Reivyn stood with his sword at the ready, staring into his father's eyes. Neither one made a move, assessing the situation and posture of the other person. Dried sweat beaded Reivyn's brow. He had had time to recover from the exercises earlier. It was the first day his father was back to training with him like the old days, and the plan wasn't to get too heavy right off the bat.
His father wanted to evaluate every aspect of his growth. To that end, he had simply Observed how ...
2022-12-02 11:41:33 +0000 UTC
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The atmosphere was harmonious as the two families dined together. Someone had gone and collected the twins, Kailey and Riley, from their diligent work in crafting. They were happily getting along with Kefira's siblings. They instinctively knew how to pull on the heartstrings as they stole Kefira's "youngest child" position.
Reivyn had been surprised that his mother had calmed down so quickly. Like Kefira, he had heard the shouting match from down the hall. He hadn't put two a...
2022-12-01 09:30:43 +0000 UTC
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"Hmm?" Ameliyn looked up at the angry empress. "Are you angry that I called your daughter average? I didn't mean it as an insult."
"How could you possibly mean it any other way?" The empress asked. Her frown hadn't receded and she hadn't taken back her seat.
"As a mother, I have to make the right decisions for my son, Reivyn," Ameliyn said.
The silence continued to stretch as the empress and everyone else stared at Ameliyn. Ameliyn noticed re...
2022-11-30 06:06:52 +0000 UTC
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A/N the first part of the previous chapter has been re-written. I didn't get an option to publish it with a notification for some reason, so if you haven't read the updated chapter yet, read that first.
"We have an appointment to meet with the administration," Ameliyn said to the gate guard.
It wasn't the same person they had run into the other day, but luckily, after checking the appointment book, he nodded his head. He motioned f...
2022-11-29 04:58:54 +0000 UTC
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A/N For everyone's information, I'm not trying to set up instances of the characters missing each other for the comedic effect itself. I want the reunion to take place at a certain place at a certain time. I'm building up for that, and taking into everyone's consideration for having it happen sooner rather than later, I've sped it up a bit, which is why I originally had the chapter laid out as such.
(The original plan was for Kefira to run into the twins as ...
2022-11-25 23:47:02 +0000 UTC
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A/N Correction: In chapter 161 I had the gate guard make the appointment for three days later. I meant the third day of the week, Wednesday, two days later.
Kefira smiled as she descended the steps, spotting Reivyn once again waiting for her. It was the middle of the week, and while they hadn't been able to spend all day together the previous days, they had walked to and from the Academy. Things were a bit slower-paced, and they had squeezed in a couple of Ma...
2022-11-23 17:31:50 +0000 UTC
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Ameliyn stepped out into the street, feeling frustrated. They were here. They had traveled all this way suffering countless delays and even getting sort of caught up in some ridiculous war, and now that they were standing at the gates of their destination, there was a solid wall thrown up in front of him.
"What do they mean there's no record of our boy?!" Ameliyn fumed. "Could there be another Willowan Magic Academy in Wispan somewhere else? I know the world is big, ...
2022-11-21 16:17:38 +0000 UTC
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[New Skills Unlocked!]
[Tier 1:]
[Drill (0 ->7)]
[Tutor (0 ->6)]
[Tier 2:]
[Teach (0 ->4)]
[Skills Leveled Up!]
[Tier 1:]
[Aim (32 ->33)]
[Athleticism (49 ->50)]
[Dancing (22 ->27)]
[Horsemanship (11 ->16)]
[Light Armor (10 ->12)]
[Marching (25 ->27)]
[Memorization {Social} (15 ->18)]
[Observation (50 ->51)]
[Ride (14 ->18)]
[Running (...
2022-11-19 06:21:47 +0000 UTC
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Reivyn stuffed the papers into his storage pouch. Anything that was put into it would be preserved exactly how it was placed inside, so he didn't have to worry about them getting crumpled up or shifted out of order. He wrapped the papers up in a thin folder that was in one of the drawers of the desk to keep them all together before putting them away.
He hadn't had time to prepare for a whole lot on the first day. He had only given a simple lecture to the leaders of the compan...
2022-11-16 18:23:58 +0000 UTC
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"What is the biggest difference between fighting a horde of monsters and fighting against other people?" Reivyn asked.
He was in a small classroom with the officers and senior enlisted personnel of the company he was training. The regular troops had been given some basic drills based on Reivyn's previous experiences practicing maneuver under fire, and he brought the leadership aside to give his wisdom on warfare.
"Skills," one of the Lieutenants raised his ha...
