Over the past month since arriving at Fort Eldric, things have been rather slow, and from what I overheard when acting as a bodyguard for Dad, we were essentially playing cat and mouse with Valorhelm Dominion scouts. This resulted in a few deaths ...
2025-01-21 12:42:00 +0000 UTC View PostAfter everyone had settled down from the Blood Ascendent incident, it did not even take four months before Grud caught news of unrest happening in regions that were more than a month’s journey from his tribe, and some of the nearby smaller tribe...
2025-01-18 19:41:19 +0000 UTC View PostAs Grud tried to move his other limbs, he felt that soft, squishy weights also held them down. He then noticed that those weights were slick, wet, and being rubbed all over his body. What Grud could not see but only feel was his wives riding on ev...
2025-01-17 14:50:51 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Hi guys. Sorry for the slow upload this few days, work at my day job is chewing my ass, and I got suckered into a promotion... In other words, slight pay increase, and more responsibilities to take on. I will try to upload if I can...
2025-01-14 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostHammer out, fold, hammer out, heat, hammer out, fold. For three of my free days, I spent time in the workshop trying to make a simple Damascus steel kitchen knife, but due to my inexperience, I fucked up three billets when the different layers of ...
2025-01-11 15:52:27 +0000 UTC View PostWhen night came, Professor Sageira, Dad, and I were back in the forest clearing we used for refining the Primal Aura technique. The first thing we did was get Dad started with mana pathway tempering.
Fortunately for him, all the magical moni...
2025-01-10 16:09:38 +0000 UTC View PostAs the night of training drew on, I sparred with Professor Sageira using my Primal Aura again and again to the point where I could barely move by the time she called an end to the night’s training. All the while, my parents watched on.
Whe...
2025-01-08 13:58:02 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Grud got his hands on the Blood Priest’s comb, he ordered everyone to vacate the room so he could have an easier time isolating the different smells with his enhanced sense of smell.
After he got a good sense of the Blood Priest’s ...
2025-01-06 14:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs much as Grud wanted to avoid casualties, he could only kill so fast. By the time the last of the armored Blood Ascendants lay dead on the ground, Grud had lost close to a hundred men who were now dead, dying, or maimed, and Grud himself did not...
2025-01-04 18:29:34 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Sorry for the late upload, this was supose to come out 2 days ago, but I had family new year stuff to do... So anyway, Happy New Year!
Deep in a forest, a ten-minute dragon flight away from the Ironcrest estate,...
2025-01-01 13:03:17 +0000 UTC View PostNight after night of continuously being zapped, me and Professor Sageira worked on how to prolong and stabilize this skill. It did not even take three days to before my parents found it worrying that their boy was sleeping in till lunch a few days...
2024-12-29 12:54:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Alright, let's try that again without making another line of destruction in the woods.” Professor Sageira said after waking me up from getting knocked out by her.
We tried to perform the fusion technique again, assuming that with the fo...
2024-12-28 16:13:34 +0000 UTC View PostAN: I added a big chunk toward the end of the last chapter to mention Luke and Emma’s younger siblings, who are two years younger than them.
AN: I will use [ ] for telepathic communication. 2024-12-27 15:07:51 +0000 UTC View Post
The first Blood Ascendants charged Grud with weapons raised and got a spear tip to the faces for their troubles, but when more men started charging Grud in earnest, Grud found himself in quite a pickle.
That pickle being himself. He was a bi...
2024-12-25 13:11:42 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next few days, Grud’s men and the four new Blood Ascendant war parties played a game of cat and mouse. As usual, half of Grud’s men led the four Blood Ascendant war parties on a wild goose chase or into ambushes led by Grud and the ot...
2024-12-23 12:53:55 +0000 UTC View PostDave and Sam, like most of their lives growing up, did things together like brothers from different mothers. During their time in the academy, they concentrated mainly on the martial side of their education, only learning enough magic to start a f...
2024-12-21 17:59:49 +0000 UTC View PostTime passed, and before I knew it, I had graduated from the Royal Academy. And besides the mandatory lessons, it has been fun. I may not have made many close friends outside of Dave, Sam, Elise, and later Alistair Arundel… and eventually Lavinia...
2024-12-20 07:52:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, I got the results for my credit by examination for Advanced Combat & Tactics. While I did not get a perfect score, I scored high enough to pass the course. Immediately after getting my results, I finalized my subject selection to...
2024-12-18 14:33:16 +0000 UTC View PostGrud yanked his spear out of the corps on the ground, the cold, frigid air freezing the blood on the spearhead almost instantly. It has been a month since Grud ran into the first group of the Blood Ascendants.
As they closed in, they slaught...
2024-12-15 13:10:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe Blood Champion was roughly ramming himself into a crying woman beneath him, in his crimson-hazed addled mind, only brief concepts occasionally flashed into his mind, only to be blown away like mist.
What he knew of his previous life was ...
2024-12-13 12:06:15 +0000 UTC View PostEmma and I were walking to the administration office to get the subject selection out of the way before the academic year truly began. By now, word had gotten around that Emma and I had some kind of close relationship since she was following me ev...
2024-12-11 10:57:31 +0000 UTC View PostToday was a day to celebrate victory, especially for my three friends who had just finished their first subjugation mission, and not just any puny subjugation, an actual drake who, if not for Dad and his knights, would have taken platoons of soldi...
2024-12-10 13:50:25 +0000 UTC View PostA few days went by as I got settled back into the home that I had been away from for months. I reconnected with the house staff that had taken care of me when I was confined to the mansion due to my period of uncontrolled aura, especially my previ...
2024-12-06 14:39:18 +0000 UTC View PostAs Grud and his ten men entered the gates of the Deep Lake tribe, the first thing they noticed was that their houses were built around a rather wide clearing in the center. But then he noticed people sitting in the clearing with what seemed to be ...
2024-12-04 03:18:10 +0000 UTC View PostGrud immediately called a family meeting and announced that Zogor, Reta's third-born son, had died while protecting his tribe from inland raiders. Hearing this, Reta broke down, and all his wives began crying, especially his older wives, who had n...
2024-12-02 15:08:47 +0000 UTC View PostIt was the day after my arrival back home, and we were all sitting at the dining table for breakfast as my family had some small talk with the guest I brought along.
As far as that, everything was normal. The only abnormal thing was Emma, w...
2024-11-30 16:49:45 +0000 UTC View PostSoon after the rest of the tournament events were over, and the whole tournament itself was done, the atmosphere at the academy changed because, in just a few months, the end-of-year exams were upon us.
Just like everyone else, I hit the boo...
2024-11-27 12:24:33 +0000 UTC View PostFame has bitten me in the ass. Not a big bite, but a bite nonetheless. From the moment I got back to my seat in the stands with my class, all the way to the campus grounds, I had people or representatives of people coming up to me to introduce the...
2024-11-25 14:33:13 +0000 UTC View PostSorry guys, there will be no upload today or for the rest of the weekend, I am down with the flu and the meds are making the words leave my head before I can type them out. I will most likely upload a chapter for Of Arms and Arcane on Monday.
2024-11-21 15:48:05 +0000 UTC View PostA month and a half from when Mita received the vision from the ancient wisp, Grud’s household, holdings, wives, children, and extended family were all secured or well on the way to being so. It was time for the big reveal.
That day, Mita d...
2024-11-20 15:04:10 +0000 UTC View Post