Stratothrax

Chapter 170

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A single carriage lantern lit the deep dark night ahead, creating a fast moving circle of paving that marked the winding road away from the city and deeper into th...

Chapter 169

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There was a sense of nothingness in the place she floated.

No, that wasn't quite true, not nothing. There was a shroud over the nothing, an ephemeral lie tha...

Chapter 168

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Zack pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed. Bounty hunting was not going as well as he would have liked. He did wonder how he had ended up at this strange stag...

Chapter 167

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There were those in the crowd who panicked, yes, but there were also those who when faced with an enormous solid black panthara stepped up to fight.

Many had...

Chapter 166

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Baera struggled up from where she'd been washed up against the wall along with nearly a hundred others, wails of alarm emanating from the tangled party goers, thei...

Chapter 165

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Lyra and the water mage met as she was plucking an appetiser from a passing butler, hand halfway to mouth as she turned to find Lyra standing before her.

"...Yes?"

Chapter 164

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The mansion was a vast thing, as the excesses of nobility were wont to be, the gardens more so, great fountains spewing water dozens of meters into the air, bushes...

Chapter 163

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The party.

The welcoming party more specifically, the return of the prodigal son, a momentous moment in the Fenhorn family's history.

A party that they...

Chapter 162

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Baera stepped out onto the streets, her metal heeled boots clicking against the white flagstones.

She wondered for a moment if it really was wise to leave Ji...

Chapter 161

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The grand city walls of Florence rose far above like chalk white cliffs, hundreds of feet high and stretching into the distance either side of the road to the main...

Chapter 160

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Bylrielle scowled and picked burnt carbon from beneath her fingernails. That was the problem with working all day at a massive commercial forge, you got incredibly...

Chapter 159

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Boom.

The windows rattled as violet fire flowed out from the impact point, a wave of purple plasma that crisped the wallpaper to ash revealing and blackening the plaste...

Chapter 158

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It wasn't long before morning light filled Warwick's home and the devastation was lit up bright, all the rubble of Rain and Erin's fight strewn across the grass, the long din...

Chapter 157

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The scythes slashed wide and Erin only avoided their touch by flapping her wings, wings that seemed to give lift completely out of proportion with their size. Drag...

Chapter 156

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Consciousness came slow and very fuzzy, but sooner than expected. It was not the morning light that had woken Rain, it was a sound. Somehow Rain doubted either would have wok...

Chapter 155

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Lyra slowly towelled herself dry, her mind still stuck in the moment Opal had accosted her and like some kind of breast massage wizard had driven her to climax through touch ...

Chapter 154

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"The problem is," whispered Lyra, "Is if anyone starts asking questions. I can't prove I'm strong enough to control you Rain, any check on my level and they will instantly kn...

Chapter 153

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Rain pulled away from the bookshelf with Lyra held in his grasp. The sheep girl was of course completely stuck tight and fast on his length and wouldn't be coming ...

Chapter 152

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Bookkeeping as a librarian was a tough job. Lyra the librarian spent many a day reorganising the mess pesky customers left or dealing with the pesky customers themselves who ...

Chapter 151

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Opal and Lyra watched with absolute perfect concentration as the teapot packed full of tea leaves slowly poured into the teacup until there was nothing left.

Steam waft...

Chapter 150

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Rain devoured the last of the gangs, drakes and lapines all, dozens of them. Those who had been killed by each other, or by himself. He had to admit of the two species Lapine...

Chapter 149

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Food.

Food was annoying.

Annoying because Rain felt he needed so much of it to prevent himself from accidentally eating Opal or Lyra. It was a fairly i...

Chapter 148

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Elves possessed naturally long and shapely legs, but even amongst elves Myra's were particularly long and shapely.

She stretched her legs out like a cat on t...

Chapter 147

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A dog trotted its way through the camp on the plain.

It was a boiling hot summer's day and the sun beat down relentlessly, not even a breeze to stir the endl...

Chapter 146

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Opal peered into the handkerchief embroidered with Lord Wranvyre's insignia. Inside were a number of bone fragments that rattled and clattered against each other a...

Chapter 145

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A radiant azure butterfly fluttered across the grass, gently flitting from blade to blade. Pickle watched her target with a furious focus, like a tiny tiger, only ...

Chapter 144

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The journey back to Warwick's place went smoothly. Most levelers seemed to figure that a large monster was not very likely to be wearing a giant bear ...

Chapter 143

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Walking through the streets of Florens without the protection of Lyra's invisibility was a new experience, and a worrying one, yet Rain found himself being left al...

Chapter 142

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"Is that what I think it is?" murmured Rain.

"He used these tiny deadly fireballs, lots of them, and they just went through everything," said Opal. ...

Chapter 141

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Opal sat up from her hiding spot just inside the slave Gobbo door.

She hesitated... then felt at her front. The scar where Wranvyre had stabbed his ...