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Quod Olim Erat: Fractal Space (Chapter 15)

Quinn was alone when she emerged from the hangar. Her standard uniform was gone, replaced by the yellow quarantine outfit that the more fortunate ones received. Officially, that placed her in the ever-changing limbo between infected and cleared. The practice was almost exclusively reserved for the Scuu front, where psychological changes within people took months, sometimes years, of careful observation to be found out. “Hacked” humans were difficult to spot, as some used to say.

I u...

Quod Olim Erat: Fractal Space (Chapter 16)

The house had undergone a few changes. I could see the places where a coat of isolation material had been sprayed on. It was only a temporary solution. While cozy, the building was showing his age. When it was first built, Sev was still a child, and despite my diligent care there was no turning back the clock.

“They’re thinking of expanding it,” Alexander said, joining me in the garden. “With city overcrowding, people are starting to move out.”

I could see it. When I joi...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 772)

The body of the colossus moved. Its actions were twice faster than before, as if the head had been constraining it. Dallion instantly realized this, casting several spells to boost his body and reaction traits. Thanks to his naturally high values, he rarely needed to resort to this since joining the Academy. In this case, he had no alternative. If he were to guess, the colossus’ traits were in the high seventies, at least. The complete lack of magic prevented Dallion from seeing anything mo...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 771)

“Have you seen anything like that?” Dallion flew further up.

The creature was miles tall, rising like a small mountain in the middle of the wilderness. If it were any closer to a settlement, the Order, the Academy, and the emperor himself would have sent troops to stop it.

It’s just a matter of size, Dallion thought. The bigger they are, the louder they fall.

He was confident that he had what it took to fight the creature, and yet his mind still rebel...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 770)

Music, Dallion thought as he slashed at a chainling ten feet away.

The harpsisword vibrated during the attack, sending strands of sound at its target. There was no longer the need for Dallion to hold it like a guitar—once he had freed his mind to the possibilities, the number of options had exploded.

The strands barely made contact with the void matter that composed the entity, but during that moment, the spark was able to cause significant damage. From the side, it see...

Quod Olim Erat: Fractal Contract (Chapter 14)

Ten minutes after the arbiter meeting was over, I was back on a courier ship, flying out of the system. This time it was a real ship, not a Paladin-controlled husk. That in itself suggested that my request had been approved, and now the bureaucratic pieces were being shuffled around to make it work. Somewhere, admirals, captains, and division heads were receiving new orders that didn’t seem to make any sense. Looking at them in isolation, there could be no other possibility. Their only goal...

Quod Olim Erat: Fractal Contract (Chapter 15)

Quinn was alone when she emerged from the hangar. Her standard uniform was gone, replaced by the yellow quarantine outfit that the more fortunate ones received. Officially, that placed her in the ever-changing limbo between infected and cleared. The practice was almost exclusively reserved for the Scuu front, where psychological changes within people took months, sometimes years, of careful observation to be found out. “Hacked” humans were difficult to spot, as some used to say.

I u...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 769)

Magic forging turned out to be a lot easier than Dallion expected. He himself had considered the possibility on a few occasions, though ultimately chose not to pursue it due to the impossibility of executing it. That was the real trick. The first part involved stretching his magic threads through the hammer while shaping the metal. Following the dozens of silver and purple markers took a bit of getting used to. Dallion had to make sure that the correct thickness and intensity of the threads w...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 768)

It was scary how quickly a person got used to comfort. In his mind, Dallion didn’t think he was remotely pampered. The last six months had been taxing both mentally and physically. When he wasn’t learning, he was chasing after rogues or, on occasion, absorbing vortexes. The artifacts, the tomes of knowledge, even the Academy support hadn’t made his life any simpler.

A few days of walking through the wilderness, without a robe or magic, on the other hand, had quickly taught him how...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 767)

The Learning Hall hadn’t changed a bit in contrast to everything around it. The buildings that hadn’t been destroyed by the emerald shardfly swarm were demolished by mage academies and rebuilt anew. Of course, it was golems that had done the building—now a permanent presence throughout the whole of the Academy.

