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Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 99

A couple of days later, it was finally the weekend. That means no classes, day or night.

After greeting the lunch ladies on weekend duty and getting some breakfast, I made my way to the part of the academy where the reinforced enchanting classrooms were, but instead of entering one of the classrooms, I took the stairs down to a basement, below the reinforced classrooms, and I got to say, it is quite a walk down, I can safely say I walked three stories down, which means if nothing is occ...

Update

Sorry for not uploading for a week, it has been a shitshow at work. My boss did not inform my team that Microsoft was going to change policy for some Office 365 licences, causing my whole organization to freak out. Thus my week of firefighing user issues all day began, and now that it is finally the weekend, I can pump out chapters without constant interruptions.

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 98

After getting back to the academy, I grabbed some dinner, got a bath, and finally crashed into bed. And as I lay in bed, I thought back to what I saw when I was sensing mana in direct contact with the hobgoblin shaman.

What I saw was mana was circulating in its own body. Now most people would think, “Bid deal… mana circulates in all living things.”, but not as much as what I saw. This mana was not the slow-flowing mana that passively circulated in everyone, this mana was flowing l...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 97

Yes, the hobgoblin shaman’s hands are on fire, but goblin magic is similar to our runic magic, meaning that his hands should be coated with the concept/aspect of fire, it should not be able to harm the user… unless…

Motherfucker! It is using actual fire! Which means Instinctive magic! I kept my guard up as I continued kiting the hobgoblin shaman around, but this time instead of generally sensing the mana around the hobgoblin shaman to watch for any spells forming, I concentrated o...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 96

Seeing that the hobgoblin shaman was still in the middle of its “power up”, I dashed forward to kill it before it finished whatever it was doing, I have seen enough anime and cartoons to know never let the bad guy finish their transformation.

The moment I moved forward, was the same time a goblin corpse was flying straight at me, but I was ready, I swung my sword, splitting the airborne goblin corpse… only to find a clawed hand coming towards my face, and with my sword in the down...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 95

When the call to start the fight boomed out, I started sprinting towards the monsters. As for my teammates, we had to do some… improvisation.

Instead of charging or holding their ground with weapons ready, Dave and Sam sheathed their swords before Henry and Arabella jumped on them for a piggyback ride.

No doubt this would make people give us some questioning looks, but there is a good reason. Due to Henry and Arabella not yet being able to concentrate while moving around and ca...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 94

After a few more teams did their goblin killing, all the teams were finally done.

As the Arena staff was cleaning up the gore and dead goblins from the Pit, Instructor Greyham once again stood before the stands full of students, some of them were clearly shaken from their first kill, and most of the fighters were a little bloody, fortunately, it was not their blood… mostly.

When all the students settled down, Instructor Greyham addressed us, “Well done students. For most of yo...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 93

As Oswald’s group entered the pit, I could feel his concentration, which seemed to be an increasing norm ever since I whooped his ass for trying to sneak his aura into our one on one spar last time.

Ever since then, he would just give me dirty looks but would not engage me, and I am glad he is keeping it that way. Other than that, I mostly ignore him and his cronies and they mostly do the same.

As his group took up position, I could tell that his group was well drilled as they f...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 92

“So, who wants to be first?!” Instructor Greyham asked in a booming voice.

And just like that, half the class was on their feet and raising their hands, my teammates included.

Instructor Greyham looked around for a moment, then pointed at the dog boy I fought yesterday and asked his team to get down there. He and melee focused part of his team fist-pumped as they ran to The Pit, their mage counterparts lagged behind, obviously not as excited as the muscle heads.

What was...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 91

The next day at the Arena, we were once again in the stands, but something felt different, more… tense.

That is when I noticed that the instructors were no longer wearing the leather armor that they usually wear, no, today, all the instructors were decked out. The fighting instructors were in half-plate armor and even the mage instructors were wearing some sort of gambeson with metal plates sewn on critical parts.

