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Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 187

Over the past month since arriving at Fort Eldric, things have been rather slow, and from what I overheard when acting as a bodyguard for Dad, we were essentially playing cat and mouse with Valorhelm Dominion scouts. This resulted in a few deaths on both sides when they ran into each other or got the drop on one another.

But despite the deaths, neither the kingdom nor the Valorhelm Dominion made a fuss about it. They knew what they were doing and kept things close to their chest.

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Unto the Ages: Chapter 147

After everyone had settled down from the Blood Ascendent incident, it did not even take four months before Grud caught news of unrest happening in regions that were more than a month’s journey from his tribe, and some of the nearby smaller tribes started sending envoys to Grud and suggesting thing along the lines of tribal alliances, but Grud knew that what they were really asking for was protection.

This posed a problem for Grud, as his tribe was at the edge of the continent and rath...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 146

As Grud tried to move his other limbs, he felt that soft, squishy weights also held them down. He then noticed that those weights were slick, wet, and being rubbed all over his body. What Grud could not see but only feel was his wives riding on every inch of his body that was available and rubbing their sopping wet slits all over Grud like animals in heat, marking their territory.

When Grud flexed his fingers and toes, he felt that they were encased in something wet that was softly mass...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 185

AN: Hi guys. Sorry for the slow upload this few days, work at my day job is chewing my ass, and I got suckered into a promotion... In other words, slight pay increase, and more responsibilities to take on. I will try to upload if I can squeeze in some free time to write, if not, the next upload will be on the weekend.

Months of training passed, and both Dad and I were showing steady improvements. For me, the amount of time I could stay sound of mind was slowly ...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 184

Hammer out, fold, hammer out, heat, hammer out, fold. For three of my free days, I spent time in the workshop trying to make a simple Damascus steel kitchen knife, but due to my inexperience, I fucked up three billets when the different layers of steel split from not being forge-welded properly.

 After some trial and error, I found out that it was the strength of my aura-powered hammer strikes that was the problem. If I strike too hard on one end of the billet, flattening one side ...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 183

When night came, Professor Sageira, Dad, and I were back in the forest clearing we used for refining the Primal Aura technique. The first thing we did was get Dad started with mana pathway tempering.

Fortunately for him, all the magical monitoring devices Professor Sageira cooked up just to monitor me so I do not accidentally kill myself were still around and fine-tuned to the different levels of thresholds. We started at the lowest setting.

After that, Professor Sageira got Dad s...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 182

As the night of training drew on, I sparred with Professor Sageira using my Primal Aura again and again to the point where I could barely move by the time she called an end to the night’s training. All the while, my parents watched on.

When I trudged back to where my parents were sitting, Mum had a worried look on her face as she started fussing over me and wiping the dirt from my face with her handkerchief. As for Dad, I could see that he had his thinking face on as he looked between...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 145

After Grud got his hands on the Blood Priest’s comb, he ordered everyone to vacate the room so he could have an easier time isolating the different smells with his enhanced sense of smell.

After he got a good sense of the Blood Priest’s scent, Grud started sniffing around the room, and he did not like the thought of it. He would have much preferred sniffing the scent of beautiful women, but here he was, smelling the scent of an old man.

Grud’s sniffing brought him to three m...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 144

As much as Grud wanted to avoid casualties, he could only kill so fast. By the time the last of the armored Blood Ascendants lay dead on the ground, Grud had lost close to a hundred men who were now dead, dying, or maimed, and Grud himself did not get out of this unscathed either.

Where other enemies would flee from Grud’s display of might and violence, these drugged-up armored maniacs swarmed Grud without regard for their lives and managed to get in a few good stabs between the gaps ...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 181

AN: Sorry for the late upload, this was supose to come out 2 days ago, but I had family new year stuff to do... So anyway, Happy New Year!

Deep in a forest, a ten-minute dragon flight away from the Ironcrest estate, Dad was nudging Mum awake after she passed out from the flight that was close to breaking the sound barrier. As it turns out, Mum is scared of heights.

