For three days after Trajans funeral, Leon stayed at home. He didnt visit anyone, he didnt leave the property, he just stayed at his villa with his head buried in training and his enchanting work. Minerva had nothing for him to do, so he had...
2019-12-13 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostRoyal funerals in the Bull Kingdom were tightly regulated affairs. There would be no speeches, wakes, or parties after. The ancestors of House Taurus wanted their funerals to be solemn events, meant to honor and remember them, not to be highjacked...
2019-12-11 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe three days between Minervas visit and Trajans funeral passed by in a flash. Leon spent most of that time working on his flight suit, testing its limits and how much control he had over it.
As it turned out, it wasnt the perfect fli...
2019-12-09 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt had been a week since Trajan died and Naiad left. Leon hadnt done a damn thing of worth, to his immense frustration. He and Minerva were friendly enough, even more so now that they shared a determination to bring justice to Trajans killers,...
2019-12-06 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostLeon sat in his workshop alone, silently contemplating what to do next. Trajan was gone, and with him, any obligation Leon felt toward the Bull Kingdom. However, he wanted to stay a while longer so he could help Minerva bring his killer to justice...
2019-12-04 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostLeons villa was silent as a grave once Minerva, Alix, and the rest of the knights took their leave. Neither Elise nor Naiad wanted to break the silence, they simply remained quiet and waited for Leon to say the first word. After all, neither of ...
2019-12-02 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe voice Leon and Minerva heard emanating from Trajans clothes stunned them completely. It also took them right out of their fugue states, and as soon as they recovered, they subtly glanced at each other, knowing exactly who that voice belonged...
2019-11-29 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostTime seemed to stop as Leon tried to process the words that Alix was saying. His heart rose into his throat, his blood thundered in his ears, and he asked, What was that?
Prince Trajan has been ambushed by someone! Alix sa...
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Searing pain filled Trajans mind. He wasnt dead, but the spear in his chest had done extreme amounts of damage. His armor and ribcage had kept him alive, despite the titanic power packed into that attack, d...
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Papers. Papers and more papers. The damn things kept stacking up, no matter what he did with them.
Trajan sighed from behind his desk. The moon was high in the sky, but his assistants and secretaries jus...
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Leons Mind Palace was coming along quite well, with much its skeleton already in place. The Thunderbird had asked him a question before that had sent a ...
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I honestly don't know what to say. Nothing seems good enough. I'm genuinely speechless.
Thank you. Those words don't really express the depths of my gratitude, but they're all I've got right now.
Thank you.
Months passed in the capital, and soon enough, Leon had been back for more than a year. He and Elise had gotten settled into their villa, Anzus training was going incredibly well, and things seemed great for Leon on almost every front.
But...
2019-11-22 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostJormuns ship cut through the waves as it led the way for Jormuns fleet to sail away from Serpents Fall. The city was starting to vanish behind them, only ten miles away but still beyond what even a fourth-tier mage could reliably see with an...
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The continent of Aeterna was immense, and the land of the Bull Kingdom was only a small, isolated corner of it. South of the Bull Kingdom was the Gulf of Discord, followed by the desert Samar Kingdom. The Samar...
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Naiad was completely out of it. She laid on the bed, barely conscious after her second time having sex with Leon and Elise. Perhaps it was because Elise was participating or because Leon was far less hesitant, ...
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Leon and Naiad walked back inside the villa. Leon was done with training for the rest of the day, not that he much wanted to anyway after Naiad indicated she wanted to sleep with him again.
The m...
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Leon slowly exhaled, his chest rising and falling in time with the wind. Down below where he sat upon the throne platform, Xaphan watched with great interest. There wasn...
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2019-11-16 16:53:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe events surrounding the death of Tiberias took the entire city by surprise. For a noble to be so brazenly murdered in the streets was unheard of in the Bull Kingdom. It had happened before, but not in living memory; these days, most nobles kept...
2019-11-15 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe man hidden in shadow was gone, his pillar of ice shattered. Naiads water dragon lowered her to the ground and she took off back toward the ambush point. It was lucky that the owners of the villa that she and the darkness mage had been standi...
2019-11-13 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe river nymph was nowhere to be seennot that he had been expecting her to be, given her skill in concealment. Two guards equipped with invisibility rings had been killed with ice magic behind Leon, so he knew that she was still around, but now...
2019-11-11 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHed left Elise at the party without any warning. Theyd spoken about this and Tiberias early departure had taken him by surprise, but as Leon left the Aeneas estate, he couldnt help but feel terrible about it. Hed even left his friends, a...
2019-11-08 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostLeon told his friends about his relationship with Elise. They had already heard some things about her when the four were at the Knight Academy, but since none of them had actually met her, none had expected to suddenly meet her at Leons placeL...
2019-11-06 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIf Leon took the time to stop and think about the problem, hed probably regret agreeing so readily to Marcus party invitation. It would likely consist of dozens, if not hundreds of other people, and he was rarely, if ever, in the mood to mingl...
2019-11-04 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostLeon and his friends briefly grasped wrists in greeting, smiles on all their faces. It had been a little less than five months since they had last seen each other, but it was still a joy to see each other again.
Good to see you, my ...
2019-11-01 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostTwo years ago, Leon Ursus departed from this institution a third-tier squire, and today he returns a sixth-tier knight! the Legate of the Knight Academy said, his voice resounding through the parade grounds and the ears of the...
2019-10-30 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostFour and a half months had passed since Leon returned to the capital. It had been two years since he had left the Knight Academy, and it was time for the strongest of the trainees from his cycle to graduate and become full-fledged knights.
T...
2019-10-28 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostKill Tiberias. That was the advice that the Thunderbird had given. There was no justice to be had in the Bull Kingdom for the young noblemans attempt to kill Leonnot that Leon ever seriously considered seeking legal justice. There just wasnt...
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