The math doesn’t work in our favour. Killi thought with a sigh as she leaned back in her chair, two hands trying to rub away her growing headache while the other two kept flipping through papers.
To say the reports she’d receive...
2023-11-25 18:44:48 +0000 UTC View PostIn their realm, the gods gathered for a meeting. It was the sort of thing that had been happening frequently since the invasion points had been marked, an unavoidable consequence of their increased workload when they were all doing their best to k...
2023-11-24 14:15:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe streets of the warrior’s tower were usually a little chaotic. There was no helping that fact. It was a place specifically made for people to come and train in combat skills, it was bound to draw a bit of an unruly element among the more resp...
2023-11-23 09:33:17 +0000 UTC View Post"God damn Greed, I wasn't expecting to see you here," Ben laughed, thrilled to see his friend again despite the situation he was in. "No nation has you tied down?"
"You kidding? Sticking to one place is a good way for some bastard or ex-flin...
2023-11-21 11:49:52 +0000 UTC View Post"Uh, so what the hell was that?" Skoe was the first to ask, giving voice to what the rest of them wanted to know with Thera also casting her eyes to Ben, more than willing to trust him at the time but wanting an explanation now given that she'd ju...
2023-11-19 09:39:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe next couple hours of flying were relatively peaceful, at least for himself. He tweaked and modified the enchantments as he went, getting them to the perfect balance of both comfortable for the user while still accomplishing their designed task...
2023-11-17 08:06:13 +0000 UTC View PostAttempt five… failed. Dang, let’s crack it open I guess and see if it’s at least obvious.
Sitting at a table in the shop, Ben was examining a side project of his. Nothing significant, just something to try and help him with so...
2023-11-16 08:34:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Grandfather,” Nati greeted lightly with a bow, showing the one before her that due respect after being pulled to his realm, getting a much warmer response in return.
“My dear, have you been well?” Nare asked, his lava-like features ...
2023-11-14 15:28:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe day that followed ended up straying from his new norm just a little. Instead of spending so much of his time pumping out weapons to do his part for the world, he first went to visit Killi at the magic towers, submitting reports of his discover...
2023-11-12 14:56:28 +0000 UTC View PostHe wasn’t feeling a touch of exhaustion when morning came, his practice and study had captured his imagination enough that the night had basically passed in the blink of an eye, but with the rising sun came his regular tasks as he put his work d...
2023-11-10 14:12:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt was still dark when he left the archive but he didn’t care. He let himself take a minute to watch Thera sleep after the perceived weeks he’d been away before rushing to the living room where he wouldn’t disturb her. A small part of him wa...
2023-11-09 15:24:26 +0000 UTC View PostHuh, combining scrying with space magic is pretty obvious so I’m not sure if that really belongs in here, but I can’t deny that the level of skill it was done with was masterful. I don’t really see any way I could apply it to my enchanti...
2023-11-07 17:13:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh, son of a bitch!”
He’d spent what felt like two entire weeks within the archive that might have only been a few minutes in the real world, going over everything he’d seen in his first dozen volumes again and again, trying to deco...
2023-11-05 15:19:58 +0000 UTC View Post<ACQUIRED TITLE- BRUTAL BLACKSMITH>
“Hey, what the actual hell?” Ben muttered to himself as he prepared to lay down for the night.
“What happened?”
“A new title. Why the hell did I get a new title?”
He did...
2023-11-03 15:28:31 +0000 UTC View PostWhen a few of his minds returned to normal speed, the area was silent. With the exception of both Thera and Sonya, no one had been expecting things to end quite so quickly, especially not when a not insignificant number had bet against him. He was...
2023-11-02 17:12:13 +0000 UTC View PostIt couldn’t have been more than fifteen minutes after he’d gotten back to work that he’d heard a knock on the door and went to check it out, finding Thera behind it looking far more exhausted than she had been when they’d parted, while Aso...
2023-11-01 12:04:28 +0000 UTC View PostIn the month after finishing the dark tower, the day-to-day lives of both Thera and Ben had returned to their more normal state; at least for the most part.
While Thera was still being treated differently because of the reveals of both her c...
2023-10-31 15:49:28 +0000 UTC View Post“Ben, help me out,” Pelenia asked with a pout. “Use that clever brain of yours to figure out how to help me awaken a skill too.”
Luck hadn’t been on the queen’s side when she got her blessing, it hadn’t given her the one level ...
2023-10-30 11:55:23 +0000 UTC View PostNone of them were willing to let things go that easily so she pulled the information from him before any of them would set foot on the next floor, just to get the barest amount of context on what had happened to him. When she’d woken up from her...
2023-10-29 15:13:00 +0000 UTC View PostWith the fourth floor in front of them, Ben couldn’t help but feel great. He felt like he was winning, finally pulling one over on the gods after how the last tower had gone for them. He’d been able to see everything that was going to happen o...
2023-10-28 12:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostSlowly, Thera felt herself coming back to consciousness, even if she had to fight past the groggy feeling picking at her every step of the way.
Ugh, feel like I shouldn’t be asleep right now. What am I supposed to be doing? It’s prob...
2023-10-27 09:39:56 +0000 UTC View PostHaving her vision returned to her as they got out of that floor, Thera was greeted with the sight of her aunt carrying both Karly and her mother in one comically large arm while the other held onto Ben’s hand, leading everyone out before letting...
2023-10-26 07:11:04 +0000 UTC View PostHer mother Pelenia, the current queen of Anailia happily waved at them as they drew closer, managing to look both excited and oh-so-smug.
“Mother, if you were going to come then why didn’t you just meet us at home?”
“Because th...
2023-10-25 04:36:57 +0000 UTC View Post“I can’t believe I agreed to this,” Thera muttered as they got to the shop, having just finished eating and saying goodbye to her aunt. “Literally every time we finish one of these we say we’re never doing it again.”
“We can me...
2023-10-24 06:37:24 +0000 UTC View PostThera hated the feeling of eyes on her. It was a feeling she would get in full force every time she was out in town ever since her titles and family connections had been outed that she couldn’t escape and it was just so exhausting. Knowing peopl...
2023-10-23 07:11:08 +0000 UTC View PostHe was taken to the back where he’d been expecting to find maybe ten or twenty people, just a few parties who’d challenged the tower and lived to tell the tale, but he’d been too pessimistic in his estimate, instead finding over fifty in the...
2023-10-22 05:58:54 +0000 UTC View PostHere we are, my family is gone after their very very long visit and I once again know peace, at least for the most part as I put out these daily chapters that I hope you're all enjoying! I said before I'd figure out when it is I get to go back to ...
2023-10-22 01:39:03 +0000 UTC View PostTime had flown since the visit to his research institute, with all of his work transitioning from his crafting to studying all of the known modifiers, testing them against multiple spells of each affinity as he tried to brute-force their finer rul...
2023-10-21 04:59:16 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's note
You can consider this side story to take place between the end of the 12th arc (with the first wave of the invasion) and the beginning of the thirteenth. Hope you all enjoy!
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Seven great spirits were silent as th...
2023-10-20 23:04:17 +0000 UTC View Post