All Chapters of The Mages Burden: Chapter 51
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Chapter 51
The only people for whom life makes perfect sense are the insane.Greg wasn't sure where he'd heard that statement but it perfectly encapsulated what he was feeling at the moment. A part of him was convinced that he had gone crazy as that was the only way he could accept everything he had found out since waking up three days ago. After all, how else could one make sense of the fact that, after running away from them for the past six months, he was now in a carriage headed to the Governor's castle to meet up with the same seventh-tier mages that had been chasing them? And if that wasn't quite enough to throw one for a loop, then there was the fact that he wasn't going in as a captive or someone somehow forced to be there. If everything Olivia had told him was true, then their pursuers believed that their lives hung on by a thread. To them, Greg could easily be their executioner if they didn't appease him. Given the massive power differential between them, the situation was as ridiculou
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NOTE: THEY'LL BE OTHER EROTIC SERIES AFTER THIS STORY, SO STAY TUNED FOR MORE. DON'T FORGET TO DROP A REVIEW ON THE BOOK. Twelve hours. For twelve straight hours, Greg engaged in the most brutal fight he had ever been part of in both his lives. In those twelve hours, Greg got to see just how much Olivia had been holding back when she'd been training him before. When she ceased to hold back, Olivia stopped being just a fighter and morphed into a force of nature. Cold, unrelenting, unforgiving, and utterly merciless. Short of breaking his bones, or poking his eyes out, there was nothing that was off limits to the familiar. She came at him like an avalanche forcing Greg to pull out every last stop just to keep from being swallowed up. It would be a lie for Greg to say that it was an entirely pleasant experience for him. By the end of it, however, Greg was glad that Olivia had forced him to do it. He never would have understood just how much his body had changed without engaging in that
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The healer, who'd thus far been calmly moving around the arena allowing them to fight to their heart's content, came to stand over them. "I'm not yet at the first tier, so I can't do a more in-depth analysis on you. But from what I've seen thus far, you're the equivalent of a late-stage, third-tier, body-enhancing mage," she had informed him. "But... But how?" Greg had questioned between gasps. That he had been all around physically enhanced was not in question. How it had come to be was what he couldn't as yet puzzle out. "Do you remember my desk back in your hometown? I passed my mana through it for several cycles as I was trying to understand the effect of mana on weaker bodies in an attempt to find a way to heal myself. The end result was that the wood became hard enough that not even the strongest man in your hometown would have been able to split it no matter how sharp their ax. Until I can do a deeper analysis of you, this is only conjecture, but I suspect that the same thi
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This time no explanation was needed really. Just like his teacher had said, after a whole month of absorbing and cycling tier-seven life mana through his mana pathways, it wasn't a mystery that they would shift to accommodate that kind of mana. If anything, the real mystery was how he'd managed to retain his affinity for the earth element. True, the earth felt a bit more "distant" when he used his innate spells, and it didn't "speak" as loudly to him as it did before, but the connection was still there. The whole thing was just one big mess that they'd need a long time to unravel. His teacher had been clear right from the start that this was a new awakening method. He was probably the only mage in this realm using it and until they'd had some time to study and analyze it, they'd just be groping in the dark. As things stood, Greg was crossing over three different schools of magic. He was an earth element mage, a healer, and a body-enhancing mage as well, it would seem. If one wanted to
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NOTE: THEY'LL BE OTHER EROTIC SERIES AFTER THIS STORY, SO STAY TUNED FOR MORE. DON'T FORGET TO DROP A REVIEW ON THE BOOK. In other words, stay long enough in that hidden space, and you'll forever be hidden from the world and unable to leave the space. Eerie as it was to consider, according to the priest, half of the people you see in the hidden space were people who had failed to heed this warning or just didn't know about it. People who could now no longer leave. What was worse was the fact that if you overstay your welcome, you truly do become a secret. Nothing about you will be perceivable to anyone else, you could scream and shout but no one would hear you. You could try to attack others but you would just go through them and they wouldn't notice what you'd done. Not even the people that you entered with will be able to recognize you. You would become a nameless, faceless ghost. The secret of a god. Out of prudence, his teacher had cut the time given by the high priest in half an
