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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.

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Chapter 157

All three of us were eager the next day to face Zirani even though I knew better than the other two just what sort of beating we were in for. I didn't think for a moment that we were going to be able to beat an aether beast that was over four hundred years old and with a hundred of those years dedicated to nothing but the arcane and combat. She had become a jungle queen after all, and you didn't get to that point by being weak. As far as I knew only the strongest could be Zigan's, though perhaps it was different. It wasn't like I had asked Zirani about it. I was impressed that she was a jungle queen but it's not like that was the reason I loved her. It wouldn't have mattered to me if she were a dryad or some other form of a humanoid beast.

"Don't think flattery will help you," Zirani said mentally, having read my thoughts.

I sent her the equivalent of a mental shrug. "It was worth a shot."