Vitaly S Alexius

Scientific Sorcery : 39 The Application of Psychotherapy Hypnosis Against Dreamwalkers

“That sounds like something oddly specific,” I said, looking from Stormy to Cali.

“Ammrrrr-lllaww-rrrrrrrrdd,” Stormy outputted, trying hard to say the words. “MmDd-urrrrr-sshhhh-eeeee-aaaw.”

“Two words?” I asked, opening the Codex in front of Stormy and watching as her paw landed on ‘yes’.

“A… name of our enemy?” I guessed.

“Mrrww!” Stormy ...

Scientific Sorcery : 38 Aclard Dulsea

-=[Callista Leisl]=-

After dinner and another round of incredibly delicious water, I passed out on a bench in Ioan’s pub atop a pile of cloths extracted from my damaged Sleigh. As my mind sank into the mire of sleep, I prayed to the White Lynx and Goldara that the damage from touching so much dragonglass would vanish by the time I woke, as it miraculously had befo...

Scientific Sorcery : 37 The Matriarch Event Horizon

I grabbed my shovel and headed out of the pub, Cali trailing behind me with obvious reluctance. As we reached the desolate ruins of Svalbard, I pointed to an area where the dragonfire had left distinctive black ashes on the ground, the snow not covering up these spots.

"Let's start here," I said, plunging my shovel into the ash-covered earth.

Cali hesitated for a moment before follo...

Scientific Sorcery : 36 The All-Grinding Wheel of Life

I watched as the first rays of dawn crept through the pub's windows, painting the room in a soft, pale light. Another sleepless night had passed, my hands and mind preoccupied with drawing out more hexagrams onto my Codex using the hexometer. 

Cali stirred on the pile of earth where she had collapsed after her first dragonglass expedition.

She blinked groggily, then sat up with...

Scientific Sorcery : 35 Seerage

"What do you mean it says 'Have a Good Tomorrow'?" Cali demanded as we entered the pub. "That can't be right. It must be some kind… you’re just screwing with me, aren’t you?!"

"That's what it says,” I shrugged. “Take it or leave it."

Cali's tail lashed back and forth. "But that doesn't make any sense! How can such a... a mundane phrase be written on the moon by the Gods?"<...

Scientific Sorcery : 34 Endalaus

I watched as the emerald-tinted blade pushed the slight silver-blue shimmer away from Cali’s skin, white fuzz of her neck hairs igniting and burning away before the blade even touched her. 

Cali trembled, her eyes closed as a dark, red line slowly burned itself across her neck, as if she was getting a serious, near-instant tan in one spot.

I watched with a pitch of detached f...

Scientific Sorcery : 33 Dimorphism of Thornwild Humanity

I was feeling rather drained from lugging Glinka around so I didn’t teach Cali anything new that evening.

Instead, I simply took the Castian Sorceress to her Sleigh, to see what other items of value she could help me extract from its somewhat compressed insides. 

For the first time in my new life on Thornwild, the sky overhead was clear of its usual thick blanket of clouds. T...

Scientific Sorcery : 32 Behavioral Patterns of Feline Psychology

"Are you sad, Ioan?" Cali asked, tilting her head at me, blue eyes examining my frown. "I don't like it when my bestie is sad! What can I do to make you smile?"

"You could be a little nicer to people," I said, shuddering ever so slightly at Cali’s plan of using mortal men to basically dig up radioactive sand with their bare hands only to sell it to assassins and dark Sorcerers.

"W...

Scientific Sorcery : 31 Dragonglass Pathophysiology

I watched as Cali's face cycled through a range of emotions - disbelief, fear, anger, and finally, resignation. Her hand trembled as she reached for the pen, ocean-blue eyes never leaving mine.

"You don't know what you're doing," she said, her voice barely above a whisper. "These contracts… no sane person would stack them on a single thrall like this! The magical backlash could be catas...

