"Are you sure you don't want to buy anything?" Father asked as we left the shop.
After learning how artifacts were made and my mother's sacrifices to craft them for me, I was in no mood to look at any more fabricators. I guessed now I knew the secret process required for artifact creation. It required sacrifice.
It required one to strip away their...
2025-03-31 19:27:13 +0000 UTC View PostI had missed how the Waygate operated during my first visit to Klearon, but this time, the Waygate Plaza was our first stop. Regrettably, we weren’t here to travel through the magical gate but to wait for another person to come through it.
Located in the inner city, the Waygate was one of the most secure places, alongside the sanctum. Sentinels stood aler...
2025-03-31 12:24:18 +0000 UTC View PostJinn was mildly surprised when Ashlyn said she was going to come along with him on scouting duty today. Among the few duties of the newly formed militia, scouting the Candor Mountains was one of the more necessary ones. Half the time, the assignment fell upon him, since it wasn’t an easy or timeless task to move a group of ill-fitted auxiliaries through the strenuou...
2025-03-30 19:53:23 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Note: It is not complete, but it gives you the basic information. If you can't find something, let me know in the comments, and it will be added.
Gdoc Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1obMbPZtUSrDKwR4w_mrLwB70txTtcZevuEgRJsmEIx8/edit?usp=shari...
2025-03-30 19:02:18 +0000 UTC View PostI haven't gotten much done this month for one reason or another, managed only 16 or 17 chapters, which is a bit less than 40k words. Thankfully, the month is not over. I outright struggled with writing a chapter for a couple of days, and there was some IRL stuff. Excuses aside, I'll deliver all the chapters that are due.
Currently, I'm working on a glossary, which is turning out to be mor...
2025-03-26 20:28:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 52: Compress
The decree of conscription was put into effect almost immediately. The very next day, legionaries rounded up all the young boys and girls who had completed at least a year of basic training at the institution and took them back to their camp in Alpeis, a hundred miles west of Klearon.
Even the Magistratus's daughter, Aleya, couldn’t escape con...
2025-03-24 19:50:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 51: Feast
After wasting a couple of hours, I realised it was impractical to practise Arcane Resistance using my own essence. I'd hoped to do so in a safe environment, just what I employ for training Eran, but it turned out to be near impossible.
All my training with Kinetic Force yielded lacklustre results, and I was not keen on trying it with Fire shaping. By the time Era...
At once, everyone's eyes flashed upwards as more light flared, igniting the whole channel in glaring illumination. That wasn’t all. Immediately, Jinn became aware of the contrasting aura and the weight of essence permeating the stale air.
Then came the scream of a man on his left.
“Wards!” shouted Quintus Septimus.
A force shield flared up, obstructing the dozens of corp...
2025-03-18 22:36:45 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude III
Jinn
With the guild and the Legionaries' help, it didn't take them long to locate the rift and prepare for a final expedition to clear it once and for all. Jinn had enlisted his name in the mission even though they likely didn't require his help, but he'd still join them and make sure everything went accordingly.
So, here t...
2025-03-14 20:51:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 50: Charm of Foretelling
The advancement on this occasion was almost instantaneous, though that didn’t mean it was painless.
A new green aether root pierced through my essence seed and split into eight thin strands of essence as it threaded into my channels, rescuing me from the twisting pain.
However, although I was saved from the agony, I was not r...
2025-03-13 22:04:16 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Sorry for the delay. This one got a bit overboard, and I had no other choice but to divide them since I would have missed today's update if I had to do a 6k word chapter... This one is close to 3k...
Chapter 49: Collaboration
It took a long talking to convince Eran to accept the gift. The secret had been getting Mum to speak to Eran’s mother and explai...
2025-03-12 23:56:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 48: Legionaries
The moment I finished molding the runes on the shield, I dashed out of the workshop to find Eran. The sun was at the horizon, painting the sky a pale golden red. It was late, yet still early enough for Eran to finish his evening practice.
Just as I had imagined, I found him next to the empty field near the one where we had been cultivating le...
2025-03-10 23:18:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 47: Charm
The two conditions I gave Mum were easy to follow, so she readily agreed.
The first was about the help she was allowed to give me. She promised her help would be limited to mere hints.
The other one involved all the materials needed for the crafting. I asked Mum not to hand them over to me for free. Of course, I would still work on her materials, but I'...
2025-03-08 19:25:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 46: Band of Protection
My eyes immediately darted around the workshop, searching for the gift. It shouldn't be anything large—if it was, I would have noticed it already.
While I was busy looking, Mum shot a telekinetic string of essence to open the desk drawer and yanked a small wooden container into her palm. She opened it to reveal a thin silver-chained ...
2025-03-06 23:07:35 +0000 UTC View PostRosalyn departed that very day with my grandmother, without managing to show me all the things she had promised to teach. The only consolation was that the books she had given me contained all the information I needed. So once again it was self-study.
Father returned the day after, not looking the least bit weary, though I couldn...
