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21 - Misery Broodmother

Phoenix awoke about five hours later, which is all a Crystal Caster really needed to feel fully rested, to find a small black murder-kitten curled up on her chest and her heart rate soared in her temporary panic.

“Whasit?! Whaswrong?” Saiya yelled, sitting straight upwards in the bed nearby ...

20 - Soft and Shiny

The next few fights were much the same only with Tala, Snowbelle, and Rex joining the other Familiars and Summons in the chaotic fight of fur, feathers, and scales. With their overwhelming numbers, they were able to dominate the few packs of Crystal Caste monsters they encountered.

Most Summonin...

19 - Support Team

Phoenix smiled at the sight of the Emerald Caste voxen speaking with another priest she didn’t recognize so she decided to forgo distracting him and stayed with her party as they were arriving at the Western district’s small portal grounds. She hadn’t seen the man since he had cleared her for du...

18 - Position of Power

“I’m still a bit surprised you encouraged her to go,” Uriel said as they watched the Wayfarer chatting happily with the voxen while they perused the precarious shelves of Mother’s Cupboard.

The current attendant at the counter had informed them that Madam Malik had gone out for an errand...

17 - Another Expedition

King’s Dream made their way to the AOA building where they had been told to meet to go over their next mission which they had been specifically chosen for along with a few other select parties.

They were escorted to a large meeting room on one of the upper floors of the building where rows of ...

16 - Augmented

Paul stood, placing himself in the center of the finished ritual circle, and pulled his slick silver undershirt off. Like most Adventurers that conjured their armor, he wore the enchanted [Sliksilk Compression Gear] underneath. It was difficult to grapple and wouldn’t snag on anything, along with ha...

15 - Glimpse the Cosmos

“This One meets Little Wayland now?” the familiar monotone voice echoed in his mind.

Paul chuckled and finally answered, “Yes, Bela. You get to meet Phoenix now.”

As he opened the door to the ritual room, he had to head off his Familiar’s enthusiasm by clarifyin...

14 - Reason Beyond the Rumors

Phoenix was clenching Paul’s arm in a death grip of anxiety as she nervously stood beside her mentor and now… father? It was both easy and difficult to think of him as such. He definitely acted like one towards her, especially after they had gotten to know each other more, but she wasn’t a child...

13 - All the Good Excuses

Author's Note: I've updated Book 3's Chapter 6 - All Tied Up to include a few more paragraphs of introspection on Dazien's part near the beginning. Nothing super plot-changing, so I didn't want to ping everyone about the update, but just noting here if anyone is curious.

12 - To Be a Wayland

Phoenix also managed to remember to give Madam Malik the bonus reward from defeating a swarm of flaywings that had also been collecting metaphorical dust in her collection to see if she could make anything useful out of it besides turning it into an augment that wouldn’t last her long.

11 - Particularly Perilous

Phoenix was rubbing her temples as she sat on the couch in her room, half naked in her undergarments, while Patricia and Rayna were heatedly discussing which outfit she should try next.

She hadn’t entirely believed Dazien at first when he said conjuring things to and from her collection cost m...

10 - Spirit Bonding

Phoenix sat excitedly at the edge of the room with her back against the wall. Uriel was on her right as he watched calmly and Dazien sat on her left, grinning like a fool, with Saiya on the Defender’s other side, oddly not touching anyone except the large snowy Familiar sprawled in her lap demanding...

9 - The Perks of Being a Noble

Saiya was struggling to make her way through the city with Rayna leading her by the hand towards the Wayland estate and Snowbelle gliding after them. It had only been a few days since her abnormal ascension and she still hadn’t quite gotten to the point where she could shut out the influx of emotion...

8 - Happy Thoughts

Phoenix pulled out the [Crystal Caster Party Pack] from her collection that she had received for helping fight against the Renseres as she sat in the middle of the open space of the [Fortress of Solitude] and began pulling out the various pieces to it and the small parchment pamphlet ...

7 - To Force Calm

It was Rayna’s turn to laugh maniacally as she ran through the Whistling Gorge to the west of Tulimeir. The slightly winding crack in the landscape made for an interesting gauntlet of sorts with its arches of ice sporadically spanning across the chasm and sharp stalagmites rising from the base that ...

