Draith

Chapter 72 - No Waves

After picking myself up, I went looking for Myris so she could ensure my emergency work on her nets wouldn’t immediately collapse. Only to discover from one of the evening sentries that she'd already gone to bed for the night.

What a monster.

Leaving them a message to get her to check her work, I attempted to track down Inertia. Which proved just as futile. She hadn't yet returned from hunting the wyverns. I couldn't bring myself to believe I needed to be worried about her. Seem...

Chapter 71 - Flying Pests

After Bevel's lessons, I sought out Inertia. I hadn't just created a small library for future classes, there were several design theories I'd wanted to show her from Earth I’d printed out as well. Middle of the night wasn’t a great time to set up classes anyway. I'd sketched out some designs before, but that had been relying on the incredibly slow method of me recalling them with Memory Palace, then using my less than amazing sketching skill.

I found Inertia and Tresla in the refuge...

Chapter 70 - Judgement Day

"High Magus Excellium Baneth of the Great Council will take the stand," the overblown court bailiff called, his voice enchanted to near perfection.

Near perfection.

Baneth brushed off his sleeves, admitting that he perhaps could’ve taken a few moments more to ensure he was presentable. His poor daughter Emilia did insist these things mattered. And Baneth was few things, if not a doting father.

Shaking his head, he pushed open the great doors, floating over the deliberately...

Chapter 69 - Memory Shards

On my way to the workshop, I stopped by the crystal, emptying my mana into it. I'd done so several times already, and the little progress bar along the bottom had barely flickered. The map that had dominated the room when Nexxa used it didn't even appear. Still, long as the crystal kept draining my mana, I figured it was making progress.

Neta raised her head when I entered the workshop, and came over for more scritches when she realized I wasn't just passing through.

While petting...

Chapter 68 - Rope Swings

Between the rather blunt introduction, and the overly dolled up clothing, I wasn't too sure of what to make of the refugee representatives.

They'd provided a unified front, but the looks the elves gave Egerta hadn't escaped my notice. A certain amount of disgust mixed with wariness.

Still, I figured I’d follow what I’d learned of etiquette from the Elinder lessons.

"Welcome to the Frigid Peaks, Egerta," I said, giving her a slight bow, only giving her the barest of ackno...

Chapter 67 - On The Horizon

The actual repairs to the Waygate were simple enough. Simple in the same way it was to replace wiring in a car. Which is to say, easy to understand the concept of, incredibly frustrating to actually do. Especially with the nests of wire modern cars had become. Or the nest of enchanted materials layered over each other.

It was technically an easier repair than the ocean Waygate had been. If I hadn’t had to work around the rest of the still working enchantments.

Despite the famili...

Chapter 66 - Rags and Oil

When I finished Bevel's lesson, she led me to my bed back in Tetherfall. She didn't say anything, she simply refused to let go of my hand until I was sitting. Only then did she leave.

I sat on the bed staring blankly at nothing. I didn’t know how long it was after Bevel left that a gentle knock came from the door. When I mustered the will to get up and open it, I found Tresla standing there, a crumpled sheet of paper in her hand.

"Hey," I said, waving her in.

"So, fight wi...

Chapter 65 - Loud

Helping Nexxa clean up turned out to be more involved than I expected. She hadn't been very discriminate in dealing with the 'scavengers'.

"You know, I think you killed more goats than you did… I'm not even sure what these are. Some sort of wolf, maybe?"

"Gnarlhounds," Nexxa replied, gently nudging one of the heads to the side with her boot to reveal its face. "Nasty if they get near water crops. They're only tier one, but they tend to roam in big packs, tearing up anything with...

Chapter 64 - No Slippage

I didn't think the rope-cat would appreciate having dozens of people traipsing in and out of its room, so the first thing we did was bypass the room. Turned out that the kitchen was directly above the hallway that led from the Ways Between to the monster workshop, so I enlisted Nexxa's help and we drilled a two-foot wide hole through taking turns with the staff.

"Think I might recognize a couple of those spells," Nexxa said as we attached a rope ladder to a set of stone hooks we'd creat...

Chapter 63 - Mountain of Meat

"The Rift is a thunder lizard?" Nexxa asked even as I led her towards the Waygate for Mistvale.

"Uh. It's really more of a mist lizard, if I'm being honest. Roughly fifty feet tall with waves of mist rolling off it," I said before giving her a thorough description of everything we’d seen.