2022-11-14 22:48:12 +0000 UTC
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Reivyn awoke once more before dawn, refreshed and feeling energized. Their plan at the ballroom had gone much better than they had anticipated, and he was feeling great.
Now we just need to watch out for Silfa stepping up the next challenge, Reivyn thought as he stretched his body. She doesn't seem malicious, but she definitely comes across as one who's greatly entertained by the situation.
Reivyn headed out to the backyard to continue explo...
2022-11-11 07:55:48 +0000 UTC
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Refix kept a wary eye on the surroundings as the miles passed them by. It had been over a week since they had seen smoke from a ransacked village, but nobody knew if there were still enemies all the way out here. He was pretty sure that they wouldn't bother going so far out of their way and would remain concentrated closer to the larger population centers, but it wasn't something he would take for granted.
The field of view wasn't the most favorable at this point in their journey. ...
2022-11-10 05:14:01 +0000 UTC
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A/N And that makes 50 Chapters ahead! First Break starts next week. I'll be taking two weeks where I match the release schedule of Royal Road where I'll still release a chapter Mon, Wed, Fri.
Reivyn walked back the way he had come, back to the ballroom. As he approached the light shed by the doors into the dark exterior, he noticed a man waiting in the middle of the path. He walked up and gave a salute to the smiling older gentleman.
"Uncle,"...
2022-11-09 05:08:26 +0000 UTC
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"And then the Ice Troll tackled me to the ground," Reivyn spun a tall tale based on truth to the captivated audience. "But I had trust in my teammates. Princess Kefira didn't let me down, and she did what she had done before, nullifying the protective aura around the Ice Troll. Not only eliminating its defense against magic, but also its regeneration.
"Lady Serilla charged over, seeing that I was taken down, and she thrust her sword through the back of the beast, yanking it o...
2022-11-08 06:09:28 +0000 UTC
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Reivyn walked arm in arm with Kefira, escorting her through the grounds behind the main palace building to the ballroom. The path had been lit with Mana lanterns, and there were decorations tastefully displayed along the way. Even though Reivyn knew that everything had been thrown up within the last couple of hours - there hadn't been a single decoration or lamp when he left the meeting with Garet - it looked like it had been planned for months ahead of time.
"If I didn't kno...
2022-11-05 06:16:47 +0000 UTC
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Reivyn was up before dawn. He would be lying if he said he wasn't consumed with thoughts of the ball that would take place in the evening, but that wasn't the reason he was an early riser. He had been on the road for a long time, and that wasn't conducive to keeping a schedule, but now that he was settled down, it was time to make sure that he got his training in.
He had done his Meditation and Affinity training with Kefira in the evening, both of them understanding that the ...
2022-11-04 06:12:46 +0000 UTC
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On Chapter 89 - Advance Effort, I had a typo where I had said aome sort of monster had screamed in "furry." Some commenters ran with it and said that "furry is now a language that monsters know." Someone else said they could "see a werewolf chasing someone and yelling 'uWu, I'm going to get youWu,'" which I thought was hilarious. My wife plays a game (Nino Kuni) with someone who does art like this, and we asked her to make it as a joke. Here it is, the very first (non-cover) artwork for the n...
2022-11-03 05:27:05 +0000 UTC
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"Oh, I like him," Silfa said, turning toward her husband. "We'll have to step up security because if anything happens to you, I might have to fight my daughter over a new man."
There was a scandalized gasp from Faria standing behind Silfa. Gennet stared at his wife with a blank expression for a few moments.
"Are you trying to get me to kill him?" He said. He rolled his eyes. "Don't think I don't notice your tricks. You're trying to goad me i...
2022-11-03 03:04:01 +0000 UTC
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Reivyn took some calming breaths as he stood just outside the double doors leading to the formal petition hall. A maid from the main palace had come and picked him up a little while after his short meeting with Sophia.
Guards were standing on either side of the double doors, and several other people were walking about or just standing around in the foyer. Palace staff were busy moving about, attending to their duties. Several of the people standing around were obviously politicians...
2022-11-02 00:29:07 +0000 UTC
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Kefira strode through the halls of the palace, heading toward the sitting room of her family. They all had their own individual courtyards, but those were mostly used for sleeping and appearances. Her family was quite close, and if they spent the majority of their time in the "official" palace where all the work was done.
None of her family members were idlers, though. They all had some sort of responsibility that they upheld, but being the leaders of the empire, they could s...
