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Chapter 315: Those that Have Faded

Alex looked all around, his heart hammering.

Students were walking near, near enough to be within earshot, but Baelin’s deep voice was rising.

‘Why?’

‘What was he doing?�...

Chapter 314: Morning Amusement and Power

“Baelin? W-what are you doing here?” Alex asked, suddenly very aware that he must look like…well someone who’d been drinking until he passed out.

“I had a free morning, for once,”...

Chapter 313: For Science!

Captain Fan-Dor squinted across the square, his black eyes searching the crowd, but missing the strapping young man waving at them from a table near a line of food stalls. Gel-Dor's attention fell ...

Chapter 312: Learnings in the Market

“Demons, Third Apostle. Demons have come to Thameland.”

“What?” Izas asked. “This is not time for poetic language, Eldin.”

“I’m not exaggerating, Third Apostle. Were tha...

Chapter 311: Movements in Sanctuaries of Magic and Faith

“I wonder how Gwyllain’s doing,” Alex muttered, considering ideas for his staff. As he learned more summoning spells, he’d been making a list of which ones could enhance the staff’s power...

Chapter 310: Night Attack and Planning a Trap

Silence-spiders crept across the hills, approaching the encampment’s walls. Three moved across the landscape as one, low numbers decreasing their visibility under the new moon.

Their leader...

Chapter 309: Partners, Spirals and Tempting Fate

“Nooooooooooo!” Alex screamed internally, shoving down the urge to scream out loud.

But, instead of doing what he really wanted to, he put on his most sincere smile and nodded at her. “...

Chapter 308: Ugly Behaviour

By the time the Fool returned to Thameland, the encampment was in a flurry of new activity.

At long last, the surveyors had finally mapped Greymoor. With the edges of the university’s land ...

Chapter 307: The Spiral

“Normally, this would take months to teach.” Val’Rok gestured to a chair by the fire for Alex to sit in, then scuttled over to some shelves and began rifling through various devices. “But w...

Chapter 306: The Evil Wizard Val'Rok

Sir Alexander Roth, first of his name, quested up the tower to meet the evil sorcerer Val’Rok. Well actually, he simply climbed the stairs to go see his former professor.

Who, to be truthfu...

Chapter 305: Learning & Teaching

“Why do you do that?” Selina frowned, looking down at the heading circled in Alex’s notebook.

“Do what?”

“Give everything big, dramatic names?”

“Because I’m also...

Chapter 304: Dark Allies and Operation Grand Summoning Ascension

The monster crouched at the edge of a copse of trees as something stirred in the distant landscape.

Something that gave the Ravener’s Hunter concern.

There were few mortals in this la...

Chapter 303: Aftermaths

“Could you be any more vague, man?” Hart raked his fingers through his long brown hair. “Come on, this isn’t some bard’s tale where everything’s gotta be all mysterious and told by cand...

Table of Contents (TOC)

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Chapter 302: Reflections and Questions

“Well, there’s no sense in us standin’ about now that we know what’s goin’ on,” Cedric picked up one of the drawings. “Can we keep some o’ these ‘til we get the ones with more det...

Chapter 301: The Sage Contemplates a Third Option

“Oh by all the bloody Ravener-spawn! Tell me if I got any o’ this wrong.” Cedric said, his face flushed and his jaw tight. “So there was…this bloody demon conjurer, or summoner or somethi...

Chapter 300: And Just One More Thing...

The night passed like a fleeting shadow.

Everyone was relaxed, enjoying each other’s company as Theresa returned with two cups of wine in hand. Drestra seemed lost in thought for the rest o...

Chapter 299: Brewing Allies

Confiding in strangers was a surprisingly common thing.

He’d experienced it a lot back in Alric, especially working behind the counter at McHarris’, and on a few occasions since he’d be...

Chapter 298: Enchantment and Dodging Questions

The bonfire crackled.

The expedition members were celebrating.

And the Fool watched.

Alex nursed his wine, sitting cross legged by the fire with Claygon standing nearby. Idly—ou...

Chapter 297: Sewing the Seeds

Victory had the whole group itching for a blow-out party that would’ve left them in a pool of suffering the next morning, unfortunately, reality hit hard after they’d cleared out the dungeons.<...

Chapter 296: Harvest

Alex spun through the air toward the gibbering legion, using the remnants of Haste potion burning through his body and the creature’s sluggishness. Its weapons stabbed upward, clumsily driving at...

Chapter 295: The Battle of Chitterer Dungeon

Whoooosh!

The monsters plummeted down from the high ceiling, aiming dozens of weapons at everyone below. It was as if the spectre of death was falling to either crush Alex’s team, ...

Chapter 294: Storming the Final Chamber

Rmmmmble!

The entire dungeon trembled as the group sped down the passageway.

Stone dust rained from the ceiling, spreading through the air around them. The dungeon core’s dar...

Chapter 293: Breaking Walls

The usurper was there. Right in its lair.

Of all possible scenarios, the worst had arrived.

Within its chamber, the dungeon core’s mana shuddered as its alien mind worked, gathering i...

Chapter 292: Hand on Glass

Theresa put her ear to the wall on the right side of the tunnel. She swore.

“It sounds like they’re massing,” the huntress warned, quickly moving to the left side and pressing her ear t...

Chapter 291: The Delve

Alex focused his mind, pouring his mana into Summon Small Water Elemental spells while the expedition readied themselves at the bases of the dungeons’ hills.

He’d already summoned Bubbles...

Chapter 290: Magical Reconnaissance

Alex sat on the edge of the hill, chewing his bottom lip while his mind chewed over the Chosen of Uldar. Before too long, Cedric would be heading down into the depths of a Ravener dungeon with him ...

Chapter 289: Dungeon Attack Plan

“Alright, so here’s what I’m thinking,” Alex was stooped over, drawing a diagram on the granite. He’d drawn little hills to represent both dungeons and a few blobs to stand-in for the exp...

Chapter 288: Fire and Retreat

Alex finished casting Call through Ice, not resisting the strange power’s help with the spell. The monster’s nine pairs of jaws were snapping, blood flowed freely onto its chest wound, cooling ...

Chapter 287: The Blood-Hydra

A horror of a monster was emerging from the mound. It looked even more nightmarish than its pictures in the bestiaries. If a hive-queen was the commander for a horde of silence-spiders, then this a...