As for why we are here with my parents, Professor Sageira followed the theme of showing rat...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 180

Night after night of continuously being zapped, me and Professor Sageira worked on how to prolong and stabilize this skill. It did not even take three days to before my parents found it worrying that their boy was sleeping in till lunch a few days in a row and confronted me about it.

When lunch was over, the dishes were taken away, and the moment tea was served, Dad dismissed the servants. After the doors were closed, Mum and Dad looked at me with worry in their eyes, “Son, we noticed...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 179

“Alright, let's try that again without making another line of destruction in the woods.” Professor Sageira said after waking me up from getting knocked out by her.

We tried to perform the fusion technique again, assuming that with the foreknowledge of what to look out for, I would not be taken over by the euphoria of power and go wild. Unfortunately, the moment the power got to my head, things got fuzzy, and the next thing I knew, I woke up with a phantom pain in my jaw that seemed ...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 178

AN: I added a big chunk toward the end of the last chapter to mention Luke and Emma’s younger siblings, who are two years younger than them.

AN: I will use [ ] for telepathic communication.

I spent my first few weeks back home doing whatever Charlotte, Emma, and Otto wanted before they had to head back to their respective campuses. During that time, I was either out with Charlotte and/or Emma in town or in nearby villages that ...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 143

The first Blood Ascendants charged Grud with weapons raised and got a spear tip to the faces for their troubles, but when more men started charging Grud in earnest, Grud found himself in quite a pickle.

That pickle being himself. He was a big man, with a big spear, in a not so big mine entrance. So when he performed a horizontal swing aiming to bisect the enemy's front line at the waist, he felt his spear hit something hard, and the swing’s momentum carried it further into the hard ob...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 142

Over the next few days, Grud’s men and the four new Blood Ascendant war parties played a game of cat and mouse. As usual, half of Grud’s men led the four Blood Ascendant war parties on a wild goose chase or into ambushes led by Grud and the other half of his men, making sure to leave nobody behind to tell the tale of what was hunting them.

But sometimes, as thorough as Grud and his men tried to be, they were still susceptible to human error, especially when Grud was throwing people ...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 177

Dave and Sam, like most of their lives growing up, did things together like brothers from different mothers. During their time in the academy, they concentrated mainly on the martial side of their education, only learning enough magic to start a fire and conjure enough water to wash themselves.

The most important thing they picked up from the past three years was access to their auras. Their technique of wielding their aura was the kingdom’s standard, so there were no fancy techniques...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 176

Time passed, and before I knew it, I had graduated from the Royal Academy. And besides the mandatory lessons, it has been fun. I may not have made many close friends outside of Dave, Sam, Elise, and later Alistair Arundel… and eventually Lavinia Castilene after she and Emma almost got into a catfight.

Other than that, it was just a long line of acquaintances, especially those who tried to get close to me after my victories at my first tournament. Unfortunately, that list of acquaintan...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 175

The next day, I got the results for my credit by examination for Advanced Combat & Tactics. While I did not get a perfect score, I scored high enough to pass the course. Immediately after getting my results, I finalized my subject selection to replace Advanced Combat & Tactics with the Healing Magic course.

Now that all the administrative tasks are taken care of, we have a week before school starts, so I take this opportunity to show Emma around the capital that I have explored....

Unto the Ages: Chapter 141

Grud yanked his spear out of the corps on the ground, the cold, frigid air freezing the blood on the spearhead almost instantly. It has been a month since Grud ran into the first group of the Blood Ascendants.

As they closed in, they slaughtered a few patrol groups but otherwise kept out of sight, especially when what looked like a war party of four hundred plus Blood Ascendants came out of their cave and spread in the four cardinal directions.

Could Grud and his men take on this ...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 140

The Blood Champion was roughly ramming himself into a crying woman beneath him, in his crimson-hazed addled mind, only brief concepts occasionally flashed into his mind, only to be blown away like mist.

