I looked up at Xocoh, who was going cyan with fury. Kobold quirk there.
Well, might as well rub it in a bit. I split one part of my mind off to work on a Water-generating spell, while taunting my opponent some.
It was terrible practice, but this was a show. I was being a [Showwoman] today. Or something like that. Rah rah go!
Either way, glory to the School! Down with Hapensburgs! Make them look bad!
I needed to get some serious practi...
2022-12-19 16:25:05 +0000 UTC
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“From the north side! The renowned center of learning, the temple of knowledge, the garden of minds, the place that’ll turn you into a genius! Please welcome The School of Sorcery and Spellcraft!” The [Announcer] shouted, and we exited the gates to great fanfare.
We were allowed a few people with us to give us advice on the field. Each final was held ‘on its own’ so to speak, with no other competing events at the same time. All the better to maximize ...
2022-12-16 06:43:35 +0000 UTC
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“Three cheers for Iona!” I shouted as the Valkyrie entered the School’s living room. After today, all of the School’s teams had competed at least once. Shirayuki had gotten a whole feast arranged for us.
With a single exception, the School of Sorcery and Spellcraft’s teams and contestants, regardless of category, had successfully won their first round. Granted a few events had enough time to have had several rounds go already… but the idea was the same.
Iona wasn...
2022-12-14 13:26:33 +0000 UTC
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I released [Channeled Blink] as Iona was teleported off the field. Rules and regulations be damned, I wasn’t going to let anyone die in front of me. Mormerilhawn was on top of his game, teleporting Iona and the archer out to the waiting healers the instant before I was going to unleash my skill, bypassing the arena’s barrier and blasting them both with heals.
That had been way too close.
“Round 7 winner…” Mormerilhawn was cool ...
2022-12-12 04:24:21 +0000 UTC
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“Rolland, please send your next contestant forward.” Mormerilhawn’s voice was loud and clear as a bell, and Eira Barnett stepped forward. The Rolland’s team strategy was clear - put their casters in early, and give them enough time to regenerate mana for the teamfight.
Iona stood where she was, basking in the light of her patrons. The two moon goddesses had shifted the moons in their orbit to cause a solar eclipse, then shone down beams of light from the illusion-shattered moons...
2022-12-09 03:13:35 +0000 UTC
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The moons had shifted in their orbit.
The moons had been shifted. Selene and Lunaris - I could imagine no other entity that could even begin to think about pulling off the stunt - had spun the moons in their orbit, eclipsing the sun and explicitly highlighting Iona before a crowd of hundreds. Soon to be thousands, if not tens of thousands. What was happening had to be visible before half the world!
Roughly?
This was going to cause all sorts of havoc with th...
2022-12-07 13:35:02 +0000 UTC
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AN: Early post because I'm excited about this chapter and couldn't wait to share. This is Monday's normal chapter a few hours early, not a bonus.
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“Want company?” I asked Iona.
“Brrrpt?” Auri was also offering to come.
Iona shook her head.
“You should get enough sleep. You’ve got a long day tomorrow.”
I snorted in derision.
“We have a bye tomorrow. We’d have to screw up beyond belief to lose....
2022-12-05 02:15:58 +0000 UTC
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I wanted to leap and cheer at Iona’s victory over the Shining Shrine jackasses, but I maintained discipline and composure.
The idiots had sent a freaking [Assassin] after Iona, and compounding onto their sheer stupidity, they tried it right in the middle of the School’s living quarters!
It was almost stupider than me trying to sneak into Lun’Kat’s lair! Okay, so she had better disguises than I did, and the uncapped team had a lower level ...
2022-12-02 14:28:06 +0000 UTC
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Hey all!
December Announcements!
First: Web comic is chugging along! I poked the publisher to see if we had any sample panels I could share for this announcement, but they haven't gotten back to me as of this announcement. Shoot!
Second: Admin week is the week of the 26th this month. A few people have asked, so let me make it clear: That is the ONLY time that posts won't be happening this month. There is no Christmas break or anything. I'm not taking an extra week...
