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Side Story: Killi's Day

The math doesn’t work in our favour. Killi thought with a sigh as she leaned back in her chair, two hands trying to rub away her growing headache while the other two kept flipping through papers.

To say the reports she’d received from the watching grey were bad would be an understatement. They painted a pic...

CH501 Gods and Mortals

In their realm, the gods gathered for a meeting. It was the sort of thing that had been happening frequently since the invasion points had been marked, an unavoidable consequence of their increased workload when they were all doing their best to keep the world and the lives of their mortals from ending, but more and more ofte...

CH500

The streets of the warrior’s tower were usually a little chaotic. There was no helping that fact. It was a place specifically made for people to come and train in combat skills, it was bound to draw a bit of an unruly element among the more respectable people simply trying to improve themselves, but even those who would con...

CH499

"God damn Greed, I wasn't expecting to see you here," Ben laughed, thrilled to see his friend again despite the situation he was in. "No nation has you tied down?"

"You kidding? Sticking to one place is a good way for some bastard or ex-fling to find me. Just having my shows on is giving me enough headaches with people ...

CH498

"Uh, so what the hell was that?" Skoe was the first to ask, giving voice to what the rest of them wanted to know with Thera also casting her eyes to Ben, more than willing to trust him at the time but wanting an explanation now given that she'd just very publicly committed a crime.

"Nobody worry, Myriad's aware of what ...

CH497

The next couple hours of flying were relatively peaceful, at least for himself. He tweaked and modified the enchantments as he went, getting them to the perfect balance of both comfortable for the user while still accomplishing their designed task, ending up with a final product just a little better than it started, with the ...

CH496

Attempt five… failed. Dang, let’s crack it open I guess and see if it’s at least obvious.

Sitting at a table in the shop, Ben was examining a side project of his. Nothing significant, just something to try and help him with some mechanical aspects of his designs for Inux. He was attempting to make a watch...

CH495 Nati's Perspective

“Grandfather,” Nati greeted lightly with a bow, showing the one before her that due respect after being pulled to his realm, getting a much warmer response in return.

“My dear, have you been well?” Nare asked, his lava-like features taking on a smile at seeing her.

“Of course, I’ve been making as many ...

CH494

The day that followed ended up straying from his new norm just a little. Instead of spending so much of his time pumping out weapons to do his part for the world, he first went to visit Killi at the magic towers, submitting reports of his discoveries to get her help with handling before taking advantage of the fact he was the...

CH493

He wasn’t feeling a touch of exhaustion when morning came, his practice and study had captured his imagination enough that the night had basically passed in the blink of an eye, but with the rising sun came his regular tasks as he put his work down and moved on to preparing breakfast before heading out for the day, off to f...

CH492

It was still dark when he left the archive but he didn’t care. He let himself take a minute to watch Thera sleep after the perceived weeks he’d been away before rushing to the living room where he wouldn’t disturb her. A small part of him wanted to wake her up and drag her to join him but he crushed that selfish impulse...

CH491

Huh, combining scrying with space magic is pretty obvious so I’m not sure if that really belongs in here, but I can’t deny that the level of skill it was done with was masterful. I don’t really see any way I could apply it to my enchanting, but I’ll at least keep it in mind.

With that book done, the cov...

CH490

“Oh, son of a bitch!”

He’d spent what felt like two entire weeks within the archive that might have only been a few minutes in the real world, going over everything he’d seen in his first dozen volumes again and again, trying to deconstruct the dead languages based on the context clues he had and even felt like ...

CH489

<ACQUIRED TITLE- BRUTAL BLACKSMITH>

“Hey, what the actual hell?” Ben muttered to himself as he prepared to lay down for the night.

“What happened?”

“A new title. Why the hell did I get a new title?”

He didn’t really need to ask, it was obviously because word had spread around about ...

CH488

When a few of his minds returned to normal speed, the area was silent. With the exception of both Thera and Sonya, no one had been expecting things to end quite so quickly, especially not when a not insignificant number had bet against him. He was pretty sure there was the sound of money changing hands but that was it until h...