What he knew of his previous life was vague, he could not even remember his old name, only that the Blood Priest had bestowed upon him the name and title of Blood Champion. He knew that he had been a chieftain before, but now, the Blood Priest said that the title of a chieftain was for t...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 173

Emma and I were walking to the administration office to get the subject selection out of the way before the academic year truly began. By now, word had gotten around that Emma and I had some kind of close relationship since she was following me everywhere I went from the moment we arrived back on campus and got her settled in a dorm for her year’s intake.

It did not help that on the first day we got back, many people saw her holding onto my hand as I showed her around the campus, it t...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 172

Today was a day to celebrate victory, especially for my three friends who had just finished their first subjugation mission, and not just any puny subjugation, an actual drake who, if not for Dad and his knights, would have taken platoons of soldiers to take down while expecting heavy casualties.

Not only was their first major subjugation a success but their contributions were considered critical to the swift and relatively safe subjugation of the drake, making the only truly troublesom...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 170

A few days went by as I got settled back into the home that I had been away from for months. I reconnected with the house staff that had taken care of me when I was confined to the mansion due to my period of uncontrolled aura, especially my previous personal maid, Alice, who still likes to pinch my cheeks like I was her baby brother, but for the woman who changed my diapers, I will allow it.

At that time, Mum tested Elise, and I asked her to show her dual casting, this impressed Mum gr...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 139

As Grud and his ten men entered the gates of the Deep Lake tribe, the first thing they noticed was that their houses were built around a rather wide clearing in the center. But then he noticed people sitting in the clearing with what seemed to be fishing poles in hand, and that was when it clicked, the clearing in the center was as the tribe’s namesake, a lake that was frozen over, but they had managed to find fish under the frozen surface.

“I see your tribe has managed to survive v...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 138

Grud immediately called a family meeting and announced that Zogor, Reta's third-born son, had died while protecting his tribe from inland raiders. Hearing this, Reta broke down, and all his wives began crying, especially his older wives, who had nursed Zogor and treated him like their own son. The newer wives joined their senior sister-wives in their grief and comforted them.

Over the years, there had been a few of Grud’s children who had died, but they died from accidents or hunts we...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 169

It was the day after my arrival back home, and we were all sitting at the dining table for breakfast as my family had some small talk with the guest I brought along.

As far as that, everything was normal. The only abnormal thing was Emma, who had been stuck with me ever since dinner last night. The only place that I was free of her was when I was in the bathroom or changing, tho not for lack of trying on her part.

When I asked her what had gotten into her, she said, “Because I ...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 167

Soon after the rest of the tournament events were over, and the whole tournament itself was done, the atmosphere at the academy changed because, in just a few months, the end-of-year exams were upon us.

Just like everyone else, I hit the books during this period, but it was mainly the Elven Language books that I was hitting as I still needed to work on my grammar, other than that, I felt I was good on my other fronts.

Before I knew it, the finals were over and done with. Naturally...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 166

Fame has bitten me in the ass. Not a big bite, but a bite nonetheless. From the moment I got back to my seat in the stands with my class, all the way to the campus grounds, I had people or representatives of people coming up to me to introduce themselves.

Instead of interacting with them, I got Dave and Sam’s help to body-block them, and as angry as they got, they were not stupid enough to strike a twelve-year-old boy, much less one who was wearing the Royal Academy’s uniform.

Update

Sorry guys, there will be no upload today or for the rest of the weekend, I am down with the flu and the meds are making the words leave my head before I can type them out. I will most likely upload a chapter for Of Arms and Arcane on Monday.

Unto the Ages: Chapter 137

A month and a half from when Mita received the vision from the ancient wisp, Grud’s household, holdings, wives, children, and extended family were all secured or well on the way to being so. It was time for the big reveal.

That day, Mita did as she usually does, got an extra hard morning romp with Grud for good luck, had breakfast with the harem and children, went to attend to some of the sick and wounded, and finally moved to the center of the large shaman’s hut where many other sh...