. The Fairy Queen’s daughters now completely monopolized Diurhimath, with the stone table clearing becoming a sort of fairyland analog of an Earthly operating room. I couldn’t really sort out everything they were doing, but I could sense both mana techniques and spiritual arts that I had not expected anyone other than Elders to know in this world. “Esteemed Stepmother’s …

. Edited 1/28 – 1/29/2022. I am editing this to announce that Volume Six now ends after Chapter 287. I am moving this afterward into position. It was formerly after Chapter 279. I decided that this new position is a better break point between volumes. I also have decided not to create a normal afterword for this chapter, but I …

. The first ten paces or so of entry did feel like entering a natural cave, but I could find nothing natural in my fairy senses about this cave. It felt like she had used alchemy to recreate the natural magic hardening and strengthening that Giant Moles and other burrowing monsters employ to make their impractically large burrows feasible. Or, …

. The valley’s great defensive screen had one opening, the arch over the river that ran through it. Airships couldn’t pass under that arch, but it turned out they had way around that problem. The two great columns that rose on each side of the river, adjoining the arch over it, weren’t just decorations. The defensive screen could rise in …

. Diur, with his face, torso and arms hidden under heavy bandages hiding horrific injuries, hardly looked like someone I should be bothering with any matters of importance, but he was the best choice available to me here. I had many questions about how he had spent the last ten thousand years, but I felt confident he was in a …

. After the sudden loss of both the Berado king and the Parnese general, the invading army beat a headlong retreat southward. Being unable to rely on their own fairy sight, and therefore unsure of whom to trust, Lord Parna’s fairy knights stayed in Gado territory to sort things out. Their fairy pride wouldn’t allow them to risk fighting on …

. In the Huadean version of the game of chess, the knights are ‘flyers’, meaning aerial cavalry, the bishops are ‘mages’ and the rooks, confusingly, are ‘knights’. Only the pawns and king have the same name. And the piece that stands next to the king at the beginning of the game is called the “Fairy” rather than the “Queen”.  The …

. The dawning sun was about to rise into the chilly air. It was already giving a band of the eastern sky a blue cast above the pink-to-yellow backdrop of the mountains across the valley. I was one unhappy fairy knight, but somehow, I wasn’t quite as embarrassed as I would have felt two months before, when I did that …

. I had to grab Dilorè’s sword hand before she did something unfortunate, so I wasn’t in a position to prevent Rod from wrapping me up in an embrace. Fortunately we had never progressed to kissing before, and he didn’t make any attempt to do it now. Which was good, because I didn’t have any plan to let him start. …

. “I might not be ready to work as a fairy knight.” We were in the entrance tunnel, and Lady Dilorè and I were on point when she said that to me. Talene, Ceria and Lady Allia were behind us, taking turns levitating Diur’s stretcher, while Melione monitored his condition. In order to hide all the missing flesh, damage to …