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Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 37

In those months, magic was not the only thing on my agenda, ever since I showed interest in taking my aura train seriously, Dad gave me a slap on my back with a look of pride on his face, and then he proceeded to take over my diet and training schedule. He even got into a shouting match with Mum and her parents about time allocation for his training.

As they were arguing, I noticed the time in their schedule did not include much personal free time, this forced me to join the argument to...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 36

Time goes by and I am just a few months away from turning 5 years old, and much has changed. It seemed like all the “attention” Mum showed Dad after coming back from the war had paid off, and I now have a new sibling.

A bouncing baby boy named Cedric has been added to the family!

But wait, there's more, friend and wet nurse of the Ironcrest family, Anna, gave birth to another girl named Heidi just a month before Cedric, and during those months of pregnancy, I thank whatever Go...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 89

As Grud was wiping the gore off himself, he remembered why he fought this monster in the first place. He was not so sure about the culture of these people, but he assumed the basic rule of ‘You keep what you kill.’ should apply, which means he gets first dibs on the corpse.

Grud touched the monster as he felt around for the Monster Core location, and after some prodding around, he found the closest place to the Monster Core to make an incision and used the copper spearhead to cut th...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 35

The next day, Dad meets me at the training ground. And he gets me to do a few sets of basic sword swings and foot movement before we begin training.

Once I was done with the warmup, I hopped to Dad and asked, “So what are we doing first for aura training? Are we going to lift those rocks you showed me last time? Or try to outrun a horse?”

Dad chuckled and shook his head, “None of that. Your first aura lesson is to optimize your aura. By optimizing your aura, you will learn h...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 88

AN: From now on, I will be using numbers like 123, instead of one, two, three.

Over the next week, as Grud recovered, his lessons with Yara continued and he was now able to form basic sentences. While learning the language of this new land, Grud noticed that not only were the words similar enough for him to memorize, but the structure of the language was the same as his language.

It also helped that he had a lot of practice every day, whenever Yara was bu...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 87

‘I may not know what she is saying, but I am pretty sure she thinks I am slow.’ Grud thought to himself as the old woman was very obviously talking slowly to him like he was slow in the head.

As the woman was raising her hand, Grud said, “Elder, I have no idea what you said, and I am not slow in the head, I just do not know what you are saying.”

This time, it was the old woman’s turn to tilt her head in confusion.

Thinking about the situation he was in reminded him...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 34

As we made our way through the commercial district, we made a few more stops to check out a few shops. While me and my sister raided the snack stands and bakeries, Mum and Grandma got into the shopping mood and stopped off at a few clothes and jewelry stores themselves.

This naturally meant that Dad and Grandpa were dragged along to be asked by their wives things like “Does this look good on me?” or “Does this make me look fat?”

So while the husbands were being tortured by...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 33

It took me a few weeks of night practice before bed, but I managed to get the timing to deactivate my aura without feeling the lethargic side effects of cutting off my stamina energy.

In those weeks, my days were busy. I had to spread my time between Mum’s and my personal magic studies, sword practice with Dad when he does his training, and playing with Charlotte, Emma, and her little brother Otto.

All this so I could finally see the outside world, so I am sure my parents would ...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 32

The next day, even after a good night’s rest, my body was still aching as I made my way to the dining area for breakfast.

When my parents, came for breakfast, Mum was glowing, while Dad looked haggard. Poor dad, Mum did not let him sleep last night, luckily I was too tired and fell asleep early.

While me and my grandparents knew what happened last night to make my dad lose out on sleep, that being angry sex, Charlotte innocently and energetically greeted Mum and Dad.

“Go...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 86

As the two sisters gawked at the sleeping man, their attention mainly focused on his third leg and the two massive orbs resting on the ground between his spread-out legs.

Kaya nudged her sister and asked in a low whisper, “Are they supposed to be that big?”

“I don’t think so, when I was helping the witch doctor treat injured warriors after hunting or battle, none of them were close to that size. The other difference in size is the rest of his body, he is wider than all the...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 85

Mita felt helpless as they were carried by the current down the river. The ants who were holding on to Grud when the bridge had released him to try to escape within the first few minutes of being submerged.

