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For the next week I may not be as active as normal. A relative of mine has recently died and early next week I will begin travelling to deal with business related to that. It will be a significant trip. I'm also not in the best of headspaces at the moment, and I apologize for that.Thank you f...
Elevation of Mana Chapter 221 Stories for Adia
While most people of Earth would have worried to call their wife an 'elder' I didn't. It was one of the odd quirks of our people, that age had basically no negative associations beyond a bit of hideboundness to it. Well, that and the fact that older elves tended to be a bit less kind, bu...
Elevation of Mana Chapter 220 New Elder
Five years had passed since the deaths of the Ancients and most of the elders, and they'd not been good.“Another one?” I asked as Chien brought me a familiar looking page, a form we'd made after so many reports.“Yeah, from further south this time,” he said.“How many does that make ...
Elevation of Mana Chapter 219 Another Return
I spent far too long sitting in that field, trying to get us home, but for the life of me I couldn't make it work. Isha was getting more and more displeased with me as we waited, quite unhappy I'd taken us away from the city without setting up something at least for our daughter first. It wa...
Machinist of Mana Chapter 139 A Frank Conversation
People gave me looks as I entered the military building, but I had a letter, a notice that I was to come, to meet with the Commander at a very well specified hour. It was clear that I was supposed to be here, invited, called, whatever you wanted to call it. So I was let in, brought to a waiting area...
Elevation of Mana Chapter 218 Surprises
A/N: Sorry for the delay on this one. I've been having a bit of horrid writers block, which I only got past when I put my thoughts on getting past it into words. I don't know if that makes any sense in the slightest, but I ended up enjoying this chapter and i hope you do too.My wife was a...
Machinist of Mana Chapter 138 Loran
Two weeks of keeping my head down, of listening to people talk, of attending various exhibitions and shows and I finally felt like I was getting somewhere. This place was something better for me, a party the likes of which I'd not been to before.It wasn't quite the same as what I was used to...
Elevation of Mana Chapter 217 What Mothers Do
Eventually my work began to abate, given off to others who could handle things for a bit and I got a chance to finally return home. That was great, since I had plenty there to do too. I'd barely seen my family after being away and I hated to have to wait for any time, but I'd also needed to ...
Elevation of Mana Chapter 216 Taking the Reigns
“They're all dead?” I asked.“Yes,” the little man squeaked while looking around as others backed off from him.“All of them?”“Yes!”“And somewhere, in that empty sphere you call your head you thought it would be wise to irritate my wife?” I asked, letting my voice slip into a l...
Machinist of Mana Chapter 137 A Different Maid
While I'd thought my first meeting hadn't been ideal apparently the school's people had felt very differently. My willingness to ask questions and 'be corrected' was seen positively. The fact that I'd immediately gone to go buy the book of sayings from a man they were all fan...
Elevation of Mana Chapter 215 Angry Justin
As Isha went on with her story I was apoplectic. It seemed I was going to have to knock some heads. I go to try and stop monsters from ravaging basically the known world and they have the sheer gall to give her trouble? No, that was going to change.“And what happened after the attack dear?” I as...
Elevation of Mana Chapter 214 Destruction at the Doorstep
Isha“Are they gone?” I asked the assistant as she returned.“Yes ma'am, what did they want?”“Materials and items, immediately and at a discount due to the crisis.”“Why didn't they speak to your husband before he left then?” she asked, both irritated and slightly surprised.“B...
Machinist of Mana Chapter 136 Sayings of the Ancestor
I attended to my task, aiming for one of the closer places on the list Kitia had given me. This was a college of sorts, a technical one that focused on machines. I had some letters introducing me, and managed to arrange a tour of the public facilities without too much trouble. Elves loved to show of...
Elevation of Mana Chapter 213 The Return
The ground was much as I had expected as I sped along over it. I knew that my rush was impotent, that no matter what had happened it had to have happened weeks ago, but that didn't change it for me. No, I pushed just as fast as I could to the wall, and what I saw did not please me in the slighte...
Elevation of Mana Chapter 212 Rumors
We skipped Rolan's people intentionally, skirting their boarders as we made our way home. Frankly with the number of elders lost and the fact that Chien and I were both pretty skilled keeping away from them wasn't that hard at all. It wasn't anything much, just not lighting fires, not go...