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Greg had tried to probe as to what kind of relationship Morpheus had had with Seraphia. The deity, however, had just ignored him. "Poking your nose into the business of the gods is an easy way to get yourself in all kinds of unnecessary trouble, Greg. Focus on what matters for you now," had been Morpheus' admonition before going quiet. Whatever their relationship, however, Olivia had seen her chance and made full use of it. Leveraging the presence of the deity, She had turned the tables on his pursuers and made it clear that they were now at Greg's mercy and not the other way around. The fact that Seraphia seemed willing to kill the two if Olivia asked, only further cemented this claim. And so it was that, when Greg finally regained consciousness, he found that they had become the hunters and not the hunted. The two seventh-tier mages were waiting for him to delineate how much they would have to compensate him to keep their sorry lives. A task that, in a way, was just as daunting as
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Are you certain of this?" "Long as I live, I'll never forget that smile. She's the one!" *** If someone had ever told Calyn that simply ogling a boy could threaten the very existence of the Sydrak clan, she would have thought them mad. From the way things were playing out, however, it's almost like someone behind the scenes had intricately weaved the sequence of events that led her here. First, a young man catches her eye. Something that had happened countless times before. Something that should have only held momentary significance before it was completely forgotten. Only at the time, she had been next to her then fiancé. Jealous hypocrite that he is, Deriel got angry that another man caught her eye. As a consequence, he sent his guard after the young man. Calyn sent her guard after Deriel's guard. Her guard wasn't instructed to either help or hurt the boy. She just wanted to know what kind of person her fiancé was. Unfortunately, the young man's bodyguard proved to be far more
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NOTE: THEY'LL BE OTHER EROTIC SERIES AFTER THIS STORY, SO STAY TUNED FOR MORE. DON'T FORGET TO DROP A REVIEW ON THE BOOK. When her aunt learned of everything, a profound look of sadness entered her eyes as she regarded her. That, more than anything, had made the reality of the situation sink in. Her aunt had been grieving her even while she yet drew breath! The look came and was gone in an instant, Calyn, however, had already known then that if it came to it, the clan wouldn't be fighting for her. Niece to the clan head she might be, but when all was said and done, the clan came before any single member. Pulling out an emergency long-distance crystal, her aunt had contacted the clan head. Using her authority as a clan elder and a few secret phrases given to every elder for when there was a serious threat to the clan, she had the clan head convene an emergency meeting with the other elders. Her aunt didn't worry about any of those phrases being overheard by someone who wasn't part of
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When it became clear that they wouldn't be getting any new information, the two high-tier mages sat back in silence regarding the three portraits before them. The first was of the young man at the center of this whole debacle, the one that had caught her eye back on the airship. Next to him was the flame-haired young man who had been sitting beside him while on the airship. The third and final portrait was of the 'pretender'. This one was unnecessary as everyone present had seen the woman when she had been conversing with Seraphia. The only reason it was on the table was because the two high-tier mages were being thorough. They needed to verify that the one her servant had fought was the same person that had been at the party. When they had said this, Calyn had found herself desperately hoping that it was someone different. That her servant had somehow gotten the wrong person. That all this was somehow a rather unfortunate misunderstanding. The more the image had taken form before the
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He looked exactly the same.In a way, it was an inane thing to notice as apart from gaining scars or being a shape-shifter, people didn't change their appearance. In the past few days, however, Calyn had been wondering if she had missed something. That, perhaps, there was a detail about the boy that she should have picked up on that would have told her that she was dealing with someone linked with a deity. But there was nothing. The young man didn't give off a strange aura. There was nothing about him that even hinted at danger. If anything, the small smile playing on his lips as he looked up at the castle, made him look like some harmless passerby. Someone you'd nod to while walking on the street, move past, and never think of them again. There was only one thing that the astute might pick up on looking at the boy. And that was the fact that there was no fear in his eyes.From the angle of his gaze, Calyn could tell that he'd stopped taking in the castle itself and had turned to rega