The time had come. The Ten Tribes were waiting for him, and though Leon knew that the longer he waited, the more his research teams could bring him to strengthen his position, but he couldn’t wait forever. He had to move south.
So, on the appointed day, he didn’t delay the beginning of his adventure. He assembled Valeria, Maia, Anzu, Alix, Gaius, Alcander, Marcus, and Red, and had the...
2022-12-23 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe weeks following Leon’s marriage to Cassandra were packed, his attention pulled in many directions. Anastasios and the Grand Druid were busy finalizing their alliances with him, with Leon passing off a few notes he’d taken from the Thunderbird on achieving Apotheosis to them. He technically never promised to do so for the Grand Druid, but he figured he’d fulfill the unspoken request fo...
2022-12-21 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLeon smiled as he awoke. He hadn’t been sleeping long, perhaps only an hour or two, but the exertions he’d gone through had warranted the rest. As he returned to awareness, he heard the breathing of his bedmate quicken, and she began to stir. Smooth naked skin cuddled about him began to slid over his own rougher features, and when he looked down at the head resting on his chest, he found tw...
2022-12-19 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe time had come. Leon shifted uneasily as he pulled at his collar, the fine material digging into his skin far more than it should have.
Or perhaps that was just his imagination, he couldn’t imagine how else silkgrass could be so uncomfortable to a ninth-tier mage. He hoped his discomfort was understandable, though, for in he was about to marry an Imperial Princess.
The ceremony...
2022-12-16 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostLightning raged around Leon as the storm reached its peak, his power the only thing keeping it from striking his crucible filled with metal. He had his extracted blood ready, but this wasn’t quite the time for that, yet.
Instead, he pushed the crucible he was telekinetically holding up away from him, then conjured several long sheets of silver, upon which he’d inscribed a number of en...
2022-12-14 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostLeon quietly regarded his retainers as they trained. Magic training was over, so they were mostly brushing up on their martial skills, having largely paired up to spar. Tikos and Helen were the only two exceptions, the two having other business to attend to.
Of particular interest to him was Anzu, as the young griffin was still learning the ropes of fighting whilst in human form. He’d p...
2022-12-12 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostQuick note: I mentioned Origin Sparks back in chapter 836, but I called them 'creation sparks' then. This was a mistake. They're called Origin Sparks, which was established way back in 327 and 328. This mistake has been fixed.
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Leon stared at the expectant gaze of Anastasios sitting across from him, the object of their discussion sitting on the table i...
2022-12-09 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostLeon’s concentration was absolute. He manipulated his magic slowly and carefully, only enough to cause his object of study to slowly twirl in the air. It responded well to his power—to his will—but given its strength, he was terribly conscious of just how easy it could be to destroy everything around him.
The Iron Needle spun around slowly in time with his manipulations, occasionall...
2022-12-07 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post“That was fast,” Valeria observed as Leon and his family returned to the more private wing of his villa. Only Elise, Maia, Valeria, himself, and now Cassandra were here; everyone else was busy preparing a celebration for the upcoming nuptials, though when precisely that was going to be was still up in the air.
“I can’t help it, I’m a romantic,” Cassandra replied nonchalantly.<...
2022-12-05 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m surprised you went with the morality option,” the Director said. “I would’ve thought that you realized by now that any words they might have about peace, justice, and morality were entirely self-serving.”
“Had to try,” Leon replied with a shrug. “Give them the option of letting me do my own thing. I didn’t think they’d take it, and I wasn’t surprised. The pric...
2022-12-02 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you ready for this, husband?” Elise asked as she straightened Leon’s collar with a gentle touch.
“I don’t think I’m every ready for anything when it comes to them,” Leon replied, smiling at his wife. She leaned into him, pressing her forehead against his upper chest, while he wrapped his arms around her waist and held her close.
“I’m not ready to leave,” E...
Leon stared at the document in his hand, his eyes not taking in a word that was written upon it. Despite the fact that it was a report from his researchers that promised to help him fix the problems he’d had with his darkness gem—namely its inability to make him incorporeal when he used it, as true darkness mages could do—he couldn’t concentrate even a little bit on it.
The reason...
2022-11-28 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostWaiting for Leon in one of his private sitting rooms was Anshu and a man with strange features. Leon smiled upon entering, though his alarm was immediately raised, having had no idea that Anshu was even on his way here, despite the Indradian having one of Tikos’ comm lotuses. Given what he’d ordered the man to do only a matter of weeks ago, his alarm was elevated even more.
“Leon,...
Anshu sighed in relief as he and the group he’d been running with reached the relative safety of their underground base, buried deep in a forest within one of the coastal Pegasi States. Though they’d nearly had a run-in with an Imperial patrol, they’d managed to escape before any Imperials were able to get in range.
The Indradian was still worried that they were being tracked howev...
Leon stared in awe at the scene around him. Points of light all hovering in stasis around one central point, brighter than all the rest. Millions upon millions of them, so many that he couldn’t even begin to count, stretching all over his Mind Palace and beyond.
The universe, as it was the last time the navigational wisp had been updated, that was what Leon was looking at—or rather, ...
