Edited 11/17
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Aurelia and Lucian had given the excuse that they were taking a walk. For some reasons, all of the monastic sisters had acted particularly odd when that was put forth. He had too many other things on his mind to give it any thought. Generally speaking, Lucian was quite satisfied with the plan that he’d devised. There were a few problems.
Lucian and Aurelia s...
2025-11-11 06:58:54 +0000 UTC View Post“He’s really quite a wonderful man,” Aurelia told her sisters. She looked between them all as they sat down at the table beside her.
Lined up on display, like cattle at the livestock fair, Aurelia thought.
“I think that one of us could live a very happy life with him,” Aurelia concluded, hiding her thoughts.
“It’s just… I truly love it here,” ...
2025-11-08 06:58:20 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the final demonstration of his holy affinity, Lucian was shown all of the hospitality that the monastery had to offer. He had gathered with the members of this holy order to enjoy a feast. Despite appearances of austerity, they were amply provisioned. In particular, they had an abundance of wine and other spirits. Lucian didn’t indulge, but the others did. Beyond that, they had staple c...
2025-11-07 07:06:43 +0000 UTC View PostLucian sat on the back of a carriage as it traveled a particularly treacherous mountain road. The journey to the monastery was a rugged one. Heavenwatch was a description, not an aspiration—it was called such because it was so high up on a mountain that it could watch the heavens. Cate laid her head on his lap, and Lucian combed her long hair. She seemed to enjoy it, because whenever he put t...
2025-11-06 06:41:45 +0000 UTC View PostDenzel walked in front of the door to Metterand’s study. He paused for a moment to take a breath, steadying himself. Then, he knocked thrice.
“Who is it?” the duke’s voice answered.
“It’s Prince Denzel. I have something I need to discuss with you,” he said, voice even.
Denzel heard some things being rearranged in the room beyond. “Come in,” the chancellor eve...
2025-11-05 06:39:27 +0000 UTC View PostAs Lucian walked into the abandoned mine, he flinched as the torch flared near his face. He really wasn’t cut out for spelunking. He’d have to get used to it soon enough, though. There’d be plenty more of it in the future. Fortunately for him, the close confines of the cave started to open up into a grand cavern.
“Here it is,” Guard-Commander Roger said, holding his magic lamp u...
2025-11-04 06:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post“Guard-Commander Roger,” one of the knights said.
Roger looked up from his paperwork as a knight entered his office. “What is it?”
“I have someone claiming to be a servant of the Villamar family with a matching family crest requesting to see you,” his subordinate claimed.
Roger narrowed his eyes. It was quite unusual for someone of noble status to seek him out deli...
2025-11-01 07:00:53 +0000 UTC View PostLucian followed behind a servant alongside Denzel as they walked through the mansion of House Villamar in the Imperial Capital. He’d been expecting at least some time to prepare, but it seemed that the duke intended to see him immediately right alongside the second prince. He wasn’t quite sure what to expect. The primary thing that Lucian knew about him from playing War of Four was that he ...
2025-10-31 06:43:41 +0000 UTC View PostLucian was having a similar wonderment to the first time he’d entered Verne. He watched the countryside of his new world as the boat traveled up the Lurund River. When last he’d been on a boat, he’d been in a doom-and-gloom mood contemplating the upcoming battle. He hadn’t been able to appreciate any of the sights. The circumstance was different now.
Lucian saw endless fields of g...
2025-10-30 06:47:37 +0000 UTC View PostDespite all his taunting, Denzel didn’t intend to take this fight lightly. He had heard plenty of what Lucian did. When enough rumor comes together, there was bound at least to be a shred of truth. Even if Lucian wasn’t as skilled as his deeds suggested, there was no harm in being safe.
“Ready, and… go,” the instructor declared.
Denzel advanced forward at a speedy but caut...
2025-10-29 06:41:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe first audiobook for Disregard Fantasy, Acquire Currency is out on Audible!
It's narrated by Daniel Wisniewski, who's done a wide range of LitRPG and fantasy stories, some of which came from Royal Road same as this one. 1% Lifesteal comes to mind. The second one is...
2025-10-28 16:38:59 +0000 UTC View PostHelen focused on calming herself as best she could before her match against Lucian. Despite her advice, he’d gone through with his ridiculous strategy for the tournament. It had all proceeded very slowly—he’d take cover behind that shield, lashing out with spells when he could, pivoting around it and playing for time. Sometimes his foes would get overzealous and he’d end up defeating th...
2025-10-28 06:34:24 +0000 UTC View PostIn the War of Four—and as Lucian was discovering, in this new reality—the Collegium held tournaments intermittently. Competition was an excellent method to foster growth, after all, and they provided fights with stakes involved. There were grander tournaments later in the year, but every month, certain classes would host in-class tournaments. In them, competitors were only permitted to use ...
2025-10-25 06:41:40 +0000 UTC View PostLucian drifted back to his apartment in Verne on a gondola that he currently shared with Helen and Olivia. Miriam and Rowan had taken earlier stops because their cantons were closer. He found himself staring at the new vaguely cross-shaped mark on his hand.
What did it mean to be an Inquisitor?
Lucian didn’t have a grand philosophical answer, but he had a practical one. In War of ...
2025-10-24 06:25:56 +0000 UTC View PostAfter figuring out what was going on with them, Rowan had taken it upon himself to assume the role of distracting Saltbelly. That freed them up to engage with its mate, but that didn’t solve their core problem. Even though Olivia had agreed to follow Lucian’s direction, as the terrifying drake haunted the two of them down, she found herself questioning that decision.
We’ll be he...
