As he closed in on the three-month mark since he climbed down the mountain at the beginning of spring, Adion once again found himself deep inside the Endless Forest. It was once again time for a hunt. By now, the fruits in the safe part near the mountain had started growing, but Adion still wanted to eat some meat alongside the fruit. He was growing, after all. He would be 14 the coming winter ...
2023-11-22 15:47:12 +0000 UTC View PostA few more weeks passed in the same manner, and luckily, no new Bronze beast appeared. Most days, Adion would manage to bring back a Gray Wolf to eat and smoke in preparation for the winter.
It had now started getting really cold, and a few days ago, it had begun to snow. So, Adion decided to move back into the mountain structure for the winter. He had enough food to last him almost four ...
2023-11-22 15:36:17 +0000 UTC View PostAdion was pretty exhausted when he finally returned to the area around the Red Royal apple tree that had almost become like a home for him for the past six months. The fight had been very short, but freezing space like that around a living being always took its toll. And the hours of running while controlling the frozen space with the dead wolf had been slowly tearing at both his physical and m...
2023-11-22 15:20:05 +0000 UTC View PostA whole six months passed in this manner, and by the end of it, Adion had managed to reach the middle Iron stage. Making for an incredibly fast process, much thanks to the plentiful space mana surrounding him and his ever-increasing space mana control and lack of any bottlenecks a weak Will would have resulted in.
The good times were coming to an end, though. Adion hadn’t found any food...
2023-11-22 15:05:08 +0000 UTC View PostAdion spent the next few days trying different uses of his space mana and meditating. Thankfully, space mana was always abundant, so he didn’t need to waste his Will to change pure mana into space mana and could focus on feeding his core to increase his strength. Adion felt he should be able to reach all the way to Bronze with his current Will, so all he needed was time to fatten up his core....
2023-11-22 14:51:13 +0000 UTC View PostAdion felt a little disheartened about his seemingly useless powers as a space mage. He was sitting in the large cave next to the spring of water, thinking.
Space mages were rare and seemingly precious in the Age of Wonder, so my element shouldn’t be useless. I just have to figure out how to use it. What do I know about space? It is everything, or more like the place where everythin...
2023-11-22 14:37:00 +0000 UTC View PostAdion found himself standing before a doorway. It looked like it had once held a thick door, but nothing like that could be seen now. He had followed the row of openings in the wall looking out over the forest below. In the end, only this one room wasn’t completely caved in.
I hope there is a way out here, or else I will have to climb down the steep mountainside.
As Adion...
2023-11-22 14:35:38 +0000 UTC View PostMeanwhile, far away from the old hall that Adion has found himself in. Men and women in luxurious clothes were sitting along a long table made from Light Willowin wood, waiting.
The grand hall they were waiting in was only ever used for these meetings. On both sides of the long table, pillars were reaching at least a hundred feet up to the beautiful ceiling. Fire was burning along the wal...
2023-11-22 14:34:10 +0000 UTC View PostAdion didn’t know how long he just sat on the stone floor, confused. It was a lot to take in. His parents and probably the entire clan were dead, except for his brother, sister, and grandfather. He was a mage. He had formed a space core, an element he had never heard of anyone else ever having. He didn’t know where in the world he was. And he was probably the first person to see a Phoenix i...
2023-11-22 14:32:52 +0000 UTC View PostAdion felt everything around him change. He was still in what appeared to be a cave and still stood on top of a runic formation much like the one in the Remori treasury. But the cave was a different one. A little light was leaking in, so Adion could now see around him. What grabbed most of his attention, though, wasn’t the fact that he had seemingly just teleported to gods know where. It was ...
2023-11-22 14:31:26 +0000 UTC View PostA month passed in the Remori residence, and things proceeded as usual, even without the presence of the clan patriarch. Adion was sitting in the yard behind the main mansion. He had a small fire burning in front of him.
Adion had his focus on the abundant fire mana surrounding it. Adion thought he had an excellent affinity to fire mana. Most people in his clan were born with a fire spark ...
2023-11-22 14:30:05 +0000 UTC View PostIn a cavern-like structure deep below ground in the Remori clan’s residence. Arlen Remori stood next to his grandson, his actual grandson, that is, because even if the youngest generation Remori all called him ‘grandpa,’ he was actually their great-grandfather.
His oldest son, along with his wife, had died in the Outskirts not long after giving birth to Adonni, Axel, and Amisa. Leav...
2023-11-22 14:26:45 +0000 UTC View PostAdion stood at the ready, gripping his sword tightly, focusing his entire mind on reading the movements and the flow of mana on his older cousin. His eyes were fixed on Alex's every move.
A slash from the left, Adion thought, but then he saw something else. Alex was gathering fire mana in his left hand. It was a feint. Adion quickly swatted away the sword strike that lacked any c...
2023-11-22 14:24:26 +0000 UTC View Post