Leyline Magus: An Isekai Progression Fantasy by Marcus Sloss & Isaac Keyes

Author:Marcus Sloss & Isaac Keyes [Sloss, Marcus & Keyes, Isaac]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B0D9MMCXYD
Goodreads: 216596081
Publisher: Royal Guard Publishing LLC
Published: 2024-07-23T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

I slept lightly and woke up many times during the night.

Despite my bravado earlier, I was a little nervous about the upcoming battle. The Druzha didn’t scare me, but the humans did. Eric was nothing to me, but there was no guarantee that this would be the same.

“Oh well,” I said into the night. “The only thing I can do is keep going.”

Later, when I was awake yet again, Verra whispered from her hammock, “Hey?”

“Yeah, I’m up. Trouble sleeping too?”

“Mhmm. Can I ask you something?”

“Yeah, anything.”

“How can you be so in control? Isn’t this even weirder for you than it is for me? I’m still living my normal life, kind of. You’re in another world!”

I slowly sat up and rested my chin on my hands. “Well, you’re right about that. This is weird for me. A week ago, I didn’t know that magic or other worlds even existed, and here I am! But I’ve dealt with so much crazy crap in my life that I learned how to take things in stride. Besides, I love being somewhere that I can just … do things the way I want.

“There’s no rules here. On Earth, there’s a shitload, let me tell you. You can only do things a certain way, at a certain time, and only if the right people tell you you can, and only if you have the paperwork that says you can, and … so on.

“And you can’t just punch people. You can, but depending on the situation, it can create huge problems for you, societally and financially. And you certainly can’t just kill people, even if they have it coming.

“Can I tell you how amazing it felt to slug Jeron square in his face the other day? Some guy needed to be punched, so I punched him. And that was it. Truly one of the best moments in my life, just because I wasn’t hindered by a bunch of well-meaning rules.

“And Douchebag guy? I killed him because it was the right thing to do at the moment. You can’t imagine how much paperwork there’d be on Earth about it, even though it was a clear-cut situation. And then, I just took his armor! Because I wanted it! And no one said a thing!

“I don’t think I can adequately explain to you how much more agency I have here on Mirras, and not just because I have magic now. It’s refreshing in a way I never even daydreamed about. Not really.”

“Huh,” she said after I was done. “That does sound nice.”

“It is! And it goes for you, too! Now that we’ve left your village and all the history there, you should be doing whatever you want, whenever you want to. If anyone gives you shit, punch ‘em in the face. I’ll have your back about whatever it is.”

She giggled in the shadows. “I’ll try. I might fuck it up, but I’ll keep trying.”

“There you go!”

We ate some more breakfast bars in the dark before we decided it was time.

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