For three days after Trajans funeral, Leon stayed at home. He didnt visit anyone, he didnt leave the property, he just stayed at his villa with his head buried in training and his enchanting work. Minerva had nothing for him to do, so he had nowhere else to be. Whenever he was asked how he was doing by people like Elise, Xaphan, or the Thunderbirdalso the only people he had regular cont...
2019-12-13 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostRoyal funerals in the Bull Kingdom were tightly regulated affairs. There would be no speeches, wakes, or parties after. The ancestors of House Taurus wanted their funerals to be solemn events, meant to honor and remember them, not to be highjacked for political gain or to be disrespected by having parties soon after their passing.
So, when it came time for Trajans proper funeral rites t...
2019-12-11 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe three days between Minervas visit and Trajans funeral passed by in a flash. Leon spent most of that time working on his flight suit, testing its limits and how much control he had over it.
As it turned out, it wasnt the perfect flight device that Leon wanted, but it was an immensely important step forward.
First of all, it was a severe power hog, running Leon ragged in min...
2019-12-09 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt had been a week since Trajan died and Naiad left. Leon hadnt done a damn thing of worth, to his immense frustration. He and Minerva were friendly enough, even more so now that they shared a determination to bring justice to Trajans killers, but he and her werent nearly so close as Trajan was to the both of them. As a result, Minerva wasnt as willing to use Leon as Trajan might have b...
2019-12-06 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostLeon sat in his workshop alone, silently contemplating what to do next. Trajan was gone, and with him, any obligation Leon felt toward the Bull Kingdom. However, he wanted to stay a while longer so he could help Minerva bring his killer to justice.
After that, well, he didnt know.
Still have that whole Isynos thing to deal with Leon thought to himself. He truly didn...
2019-12-04 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostLeons villa was silent as a grave once Minerva, Alix, and the rest of the knights took their leave. Neither Elise nor Naiad wanted to break the silence, they simply remained quiet and waited for Leon to say the first word. After all, neither of them had just lost a mentor.
For his part, Leon slid back a little bit in his chair and closed his eyes in thought. Trajan had been remarkably g...
2019-12-02 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe voice Leon and Minerva heard emanating from Trajans clothes stunned them completely. It also took them right out of their fugue states, and as soon as they recovered, they subtly glanced at each other, knowing exactly who that voice belonged to.
Minerva jerked her head toward the rest of the warehousethe very crowded warehouseand Leon briefly nodded. The two then glance...
2019-11-29 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostTime seemed to stop as Leon tried to process the words that Alix was saying. His heart rose into his throat, his blood thundered in his ears, and he asked, What was that?
Prince Trajan has been ambushed by someone! Alix said, her voice quivering in anger, grief, and a thousand other related emotions. She then took a deep breath under Leons steady, but rapidly darkenin...
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The Sapphire Paladin diligently cleaned the blood from her blade, not even looking at the rest of the Legion knights around her. H...
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Searing pain filled Trajans mind. He wasnt dead, but the spear in his chest had done extreme amounts of damage. His armor and ribcage had kept him alive, despite the titanic power packed into that attack, diverting the tip of the spear away from his heart and into a lung instead. It was still a serious injury and he was in danger of bleeding out if he wa...
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Papers. Papers and more papers. The damn things kept stacking up, no matter what he did with them.
Trajan sighed from behind his desk. The moon was high in the sky, but his assistants and secretaries just kept bringing him papers for him to look over.
Of course, at the sixth-tier, Trajans need to eat, drink, and sleep werent quite what they ...
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Leons Mind Palace was coming along quite well, with much its skeleton already in place. The Thunderbird had asked him a question before that had sent a tiny sliver of doubt worming into his mind about what he was doing, but overall, he still thought he was on the right track.
And so, after getti...
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I honestly don't know what to say. Nothing seems good enough. I'm genuinely speechless.
Thank you. Those words don't really express the depths of my gratitude, but they're all I've got right now.
Thank you.
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2019-11-23 03:34:38 +0000 UTC View PostMonths passed in the capital, and soon enough, Leon had been back for more than a year. He and Elise had gotten settled into their villa, Anzus training was going incredibly well, and things seemed great for Leon on almost every front.
But Leons schedule wasnt filled with relaxing leisure, rather his days were more often than not exhausting, with little time to truly relax. He had t...
2019-11-22 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostJormuns ship cut through the waves as it led the way for Jormuns fleet to sail away from Serpents Fall. The city was starting to vanish behind them, only ten miles away but still beyond what even a fourth-tier mage could reliably see with any detail.
