“Do you know why not many priests ever return home?” Jim asked Seth.
They were sitting by the door to a conclave they’d just stepped out of on a brown couch long enough to seat three people. A few moments ago Seth had been within the room protected by the door listening to men he didn...
2024-02-13 12:12:06 +0000 UTC View PostEzril froze then recovered in time to side step the girl’s attack. In the times he’d been fighting the Merdendi this was a first. The fact that they’d never brought children to the battlefield was one of the things that had made him doubt the realm’s reference to them as savages. No. ...
2024-02-13 12:10:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe sun’s decline from its apex found them arraigned a distance away from the ruined walls, infantry and cavalry alike.
Somewhere before the front lines of their group’s arrangement Baltar addressed them. His words were majestic and designed to strike hope and the glory of battle into t...
2024-02-10 01:56:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Ouctun, eg’n ougnad.”
Ezril smiled at his brother’s words. He hadn’t realized how much he’d missed hearing vrail. Given, there were a lot of priests around and he’d marched with them for a while. But the truth was simple; priests didn’t use their own language very often. 2024-02-10 01:53:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Seth woke up with a headache so strong he could hear it.
He laid in a bed he had no idea how he’d gotten into. Around him were walls with colors he could barely make out. Unable to turn his head to survey his environment without disturbing his headache, he tried something else.
He r...
2024-02-10 01:50:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe sound of an annoyed yet respectful voice flittered through the air. It made its way through the door to fill his ears with its almost nasal displeasure. It was hurried and raised high enough to deter whoever the subject of their growing discomfort was, yet was low enough that it was clear the...
2024-02-10 01:43:35 +0000 UTC View PostLightning streaked through the air.
It was magical, but it seemed to follow some form of already established world principle. Zed wasn’t sure what exactly the case was. But the force it carried when it left the rune was far more significant than what he saw strike Babajide.
Babajide...
2024-02-10 01:39:09 +0000 UTC View PostWith the short-lived scuttle in the market at an end, people were slowly coming out of their hiding spots. Stores were opening back up tentatively, and hiding customers were beginning to scurry off to their origins.
The market was slowly developing the sound of activity, but there were no v...
2024-02-10 01:36:45 +0000 UTC View PostJonathan kept his eyes fixed on House fifty-eight, gold eyes activated so that he missed nothing. He had heard the rumors of the veteran adventurer but allowed none of it get to him. And they were as bountiful as they were nigh mythical.
He and his father had been searching for Seth since t...
2024-02-08 06:42:55 +0000 UTC View Post[Name: Melmarc Jay Lockwood]
[Class: Faker]
[Rank: B]
[Growth Potential: Unranked]
Melmarc’s mouth was hanging open.
Unranked?
He hadn’t heard of an unranked growth potential before. Wasn’t unranked only for the class ranks? And what the hell was...
2024-02-08 06:39:33 +0000 UTC View PostNixarv studied Ezril with the scrutiny of a confused man. It was almost as though the man refused to believe his eyes. It should’ve been strange but Ezril found it mildly irksome.
“How?” Nixarv asked, his eyes fixed on Ezril’s torso.
Ezril shrugged. The how did not matter, wha...
2024-02-08 06:28:38 +0000 UTC View PostZed got up from his knees.
Each blow to the head had left him with nothing but a flicker of pain. A few months back he had no doubt that each one would’ve hurt. Now, they were merely inconveniences.
Was this how the powerful felt when attacked by those weaker than them? Was this how...
2024-02-08 06:23:14 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the pain subsided, it left Melmarc breathing heavily.
“What was that?”
The panic in Delano’s voice was raw. Melmarc needed to catch his breath before he answered his friend.
Fortunately for him, Ark did the answering for him.
“He just got a contaminated skill....
2024-02-03 07:05:46 +0000 UTC View PostI'll keep it brief and simple.
1. GIFTED will be submitted for release on Royal Road in the next 24 hours and there will at least two extra releases here on Patreon during the weekend (I don't think I've done it before). And I don't feel it's very fair leaving you all on a bit of a cliff fo...
2024-02-02 05:36:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt was late when they got back to the mansion. To their surprise they were allowed to take their dinners in their rooms. In fact, they were asked to.
There was a note on the massive dinning, large enough to house all of them, that specifically asked that they take their meals in their respe...
2024-02-02 05:29:17 +0000 UTC View PostDelano groaned. “Why are you making this scarier than it is?”