2025-10-23 07:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostUp until this point, Lucian thought that all of his knowledge was holding true. Maybe he wasn’t wrong to think so. So many variables were precisely as he remembered them, down to the very last details. The line between reality and the War of Four had been thinning to the point where he’d grown overconfident in his actions—overconfident enough to forget this was reality.
Saltbelly was a foe that was beyond any of them individually. That was especially true of the hardcore difficulty. It could easily one-shot all of them. Even Rowan, glorious stat-fat bastard that he was, would get swallowed up whole in that gaping jaw. Neither their swords nor their spells would be able to do significant damage. That said, the game wouldn’t be so cruel as to put the player in...
2025-10-21 07:01:27 +0000 UTC View PostFor a few moments Lucian thought that he was sitting on a very big chair. He realized soon enough that he was small, and the chair was normal-sized. He realized this memory came from when he was a child.
“Lord Lucian. I’m coming in.”
Lucian turned his head to look at the door as it opened. A servant in a suit entered, his arms politely behind his back.
“Good evening, y...
2025-10-21 07:01:23 +0000 UTC View PostAs they walked through the gallery of the clerestory, Lucian couldn’t help but peer through the windows to see the ocean pressing down on them from beyond. Now that the potion had worn off and he could see no further than a few feet, he began to sympathize with Helen’s indefatigable fear of the ocean.
“It feels like we’re in one of the hells,” Helen said, seeing the outside the ...
2025-10-20 07:00:43 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re really good at finding stuff like this. Maybe you were a thief in a past life,” Rowan praised.
“Past?” Lucian joked.
“He’s just got good intuition,” Miriam said, covering for him. “I’ve seen it myself.”
Lucian had picked up a large variety of things while exploring the Fifth Canton. The real treasures would be inside the cathedral, but that didn...
2025-10-20 07:00:40 +0000 UTC View PostOnce the game got going, there were plenty of ways for someone to punch beyond their weight class in the War of Four. There were plenty of opportunities that one could take advantage of. The reason that Lucian was so adamant on pursuing the Inquisition in the Fifth Canton immediately was because one such opportunity waited within there. After all, the Inquisition was once an institution of the ...
2025-10-18 06:46:43 +0000 UTC View PostLucian had spent his day after talking with Metterand figuring out the extent of his new attributes. Other than the simple fact it felt as though his body responded to his thoughts more easily, he had progressed in other areas. He had gained enough magic power to begin learning more complex spells that would be invaluable to him on his journey.
The War of Four was a game partially about t...
2025-10-18 06:46:40 +0000 UTC View PostIt was morning. Lucian hadn’t slept particularly well, but that wasn’t anything new. When he tried to go to sleep, his mind kept wandering both to those bandits and those people he’d heard screaming as they fell into the waters. In the end, he elected to distract himself by updating the Evercodex. He reviewed what he’d changed now that he’d slept on it.
HP: 22 (+8)
STR: 14...
2025-10-18 06:46:37 +0000 UTC View PostLucian heard a light footstep followed by a much heavier one sounding out behind him again and again. He didn’t need to turn around to know who was here.
“Miriam,” Lucian said without looking. He stayed focused on the array of books laid out before him.
“How’d you know it was me? Wait, don't say,” she interrupted before Lucian could explain. She tapped her leg. “Heard ...
2025-10-17 06:56:28 +0000 UTC View PostLucian sat on a log and drained his boots of water. His socks sat just beside him, soaking wet. Everyone else was taking time to account for the wounded… and the dead. Even his triumph came with some undeniable facts—people had died. That seemed to bother Lucian most of anyone. What bothered all the rest of them? It was Lucian himself.
When he’d arrived back to the bandit camp, soak...
2025-10-17 06:56:25 +0000 UTC View PostFor this fight, Lucian couldn’t afford to use the other consumables he’d prepared. He needed all of what he had remaining to make this plan worthwhile. If he managed to get his hand on the blessing underneath the Merspawn Knight’s feet, he was confident he could bring it home. And he already had a plan in mind.
Lucian cast First Sanctuary once again, protecting himself with holy mag...
2025-10-17 06:56:22 +0000 UTC View PostEven though the rain was growing heavier and obscuring visibility, it was very difficult to miss the sight of Lucian running out into the oncoming wave of enemies. All of the Student Ambassadors couldn’t help but look upon this sight with both bewilderment and wonderment.
One in particular, however, grew agitated.
“Rowan!” Helen said, moving to cover beside him. “Why is Luci...
2025-10-15 06:34:28 +0000 UTC View PostLucian stood near Miriam’s horse as the others filtered into the square where the bandit chief’s body had been displayed. The other groups had finally managed to break through, and though they had no casualties, they certainly hadn’t covered themselves in glory. As a matter of fact, after they’d dealt with the chief, Rowan’s group carried on to deal with the remainder of the bandits.<...
2025-10-15 06:34:24 +0000 UTC View PostLucian opened his first real battle against a human with a spell.
As the bandit brandished his axe, Lucian held his hand out and said, “Vörr.” A pure white scarab surged out of his hands, cutting through the air toward him.
The bandit regarded the projectile with intense caution, ducking low and sidling back and forth as if to fake it out. Eventually, he darted forward and to t...
2025-10-15 06:34:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Break the dam,” said the white-haired man.
Not long after the order was given, a great magic sigil erupted on the stone surface of the dam. Cracks split across it like an egg hatching open. Water started to burst out in small spouts before the bulk of the wall fell away and a torrent of water spilled forth. It surged into the river ahead, barely contained by the course established by...
2025-10-14 06:43:00 +0000 UTC View Post