There was some fallout from Leon’s killing of the dragon turtle, but it was brief. Isabella wanted nothing to do with him, and so avoided him for the rest of the day. Cristina did likewise, though at least came by and exchanged a few words with him—enough for him to understand that she was following Isabella’s lead and didn’t mean anything personal by it.
The more important reacti...
2021-09-03 15:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostSantiago’s group was surrounded by three sixth-tier beasts, but instead of looking at them, Santiago’s eyes were instead trained upon the Royal box. More specifically, they were first locked upon Isabella, who had presumably just announced his death by beast, and then they slid over to the spectating Alfonso, who was leaning forward in his seat with an almost maniacal grin on his face.
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The snow lion and the six-legged fire horse-thing were still alive, though both had suffered some injuries. The fifth-tier ape had been brought low by the gladiators; perhaps because it didn’t use any elemental magic, relying entirely on its comparatively titanic strength to tear apart its foes. Such tactics worked for a time, but, in contrast to what Leon might’ve thought, the gladiators d...
2021-08-30 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Leon Raime!” Alfonso boomed as everyone filed out onto the balcony, the games set to soon begin. “Please, sit with me!”
The King’s request was polite enough, and if taken at face value, there was the choice to refuse. However, Leon knew that even though it was as polite as a seventh-tier speaking to an eighth should be, it was also a request from a King, which meant it wasn’...
Leon and the rest of the caravan were to stay in Andalus for about a week or two while they restocked and prepared for the rest of their journey. They were about a third of the way to the Ilumerian Wetlands, but they were now traveling through regions that had much denser populations, and would be for a while, so Leon wasn’t anticipating any more repeats of the bandit incident. The rest of th...
2021-08-25 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostLeon and his family meandered their way through the market of the city they were stopping at for the night. Only two days remained until they reached Andalus, the capital of the Cortuban Alliance, and the place they were supposed to leave Santiago and his other bandits, yet Leon still had yet to reach a definitive decision regarding the man.
He needed to speak with the Cortuban more, he k...
2021-08-23 15:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostLeon’s first opportunity to speak with Santiago came the night the man was captured. The Heaven’s Eye convoy traveled through the raided village, but they couldn’t do much to help. They weren’t a relief column and didn’t even pack that much food for their journey, but here and there, some alms were given out and a few of the guards pitched in with some physical labor.
But for th...
2021-08-20 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostLeon and his retinue pursued the silver-eyed bandit with ferocity, cutting down many bandits that weren’t able to flee fast enough. All of Leon’s retainers, and even Anzu, spilled their fair share of blood as they cleaved through the raided village. By the time they emerged on the other side, the silver-eyed bandit still fleeing with all haste, at least half of the bandit force had fallen t...
2021-08-18 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThings started off fairly quietly when the Heaven’s Eye convoy got moving again, but Leon couldn’t dispel the disquiet in his heart. While he fully hoped that no one would be so stupid as to attack a group from Heaven’s Eye this large, everything he’d heard of the local bandit problems had him continuously watching for any more groups of men stalking their convoy.
Making him even ...
2021-08-16 15:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Leon imagined his group leaving Akhmim, he imagined that it would be quite extensive, but when he finally laid his eyes upon the convoy that Emilie had arranged, he found that his imagination had been rather limited, even with his experience in marching with tens of thousands Legion soldiers.
The convoy stretched for more than a mile, with most people boarding huge carriages that cou...
2021-08-13 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostLeon and Talal stood there, staring at each other, surprise and just a hint of displeasure on the former’s face, while shock and rapidly deepening regret and fear graving the latter’s.
“This… is your son-in-law?” Talal eventually choked out.
Emilie, an eyebrow raised in a tacit curiosity, said, “Yes, he is. This is Leon Raime, an eighth-tier mage that is interested in jo...
2021-08-11 15:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostAlix’s fight started with a bang. Neither woman seemed willing to take the more defensive posture that Marcus and his opponent had, and so launched themselves at each other with all they had.
It made Leon fairly nervous, but it also gave him more than enough time to inspect Alix’s opponent’s fighting style.
When the two had entered the ring, once again, Talal didn’t instigat...
2021-08-09 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe doughy-man’s champion was a man that was, somehow, even more muscular than Alcander. The latter was practically a giant, standing a head over Leon and built like a mountain; but his opponent was even larger, standing a head over him, and looked like he weighed half again as much as Alcander from muscle alone.
“Mmm,” the man grunted with derision as Alcander climbed into...
2021-08-06 15:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe Tyrrhenian River was wide and deep, and though it continued for a long ways past the city where Leon and his people would be proceeding on foot, the Heaven’s Eye yacht was much too large and cumbersome to travel further. Getting everything organized to continue overland would take a few days, so Leon and his family and retinue decided to head out into the city to see what entertainments c...
2021-08-04 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostLeon watched Ariminium slowly recede as the massive Heaven’s Eye ship slowly pushed its way up the Tyrrhenian River, bearing him and his followers away from the Bull Kingdom, possibly never to return. Already, the ship had passed by Florentia, officially leaving the borders of the Bull Kingdom.
It put Leon in quite the mood, watching this stage of his life fade into the haze of distanc...
