The forest is dangerous this deep inside the heart of it, at least according to Jubilee who Fresh sticks next to. Despite that, they haven’t seen much of anything during their travel. The forest stretches on and on. It’s not entirely featureless, but it’s as good as so, in a sense. Every pa...
2021-06-11 14:29:12 +0000 UTC View PostMy arm spasms as I feel a vibration run through my body, like an impulse. Like a surge as the electrical current, as the magical energies of the dungeon try to move me, try to fill me with their buzz, as my eyes, frantic and wide, scan the world around me as I walk. Goo fills the crevices of my g...
2021-06-11 06:47:05 +0000 UTC View PostI screwed up the uploads and we skipped a chapter. This is supposed to be chapter 255. Yesterday's chapter is 256.
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Something is following me, following us through the forest as we walk.
It’s a weird forest, it’s not l...
2021-06-11 05:44:34 +0000 UTC View PostA gently blowing wind pushes through the forest, the warm current almost whistling in a sing-song manner as it presses through the trees, gliding along the sharp edges of the leaves dangling high above them. It is early in the morning and the four of them are walking again, still heading south fo...
2021-06-10 15:51:30 +0000 UTC View PostPanting, heaving, I stand on my knees and look down at the mutilated mushroom body down on the ground before me. The bright chunks are spread over the forest floor, painting it as if there had been a violent, bloody carnage here. I hate mushrooms. They’re gross. All of my problems always seem t...
2021-06-10 14:39:12 +0000 UTC View PostFresh covers her mouth as she lets out a loud yawn, doing her best to suppress it so that she doesn’t wake up her friends. Jubilee and Basil are laying on the grass around the small fire-pit, both of them having long since fallen asleep. The lantern has hung itself on a branch and floats there ...
2021-06-09 16:30:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe water of the river rushes past them with a steady, strong flow. It is resoundingly quiet however, as the crashing noise seems to be absorbed by the densely packed forest surrounding them on all sides. It is close to becoming dark again and the four of them have opted to stop here for a while....
2021-06-08 09:19:07 +0000 UTC View PostI can’t help but find it a little ironic as I rise up the staircase, listening to the thudding of metal boots from up far above me as I pursue the hero-party. Those dummies apparently think that I’m ahead of them. I suppose there’s a lesson here somewhere about… I dunno, paying attention ...
2021-06-08 06:38:17 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s so cute!” says Fresh, leaning forward to look at the little green creature that is wiggling itself out of the hollow tree trunk. Feeling her presence looming over it, the small, gelatinous body puffs itself out wide, stretching itself thin but much wider, as it tries to enlarge its ap...
2021-06-07 10:19:53 +0000 UTC View Post“L-“ I narrow my eyes, staring at the password. “Llll-“ My tongue presses against the roof of my mouth, but I can’t say the word that is written before me. Truth is, I don’t really know how to read. But you already knew that, guy. It’s not like it’s embarrassing or anything, there...
2021-06-07 06:43:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Let me go! LET ME GO!” yells Basil, kicking and flailing like Fresh had done so before. The priestess’ fists strike against the large metal helmet of the man from the sect, who lets out a disgruntled sigh and jolts straight upright, jostling both of them back into place on his shoulders. 2021-06-06 10:27:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Come the hour, come the day, the moment that I breach the surface and tear my way through the guts of the world, come the instant that I rip my claws through the wet, bloody muck of the surface, tearing my way out, come then, I will be able to die satisfied. I kind of don’t even want to live a ...
2021-06-06 07:10:11 +0000 UTC View PostTango walks through the valley. A small, frozen river runs along their right-hand side that the two of them follow. The cliffs on either side of them rise up into the distance to create this passage that they’re in.
“Are we there yet?”
“What?” asks Tang...
2021-06-05 11:37:21 +0000 UTC View PostThey aren't welcome in the north anymore and are in great danger if they continue to stay here. The four of them must find a new place to try and call home. But they'll soon need to make a decision. Which direction should they go, in their attempt to find a new home and a new place to reopen the ...
