There was something annoying about seven kids slaving through the torture of using their skills. In just the space of three days Anthony had seen more skills used more poorly than he had any memory of ever seeing. He’d completely forgotten what it was to see new born soul magi use their skills....
2023-10-24 02:39:49 +0000 UTC View PostDisrespectful or not, scared or not, Faust wanted answers. He was the Monsignor of the seminary. The title alone gave him audacity the likes of which simple magi did not have. “Is he yours?”
Jabari’s eyes left him, returned to whatever he watched beyond him. “Explain.”
“Th...
2023-10-24 02:38:13 +0000 UTC View PostThis is for all Patrons. I am still working on all the stories I have written and they will continue to be told and released. I just want to inform everyone that there is a high level of demotivation that comes with having to rebuild a backlog. You do your best to recreate the story's path as muc...
2023-10-21 06:03:03 +0000 UTC View PostThere is a consistent belief that the older a man becomes the more informed his decisions. A seemingly general consensus that age begets wisdom. This is true, undeniably so. However, most tack onto it a belief that with these correlations—age begetting wisdom—that the old never find regret in...
2023-10-20 01:34:46 +0000 UTC View PostFor the six months that followed, Seth and his brothers surrendered their free Sunday to the teachings of Ivan. Not only did he teach them about cores, he taught them of reia and its different kinds. One conception Seth found he’d been entirely wrong about was in the affinity the soul fragments...
2023-10-20 01:31:44 +0000 UTC View PostEzril woke with a start. His hands finding the hilt of the Sunder beneath his pillow with easy accuracy, he drew it. He stopped, Sunder halfway free of its scabbard as his gaze focused on what had instigated his action.
A soft curse escaped his lips.
He clenched his teeth, holding bac...
2023-10-20 01:28:30 +0000 UTC View PostEzril rested uncomfortably beneath the tent fashioned for him by the soldiers. His wounds beneath their bandages ached in severe discomfort. He had been patched up by a healer whose name he neither remembered nor was bothered to attempt reminiscence of. The man having done a great job of stitchin...
2023-10-20 01:22:29 +0000 UTC View PostFestus rubbed his forehead slowly, easing away the crease of his frown. His worries just kept getting bigger and bigger. It was almost as if the world had decided to stand against him and achieving his dream.
Zed had been an attribute mage, and whatever attribute he had kept a secret from t...
2023-10-20 01:12:59 +0000 UTC View PostDaniel’s armored head turned to Ronda. The movement was slow and simple. While there was no expression on a featureless face, Ronda could already picture the half-scowl her interim captain was most definitely spotting.
“Comms,” Daniel said. The word was slow and purposeful.
Rond...
2023-10-20 01:05:50 +0000 UTC View PostBodies burned black.
The flames continued their feast.
The sun was beginning its journey to the other end of Vayla when a soldier came running in a panicked haze. At first he seemed maddened, crazed from the heat of the sun, or perhaps some over-indulgence in some form of the soldiers...
2023-10-18 03:56:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe classroom was not a classroom, at least not by right. At the top of the tower was an empty space walled off by balustrades, pillars that held the roof perhaps twelve feet above, each interspaced evenly enough for four men to stand side by side. The floor was black as the pillars around it and...
2023-10-18 03:53:09 +0000 UTC View PostAsh stared in confused shock, unable to move. It was not that her injuries had somehow disabled her but that her mind couldn’t wrap itself around what had just happened. On the opposite side of her, resting against one of the trees in the forest, Chris was a mirror of shock.
Ash was glad ...
2023-10-18 03:51:26 +0000 UTC View PostAbed watched in confusion as Zed looked around for him. The tear in the man’s shoulder he’d inflicted with his sword was literally stitching itself back together.
Mages healed quickly but not this quickly.
So he continued to watch as Zed approached with a twisted scowl and a bleed...
2023-10-16 05:31:51 +0000 UTC View PostA while later Ezril and his brothers were gathered, awaiting Noem’s words.
“Reinforcements will be coming once news reaches Lord Bilvion,” he told them. “I have already sent a man with word.”
“And the captives?” Darvi asked.
“They will be questioned when the scho...
2023-10-16 05:28:34 +0000 UTC View PostTrue to Igor’s words a new class was created for them within the next month. This class, unlike all the others, was held in an actual classroom with walls and a ceiling. Unfortunately, there were no desks, and they had to manage with the discomfort of the concrete floors.
Within the month...