Throughout their time being carried by the current Grud had been dragged down by the current and smacked against some rocks more than a few times. Somewhere along the way, Mita felt Grud lose consciousness as they drifted.

As they traveled down the river, there were a few times...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 31

The next day after breakfast, Dad said “Luke, in an hour, meet me at the training ground with your training sword and wear something comfortable.”

“Ok Dad.” I replied excitedly to Dad who had a small smile on his face, but for some reason, Mum did not seem all that happy and looked at me with slight worry.

Is it because I may hurt myself with aura again? I tried to reassure Mum that I would be fine “It’s fine Mum, Dad is here in case anything goes wrong, I may not have...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 30

Even after a few months of starting on 3rd circle spells, I am still not able to cast it with just my mind like Mum and grandparents yet, and now that Dad is back and going to train with me, it is going to eat into my practice time for 3rd circle spells.

It is not that I am having trouble casting 3rd circle spells, far from it, even with the increased complexity, I had no issue memorizing the increased number of rune and their sequence.

The issue as it turns out to be my mana mani...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 84

As Grud was slaying ant after ant with every swing, a few other hunters joined him on both sides of the column of escaping people. Soon after the first few people escaped the encirclement, Grud started to pick up the agitated scents of the ants signaling each other.

[HERE. FOOD. RUNNING. HERE]

Within seconds, Grud saw a ripple go through the ants and soon all the ants were heading in his direction, even those who were still climbing the wall turned on the spot.

At first, the...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 29

After returning home, it took Dad a week to catch up with administrative work that only he, as lord of the county, could authorize. Wanting to get his admin work over and done with, he was stuck in his study from morning to night with his scribes, the only time we saw him was during mealtime.

And every time we see him, he has dead eyes as he complains to us that he would rather be back at the fort fending off the enemies of the kingdom than battling against the evil forces of bureaucrac...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 28

When I woke up from my nap, I noticed that on top of my weakened state, I was currently constricted by a cute holstaur girl with her head buried in my neck. Ever since I woke up yesterday, Emma has been especially clingy with me.

She would insist on bringing my meals, helping me drink, and clumsily trying to feed me. It even got to the point where she tried to help me go to the toilet, that was when I had to put my foot down and either try to shove her out of the toilet or wait for her ...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 83

Grud jerked awake from Mita’s prodding and the ruckus outside his tent. The moment he recognized the call to arms, he did not even bother to put on his armor, he just slapped on his loincloth, grabbed his spear, and sprinted toward the commotion.

When he got to the watch tower, the only thing we saw was two men in the tower with throwing spears in their hands ready to throw.

Not wanting to break the concentration of the men on the tower, he climbed the tower himself to see what ...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 27

Ok Luke, calm down, who knows, maybe this Holy Inquisition may not be a bad thing in this world. So I asked Grandpa, “Grandpa, what is the Holy Inquisition?”

I should not have asked that question. The moment those words left my mouth, I noticed Mum and Grandma take in a deep breath while rolling their eyes and then adjust themself in their seat to get comfortable.

Then the floodgates burst forth and I was stuck in bed for a crash course in geopolitics. The opening statements i...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 26

The next couple of days after the assassination attempt at the Ironcrest estate were rather busy. The first thing Baron Rowan Silverbrook did after confirming Luke was stable and his daughter’s shoulder wound was taken care of, was to send out a few messenger birds to a few of his war buddies to call in some favors.

The next thing he did was to send a runner into town to report the assassination attempt to the local branch of the Royal Constabulary. Within the hour, even though it was...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 82

While the scouts went to investigate what was happening from the direction the wounded man came from, Grud and the medicine man were trying to save the life of the wounded man with the weird wounds all over his body.

Unfortunately, fate was not on the man’s side this day. Despite the treatment, the man continued his incoherent ramblings about a swarm, and soon after that his unfocused eyes rolled back into his head, and he started having a seizure and died soon after.

