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A New Star Chapter 49

Alexandra 

"Now," I said, facing the man I had left up during the brawl. "What say you and I have an honest conversation." 

"There's only so much I can tell you," he replied, crossing his hands behind his back as he straightened, standing in something very close to an at-ease position. "As much as it hurts my pride as a knight errant, I am merely muscle in this operation. I'm here to keep these thugs in line and deal with them if they go off orders."&nbs...

Limitless Path Chapter Five Hundred Thirty-Six

Mortaine took a while to show up, which wasn't a big surprise to Beth or the group, though Andrea, Adam, and Neph didn't have much, if any, experience with the Exalted. Beth had gathered the team up after Mortaine had popped up, and they were ready to continue training before going to visit Sera's family, though Beth wasn't sure exactly who they were taking on that trip. Her and Sera, obviously, and Blood would be coming along, which also meant it was highly likely Val would join them. If the...

Limitless Path Chapter Five Hundred Thirty-Five

Beth rolled her shoulders as she looked down at the supposed leader of the bandit gang, though she had a suspicion that he wasn't the true head honcho. Mortaine had asked them to retrieve a specific item for him, something that had come into the spotlight in a conflict on some backwater nothing world. These guys were either in possession of the item Mortaine wanted or they had the information of where the item was and what it was. For all that, the leader was barely an Enlightened, an eleven ...

Limitless Path Chapter Five Hundred Thirty-Four

That focus lasted for a few more than six months as they had made a good impression on the little secret society of hidden elites that took a hand in training them and helping them out. As with all good things, they eventually must come to an end, and Beth and Sera got as much out of their time as they could. Blood had benefited far more than they had thought, as well, though she did say privately that Amalia wasn't a particularly great teacher. Not everyone could be, sadly, and the tall woma...

Limitless Path Chapter Five Hundred Thirty-Three

Old Tom was a bit of a gregarious individual himself, constantly chatting while they worked, often about the most inane of things. While his banter could be amusing, as they had had demonstrated once before, it sometimes took a turn into the odd or downright bizarre. She wasn't going to forget the story about the lobster and troll for a long, long time, and that wasn't even the worst of them. One of the other old men of the group, Cai, the man who farmed the oil, among other things, stopped b...

A New Star Chapter 48

Knight Errant Lester 

Sitting in this fucking warehouse almost every night and watching these criminal assholes steal petty cash and push small amounts of weak contraband was really becoming a pain in the ass. The Convocation, the organization that I was trying to become a full member of through these tedious jobs, insisted that the petty gang, whose name I couldn't even remember most of the time, were greatly important to the larger picture. Whatever they were doi...

Limitless Path Chapter Five Hundred Thirty-Two

"Anyway," Old Tom said, tossing the sword onto a bench to do the finishing work on later, "what exactly can I do fer ya three? Ya all smiths?" 

"Sera and I are," Beth said, gesturing at herself and her fiancée. "Blood is a leatherworker, but she might be able to pick something up if she watches." 

"That's fine, I've taught all kinds," Tom said, moving around the shop. "I can teach the three of ya fer six months based on that token. Ya want any more than that, and ya las...

Limitless Path Chapter Five Hundred Thirty-One

Beth wanted to check Sera's Mana Physique; well, she wanted to check them all, but other than Sera and Blood, she was going to wait and not push the others. Them having shared what they managed to make in terms of rank, if they had been truthful, was more than enough. Not that any of them lied about making a Mana Physique, as they had all been fully successful in their rebirths, but prying into their Physiques could be rather rude. She didn't have the same qualms with Sera, nor really Blood, ...

Limitless Path Chapter Five Hundred Thirty

A subjective year, or a bit more, later she was done with the quest requirements and decided she needed more time with Sera. She had basically not stopped, barely even resting, for more than fourteen months, and so she took her fiancée out for a little vacation while they were waiting on Adam, Andrea, and Neph to continue catching up. Beth had gotten just a bit of improvement in her skills in the time she was in the gate, but one of the disadvantages of spending so much time in compressed ti...

Limitless Path Chapter Five Hundred Twenty-Nine

For a Beast Tide, it wasn't really all that big of a deal, especially considering the kinds of situations that Beth and Sera had found themselves neck-deep in over the last couple decades. The Monster problem Baelvyr had had them go and help out with saw far larger Tides, even for the smallest and most easily managed, than this little defensive measure they had done. It was literally a long afternoon's work to get the tide cleared up and then they moved back to the city wall, finding both the...

