It wasn’t until late the following night that the trio left the area.
Their injuries weren’t nearly as fatal as those of their opponents, but they were still quite serious. Micky’s wings were full of small holes, making it difficult for him to fly. And rather painful. While N...
2025-01-08 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post‘Holy shit… Whatever she did actually worked…’
Percy struggled to believe it, but the evidence was right there, in his Status. His host had actually obtained a trait from him! Did that mean his clone qualified as a spectral fiend?
...
2025-01-08 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostPercy swung both scythes at Rambert, hoping to trap him within their lethal embrace. The man leapt above the closing stranglehold with relative ease, before trying to land a blow of his own.
But Percy wasn’t deterred so easily. Letting go of his weapons, he used a third scythe to divert t...
2025-01-07 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostPercy listened to the girl talk to her father for a while, trying to piece together the situation from her words alone. Sadly, he couldn’t tap into her ears due to their weaker connection, so he couldn’t access the man’s side of the conversation.
Apparently, she was under the impressi...
2025-01-07 07:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post‘Those people we interrogated weren’t kidding about Rambert. The guy is an actual monster…’ Percy thought, his scythe catching nothing but empty air again.
Had it been Broose facing him – or any other Green, really – they would have long been reduced ...
2025-01-06 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostPercy scanned the sea of souls, looking for his next host. Having grown more proficient at drawing the concealment runes, he was ready to return to the Vault for his next lesson.
Initially, he’d thought to look for an Orange or Green body this time. According to Gabe, higher grade challen...
2025-01-06 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“It was you, wasn’t it? Behind all of it.” Rambert asked, though he could already guess the answer.
Travelling to Bogside town, he and his companions hadn’t really cared much about Nesha and Percy. They’d heard of them, of course, but they’d thought the two were just a front –...
2025-01-05 07:01:07 +0000 UTC View PostArchibald contemplated the latest reports as he radiated dense life mana from his palm, focusing it on his son’s stump. Even for a powerful Violet core, regrowing a Blue’s arm would take several hours. And that was taking into account his more sophisticated approach, chiselled to perfection a...
2025-01-05 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostGrian tried rushing after Percy and Rambert, but Nesha would be damned if she allowed that to happen. Not after all the trouble they had gone through to split them up in the first place. Remaining hidden behind a tree, she moved her butterflies in front of him, blocking his path. At the same time...
2025-01-04 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostOnly one of the Greens had the bloodline. Not that it mattered much as neither Elaine nor Gawain had an easy time approaching their enemies. A long trail of flames swam through the air, resembling an earthworm, burning holes through the trees’ trunks wherever it passed. It chased the two of the...
2025-01-04 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Run. Don’t look back.” Percy whispered, letting go of Nesha’s hand.
He didn’t even glance at her as she bolted off. His eyes were still glued to their remaining enemies. Taking a deep breath, he finally pushed the mana in his channels past the point of no return, activating Synch...
2025-01-03 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostElaine was trekking through the Whistling Woods with a few others. The soft tunes of the oblong cones were more than a little nostalgic. They made her think back fondly to that time with Percy all those years ago. She hadn’t been here all that much since then…
‘Those were some pea...
2025-01-03 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“How long till they get here?” Percy asked, forcing himself to calm down.
While he and Nesha were expecting two enemies to arrive, they had prepared for more. Their ambush might be a great deal trickier to pull off now, but they could do it – as long as the...
2025-01-02 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostA terrible tune pierced through the eerie silence of the bog. It had been going for a while, the amateurish melody driving even the owls and bats away from the area. Had somebody been unfortunate enough to walk nearby, they would have certainly torn their ears out by now.
Suddenly, a mound ...
2025-01-02 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWith steady hands, Percy distilled the turquoise gel, pouring the Aurora Dew into the vial, filling nearly a quarter of it. And this was the third one this batch. Two more rested on the desk, filled and corked.
“Man, I love these eyes so darn much!” he grinned.
Besides his stash l...
2025-01-01 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostOrin struggled to keep a straight face as he watched his elders – wise Violet cores who had been doing this for even longer than him, fumble their way around their cauldrons. They all understood – even better than him – that deattuning the elixirs twice in a row wouldn’t give them the res...
