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58 - Happy System Day

The day before system day, Aiden called his daughter for what he termed ' a very important talk'. 

Lexie knew what that meant. He was going to try to soothe her fears and tell her that even if she doesn't get the exact pre-affixation she wants, there are still options open for her. He was also going to encourage her to keep an open mind regarding whatever pre-affixation the system offers her.

"There’s a reason these things happen," he would tell her like he did one night a ...

57 - The Catch Up

The months passed with an interesting routine. 

Most of Lexie’s time was dedicated to training with cards, now under her father’s supervision. However, he wasn’t around most of the time because he began teaching at the Arcadian Research College during the summer.  Lexie had in-person school on Aiden's first day teaching so they’d headed to the train together, with Aiden in his best tweed suit, looking somewhat nervous but more excited. He adjusted his glasses multiple ...

56 - Think Like The Fae

It turned out that the Fae method of communication and identifying ‘intent’ made no damn sense.

Alright, maybe that was unfair. It made a little bit of sense, but not in the ways Lexie would like it to.

They told entire stories just to pass on a single message. And sometimes that message could be something as basic as “I want my coffee hot.” Seriously, that wasn’t even an exaggeration. Aiden once relayed a short soliloquy about a young elf whose mother had run out of ing...

55 - +1 Perception

Aiden had asked Lexie this morning if she deduced what the intent in the poem was, and what card the poem had been used to create.

Lexie told him no. She needed more time and possibly more information, and she tried to get as much out of him as possible. But he refused to tell her more.

Aiden simply smiled and told her, quite annoyingly, that she would figure it out once the time was right.

For some reason, that was the first thing that popped into her head now, as she stare...

54 - Top Dog Vs Conrad Grace

AN: Another chapter will be posted in a couple of hours to build on the advanced chapters! Thank you!

Conrad immediately stunned everyone at the start of the match, by leaping straight into offense. This was the first time Lexie had ever seen him do that. Typically, he waited for others to come to him, and given that it was Top Dog he was fighting against, Lexie instantly thought he'd made a mistake.

While Conrad also did well in close-range battles, his Berserker style m...

53 - How To Sneak Into A Stadium

Lexie snatched her eyes away from the man before he could see her, staring straight ahead. Her heart raced, her fists clenching and everything inside her cautioning her to stay on her guard. A conversation between Xena and her uncle continued but it was drowned out by Lexie’s thoughts. 

What was he doing here?

Unfortunately, she could think of many reasons why the [Hero] would be here. It was a large violent event and he might be here for security. Mulding was also...

52 - Rabbits and Hens

Lexie sat crosslegged in front of the low living room table, with her pad in front of her, while her father paced like a university professor. He looked the part too, with his tweed suit and hair brushed back and jelled to hold. But his dapper attire was also partially because he had an interview later today. It was simply a formality, Elvira said, but the board had to meet him in person and make sure he wasn’t a murderous psycho like some of them thought he was.

Now why they chose to...

51 - The Not Party

AN: One more chill chapter before card lessons begin. Also I wrote this exhausted so might have more grammar errors than usual.

Lexie might not have wanted a party for her birthday, but that was exactly what she got when they got back later that night.

The sun had sunk long ago and she’d fallen asleep on Aiden’s lap on the skybird only to wake up being gently jostled and feeling the outside breeze on her face.

She stretched and took a second to realize that they...

50 - Happy Birthday, Honeybee

“So that’s why people were staring at us on the way here,” Lexie teased looking up at her dad as they exited the shop, walking down the quaint cobbled walkways. “Because you’re famous.” 

“I thought that might be one reason,” he chuckled. “I didn't want to say it or someone would accuse me of not being humble again.”

“We can’t have that,” Lexie said. “So out here, your [Hero] popularity beat out your [Villain] infamy?”

49 - The Savior Of Indigo

Lexie gaped at her father, then at the box, then back at her father again stunned at what he was telling her. 

“Are you serious?” 

Aiden nodded with a wide grin. “Yes. Typically, you would need to be at least a year 2 scholar to get access to those, but luckily your father pulled some strings.”

“Expensive strings too,” Elric commented from behind, but Lexie barely heard him. She was still focused on Aiden and the box in her trembling hand.

Lexie i...

48 - The Interdimensional Soul Transfer System

The gates opened to reveal a vast compound of freshly trimmed grass and maze-like hedges leading away from the central building into one of the smaller outer domes that lined the four corners of the research institute. The central building itself was also a dome of shimmering black glass that seemed to morph slightly as Lexie stared at it, as though it were slime trying to escape its geometric confines. Behind it was a similar, albeit smaller dome that seemed perfectly oriented towards the su...

47 - Indigo, Alberton

The sky bird was like nothing Lexie had ever experienced before. According to Aiden, it was technically a type of train but it didn't move like a train on a straight-forward track. Neither did it move like a plane, where everything was kind of steady and there were regular dips and gentle rises. It didn’t have a regular motion at all and seemed to twist along an invisible track sliding down and up, switching tracks without warning and coming to sudden stops for flocks of birds to pass by. 2025-02-26 22:45:03 +0000 UTC View Post

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46 - Mad Eye Max

Max’s leg bounced underneath the table, as he glanced around the metallic interrogation room, mentally counting how many cameras were in there.

It wasn’t his first time in a metal matchbox like this, and it wasn’t even his second. 

But it was the first time he’d been here for blowing a conspiracy wide open. 

And despite what Aiden said, Max knew the hero’s association was involved somehow. There was just simply no way they didn’t know about this. He’d...

45 - The Found Dungeon

“Bumble bee, where on earth are we going?” 

“I’ll show you when we get there.” 

“Alright but can you at least tell us why we’re going to this mysterious place?”

“Not yet.” Lexie had to be sure first. She didn’t want to raise everyone’s hopes only for her memory to be wrong. It was why she’d simply gotten up without saying anything and started in the direction where she suspected the dungeon to be. Her father had called after her and then f...

44 - A Visit From Hero Support

Uncle Max killed the eye in just under a minute.

They watched him do it. The second he arrived, he didn't wait for explanations and just charged into the bingo hall. He paused for a second when he saw the wailing, writhing creature, then pulled out a gun from his backpack and clicked a button. The gun automatically unfolded into a tool resembling a scythe.

Max then pointed it at the eye and fired three explosive shots that had it crashing down finally.

Then, for good me...

43 - The Elders Vs The Eye Part 2

What happened next reminded Lexie of that famous Mike Tyson quote: 

'Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.'

The unexpected retaliation from the Hechtl threw everything into disarray.

Suddenly everyone was screaming and dashing for safety, which meant the very doors that were warned not to go through. They dropped weapons, shoved and pushed each other to get out as the tentacles searched for a victim. Someone yelled that they thought they were...

42 - The Elders Vs The Eye, Part 1

Lexie had never seen anything more terrifying in her life. 

It wasn’t just the fact that the creature–the big, floating, bulbous eyeball with veins streaking across its sclera and tentacles erupting in place of its optic nerve–looked like something out of a demonic nightmare. Long lashes jutted out from the eyelids as it stared unblinkingly at the crowd. It was still, floating in little bounces while the building continued to shake.

But it was also the fact that just st...

41 - The Fight

Aiden was furious.

Lexie could feel his anger vibrating in the air around her, could sense his hurt that she’d deceived him underneath it. And she felt the guilt crawling through her because he was right to be mad. She’d given him her word that she wouldn't do any experimentation without running it by him first, and yet that was exactly what she had done.

She’d lied to him.

And she didn’t have any defense for herself so she simply looked at her shoes. 

The...