A New Star Chapter 47

We moved through the town quite quickly, the Count having landed to try to attract a little less attention, though I wasn't sure he was doing all that great a job of it. The good side of him standing out and his apparent age and power was that, despite attracting attention, he also garnered a lot of respect and people were often eager, even without knowing exactly who he was, to jump to help him out or just straight out do his bidding. I moved through the town to the train station at the sout...

Limitless Path Chapter Five Hundred Twenty-Eight

That big problem was that she had made some assumptions and hadn't really looked at her True Rebirth requirements until now. That seemed like a minor thing, but she had read about this and been warned about this and was now experiencing things herself. True Rebirth requirements weren't always just a shopping list of incredibly rare and valuable items that the person had to require; oh no, that would make it too easy by far. Sometimes, the requirements could be all kinds of different and diffi...

Limitless Path Chapter Five Hundred Twenty-Seven

One of the first things she decided to check was just how much progress she had made over the past year. Well, she might have not been paying too close attention for a little more than a year, only having a vague idea of where she was at, but she wanted to do a more detailed review. She had managed to hit the level cap again, ready to do her rebirth and officially become an Enlightened, though there was going to be a lot less fanfare for her than some of the others. Fighting alone and against...

Limitless Path Chapter Five Hundred Twenty-Six

Medics had rushed to the field just behind the referees and, while not strictly necessary, the amount of damage Beth had done still meant that her opponent should be checked over, particularly considering it was enough to warning flash the barrier orange. Beth herself wandered away for a minute, pacing to help calm down after such a hectic battle, her blood still pumping loud enough it was like the beat of a war drum in her ears. She paced while the medics assured that her opponent was still ...

Edge City Chronicles 08

The men carried the unconscious person, who I was just thinking of as the victim, down to B5, where they noisily banged their way out of the stairwell and into corridor. With the amount of noise they were making, it was pretty clear they weren't really scared of alerting anybody down here, and it was also super easy to follow the fools from only a short distance away. Even given that I was still settling into this new body, and that I was practically a giant, the two remained entirely oblivio...

Edge City Chronicles 07

The next morning, I woke up bright and early, and without having to suffer through pissant (I think his name was Bill, of all fucking things), pounding on my door and being a nuisance. I likely wasn't done with the Apartment Penisheads, or whatever the fuck those mooks were calling themselves, quite yet, but I put them out of my mind for now. I had a couple things I needed to take care of today, one of them being looking for work. With Mercer not having steady work every day, I needed to see ...

Limitless Path Chapter Five Hundred Twenty-Five

That put them at a solid five wins, no losses, and Beth was expecting an easy win from Veren. It would come down to her to sweep, but there wasn't a ton of pressure, as they really didn't desperately need to go undefeated, it would just be nice. No pressure, either, with Beth being the last fight, Tazeen returning to the room with Kris and picking up Veren for the second-to-last match. The White Feathers' representative was looking decidedly less confident, though bringing out one of their Gr...

A New Star Chapter 46

The next day was the second day of the party, which I was not at all thrilled about, especially considering my performance from the day before. The funny thing was, the day played out almost exactly as I had expected; while I had been a warrior, soldier, and general through and through in my last life, I still did pick up some of the finer points of politics and social relations after uniting half a galaxy and living for eleven centuries. The kids, young people present, and various minor nobi...

Limitless Path Chapter Five Hundred Twenty-Four

"We will be staying in here," Tazeen said. "I will go out for each match with the selected contestant. They invoked an old rule to not allow additional team members on the floor during the fights, so you will have to watch from the ready room. I don't expect this to take too long." 

"And if they decide they don't like the results?" Val asked. 

"I wouldn't worry about that," Beth said with a smirk. 

"Something I should know?" Val asked.  

"I expect T...

Limitless Path Chapter Five Hundred Twenty-Three

When it was the appointed time, they all met up in a room reserved by Tazeen, the tall elf already sitting in a seat at the front of the room as the team filed in. Veren walked in right after them, the man predictably and impeccably on time, for if nothing else could be said about him, he at least reliably kept engagements he had agreed to. The team fanned out across seats around the room, all looking to Tazeen for guidance, the elf waiting for everyone to be comfortable and settled before be...