“I’m not making it scarier than it is.” Eroms took another bite of his chicken.
Then he did the unthinkable. He gave it to Melmarc.
“Hold my stick,” he said.
“What are you doing?” Delano panick...
2024-02-02 05:21:11 +0000 UTC View PostEzril frowned at thought of the infirmary. Fighting the Merdendi hadn’t been one of his brightest ideas. In fact, he was beginning to wonder what had gotten into him. He’d won the fight but it was too soon to be walking around in pain. For the rest of what was left of the day he avoided every...
2024-02-02 05:11:15 +0000 UTC View PostSeth teleported.
Jim stared at where the boy had been with an open mouth. What had just happened?
Seth appeared in midair, hovering behind one of the wraiths with wide feral eyes. He swung a vicious hand capitalizing on their equal shock and his wild attack connected. He slapped the w...
2024-02-02 05:09:20 +0000 UTC View PostBabajide’s room wasn’t as wide as he had always wanted it, but being a king in a post apocalyptic world was different from being a king in a pre-apocalyptic world. In the latter you got everything there was to get. In the former, you got whatever there was to get.
But the room was wide ...
2024-02-02 05:03:52 +0000 UTC View PostAnais had served Vlad for the past twelve years.
He had adopted her from an orphanage when she was twelve and had raised her ever since. Her only relationship to him prior to being adopted was that he’d known her parents. And all she had to go on as proof of that was his words. Nothing el...
2024-02-01 11:50:10 +0000 UTC View PostDelano lay on a bed of white sheets. It was large enough for two people and it was one of three beds in the room.
Once their host who may or may not be an Alchemist had finished addressing them, they’d been ushered all up to their rooms.
Considering the size of the house, Melmarc ha...
2024-02-01 11:48:04 +0000 UTC View PostThey got to their destination in the very late hours of the evening, or early hours of the night.
Delano tapped Melmarc awake as Mrs. Ella instructed everyone to get down from the bus.
Melmarc woke to a violin playing in his ear with a very different tempo from the one he’d slept to...
2024-02-01 11:39:37 +0000 UTC View Post“Yes, the scribe,” the man said as if snapping back to reality. “He’s down that way.” He pointed. “Take your first left, your third right, then go all the way to the stairs on the right.”
“Thank you.” Ezril turned to leave and caught the man reaching for something at his f...
2024-02-01 11:11:30 +0000 UTC View PostInside the building was utter chaos. Reia beasts filled it from the very entry so that Jonathan had been forced to slay the first beast on entry, cleaving it in two with a spear, the traditional weapon of house Darnesh.
While it was a mystery how the beasts had already ventured as far as th...
2024-02-01 11:09:49 +0000 UTC View Post“Alright,” Zed stared at the empty store in front of them. “This might be a problem.”
The store wasn’t locked. The door was open and the display was still there. Everything was just gone, from the slippers made of rubber to the slippers made of leather to the old man and four peop...
2024-02-01 11:08:38 +0000 UTC View Post“What are you watching?” Delano asked, peeking over to Melmarc’s side of the chair and trying to see his phone.
Over the past hour of the bus ride a few things had happened, most of which involved Delano falling asleep. There’d been a heated argument in the front seat between two bo...
2024-01-30 06:10:56 +0000 UTC View PostIt was maddening to think the seminary had sent a child that was unable to listen. He was Seth’s handler, which implied completely that all endeavors taken must be taken with his permission. So why in the name of growing religion would the stupid seminarian go into a fissure nest without tellin...
2024-01-30 05:47:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe soldier led them through the buildings, past the smithy, around the infirmary Ezril found he had no reason to visit again, behind what could only prove to be a bakery, and into the tower that held the chambers of the Lord Commander.
They were led to a door in a hallway six flights of st...
2024-01-30 05:45:24 +0000 UTC View Post“A billion stores in this place and you pick this one?” Ronda complained.
Kid had to remind himself once more that she was not a bad person, just an often confused person when it came to her emotions in trying situations.
Another gunshot rang out, peppering one of the stores close...
2024-01-30 05:38:20 +0000 UTC View PostAfter uncle Dorthna, Ark was the second person to find out about Melmarc’s status as a potential Gifted.
Melmarc told him first thing in the morning when he woke up.
There had been a bit of grumbling on his part about how Melmarc should’ve woken him up immediately it had happened....
2024-01-30 05:34:10 +0000 UTC View Post