When I looked around the Arena, I spotted no less than ten men in...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 112

Back in the Newlands, at the Riversong village, Tala and Kaya were treating the wounded that came streaming back to the village along with a long line of bound slaves.

These were the women and children of the villages that took part in the siege and attacks of their people, and as an old saying in the Newlands goes, ‘Much has been taken, much needed to be repaid.’, and these women and children would repay with their bodies to bolster the numbers lost by the actions of their fathers,...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 111

The Wives’ POV

While Grud was away at war, life back on the Mainland, carried on more or less as usual, the only difference being a sharp drop in the number of young fighting men due to the call to war.

This left the women, children, and older folk to run things back home, and in Grud’s household, the day started as most days do, in a tangle of naked bodies and limbs.

Nita woke to the beam of morning light hitting her and yawned awake. When she blinked the sleep out of h...

Update

Hi Guys

Just got home from work. Sorry for the spotty uploads the past few weeks, especially the past week, work hit a peak and I was posted to a client's side for the past week.

So moving forward, this is my plan. Step 1: Crash and sleep until tomorrow, Step 2: Go down to my local MacDonalds and demolish 2 sets of Double Sausage McMuffin with egg meals, and lastly, Step 3: Enter cave goblin mode over the weekend and pump out some chapters while I get back into the swing of writin...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 90

Sometime later, my team was once again called down to The Pit where we met our opponents.

After taking a look at them, I did not recognize any of their faces from the skirmisher group, meaning that this team most likely comprised of three fighters and two mages. But what made me weary of them, was because they had dog beast folk boy among their group, which most likely meant he was the main damage dealer or tank of the group.

Why am I weary you might ask? I was mainly weary for Da...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 89

AN: I will not be posting tomorrow, will only be posting the day after.

“So, what did we do wrong?” I asked my team. The initial looks I received in reply were surprise, confusion, annoyance, and anger.

“What do you mean what we did wrong? We won did we not? Why are you asking questions like this?” Henry said with annoyance in his voice.

“Yeah, what is your problem? And who are you to ask questions like this, you are just from a Baron hous...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 88

My team and I made our way to The Pit, or at least a partition of it. There we came face to face with another group of five, along with two assistant instructors, one of them being a mage, the other a fighter.

When we all arrived, the fighter instructor called our attention, “In this five-on-five match, the winner is decided upon defeating the whole opposing team or getting the opposing team’s leader to surrender, if we decide that you are defeated or “killed”, we will ask you t...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 87

After almost a whole afternoon of vigorously moving my body and casting spells while doing so, I was so wiped out, that I spent most of Professor Sageira’s night class bobbing my head as I tried to stay awake. By the end of the lesson, I had a few white marks on my head from having Professor Sageira pelt me with small chunks of chalk when I actually fell asleep.

At the end of the class, my older classmates showed their worry for me by asking if I was fine and if I was keeping up with ...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 110

Elder Witch Doctor Zyra, along with the six other Elder Witch Doctors emerged from her home where they had been confirming and studying the omen Zyra had foreseen, and no matter how they looked at the signs, they all came to the same conclusion.

If they joined forces with the big villages against the coming tide, there would be no victory, only survival if they were lucky, or death if they weren't.

When they gathered and polled their powers to foresee the coming omen, they saw the...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 109

Deep in the night, at a small village, two guards were standing watch atop the walls of their village, staring out into the night and making small talk to pass the time.

Guard 1: “So, any news so far about those three traitor villages?”

Guard 2: “No updates so far, last I heard, they were gathering forces at the traitor villages. My guess is that once they are ready, they are going after the four big villages, that's when the real fighting will start.”

Guard 1: “Ye...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 86

“Ready yourself.” Instructor Greyham said as he pointed his wooden sword at me in a casual stance.

Once I ready myself, he dashes towards me at almost superhuman speed. It is slightly slower than Dad dashing at me without aura, but if I compare their ages, Instructor Greyham is extremely spry for an oldtimer.