"Okay. Not a dragon, or even a drake. Shouldn't be too hard to take out," Nexxa said, pressing her hand into a fist and cracking her knuckles at the same time sparks crackled across her hand. 2025-04-02 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 62 - Waygate Repairs

With Nexxa's assistance, I was soon standing next to my beacon. From what I knew, the design of the beacons hadn't changed in living memory. Considering how old some of the Dragon-souled were, that was… a long time. Roughly the equivalent of Alexander the great, if I wasn't mistaken.

There was only one way Dragon-souled died. Violently.

It was the one thing everyone knew about Dragon-souled.

And despite that… despite the vast timeframes involved, the simple beacon before...

Chapter 61 - Wanna Trade?

“So, think they’re Altean?” Nexxa asked while squatting down next to the Waygate to Mistvale.

"I think they’re even older," I said as I joined her. "Haven't figured out who exactly built the Waygates, but they’re not the only thing we’ve found."

"There's more? So unfair," Nexxa said, crossing her arms as she did an overly dramatic pout. "I just got a lousy river and a couple mana-wells."

I stared blankly at her for a second before a smile cracked through. "Mana-w...

Chapter 60 - Tourists

Author's note: The doorways inside the Ways Between will be called Waygates from this chapter onward. There were also minor edits to chapter 52 - Ways Between.

...Magelord Isekai... 

"Nexxa!" I practically screamed as I dove forward, my feet struggling for traction on the wet surface. Her arm slapped my in the face as I grabbed at her, regretting not taking the time to close off the sides properly. Still, I snagged her by the back of her travel robe before she could slide off...

Chapter 59 - Dragon Sized Storm

While a surplus of mana was an upside, the storm wasn't all good news, the torrential downpour basically forcing us to retreat indoors.

After changing into a dry set of clothes, I slid Memory Palace to sift through Balthum's research.

When I accessed my toolbox, I was reminded that Memory Palace didn’t sort things automatically. Once more, I drove the thermometer halfway to the red as I absorbed the most promising material.

And I found clues that might just point me to the...

Chapter 58 - No Knowledge Without Cost

Guardians of knowledge seemed to be a theme for Balthum. Or maybe just guardians in general. Between the bath-golems, the rope-cat and now the Keeper, it seemed he'd gone pretty heavy on magically created servants.

"And what sort of price do you demand for your knowledge?" I asked, suspecting that it wouldn't be as simple as asking politely.

"Knowledge in turn, of course," the Keeper replied, his skull turning back to me, bone white ivory flashing golden for a second in the reflec...

Chapter 57 - Writing it Down

Bevel recovered herself a few minutes later, quietly wiping her eyes.

Neither Calbern or I said anything. While she’d been crying, I’d been studying the golems’s runes. The easy shutdown being triggered by electric shock meant I didn’t need to understand most of the work to add a few extra runes to keep them in standby. It took nearly an hour to lay the new runes into place. As I did so Bevel moved to my side, glancing between me and the new runes, a frown forming.

So, I e...

Chapter 56 - Soap Bottle

Chapter 2/2 for today

...Mage Lord Isekai...

While we weren't able to resolve the guard situation, I still felt better about things by the time the next morning rolled around. It helped that it only took Inertia and I an hour to finish the repairs to Fang's Forgeheart.

She still had to reassemble Fang, but she wouldn't need my assistance for that.

So I returned my attention to the crystal chamber.

Taking a break had been good, if only because I'd had time to thin...

Chapter 55 - Expected Duties

Bonus chapter today for reaching 3k followers on RR.

Chapter 1/2

By the time I emerged from Grivis's old office, the sun was high over head, shining directly into the depths of Tetherfall.

The villagers should've been out and about, yet it was emptier than the old corner gas station on a Sunday morning. After a second of poking around, I discovered most of them swarming over the mats, laughing and singing as they worked the cliffside. It was almost dizzying to watch. I'd tho...

Chapter 54 - Omen of Doom

As I stared at the sigils, they shifted, changing patterns repeatedly, until I spotted one that looked like Elinder. The characters were the same, though the style was unfamiliar.

 =Compatible ensouled detected. Dominion unregistered.=

Before I could think about them, the sigils shifted again into a language I didn't recognize.

When I leaned forward, breaking away from the crystal, the sigils vanished.

"You back?" Tresla asked, her hood hovering directly in front ...

Chapter 53 - Relative Scholars

It wasn't long after that we reached the top of the upper canopy. We'd gotten lucky with our choice of tree, though from the way Bevel moved through the trees, I suspected it hadn't just been luck. Bevel had easily won our race, and was a good twenty feet higher than me besides, perched on a far too thin branch as I looked out over the vale.

And I was reasonably certain it was Mistvale, thanks to the aforementioned mist and Mount Aeternia looming over us in the morning sunlight.

"...

