Arcane Almanac (Arcane Merchant Book 3) by Nick Noble

Author:Nick Noble [Noble, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-08-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

That first year was better than I could have imagined. Sharing the burden of the Almanac's knowledge with Elodie, not to mention the workload of making sure every day went off without a hitch? Well, take it from one of the most potent sorcerers of my era, that feeling was downright magical.

It was like the early days renovating my grandfather's shop all over again. For the first time in a long, long time, I was building something with Elodie instead of around her and the rest of my wives. She was no longer an obstacle in my path to happiness but an equal partner in our shared future.

That simple change in perspective and attitude made things drastically easier.

Each day I had a morning debrief with Elodie. She helped make sure I took my treatments for my quantum cancer (still on the fence about that name, but Doc Fletcher made a compelling argument) while going over what needed to be done according to the Almanac for that day.

From my perspective every day went off without a hitch.

I knew from experience that it probably looked a lot different to Elodie, but she assured me that she was making me do most of the work.

My major concern in those days was making sure Elodie didn’t get the same sickness I had picked up. We hopped over to Earth 419 Epsilon on a monthly basis for checkups. Sometimes he wasn’t around, off saving his world or something.

This place was pretty neat, I had to admit. The news playing in the waiting room showed off a bunch of superheroes battling to protect this place. Honestly I was a little jealous of Doc Fletcher. Saving my world would have been a hell of a lot easier if I had a few of these guys on speed dial.

This one guy flew around on a magical chariot pulled by four golden horses and shot laser beams out of his eyes. I wanted to meet him, mainly so I could run some arcane tests on him to see where his powers came from, but also just because he was pretty cool.

But my personal favorite was the super athlete who ran around with a baseball bat. From what footage I picked up on, his powers were pretty basically augmented strength and speed right up until he started swinging that bat around. Firing off little indestructible baseballs and sending them smashing through bad guys like they were ballistic missiles? Too fucking cool. That guy had style in spades, and I think the little kid I used to be who wanted to grow up and be a professional baseball player would have been thrilled to know there was a superhero out there hitting grand slams through alien spaceships.

But I digress.

Doc Fletcher assured me that Elodie was fine. Whatever minor flaw in the Stopwatch that had allowed me to pick my magical malady had been fixed. It was now safe for her to use. But not for me, since I already had the damn quantum cancer, it was still dangerous.

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