Mana churned around her. Althea looked at the forest before her and found herself wondering where she had landed. There was a difference in mana itself, a…aggressiveness that did not belong.
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2023-07-20 18:49:40 +0000 UTC
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Althea looked at the tree, trying to get a feel of whether she should trust the tree. What it was saying was worrying, but only if it was true.
"I can hear it as long as I am touching it." sh...
2023-07-20 18:29:38 +0000 UTC
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Althea found herself on a beach full of sand. A beach having sand went without saying, but it was important to mention when said sand was in her hair. And eyes. And inside her dress. There didn't s...
2023-07-19 13:43:30 +0000 UTC
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In a dark room, the same one as before, a creature of light and darkness was fuming.
"What do you mean the Countess has disappeared? This is an immature Druid we are speaking of. This planet ...
2023-07-14 17:55:54 +0000 UTC
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Fire was a funny thing. So very destructive, but also strangely hard to peg down. Thankfully for her, she was its friend. And she knew it wanted to burn. To live. There was no way fire would be abl...
2023-07-12 20:30:01 +0000 UTC
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A vase.
A bloody vase.
That was what was on the pedestal. Althea had to say, she had expected something more...weapon-like. Or perhaps a rare herb. Or beast. But no, a vase. Well, maybe...
2023-07-11 19:41:53 +0000 UTC
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Althea stared at Feng, smiling slightly as she began. . "A pleasure to meet you, sir..."
Feng simply looked at her, staring at her with a gaze that made her feel uncomfortable. The gaze was f...
2023-07-10 19:39:47 +0000 UTC
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Dear Readers,
As you've probably noticed by now, the chapter is missing again today. A part of its a spiral delay from before in the week, but really it's just me not wanting to write. The l...
2023-07-07 17:31:46 +0000 UTC
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Althea adjusted her posture, making sure her hair looked fine, as she conjured a little water to check her reflection. The Golden Turtle’s ship made an utterly unnatural stop just a few meters fr...
2023-07-06 13:58:58 +0000 UTC
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Althea
Althea sat in her bed, staring at the mirror. Mana revolved around her as she narrowed her eyes, trying to focus on her reflection and find something out.
This was her third atte...
2023-07-04 20:53:00 +0000 UTC
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Nathan
The question, or rather, the idea of devouring the Senesor duchy stumped him.
"That would be cruel." the Princess said. "The Senesor duchy did not devour us when we were weak."
2023-07-04 20:17:50 +0000 UTC
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Well, someone cut the fibre optic near my house and that means the net is dead. Mobile data was dead to begin with. I had to walk to the rode just to send this post out. There shall this be a delay...
2023-07-04 09:36:04 +0000 UTC
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Althea
The voyage was boring.
This was what she had concluded days ago, and had continued to conclude every day since. The voyage had also just begun. The journey from the Northern to S...
2023-06-30 20:23:25 +0000 UTC
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Imagine you are in Nathan's place at the end of Chapter 116. Will you
2023-06-29 18:45:12 +0000 UTC
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"Are you done?" the Princess asked, her voice dripping with disdain.
Nathan groaned even as he tried to think over the information Pulsie had told him.
The Minister of Defense looked di...
2023-06-29 18:42:31 +0000 UTC
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Nathan
The council room nowadays had far more people than it did when the Countess first took her throne. And it seemed determined to keep expanding. The Princess, the Adept from Senesor, the...
2023-06-28 18:23:04 +0000 UTC
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Nathan really, really wanted to let Pulsie know his opinion on that bloody plant hiding information. But his head was...making it a little...bit...difficult.
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Nathan woke up wit...
2023-06-27 19:33:20 +0000 UTC
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What happened after that, he did not know. The world shook for a second, and he lost consciousness. The next thing he knew, he was on his back, outside the seed bank. The box of Silverbirch seeds w...
2023-06-26 19:26:52 +0000 UTC
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The colors attracted him. Blazing like a second sun, the vibrant green of the plane attracted his hands despite himself. This was not wise. The seeds had remained for centuries, perhaps millennia, ...
2023-06-23 19:37:56 +0000 UTC
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Nathan
The seed vault was dark. So dark that even his Fae vision could not see within, and he needed just the bare minimum of light to see. Magic ran through the walls, humming with a frequen...
2023-06-23 19:29:20 +0000 UTC
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Two Adepts arguing was a disaster, a literal disaster, waiting to happen. Two Adepts arguing while a crowd watched, in the middle of a ten thousand-year-old mansion, perhaps the oldest known herita...
2023-06-23 19:17:58 +0000 UTC
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A ballroom could be magical. The attendees could be powerful. But a ball was still a ball. And Althea had attended far too many of those to be impressed by them anymore. Oh, it was grand enou...
2023-06-23 18:51:42 +0000 UTC
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Althea stuck a smile on as she started walking forward. The ballroom was something she hadn't expected. The sheer crowd present, and the way they were separated around it.
Just about every ma...
2023-06-23 18:32:41 +0000 UTC
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Althea kept a smile on her face as maids rushed around her, trying to figure out which of the hundreds of kinds of lipstick would suit her best. How Mira had even got her hands on so many shades of...
2023-06-23 18:29:06 +0000 UTC
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A foreign sensation spread across her body as she got up, muscles relaxing and contracting of their own accord. More than that, she was puzzled. The fact she had broken through was clear. The how, ...
2023-06-23 17:53:23 +0000 UTC
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“Empress Elara, are you telling me that this…enemy is from the time of the First Empire?” Sofret asked.
“Not at all. I am just saying that I used an artifact from the First Empire to ...
2023-06-23 16:57:50 +0000 UTC
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The room was white. The eight chairs were white, surrounding a white round table that trembled at the power that surrounded it.
Eight half-step Grandmasters, the peak of humanity in the North...
2023-06-23 13:17:20 +0000 UTC
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"Vader the First is the Diery family's ancestor?" The Empress spluttered. "That-tha-"
"Is great?" Althea prompted.
"Oh, great? Yes, it's great, alright. I don't think you understand wha...
2023-06-23 11:15:10 +0000 UTC
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