All Chapters of The Mages Burden: Chapter 81
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Chapter 81
Neither one held back in their attacks. Roka had barely stopped flying across the field before them when Olivia's foot landed on the ground where his chest would have been if Roka hadn't immediately rolled away. He'd barely risen to one knee when he crossed his arms to block Olivia's kick from slamming into his chest. Using the force of the kick, Roka jumped backward onto his feet. Barely half a second later, he was charging forward ready to body-check his guard into the ground. Back when she began fighting, Calyn would have seen this as a slugfest and nothing more. Each party seemed intent on landing as many devastating blows as possible. Now that she was a more experienced fighter, however, Calyn could pick out the subtleties of each party's approach to the fight. While it might have seemed that Olivia was landing a lot more blows, she didn't seem to be doing as much damage as an equivalent blow from Roka. By the same token, however, while he was taking more blows than Olivia, Rok
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Favoring his right leg, Roka limped toward them, or more particularly, toward his teacher. There was a look of slight surprise on his face when he noticed her seated beside the woman. Still, the pain he was in didn't allow him to dwell on it too much as he continued his approach. Roka's teacher held out her palm to him just as he reached them, on it was a storage ring. Roka pulled it onto his finger before taking out a weeping flower tincture from it. Calyn couldn't help but wince when he emptied half the vial into his mouth. Weeping flower tinctures were one of the highest-quality healing potions of the third tier. Having one could mean the difference between life and death in a critical situation. Not even she, someone from a powerful clan, had that many vials of it. She most definitely would never use one to recover from training injuries, other less potent and more commonly available potions would suffice for that purpose. Still, the effects of the potent potion showed immediate
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"He is always watching and listening," Roka said with a shrug. "I'm telling you all this, not because I want to scare you but because I need you to understand that I am not him, and he is not me. Other than the fact that he can sometimes commandeer my body, we are two different individuals," Roka insisted."You don't have to worry, I wasn't about to mistake you for a god," the words slipped out of her lips before she could catch herself and Calyn couldn't help but tense up wondering if Roka would interpret it as a put-down.Much to her relief, however, an amused smile crossed Roka's lips. "Not yet I'm not," he concurred with exaggerated haughtiness in his voice earning an eye roll from her. A sigh left Roka as the light moment passed. "To be honest with you, I would rather have waited a few more days before having this discussion," he revealed."Why?" She asked, not sure what difference a few days would make. She was, after all, bound to him for the next hundred cycles."Because the n
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There was, after all, a chance that you didn't care what altercations your guard got into in the course of her duties. Before making that decision, however, there was one question I had to answer. A single question that superseded everything else. And that was, could I afford to be wrong? Even if the odds were nine out of ten that the deity wouldn't care about what had happened, could I afford that one out of ten chance that I was wrong? Could I afford to risk bringing down the wrath of a deity down on my clan?" Calyn verbalized the one question that had kept her from taking the coward's way out. Shaking her head, Calyn spoke. "No clan is perfect just as no family is perfect, but my clan has given me everything I have so far. I couldn't repay that with treachery, and so here I am," she explained. "Let's say that I take you up on your offer to give me back my freedom. And believe me when I say that it's eating me up on the inside that I can't. If I were to take it and go back to my cl
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Something about the way he asked the question made her realize that this was the last time he would offer. If she refused him, then her enslavement for the next hundred cycles would be set in stone. For a second, Calyn's resolve wavered at the prospect. Calyn closed her mouth tightly, not trusting herself to speak even as she gave a firm nod, not letting any of her doubts show on her face. Luckily for her, she didn't have to dwell on it long as Roka produced a piece of parchment from his storage ring. Calyn wasn't at all surprised by the fact that Roka would expect her to sign a mana contract. All her servants had to sign one to ensure their loyalty and minimize the chance of betrayal even if they fell into the hands of their enemies. The part that made her eyes go round as saucers was the aura of power that came from the mana contract placed before her. As the niece to the Clan head, she had on occasion gotten to see the clan head sign contracts to seal an agreement with another clan
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Greg couldn't help the sigh that left him even as the airship lifted off the ground and started its journey. If he had known two months ago just how much of a headache this thing would be, he'd never have asked Olivia to get it. Mage Hira and Grenad from the Draknar alliance had left the city a little over five weeks ago. In principle, they should have been able to leave Ethavel immediately. That, however, isn't what happened. The mages from the Draknar alliance did give them the airship but took their people with them. They had the airship, but there wasn't a soul on board to run the thing. They needed to find their own captain, crew, servants, guards, and formation experts to make sure that everything on board ran smoothly. This, however, was only the beginning of their headaches.There was no doubt in Greg that Morpheus had managed to instill fear in the two mages from the Draknar alliance. This fact, however, didn't make him complacent in the least. The airship had to be scanned f
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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. Their destination was the Arcana Islands, which as it turns out, was about seven continents away from where they currently were. Even with her vast wealth, the healer wouldn't be able to fund half the trip. This led to the inevitable conclusion, they'd have to take on passengers. Greg sat down with the captain and plotted out a route that would that would take the shortest amount of time without bankrupting them. Rather than stopping at every major city along the way to ferry people to the next one, they'd be filling the tank, so to speak, then making the longest trip that the airship could manage before stopping to refuel again. This would cut down what would have been a five-year trip to one that would take a little under two years. Consequently, they'd only be taking passengers who were planning to cross very long distances in one go. On the one hand, the numbe
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Greg had been forced to draw out everything on paper and hand it to his teacher and familiar to inscribe. After about five minutes of carefully going over every section of the formation, Greg nodded with satisfaction. They had perfectly replicated what Morpheus wanted. "Are you finally going to tell us what all this is about," his teacher asked, clear curiosity burning in her eyes as she regarded him. "I don't recognize most of the symbols in this formation, and the few that I do seem like they are aimed at keeping something contained," she said, her eyes once again drawn to the intricate lines that covered the walls and the wall to her right. "Remember what I told you back at your cave, right before we had to go on the run?" He posed. It had been almost a year since the day so the question had largely been rhetorical, Greg not expecting an answer from her. The healer's eyes, however, went wide as if something had clicked in her mind. "You are about to gain an aspect," she stated
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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. This last rank is the rank you currently occupy. Without my assistance, the mid-purity life order promotion elixir would only have taken you to the first rank of the demi tier, resonance. Mortals are completely blind to the different laws of the universe. An ant walking across a page has no capacity to understand that the surface it's on carries a lot more meaning than just a flat surface to walk on. Similarly, mortals are completely blind to the underlying structure of existence. Like the ant, they walk across the page of existence unable to perceive the deeper reality all around them. The first rank of the demi tier is a shift in perspective. From being completely blind to the laws, you start to be able to perceive the different realm laws and how they connect with your magic. Mind you, this isn't to say that you will be able to perceive the entire tapestry of r
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Greg could remember what had happened during his ascension to the first tier when Morpheus had turned his gaze to Olivia's true self. His brain had felt like a spike had been driven through it and stirred as he was exposed to truths far beyond what his mortal mind could contain. Morpheus explanation about substitution finally put everything into perspective. Olivia's true self didn't have a physical body. What he had been looking at were the laws that she had used to encapsulate her existence after she gave up her mortal existence... *** Greg offered his teacher an apologetic shrug, a slight grimace on his face. "Morpheus tried to explain it to me. Unfortunately, I'm nowhere near knowledgeable enough to follow even a tenth of what he was saying," he admitted, answering her question about the formation. "As for how long I'll be gone, all I know is that it'll take months. What the exact number will be, I have no clue. To be safe, you should plan on me being gone for at least a cycle,"