2023-10-16 05:26:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe room was tense with a cloud of silence. There was no light by which to illuminate it in the darkness of the aging night. Its black walls did nothing to help with this, seeming to emphasize the darkness like mirrors reflecting light, a characteristic no one had been able to decipher since arri...
2023-10-13 08:29:46 +0000 UTC View Post“That was madness.”
Perhaps, a piece of Seth’s mind agreed with Barnabas, though Seth disagreed with it. If anything, Emriss had been kind to Forlorn. The stories he’d heard of Barons growing up were worse. That she had put a bullet in his leg for his disrespect instead of ...
2023-10-13 08:23:49 +0000 UTC View PostCorpses riddled the ground as far as the eye could see. They had lost as much as the Merdendi, maybe more. But that was a worry for another man. For the first time since he set eyes on her in the battle Ezril ventured towards Lenaria, closing the distance that had once served as a forbidden zone ...
2023-10-13 08:17:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe fight raged on below them. With no signal, it seemed to go on forever. Ezril found himself being reminded of Father Talod’s trainings on the days of the blade during his early years in the seminary. For a moment he forgot the battle before him and flexed his left hand. All of them had been ...
2023-10-13 08:03:11 +0000 UTC View PostAt the sound of Big Man Desolate’s voice, the feline monster turned to look at him. It was now lying on its side, succumbing to the cold touch of death and it snarled angrily at the sight of what he held in his hand.
Big Man Desolate hushed it.
“Shush, I’m giving a speech over h...
2023-10-13 07:46:53 +0000 UTC View PostAbed’s eyes widened as Zed’s rune exploded into a flood of fire. Normally, a blast of its magnitude would not scare him while his spell Titan of Wrath was active, but the spell was spent, dwindling away from overuse.
So fear touched him even if for a moment.
He raised his leg and ...
2023-10-13 07:43:02 +0000 UTC View PostOlufemi stopped, hesitant.
He paused but didn’t release the captain. He remained in place; his knee against the man’s back, a hand in his hair, and another cocked back above his head. His gaze flickered to Ezril. Ezril shhok his head and there was a tense moment before he finally rose, ...
2023-10-09 19:11:22 +0000 UTC View PostSkirmishes. This was all it was. A few hundred men engaged in battle, drawing blood from flesh. Ezril frowned. Salem was right about one thing; the war was yet to come.
Ezril sat on the grassy hill with his brothers. The morning was young; a few hours past midnight. The crescent moon could ...
2023-10-09 19:04:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe debacle of the test of winter ended easily. However, there was nothing quick about it. After surviving his pain, he remained in his confinement a while longer, a few weeks, perhaps two. It was time he spent healing. Kyle, he’d come to learn was the name of the healer of the seminary, stoppe...
2023-10-09 19:00:42 +0000 UTC View PostOn no instruction other than the guidance of instinct, or perhaps it was a sense of expectation, Seth closed his eyes and willed his minds to focus. If there was ever a time he needed [Fractured Mind] to take effect, it was now.
It did not.
So he focused as all boys d...
2023-10-09 18:59:03 +0000 UTC View PostIn front of Zed Chris swung her club in a downward strike and Abed turned to meet her with a strike of his own. His sword tore the ground as it moved to meet her in an upward swing. It hit Chris’ club violently, sending her back. Ash stepped away from the chaos, not fool enough to think she cou...
2023-10-09 18:57:02 +0000 UTC View PostZed stared down at his new notification, his vision tinted in a haze of red.
· You have defeated [Woven viper (Beta, category 3)].
· You have gained +41 [Exp].
· Exp to category 3: 3340/3400.
He was so close. The end of this battle would bring him to category three the ...
2023-10-09 18:55:08 +0000 UTC View PostIgor came for Seth a day after, finding him in the confines of his shelter. He’d since told Timi to find a new hiding spot or move Bartholomew’s body. As for the pieces of reia beast meat, he’d done away with what was in his shelter long before Igor’s arrival.
Peace came to his mind...
2023-10-06 17:59:45 +0000 UTC View PostLord Bilvion was a difficult man to please. Apart from the men he brought with him from whatever part of the realm he came from, no one at the fort liked him. Every soldier regarded him with a moderate level of disdain however much concealed. Even his men often showed a hint of dislike. It was ob...
2023-10-06 17:57:35 +0000 UTC View PostDaniel, Kid and Ronda knew their suits were low on battery. Activating the suits at the beginning of the battle had been designed to give them a fighting chance, but that plan had failed. Now, the death of their commander was the only thing that had given them the fighting chance they’d sought....
2023-10-06 17:51:43 +0000 UTC View Post