23.
A/N: Kinda screwed up the pacing so this chapter came up a bit shorter than expected.
They came two hours after dawn. Cameron led them through the ruins of the city outskirts, his armor dinged and bloody. His shield was a battered wreck that he let hang by hi...
2024-10-31 00:32:45 +0000 UTC
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22.
Santi followed behind Duncan as the two men left the false safety of the others. Only Chloe would have been of any help and she was laid up with her arm ravaged and her energy exhausted from the fight. Santi quietly pulled another mana potion out of the pocke...
2024-10-28 21:24:04 +0000 UTC
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21.
A/N: We're getting close to the end of this arc!
The moon’s light gave Santi enough illumination as he pulled the spike free of his leg. Cursing bitterly he looked at the mutated porcupine that he had just put down. Dead mutated animals littered the edge of ...
2024-10-24 02:18:22 +0000 UTC
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20.
Naomi blocked the heavy swing of the minotaur’s club, her sword hitting the magically hardened wood with a clear ting, rattling her hands as she pushed back the monster’s attack to the ground. All around her was chaos as her team fought back agai...
2024-10-21 19:03:44 +0000 UTC
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19.
Mature Dryad lvl. 68
(Dormant)
“I don’t think we can fight that,” Chloe said as she looked up at the giant oak tree. An ephemeral spirit was trying to force its way out of the bark, th...
2024-10-20 22:45:59 +0000 UTC
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18.
Santiago V. Silva
Air Mage lvl. 45
Strength: 37 (72)
Durability: 40 (75)
Stamina: 40 (75)
Dexterity: 37 (72)
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2024-10-17 22:57:03 +0000 UTC
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17.
A/N: going to be changing the challenge from 72 hours to 24. 72 just didn't really work and I don't know what i was thinking when i wrote it.
“How you doing, Chloe?” Santi asked as he jumped back, avoiding a crashing knot of roots and earth. Dirt scattere...
2024-10-14 20:43:36 +0000 UTC
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16.
[Air Current] was his weakest, but most versatile skill. He finally wormed his way around the hunter’s defenses, finding a pin gap where the thick magic lacked the strength to repel his power. Santi was forced to dodge the curved edge of a ...
2024-10-11 02:07:38 +0000 UTC
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15.
A/N: Sorry for the spotty posting, my day job is doing its best to work me to death.
Two hours of silence. Awkward silence. Tension so thick that Santi could not only cut it, he could proceed to dish it up on a plate after cutting it. Zeke was sitting with a k...
2024-10-09 22:48:01 +0000 UTC
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4.
Erak stood with the patience of an oak tree, silent and resolute against the chaos of the world. The screams and cries of the dying splashed around him as he watched over the square, waiting for the professors to arrive. The mass of humanity was packed tightly...
2024-10-09 01:31:36 +0000 UTC
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3.
Crimson-gold lances of fire seared the air as they streaked soundlessly to burn away hellspawn. Wicked creatures burned in the holy light as Erak led his flock around a corner and saw death and destruction as the army held the line. Burnt bodies turned into bl...
2024-10-09 01:28:49 +0000 UTC
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2.
The wide boulevard was littered with dead and dying, pitiful wails a symphony of despair as he marched towards the Armory. Men and demons fought in alleys, rooftops, and in homes. Erak ignored it all as he closed in on Titus's Square. The sounds of energetic b...
2024-10-09 01:26:11 +0000 UTC
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1.
Burning black blood splashed across stained white marble when Erak rammed the spear through the demon spawn’s guts. The creature screamed, conical teeth showing as its long talons scratched at the armor Erak had liberated. The screech of metal was loud and g...
2024-10-09 01:23:17 +0000 UTC
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So this is the cover for the first book! Huge shoutout to Misses the artist and my publishing house Shadow Light
2024-10-08 20:42:41 +0000 UTC
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14.
“I’m Zeke!” A voice boomed out from the crowd of shuffling around bodies and Santi watched as the crowd broke apart to let a slightly older boy walk out. He was younger than Santi’s current body, but it wasn’t by much. Tall and lean, borderline emac...
2024-10-07 03:10:06 +0000 UTC
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13.
