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Chapter 101: The Andalus Fortress

🕑 Added 2025-06-20 21:17:18 +0000 UTC

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Keene

Maybe... maybe not ^.^ Enjoy, and thanks for reading! <3

SleepyKitten

Yes creepy merchant definitely blackthorn. Onto next<3

Kt-x

Thanks for the chapter

Adurna

Yeah seems rather clear with current foreshadowing.

Ben Lockwood

Calling it now Charles is Blackhorn. That Ruler comment was just to emphatic. Also, love seeing Serena get one over on Menes was hilarious! Good luck with your Masters! Also! Christmas lights are about to be invented! Nice!

Keene

Fixed! Should be Charles, my brain is weird sometimes xd

head.crab

"Menes slowly swished the remaining loqua in his glass." Menes?

Keene

She just wants to send cute selfies to her softy girlfriend >.< Thanks for reading! <3

Keene

Cookie! Thanks for reading! <3

Keene

Thank you :) Looking forward to it! <3 Thanks for reading!

Aura

No doubt she'll let them out soon. She's perfectly in her right to keep them confined within the ship while at port, but once they're under way she doesn't have the right to detain a Lord in a cell without cause. She doesn't have to tell him why they're still confined right now though as it's 'related to an active military operation'; she's getting a bit of payback but not breaking any laws. Holding them after that is a different matter. Oh! I'm of the opinion Amelia is inventing aether-based transmission cables to lay the foundation for what could eventually be their internet. Mini aetherlights with fiber optic cable as the transport medium. Probably starting with military communication to garner funding and government buy-in -- just like our internet. The demons already have an equivalent of morse code, which they use to communicate wirelessly over aether. Seems to be extremely expensive and specialized, requiring nation-state-level infrastructure to operate. Fiber lines w/ manually-operated light stones could operate like telegraphy, no need for computers or electricity of any sort. Or I could be wildly off the mark lol. She said it'd change the world though, not just Serena's ship or the military or the demon Empire. So long-term she's thinking civilian application.

Tomáš Burcal

He deserved it at the end. Best of luck with Uni, its an edmirabke efort to try and improve one's self

SlimeSoup

Thanks for the chapter 🍪

Mageinblue

Amalia casually going to invent rapid data transmission aka intranet and perhaps Internet:D

Puppy Piranha Forever

That was a cool chapter and it shows off your eye for world building. I wouldn’t be surprised if that merchant turns out to be the pirate captain. His hunger and believing he was born to be a leader. I have an idea what Amelia is crafting, curious if I’m right or not 🤔 Love what Serena did to Menes, wondering if she eventually let them out during the voyage. Keep cool and best of luck with your Creative Writing ✍️

Keene

Thank you! And thanks for the feedback! <3 I agree that we need some more Amelia, and more Amelia pushing the plot forward herself. While the Passage has been much more Serena-focused, the upcoming Ishaq and investigations beyond will have Amelia taking a much more central role. She has been passive so far, but now she's ready for more! She's far more confident than she has been before! I actually hoped to wrap up the Passage in one more Serena-filled chapter, so some of the things you've correctly identified as set-ups won't happen just yet, but they haven't been forgotten! They all have important parts to play in the larger plot! Thanks for reading <3

Aura

Thanks for the extra-lengthy chap! And good luck with your academic pursuits! Can't wait for our dear Amelia to get outside and do something again! She's been back-seat protag for a bit too long IMO. Let her not just participate or be visible in the periphery, but actually direct some plot! Like, becoming a canonized Saintess felt momentous, but then forgotten. Maybe it's just because they're traveling and so of course the Captain takes the lime-light, but... 'eh, still! One of their names is the actual title of the book ^.^ Even while multi-POV and multi-MC, it still feels a little off-balance from an expectations perspective, even if the progress of the story itself still feels balanced. It seems you're setting Amelia to take stage with the whale soon enough, maybe some roll with the rescue or pirates as well. But I think what I'm getting at is that while Amelia pops up to get involved in certain history-book-creating events, she feels somewhat narratively passive/background outside of those big events. Anywho, cheers for another great chap! Until next time! o7