Chapter 52 - Ways Between

The Ways Between, as Bevel called them, consisted of more than the crystal chamber. Unfortunately, the other parts of the compound were even more neglected that the crystal chamber.

Most were blocked by rubble, though one remained clear. And that was where Bevel had made her home.

It was no wonder it had been so hard to find her. She’d used a gate to leave Tetherfall behind. Who knew where we’d ended up.

I followed patiently as Bevel gave me a tour of her home. It was a ...

Chapter 51 - Intensive Investigary Process

In the morning, I set Calbern to the task of tracking down Bevel and assigning her a room near ours. Instead of giving her a room in a different building, he restored one of the galleon’s old floors, turning it into a partition. That done, despite his talents, Bevel evaded his attempts to find her until evening.

I'd been on the western cliffside all day. It had gone better than my first attempt, but I still had another half day of work before I'd be finished. It’d been a lot of clim...

Chapter 50 - At Least a Day

Edited chapter 29 to give more details on how Fang was built.

...Mage Lord Isekai...

"How can magic be boring?" the kid asked from her position atop the storehouse, which she was dangling from upside down.

"I don't find it boring. I just said there are lots of people who find the theory boring," I replied as I drew out some of the basic exercises Perth had completed when he'd been around her age. "Personally, I think it's fun."

She narrowed her eyes, then, still upside...

Chapter 49 - Mistvale

It'd been five days since I deposed Grivis and claimed my domain.

In that time, I'd mostly stuck close to home, helping increase food production so the villagers wouldn't starve. Even with a wyvern delivering itself to our doorstep, it had only delayed the inevitable. We needed more meat.

So Calbern and I were going hunting alongside Tanis.

We'd left Selvi and Tresla behind to handle any weak monsters that might show up. And to signal us for help by firing off the cannon Gri...

Chapter 48 - Meat and Mats

Before I'd arrived, the call of a wyvern would've been bad for the villagers.

Now that we were here, it was a boon.

Drawn in by the celebration, the wyvern flew straight towards us.

Calbern spun his blasting wand with the sort of flourish that told me he was looking forward to the fight.

Couldn’t say I disagreed.

The massive beast roared as it approached, and I could feel the energy in that call, attempting to cow us into submission. More than just sound.

Chapter 47 - Good Cliff

Updated the synopsis, since a lot has changed since I wrote the original. Posted here for you convenience with chapter beneath.

...Not (Just) A Mage Lord Isekai...

Mechanics fixed things.

Fighters broke ‘em.

Those were the two truths Perry lived back on Earth. When he got isekai’d into a young noble with newfound magical powers, he found himself stuck with an awful choice. Try to survive on the Front, the mystical battleground where Hydras and Devils roamed free…...

Chapter 46 - Better Mad Than Dead

Chapter 2/2 for today.

...Mage Lord Isekai...

Keeping Calbern away wouldn't help either of us. If he really was a Knight Exemplar, then I needed to know more. And I needed him to understand how important it was not to make excuses.

I'd been emotional. Was still emotional. I understood his thinking. Possibly better than he had. He'd wanted to ensure there was no possibility of harm coming to me or Tresla. To remove future problems.

That was commendable. I had no problem...

Chapter 45 - Need to Improve

There'll be a bonus chapter today for reaching 2000 followers on RR. Woot!

Chapter 1/2.

...Mage Lord Isekai...

The trial for Grivis was set for the middle of the next day. Just late enough the folk of Tetherfall could be introduced to their new Magus Dominus first.

I'd set up in Grivis's office. Which had also included a bedroom in the back. It had been neglected with a layer of dust over everything when I claimed it. Which I hadn’t even touched. There’d been no ti...

Chapter 44 - Out of the Darkness

It hadn't been on purpose. Never on purpose.

Nor had it been a proud moment. A moment of glory.

No, I'd barely felt anything at the time.

It was better that way. Comfortably numb.

Even without resorting to Memory Palace, I remembered that it’d been raining. But only because of the puddles. The puddles that reflected my bruised and bloody face when I walked out.

It had sank in slowly.

The vacant look in his eyes as he stared up at me. The limpness of his...

Chapter 43 - Coming Unbound

"My apologies, master Perth," Calbern said when he noticed me in the door. "I was too slow. He’d vacated by the time I arrived."

"Nothing to apologize for. Tresla, are you okay? Do you need healing?" I asked, kneeling down next to her and already preparing to cast Minor Heal.

Tresla shook her hood as she held a hand up as if to stop me. "No. They just bopped me with one of those shockers. Wasn't ready, and it unraveled me a bit."

"I'm sorry, Tresla. Shouldn't have left you...