A/N: Here is a list of the fantasy beasts, as well as the map of the Southern part of Cilaria for reference. Enjoy!
Adzee: Hulking beasts the size of bears, yet possessing the unmistakable grace and pack mentality of wolves. Their fur, a mixture of brown and gray, ri...
2025-05-01 14:30:03 +0000 UTC
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A/N: The Dukes and The Kings are 39 chapters ahead of Royal Road now! Enjoy!
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The ex-mercenary gave them a summary of the trip including the fact that most of the fish was on credit as well as about meeting the young master Lanidas who was the only son of baron Fa...
2025-04-30 14:30:09 +0000 UTC
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"It wasn't Madam Nerida's fault after all," the majordomo replied with a shake of his head. "It was another maid who was jealous of Leah for being able to live outside the manor and with the man she likes, so she was tearing up any recently repaired clothes or sheets so Leah would have to work ev...
2025-04-29 14:30:06 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Welcome back, and enjoy!
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"This is a medicine..." Feroy explained, pointing at the reddish powder inside the folded leaf, "something which will heal your child. Just give a small pinch of the powder inside these leaves to your son with some water, tw...
2025-04-28 14:30:03 +0000 UTC
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The feast had been going on for more than an hour by now, probably even two hours. One by one everyone had taken the food in their wooden plates and bowls, before they began to eat and mingled with each other. Some of the guards had finished eating, and were showing some juggling tricks to...
2025-04-25 14:30:05 +0000 UTC
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The ex-mercenary smirked and waited until they had exited the gates and moved some distance away from the gate guards before he whispered back, "Got the full amount, and even got to see the Baron Farodas scolding his son for making such a bad deal. He was quite angry that Lanidas had agreed to bu...
2025-04-24 14:30:02 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Patrons are 38 chapters ahead of Royal Road now!
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However, it seemed like the young master didn't want to order his guards to arrest or kill them in the middle of the market. Looking at the forced grin on the young master's face, Tesyb wasn't sure whether he ...
2025-04-23 14:30:05 +0000 UTC
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"I'm a small merchant coming from Tiranat," Feroy answered smoothly. "The other three men with me are guards I hired for the journey."
"Your wagons seem to be quite full..." Lanidas remarked. "What do you deal in?"
Feroy immediately pulled back the oilcloth covering one of the w...
2025-04-22 14:30:01 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Some minor changes have been made in the previous chapter in the last few paragraphs, mainly to show that pottery was also being loaded on the ship.
Enjoy!
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"Great, you are here," the ex-mercenary said when Tesyb reached there. "You find anything on that...
2025-04-21 14:30:04 +0000 UTC
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The standing guard frowned and looked at his partner, who seemed to be thinking about it, before giving a curt nod. The standing guard began, "Tell ya what, ya seem like a good fellow who's been dealt a bad hand of soyent in life. Just for ya, we are willing to waive off a full silver of the taxe...
2025-04-18 14:30:05 +0000 UTC
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Tesyb gazed around the snow covered dirt path while the horses kept pulling the wagons. Since the past hour or so, the scenery around them had changed completely. For most of the journey from Tiranat, the path they had been following was just a clear track of ground between the leafless trees of ...
2025-04-17 14:30:07 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Patrons are now 37 chapters ahead of RoyalRoad! Enjoy!
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Kivamus remembered that when the ex-farmer had done it in the South of the village, the strip had lasted for around two to three centimeters, before it had started to fall to the ground in a clump. That ...
2025-04-16 14:30:03 +0000 UTC
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Kivamus explained while looking at others, "Now we have two dozen former stonecutters in the village, who are well versed in this. They have more than enough experience of cutting through much harder limestone, and with no real shortage of tools now, they should be able to do it without too much ...
2025-04-15 14:30:04 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Welcome back and enjoy!
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"No, I don't mean to block it permanently," Kivamus explained with a small laugh. "We will create a small barrier - maybe five to ten feet high in the path of the stream, which will make water gather upstream of it. Once the water has...
2025-04-14 14:30:05 +0000 UTC
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"That's because it's not nearly as dense as fedarus wood which is burning next to it," Kivamus explained. "Even after using this wood press machine to compress the sawdust and wood shavings, it is still much less dense than any wooden branch cut directly from the tree. That means the small air ga...