2022-12-01 16:30:54 +0000 UTC
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Scouting was difficult. Not only did Sakai need to study dozens, if not hundreds, of different [Warriors], [Mages], and [Rangers], but he needed to pay attention to the fights his own team was in!
Fortunately, he wasn’t alone. Kira - Takashige-dono in public, he reminded himself - had nominally divided the work up among the six of them.
Practically, the four of them. Futsu-sama was the shogun’s woman, one of the milit...
2022-11-30 13:54:10 +0000 UTC
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Elaine fussed around Iona, making sure every buckle and strap of her wyvern-scale aketon was properly strapped down and secured.
Not that there were a lot of them.
Iona had just barely made it under the registration deadline, and had a most interesting session with the [Judge] calibrating her shield. Biomancied subdermal armor was rare. She was close enough to a dullahan that they ended up using similar rules to build her shield.
The opening ceremonies had c...
2022-11-28 13:45:44 +0000 UTC
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As always, use discretion at work!
This is the first major piece after last month's great artist hunt, and I have to say, I'm blown away!
There's also a secondary piece from one last artist trailing in super late. Sharing because!
https://imgur.com/a/1uT7qMZ
2022-11-28 00:11:43 +0000 UTC
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Hello all!
Sorry this post's a bit late - I pushed it a little hoping for some things to happen that should be happening any day now, but haven't yet as of this post. Curses!
Anyways!
1) It's currently admin week. Next post is on Nov 28th, as my family and I celebrate Thanksgiving. It was a much-needed admin week to boot, as IRL kicked my ass this month. Part of this week is restoring my backlog that I ended up burning to get all my posts done on time... oops! This month ...
2022-11-23 05:16:07 +0000 UTC
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I let Iona lean on me, being her support, her pillar. I half-wrapped an arm supportively around her, as I helped her sit down on the bed with me.
“The Valkyries are gone? What?! Tell me more. How did you find out? What do you know? Are you okay?” I fired off questions as fast as I could think of them.
Iona was shaky.
“Some - some nobles from Rolland. They were quite smug about it, and they had no reason to lie. They were even able to name which [Lord]<...
2022-11-18 14:17:29 +0000 UTC
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I turned the innocent-looking amulet over in my hands. The [Enchanter] claimed it could beat even the most penetrative [Identify], leaving me safe and undetected from even high level mortal guards.
I just had no idea how it was so much better than my Deception Ring, or how it worked. I could only see a portion of the runes, written in a language I was unfamiliar with, and even after looking up the part I could see, I just didn’t get how it wo...
2022-11-16 12:59:47 +0000 UTC
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Ratcatcher sat back in his chair, taking off his glasses and massaging his eyes.
Kelpie was a mess. The runic language had been invented by one of the seafaring folk, but none of them could agree who. Not even a race, let alone a specific author. They didn’t have the same traditions of respecting authorship like the elves did, and all of the records conflicted.
Ratcatcher had a special interest in wizardry languages, although he had no talent for wizardry himse...
2022-11-14 13:32:48 +0000 UTC
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I was excited for the upcoming tournament, but I wasn’t going to let it dominate my thoughts. Also, doing some quick math on how much time I had left at the School, how much time the Gladiator Gauntlet was going to take, and how long it was going to take to verify my claims had me realizing that I was in a little bit of trouble.
I had wanted to wait as late as possible to start telling people I had written the Medical Manuscripts, to enjoy a peaceful life at the School. I was...
2022-11-11 12:40:02 +0000 UTC
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I flung myself over the wooden wall, and kicked off the backside to nimbly leap over the mudpit waiting for me at the bottom. I let myself drop, kicking off against the ground the moment my right foot landed, leaping into the ropes. With far more agility and dexterity than any monkey or ape, I swung through the course, building up speed.
At the far end I let go, letting myself soar through the air without magic, entirely bypassing the sand pit that was the end of the obstacle course. My...
