“Eric Silver!” The beautiful Blue Corp concierge before him flashed a brilliant smile. “How wonderful to see you. Is everything to your pleasure with your room?”
Eric caught her gaze, slowly slapping down his Sapphire Blue card. “I’d like the top two floors, please....
2022-07-04 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAnnika Drevyn flashed a warm smile for her flushing elven counterpart who had bowed before Redtooth. “It is always hard having to suck up to our race’s sworn enemies, isn’t it, sister? Frankly, I’m amazed you Blues do it so well.”
She then turned to face the bemused hum...
2022-07-03 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostEric winced at the whispers that followed the goblin’s pitch, almost as painful as the strained pause.
“Did you hear that, Vincent? No more interest payments!” Herb hissed excitedly to his former adventuring partner, earning a tired sigh from the much larger man. “And tha...
2022-07-02 08:25:59 +0000 UTC View Post“As you all know,” Caliban said with a cold glare for both Eric and the orcs as well, “It is against the accords for any representative or champion present to assault, murder, or deliberately goad any other party. Further, no threats of future challenges or direct or indirect ret...
2022-07-01 04:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post“What the hell is he doing here?” hissed none other than Lady Gray, now dressed in a sheer white silk one-piece showing off sensual curves and a sleek deadly grace as well, a 1796 cavalry saber sheathed in an elegant jewel-inlaid scabbard at her hip. Her glare, if anything, was eve...
2022-06-30 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“So, you’re basically inviting me to meeting with the movers and shakers of Freetown. Or at least the humans that fit that categorization?”
Caliban nodded.
Eric couldn’t deny that he was interested, despite the ambush of the day before. He was all too well aware tha...
2022-06-29 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostCaliban gave Eric a reassuring smile. “We’ll keep the debriefing quick and painless. How about you explain to me what happened in your own words? And then we have another issue we need to get finalized.”
Eric furrowed his brow, but gave his account in short order. And though eyebrows ...
2022-06-28 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostPerception check made!
DUCK!
Eric found himself curdling up protectively over a stunned-looking Rica and her suddenly screaming child a heartbeat before the air cracked with the boom of gunfire and the twang of crossbows, barely registering the dull thud o...
2022-06-27 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostRica hadn’t noticed the momentary byplay, wrinkling her nose as she peered intently at the wand the smiling proprietress had handed her. “What does it mean if you can’t, well, feel anything at all?”
The elf tilted her head. “Not even a tingle?”
“Not if you don...
2022-06-25 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe manager, clearly overwhelmed, took a slow, calming breath. “If you truly wish to purchase twenty condominium units... Maybe we do have some flexibility in the price department, after all. I will have to speak with our head office. May I get back to you on that?”
Eric flas...
2022-06-24 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostEric loved seeing the excited twinkle in Rica’s eyes when he told her his plans for the day, after the sweetest breakfast in bed he could have ever asked for, and in short order they were dressed and presentable before Eni at the downstairs concierge desk once more. Her warm smile of...
2022-06-22 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note - Eric & Rica are definitely a couple here :)
Nelly’s whole family paled at Eni’s hard-eyed demeanor. Her father looked like he wanted to shout for a customer service rep, but Eric couldn’t help but nod sympathetically. He had seen enough videos o...
2022-06-20 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostUnlike the rest of Freetown, the citizens of Blue Quarter all possessed a certain air of competence. Despite the fact that few were actual adventurers, quite a few gave off the far fainter but still significant aura of Professionals or Craftsmen of one discipline or another. He had the...
2022-06-18 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostAgent Caliban gazed at Eric for long moments, before passing him a rose-water scented cloth. “Is there somewhere I can escort you?”
Eric grinned, more pleased than he could say with that response, suddenly hopeful that maybe there was a way forward that didn’t depend on the...
2022-06-17 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostRica squeezed Eric's hand excitedly as they made their way to the wand store. “Okay, we’re here!”
There was an unmistakable lilt of excitement in her voice. “Look! Actual wands. Like in the movies! You can actually see several through the window! I’ll bet the window’s...