2025-04-11 14:30:02 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Patrons are 36 chapters ahead of RoyalRoad now.
Also, here is the link (LINK) to chapter 201, where I had added some images of the design of this wood press machine. You can visit the link to ta...
2025-04-10 14:30:01 +0000 UTC
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It was early morning of the next day, and Kivamus was standing near the gates of the manor along with Duvas and Hudan in the continuously falling snow. There was just enough light to see clearly, but the sun had yet to rise above the Arakin mountains in the east. He rubbed his hands together in a...
2025-04-09 14:30:02 +0000 UTC
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"Indeed," Duvas said with a grimace. "98 gold for this particular month, to be exact. For the full year's taxes, it was around..." he muttered while turning pages on his ledger. "Where was it... I know I had calculated it already..." Then he pointed at something, "Oh, here it is. 937 gold is stil...
2025-04-08 14:30:01 +0000 UTC
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A/N: I have written the numbers in numerals instead of in words in this chapter, since it would probably be difficult to read big amounts if written in words like it is usually done in prose, including in this novel. Let me know if it works better.
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"What ab...
2025-04-07 14:30:02 +0000 UTC
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Duvas frowned. "You already know by now that the eastern stream doesn't have nearly enough fish to feed all the villagers. It's just not possible."
"No, that's not what I'm saying." Kivamus added with a grin, "But first, tell me, we still have nearly a barn full of coal, right?" Once ...
2025-04-04 14:30:04 +0000 UTC
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"Oh, that reminds me," Duvas suddenly exclaimed, "this is exactly what I was going to remind you about yesterday, but I forgot in all the hustle and bustle of your visit to the coal mines. Yes, we do rely on the temple of the Goddess for this. I visited it yesterday to see the calendar which is m...
2025-04-03 14:35:00 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Patrons are 35 chapters ahead of Royalroad now! Also, enjoy the extra long chapter today!
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It was the early afternoon of a new day, and Kivamus had already finished explaining the design of the wood press to Darora, which he had finished earlier in the mornin...
2025-04-02 14:30:02 +0000 UTC
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A/N: I have added a few images at the end of the chapter to make a few things easier to understand. Make sure to take a look at it when you reach the relevant paragraphs.
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"I couldn't have done it without your designs," Darora replied with a shrug, "but I'll take your pr...
2025-04-01 14:42:00 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Welcome back! Here is the sketch once again as a reference:
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Regardless of the chronic shortage of craftsmen in Tiranat, Kivamus still estimated that all the gates would be built within ten days or so at the curren...
2025-03-31 14:30:04 +0000 UTC
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Duvas laughed. "It's just not possible to kill an adzee while trying to preserve its pelt. That beast would easily tear you into shreds in that case. Be assured, we will carefully salt it for the winter, and Pydaso or any other merchant would be glad to take it off our hands after that."
"T...
2025-03-28 14:30:04 +0000 UTC
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Here is some of the character art I made recently along with some maps. I'll add more images of other characters here in the future when I have time to make them.
Since I can only pin a single post in Patreon, I'll add the link to this post in the Table of Contents post (which is always pin...
2025-03-28 05:30:00 +0000 UTC
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Hyola wasn't sure how the guard had gotten injured, but immediately another guard pulled him away from the wildly thrashing beast.
With the weight of the heavily muscular adzee being so high, she heard the sound of a couple of spears snapping from its weight, before gravity took over and th...
2025-03-27 14:30:05 +0000 UTC
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"There!" She immediately whispered to the others as she pointed towards that area, while the guards just gave nods in reply, nobody wanting to make any unnecessary sound with an adzee so close to them. Their hearing was known to be excellent, after all.
She didn't know how long she ke...
2025-03-26 14:47:00 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Another long chapter today. Enjoy!
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For a moment, Kivamus thought about running to the northern gap in the walls to take a look, as well as to help the guards. But it didn't take him more than a moment to realise that he would only be a liability there, and w...
2025-03-25 14:30:07 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Enjoy an extra long chapter today. I also made a very simple sketch of the inside of a mineshaft, which shows the size of the water wheel and how it works. It is a very rough sketch, but it might help in understanding it better.
As the water wheel rotates clockwise (with the help of on...
2025-03-24 15:31:00 +0000 UTC
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