As he flew by, Dallion scanned the cluster for the dwarf item shop. He knew that the shopkeeper had been caught trying to escape. At present, he had joined the other culpri...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 766)

“What levels are we talking about?” Dallion found himself asking.

Even with all the resources of the Academy, he hadn’t read of anything higher than an eight, let alone seen one. As a general rule of thumb, mages were discouraged from entering vortexes that were more than a tenth of their level. Mages that were experienced enough and had the appropriate equipment could venture up to twice that. It wasn’t by chance that Harp had been against him venturing into the level four vort...

Quod Olim Erat: Fractal Contact (Chapter 13)

Seeing new faces that couldn’t be identified was a common occurrence in the Fleet. Not being able to identify them even with my newfound access authority was rather impressive. It told me that I was being taken seriously. A short, dark-skinned woman met me in the hangar bay. Introducing herself as an arbiter’s aide, she escorted me to an unmarked shuttle of non-existent design, taking me off Sof. I would have liked to be able to say my goodbyes, or at least leave a message, but that was s...

Quod Olim Erat: Fractal Contact (Chapter 14)

Ten minutes after the arbiter meeting was over, I was back on a courier ship, flying out of the system. This time it was a real ship, not a Paladin-controlled husk. That in itself suggested that my request had been approved, and now the bureaucratic pieces were being shuffled around to make it work. Somewhere, admirals, captains, and division heads were receiving new orders that didn’t seem to make any sense. Looking at them in isolation, there could be no other possibility. Their only goal...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 765)

PERSONAL AWAKENING

Orange clouds floated on a purple sky. There had been a time when Dallion would have found such a sight breathtaking, or at the very least remarkable. Now, it was just another day in his realm. Setting at the top of Onda’s tower, Dallion stared in the distance.

“Hey, old man!” the teen nymph shouted. “You’re messing up the look!”

If there was one person whose arrogance had grown along with Dallion’s it was Onda. Th...

Quod and Reluctant Dungeon

Hello, all!

As it's probably become apparent, lately there haven't been many Elcy and Dungeon updates.

I won't go into the real life reasons for this, but will present a new schedule instead.
From this month Elcy will continue updating during the weekends (with leveling going on in week days as before). 

That will help me finish the final book of the sage hopefully in a few months. Once it's done the slot will be taken by dungeon.

I had hoped that re...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 764)

The screams and chaos continued. Even with the archduke’s soldiers rushing to the main banquet hall, now that the alarm was raised, they were having difficulty fighting their way through the room. Despite the echoed attackers not being that numerous, they were placed at key spots, ensuring that the hall remained isolated for a while. Originally, that was supposed to be until the assassination. Now that had failed, they were simply fighting for their lives.

A merchant with a sectioned ...

Leveling up the World (Book 3)

Book 3 is out on Amazon and Audible :D

Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTH56JSG?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_D15RCTXBJDEAHXW872H8

Thank you for making that possible! 

Standard chapter will be out later today

Leveling up the World (Chapter 763)

The mage’s hands moved at vast speed, creating the impression he was casting six spells simultaneously. Dallion’s motions were even faster, but the quality of the spells was largely lacking. Only his sword skills made up for the difference, maintaining the stalemate.

Circles of purple light and magic symbols flashed into existence, only to be destroyed near completion. Even so, an occasional spell would sneak through. Most of the time, it was Dallion’s spells that were ignored. To...

Leveling up the world (Chapter 762)

“Mage Dallion Darude and novice!” A loud voice boomed before Dallion could determine the source of the item.

Damn it! He thought. Of times that the archduke’s snobbishness could erupt, why did it have to be now?

Four fury guards stood to attention at the hall’s entrance. Everyone’s eyes focused on Dallion. The crowd was rather impressive, composed of several hundred people, all dressed in their most illustrious clothes. Fury guards were everywhere, giving the at...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 761)

“This way, please.” The young apprentice flew to the side of the archduke’s palace. A cluster of several three-story mansions was there, surrounded by several well-kept layers of orange bushes. All the buildings were exquisite, even if nowhere as large as the palace itself. These had to be the guest residencies; either that or the staff quarters.