Jormun, on the other hand, could still see the city quite clearly. It was even still in range of his magic senses, and if he wanted to...
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The continent of Aeterna was immense, and the land of the Bull Kingdom was only a small, isolated corner of it. South of the Bull Kingdom was the Gulf of Discord, followed by the desert Samar Kingdom. The Samar Kingdoms southern border was demarcated by a series of low mountain ranges and wide rivers, beyond which lay the lands of the Halcyon Federation. 2019-11-18 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Naiad was completely out of it. She laid on the bed, barely conscious after her second time having sex with Leon and Elise. Perhaps it was because Elise was participating or because Leon was far less hesitant, but this time had been even more satisfying than their first.
Leon and Elise, on the other hand, were still very conscious, and it took them alm...
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Leon and Naiad walked back inside the villa. Leon was done with training for the rest of the day, not that he much wanted to anyway after Naiad indicated she wanted to sleep with him again.
The memory of their first time together was still quite potent. Leon wasnt sure why, but when he, Elise, and Naiad all lay together that time, it had bee...
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Leon slowly exhaled, his chest rising and falling in time with the wind. Down below where he sat upon the throne platform, Xaphan watched with great interest. There wasnt much wind in Leons soul realm under normal conditions, but there was still more than in his own soul realm. However, now that Leon was quietly med...
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2019-11-16 16:53:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe events surrounding the death of Tiberias took the entire city by surprise. For a noble to be so brazenly murdered in the streets was unheard of in the Bull Kingdom. It had happened before, but not in living memory; these days, most nobles kept their business out of the public eye. If assassins were to be involved, they wouldnt strike out in the open.
Of course, Tiberias hadnt been...
2019-11-15 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe man hidden in shadow was gone, his pillar of ice shattered. Naiads water dragon lowered her to the ground and she took off back toward the ambush point. It was lucky that the owners of the villa that she and the darkness mage had been standing atop of didnt seem to be home, but there was little sense in sticking around.
From their brief clash alone, Naiad could tell that he was ex...
2019-11-13 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe river nymph was nowhere to be seennot that he had been expecting her to be, given her skill in concealment. Two guards equipped with invisibility rings had been killed with ice magic behind Leon, so he knew that she was still around, but now that Tiberias and his guards were dead, she had seemingly vanished, leaving not even a puddle by the road.
With a sigh, Leon set about looting ...
2019-11-11 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHed left Elise at the party without any warning. Theyd spoken about this and Tiberias early departure had taken him by surprise, but as Leon left the Aeneas estate, he couldnt help but feel terrible about it. Hed even left his friends, and though he felt bad about that, too, his regret was marginal at best compared to how he left Elise.
Still, he had a job to do, and apologies c...
2019-11-08 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostLeon told his friends about his relationship with Elise. They had already heard some things about her when the four were at the Knight Academy, but since none of them had actually met her, none had expected to suddenly meet her at Leons placeLeon hadnt warned them ahead of time, giving them only the directions to his place with the intent to catch up there, not at the Knight Academy parad...
2019-11-06 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIf Leon took the time to stop and think about the problem, hed probably regret agreeing so readily to Marcus party invitation. It would likely consist of dozens, if not hundreds of other people, and he was rarely, if ever, in the mood to mingle.
Still, Tiberias was probably going to be there as well, and that presented an opportunity.
As soon as he got back home, he explained ev...
2019-11-04 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostLeon and his friends briefly grasped wrists in greeting, smiles on all their faces. It had been a little less than five months since they had last seen each other, but it was still a joy to see each other again.
Good to see you, my friend, Charles said.
And you, Leon replied.
Indeed, its been too long, Henry added. We were talking about trying to find yo...
2019-11-01 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostTwo years ago, Leon Ursus departed from this institution a third-tier squire, and today he returns a sixth-tier knight! the Legate of the Knight Academy said, his voice resounding through the parade grounds and the ears of the tens of thousands of people attending the ceremony. But these people didnt have the time to process their shock at such a rapid ascent in power as ...
2019-10-30 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostFour and a half months had passed since Leon returned to the capital. It had been two years since he had left the Knight Academy, and it was time for the strongest of the trainees from his cycle to graduate and become full-fledged knights.
This years graduation was unusually large, with all of the usual high nobles from his year who were already third-tier coming back for their knightin...
2019-10-28 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostKill Tiberias. That was the advice that the Thunderbird had given. There was no justice to be had in the Bull Kingdom for the young noblemans attempt to kill Leonnot that Leon ever seriously considered seeking legal justice. There just wasnt enough evidence there, especially after he destroyed the bodies of the assassins with demonfire and told no one about the attack for weeks.
All...
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