Santi’s fingers brushed over the warm metal, heat emanating off the surface. A burst of pain and knowledge shot through his mind. A connectedness as his mind expanded, surpassing its limit as knowledge flowed through him like a rushing river.
2024-10-03 23:38:04 +0000 UTC
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12.
He really didn’t need to help them. The two women were like two goddess of war out on the battlefield, the peak Initiate level monsters and fighters failing to slow them as they massacred their way across the field. Santi watched in rapt appreciation as Chl...
2024-10-02 00:07:09 +0000 UTC
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11.
Slipping off of the overpass and into the town was easy enough. Everyone was busy fighting, slashing, stabbing, burning, and killing in an orgy of destruction that called to Santi. He forced his will to crush down the urges, focusing on their objectives as Ha...
2024-09-30 20:29:28 +0000 UTC
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10.
Finding the Pillar wasn’t difficult. The difficulty was in everything else was trying to find it. Mutated animals, monsters, and humans were all crawling out the woodwork and whatever hidey holes they had sequestered themselves in. Santi was forced to cast ...
2024-09-27 23:32:03 +0000 UTC
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9.
Santi watched as Duncan materialized ten feet to his side. Not from the pool of shadows at his feet, but rather a further away, slim sliver of shadow cast by a slight crest of the land. The plain faced man was dressed in a plain black sleeveless workout shirt ...
2024-09-27 01:02:15 +0000 UTC
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8.
They passed by the end of the road and split apart. Santi, Chloe, and Hana broke off from the group and started to head North. The countryside was nothing more than wilted and dead vegetation with little to see besides barren fields. The interstate was nothing...
2024-09-25 22:58:12 +0000 UTC
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7.
“To recap, there’s a horde of cursed people who came from over the border, down the mountains and are now spreading like an infection. We have the remnants of the traitors and those who were helping them somewhere to our North East, and you want to go look...
2024-09-23 20:04:13 +0000 UTC
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6.
The town burned behind them as Bianca’s cleansing flames consumed it all. Mom had helped drag their prisoner away from the strip of town while Santi patrolled the edges. [Gust] would send the fire screaming back in on itself rather than lett...
2024-09-23 19:03:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Seven: Ouch
Sweat pooled beneath Cassian as his body writhed out of his control. Every breath was short and shallow as he struggled to consume enough oxygen. They had thrown him in a small cabin and left him there, shuddering and shaking as if he had cont...
2024-09-21 02:02:04 +0000 UTC
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5.
Fire licked at the homes as Bianca’s cleansing flame grew to slowly encompass the house and then the others around it. Red and blue flames leapt from roof to roof, increasing in size and ferocity as the small pit stop of a town emptied itself out. There were...
2024-09-21 01:15:03 +0000 UTC
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4.
The long trunk of the monster twisted and curled inward and the distant figure’s screams were faint and hardly carried on the air. Blood dripped out of the monster’s trunk, dripping on the ground as it continued on its way toward the heart of the sma...
2024-09-20 01:05:34 +0000 UTC
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3.
A/N: I'm directionally challenged. The den is to the North west. The destroyed/danger is to the North East. I'm sorry I don't know how directions work.
The early summer heat had parched the surrounding countryside, turning once lush fields into barren, sun bak...
2024-09-18 01:03:53 +0000 UTC
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2.
“Damn, this is good Santi!” Cameron stated between heaped forkfuls of mashed potatoes. His plate, once a platter, was nearly cleared as he attacked the meal with an energetic zeal. All around him, those who had been Acolytes for a while, were eating with a...
2024-09-16 20:23:11 +0000 UTC
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1.
Grimv attacked with the ferocity of a feral badger. His axe sang a harmony of death as the sharp steel split the air in a discordant howl. Santi didn’t dance backwards for once, but met him on open ground. The morph blade twisted and struck, wily as a serpen...
2024-09-14 00:56:25 +0000 UTC
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59.
A/N: Chapter's really short, sorry. This is the final chapter of book 2 and we will be moving to Book 3 tomorrow
Naomi passed the straining plate over to Marcus, smiling graciously as her husband took it. Thick slabs of meat smothered in rich gravy, the...
2024-09-12 22:39:39 +0000 UTC
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