Scientific Sorcery : 30 Thunderstruck

-=[Callista Leisl]=-

I simply stood there, half-fused to the floor of Ioan's pub, straining to hear what was happening outside with all of my senses.

I felt the distant presence of my sleigh and the cold grip of intensifying winter and something ancient and dangerous that surrounded me within this cursed old pub. Some unseen hand that gave life to the impo...

Scientific Sorcery : 29 River vs Sleigh

I said a quick bye to Cali, ignoring her protests and demands for me to come back at once. She continued to yell as I walked away.

Whistling a jaunty tune, I adjusted my backpack, grabbed a shovel, and waited for Stormy to leap onto my shoulder before heading towards the river.

The crisp winter air nipped at my face as we made our way to Glinka's domain. Snow crunched beneath my fee...

Scientific Sorcery : 28 Maybe!

I watched as Cali scurried off to the outhouse, her tail twitching nervously. As soon as she was out of sight, I turned to Stormy.

"So, what do you think?" I asked my feline companion. "Is she planning something?"

Stormy gave me a look that could only be described as exasperated. "Mrrrow," she replied, which I took to mean, “Of course she is, you big dolt.”

I chuc...

Scientific Sorcery : 27 Storm-tastic

I was born the runt of the litter, the smallest of seven. My brothers and sisters were all sleek, fast and strong, like shadows in the night, hunting and running with each other, while I remained tiny and frail, refusing to stray from the warm step of the big house of the meat-giver, one that fed us scraps and offered us her warm lap in exchange for killing mice.

What I lacked in size, I ...

Scientific Sorcery : 26 The Apex Omniarch

-=[Callista Leisl]=-

I awoke with a start, atop some kind of uneven surface. I rapidly tried to mentally reorient myself as to where I was and how I ended here. The earth and rocks under me definitely didn't feel like the plush bed of my sleigh.

All of it crashed into me at once. 

Searching for the perfect clueless idiot newborn Star-Eater to ensla...

Scientific Sorcery 25 : Thirsty for Knowledge

Upon arrival in the pub, I deposited the treasure and the merchant onto my pile of witchy earth and went to the stove to cook everyone dinner. Cali watched me with dead eyes as I brought her a plate of steak and pickled vegetables.

She ate quickly and I poured her a jug of water from the centre of my domain blessed by the radiance of gemstone 112. As the water hit her lips, her eyes went ...

Technomagica 2 : 48 Takeoff

I stood atop the craggy outcropping, my breath misting in the crisp mountain air as I gave the glider, the gravity hexagrams and the bags one last look-over, making sure that everything was secure and strapped in.

Kliss sat perched in front of me on a moss-covered bou...

Scientific Sorcery : 24 Star-Eaters

“Here.” Cali’s nose took us into another, narrower tunnel that led into what was possibly the basement of one of the now collapsed houses. “I smell gold here.”

We stuck the torches into the earth nearby and began digging, lugging rocks and pulling wooden beams away from the scene.

“What’s a Star-Seeker?” I asked.

"Star-Seekers are an elite order of Felix Arcani...

Scientific Sorcery : 23 Literacy

“Hey Stormy, am I going to turn inside out?” I asked my future-seeing kitten, worrying how witchery would affect me.

“Brrrrrrr,” the kitten hopped off my shoulder and rolled her violet-tinted eyes at me as if I was an idiot who was listening to big dumb blonde cats.

“Welp,” I said, turning back to the merchant. “The kitten committee verdict is in. I’m not turning ins...

Scientific Sorcery : 22 The Dealermancer

Callista’s eyes widened in horror as she realized what I was asking. "You... you want me to sign my own contract?"

I nodded, my expression impassive. "It seems only fair, doesn't it? You came here to force me to sign it. Now you get to experience what that feels like firsthand."

Her hand trembled as she gripped the pen, tears streaming down her dirt-smeared face. "Please," she whi...

Scientific Sorcery : 21 Witchy Lie Detector

"Say, that’s a pretty necklace," I growled, staring at the convergence of silver and blue lines on her chest.