I raise my sword to ready myself and anticipate the incoming strike, but that is when Instructor Greyham raises his sword in a totally impractical stance that I have neve...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 85

As the first of the goblins crashed into the line of assistant instructors, it became glaringly apparent to me that they were restraining themselves to a considerable degree.

Instead of cutting the goblins down where they stood, the three assistant instructors were fighting more defensively and were doing more shoving with their shields than striking with their swords, and the mage assistant instructors in the back were keeping to first and second circle spells to stun, distract, or cri...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 84

As the days went by, and the timetable for the next month was posted in the classroom, I noticed that for three days straight, Advanced Spell Theory and Advanced Combat & Tactics classes overlapped and took the time slots of the other electives for those who were in those classes.

This activity was just labeled as “Outdoor Exercise”.

When I asked around what they meant by Outdoor Exercise, it usually meant that we were going outside of school grounds. And you know what tha...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 83

“B-But broth-” Oswald stammered out before he was silenced by Edmund raising his hand.

“I already heard of what happened, did you have the chance to use your aura during the match?” Edmund asked and got a “Yes but-” in reply before he cut Oswald off again.

“Then do you mind explaining how you still managed to disgrace our house’s name? Were you drunk or high on drugs to perform so poorly and lose to an obviously tired opponent?” Edmund asked while the anger in hi...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 82

This… this is much more than I can take in a day.

I slump my ass into a chair that was pushed near me and gawk at the white dragon that is easily 30 meters from snout to tail. “Y-You’re a Dragon!” I fought a fucking dragon and lived… ok, she let me live, but I will count it!

From what I read from the bestiary, dragons are one of the pinnacles of might among beings in this world. While little is known about them, it was noted that only dragons that reach a certain age or ...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 81

“So… you are telling me you came from a technologically advanced world that is devoid of mana or magic, in any of its forms?” Sageira clarified with me after spending the last few hours telling her about my first life while she kept interrupting with questions.

“Well, as far as I know… mana and magic are relegated to the realms of function, fantasy, charlatans, and con artists trying to start weird sex cults. If magic actually exists in my old world, it is most likely a secret...

Update

This is just a heads up, updates will be slow this coming week. Friend's family is flying in and I am going to have to play tour guide. I will try squeeze in some chapters if I got time. Thanks for all your support so far.

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 80

“What the fuck?...” I whisper to myself under my breath as I look at Sageira, then up at the burnt figure that was supposed to be her.

“Did you enjoy the fight?” Sageira said in the same sweet tone Mum uses when she sees me coming home from playing in the woods.

She then snapped her finger, and the burnt figure of her on the pillar evaporated into motes of light, leaving behind a transparent bubble in the shape of a humanoid figure that started to dissipate into nothing. ...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 79

As the sharp fingernail closes into my forehead, I struggle to free myself, but to no avail, I could not even move my pinky finger or twitch an eyebrow.

Failing to move my body, I concentrated internally to see if I could force my way out of this situation with aura.

I flexed my stamina energy in anticipation of igniting it with mana to manifest my aura, but a feeling of wrongness came over me as I did so. As I pushed my stamina energy to cycle, it did not respond to my will, it w...

Unto the Ages: Chapter 108

Some time passed since breaking the siege of the three villages allied with the Mainlanders. The dead had been mourned and buried, the three villages had begun repairs, and the raided tribes now had new occupants moving in.

But the rebuilding of their homes was not the only thing that was going on, everyone was preparing for what was to come next.

The four big villages were pushed back, and the Blazebringer lost many warriors from their younger generation, while the Swiftwind, St...

Of Arms and Arcane: Chapter 78

Professor Sageira Drackot, or at least that was the name she was currently known by, was making her way to her class from one of her favorite places, the library.

She internally grumbled as she walked to class, she would have liked to stay in the ever-growing library of the Royal Academy, but she made a deal to at least teach one class, and she did not break deals. So after sifting through the extensive list of subjects, she decided on night class for Languages of Power due to it having...