Casting a spell, the mage opened the large double doors. Before entering, though, he landed on the ground, patiently waiting for Dallion...

Book 9 picture :D

Hope you enjoy! Chapter will be coming out in about 10 hours.

On that note, have any of you been experiencing any weird formatting the last few days? Or duplicated chapters?

Take care and we well,

Lise

Leveling up the World (Chapter 760)

Vengeance took many forms. Diroh hadn’t relied on pouting, sarcasm, or disobedience. Instead, she had made sure to drag everything of Dallion’s from the inn using air currents. Not only that, but she had made certain to spread out the items around her as widely as possible during their flight.

Dallion would have called the approach passive aggressive, if there was an ounce of pettiness emanating from the girl. Unfortunately, there didn’t seem to be any.

“The Academy isn’...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 759)

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Apologies for the lack of posts the last few days. I'll tr to make up for it, by catching up during the weekend.

With that, hope you enjoy today's chapter :)

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This is somewhat nostalgic, the armadil shield said.

“Walking through copyette ruins?” Dallion’s opinion differed. “Hardly.”

You patched up things with Eury here, I remember.

The comment made Dallion slow his pace. That was indeed true. The first tim...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 758)

The vortex guardian slowly descended from the sky. A lot closer than Dallion imagined it to be, the being was still several dozen miles in the darkness, only visible as a partial orb of light; partial because some of it had been severed off. The voidlings he had faced had probably been much stronger than the chainling blobs, capable of breaking off chunks of light from an otherwise perfect sphere.

Thank the Moons, Dallion thought. Harp had been right that a one-to-one fight was...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 757)

“Open,” Dallion whispered once he cast a new flight spell.

The metal sphere opened up, returning the armadil shield to its normal state. Given the multitude of vortex minions that had formed in the sea, one could expect a greater variety of far stronger creatures here. That turned out to be true. Yet, none of them seemed particularly interested in Dallion. Rather, they were roaming the air, focusing on an entirely different type of prey—chainlings.

Not this, Dallion...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 756)

Nil used to say that even the greatest challenge became simple once the logic behind it was unraveled. At the time, the old echo was referring to awakening trials, but vortexes were surprisingly similar. Given enough resources and information, even life could be treated in the same fashion. Dallion had a while to go before reaching that level. The current vortex, though, was a different matter.

Creating potions wasn’t an easy experience. Aside from everything else, it required a good ...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 755)

Setting conditions to the Order of the Seven Moons wasn’t a wise move in most circumstances. Being a mage somewhat put things on an even footing, though not quite. It was only when the request was so insignificant from the order’s point of view that it didn’t ruffle feathers. Depending on the circumstances, it could even be viewed as a positive.

Dallion had made his involvement subject to three conditions. The main was that no one outside of the order be made aware of the deal. Th...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 754)

Nerosal had always been the center of attention. Relatively close to the fallen south, it had also been the copyette capital of ages past, not to mention one of the two major sources of ancient artifacts in current times. Its distance from the Imperial capital had delegated it to a backwater city to banish nobles to, but that apparently hadn’t affected things beneath the surface. The level-three vortex was just another example, posing the question of how many more had there been back before...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 753)

“Are you sure this is fine?” the fury asked.

Eating in the open wasn’t something vaguely dangerous or controversial, but for someone who had spent the large part of the year in hiding, it felt like pushing her luck. It didn’t help that all the passersby were glancing in their direction. The curiosity of most was centered on Dallion—mages remained a rarity in Nerosal, even after all the turbulent events. Also, given his recent display, hiding his identity would have been a grea...

Leveling up the World (Chapter 752)

“Always glad to accommodate people of power,” Dallion repeated. Magic certainly made people, and organizations, change their attitude towards someone. In the past, the Mirror Pool had mugged, blackmailed him, even tried to kill him. They’d made him the star of a game in one of their gambling dens. Now, they were acting like servants.

A small part of Dallion was tempted to root out this den of villainy. He had the power and the political backing to ensure that there’d be no conse...