2022-10-31 17:23:47 +0000 UTC
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The sounds of the city washed over Reivyn as he walked along the main road of Willowan. The Outer City was densely packed like any other major city Reivyn had been to, but the buildings, even the ones of the lowest rung of society, were very high quality. The Outer City managed to give off a rustic charm at the same time that it was a bustling metropolis.
The streets were wide and easily accommodated multiple wagons and horses, but it left room for the pedestrians to easily g...
2022-10-29 07:44:43 +0000 UTC
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Kefira shook her head at Reivyn's response. It wasn't the first time she had seen someone walk through the air, but they were definitely the youngest people she had seen do it.
"It's not all that uncommon to see people walk through the air," she said. "Almost all Casters with a specialty in the Air Affinity are able to do so once they reach a certain Level, and people who reach high-Tier 5 are able to do so by manifesting their will in their Domain."
"I was t...
2022-10-28 08:03:02 +0000 UTC
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A couple more days passed as the three companions climbed The Dagger. The appearance of Wyverns was infrequent, but the higher they climbed, the more often they were attacked. Not only did the number grow, but the size of the reptiles did, as well. Reivyn's Sense Threat Skill notified him that their size was directly related to their Level.
The runts and the young were the ones at the lower parts of the mountain, and the older, smarter Wyverns lived closer to the peak. Reivyn...
2022-10-27 08:14:07 +0000 UTC
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Reivyn watched the grass and trees bend in lines as the wind blew across them. The scenery of the grasslands and forests was exceptionally beautiful to Reivyn after months of orange-brown desert. There had been the occasional greenery in the desert of Drallo, but it had been few and far between. Not only was the seat of the Wispan Empire exceptionally colorful, not only filled with the green of the trees and grass, but also the various shades of flowers littered across the landscape, but it p...
2022-10-26 06:26:17 +0000 UTC
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It was a strange thing. The climate shifted abruptly as Reivyn and the Imperial Army crossed over from Drallo to Wispan. He had never been to one of the borders of a region before, but he had suspected that it would be a more gradual shift. The ambient Mana in the environment was definitely higher in the Tier 3 Region at the border to the Tier 4 Region, but the weather and flora was like a line drawn in the sand.
It was clearly visible from a couple of miles away. The landsca...
2022-10-21 23:18:16 +0000 UTC
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Reivyn tilted the mug back and downed the contents. His throat chugged several times as he chugged the brew. The loud sounds of his friends cheering him on, encouraging him to drink as much as possible, drowned out the other sounds of the tavern.
Reivyn slammed his mug down to the approval of the soldiers-returned-Adventurers around him. Jek, Derik, Furok, Grent, Laris, Jekle, and even Morrin, the lieutenant from the company next to Reivyn's that had teamed up with him after ...
2022-10-21 09:23:25 +0000 UTC
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"What'd you guys think?" Kayzor asked.
He was in his command tent with his staff and aides, sipping on some tea after the bout with Reivyn. It had been a long time since he had had such an exhilarating sparring match. Reivyn was nowhere near his opponent when it came to Stats, and that showed when he let his control slip, but his Skills were the real deal.
"An excellent find, my lord," his executive officer, Brigadier Cren, intoned. "I've only briefly skimmed the relevan...
2022-10-20 07:41:33 +0000 UTC
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"Yeah, just like that," Kefira said. "Isolate the Traveler and Eternal Affinities in the point of your knot. They're not Space and Time, but when you join them together, there should be some synergy that brings those more pure components out. Keep infusing it. You should be able to feel a threshold reached when it's saturated enough, and then you should be able to overlay it with another knot."
Kefira was instructing Reivyn on one of her signature tricks for empowering her Sp...
2022-10-19 04:29:31 +0000 UTC
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Reivyn suppressed a stretch and a yawn as he stood in the back of the tent, listening to the higher ranked officers discussing the after action and the cleanup of the spiders being done in the desolate sands. Everything that he could have contributed to the debriefing, Kefira or Kayzor were already witness to.
He didn't need to add his own personal account of the battle against the beast tide, and he hadn't done anything other than find the space fissure by himself. He had of...
2022-10-16 05:48:55 +0000 UTC
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Getting the soul beast back over to the space fissure wasn't a difficult task. Reivyn simply walked around it, keeping a safe distance, and headed back to where Kefira and the other Mages were surrounding the tear. There were more than enough Mages in the bottom of the hole that there was little the creature could do against the restraints.
There was no need to hurry, but there also wasn't a reason to dally, either. Reivyn walked at a normal pace to get to their destination. ...
2022-10-16 05:44:23 +0000 UTC
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