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Warning Shot by VirtualMien

Chapter 42 in Araqiel's Court

The revolver barked loudly in Adrian’s hand as he emptied it with a steady rhythm, smoke trailing from the barrel. He narrowed his eyes, trying to make out if all six shots had found their mark. Amira leaned past him and hit a button on the wall, retracting the target from the fa...

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【Part Three】 Good Help by VirtualMien

Chapter 41 in Araqiel's Court

“We’ll be in touch,” Adrian lied, having no intention of ever calling the man back. The two of them stood up, and Adrian let him out of the club’s back office. The other man was pudgy, with a thick mustache and a southern drawl. He was applying to work as head of security at the...

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【TL;DR】 Part Two by VirtualMien

Chapter 5 in Araqiel's Court

Adrian has two key tasks: establish a nightclub as his home base, and recruit the rest of his squires. Christine and Rhys help with the first one. They decide to buy a down and out club named Gilt rather than build a new one from scratch. Afterwards, Rhys undergoes his first tran...

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Chapter 5 in Araqiel's Court

【TL;DR】 Part One by VirtualMien

Chapter 4 in Araqiel's Court

Adrian needed to obtain an artifact of power to become a fully vested knight. He decides to hunt down a cloak, used in the Gunpowder Plot. To help him on his journey, he contacts his coworker Rhys, as well as Christine, the grad student who had been helping him translate the book...

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Chapter 4 in Araqiel's Court

【TL;DR】 Prologue by VirtualMien

Chapter 3 in Araqiel's Court

Adrian was sick. He had a chronic, degenerative condition for which there was no cure. , he decided to turn to alternative means of treatment. Through sheer luck, an ancient book had recently fallen into his possession. He had been translating it with the help of a nearb...

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【TL;DR】 Catch Up Quickly by VirtualMien

Chapter 2 in Araqiel's Court

Of course I would love it if every reader read through every chapter, but I know that some of you are going to prefer skipping straight to the 'good stuff', or maybe you just want to get a handle on earlier parts so that you can take part in a vote. Either way, this section is fo...

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【Characters】 Part Two by VirtualMien

Chapter 29 in Araqiel's Court

【Characters】 Part One by VirtualMien

Chapter 28 in Araqiel's Court

> **Caution: **Contains spoilers for part one. Adrian ------ Adrian is learning to accept that his knighthood isn't something that he has the option of handling on his own. He is stuck with his squires. Maybe that isn't so bad though. He wouldn't have been successful in Scotlan...

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