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Chapter 235 – Trouble in Gentlebreeze town

An overwhelming rush of memories flooded Percy’s mind, bringing him to his knees. Noticing his soul wisp on the way back, he’d just about managed to put his brewing equipment away in time, to avoid breaking or spilling anything by accident. View Post

Chapter 177 – Ea’s Gift

‘Spectral Art, huh?’

Evidently, involving one’s trait in their magic resulted in yet another flavour of spell. In any case, Percy was glad Weaving had more to offer than just the long-term project he was working on.

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Chapter 234 – Bombstones

Overall, Percy and Noland’s setup was quite simple. That didn’t make it any less effective, however. Using the pure mana to defend themselves, and the gravity mana solely to quickly deliver the explosive crystals to their opponents, they relie...

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Chapter 176 – Stitching

Percy had chosen a Red host this time. The lower grade might be a little annoying, but this was the first soul he found today that was both sentient and in a relatively decent condition – right past the threshold where it could be possessed.

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Chapter 233 – Cascading control

“…100.” Percy muttered as he finished drawing the last instance of the self-repair enchantment.

The growth rune was made of an inner circle, with multiple tendril-like features extending outwards in specific patterns, making it resembl...

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Chapter 175 – Just getting started

“Wow, that looks like quite the spell.” Nesha pitched in.

“You haven’t seen anything yet.” Percy grinned.

Reaching into the mana around his arm, he willed one of its properties to shift. Without warning, the entire gauntlet v...

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Chapter 232 – Self-repair

Percy’s top priority during this trip was the self-repair enchantment. While his reinforced mana had proven an excellent material for his constructs, its greatest drawback was that it didn’t last nearly as long as he would like. Even when he u...

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Chapter 174 – Gauntlet

Percy’s efforts to use his mana defensively dated as far back as his first month in the Alchemists’ Guild, when he developed his Glove spell.

That said, the flimsy layer of cyan mana had never been particularly impressive. Back then, he ...

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Chapter 231 – Ambitious projects

The last thing Percy wanted was to mislead Noland into ruining his life. Suffice to say, he’d made it abundantly clear that the Vault of Magic was a veritable dystopia, full of callous gods who treated their own children as trash. He emphasized ...

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Chapter 173 – Rune delivery service

The clone’s memories settled in place, the events of the past few weeks rapidly flashing through Percy’s mind.

This time, he’d ended up in the body of a semi-sentient for a change! It was a weird, gnoll-like creature – some kind of u...

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Chapter 230 – Noland

‘Gods, I missed sending out clones so damn much!’

By now, Percy’s bloodline was more than just a fancy ability or a means of growing stronger. It was a way of life. A source of endless adventures. A window into the wider cosmo...

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Chapter 172 – Hot or cold

Percy was dying to explore the strange feeling, but he had to finish all his chores first. He spent a couple days brewing ahead for himself and his companions. He also sent a new clone out – hopefully to the Vault, but he wouldn’t know that un...

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[B3 START] Chapter 229 – Future

‘Ice, huh?’ Interesting, but not that surprising. All the composite affinities were widely known, so Percy had a pretty good idea what they

‘Ice, huh?’

Interesting, but not that surprising. All the composite affinitie...

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Chapter 171 – Disgust

Percy wanted nothing more than to dive back into his work, having lots of urgent tasks to tend to. The looming threat of House Tantalus aside, there were only 9 more months until the lotus bloomed, and he wanted to return to his family by then. View Post

[B2 END] Chapter 228 – Lotus of a Myriad Rivers

The lotus… a priceless treasure Percy had wanted since before he’d even learned of its existence. The only object he’d ever heard of capable

The lotus… a priceless treasure Percy had wanted since before he’d even learned of its exi...

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Chapter 170 – Snitches and stitches

At first, the townsfolk stared at the ill-begotten tatters of silk in stunned silence. Over the next two minutes, Percy watched the colour drain from their faces, their eyes widening with panic. But still, nobody dared to utter a sound. It wasn’...

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Chapter 227 – Rambert

“For a second there, I wasn’t sure you’d help us.” Percy said. “What choice did I even have?” Rambert shrugged as he walked closer. The only

“For a second there, I wasn’t sure you’d help us.” Percy said.

“What cho...

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Chapter 169 – Truth

A stray ray of sunlight licked Percy’s eyelid, causing him to wrinkle his nose in irritation. He didn’t wake up until a couple minutes later, however. The first thing he noticed was the stench of rotting wood and spoilt eggs. Not the most plea...

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Chapter 226 – The prey and the predator

“I’m Rambert of House Tantalus.” the newcomer replied in a hoarse, raspy voice. Pushing each word out of his lungs appeared like quite the challenge.

“Tantalus?” Jason tilted his head. “Ah! Your families have been fighting over t...

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Chapter 168 – Outcome

Seeing the notification, Percy couldn’t help but crack a smile. This wasn’t what he’d set out to accomplish, but it now meant that even if the operation ended up failing, it wouldn’t have all been for nothing. That said, he wasn’t going ...

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Chapter 225 – Shroud

With a wave of his hand, Jason released a colossal amount of mana in front of him, covering all of Percy’s projectiles like a blanket. At first, both the scythe and the throwing stars continued to stab at him, though they slowed down rapidly. Me...

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Chapter 167 – Operation

Percy fought against the pain and exhaustion to keep his eyes open, waiting for the others to return. Doing so proved almost as difficult as the battle itself.

Eventually, he heard the rhythmic flap of Micky’s wings. Tilting his head up, h...

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Chapter 224 – Trollsfury potion

Three orbs of mana rapidly flew towards Percy, each a separate colour.

‘Do they all do different things, or is that just how this weird mana type looks?’

Suffice to say, he hadn’t the slightest idea what would happen if ...

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Chapter 166 – Slugfest

Fighting against a Green by himself was arguably reckless, but the man was already two limbs down. If Percy couldn’t even beat him in this state, then it would just mean their plan had been doomed from the start.

“Just who are you people...

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Chapter 223 – Diplomacy (2)

“To start with, I need your word that nobody will harm me or Nesha.”

“That’s not really up to me, is it?” the man asked back. “I can promise you the Divine Root won’t mistreat you as long as you cooperate, but I can’t speak f...

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Chapter 165 – Ambush

In the end, three more months passed in relative quiet.

Naturally, Percy hadn’t stopped sending out clones in that time, hoping one of them would stumble upon something interesting. Sadly, that hadn’t happened. He hadn’t bothered to re...

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Chapter 222 – Diplomacy (1)

Percy dragged Nesha through the Whistling Woods, the two sprinting in the darkness. The moonless sky wasn’t doing them any favours as they struggled to avoid crashing into a tree. Plus, they were out of breath already. Still, he ignored the exha...

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Chapter 164 – Self-bestowal

“Another one.” Micky said, carrying an oversized rat carcass in his talons.

The distraction caused Percy to mess up the rune he was trying to carve on the snake’s body, prompting him to click his tongue in annoyance. Sighing, he shifte...

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Chapter 221 – Jason

Earlier

Jason had grown sick of tasting his own blood, but he couldn’t help it. Biting his cheek was a habit he’d inadvertently picked up over the last couple of months. By now, it had grown a little out of hand.

H...

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Chapter 163 – Mana conversion

Percy had decided to look for a mana conversion spell as an alternative solution to his problem.

He needed a lot of soul mana to lure the mysterious entities from much further away, and he only had two possible sources to tap into – his ow...

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