Limitless Path Chapter Five Hundred Twenty-Two

Months ticking by got Beth much closer to the next layer of the stone cube, but the matrix was incredibly difficult. Maybe a person who was a lot more advanced, like someone who had really studied runes, and not just runes, but spatial runes, would smash through the layers of the strange object effortlessly, but she just wasn't that knowledgeable. She also didn't have the fundamental understanding of spatial mana on a deep enough level; certainly, she didn't have it on the level that whom, or...

Limitless Path Chapter Five Hundred Twenty-One

Not that it was anything bad, but they were back to their leveling, or they would be, considering it had been long enough that all their materials for their next rebirth were in. Selene surprised them while they were still staying with her and Alex with the complete set of materials that they still needed, having managed to get a few things ahead of schedule. Beth insisted on trueing up with her, even though Selene would have been happy to just give them the materials at this point, but Beth ...

A New Star Chapter 45

Emmanuel 

I sighed as I ran a hand over my face, watching the girl, who I was sure hadn't displayed her fully capabilities straighten up and dust her dress off. She had just put one of the top students at this country's royal academy through a beating that might go down in legends while being eight years younger than him. She hadn't bothered hiding how easy it had been for her to take the poor boy apart, nor how contemptuous she had been of what was supposed to hav...

Limitless Path Chapter Five Hundred Twenty

The auction had proved exciting to watch, as they often were, and Beth had made a strange purchase, but mostly the group was happy that they had gotten a bit more cold, hard cash. It was also a nice recruitment tool, as Andrea and Adam watched the team split the stacks of high-tier coins that they had earned from around two years of work, further being shocked when they learned that that was but a tiny fraction of what they would be earning. Watching a group of people one was friends with pul...

Limitless Path Chapter Five Hundred Nineteen

Gold missions, as they had found previously, were not a dime a dozen, and they couldn’t just grab them freely. It was a good thing Beth had parleyed with so many Hall Masters as they were getting to Gold Emblem so that they could get the drop on a few of the missions as they popped up, but it was still slow going. They had two weeks after Beth learned the new skill before they could get any more work, but that wasn't really a big issue. They had both expected it, and they were at general lo...

Limitless Path Chapter Five Hundred Eighteen

Beth pocketed the skill crystal, throwing it in her necklace before starting to make her way back out of the little cave through the cramped tunnel. She had to say, the grating noise of her armor scraping along the rock walls was not at all pleasant to listen to, but punching through the stone would be just as loud, take far longer, and make a mess. Not to mention that it could bring the whole cave down on her head, which would not be pleasant. She was able to Spatial Step ou...

Limitless Path Chapter Five Hundred Seventeen

Hammering away at their ninth rebirth took a lot of time, though they were a lot faster than many that had to make the same slog, especially those choosing to go to max level. The bigger issue, though it did give them a lot of time where they didn't have to worry about gaining yet another level. Enlightened was feeling closer and closer, which didn't have Beth particularly excited, but she did have a Mana Physique already. It was a much bigger deal for the others, at least apart from Adam and...

Edge City Chronicles 06

I used the train to head back to Mercer, walking a different route than the previous one, though I wasn't varying it by all that much. He was alone again, other than Voronov and all the guards, of course, and I sat at the table as soon as I got back. Mercer's eyes were glowing golden, meaning he was on some kind of call, and I just rested my forearms on the table and waited for him to be finished.  

"Two jobs done now," Mercer said to me after his call ended. "I'm about to be done ...

A New Star Chapter 44

"An impressive show!" a voice boomed out right before Reginald could say something that he would probably live to regret, or maybe die regretting. I don't know, I was feeling less and less generous by the minute. I had just provided his students with an excellent lesson, in more senses than one, and he was clearly a fool if he thought he could do anything, including even giving a stern reprimand, to me without consequence. 

The man who had spoken was one of the observers that had b...

Limitless Path Chapter Five Hundred Sixteen

Beth just wanted to get the ship work done, and with a functioning cruiser, they didn't have much to worry about. Not only that, but the airship was strong enough to fly around in Jupiter's atmosphere at the depth they were working, which gave them two mobile platforms to work from. The other nice thing was that all of her pocket Ascended from the Reliquary could fly, all in humanoid form, and that also greatly sped up the work. Mostly, Beth was waiting for the center of the ship to be little...