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Chapter 51

Explaining to Hatchet all that had happened with the dragon went a lot soother than he expected. He just listened to everything without once interrupting. He did give a rather interesting glance at the gloves once he explained what they were, how they worked and that he totaled the area by trying some of his weaker moves.

“So you're telling me that you saved a disguised dragonling while in the city and as thanks for that its mother made you a pair of enchanted gloves?” his tone soun...

Chapter 50

Knowing about how dungeons worked made a huge difference. Hatchet agreed with me that at the rate I was going, chances are dungeons would be the only reasonably safe spot for me to level in once I spent all of my points. There were of course going to be plenty of other areas where I could find the level of opponents I would need to advance, the only problem is, in the open world once you got past level fifteen you would only see monsters as part of a pack.

Now this in and of itself didn...

Chapter 49

For a whole year after I came back everything was peaceful. I spent most of my time training with Hatchet and learning about hunting practices. After the first few days we had to cut back on the amount of game we hunted. The kobold infestation had done a number on the local ecosystem and we needed to let it rebuild for probably another year.

This meant that it was going to be another year where most of the meat in our village's diet would come from the merchants. This didn’t affect me...

Chapter 48

I don’t remember anything from yesterday after the long day of hunting and the beating I got from Hatchet. What had I done that seems to have upset him so much, to the point that he will beat me within a few points of my health, if with no long term damage being done.

Getting out of bed and going to eat I remember a faint timeline for last night. It was a quiet affair. I had dinner with my parents, them asking questions about my day and me answering in short vague sentences. Judy spen...

Chapter 47

This hunt started very differently than any of the ones we went on in the few months before my trip to the city. As soon as I finished my early morning routine we took off with little time to replenish the mana I had already expended. I was sitting at around half mana as we made a much faster paced dash through the forest.

After getting a few miles away from the village we finally stopped in a small clearing.

“Let's see what you can do now.” Hatchet said.”Follow these tracks...

Chapter 46

What would I want from a dragon? This was not a chance I could get more than once, should I hold on to the favor, maybe she will save me one time when I need it. Rather than making a half baked decision, having a get out of jail free card seemed to be my best bet.

“Just to be clear, I won’t break the contract to help you. Your help prevented me from the smallest of infractions, there would be no point in owing you this favor should it come with the same punishment I avoided.”

Chapter 45

This took me by surprise. I read a little about changelings before but nothing mentioned them gaining a humanoid form.

“You’re Shifter’s mother? You’re a changeling?” I was skeptical since changeling only got past level fifty with a companion bond.

“A changeling? Oh no, I am a dragon.” she said.

I felt the blood rush from my face and into my legs. The only reason I didn’t take off running was that I knew it would have been worthless. All the stories I have he...

Chapter 44

I came to in a dark room. My memories of what happened were very unclear in my mind. I remember going to the tavern with Cadmael before it all starts to go fuzzy. I move to sit up as I remember what happened with the vampire but I barely get my head up more than a few inches off my pillow before my strength leaves me and I crash back down.

I am tucked in nicely in my bed at Tom’s house. Looking outside I see no light coming in from the window telling me it's night time. Beside the wea...

Chapter 43

Tom P.O.V.

I was starting to get worried, the sun had gone down a while ago and Ajax was yet to come home. I knew there was no way he was still at the courtyard, the instructors were known to sometimes have the training sessions run long, especially with the new recruits, but this was different. All the instructors were level 40 or above, they won’t extend practice now, they will be joining the night patrol to hunt the vampire.

Three hard knocks on the door broke my focus and I ...

Chapter 42

This morning finally got the new mage recruits of the guard out on the range. I could feel the difference and I could see it. All spells were the same, as long as you had the same chant the effect of the spell was the same. The only difference could be made after that by skills. Without skills the spell result would be the same for a level three or a royal guard.

The other difference mostly came in everything else but the outcome. These new recruits wasted mana. They were trying to over...

Chapter 41

I woke up with my mouth feeling dry. I couldn’t remember anything that happened last night. This was odd, I thought for sure my [Poison Resistance] should have made me immune to alcohol.

Name : Ajax

Level :12

Experience : 7500/12100

Traits: Prodigal Apprentice , Divine Witness

Health: 190/190

Mana: 290/290

Stamina :270/270

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Chapter 40

I quickly gutted the deer and we started to make our way back to the city. We still had quite a bit of time before it got dark but neither of us were willing to take our chances with a vampire. We were almost out of the feline’s territory when I spotted another one hiding in a bush ready to pounce.

I had been in this scenario four more times just today so I thought nothing of it. I approached the ambush spot with my shield raised and my trusty hammer in my right hand. Just as predicte...

Schedule choice

I will be going on a trip for the next few days so the new chapter is out a bit early. I would also like to thank you for all the support you guys have shown me so far. I will be going from a chapter every 3 days to 3 chapters a week come May please let me know which you prefer.

Chapter 39

Tom and I were walking towards the gates. I was looking forward to finally getting to try out some of the new [Mana Augmentation] I had planned out. As we closed in on the gate there seemed to be a big crowd of people gathered.

My first instinct was that there had been a vampire attack. Being at the guard compound for the last six days I heard some rumors about some supposed vampire incidents but nothing concrete.

“You think this is a vampire attack?” I asked Tom.

“Wha...

Chapter 38

The previous four days all followed a set pattern: get up, eat breakfast, go to the guard compound from morning till evening, return home, eat dinner with Kate, Tom, Judy and Alana, sleep. That is not to say that there wasn’t variety. The routine was the same but the time spent at the compound was interesting, entertaining and diverse.