CH487

It couldn’t have been more than fifteen minutes after he’d gotten back to work that he’d heard a knock on the door and went to check it out, finding Thera behind it looking far more exhausted than she had been when they’d parted, while Aso seemed a strong mix of curious and excited.

“Miss me already?”

...

CH486

In the month after finishing the dark tower, the day-to-day lives of both Thera and Ben had returned to their more normal state; at least for the most part.

While Thera was still being treated differently because of the reveals of both her connections and title, it had become so much easier for her to just not care abou...

CH485

“Ben, help me out,” Pelenia asked with a pout. “Use that clever brain of yours to figure out how to help me awaken a skill too.”

Luck hadn’t been on the queen’s side when she got her blessing, it hadn’t given her the one level she needed to her charm to be able to awaken it and the moment they all stopped ...

CH484 Thera's Perspective

None of them were willing to let things go that easily so she pulled the information from him before any of them would set foot on the next floor, just to get the barest amount of context on what had happened to him. When she’d woken up from her nightmare, it was just the four of them, no Ben in sight and from what her aunt...

CH483

With the fourth floor in front of them, Ben couldn’t help but feel great. He felt like he was winning, finally pulling one over on the gods after how the last tower had gone for them. He’d been able to see everything that was going to happen on the first three floors ahead of time, making them easy to deal with thanks to ...

CH482 Thera's Perspective

Slowly, Thera felt herself coming back to consciousness, even if she had to fight past the groggy feeling picking at her every step of the way.

Ugh, feel like I shouldn’t be asleep right now. What am I supposed to be doing? It’s probably not important, I can rest a little longer, right?

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CH481 Thera's Perspective

Having her vision returned to her as they got out of that floor, Thera was greeted with the sight of her aunt carrying both Karly and her mother in one comically large arm while the other held onto Ben’s hand, leading everyone out before letting them down.

“This reminds me, I really hate mind effects,” Karly sighe...

CH480 Thera's Perspective

Her mother Pelenia, the current queen of Anailia happily waved at them as they drew closer, managing to look both excited and oh-so-smug.

“Mother, if you were going to come then why didn’t you just meet us at home?”

“Because then you might have tried to stop me,” She laughed. “Don’t think I don’t k...

CH479 Thera's Perspective

“I can’t believe I agreed to this,” Thera muttered as they got to the shop, having just finished eating and saying goodbye to her aunt. “Literally every time we finish one of these we say we’re never doing it again.”

“We can mean it for realsies after this one,” He said innocently while she shook her hea...

CH478 Thera's Pespective

Thera hated the feeling of eyes on her. It was a feeling she would get in full force every time she was out in town ever since her titles and family connections had been outed that she couldn’t escape and it was just so exhausting. Knowing people were afraid of her when she hadn’t even done anything.

In the past, it...

CH477

He was taken to the back where he’d been expecting to find maybe ten or twenty people, just a few parties who’d challenged the tower and lived to tell the tale, but he’d been too pessimistic in his estimate, instead finding over fifty in the back room where he’d been lead, all of them waiting thanks to the reward he�...

Another Poll!!!! Plus Update

Here we are, my family is gone after their very very long visit and I once again know peace, at least for the most part as I put out these daily chapters that I hope you're all enjoying! I said before I'd figure out when it is I get to go back to my regular schedule later and now it's later so you can expect me to return back...

CH476

Time had flown since the visit to his research institute, with all of his work transitioning from his crafting to studying all of the known modifiers, testing them against multiple spells of each affinity as he tried to brute-force their finer rules, feeling the problem budge under his efforts.

Each modifier would inter...

Side Story: A spirit's study

Author's note

You can consider this side story to take place between the end of the 12th arc (with the first wave of the invasion) and the beginning of the thirteenth. Hope you all enjoy!

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Seven great spirits were silent as they stood around the crowd of nearly a hundred, not responding to any cries or sc...

CH475

With his bookmaking done, Ben went out to start the day, putting his main destination on hold since it was still early, to instead visit the church he had set up, wanting to give it a look.

There was not much need for cleaning. Given the evaluation of gods in that world, anyone who went in, even those who didn’t neces...