2022-06-15 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Thank you,” Rica softly said, holding his hand in her own, when he agreed to her request.
Eric shrugged and smiled. “No need, and you’re right. Bringing my bardiche with us when every other adventurer contents himself with a sword and chain mail armor that’s far lighte...
2022-06-13 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Eric woke up the next morning it was to find his heart filled with giddy thoughts he knew he had absolutely no business for a girl he had known for less than three days and had met at javelin-point.
But gazing down at the strikingly beautiful girl now sleeping so peacefully ...
2022-06-11 04:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post“So, what were you and the captain talking about?” Asked Rica with a smile.
Eric was amazed by how good it felt when she clasped his hand, openly and with pride, her other arm full of a cute little Ria, who was gazing so intently at her mom's boyfriend.
Or more sp...
2022-06-10 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Have you ever seen the stars so bright and beautiful, shining in all their glory?”
Eric smiled and shook his head as he kissed the cheek of the beautiful girl sitting next to him on the wagon, content just to hold her close as her beautiful little Ria, who had warmed up to Eric surpris...
2022-06-08 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note - Intimate scenes in this chapter!
Eric closed his Interface sheet with a smile, filled with the sweet satisfaction of any gamer shaping his character exactly into the hero of his dreams. Even if he had been forced to endure countless peril and hardship to ...
2022-06-06 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Name’s Captain Teila. Would you by any chance be Eric Silver?”
Eric slowly nodded, doing his best to hide the sudden tension he felt, gazing up at the cavalry woman wearing what he thought must be a pair of golden captain’s lapels at the throat of her silvered mail haube...
2022-06-04 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostA big shout out to all of you enjoying Eric's story so far! This is the end of book one, but there's a whole wide world out there full of dungeons, invading armies, and territories ripe for the plucking! A newly ascended world absolutely filled with juicy sweet power for the most daring to sa...
2022-06-02 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostFor long moments, Eric just wheezed on the ground.
He could barely move under a weight that seemed ready to crush his soul, eyes stinging with tears filling up his goggles as his armor baked upon the still oven-hot steel metal plate that was the floor of this vast, and now comple...
2022-06-01 07:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostEric took a moment to appreciate just how far he’d come. Despite all the trials and tribulations suffered, he had well and truly grown at a phenomenal rate. Archery and Bardiche were both getting extremely close to an absolutely unbelievable Rank 20, and he couldn’t wait to see wha...
2022-05-31 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe last dregs of superhuman Strength faded away as he stumbled upon the rooftop of a massive and clearly abandoned high rise, beholding a magnificent view of a city that, according to the interface superimposed on his mind's eye, was now finally free of any significant clusters of res...
2022-05-30 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post"Kill the humans! We’ll make them pay for daring to side with the elves!”
More than any title or accolade, more than any sought-after perk or class enhancement, it was the desperate screams and sobs of women and children that pushed him onward.
The growing ambivalence a...
2022-05-28 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostYou have covered multiple cannons with your blood!
You have successfully infused bases of multiple cannons with the essence of flame.
You have successfully infused barrels of multiple cannons with room-temperature essence!
Soul Reserves ...
2022-05-26 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Tovric! Get your ugly mug in that window! We got an offer you can’t refuse!”
Eric couldn’t help but grin when a dozen hot-eyed glares turned his way as he shouted in the darkness, a good 20 yards from the entrance of the fortification, the tension so palpable you could c...
2022-05-24 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostEric licked dry lips, determined not to pussy-foot around. “Contender Eric Silver formally requests System access to all recordings made within this sanctuary within the last 24 hours.”
Eric gazed at the perfectly inert computer for long moments, and couldn’t help chuckling...
2022-05-21 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostShutting his old bedroom door because he didn’t trust the monitors not to be on while attached to a computer whose power source he didn’t even pretend to understand, he undid the cordage knot securing his backpack’s prizes and pulled out, one at a time, carefully wrapped bundles ...
2022-05-19 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post