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Chapter 141

A gout of fire flashed down the tunnel in front of Nym, strong enough to drive him back a few steps. It was followed by a barrier sealing the mouth and blocking the ghouls from getting in. There were three more possible entrances though, and addin...

Chapter 140

The next few minutes of Nym’s life were pure chaos. Leaf, Blanchet, and Tiramaya all went for their assigned cores as quickly as possible. Tiramaya even managed to crack hers open before a bunch of meat and bones piled onto it. None of them were...

Chapter 139

Ghouls were more industrious than Nym had given them credit for. Three times now, he’d dropped tunnels behind them to slow them down, and each time they dug through it in under a minute. It wasn’t until Sakaro started working with him that the...

Chapter 138

Their team of eight was standing in together on the roof of the keep near where Ebalsan used to be. There wasn’t much left of the town at this point, unfortunately, but the keep itself had held against the undead. There were a few familiar faces...

Chapter 137

Nym stood in the air above the archmage’s camouflage screen. Below them, the mausoleum was crawling with undead, far more than there’d been the first time. Now, however, there were thirty other mages up there with him, all of them working join...

Chapter 136

Nym and Stelton stood in the air above the tree tops while he continued to scour the tunnels below for wights. Tiramaya still wasn’t showing to his scry, which was annoying, but he’d gotten used to it. Babkin was their reference point, and she...

Chapter 135

Originally, they’d planned for Nym to help with ghoul disposal only if needed, but Babkin was showing no signs of slowing down and they already couldn’t keep up with him. Nym was spending all his time scrying to find wights and relaying locati...

Chapter 134

The only thing they were waiting for was the army to finish getting soldiers in place. They’d lost a lot of their earth mages, their combat mages, and just all-around soldiers in general, so there wouldn’t be any fortifications set up. It was ...

Chapter 133

There was some argument about Nym’s participation, particularly from Ophelia. She got into a heated debate with Bildar off to one side of the room while the other four sat at the table and discussed what was going on.

“Wait,” Monick sa...

Chapter 132

The thrill of watching the land go by so fast that it was just a blur wore off after the first ten minutes of flight. Nym streaked through the sky about a quarter mile above the ground, going south so fast that he soon left Delvros behind complete...

Chapter 131

The magic invaded the corpse and spread through its limbs. It was a slow, steady progression that spiraled out from the construct imbued into its chest, taking a solid minute to reach the hands and feet and then sweeping back up to the construct. ...

Chapter 130

Chapter 130

Nym was flipping through a book on necromancy when Archmage Veran appeared in the library. The old man glanced at him casually, did a double take when he saw what was in Nym’s hands, and cleared his throat meaningfully.

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Chapter 129

Nym flew over to the manor house overlooking the fields and immediately saw what had happened. A pack of ghouls had broken through a window on the ground floor, and further tore the wall apart around it when the window proved insufficient access. ...

Chapter 128

The problem with learning from an archmage was that he was a very, very busy man. He generally spared only twenty minutes a day to answer any questions Nym had and point him in the right direction to explore and investigate. It wasn’t exactly wh...

Chapter 127

They got a private room for dinner at Nym’s request. Everyone made small talk until the food had arrived, then Nym empowered four papers with different rune sequences designed to block scrying, keep sound from traveling outside the room, sever c...

Chapter 126

“You’re not funny.”

“I don’t think anyone else would agree with you,” Nym argued.

“Fine, if you’re so funny, you can row the boat.”

Nym considered that for a second. “I don’t see the connection here,” he t...

Chapter 125

Nym felt off. All week, he’d felt like he couldn’t make up his mind about anything. That cold, cynical part of him that belonged to his past life, that only cared about himself and saw other people for what they were worth to him instead of as...

Chapter 124

The next two hours of Nym’s life were extremely stressful. Archmage Veran did laps around the forest, sometimes detonating spells so close that it threatened to unravel the planar lock spell Nym was holding onto for him. Other times he’d trave...

Chapter 123

“You’ll forgive me if I don’t bow,” the archmage said.

Nym had been fighting to keep from reverting too much back to his child-personality. He needed to be sharp and ruthless right now. It had been a strain though as that part of his...

Chapter 122

Message was an undeniably useful spell, but it was also relatively difficult to cast and had a whole host of restrictions and limitations. The caster had to have at least a rough idea of where the recipient would be, and had to know them well enou...

Chapter 121

Nym took his time setting up the teleportation spell. He’d only done it twice himself, and never with an extra person, let alone four. The amount of arcana it needed scaled up quite heavily with the base spell, but he thought he might be able to...

Chapter 120

“You have got to be kidding me,” Nym growled. He shifted his passengers to the side and flung his mage blades out to slice through the ghouls. Fortunately, all three were still in the process of putting themselves back together and weren’t a...

Chapter 119

Nym looked down the chimney and yelled into it, “You can come out now. The undead are all, um, dead.”

He’d dug a narrow pit about five feet straight down with elemental earth magic and tossed all the chopped up ghouls into it. They wer...

Chapter 118

Uh... trigger warning I guess. This one gets a bit gory.

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There were six of them on the wall, wrapped around a small unit of soldiers like wet blankets. The man who’d caught Nym’s attention made eye contact with him for one brie...

Chapter 117

Ghouls streamed out of the forest and threw themselves at the walls. They clawed at the rough magic-shaped stone, hurling themselves upwards in an unthinking frenzy while dozens of soldiers armed with spears or pikes did their best to pry them off...

Chapter 116

A loud warbling screech woke Nym from a dead sleep. He flailed in place, trying to free himself from the tangle of his blanket, before falling out of the bed completely. Arcana filled his soul well and he immediately cast several scrying spells wi...

Chapter 115

Nym stood in the middle of Analia’s room. She had thoroughly redecorated her space, unlike him. His room looked almost exactly as it had when they’d first moved in, save his closet had some spare clothes in it and he’d filled the empty shelv...

Chapter 114

A man stood in front of Nym in an endless white void. His entire outfit reminded Nym of some of the more ridiculously expensive ensembles nobles wore, just layer after layer of lavish fabrics with gold and silver threaded through them and gemstone...

Chapter 113

Viewed through any type of magical sense, the cube did not exist. Scrying didn’t reveal it. Using night vision or far sight to enhance his senses made it disappear. Even groping around blindly with telekinesis did nothing. The magic simply passe...

Chapter 112

Nym picked a day when Jharn was doing the overnight shift. He was younger than Navarim, not nearly as clever, and displayed considerably less institutional loyalty. Nym waited for hours in his room under the pretense of performing one of the many,...