After conf...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 81

More time passed as the expedition went further inland. Around the third month in the new lands, they started seeing evidence of people once being around.

Every now and then, they found arrows whose wood shows age from being exposed to the elements for a very long period of time and were using both stone and copper as arrowheads with the former being in the vast majority.

The other things they found along the way were old broken spears, rotten baskets, and element-worn carvings. 2023-11-20 14:22:45 +0000 UTC View Post

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 25

Lead Assassin POV

As the lead assassin closed in on the boy who was knocked down after having his side sliced open by a thrown dagger, his eyes widened in surprise as he felt aura pulse out of the downed boy.

‘What kind of monster are the Ironcrests raising? Deadly silent magic and how aura? The reports say the Ironcrest family had a son 3 years ago, and after a while, they withdrew him from the public eye with only selected servants being allowed to see him. Un...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 80

When Grud was nice and comfortable, Mita started by licking up her own juices that had been marinating Grud’s dick the whole night.

When Grud’s dick was nice and clean, she sandwiched Grud’s dick with her tits and started stroking up and down. The tingling feeling of mana Grud usually felt when Mita did a boobjob for him was replaced by the smooth and warm feeling of Mita’s massive tits.

For Mita, even though this was a new body, it was a daily routine for her and her sist...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 24

Lead Assassin’s POV

What the fuck happened? They were just facing a child, someone that young should have no business silent fast casting anything tough enough to hurt my men. Yet I have 1 man who is already as good as dead and another who is most likely combat ineffective.

The worst part is that we are now surrounded by 3 known mages with spells at the ready and an alleged mage who has already taken out 2 of my men.

I can already hear the footsteps of the...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 79

Where once there was a weightless body of ethereal translucent body of mana, was now replaced by a body of actual substance and weight that was also warm to the touch like any living woman.

“Nita? What are you doing here? What happened to Mita?” Grud said in confusion.

The woman in his arms slowly opened her eyes as she turned away from the light of the fireplace in the tent. Then she blinked someone like someone blinking the sleep out of their eyes in the morning.

Then ...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 78

After making sure no lizards were stupid enough to come back for another round with him, Grud went to claim his prize.

He made his way to a tree where the lead lizard was pinned to. When he reached it, the lead lizard was breathing with labored breaths as it eyed Grud weakly, its lifeblood trickling down the spear impaling it and forming a small puddle at the end of it.

As much as Grud wanted to see the beast suffer for killing his fellow man, he knew and understood that the beast...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 23

Throwing knives came flying at Luke with men sprinting toward him behind said throwing knives.

Thankfully, the constant low burning aura allows my body to react in time and drop to the ground as 2 throwing knives embed themselves into the door behind me.

At this point, my heart was going crazy as adrenaline started pumping through my veins.

As I was recovering to my feet, I noticed one of the men was about to be on top of me with a dagger primed to stab forward and take my l...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 22

Border of the Argus Kingdom, Fort Eldric.

It has been a month since hostilities heated up again with the Valorhelm Dominion and so far, the only action Baron Alden Ironcrest has seen were small squads of enemy scouts probing his fort defenses.

But all the same, defenses and guards have been doubled due to the successful assassination of Alden’s predecessor.

Now, there was not a corner leading to his bed or work chamber that was not watched, no place he did not go without a...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 77

Grud strode out into the night far enough that the lights of the outpost could barely reach him. When he was halfway between the outpost and the trees, he once again planted his spear beside him and proceeded to untie the bindle of throwing spears.

Once untied, he planted them head first into the ground, ten on his left and ten on his right. All within arms reach ready to be hurled at whatever came his way.

Once all preparations were made, he plucked his main spear out of the grou...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 76

AN: Sorry for the delay  guys, hectic week at work, everyone rushing with last minute things before the holidays come around. I will finally have some peace and quite in the office to pump out chapters.

During the deforestation around the outpost and two days after, things were quiet. The activities of these invaders on new lands clearing trees from the area has scared away most of the creatures from the area, the braver ones were content to watch from a d...