Chapter 124
Hung in Desires
Silence reigned between two silhouettes who cast long shadows that warped into the thin and branching trees. Roaring flame shone as brightly as it could yet still struggled to alight the drowning darkness of nature that surrounded it as we...
2022-01-25 21:29:56 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! Apologies for going AWOL for a while.
Had a close death in the family so I was fairly busy taking care of the arrangements and decided to take a couple of extra days to gather myself. I hope you understand. I'll try to write a few extra chapters over the remainder of t...
2022-01-24 20:46:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 123
Breath Held
She appeared like a ghost, with no signs or foretelling noises. Appeared like a phantom and stood silent amidst the ghastly corpses. Sylas forced a grin, realizing once and for all just how far away from her he was. She didn’t actively embod...
2022-01-24 20:42:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 122
The Dead May Die
“It’s here,” Sylas came to a halt and warned, pointing at the invisible membrane between the snowed-on trees. Agnes paused next to him, her eyes veering toward the direction and alighting.
“It’s fascinating,” she mumbled...
2022-01-13 22:23:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 121
Chasms Form and Chasms Close
Sylas found himself back in the forest, Agnes walking by his side, still on the half-speaking terms with him since he refused to tell her what happened, as they made their way toward the north. He continued to observe her care...
2022-01-12 22:49:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 120
Halo of Divinity
“W-what are you looking at?” Agnes asked awkwardly, finally having had enough. Sylas had been intently staring at her for almost an hour now, the look in his eyes extremely strange. “O-oh, I know! You have finally been entranced wit...
2022-01-10 22:45:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 119
Grown, Though Still Heart-Driven
The trees seemed to split into a path, Sylas mused. It was different from his memory, though, admittedly, it had been a while since he last trekked beyond the wall into the northern hellscape. The night, however, was still...
2022-01-07 22:12:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 118
To Slay the Unkillable
Strange silence permeated the dining table, one that Sylas and Agnes seemed entirely impervious to as they continued to gobble up the food. On the other hand, Valen, Derrek, and even Ryne only nibbled, spending most of their time ex...
2022-01-06 22:01:19 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 117
Undue Wrongs
Sylas and Agnes sat side by side, their heads deep in the tomes of history, sighs of exasperation echoing out more frequently with each passing minute. They had been at it for weeks now but to no avail. Nothing new or of note was uncovered an...
2022-01-04 22:14:55 +0000 UTC View Post
one of my own year's resolutions is to get better at drawing and painting
so, here we go, the first piece of 2022
Chapter 116
Pillar Begets the Weeping Spirits
She blew into her hands despite not needing to. She was never cold, not once in her life. In fact, she was never anything except normal--being burnt or chilled escaped her, the sensations as distant as that of love. There...
2022-01-03 22:51:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 115
Legacy of an Immortal
The two were back on the road once more, their footsteps quickly erased by the falling snow, leaving no trace they ever walked through. Nonetheless, the winds carried their voices forth into the reaches beyond their sight, adrift. 2021-12-30 22:21:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 114
Heart Puncture
Congratulations on completing the second quest of the Heartseeker Mantra!
Your reward: Heart Puncture.
Heart Puncture: superimpose ten strikes into a singularity, unleashing a strike that cannot be blocked,...
2021-12-29 23:50:17 +0000 UTC View PostHohohoho, hope you guys enjoyed today's chapter!
Holiday season's upon us, and I want to take a moment to express my deepest gratitude to you all for being the fuel to my fire. I wish you all the best of the best, to spend the last of this year happily, and to come into the next fresh...
2021-12-24 23:19:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 113
A Stroke of Death
Sylas held his breath, his expression a grimace of pain. His muscles were flexed taut, veins pulsating like worms, his skin steaming as though there was a fire roaring beneath it. Agnes stood to the side, biting her lower lip, eyes full ...
2021-12-24 23:15:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 112
A Little Bit Broken
“AAAAAGGGHHHHHH!!!” Sylas didn’t linger about too much after catching up to the peak of his Way, immediately heading for the library. This time around, he had a clear goal in mind: putting ‘faces’ to the names the ‘Son of A...
2021-12-23 22:41:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 111
Son of Anur
The room went still, with Sylas standing in shock over not being attacked by anyone after he killed both of the women. The man that stood ‘guard’ next to them disappeared in a whisk of smoke, vanishing from their sight as though he was nev...
2021-12-21 22:11:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 110
Shades of Corruption
Amidst the piles of snow that lay adrift the drylands, a tiny patch of fire burned, its smoke filtering out into the gray, open skies. Surrounding the fire was a snowless patch of land, though barren of life still, with two figures si...
2021-12-20 21:00:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 109
Oddities Make a Man
A strange atmosphere surrounded a dining table, with only one among the five seated seemed entirely oblivious to it, diving deep into bland-tasting porridge, drinking it down with some beer. The four others, Valen, Ryne, Derrek, and th...
2021-12-17 22:13:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 108
Those Who Sing
The two identical-looking women stepped forward amidst the surrounding sea of souls, both their expressions exactly the same--ones of indifference and frigidity. Behind them, the tiny boy followed, his expression unchanging as well. There w...
2021-12-16 21:06:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 107
Uncanny Valley
Sylas stood at the front of the village, looking at the thatched roofs that were finally coming into light under the shine of the rising, morning sun. The eerily silent village seemed to wake at that moment, with the faintest sounds of the ...
2021-12-15 23:59:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 106
Where Ill is Born
The story that followed was both ordinary and yet strange, a woven tale of dualities that painted the state of the village beyond perfectly. According to the two women, the village was founded around a hundred years ago or so by a pair o...
2021-12-14 00:19:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 105
In Light We Trust
The boy was silent, his short, rapid footsteps confident despite the fact that they walked through the village directly, down its main roads. The solitary source of light was the one of the moon, occasionally brighter, though mostly dimm...
2021-12-12 21:33:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 104
Hush, Hush
They’d finally made it, Sylas realized. After a journey that felt a year-long, they stood at the far-edges of an asymmetric village lain gently between two forests, one of the same trees that stuck up far behind them, and another with cradlin...
2021-12-11 20:11:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 103
Fire Which Doesn’t Burn
It snowed still, even what felt like just a few weeks before the beginning of the spring for Sylas. Deep in the forest, surrounded by the countless trees, their green canopy had been replaced by white, building floating igloos wh...
2021-12-10 20:35:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 102
Dazzled by the Winter’s Snow
It was different. Surreal. The way the world bent and bowed infuriated Sylas. It did nothing but stood it his path like a wall without ladders, barring him entry. And yet, for her, it not only bore ladders, but gates and doo...
2021-12-07 22:46:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 101
Stranger Tales Unspoken
The fire continued to burn while the strange woman nibbled away at some rabbit meat. Sylas, in the meantime, drank some wine, marooning the thoughts of the doe and the crow and trying to clear his head. As for who the strange woman...
2021-12-06 23:52:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 100
All is Cold But That Which Burns
“Huh...” Sylas exclaimed softly as he came to a halt, his eyes veering downward from the hill to the vast dip where a frozen river cut through the world. It seemed like a bridge connecting two opposing mountain ranges,...
2021-12-05 21:06:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 99
Blood for Blood
Sylas spat to the side, drawing out a sword and standing still. Forty feet from him, he saw the armored shadows creeping forward, their daggers shimmering within the shade cast by the massive city of the dead. Focusing on them, he suddenly ...
2021-12-04 23:28:32 +0000 UTC View Post