Alex wiped away the sweat from his brow and slipped the messenger construct into its big, wooden box. Completing it had gone down to the wire which meant he’d finished up late the night before, b...
2021-11-18 22:51:31 +0000 UTC View Post“Does…anyone know about this?” Alex asked, dispelling Force Armour and Orb of Air as he checked out Kybas’ underground garden.
“Just you now,” Kybas said with a little cough. “W...
2021-11-18 00:08:15 +0000 UTC View Post“Okay, so there’s a spooky hole in the ground in there,” Alex said. “Like the kind you’d expect a ghost or gob-” he paused. “Er, beast-goblin to crawl out of. I took a look around and...
2021-11-16 22:45:54 +0000 UTC View PostThink. Adapt.
Think. Adapt.
Think. Ada-
It was no use.
Alex had stopped thinking.
“Selina.” Mr. Lu smiled sweetly at the little girl. ...
2021-11-13 20:04:51 +0000 UTC View PostAlex recalled how Prince Khalik had described ‘dragonfear’ as a power he’d experienced when he’d come upon a dragon near his kingdom once.
“Dragons have an aura...
2021-11-12 23:19:11 +0000 UTC View Post“What was that?” Mr. Lu asked, with a twinkle in his eyes. “Some wizard thing?”
All around the dock, a wave of tension swept through the crowd. People clotted together in muttering gr...
2021-11-11 22:48:41 +0000 UTC View PostBy the end of the information session and the sign-up that followed, Alex’s group had registered for several events, some individually, and some as a team.
Fortunately, Kybas could particip...
2021-11-10 23:32:22 +0000 UTC View PostTucked in his room in the early morning, Alex guided his way through the spell array one final time, checking the last notation in his notebook.
Force Armour: 98%
The spell was...
2021-11-10 00:19:31 +0000 UTC View Post“I suppose it was left somewhat vague as to how we came upon such a sample,” Baelin said. “Letters being letters, and our communication before now being so…impersonal.”
He watched t...
2021-11-06 20:31:11 +0000 UTC View PostAt times, life could be frustrating.
Especially when life lasted long enough.
In ages past, it would have been normal to simply take a resource when it was discovered. The ston...
2021-11-05 21:22:42 +0000 UTC View PostAlex’s jaw dropped as he stepped into the room.
“Really?”
The doors quietly closed behind him.
“Indeed!” Baelin gestured to the mountains of paperwork. “The g...
2021-11-04 22:02:35 +0000 UTC View PostThere was something both beautiful and hideous about the creature.
Its wings flashed in the night, shimmering like diamonds as they buzzed through the air. And that’s where all beauty ended...
2021-11-03 21:40:29 +0000 UTC View PostBaelin often said that a wizard’s greatest enemy was another wizard.
They came with a number of abilities that one would prefer an enemy not have.
Not only would they attack other wiz...
2021-11-02 22:56:55 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you serious?” Alex asked quietly, “What’re people doing in here? Don’t they know there’s a wasp-death-monster around, and didn’t the steward say it was forbidden to come in here?...
2021-10-30 22:26:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Hmmm, I expected someone a little…older,” the steward of the nobildonna said somewhat sceptically. His eyes swept between them. “You are truly Alexander Roth and Theresa Lu, slayers of the...
2021-10-29 20:39:31 +0000 UTC View PostAlex and Theresa strolled through the quiet beauty of the university campus. They weren’t in any particular hurry: it was too early for their reservation, and the grounds were beautiful. It had b...
2021-10-28 20:09:47 +0000 UTC View PostThings had started off well.
The dessert he’d planned to make was called a ‘spit cake’, which sounded disgusting, but wasn’t actually made of spit. People only got the disgus...
2021-10-27 21:51:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe City Hall of Generasi—seat of the ruling council of wizards and their vast bureaucracy—was enormous. It was an absolute monument to the power and advanced level of the ‘City at the Center...
2021-10-26 21:10:40 +0000 UTC View PostMessenger constructs were relatively simple compared to golems; they didn’t require a constant connection to a master or an ability to process mental commands.
Instead, they only needed sim...
2021-10-23 18:17:50 +0000 UTC View PostAlex jotted down his thoughts.
Maybe The Traveller’s name was written somewhere, maybe it wasn’t. He doubted—that if it was—it would be in the university’s library. Baelin had looke...
2021-10-22 22:45:44 +0000 UTC View PostOne by one, members of the summoning class raised their hands to suggest rules for the seminar. It took a bit of encouragement for Professor Mangal to get someone to speak up at first, but once tha...
2021-10-21 21:19:30 +0000 UTC View PostAlex stepped closer to Claygon.
A creeping feeling slithered along his skin; the kind of feeling he got when something was watching him. Though he couldn’t see anything in the circ...
2021-10-20 21:12:38 +0000 UTC View PostAlex had been paying attention to Professor Jules, but hearing her mention the empire where the hunter was spotted so many years before—and her grim tone—gave him a twinge of shock.
“It...
2021-10-19 14:42:11 +0000 UTC View PostAlex watched Claygon for a while longer, but he gave no other signs of coming to life, or showing intelligence, or turning evil and going on a killing rampage. He pulled out one of the notebooks fr...
2021-10-16 21:45:42 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh yes,” Khalik said emphatically. “The games are run by The Watchers, but they are sponsored by the city. A number of the events have different prizes: usually fine items for one to display...
2021-10-16 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Ursa-Lupine Brotherhood was immediately recognizable by their green shirts adorned with the silver symbol of a two-headed beast. The young men walked with the swagger of one trying to actively ...
2021-10-14 22:36:14 +0000 UTC View PostBlood magic had a complicated history.
According to his Magic Lore class, it was largely considered to be one of the most dangerous sorts of wizardry in existence. The spell arrays of blood m...
2021-10-13 22:03:37 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s an army, Alex!” Selina proudly showed her newest clay sculptures to him. “An army of cool wizards and fighters and good monsters to get rid of evil monsters!”
“Well, well, a...
2021-10-12 22:30:47 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, look at that, none of us flunked out.” Alex grinned as he looked up at the board. That was an understatement.
For Magic Lore II, Art of the Wizard in Combat II, and The Alchemy of ...
2021-10-09 19:13:29 +0000 UTC View Post“Congratulations, to each and every one of you.” Baelin clapped his large hands together. “You have all passed the final exam and thus passed The Art of the Wizard in Combat II. And so thus e...
2021-10-08 22:46:24 +0000 UTC View Post