The Bear Earl : A Progression Fantasy

The Bear Earl A novel by Vasily Mahanenko The Bear Clan Book 5 Published by Magic Dome Books The Bear Clan Book 5: The Bear Earl Copyright © Vasily Mahanenko 2023 Cover Art © Vladimir Manyukhin 2023 English translation copyright © Jared Firth 2023 Published by Magic Dome Books, 2023 All Rights Reserved This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.. New and upcoming releases from Magic Dome Books: If you like our books and want to keep reading, download our FREE Publisher's Catalog, a must-read for any LitRPG fan which lists some of the finest works in the genre: Tales of Wonder and Adventure: The Best of LitRPG, Fantasy and Sci-Fi (Publisher's Catalog) Table of Contents: Summary of book one Summary of book two Summary of book three Summary of book four Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Epilogue About the Author Summary of book one Thirteen-year-old high mage Ishar-Mor was a valg, a lizard that walked upright, who was sentenced to death. After plotting to overthrow the emperor, the memory of his previous lives was stripped from him, and he was banished from his home world to one where they’d never even heard of magic. But sheer luck played a cruel trick on the executioners. Just as the high mage was being banished, a ritual was performed in a different world to summon a soul. The Brown Bear clan leader’s only son had fallen from a tree and was teetering between life and death. Knowing full well what they were doing, the clan leaders beseeched their spirit protector for help, and he pulled the most powerful soul he could find out of the universe. The valg became fifteen-year-old Leg Ondo. There was magic, after all, in his new world, though he couldn’t use it—humans only gained magic abilities when they were initiated at age sixteen. When it came to magic itself, it was animal spirits called totems that gave their clans strength and two or three magic abilities. The planet also had force stones, or special rocks that could share magic power. Six months later, Leg and his team were participating in an interclan competition when they were ambushed by goblins, the planet’s true inhabitants. His friends were all killed, though he managed to survive. He then figured out how to control the magic lines force stones gave off, using them to defeat the commander of the goblin squad. But it was as he prepared to do battle for his life that help arrived. Lando Slick, the sixth son of the emperor, happened for some reason to be on the outskirts of the empire, and he gave Leg a launcher, a forbidden weapon for the outcast clan. In return, the representative of the imperial Viper clan demanded a year of service from Leg. And the boy couldn’t say no. For reasons only he knew, Lando sent the son of his sworn enemy to one of the most expensive and privileged educational institutions in the empire: the Imperial Academy. Leg quickly realized how far the Brown Bears lagged behind the rest of the world. Cars running on force stones, clothing, learning, trains—even an ordinary provincial city made a deep impression on him. One downside to urban life, however, was the stench that hung in the city air, almost as if the city sewers didn’t work. The residents themselves were so used to it that they didn’t notice a thing, but it was an unpleasant surprise for Leg. The train Leg was traveling on was attacked. The bandits were hunting Ulma Reloit, leader of the Panthers, the second clan in the empire, though Leg was able to leverage his new ability to control magic lines and save the old woman. That ruined the plans of a secret organization called the Crimson Ribbon. Once at the academy, Leg met two boys his age named Elrin and Had. The work they put into training together forged a bond, though they were subsequently punished with a trip to the sewers, a special area for testing abilities and coming back with resources the academy needed, after breaking the rules. Two girls named Liara and Belis also headed in with them. Joining forces, the group made their way down to the third level below ground, as Belis had a map of the sewers she was counting on to get them all plenty of loot. But nobody knew that level was packed with enormous octopus-like beasts. The group found themselves in an uneven battle, and it was only Leg’s ability to work with force lines that helped him save his friends. While still down in the sewers, Leg was able to find a statuette made of a blood-red material that turned out to be one of seven Bogush crystals. His find was quickly taken away—students weren’t permitted to have valuables in their possession. But that was when the emperor showed up at the academy to personally reward the student who had saved his niece. Leg had no other choice but to gift the crystal to the emperor, the latter responding by lifting the moratorium on trading with the Brown Bears and giving them room to resume their development. Not only that, but Lando Slick handed the boy a waystone. Working something like a teleport, it gave the sixth heir