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Aether Beasts

Long ago a great calamity struck the earth, destroying much of it and merging what remained with pieces of other worlds. With these worlds came Aether, a new form of energy that can allow one to transcend the bounds of normal mortality and human limitations. In a world where humans absorb the essence of aether beasts to gain power, Aiden Hawke joins the class of humans known as arcanists, people who defeat aether beasts and absorb their essence into cores they forge within themselves, and who infuse themselves with the aether that permeates the world around them to increase the power of their body and mind. However, unlike most, Aiden will find that he holds a unique gift and that his journey as an arcanist will not be so simple.

I_S_Rift · Fantasy
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268 Chs

Chapter 53

Once Sandra was calmed down she and I ended up heading over to the bounty house to collect our rewards and hand in the bounty. She had to be the one to do that as she had been the one to take it, and while I had helped, I hadn't been there when she'd taken the bounty so I couldn't be the one to hand it in.

"You never did say why you took the bounty?" I asked.

It had been something I'd been wondering about. I could understand her frustration and anger at the fact that Zirani had confronted her, but why she'd then taken a suicidal bounty was beyond me.

"I wasn't really thinking at the time, and well it was more to prove to myself that I could do it alone."

She let out a deep sigh. "But as you saw, that didn't work out too well."

"Well lucky you don't have to, not anymore, though if you don't mind me asking, how is it you don't remember how you got lost? I get that you were young, but considering you knew a technique you couldn't have been that young."