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1056 - Continued Advances

When he achieved Apotheosis, Leon had largely been insensate to what was happening outside of his body.  He knew that quite a bit had to have happened given how trashed his meditation room had become, but he’d been far more concerned with the process inside of his soul realm to pay much at...

1055 - Perspective

“Clear Day,” Leon said in greeting as he joined the tau on the terrace.

“King Leon,” Clear politely responded.  After a moment, he rose from his seat and gave Leon a deep, respectful bow.  “You’ve achieved Apotheosis.”

“I have.”

“Congratulations.”...

1054 - The Void

“Leon!  My friend!  It’s been too long!  Too long!”  Ambrose sprang from his chair the moment Leon entered the room where he’d been waiting and rushed over, pulling a surprised Leon into a brotherly hug.

“Ah, Ambrose,” Leon murmured awkwardly.  It had be...

1053 - Gifts

“… and this one is from the ambassador from Beloran,” Gaius said, indicating a long, thin box on the table in front of Leon.  “It came with a special note for whoever was presenting it to you to note that it was made by the master Bogdan.”

Leon resisted the urge to roll his e...

1052 - New Power

Apotheosis.  The process of becoming divine.  Now that he’d achieved it, Leon could understand why it was named as it was.

Power filled him like it never had before.  An ocean of magic was available to him, and not just stored in his soul realm, but flooding his physical bo...

1051 - Divinity

Into the air above his Mind Palace Leon rose, his heart hammering in his chest.  Apotheosis.  Something he’d been working to achieve for half a century at this point, more than half his life.  He’d trained so long that his soul realm had grown to a radius of fifteen thousand mi...

1050 - Decades

The ore shivered as magic entered it.  It shook and shook, and dust fell from it as it might from an old rug being beaten and cleaned.  This dust was all of the impurities that lay in the metal, much of it metal itself that glinted in the artificial lights that illuminated the spectacul...

1049 - Princess of Dragons

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From the main pavilion of the palace, the Patriarch ...

1048 - Secured Position

Blood dripped from Anshu’s sword to pool at his feet.  The Indradian was facing away from Leon, but Leon could see his shoulders heave with every breath and hear his every labored inhalation.  The results of his choice were right in front of him, but Anshu hardly seemed interested in ...

1047 - Storm Over Kaia II

Above the Rajah’s palace in Kaia, Leon’s power warped the air and pressed down upon the palace’s wards.  Even though he couldn’t see into the palace and examine the wards himself, just based on how his power interacted with them and how they responded to his power, he knew what they ...

1046 - Storm Over Kaia I

As the wind whipped through his feathers, Leon couldn’t help diving and gliding through the fluffy white clouds in his way, each plunge leaving him soaked but joyous.  He required nothing more than a quick burst of water magic to clear the water from his feathers anyway.

Beside him f...

1045 - Rebellion in the Raj

The cold bit into his skin.  Hunger gnawed in his belly despite his relative lack of need for food.  His body was covered in barely-healed lacerations, signs of the many varied tortures he’d endured.  The steady drip, drip, drip somewhere in the cell rang in his ears, an ever-pre...

1044 - The Path Ahead

Leon’s departure from Sentinel lands came quickly. It was all too obvious that Keeper wanted him gone, and he was only too willing to oblige. Besides, while he wasn’t walking away from the palace with anything physical, he was at least satisfied with what he’d learned there, especially abou...

1043 - The Palace III

From the central dome, the lead golem escorted Leon’s party to the comms building just on the other side of the gardens that encircle the dome. While they were outside, Leon noted that the sandstorm that had enshrouded a wide swathe of the northern Sundered Lands had dissipated, leaving the sky...

1042 - The Palace II

Iron Pride appeared in Leon’s hand, silver-blue lightning blazing across the blade. Beside him, the rest of the party readied themselves for battle, too, and the dome of sand frozen in place lit up with arcane light. However, the hundreds of moving figures Leon could see below didn’t even fal...

1041 - The Palace I

With almost bated breath Leon stared out into the dust storms of the Sundered Lands. The wall of sand whipped up by the palace’s defenses was thick, obscuring all view of what lay within. Even the odd lightning bolt from deep within gave no hints as to what the palaces looked like.

Flashe...

1040 - Sundered Lands

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Memoria was at the same time both a surprise to Leo...

New Prologue

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‘What makes a good King?’ the Grave Warden idly wondered as he dangled his legs off the edge of his great tower’s roof. 2024-03-10 05:36:58 +0000 UTC View Post

1039 - Keeper's Negotiations

The apartments that Leon and Cassandra were to stay in were the same that she grew up in and were just as lavish as her rank had demanded then. They had more than a dozen rooms all to themselves, while Cassandra’s guards would share their barracks with Alix and some of the Tempest Knights that ...

1038 - Insecurity

For most of the first day flying northward, Leon, Cassandra, and Andromache spent their time handling their own business. Cassandra was stuck to a comm lotus with her mother, grandmother, and a number of different druids in Evergold, while Andromache was doing much the same only with a comm stone...

1037 - A Quick Visit

I finished a first draft for a new prologue over the weekend.  I'm going to let it sit for a few days, then give it a reread.  I'll undoubtedly have to edit some of it, but once that's done, I'm going to post it here.  Expect it maybe Saturday or Sunday.  Hopefully, if there a...

1036 - Arkhnavi's Bounty

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1035 - Royal Beastmaster

It wasn’t hard for Leon to find who he was looking for; all he had to do was follow the sound of roaring. Even in his palace, with all its defensive wards and privacy enchantments, two large wyverns made a lot of noise.

A large part of his palace had been set aside as a stable fo...

1034 - An Impossible Question

The private training room in the palace felt rather empty to Leon as he walked in. Most of his retainers were off doing other important things, leaving only a mere handful of people left to fill the space.

Valeria was there, as she was essentially in charge of his retinue, though the number...

1033 - Weighing Risks

With the capabilities given by Tikos’ comm lotuses, getting in contact with the Director was quite easy. The only real obstacle was whether or not the Director was immediately available. Fortunately, almost as soon as the magic from Leon’s call went out, it was answered.

The screen of l...

1032 - Rivalries and Promises

The latter half of Leon’s first day back fulfilling his role as King had him meeting with the foreign dignitaries that had arrived in his absence. Fortunately, they only numbered four not including any aides they’d brought, each representing one of the four Empires on the mainland.

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