"This old thing?" Cali asked, walking towards me, her slender fingers lightly caressing the cool, smooth surface of the biggest crystal hanging on her chest. "Just a family heirloom. Passed down through generations of merchants on my mother's side. Legend has it that it brings g...

Scientific Sorcery : 20 Felix Arcanicx

“My sled is an artefact made by fine ladies of the Iridium Istria Maggelanum,” Cali revealed. “It utilises a small shard of the Wormwood Star to power the runework. The Artificer-Sorcerers of my homeland are quite talented!”

I nodded, wondering if there were actual wizards in the south or if witches had somehow monopolised the global domain of magic leaving the men to focus on cul...

Scientific Sorcery : 19 Callista Liesl

Stormy’s sudden, loud "Mraurwww!" interrupted my thoughts about my magical experiments as she dashed to the window.

I set down my Witchy Codex book and followed after her to the window.

Stormy’s superior feline senses were right on target.

There was a truly enormous, carriage-style wooden sleigh covered in carved runework rolling into Svalbard pulled by four horses. I rus...

Scientific Sorcery : 18 Arcanoelastic Resonator

"Right,” I said. “So… today we're going to attempt to build a remote control for gem 51," I explained, gathering my tools. "First things first, we need a base. Something magical, but not too magical.

“I’m thinking… wood? Which one do you think will work best? This one maybe?” I picked up an oak board.

I watched as Stormy got up and waddled to my pile of scrap wood, sto...

Scientific Sorcery : 17 Hexometer

I considered the violet dust in my bag and what to do with it. 

Ordinarily, human bones burned up in a crematorium at around 1,000 to 1,300 degrees Celsius becoming dry and brittle and turning into a grayish ash. I wondered what would happen if I heated this crystalline bone dust? Would it catch fire or maybe exhibit the properties of vitrification, aka sand turning into glass?

Scientific Sorcery : 16 Witchy Armor

I buried the fish-spirit rock in a pile of my witchy earth to see how my domain power would sort it out. It felt… weird. Like a little fire that was invading my territory, a small electrical current that constantly tickled at my senses.

It confirmed to me that I was well connected with and could actually feel my domain, which was an entirely new experience, like having a 5th limb or a 3...

Scientific Sorcery : 15 Yoink

I dug through the earth in the large barrel and discovered a half-fist sized rock buried therein. 

When I pulled the rock out of the barrel, the floating crab followed it. This confirmed my theory that the Astral Projections were pretty much attached to specific large crystal formations located within the soil. I integrated the rock into my armor, by tying a metal mesh-cage around it...

Scientific Sorcery : 14 The Astralgraph Theory

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I watched as Stormy sat atop a large barrel and nibbled on the brilliantly glowing, violet-shimmering...

Technomagica 2 : 47 Preparations

I woke up to the gentle rays of the morning sun filtering through the window.

Turning my head, I saw Kliss, still peacefully asleep. Her gemstone mane cascaded over the pillow, shimmering in the early light with yellow, violet and red reflections, casting a thousand flickering rainbows across the sheets. 

As if sensing my gaze, her eyes fluttered open and met mine with a smile....

Technomagica 2 : 46 Deeper Darker

Leemy lazily waved at us from beneath a golden-leafed oak tree in the heart of Moscow's Gorky Park. The dryad and her Agromancer lounged on a bench across from us. Delta gesticulated wildly, chatting to her dryad with over-exuberant excitement about what sort of hydroponics they were going to build and what sort of things they would grow first.

“We should go,” Kliss said.

“I d...

Technomagica 2 : 45 A Night of Revelations

I walked to the cottage, my hand entwined with Kliss’s, Delta following close behind us. I could feel the nervous tremor in my fingers, fuelled by the uncertainty of what was coming. Deception had become so ingrained in my interactions with my parents, a web of carefully constructed narratives woven over thirteen years to protect them from a truth they might not be ready to face.

We ent...