there were the people of my village, all looking exhausted and resting where they could. Their faces, those that were awake at least, we...

Chapter 240 Royal Ball

Never before had I been to the official parts of the old royal palace. Sure, I'd been in the back rooms when I'd helped to save Lief, but we were going to the proper entrance now, and I felt special. The small opening in the walls for carts to enter shone with hanging lights as we passed under and into the large garden-like space beyond.

I stopped feeling too special then. Even if we were on the list to get in, and be at this party, we were nowhere near the top of it. We we...

Chapter 239 Twilight Falling

Days off were a resource that I seldom got anymore.  Not because of my actual job, no, they had plenty of time for me to go and do as I please regularly, but because I had my own projects.  Many of these weren't all that vital to me, just things that needed doing.

My house, even with its many included amenities, was still lacking a lot of basic things.  Most of these old manors were just that, old.  Beyond their warding they had decades to centuries of m...

Elevation of Mana Chapter 23 Beasts of Darkness

Distracted mother may have been by the incoming crisis, but forgotten I was not. While her sister, the traitor, quickly wrapped my creations in a small leather pouch I was led back to where the group was.

Elaya was counting, each and every group was also making sure that all of their members were there. During the counting she sent up several of her little light and sound shows, trying to attract the attention of whoever had gone missing. After the main gathering though, nobody joined u...

Chapter 238 Taking Up Teaching

I sat opposite of Mystien, both of us flipping through papers. While Dras had gone into production of gates, I'd managed to push myself into research and development, looking particularly into how to defend and what messes might be made by the same. Progress was slow, particularly in convincing everyone that they needed to be more careful. Sadly the new toy was bright and shiny, and everyone wanted some.

"Moving them like that isn't possible Alana, as you already know. Empe...

Chapter 237 Quiet Evening

An alarm rang, nothing more than a simple timer, but one made not with wheels and cogs, rather with magic. It wasn't much, but it was something that most people of this would would never own, never be able to see with their own eyes. Well, probably, I could hope we'd see more mages, but in my lifetime, I doubted we'd have enough for them to be commonplace.

I looked up from my work with a slight frown. It'd been another day, and I still ran into the same problem. I'd spent y...

Elevation of Mana Chapter 22 Winter Oncoming

The next few years were much of the same. I slowly tried to figure out what to add to our tribe, while also trying not to draw too much attention. Magic slowly, but surely grew in skill and strength as well, but the best thing for that seemed to just be using it.

And before I knew it I was eight. I was perhaps a bit smaller than I'd have thought I should be, but between diet and not being the same race that was probably normal. My friends though looked almost the same, all ...

Chapter 236 Home

It took days for me to be back up and running properly.  The priests that they'd brought in to heal me had assured me that I'd recover in time, but also encouraged me to hold off on casting anything big for the next week or so.  That was annoying, as a lot of little things worked into my life, floating books over, cleaning stuff, and the like, at least when things weren't too hectic.

That of course meant that I got to go home to rest.  So far as we could tell...

Melody Chapter 235 Return

Ulanion

Our group fled back to the city at speed, the... whatever that was, was gone, and now we could return home.  The fortress would be where we went just as soon as we could, but getting back to the city was our first concern.  I looked down at the reason for that in my arms, her hair wild in the wind.

Something had happened during the spell, we all felt it, the feeling of approaching, unstoppable doom.  That feeling had grown and grown...

Elevation of Mana Chapter 21 The Reward for Good Work

Weeks after what was now being referred to as the 'ice cave incident' a number of the men gathered us boys up. At this point most of the anger had fallen away and punishments ended. I was sometimes even allowed outside of sight of a 'responsible adult', big progress. They all looked over us with smirks.

"Now, since you boys like building so much we've decided to take the day to teach you a bit about it," Larus declared, whenever the men did something as a group he tended to l...

Melody Chapter 234 Near Miss

I spent the rest of the day more than a bit dejected. We were of course given all the supplies we needed, more than enough to plug up the hole in the lake. It felt like ash in my mouth as we headed out of the town, some of the members thanking us, others giving suspicious looks, particularly those closest to the mayor.

This was my fault. My actions had caused the damage that was keeping reinforcements away, and similarly causing these monsters to go wild. Rather than head b...

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Since Elevation is now going onto RR there are going to be a few changes to tiers and the like.

1.  First of all, those of you only interested in Melody and what you're already getting will not be experiencing any change at all, cost isn't going up.

2.  For those who want Elevation chapters, there are a few new tiers.  There is Elf of the Stone Age, for those only interested in Elevation, and Wielder of Mana, for those who want both Melody and Elevation at a slight ...

Elevation of Mana Chapter 20 Surreptitious Construction

Adia

As soon as we were home the boys ran off, and all I could do was sigh. They were all hard working on their trapping though, so we could let them skimp on the evening chores. Even my Elian was trying to help, though he often came up with the strangest of ideas. Though he wasn't the only one.

Atie was off as well, still more interested in her pots and things than anything else. She'd kept up with her gathering though, and I had to admit, having somethi...

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Chapter 233 Silversprings Melee

The bells sounded harsh and clear through the morning light as our party sped towards the gate. Something was wrong, something was so, so very wrong, and I had an idea what. The only thing holding us back was the cart, which, while it could get a good bit of speed was limited by design, too much and it'd come apart.

As we got to the gate I could see the lone guard in a panic. He was looking everywhere, and behind him quite a bit as his hand white-knuckled his spear. When he...