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Book 2, Chapter 54 - Distribution

Vex had been a little concerned that his words wouldn't be enough — but it turned out that he needn't have worried. The 'rebels', such as they were, were strangely willing to trust him on his wor...

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Book 2, Chapter 53 - Definitely a Progression Fantasy

Vex sat uncomfortably in the caravan. The windows were all locked and spelled shut — he could have dispelled it rather easily, but chose not to. Ingress had said something about taking them somew...

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Book 2, Chapter 52 - The Plan (Maybe)

Communication was only the beginning. There was still more to be done — the Communication glyph was not, on its own, able to mimic anything so complex as even the [Telepathy] spe...

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Book 2, Chapter 51 - Interlude - Xothok

Xothok was... antsy. He hated using that word to describe himself. It was a stupid word, for small, stupid people. What use was anxiety? He'd never had to worry about it before, because before, his...

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Book 2, Chapter 50 - Beginnings of a Plan

Whether he'd expected this or not, though, Karix's words triggered something in Vex — a seed of an idea. He had already found new magic, and if he wanted to, he could show it off right n...

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Book 2, Chapter 49 - Reunited

Breathe.

They'd known this was a possibility. Not this specific thing, perhaps — Vex hadn't even begun to consider that they might bring his little brother to a diplomatic...

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Book 2, Chapter 48 - Private Communications

To say the glyph worked was an understatement.

They'd done two tests. The first of them was done with Vex's own Sign of Research, to make sure that the new glyph — or sign, Vex hadn't reall...

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Book 2, Chapter 47 - Crafting a Counter

"Goddamn that took a while," Misa grumbled.

Vex... had to agree, although he was too tired to actually say anything. He let out a small groan in response, leaning most of his weight onto Deri...

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Book 2, Chapter 46 - A Noble Intent

"Ah... shit." Sev winced a little at the words. He couldn't help but glance towards Vex, whose face was as impassive as he could make it — but he knew Vex well. He saw the way the lizardkin hunch...

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Book 2, Chapter 45 - Malus

A/N: I am pretty happy with this chapter.

Also, reminder that you can drop down to $5 and keep access to all the chapters! Sorry to keep harping on about this, just want to m...

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Book 2, Chapter 44 - Cracks in the Soul

A/N: A quick note alongside the announcement: All chapters are now available at the $5 tier, and Platinum and Platinum+ mostly remain as support tiers. Feel free to swap down to $5 for chapter acce...

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Pricing Tier Consolidation, Chapter 44 Delay, Publication

Hello!

Some news today: I've been in talks with a publisher for getting Edge Cases published to Amazon, so I've been working on the Book 1 manuscript (mostly cleaning up and collating it into...

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Book 2, Chapter 43 - Battle of the Golds

There was, unfortunately, no time for a conversation. Derivan would come to regret being quite so impulsive with breaking Lendel's connections, in time, but he'd had no reason to believe that it wo...

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Book 2, Chapter 42 - Avoiding the Mystery Arc (This Time)

[CONNECTION BROKEN]

Reconnecting...

There was some text above that, but it had been cut off; all Derivan could see were scattered letter-fragments t...

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Book 2, Chapter 41 - Entrenched Systems

There was at least one good thing that might come out of whatever was going on with the Guild building, Derivan thought, once they found a spot within the Guild's grounds where they could leave the...

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Book 2, Chapter 40 - The Gates of Elyra, At Last

Elyra's walls loomed over the horizon.

Vex's stomach turned a bit as he stared at them — he never thought he'd see them again so soon. He knew, objectively, that it had been more t...

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Book 2, Chapter 39 - Mechanisms of Magic, and a Small Break

The harvest went rapidly after Vex's impromptu confession. That had, apparently, been the only thing holding the lizardkin back from putting all his efforts into the harvest — and more importantl...

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Book 2, Chapter 38 - Finally

Derivan had to admit to himself that he felt a little lost. Of all the things that he'd had practice doing ever since leaving the dungeon that had spawned him, harvesting magical crops wasn't one o...

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Book 2, Chapter 37 - Meeting

Emily's home was unremarkable, for all that she was apparently a witch of sufficient prowess to warrant the coveted position of nobility in Elyra.

Derivan thought it was cozy, certai...

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Book 2, Chapter 36 - Update

Anton's call came not long after Vex was done with his first series of glyph-tests. As before, the glyph they held began to glow with mana, which was interesting; without having mana-sight, it woul...

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Book 2, Chapter 35 - Combinatorics

A/N: Both 34 and 35 were released today, so make sure you didn't miss 34!

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"Is that... a problem?" Vex wasn't sure how to phrase his question, exactly, but Misa looked more tense tha...

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Book 2, Chapter 34 - The Basics of Magic

It wasn't until Vex was back within the confines of the system that he could feel how different this form of magic was, strangely enough. It had been overwhelming and wonderful in Teque, b...

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Book 2, Chapter 33 - Changes

That night, once again, Derivan cast [Starry Night]. They took a break on the side of the road for it, though they could have let the caravan keep running through the night; this w...

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Book 2, Chapter 32 - Catharsis

They were back in the caravan, Derivan and Vex seated across from Sev and Misa as it chugged along the road. They'd given breaking through the barrier into Fendal a few more tries, but every attemp...

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Book 2, Chapter 31 - Traumas

"Fuck," Misa said, again.

It had been an hour. The four of them sat outside the barrier to Fendal, still. They'd tried everything they could think of to break through the barrier, to...

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Book 2, Chapter 30 - Interlude - Velykos 2

Velykos was not entirely sure how he had ended up in this situation.

Intellectually, he supposed, he understood exactly how he'd ended up like this; the strides he could take as a la...

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Book 2, Chapter 29 - Sentimentality

Vex felt like his words were caught in his throat. He'd spoken to Noram not long ago at all; it had been a little over a day in Teque, and with the time differential between the two places, only ab...

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Book 2, Chapter 28 - No Good Answers

Two hours.

It wasn't a lot of time. It was barely any time at all, Vex thought, and maybe that was exactly why Helg had chosen it — it was just long enough to seem kind, but not long enough...

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Book 2, Chapter 27 - Rock and a Hard Place

Anton, it quickly came out, had happened to be carrying a large load of mana slivers when the Roads had shut down — presumably the exact moment the bonus room had been created, and this little po...

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Book 2, Chapter 26 - On the Nature of Being

A/N: Two chapter releases, so remember to read 25!
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Vex had known it was bad.

He'd known it was something that scared him; there had been enough spillover, enough intrinsic understan...

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