The next morning, whether it was the unknown threat of the Bents, or the lingering feeling of shame I felt from the worried look I saw in Lilly’s tan eyes, I renewed my determination to stop drin...
2021-04-27 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostFor those of you who receive posts via email, I apologize. I accidentally clicked the wrong button and you may have received chapter 31 ahead of chapters 29 and 30. Sorry!
2021-04-27 03:12:36 +0000 UTC View PostI awoke to feel refreshed. The breakfast and morning tea, I ate without testing myself again. I had learned my lesson, for now. Even if I felt disgusted with myself for my relianc...
2021-04-26 16:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostI erred this morning. I had dreamed last night, reliving a memory of a battle long past. Perhaps it was the message from Lady Lark breathing new life into my feelings of war with its wa...
2021-04-25 16:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe afternoon was spent performing working with Kine on the second basement level. I erred when I constructed the staircase downward, not taking into account that I would need a flattened lan...
2021-04-24 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostMy pupils returned today, rushing in on two wagons and with frightened looks on their faces. Evidently, the giant bats from the beast wave infested the forest, and more than a hundred now roosted b...
2021-04-23 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostA light spring rain had curtailed some of my outdoor activities for the day. Certainly, I could have mitigated it to continue, but I was feeling morose. I suspected that without the distraction aff...
2021-04-22 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostLet me know if you think the LITRPG elements in this chapter are too much! I wasn't sure if I got carried away.
I awoke with a start, my...
2021-04-21 16:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, I saw Pyl off. He departed westward with more than two hundred shambling zombie beasts and promises to return for more. It was a little under a fifth of what the moat contained, so I ...
2021-04-20 19:51:21 +0000 UTC View PostI found myself too impatient to wait for them to make it down the road. Not even half an hour after they departed, I found myself standing before the beast pits. Oni, I remembered his name now beca...
2021-04-20 03:29:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt was three days after the [Paladin] departed in the carriage with his nobleborn captive when my assistants and their [Bandit] subordinates finished with the bodies. In that time, I had sort...
2021-04-20 03:21:50 +0000 UTC View PostI awoke at dawn, the sound of a teacup clanking onto the barrel nearby as pleasant a sound as the smell of it. The morning meal was another helping of oatmeal, plain and with no sausage this time. ...
2021-04-20 03:14:40 +0000 UTC View PostAs I stepped out onto the top of my tower, I immediately noticed Walker holding his arms high as his mana reinforced a magical shield. The shield he cast was a weaker spell, one that created a tran...
2021-04-20 03:05:24 +0000 UTC View Post“Boss! Boss! Uh, lord wizard! Boss!” the upset voice of Mena cut through my pleasant dreams.
I rose from my bed, not with panic or urgency, but alertness. I felt I’d only gotten a few h...
2021-04-20 03:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostA groggy Lilly came down shortly after I had finished the oven. Her blonde hair a tangled mess, and her hands still wiping sleep from her eyes. A large yawn announced her presence. I just waved her...
2021-04-20 02:58:57 +0000 UTC View PostI had the [Wagoneers] begin unloading my furniture and taking it upstairs. The potted flowers carried around and set at the base of my tower, to be planted later. No sense in those men sitting arou...
2021-04-20 02:57:48 +0000 UTC View PostTo say I was upset was an understatement. The [Adminstrator] that led me out kept giving me fearful looks, but I ignored her. I did not want to be appointed an Alderman. What made her think she cou...
2021-04-20 02:56:32 +0000 UTC View PostI noticed that the warmth of spring had come. I couldn’t tell in the wetlands or the darkness of the forest, but on the walk towards Lark it was evident. There was still a cool mountain breeze th...
2021-04-20 02:55:43 +0000 UTC View PostWe made good time traveling towards Woodhoot. I set Walker on monster-duty, with Lilly acting as a secondary spotter. None of us wanted one of the leeches to drop on our head. Filthy things. While ...
2021-04-20 02:54:37 +0000 UTC View PostI used rubble to block the access to the third floor as we descended. It wasn’t that I didn’t want anyone else to get a chance to enjoy the view, but rather that I wanted to make sure that no m...
2021-04-20 02:53:55 +0000 UTC View PostI was so eager that I half-jogged ahead of the others. What saved my life was a century-old defensive spellwork. The Nightstalker was a second-tier Giant Spider. Its brown-and-black haired body lay...
2021-04-20 02:52:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning, we rented a mule to carry our tents and purchased food supplies before setting out. What the city called their western gate was just a heavily barred doorway. The road to Woodhoot...
2021-04-20 02:52:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe emerged from between two particularly forested hills to see the City of Lark. Lark would be more accurately described as a large, poor town. A thirty-foot-tall wooden palisade surrounded the cit...
2021-04-20 02:51:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe following day, I discovered that the City of Eisten was known for its bathhouses. I ordered Walker and Lilly to join me there for the afternoon and turned in early that evening to enjoy as much...
2021-04-20 02:50:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning, I awoke feeling refreshed. While still lumpy compared to my own mattress, the bed felt a great deal better than the sleeping roll I used in my tent. After a quick casting of a cle...
2021-04-20 02:49:07 +0000 UTC View PostOn the eastern approach to the City of Eiston, the road slowly curved down a slight slope from the plains. The city itself nestled in a valley, though buildings spread out beyond its central walls ...
2021-04-20 02:47:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe morning brought with it the unpleasant noises of a busy inn. Despite being on the third floor, I clearly heard the loud chatter of talkative scribes. The aptly named Scholar’s Delight Inn was...
2021-04-20 02:46:48 +0000 UTC View PostI startled awake to the sounds and smells of Nisto cooking breakfast. My back ached from having fallen asleep at my table yesterday, face pressed into a book. I furtively closed it and tucked it aw...
2021-04-20 02:45:20 +0000 UTC View PostI awoke with a parched mouth and a pounding headache. I wasn’t one to drink often, rarely more than a cup or two a year and those were usually at social functions. Last night, though, I felt insp...
2021-04-20 02:43:57 +0000 UTC View PostSena City, the capital of the human Kingdom of Sena, has stood for close to a thousand years. A population that surpassed eight hundred thousand all lived within five concentric walled rings, each ...
2021-04-20 02:42:39 +0000 UTC View Post