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1079 - Wailing Dirge I

Nighttime in the Nexus was a surreal thing.  The sky darkened as it did on Aeterna, with the Origin Spark itself dimming from the luminescence of a sun to only that of a moon.  Leon thought that might’ve made it easier to see the other side of the Nexus millions of miles away, but the...

1078 - A New Danger

After arriving in the new land that Leon named Artorion, Leon’s attention was taken almost entirely by coordinating clearance and construction efforts with scouting and mapping endeavors.  It was imperative that they establish shelter, security, and sources of food as soon as they could, b...

1077 - Arrival II

No signs of life surrounded the ingress point.  Everywhere around it was wild and untamed, without so much as a shack to reveal the presence of human life.

To Leon’s eyes, it was perfect.  Hardly the dense forests of his childhood, but the grassy plains, rocky mountains, and spa...

1076 - Arrival I

I accidentally forgot to mention Justin and Clear Day over the past couple of chapters. I've since gone back to the previous few chapters and added a few mentions of both where it seemed appropriate. They did join Leon's expedition, with Justin in the city ark and Clear Day joining everyone else ...

1075 - Launching the Expedition

Gazing out into the Void left Leon speechless.  The sheer enormity of empty space could leave anyone feeling dizzy, but his focus wasn’t on the Void itself, but on his assembled fleet of Void-capable arks, all of which had finally assembled.

The city ark was in the center of the form...

1074 - Last of the Last Days

“When you called this a ‘city ark’, this wasn’t what I was expecting,” Anastasios stated good-naturedly as he stared at the enormous ark in front of him.

Beside him stood Leon, Eva—the Grand Druid—and the small number of attendants from their respective Empires who had agreed ...

1073 - One Month Remaining

A large grin spread across Leon’s face as he stared at his reflection.  As a King, he had a certain appearance to maintain in public, meaning that he often wore more elaborate costumes than he was typically comfortable with—and those elaborate outfits were often less ostent...

1072 - Reconciliations

The sun was out, the air was warm, and a gentle breeze blew through Leon’s hair.  By most standards, it was perfect weather, and being outside should’ve brought a smile to anyone’s lips.

Leon, however, wasn’t smiling; he was more annoyed than anything else.  The expedition...

1071 - Rising Readiness

Silence.  Despite being separated from the Void only by relatively thin armor plating, all Leon could hear was silence.  Given the stresses of the Void, it spoke to his Kingdom’s fine degree of manufacturing that his new Ulta suit didn’t so much as creak once.

“How are we do...

1070 - Thunderbird's Offered Strategy

“Keep it under control…” Nestor whispered, his artificial head pointed in at the blob of silver-blue lightning that Leon had summoned.  “Make it do what you want to do…”

If Leon had heard him, he would’ve rolled his eyes; he knew what he was doing at this po...

1069 - New Toy

After more than two months touring Aeterna, Leon returned to the Thunder Kingdom.  For the most part, he thought the tour went well, but it had filled him with melancholy and determination in equal measure.  However, what he brought back to Stormhollow promised to alleviate some of that...

1068 - Arranging Successions

On the journey north, Bolt in Shadow had struck a more leisurely pace, allowing Leon and his companions to take in the sights and reminisce about their journey together.

In stark contrast, the journey south was fast and direct.  They cut almost straight southeast, bound f...

1067 - The Lion and the Bull's Parting

Processing his encounter with Fain took Leon some time.  His mother was now an actual person in his head, and her face and her voice had carved themselves into his mind from the moment he’d heard them.  Despite this, he wasn’t particularly happy.  The revelation that Serana had...

1066 - Motivation

When Artorias described Leon’s mother, there had been some part of Leon that thought that Artorias’ love was clouding his memories or perceptions, but now that he could see her with his own eyes, he had to admit that she was just as beautiful as Artorias had claimed.

Her hair was long a...

1065 - Interrupted Tour

‘Who was here?’ Leon furiously wondered.  ‘Who trespassed here?  One of the Valemen?  No, they wouldn’t venture into this vale at all…’

Leon wracked his brain trying to figure out from the bootprints alone who would’ve been bold enough to ...

1064 - Last Tour VI

While he hadn’t planned on staying so long, Leon and his party wound up remaining in Vale Town for two weeks.  They feasted with the Valemen, visited their temples to the Sky Mother, Mountain Father, and the thunderbirds, and saw with their own eyes the fields of silkgrass that made up the...

1063 - Last Tour V

There was no recourse to the passage of time.  The Primal Gods and Devils were subject to it, the strongest Divine Beasts were slaves to time, and even the strongest humans who’d achieved the pinnacle of power in the universe could no more reverse the course of time than a mortal could. 2024-05-03 15:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post

1062 - Last Tour IV

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After returning to Ariminium, Leon and his people rested fo...

1061 - Last Tour III

For two days Leon stayed in Ariminium, wandering around the city and visiting the sites that were important to him.  The guild district had long since been rebuilt, as had the square where he and Trajan had ambushed Bran, the vampire working with the Talfar Kingdom.  He also had to fiel...

1060 - Last Tour II

From Occulara, Bolt in Shadow bore Leon’s people westward, taking a more circuitous route than he usually took when undertaking this journey.  Normally, with an ark, he could make a fairly straight shot heading northwest, passing over the hilly boundary where the Ilumerian We...

1059 - Last Tour I

So, on Monday, after a discrepancy was reported to me on Discord, I went back to the previous chapter and gave it a few short edits. They're not large edits by word count, but they're important remin...

1058 - Justin's Advice

It was inevitable, Leon supposed, that this meeting would come.  If his Kingdom were to prepare to venture into the Nexus, then he’d have to consult with the only man in his Kingdom who had personal experience with the place.

Justin Isynos.

Leon met him in a small, private sitt...

1057 - First of the Last Days

It took Leon several months to get the hang of making wisps.  Nestor was hardly impressed with what he’d made, but he at least conceded that the wisps were ‘workable’.  So, a considerable amount of Leon’s generated origin power went into creating wisps that could fulfill Nestor�...