Mato Mato sat uncaring on the slimy fungal creep, totally wrecked. Fighting for an extended period without mana had left him mentally drai
Mato sat uncaring on the slimy fungal creep, totally wrecked. Fighting for an extended peri...
2025-01-26 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostMato opened with his most powerful combination, sacrificing life and mana to use both Bestial Combat and Brutal Restoration to power his Swipe. His claws ripped through the tough bark and heavily armored woody trunk of the plant monster towering over him, spraying wood...
2025-01-23 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Ali put the finishing touches on her newest teleportation circle and watched in satisfaction as her domain mana surged through the electrum she had embedded into the stone. Her collection of circles was growing. Her memorization of the Volle locus hadn’t been quite...
2025-01-21 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Thanks for those who pointed out the continuity error with Calen's scouting mission and the timing of his return to town. I've made three edits to chapters 206 and 207 to fix it. The changes are minor and don't affect the flow of events or the plot.
1) I added a little intro dialogue ...
2025-01-19 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAli was not getting it, and it was making her tetchy. She pushed the heavy, drake-leather-bound book away and sighed, deciding that not being able to understand something written in a book was the worst kind of frustration. It didn’t matter that she was trying to...
2025-01-16 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Ali flew across the forest cavern, heading back toward the library, enjoying the soft glow of her mushrooms below, and the wisps and glitter dragons that had found their way up here. It had been a long day, and she was emotionally drained.
She had ...
2025-01-14 15:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Mato rested, relaxing into the weight of his branches, the soft rustle of his leaves, and the stretching of his roots deep into the earth. His awareness flowed beyond the reach of his tree, extending outward in all directions, carried by the mana of his Sanctuary Aura. J...
2025-01-12 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostDungeons kill people. Never lose sight of that fact.
- Dorin Crimsonhammer, Platinum Adventurer. Advice to novice adventurers.
Vivian rubbed her temples, trying to ease the throbbing that was trying to...
2025-01-09 15:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Bonus chapter today, seeing as it is entirely Sabri's POV.
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Knowing how to equip yourself effectively is a skill that becomes less and less optional as the monsters grow more challenging. The first place this is typically noticed is with your tank, where a poor c...
2025-01-08 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThere is nothing more terrifying than a Paladin with a map and a plan.
- Bragni Doomhammer [The Hammer of Justice], Dwarven King of Dal’mohra.
“Havok take this one,” Havok declared, scrambling over the pile of rubble ...
2025-01-07 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“We’re all alive, so that’s good,” Malika said, and Ali paused for a moment, calming herself down. She had lost almost all her minions to the firestorm, and she had been terrified of losing her friends too. It may have only been a single-group threat level,...
2025-01-05 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostNothing burns hotter than Dragonfire.
- Artur Dragonsworn [The Rule of Law], Human King of Dal’mohra
He stood in the strangely pristine archway squinting out at the enormous chamber beyond, constantly scanning the threats arrayed bef...
2025-01-02 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Happy New Year!
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Cut hard, cut fast, cut to the bone.
- Kir’mogan, Troll Champion of Aman Rak.
“That seemed fast,” Malika said, as Ali began deconstructing the twin Living Flames i...
2024-12-31 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostIt was late in the third age when a talented young theologian named Amaryllis Wright first proposed the controversial idea that the gods were simply a class evolution. As a part-time scholar of class development, she had noticed that past the third-tier class advancement, the mechanism of rep...
2024-12-29 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostWisdom, wisdom, and more wisdom!
Your primary defense against mental assault is to build up your wisdom. However, by its very nature, mind magic is a subtle art. You must be aware of a mental attack to bring the bulk of your defenses to bear – without awareness, you are as vulnerabl...
A/N: For those who celebrate, I wish you a happy and safe holiday season!
Breakfast was tasty but eaten quickly; everyone was eager to get to town and take care of various errands and chores. Ali packed a few arcane magic books in her ring, just in ...
2024-12-24 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Clarence was being surprisingly cooperative for a change. Normally the willful, obstinate book would make her chase him down if she wanted a chance to study from him – or he would have his own inscrutable ideas for which pages she needed to see. Today, however, he ...
2024-12-22 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
“Umm…” Ali took a deep breath, looking at Ryn and the novices, struggling to figure out where to even begin. Battle still raged behind the barrier wall, but the corruption had dissolved under the tenacious attack of Mato’s aura. She felt much better, but her ...
2024-12-19 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe classical human literature on cosmology holds that there are nine distinct realms. These include The Realm of Divine Intent, colloquially known as ‘heaven’. This is supposedly the home of those major gods who have the best interests of the mortal races at heart, and the origin of Cele...
2024-12-17 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This fight sucks. Every time he finally figured out where the boss was, and got to it, the stupid snake simply disappeared, forcing him to spend most of his time charging around like an idiot, growling at shadows and illusions. He couldn’t tank any of the demo...
2024-12-15 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
“Ten percent!” Aiden shouted.
“Stupid Goblin!” Havok yelled, smashing the Storm Shaman in the face with his glowing Holy Shield.
From the pristine lake of mana-purified water, yet another circular blast of water bolts shot o...
2024-12-12 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe Flamecaller warlock collapsed in a sizeable, smoking heap of ruin at her feet, and Malika stepped back to take a deep breath, coughing as she inhaled a little too much of the omnipresent acrid black smoke. As they pressed deeper into the mines, threading through ...
2024-12-10 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostDemons are a scourge upon the realms. I will bring down ruin upon their breeding pits and smite their lairs with holy wrath. I will destroy their endless infernal legions, down to the very last imp. Then, I will disintegrate their ashes until even the memory of their existence sifts through m...
2024-12-08 15:00:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Ali had slept well and was in a particularly good mood this morning – yesterday had been tiring, but productive. The morning sun cast long shadows from the guild building, but the air smelled fresh and there was a light breeze blowing. Outside the guild entrance, t...
2024-12-05 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: So, it's December! I'm sitting in a coffee shop near my house queuing up chapters to the sounds of sleigh-bells in the snow. How did that come along so fast?
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Ryn stilled the unconscious bouncing of her leg for the umpteenth time and glanced a...
2024-12-03 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Mato checked his health again, the thread of worry winding tighter around his heart. The Hellfire Wargs were only barely past level fifty; he had been confident in his ability to hold them while the others took care of the archers. But he hadn’t anticipated the intensi...
2024-12-01 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Something prickled in the back of Ali’s awareness, like an entirely imagined itch in the back of her mind.
What is that?
She searched around for any sign of what it might be, but, although the sensation seemed...
2024-11-28 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes you just gotta hit it more than it hits you.
- Aurin ‘Stabby’ Wizzlecrank, Assassin, Leader of the Crimson Sprockets, an all-Gnomish dungeon group operating out of Thorel Moldur.
Ali’s friends were in good spirits, c...
2024-11-26 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Calen skirted the stagnant pond and the wisps of violet mist that seeped from its waters, scanning the decayed trunks for signs of undead. He did not have Mato’s attachment to nature, but even he felt sick at the sight of the creeping miasma and death that hung over t...
2024-11-24 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
“So, what do you all want to do?” Ali asked, hovering by the stairs as Mato shoved the heavy Adventurers Guild doors open. A delicious aroma wafted over from the food cart parked beside the guild and Ali waved at Sabri and Brena who were chatting amiably together...
2024-11-21 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post