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Chapter 162

The entire class was gathered in the lecture hall, which Nym had gone ahead and thrown stone warming spells onto multiple walls to heat up. Everyone was sick of the cold, everyone was tired, and everyone was annoyed at having spent the whole day freezing and walking only to get nowhere at the end.

“Alright, before I r...

Chapter 161

As it turned out, for once, it actually wasn’t that hard and didn’t require Nym to put himself in any sort of danger to identify the source of the feverish corruption that had infected the Garden of Winter. He circled around the outside edge to examine the arcana from a few other angles, and it didn’t take long for a pa...

Chapter 160

Nym hadn’t been idle while he spoke with the mystical fox. One air golem had shadowed the class as they moved, and the other had scouted ahead. He knew exactly where everyone was and, now that they were outside the draining radius of the fox’s magic, they were progressing much more quickly.

Professor Lakton wasn’t...

Chapter 159

“I don’t see where there’s much to talk about,” Nym said. “You’re stealing arcana from the students I’m supposed to protect. You’re a threat to them. At the rate you’re draining them, they’ll die out here.”

“That is all true,” the boy agreed. “I suppose you’re not doing a very good job of p...

Chapter 158

Nym hadn’t had to use the stimulant spell he’d learned back in Ebalsan in a long time, but that morning it was necessary. By the time he’d gotten to bed, there had barely been an hour left before the sun came up. Fortunately for him, his suite had no windows. Unfortunately, the field trip started early. He got maybe thr...

Chapter 157

Nym sat a thousand feet up in the sky, surrounded by a shell of arcana that held both him and Risa aloft without so much as a stray breeze to ruffle their hair. In the soft light of the stars and moon, he could see the valley stretched out for miles below. Risa sat next to him, a soft smile on her lips as she shared the view....

Chapter 156

Their path ended in a box canyon with a massive frozen waterfall at the north end. Smaller falls blanketed the walls, anywhere from ten feet in height to over two hundred at the very end. The walls themselves were thick ice instead of stone, and they walked on a frozen lake where the wind had blown the snow up against the can...

Chapter 155

The class set out in the early morning hours, fully expecting to spend upwards of three hours traveling through the ice and snow. It was a bright, clear day, the kind that Nym hated to fly over snow during. Even with a perfect vision spell active, he quickly found himself with a headache from the glare. He wished he still had...

Chapter 154

After they returned, Professor Lakton directed the class to the lecture hall to discuss internalizing the memories of the ice cave so they would associate it with the intent filter they were trying to create. Nym sat in the back of the hall, several rows behind the students, and tuned out the lesson. It was not new informatio...

Chapter 153

Nym’s first thought was to use hydrokinesis to divert the snow. It couldn’t be that heavy, after all. Then he watched it obliterate a fully grown tree on the way down and decided that it could in fact be that heavy, and that the better course of action would be to get everyone out of the way.

He flew straight up and...

Chapter 152

Since Nym wasn’t at the glacier to get in touch with his inner icicle, he saw no reason to suffer. The others could shiver and cope; he’d already done his time with that. Professor Lakton had probably done this trip quite a few times. She already had a personal heating spell going before Nym even turned to look at her. 2023-01-13 17:49:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 151

With Analia comfortably settled into her new home, a two room house a few blocks away from the workshop that was costing her seven dakars a month, Nym left the pair of them to their work and returned to Archmage Veran’s sanctum. His own studies were progressing somewhat smoothly, though he was still failing to bore through ...

Chapter 150

Nym eyed the trunk doubtfully. “Why don’t I come back for it later? We don’t want to haul this around all day.”

“Then I’d need to pay for another day’s lodging,” Analia pointed out.

“Might be doing that anyway. There’s no guarantee we’ll find a place on the first day,” Cern told her.

...

Chapter 149

Nym’s first impression of Shu-Ain was that there were a lot of people with much darker skin than him speaking in a language he didn’t know. Even on the outskirts of the main city, the streets were packed. A great number of people lived in the city, or at least were visiting it today.

The language barrier wouldn’t ...

Chapter 148

After a year spent wasting his time mucking around in the minds of various weak-willed humans, Abdun was desperate to be off this job. He was of the opinion that Nyramin had actually died when he’d fled, but Exarch Myzalik wasn’t interested in the opinions of a lowly sixth layer ascendant such as himself. Then again, even...

Chapter 147

“If you don’t mind international travel, there’s a city in Byramin known as the birthplace of alchemy. It’s called Shu-Ain. Many alchemists still go there to train. It’s an incredibly fertile region, flush with the types of materials we need. However, the prices are correspondingly low. There’s an easy supply so�...

Chapter 146

The refugee camps were functional at best. They were made completely from earth magic, which was fine for making thick walls and large buildings, but didn’t do much for insulation. Nym understood why they’d raise twenty long halls each capable of holding fifty or more people, but keeping that warm was going to be impossib...

Chapter 145

“We’ve hit something of a dead end,” Lord Feldstal said. “I’m not saying it’s impossible to solve, and we do have more time now that this current crisis is all but dealt with. However, our funding is going to drop drastically and we’ll need to show our progress.”

“What does this have to do with me?” ...

Chapter 144

Nym took the next few days easy. It turned out he’d botched quite a few things trying to heal himself, and what he’d done right had been more of an accident than anything. Archmage patched up enough to keep him alive, but neither of them had the energy to further right then. The problem was easily remedied by a visit to a...

Chapter 143

Nym felt something invading him, not physically, but grasping at his soul well. If he hadn’t already injured himself, hadn’t already spent so much time staring inward while he tried to fix it, he would never have been able to stop the root.

Thankfully, and that felt odd to think, he had destabilized his matrix. He c...

Chapter 142

Nym shared illusions he crafted from what his scrying spell showed him. The first root-corpse in the link was embedded in a random tunnel wall, almost completely buried except for its face. It would require some excavating to dig it out, but not so much that anything other than basic terrakinesis was needed. Sakaro and Tirama...