The mornings all saw me work targets for the mages to practice on. I thought the main gain there would be just watching and analyzing the spells the ma...

Chapter 37

The instructors had all of us split into two big groups. The first were recruits with more than 3 seasons of experience, taking two thirds of the instructors with them. The rest of us were paired up and given a choice of what armor we would want to wear. I took up a mix of leather and mail armor, but the group was very diverse. With full plate all the way to cloth, though the two cloth users were given a bit of a glare for their choice.

The armor was very real but the weapons we used we...

Chapter 36

The chilly breeze of the morning made up for the lack of coffee in this world. If I found that damn plant you can be damn sure I was going to invent the morning pick me up I needed. I was also going to pump it full of mana to make up for all these years I missed out on.

Walking next to me were Tom and Kate, both of them had their own training to look forward to for the morning. I was going to be spending a good amount of time cleaning, and parsing all the mana that will be used by all t...

Chapter 35

We all sat down to eat venison with a side of an earth vegetable that very much resembled a potato but was a lot larger and green when ripe. Tom was on a break and transitioning from workout in the courtyard to patrol. Kate just finished her stint in the healing tent and will be going to the Healing Union. Apparently the guard had worked out a deal for their trainees to learn the basics there. I didn’t know about Alana and Judy’s plans yet.

“This is very good, you managed to make ...

Chapter 34

I woke up the following morning at a very early hour. I was still very tired but, I guess, subconsciously I wanted to see what my new stats had in store. For the second time my stat screen opened without me prompting it to do so.

Name : Ajax

Level :12

Experience : 5350/12100

Traits: Prodigal Apprentice , Divine Witness

Health: 180/180

Mana: 280/270

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Chapter 33

As commander Grievous walked away I was very worried about the presence of a level 70 vampire in the city. My brother respectfully saluted then picked his deer back up and started walking.

“You didn’t mention you met commander Grievous.” my brother said.

“I didn’t,” I responded “he was just the leader of the guards who got us out of the jam with the bandits, who is he anyway?”

“He is one of the 5 commanders in this city, but the others are mostly there as p...

Chapter 32

Our hunt continued for another two hours, we mostly spent them  in silence, both of us were focusing a lot more on our surroundings from our encounter with what he told me was a cougar. Though both of us were also thinking over everything that we discussed in our conversation, looking at it from my brother, and my families, point of view I was being paranoid. This is something that I should fix.

Finally we reached a clearing where not one but two deer were grazing. I silently pulle...

skill poll try 2

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Skill reference

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Chapter 31

Tom  P.O.V :

We both stood there, him on his knees, hands an inch from my neck and me on my ass. The cougar lay a foot from me, dead, my knife still embedded in its skull. For about ten seconds we just stared at each other neither finding the right words.

“How did it barely scratch you?” Ajax finally broke the silence “I saw it bine down. I know I saw it bite down.”

“Yeah, it sure did” I answered him after a few seconds “It’s also a level 3 maybe a weak ...

Chapter 30

As I woke up it took me a few seconds to remind myself where I was and why my bed was different than my usual one but not made of wood as it had been for the last couple of weeks. I got up feeling restless, the long hours of comfortable sleep refreshed me from my journey and now all the excitement of knowing tomorrow I will finally unlock my stats was giving me a rush.

I quickly slipped into the bathroom before heading downstairs where I found Tom and Kate eating breakfast. He was dress...

Chapter 29

The walk to my brother’s, or I should say Kate’s, house took no longer than two minutes. The place looked like a small shop with a living floor built on top.

“Here we are, home” Tom said as he opened the door.

“We have to organise our supplies. They will have been delivered by the time we get there” Alana said.

“Yeah we’ll meet you here tonight” Judy followed as the two headed off.

“This is a pretty big place. You’ve got more room here than we do ...

Chapter 28

As we broke through the trees I finally got to take a better look at the city besides the gate I could somewhat make out for the last 2 minutes. If I was to describe it I would say it looked a lot like Helm’s Deep, with the gate being centred instead of off to one side. At least it did so when I was moving towards it, no doubt unlike that fortress this one was not just put into the side of the mountain but it covered the entire pass closing off the small circlet of forest I had grown up in....

Chapter 27

Judy P.O.V :

It happened again. Not for the first time something strange happened around my little brother. I first noticed it with those plants he was growing in his small corner of the garden, now he may have put a lot more time into a fewer number of plants than mom did but getting a better result on the first time was unnatural.

Killing this boar, that some of the other merchants seem to think is above average level for a boar should not be something a kid who had not turned 1...

Chapter 26

The last two days I got a really good feeling for imbuing my steps with earth mana to get different effects. Right now I could push myself off the earth to increase my speed, very similar to what the kobold had done, this was the thing I had best gotten a hold off, alongside that I was training to create small 3 inch deep holes or ridges by infusing mana. So far the ridges could only appear 20 feet away from where I was, this was nothing substantial but it could cause problems if used correct...

Chapter 25

Judy, Alana and I were on the way to the market. As soon as we turned the corner we could see the caravan packing up and getting ready to move on to the return trip to Lessis.

The three of us must have looked comical, me being quite a bit taller and more muscled than both of them but they both carried bigger bags on their back than me, something not all that surprising since they must have had strength stats easily 2 or 3 times my own.

“Ajax is good to see you again, I have most...