6 - All Tied Up

Dazien was sitting with his party in the center of the large room that Uriel had constructed for them with the Mage’s [Fortress of Solitude] ability at dawn. Taking advantage of both the ice fortress and Saiya’s soft singing with [Meditative Guide], they were cult...

5 - Grow up

Phoenix practically flew across the snow as she laughed wildly. They had finally been sent back out on the tundra to clear out monsters after the few days of rest they received once they had successfully regained control of Tulisuda. Her new armor, [Shifting Twilight], was giving her the freedom of mo...

4 - We Do What We Have To

Paul could feel the young man’s nervousness radiating throughout that aura the Defender had actually lost control of. The noble had known the gemite had poor aura control but he hadn’t realized exactly how bad until the moment the kid let it get away just from being excited. Anger was the more com...

3 - Executioner

Camrin Ruwena was exhausted. Ever since his older sister, Murinah, had decided that she had to murder any potential competition over her fatalistic obsession with an orphaned gemite, his life had gone completely off the runerails.

He had been horrified by his own part in tricking the young woman...

2 - Judgment

Paul was nervous as he led the way up to the roof, taking the green-tinted lift up the dozens of floors. It wasn’t the fact that he was uncertain about Phoenix finding the area interesting; if anything, her curiosity was the one predictable thing about her. No, his nerves currently came from the per...

1 - Willing to Pay

Things were not progressing well in this reality for Roimeldor. After losing almost half of his forces to the opposition they discovered on the planet Erythrós, he was not happy about some of the resource losses they were receiving on its sister planet, Makera. Even more frustrating was the fact that...

Wayward: Fighting Character Reference

Hello everyone 👋

We made it through the second book of the Wayward series! Part 2 of 4 for the Tulimeir Arc is now completely released. (Yes, the last book ending said 1 of 3 but things happened.) Fun fact: the original version of this portion was 79,998 words while this rewritten version ended up 137,889 words long! It's also time to see all the DATA again!

Book 3 will ...

50 - Everything Has a Price

It was the first time Phoenix had woken up from death already feeling victorious. She had actually managed to help her mentor. Sure she had died but for once it had felt worth it. The sense of pride and accomplishment filled her with a joy that she rarely got to experience and she just lay th...

49 - Martyr Complex

Dazien grimaced as the Sapphire Healer finished healing him, which he had been quickly handed off to once Everin Starlark had mended the worst of it, and Saiya explained why she had returned without their final party member. He ran his hand through his hair which was beginning to get much longer than ...

48 - Zeal Versus Zealotry

Despite Paul spending much of his time in the air, he didn’t actually possess a flight power to keep him aloft. His Familiar being merged within him did grant him a bit of control when traveling through the air along with a slow fall effect though, so he kept Orebela’s enhancing Boons wit...

47 - Collateral

Phoenix barely paid attention to her [Guide Book] as she, Dazien, and Rayna moved into the melee while Uriel and Saiya joined the other ranged attackers which included the strange woman who had caught Phoenix’s attention earlier. Apparently, the friendly cinderen woman and the rest ...

46 - Fallen Paladin

Phoenix was both fascinated and annoyed by the desolate landscape interspersed with lava flows. The heat was getting worse and the Wayfarer found herself swapping out clothing for something that wouldn’t have her pass out from the extreme temperature.

Even pulling out her [Drifter’s Umbrella]...

45 - This Tainted Land

King’s Dream regrouped with the rest of the Adventurer forces, bringing their prisoners with them and depositing them onto the other side of the Rift to be dealt with by others more specialized in detaining and transporting captives. Phoenix spared a wave to Bliss, who was with her own party, having...

44 - The Ruin of Ruwena

“Well, you seem fit for battle to me,” the voxen man said with a grin as he added, “Now, I hope I don’t have to tell you not to go stacking recoil effects again; unless you think your death is the only way to win, that is.”

Phoenix’s eyes went wide as she blinked at the Emerald Caste...

43 - Trust-Building Exercise

Phoenix stared down at her lap where Tala materialized to snuggle her, giving soothing chirps as the summoner held back tears. She knew that something had been wrong with her friend and having him confirm her fears that it was her fault, that she had messed up again, had her frustrated with herself on...