2024-12-31 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe fields shone in all sorts of vibrant colours beneath the bright sunlight. It wasn’t wheat nor any other mundane crop that was planted here, however. Instead, it was a strange magical fern, glittering in a faint Red within one’s Mana Sense. Its leaves ranged from pale blues to fiery reds, ...
2024-12-30 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe troll’s second attendant – the one Percy hadn’t personally fought – rushed out to tend to its leader’s injuries. Pulling a few of the verdant mushrooms out of its body, it brought them to the king’s mouth before crushing them into paste.
Percy didn’t interrupt, partly beca...
2024-12-29 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe troll king scanned Percy from head to toe for several seconds, seemingly contemplating his words. Eventually, he appeared to have made his mind up, nodding with determination.
Accepting that he was no longer a match for the human as he was, he decided to finally let go of his pride. Fir...
2024-12-28 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostA boulder rapidly enlarged in Percy’s pupils, but he ignored it, allowing it to pass through him harmlessly. Naturally, it was just a projection, arriving seconds before the actual attack. Greater Foresight made the troll king’s telegraphed swings laughably easy to dodge, though evading them ...
2024-12-27 07:02:11 +0000 UTC View PostPercy cracked a smile at the absurdity of the idea. Everyone on Remior wanted to get their hands on the secret behind the Aurora Dew. The thought of sharing it with a tribe of trolls in the middle of nowhere was as rebellious as it was hilarious.
‘But I’m not going to do that.’ 2024-12-26 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Over the next several hours, Percy and the troll fought many more rounds. Every time the creature’s mana ran out, he gave it a few minutes to refill it. At the same time, the troll consumed one of its verdant mushrooms once every few breaks, to remove its exhaustion too.
As for Percy, he...
2024-12-25 07:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostBefore Synchronization was even done activating, Percy rummaged through his sack, hastily putting as many pieces of his armour on as he could manage. Not that he wasn’t confident beating a few Yellow demi-humans without it, but there wasn’t any harm in playing it safe. Regardless, he only got...
2024-12-24 07:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostPercy wasn’t sure if the central area of the swamp had a name. He certainly hadn’t heard the townsfolk mention one if it did, and he was confident the trolls couldn’t give it one either. From what he’d seen, the creatures could only communicate by gestures, grunts and growls. Thus, at the...
2024-12-23 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post“A little help here would be nice!” Nesha yelled, capturing Percy’s attention.
Only now did he realize that more trolls had gathered, about a dozen of them surrounding them in total. At least, the newcomers were all Reds, only the first two capable of casting magic. Still, they put a ...
2024-12-22 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Do you think this place will recover after we leave?” Nesha asked, her voice tinged with uncertainty.
“Sure.” Percy shrugged.
Micky rarely hunted the Red or Orange beasts of the swamp. He only ever indulged in them if he failed to find something else to eat. The lower-grade a...
2024-12-21 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostUpon seeing the new Decree take shape in his Status, Percy was ecstatic and, most of all, relieved.
The weeks of blindly brewing pills in an air-tight cooking pot at the bottom of an alien ocean, and the several hours spent in agony trying to repair his Status…
It had all been worth...
2024-12-20 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you sure this is a good idea?” Nesha asked as Percy wrapped the bloody garments around a large stone, tossing it in the murky swamp. A few bubbles rose to the surface, releasing a putrid stench of rot upon popping.
The group had already reached Bogside town, though they hadn’t en...
2024-12-20 07:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostPercy had no idea what to expect from this latest clone of his, but whatever it was, it had to be a lot, right?
And, well... Reality didn’t disappoint.
The silver meteor punched through Percy’s soul like a molten dagger, leaving him gasping for air as memories, pain, and pressure ...
2024-12-19 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostPercy limped over to the others as he dragged a corpse with each hand, his expression gloomy. He was glad he and Micky had won the fight without casualties, but it would have been better to avoid it entirely.
‘At some point, House Tantalus is going to notice their people are missing...
2024-12-19 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post