Day 65, 8:45 PM
The dead town’s council sure is taking their sweet time reaching a decision. Especially considering their choices are to gamble on what some might view as heretics or to die.
I can see fata...
2025-02-20 10:43:18 +0000 UTC View Post16th of Season of Earth, 58th year of the 32nd cycle
After the feast, Newt took a fasting pill and returned to cultivation. Hours passed as he made minor corrections to the vast majority of his spell formations. None required a ma...
2025-02-20 07:58:57 +0000 UTC View Post16th of Season of Earth, 58th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt returned to his residence, still shocked, unable to believe what had happened. When he left his realm after a handful of minutes he dedicated to checking its state, he was ...
2025-02-19 06:44:08 +0000 UTC View PostDay 65, 2:00 PM
Learning magic is one of the most, pardon my lack of a better term, magical experiences in my lives.
Sensing the ethereal images veiled behind the wordless songs which somehow tell the world ...
2025-02-18 18:58:22 +0000 UTC View PostYou can pick multiple options. Clarification, the tournament will have multiple events.
2025-02-18 07:10:49 +0000 UTC View Post15th of Season of Earth, 58th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt, along with his fellow core disciples and four hundred and seventy-odd inner disciples, entered the secluded realm. The fine vapor misted, blocking his vision. while the th...
2025-02-18 05:14:20 +0000 UTC View PostDay 63, 12:10 PM
“I got a level!” I interrupt Edna mid sentence. She glances back, gifting me a frown for my effort.
As expected, the choice is between getting better at estimating distances and getting ...
2025-02-16 08:29:40 +0000 UTC View Post45th of Season of Fire, 58th year of the 32nd cycle
Elder Longfang observed the field he had arranged. It housed a glorious spell formation, one which helped him recover his confidence after failing to break the privacy spell form...
2025-02-16 05:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post87th of Season of Air, 58th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt sat in his practice room in the Chamber of Runes. He could not tell when he started enjoying examining spell formations, due to his unique realm layout the activity felt near...
2025-02-15 03:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostDay 41, 10:30 AM
“Are we far enough?” I ask, despite knowing the answer.
Edna hesitates, then nods. “We are.”
I don’t know why she didn’t want to hold lessons until we got closer to the corrupted lands than...
2025-02-14 06:19:51 +0000 UTC View PostDay 39, 5:15 AM
“And since I care about you, I’m going to explain some things.” I look at Edna. “You already know everything I’m about to say, and the topic might pe painful for you—”
“I’m ...
2025-02-13 07:49:30 +0000 UTC View Post47th of Season of Air, 58th year of the 32nd cycle
“That was so depressing,” Elder Woodhopper said after closing the door and making sure Newstar had left the range of her perception.
“It needed to be done.” Elder Al...
2025-02-13 07:48:36 +0000 UTC View PostDay 39, 2:30 AM
Edna cracks her eyes open as much as her welts allow, her head on my lap. She looks up at me, and I place a finger over my lips, telling her to be quiet, then motion towards the sleeping girls.
... 2025-02-12 07:36:48 +0000 UTC View Post47th of Season of Air, 58th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt and Elder Woodhopper entered a large room styled to emulate a hunter’s cottage. A large, stone fireplace stood at the far end, flames licking three logs inside. Dagger-long...
2025-02-12 07:22:04 +0000 UTC View PostDay 38, 8:50 PM
I reach Lucy and Gila with Edna out cold in my arms. The girls have started a fire. In its light, they nervously await my arrival. When I started out in Everrain, kidnapped by a presumed mad witch,...
2025-02-11 11:46:20 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Bear with me, I know what I'm doing.
AN2: In other news I had my wisdom teeth removed yesterday (2), another two are coming out next Monday. Three of them require(d) surgery, so now I'm swollen and life is generally not fun. I think it w...
2025-02-11 07:04:59 +0000 UTC View PostDay 38, 6:40 PM
One against two. You’d think that means things get easier, but this is where the real fight starts. Hell, I remember going through an army of mooks, and the only problem being the knight who led ...
2025-02-09 15:16:38 +0000 UTC View PostDay 38, 6:30 PM
I’ve led Lucy and Gila out of the fortress. We kept to the edge of the throng of people going to see the burning, and I slipped them away from the crowd, towards the jungle. They are familiar wit...
2025-02-09 14:55:08 +0000 UTC View Post45th of Season of Air, 58th year of the 32nd cycle
How? Just how does he keep getting ahead of me?
Pond Brook overtook Newt for the eighth time. The challenge had started seven hours ago, and for the eighth time, he...
2025-02-09 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post45th of Season of Air, 58th year of the 32nd cycle
For the cheap price of five second realm spirit gems, Newt arranged a season-long accommodation for Dandelion amongst the workers of the Explorer’s Gate. He had not seen his big...
2025-02-08 06:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostDay 38, 4:20 PM
Apparently, Fred tried to blame me into talking him and his cousins into going to the dungeon, the little shit. Fortunately, Gila, Lucy, and Martin, who was supposed to be the fourth member of the ...
2025-02-07 05:46:57 +0000 UTC View Post27th of Season of Air, 58th year of the 32nd cycle
“But isn’t it useless? It doesn’t stop people from listening in on us, they can just burst your bubble.”
“And then we stop talking, so they have nothing to listen ...
2025-02-06 03:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostDay 33, 4:20 PM
I spent a full day and a half getting used to the sensory storm before Edna finally headed home to prepare the things we will need for our marathon of lessons. My job, as her apprentice, and defini...
2025-02-05 22:16:38 +0000 UTC View PostDay 31, 5:00 AM
The choice between Advanced Arithmetics and Expert Calligraphy takes some thought. On one hand, there’s balance, on the other, a higher tier skill always tr...
2025-02-05 12:59:32 +0000 UTC View PostDay 31, 4:20 AM
“Ready for your lesson?” Edna asks while the rain still assaults the canopy above us. Whoever designed this crazy ecosystem needs a five star review, would let them design a world again.
...
2025-02-05 05:47:42 +0000 UTC View Post59th of Season of Water, 58th year of the 32nd cycle
While Newt fought Jade, Fourchains pulverized Gale. Another hour passed, and nobody issued new challenges.
“Newstar Blazing Salamander has entered the core sect undefeat...
2025-02-05 05:39:15 +0000 UTC View PostDay 30, 8:20 PM
Rain drums and rustles against the forest canopy so dense it might as well be a roof. I’m terrified and excited by my idea. If I live long enough, I’m certain I’ll advance anarchist, even tho...
2025-02-04 05:53:42 +0000 UTC View Post59th of Season of Water, 58th year of the 32nd cycle
After realizing that there was nothing to learn from Gale Calmriver’s victory, except to never lower his defenses under any circumstances, not even a fraction, especially betw...
2025-02-04 05:45:48 +0000 UTC View PostDay 30, 2:45 PM
Mana is alive. I don’t know where that intuitive knowledge comes from, but I can feel it. The way it dances, mana isn’t leaves floating in a mighty river, it is an entity, a creature with its o...
2025-02-03 07:40:24 +0000 UTC View PostDay 30, 10:35 AM
Ultimately, I failed. Like many times in life, when things mattered the most, I didn’t meet my own expectations.
I pick Initial Mana Sense from my choice of available...
2025-02-03 05:56:45 +0000 UTC View Post