The mood on Leon’s ship as it pulled into the port of Ariminium was somber and quiet. Asiya and Iset had been rescued, but Khayu had been killed by Mansur before their escape could be completed.
Throughout the roughly two-day long journey, Asiya barely said a word. She barely even moved from where Khayu’s body had been placed and respectfully covered. Not even Valeria or Iset could ge...
2021-07-30 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostLeon, Khayu, and Iset were spat out onto the deck of Leon’s ship without much consideration; Maia was many things, but gentle was not one of them. The river nymph herself leaped from the water and gracefully landed upon the deck like she’d been doing it all her life, flashing Leon a competitive smile as Leon stumbled for a few steps after landing before diving back into the water.
Kha...
2021-07-28 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLeon worried about his retinue, but he trusted Asiya would explain to them his plan. So, invisible, he sprinted across the sandy dirt of the Samar coast back toward the Kingdom’s capital city, where his river nymph and demonic partner awaited him. They didn’t have much longer before Asiya’s parents would be executed, but if they had any luck, they could pull this off.
Leon just hope...
2021-07-26 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“What about… my parents?”
Just four words. Words spoken with a quiet desperation that he understood completely. From her tone, he could tell that Asiya knew her parents weren’t long for the world. He didn’t know what he might be able to do about it without getting spectacularly violent, and he didn’t know how to tell her that.
He had the power to rescue them—or at leas...
2021-07-23 15:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post“I’d like to request and audience with your Sultan, if possible,” Leon said, smiling at the three seventh-tier Samar warriors that had him surrounded, a thousand Samar guardsmen at their backs.
“What are you?” the female water mage responded, her tone questioning, wondering, rather than accusatory, and her accent lilting and trilling in a way that Leon found in...
2021-07-21 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLeon dropped his captured Samarid sixth-tier warrior on a hill several miles out from the Samar side of Ariminium, close to the Gulf. The man, disoriented from the rapid capture and subsequent flight, hit the ground and almost rolled all the way down the hill. In those few seconds before he managed to stop himself, two things happened: first, Leon alighted at the top of the hill, transformed ba...
2021-07-19 15:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostI am terribly sorry this was late, thought I set it up for automatic posting, but that was at like 3 am and I guess something went wrong. Didn't notice the mistake until just now.
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After the Legion messengers arrived to inform the Princess of Asiya and her family’s arrest by the Samar Kingdom, Cristina was in quite the state. But after a few minutes, and with a few exchan...
2021-07-16 18:40:28 +0000 UTC View Post“Look at him go,” Valeria marveled as Leon scrambled about their guest house, putting himself together as quickly as he was able. He’d spent most of the previous night having his endurance as an eighth-tier mage put to the test by Maia and Elise, both of whom seemed utterly insatiable after spending the fifth day in a row flying around. However, as much as he would’ve loved to spend as ...
2021-07-14 15:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe first day after their arrival in Ariminium, Leon and his family met up with his old friends from the Knight Academy after parting with Asiya after the disappointing chariot races. It had been more than a year since they’d met up, and right from the beginning, Leon could tell that things were different. He’d ascended twice in that time, while Charles, Henry, and Alain were still in the t...
2021-07-12 15:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostA little more than five months after returning to the Bull Kingdom, it was time to leave. The investigators sent by Heaven’s Eye had finished their work and sent back their recommendation that Emilie not be punished, and then began making plans to return to Occulara. Emilie herself was a part of those plans, and given the size of her household—notably, her huge harem of husbands and concubi...
2021-07-09 15:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Hmm, like this?” Valeria asked as she slowly drew runic circle after runic circle on a sheet of cheap spell paper.
“Yes, perfect,” Leon intimately whispered into her ear, feeling almost jealous at how quickly she was picking this up. She claimed that she wasn’t that great at coming up with enchantments on her own, but her penmanship and the speed with which she could copy an en...
2021-07-07 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few weeks proceeded quite peacefully for Leon. Apart from some wedding plans he had to make with Elise, there wasn’t much he had to worry about. With Emilie on his side—at least, as much as she could be on anyone’s side—he was confident that he’d be able to join Heaven’s Eye in some capacity, and that meant he wouldn’t have to worry about getting established down...
2021-07-05 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLeon flew in lazy figure-eights over the section of the noble district that his villa was in, reveling in the way the wind blew through his feathers and the dampness of the clouds that he passed through. Flying around above the capital wasn’t exactly legal, but he didn’t much care; this was a fulfillment of a primal urge that he’d had for years—he could finally fly! And without a flight...
2021-07-02 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s done?!” Leon exclaimed as he arrived at the copy of the transformation cave in his soul realm, his tone joyous yet tempered by mild apprehension as his fear led him to think he’d misunderstood his Ancestor’s cry.
The Thunderbird was there to greet him at the cave’s mouth in her human form, her bronze features lit up with a smile of victory and pride.
“It is,” t...
2021-06-30 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostLeon and his retinue had been home a month, and he knew that it was time to head east and return Lapis and its fellows to their people. His heart madly raced and his face burned with shame for bringing them home in such a state, but he could no longer ignore his responsibility. Those giants deserved to rest with their people, not to languish in his soul realm for the rest of time.
It wasn...
2021-06-28 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post