Magic_Smithing

AMSL Ch: 5

Little Winging was quite possibly the quietest place on Earth. It was a small village in the Surrey region of England. As Mr. Reid drove Luke and his family through town, almost nobody could be seen walking the streets.

Gazing out the car window, Luke could see small groups of kids playing in the parks they passed, but other than them and a few adults watching over the smaller ones, the place was a ghost town—it was perfect. There were no crazy, powerf...

AMSL Ch: 4

No matter how powerful a person is, everybody has to sleep at some time.

Luke Walker was enjoying his third nap in a row when suddenly, two small hands grabbed his shirt and started shaking him violently.

“What. Is. It. Hailee?” Luke barely managed to get out without biting his tongue. She must have subconsciously channeled her energy in her excitement because there was no way Luke's sister was that strong normally. Th...

AMSL Ch: 3

After that frankly roller coaster of dinner, the Walker family's daily lives quickly became very busy. Luke’s father still had to work until the end of the week, so he got a break from the chaos, but it was all hands on deck for the rest of them.

Packing up an entire house for storage wasn’t easy. So much cardboard was floating around the Walker family house that their downstairs quickly became a sea of brown boxes.

If they were mo...

AMSL Ch: 2

Luke and Haillee descended the stairs hand in hand, neither too fast nor too slow, as they’d done countless times before. They did not need to rush. Both of them could sense their father's approach in their own ways and knew to speed up or slow down as needed.

They weren’t perfect by any means, as things they couldn’t control often happened. So, it was no surprise to either of them when they reached the bottom of the stairs only to find the front d...

A Magical Second Life Ch: 1

Synopsis:

It only takes a single hand to tip the scales of fate. Luke Walker would do much more than that.

Blessed or cursed with memories of another life, fate is forced to change to accommodate him. Most changes are minor; after all, he's only a single person in the grand scheme of things. However, the changes he makes stack up, and eventually, he finds himself halfway around the world with his family.

That alone isn't much, but things star...

Ch: 120.3

For a moment, we weren’t trapped underground.

For a minuscule second, I wasn’t worried about fighting for my life.

It would be so easy to let the world fall away and pretend I was somewhere else— But I couldn’t.

I desperately wanted to forget all my troubles and thoroughly throw myself into my work, but that would be irresponsible. Still, I wouldn’t be me if I wasn't smiling while I worked.

The world could b...

Ch: 120.2

You know, I'm looking forward to the day I open my eyes, and I'm not met with nothing but darkness. Though I will admit, I am reluctantly getting used to it by this point.

I don’t even think about it as I instinctively flare Sense Mana to get a quick idea of my surroundings. My scan quickly revealed everything was the same as before I passed out, from the empty hallway we were camping in down to the meditative position Tabitha favored.

“You’re up already?” Tabitha’s conf...

Ch: 120.1

The human mind can only take in so much at once. Increasing your stats and skills increases a person's mental threshold and helps with overload, but sometimes, it simply isn’t enough.

My Mind stat is decent compared to others with similar builds, and I was already used to scanning large swaths of land with Sense Mana, so when I say I was struggling to decipher the magic item on my wrist, you know how complicated it is. It took me a couple of hours just to get a general idea of how the...

Ch: 119.6

I was back in the real world, but my soul still trembled. I'd been expelled out of my soul hundreds of times before, in all manners of the sense, but never like this. Being forcefully ejected was never easy, but at most, it only takes me a few seconds to recover from the sensation, no matter how bad the initial sensation is, but not this time.

The corners of my vision were still spinning long after the fact, and I was sweating profusely. Ebeon might have used too much power in her haste...

Ch: 119.5

Clawing at my wrist, I try to get my fingers underneath the bracelet clinging to my arm, but no matter what I try, it's like the metal has fused to my flesh. There was no gap to slip my fingers into, and channeling mana between them wasn’t helping either. I wasn’t in pain or anything, but that wasn’t exactly enough to keep me from freaking out.

“Why would you put on an unknown artifact?!” Tabitha berates me while reaching out and seizing my wrist.

“I don’t know,” I...

Ch: 119.4

I wanted to kick myself for suggesting we bury the remains instead of just cremating them, but it was too late now.

Tabitha and I had already worked together to punch through the brick flooring in the hallway outside the chamber. Initially, we tried to break the flooring inside the chamber as it would be closer to all the bones, but either they used a stronger version of the grey bricks in the chamber’s construction, or it was boosted by other means. Needless to say, even with the two...

Ch: 119.3

Stepping back, I slide next to Tabitha and raise my hand to my hammer's handle as the massive stone doors slowly open.

We were prepared for almost anything to come rushing at us, but we weren't expecting the veritable wave of foul-smelling humid air that exploded from the opening doors. There wasn't a single molecule of oxygen in the vomit-inducing wave, and as it washes over us, I’m thankful I can cut myself off from the outside world with my improved version of Mana Skin.

Tabi...

Ch: 119.2

“So, what am I doing wrong?” Tabitha asks as we walk down a dark corridor.

The humidity was rising the deeper we traveled into the ruins. The grey brickwork was still solid in most places, but after thousands of years, parts had started to give way, leaking dirt and moisture into the dilapidated structure.

“The trick is to start small. Repeatedly open and close your status page, but focus on your soul while you do so,” I instruct.

“And that will work?” Tabitha is...

Ch: 119.1

My consciousness snaps back to reality, and my eyes shoot open, but all that greets me is darkness.

Slowly, I sit up from my lying position and scan the dark room with Sense Mana. Tabitha was where I left her, sitting still like a statue. She didn’t have her light spell activated, but her mana network was calm and steady, a good sign that she was healthy and that nothing happened while I was out.

Tabitha was probably awake, but she could be meditating or resting her eyes, so I d...

Ch: 118.6

Everywhere I looked, my soul was a complete and utter disaster. Of course, I expected some damage from the soul horror incident, but this was beyond anything I could imagine.

As soon as I opened my eyes, I was in the middle of a destroyed clearing. All the plants I’d painstakingly molded out of experience were flattened, ripped in half, or gone altogether. My stonework was all over the place, and my meditation hut was in ruins, looking like it had exploded from the inside out.

B...

Ch: 118.5

I always enjoyed working around other people, even if I was the only one doing the work. There was just something about having somebody watching me that always made me want to do my best.

This was not one of those times.

I could deal with Tabitha giving me advice on any number of subjects, but smithing was not one of them.

“Are you sure you’re not going to ruin it?” Tabitha anxiously asks over my shoulder.

"I'm trying not to," I growl. I had already asked her to ...

Ch: 118.4

“Will you watch over me?” I ask over my shoulder.

“I may not have full use of my left arm yet, but my right is just fine.” Thanks to the light spell hovering over Tabitha’s head, I can clearly see her flexing her one good arm as a show of strength.

"Okay then," I nod and focus on my goal.

Across the room, covered in poison, sat my hammer. Directly above it was the shaft leading to the surface. According to Sense Mana, the pile of bones above the hole had collapsed ...

Ch: 118.3

LV: 82 Experience: 836,754/ 1,484,280

Health: 1,784.96/2,530

Stamina 1,388.34/1,697

Mana: 561.22/1,030

Vitality: 253.05

Endurance: 100.40

Strength: 156.06

Dexterity: 156.06

Senses: 62.75

Mind: 65.64

Magic: 103.42

Clarit...