“What’s wrong, Leon?” Cassandra asked teasingly, smiling rather smugly at Leon as they waited in the bridge for the Grand Druid to arrive. With Leon in control of the ark, they’d gotten the rest of the ark open, allowing everyone that had been teleported away to finally make their way back. They hadn’t yet arrived, however, and the rest of Leon’s retinue were still off seeing to the...
2022-11-18 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostCassandra spun around, Sunlight appearing in her hand in a flash of light. Leon, Valeria, and Maia did likewise, the former two drawing their weapons while the latter summoned a relatively small water dragon.
Everyone else in the room with them who’d they’d just spent hours exploring the supercarrier ark with had just disappeared in what, to Leon at least, looked like teleportation s...
The opening torn into the hull of the supercarrier was small relative to the size of the vessel, but quite large on a human scale. Leon and his party had no trouble getting inside through it, finding themselves in a fairly long, narrow hall on the other side. It was perhaps wide enough to allow three or four men to walk shoulder-to-shoulder, but triple the height of the average man. Given the a...
2022-11-14 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostLeon hesitated a moment before knocking on Helen and Anna’s door. Neither had given much actual reason to worry, but it had been a while since Anna had killed Casimir, and Leon needed to make sure they were doing all right. Bringing them back to the land of their birth was a part of that.
For however much it was needed, it seemed to at least be put to use, as the former ambassador to th...
2022-11-11 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostLeon sighed as he left the small group of messengers in his suite’s main room. They’d just arrived to escort him and his retainers down to dinner with the Grand Druid, Sacred Golden Empress, Princess Cassandra, and the Princess’ elder sister, who Leon had last heard had been serving as a druid, or both a religious figure and governor, of the most important northern province in the Sacred ...
2022-11-09 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThough he was surprised by the Princess’ presence, Leon wore a pleasant smile as he followed the Grand Druid out of the ark.
The Grand Druid rushed about as fast as decorum would allow to her granddaughter, pulling Cassandra into a tight hug, and whispered into her ear, “It’s been too long, dear girl. How has my little explorer been?”
“Not so little anymore, Grandmother,...
2022-11-07 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThough he had not been in a while, Leon’s appreciation for the aesthetics of the Sacred Golden Empire hadn’t dimmed at all. Their cities, and especially their capital of Evergold, lay sprawling out beneath the bast limbs of their titanic palace-trees, though not so much that the sky was not visible. Natural lines that accentuated this chosen aesthetic abounded even in the city’s layout, t...
2022-11-04 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Leon,” the Director stated, his tone neutral, but coming with the subtlest undercurrent of surprise as Leon walked into his office. The elder man was sitting behind his desk, but as Leon entered, he sat for only a moment longer before he slowly got to his feet and walked around his desk. “What’s going on?”
Leon recognized a slight tinge of concern in the Director’s voice at t...
2022-11-02 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post“… and it’s becoming clearer and clearer that we can’t continue on like this for too much longer,” Leon finished as he stared at his family around him, his golden eyes narrowed with intense seriousness. “The more power we accumulate, the less Heaven’s Eye can keep us covered and the more nervous those with Anastasios and the Grand Druid will grow.”
“I’m surprised,” ...
“Storm Herald,” Nestor said. “That was the name of my father’s personal ark.”
The man’s voice, spoken with mechanical resonance from his golem body, was colored in deep sadness and nostalgia, and more than a few traces of anger. His sorrowful recollections helped Leon set aside his immediate disdain for the name of the ark. That his Clan had to name everything ‘Storm ...
It took several hours for Leon, Penelope, and the Director to explore most of the remaining arks. For the most part, they simply explored, looking for anything of much value. However, it seemed that either everything of even middling value had been taken, the arks were simply spartan from their construction, or both, for not even basic furniture could be found that wasn’t nailed to the floor ...
2022-10-26 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s good that you’re back, Leon,” the Director said as Leon joined him and Penelope in his office.
“It’s good to be back,” Leon replied with a professional smile plastered across his face. He wasn’t particularly happy to be in the Director’s office, but the man had reached out personally for a meeting. Leon had only been back in Occulara for a day and wanted to focus ...
Adamant. The very word, after his conversation with Nestor, had Leon practically rubbing his hands in greed. The metal was mana-infused steel, in its simplest form at least, and that meant that any power that could flow through one’s blood could also flow through Adamant just as well. It was stronger than enchanted steel, and could channel the wielder’s power better as well.
But for ...
Leon’s family, retinue, and much of his household were there to greet him and Anzu upon their return to the villa. Elise, Maia, and Valeria all gave them both plenty of attention, and Alix and Alcander all-but demanded a celebratory party for their success. However, Leon wasn’t that keen on holding the party, especially since the Lord Protector and the Grand Druid were still staying in his ...
2022-10-19 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostLeon sighed as he waited for Anzu to return from flying around the Border Mountains. The griffin was taking his time, and as far as Leon was concerned, he could take all the time he needed to explore the domain of his kin. So, as he waited, Leon cast himself down into his soul realm. After all, he had a new Universe Fragment, and while he felt like he was going to have to wait until he got home...
2022-10-17 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post