Machinist of Mana Chapter 135 The Spy
It was almost immediately that the woman sat beside me and reached towards a small ball to one side of the table, between the salt and pepper shakers. I'd personally thought it was just a decoration, but was quickly proven wrong as there was a fuzzy feeling for a moment and a light curtain cover...
Elevation of Mana Chapter 211 Heading Home
It took days for people to figure out what they wanted to do, days that I really didn't want to stay here. I did, no matter how much arguing and huffing crusty, grumpy elves were involved in. This was mostly because the elders did agree on one thing, that I wasn't getting the supplies I want...
Elevation of Mana Chapter 210 Breaking the News
Everything was all in a tizzy, and every person who had any power at all wanted to know exactly what was going on, with whom, how, and right now. The leader of the small group that had brought us back had tried to keep it quiet, but the fact that we came in bearing a crystal near identical to the on...
Machinist of Mana Chapter 134 Making it Ashore
Deep blue water lapped at the sides of the ship like a happy puppy as we slowly sailed into the port. The water was blue, the sun was shining high in the sky, a near perfect day, perhaps a bit bright, but nothing too bad. As our ship cut through the water towards the dock I saw a number of people ar...
Elevation of Mana Chapter 209 Seeking Shelter
Neera was, well, it wasn't pretty. Her head had been halfway ruined, boiled or baked would be the best word, or maybe flash fried. I wasn't quite sure how to describe the exact effect, but it was gruesome. I wasn't sure it had even effected her head when it came down tot it, or just supe...
Elevation of Mana Chapter 208 A New Spell
Plans began to form in my mind. I needed a weapon, silent, impossibly fast, and now. Poisons had worked in the past, but not now, too slow, detecting one she'd crush us out of spite if nothing else. There were compounds that would kill even an Ancient, but none that could do so fast enough. Pure...
Machinist of Mana Chapter 133 Sunset Talks
Ship switchovers eventually had to happen, with nobody sane wanting a warship, even one from ostensibly an ally, landing in their ports. I could wax about the elven port cities that I moved through as we did this, about the skylines, about the many things I saw, but well, there really wasn't muc...
Elevation of Mana Chapter 207 To Win
“You're alive!?” Chien said, clearly not quite having expected this. “How?”The question was valid, missing multiple limbs and clearly still very heavily injured she hovered there, supported by her magic. It took me a few moments to process, during which I just stared wide eyed.“Matriar...
Elevation of Mana Chapter 133 Winning
Chien and I were taking the smart route, and getting as far from the ongoing battle between the beasts as we could, but I couldn't help but look back at them every now and then.The bird amalgam was soundly winning, furiously ripping at it's hated foe as it sent up a terrible racket. Had the ...
Machinist of Mana Chapter 132 Messages
All things must end, as so did my time with Greta and the island. I moved onto another, slightly less populated boat, and we set sail. My former companions had left me, unable to go where I needed to, or unwilling, though I surely wasn't alone.First were the tutors, multiple, who were trying to ...
Update
Things are a bit crazy at the moment where I'm at, lots of flooding in the city, massive shutdowns. I'm okay, but things are a bit out of order here. Things should be going back to normal soon, as everything gets sorted.On another note, Elevation Book 3 Released! Woohoo!
Elevation of Mana Chapter 206 Fire and Ice
As I watched the ground getting closer and closer it was Chien who pulled me from my attempts to slow our descent.“Boss, we should bail.”I wanted to smack myself, I was stupid, stuck in the thoughts of someone who couldn't fly.“Grab the bedding and we go!” I shouted as soon as I processe...
Elevation of Mana Chapter 205 Angry Birds
“This bastard is persistent boss,” Chien complained, not for the first time.“Indeed he is, are we ready?” I asked.“Ready as we can be. Think they'll bite?”“If they don't I don't know what we do. I was hoping the cold or injuries would at least slow it down, but we can't...
Elevation of Mana Chapter 204 A Merry Chase
I'd seen both Neera and the fire approaching from below as I tried to get the hell away from this disaster. There was precious little I could do for those on the ground, like it or not, and dying wasn't on my to-do list. If I'd been closer I could have perhaps thrown up a shield, or pull...
Machinist of Mana Chapter 131 Foundation
“Found another one,” I announced to the small group who'd come with us, pointing at a tiny plant trying to survive in the barren soil.We were taking a week, and only one, to stop and do reclamation on the island. I was a bit surprised that the elves were so invested in such a thing, being th...