2025-03-04 22:56:55 +0000 UTC View PostTable of Contents:
Chapter 45:
2025-03-04 14:03:40 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary Report
As February came to an end, I have something to share—so I figured, why not do a monthly report?
Anyway, this February, I launched Mythshaper in RR and published approximately 105,000 words, counting the advanced chapters on Patreon. Yeah, I didn’t write most of them this month, but I did edit and rewrite a large portion during this time.
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2025-03-03 23:05:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 44: Scars
We watched from the foothills as Father’s figure disappeared into the mountains along with the others in the company. The guild had worked hard to organise everything in just one day for the expedition.
"It’s weird," Rosalyn said, glancing towards the tallest peaks. "Our home is just on the other side of the mountain range, yet this place...
2025-03-03 22:52:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 35: Advance
Arcane Affinity was already an Advanced attribute, so it didn’t evolve as I slowly raised it to 50 points. Still, I could intuitively feel what those extra thirty odd points did. I conjured a small flame over my palm to observe the difference. After a few more conjurations, I realized that the time required for each had been halved, aside from it bec...
2025-03-01 21:18:06 +0000 UTC View Post“So, how was your first day at the institution?” Mum asked as soon as I stepped into the house. She immediately followed up with, “Why the long face? Was it not as you hoped?”
Perhaps it was my expression gave it away.
“I was defeated,” I announced, biting my lip as I glanced towards Father. He was unusually engrossed in a book, spraw...
2025-02-28 22:43:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 33: The Institution
My first day at the institution was mildly disappointing. I knew everything would be elementary to borderline intermediate grade, but I had expected to learn at least something new about essence, magic, and the secrets of the world. Instead, all I received was a history lesson on the empire and the Blighted War, followed by a tedious primer on ...
2025-02-28 19:19:15 +0000 UTC View PostEverything seemed to fall into normalcy once night fell. Father returned within a couple of hours after scouting the area. He found no corpse flies or signs of a rift breaking nearby. Of course, he hadn’t ventured deeper into the mountains, but from what he observed, there were only a few dead animals fed upon by the corpse flies and nothing else, but the nu...
2025-02-27 21:27:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe monsters weren’t huge, though they were arguably the most hideous things I had ever seen. Their sinewy forms were supported by two pairs of dark, dragonfly-like wings that beat furiously as they shot towards us, emitting high-pitched squeaks.
The sound was grating, piercing my ears so sharply that I had to press my palms against them. The largest of ...
2025-02-25 21:18:27 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude II
Eran
Eran awoke with a start, his chest heaving as he sat upright. He immediately became aware of the changes within him.
Unwittingly, his palm moved over his abdomen, where he could feel a spherical form of power radiating warmth through his body.
“You’re awake!”
A voice called from his left, and only then did E...
2025-02-25 18:59:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 41: Fight
The girls didn’t waste any time posing after they agreed to a fight. Well, Aleya certainly didn’t. Her legs sprang as she thrust towards Rosalyn, her sword poised for a high swing.
My aunt, however, remained in her original spot, looking unimpressed. It was only when Aleya was ten paces away that Rosalyn’s influence spread forward. Thin blue ...
2025-02-24 21:28:48 +0000 UTC View PostSince Rosalyn came to visit us, it had completely fallen upon me to entertain her.
The institution was closed today, but at Rosalyn's insistence, I brought her along for sightseeing—to show her around the place, tell her where I practised, and with whom. Eran and Diana tagged along after our morning practice. All they reme...
2025-02-23 21:42:06 +0000 UTC View Post"I hate how backwater this place is," Rosalyn complained after pouring a mouthful of water down her throat. "If it was even Klearon, I wouldn’t have to waste half my time on the journey, forgetting that I practically forgot the way to your house. I had to go to the Magistratus' office and ask someone for directions."
Rosalyn was almost an adult now, standi...
2025-02-22 21:05:49 +0000 UTC View PostFor my second project, Mum gave me complete freedom to create whatever I liked. She even encouraged me to use all my engraving skills and knowledge to design something great. I didn’t hold back.
Instead of making another flask, I designed something entirely different, something beyond anyone's grasp: a large cask for fermenting alcohol.
Jokes aside, ...
2025-02-21 22:13:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 37: First Creation
"Why a flask?" I asked.
"Why not a flask?" Mum cocked an eyebrow.
"But a flask is simple," I said. "It only needs a couple of elementary runes, and that’s it."
"Which makes it perfect for your first creation, wouldn't you say?" she argued, and I saw valid reason in that.
For my first attempt at creating a Fabricator, I ...
2025-02-21 19:31:58 +0000 UTC View PostWith everyone awakening different types of Gifts, it was almost a pain to keep the rules of the practice duel fair. To maintain even a semblance of equality, different rules were invoked for different types of Gifts.
The boy I was fighting, Kash. had the Gift of Harden, allowing him to harden his skin. Theoretically, it would be diffic...
2025-02-20 22:40:17 +0000 UTC View Post