2022-11-09 14:08:08 +0000 UTC
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Hey all!
I don't believe I'll be doing this regularly, and I should do this one picture at a time. Also, 'normal' art is still coming this month. That being said - large AI artwork dump!
Elaine: https://imgur.com/a/v4e8pYY
Iona: https://imgur.com/a/1kt7hSW
2022-11-08 13:18:11 +0000 UTC
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“Librarian!” I cheerfully waved to my doppelganger.
“Elaine! Great to see you back!” Librarian waved me over.
“Let’s get right to it!” I strode over towards the stairs. Librarian put a hand over her heart and faked outrage.
“Ah! I see how it is! The moment you get access to real books, I’m cast aside! It’s been a year since we last talked and everything!”
I rolled my eyes at her - my - antics.
“We have all the books we could want now!”
2022-11-07 13:48:31 +0000 UTC
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“Welcome one and all to the Great School Bake-off! This quarter we have an exciting new set of [Amateur Bakers], drawn from the thousands and thousands of [Students] here at the School, to wow and impress the judges. Without further ado, let me introduce our illustrious judges!” Florena the Harpy announced to the meager audience. Amateur baking wasn’t the most exciting of activities, and the vast majority of the fans were here to see if there were any m...
2022-11-04 13:40:48 +0000 UTC
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The School had a class for everything. With [Bookwyrm] eating two of my general skills, I had open slots, and I was determined to make the best of it.
The problem I ran into, the School was also too good at teaching, and general skills had the most options by far. The list was almost literally endless. Even after cutting it down to size I was struggling.
[Parallel Thoughts] would let me split my mind into multiple tracks, letting...
2022-11-02 13:28:09 +0000 UTC
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Iona!
I'm in love!
Yes, those are both moons.
Let the wild speculation begin!!
2022-11-01 02:42:20 +0000 UTC
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Books.
There was an entire bookshelf filled with books behind me, where the window claimed there was open air and light.
The obvious answer was the window was an illusion, filtering in “natural” light for the benefit of the students. The windows weren’t everywhere though, and up until now, they’d always been consistent with each other and how the outside of the library looked.
The library could be spatially warped, but given the power requirements not only t...
2022-10-31 12:42:39 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
How time flies! Time for another set of announcements.
First, this is my admin week, AKA my "I didn't manage to write all the chapters I needed to and now need to catch up after murdering my backlog" week.
Second, November's admin week is going to be the week of the 21st, because of Thanksgiving.
Third, web comic is moving again. Just waiting on the contract!
Fourth, the AI art contest winner...
2022-10-23 20:21:38 +0000 UTC
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The professor had a controlled look on his face, and I got to watch in real time as the vast majority of my fellow students - probably the nobles with the training for it - controlled their faces and emotions.
Oh, now they’re able to properly control themselves in front of new information, and not before when the professor was lecturing.
“Ms. Highscore. You clearly have experience with war, would you mind sharing?” The professor asked me.
I was getting rea...
2022-10-21 04:08:41 +0000 UTC
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“War.” The professor paced in front of the class. He was built like a soldier, his robes clearly modified to let him run and fight at a moment’s notice, and he carried a sword strapped to his waist.
In a twist, the class was held in one of the stadiums, not in a classroom, and the uniform for the class was the exercise outfits, not the typical poofy robes that were required everywhere else. Mormerilhawn, the Black Rose, master of the arena, was lurking near the sidelines, chatting...
2022-10-19 12:53:33 +0000 UTC
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There are too many entries, and Patreon doesn't let me have more than 25 options in a single poll. Vote for all the ones you like!
The highest votes won't necessarily win, but it will impact my decision making.
2022-10-18 02:19:16 +0000 UTC
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VOTE
2022-10-18 02:19:07 +0000 UTC
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Puddz made this amazing bikini Iona artwork, sharing with you all: https://imgur.com/a/t91sYBx
2022-10-17 12:56:43 +0000 UTC
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