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Silence - Chapter 14

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"This is the best we can do?" Cal asked, raising an eyebrow.

"You wanted out of sight, what better place than the Dust?" Yan said, scratching at his goatee. His bald head shone in the early morning sunlight, reminding Cal of the wretched heat to come that afternoon. "No one will come bug us here. They'd rather not get their heels too muddy."

Cal tilted her head in acknowledgement and pushed open the door ahead of her. Th...

Silence - Chapter 13

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Piloting the sloop was a lot like riding atop the Night's Wake, only faster. The leather sails cracked and the braided ropes snapped tight as veins of Mana spread from the Control Node down into the bone of the craft, each pulse somehow propelling them through the dark nothingness all around them. There was no wind in the Void, which was a very strange sensation to Felix, but the sails billowed and shifted regardless.

They moved fast. Th...

Silence - Chapter 12

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Felix was still lying on the floor when the Maw appeared in the room.

"Ugh. What do you want?" Felix still hadn't bothered to reactivate his Manasight, but the Maw was clearly visible even in the darkened room, untouched by the shadows. The creature looked at him like he was a bug beneath its feet.

The world moves in cycles, Felix Nevarre. The sun rises, the moons turn, the seasons dance endlessly. The look of condescension shifted sub...

Silence - Chapter 11

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The night wore on.

Felix wasn't sure if was night time, but even his high Endurance was reaching its end. The party kept going, drinks served, shouts sounding, and music blaring. The various tables for dice and other gambling expanded as more pirates sought out its pleasures, while other members disappeared into back rooms. Presumably for other delights.

He mimed another sip at his horn, refusing to reset his poisoned debuff again. He'd been doing ...

Silence - Chapter 10

NOTE: Some chapters (early ones like this) are repeats from what you've already read. Bear with me, they're part of the whole story.

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Pit was full.

So full.

The big folk had brought so much meat and he had eaten it all. Pit had not had such abundance in what felt like many many days.

'Weeks.' The word is 'weeks.'

Thoughts had been coming easier to Pit ever since Felix had saved him under the mountain. It was like a whole ...

Chapter 308

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Pit laid about on his back, wings askew and legs in the air while he snored. His tongue lolled, hanging almost in his own eye, but the tenku's rest was complete for all of that. Felix wished he was half so relaxed.

Felix watched the doors. Glared at them, really. As if they would suddenly move, shift, or otherwise give him the answers he sought if only he stared hard enough. How long had he been at it? Time felt...weird in the Path. Stretchy. ...

Chapter 307

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Felix sank into murky green darkness. It swirled around him like water or oil, but it didn't feel like it. It felt light, like smoke, and his breath came easy. Yet when he flared his Manasight, he was almost blinded. Incredibly powerful Mana lay all around him, atop him, restricting him. He couldn't swim, could barely move his arms and legs at all, and he sank like a stone.

Why can't I feel it?

Felix drifted down, further and furthe...

Chapter 306

Things are heating up!

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"No!" the Archon screamed, raw and high. Sigils burned on its chest, within it, a fountain of liquid light. Felix was pushed back, but not for long. He strained, forcing through the deluge of sludge-like Mana. "I AM GREATER THAN YOU!"

Felix talons scratched at the center of the Archon, just barely, when the Mana around him solidified into a crystalline cage. He was suddenly rooted to the spot, while screaming Dissonance shook his S...

Chapter 305

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"Come now, Nym. There is no reason for hostility. Not yet." That smile stretched ever wider, the golden metal deforming. How was he doing that? "You have thrived, ever moreso since last we spoke. Far more than when we met. You were but a mewling worm, come to rob my Domain. Now here you stand, ready to stop me, the mighty Nymean hero." The smile dropped. "How predictable."

Adamant Discord spun through Felix's core space, a bright star...

Chapter 304

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Felix took a deep, calming breath, making sure Meditation flared as far as it was able. His Bastion of Will and Deep Mind hummed in the background, distant songs almost out of earshot. After the jaunt up the mountain, he was worried about using his Abyssal Skein again, but they would not make it across the devastated landscape without it. There were no places to really hide except for the stone lined reservoirs, and there was no way Felix was going ...

Silence - Chapter 09

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The pirates of the Ten Hands knew how to throw a party. After a cramped and rickety stairway down, the entire fortress below seemed to be one huge chamber. It was at least three thousand square feet, filled to the brim with tables and bars, but still had several open spaces where various forms of betting occurred simultaneously. Shimmering multicolored lights hovered at ceiling level, sometimes zipping across the room at the gesture of someone wearing a fancy ...

Silence - Chapter 08

The monotonous terrain whipped passed them at incredible speeds. Sitting on the prow of the Manaship, the only place he felt somewhat safe, Felix marveled at their pace. Some sort of magic propelled the ship forward, and he could see it looping around the innards of the ship in bright, green-gold lines. Life Mana, he was certain, pulsing excitedly despite the lusterless grey of the strange deck. It wasn't made of wood, that was clear—where would someone find wood in the Void? But he couldn'...

Silence - Chapter 07

In the lower chambers of the Second Floor of the Eyrie, Vessilia Dayne, daughter and heir-apparent to the Duchy of Prax'Vrell sat with her hands folded neatly in her lap. The Second Floor—typically called the Tribunal by the local Guilders—housed the judiciary arm of the Protector's Guild, itself ensconced in the soaring tower at the very center of Haarwatch. The heiress sat upon a blocky stone bench, carved of a uniformly gray granite and enchanted with a subtle durability array. She was...

Chapter 303

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The onset of full dark took the Foglands well before they glimpsed the waterfall, but they had been hearing it for miles. Felix crept through the thick underbrush, senses extended. The waterfall was loud, certainly, but he could hear other things over that sound, within it, things that put his back up.

He heard screams.

They weren't Human screams, or Elven, or Dwarven, but they were full of terror. It quivered on the air, more...

Chapter 302

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Felix woke them all an hour before dawn. How he knew the time while within a lightless cavern he wasn't quite sure; he could have counted back the hours to determine it, but instead it was simply a feeling. A tingle at the edge of his senses when the sun began heating the land.

Strange.

Most of them grumbled, though the worst of it came from the Haarg...

Chapter 301

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Unlike other Memories, there was no convoluted array of Vvim's to choose from, twisting about him enough to drive anyone crazy. No, instead after the world around him shattered, Felix had the sensation of falling. Not far, and not fast, but he fell into a darkness that turned from black to grey to a burnished gold. He landed with a slight flexing of his knees, though his clothes puffed outward as if he'd really fallen from on high. Around him the go...

Silence - Chapter 06

The pirates screamed as they charged him, and both Felix and Pit ran.

Pit! Circle wide! They split as they ran, each of them running in a different direction around the floating rock motes. We're fast, we can outrun—

One of the pirates, a burly bastard with tusks, landed in front of him.

Did he jump over me?

Corrosive Strike!

Felix didn't have time to worry about it, so he lashed out with a straight jab. His fist zipped forwa...

Silence - Chapter 05

Felix clenched the Mana Gate located in his right palm. It wasn't visible on the surface of his skin, in fact it didn't even seem to be there except to his more arcane senses. The Gate sent out a quiver of searing pain that felt like holding a bolt of lightning in his hand.

"MMMPH!" Felix grunted, but kept applying pressure. According to the Maw, the process for strengthening one's Mana Gates was relatively easy. His problem, however, lay in another issue.

Ah yes, the other re...