2021-06-05 09:02:10 +0000 UTC View PostFresh flies back as the two soft hands press against her body and shove her back with a violent push. The girl yelps as she flies backwards out of the fountain, her bottom hitting the inside stone rim of the basin, as she tips back and flops over, falling to the dirt with her back, her legs still...
2021-06-05 08:51:09 +0000 UTC View PostI feel a chill.
A cold sensation runs along my spine, rising to my skull and my body buzzes with a quiet energy, my bones feel tense. If I had hairs on my arms, I’m sure they would be standing on end, but for what reason?
I look around, looking back at the cloc...
2021-06-05 06:28:01 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m sorry,” says Fresh quietly.
“Shut up,” replies Jubilee in a loud, sharp tone.
Fresh isn’t sure for how long they’ve been running down the underground tunnel which is lined with dozens, if not hundreds of her handmade lanterns. They never sold t...
2021-06-04 15:09:56 +0000 UTC View PostTick, tick, tick, tick.
A heavy thudding beat resounds around floor forty-six as I stand atop the large, horizontally spinning gear. The beat of each vibration of the mechanical heart rattling my armor as I stand there, looking out over the mechanical floor before me. Dozens, hun...
2021-06-04 08:25:43 +0000 UTC View PostFresh presses herself against the window, swiping it away, not sure what ability she presses on as she simply tries to remove it as fast as she can from the world.
“WITCH!” yells a voice from the crowd and the entire wall of shields that held steadfast against the wave of fis...
2021-06-03 11:25:40 +0000 UTC View PostSomething crunches beneath my boot as I walk through the rubble and destruction that makes up floor forty-seven. Looking down at the thing beneath me, I lift my leg up and step off of the crushed minotaur skull. It was crushed before I got here, I swear!
I just kind of crushed it...
2021-06-03 06:39:40 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s ridiculous thinks Fresh, as she leans back against the broken wall behind herself. As she feels the sum total of all of her efforts crumbling beneath her backwards facing palms that press against the broken wood. This city. These people…
These ‘people’.
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Darkness surrounds me as all I hear is the incredible crushing roar of the tidal-wave crashing over the entire floor, crashing over my body and swallowing me entirely. I grip on to the lance as tightly as I can, feeling the rushing movement around me as I am swallowed whole by the surge of the bl...
2021-06-02 07:06:58 +0000 UTC View PostWith a heavy step the man from the witch’s sect presses forward, the ice of the golem’s arm cracking as he leverages the sword to the side, sending wet crystal splinters flying off in all directions. The golem roars in an agonized fury, as its arm breaks off entirely just a second later. The ...
2021-06-01 09:06:42 +0000 UTC View PostIs this our third fight?
Our fifth?
Or the thousandth?
Sparks crash around the world, a fiery light flashing out as the radiant embers spiral wildly away from us, crashing towards the churning black-water beneath us where they fall to be extingui...
2021-06-01 06:29:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe lashing vampire swipes out towards them, the pale skin of its tautly pulled face stretching far too far to the sides, as it lashes towards Jubilee who Fresh pulls away in that last second, knocking both of them off balance. The two of them hurtle down to the right, falling to the cobblestones...
2021-05-31 11:14:57 +0000 UTC View PostHas there ever been something that you wanted to say, but you were too afraid to say it?
I drift downwards, pulled towards the bottom of the black ocean as the heavy weight of my metal shell pulls me down beneath the crushing depths. As the world shakes and erupts around me, blac...
2021-05-31 06:47:06 +0000 UTC View PostJubilee and Fresh stand together upstairs in Jubilee’s bedroom and Fresh sets down the large cauldron of rebirth, with the ice-golem core floating inside of it. The two of them take a deep breath at the same time to relax as they feel the gentle, cool air drifting off of the little pebble of ic...
2021-05-30 10:58:53 +0000 UTC View PostI hop across the wet platform which sinks down into the roaring water beneath me. Lots of water floors in the dungeon lately.
The segmented section of stone pushes down into the wet beneath me, displacing it before splashing back up as I leap off of the square construction. You k...
2021-05-30 06:32:27 +0000 UTC View PostThere is (currently) next to no business in summer after the initial morning rush. What should they do with their business hours? =)
2021-05-29 16:16:08 +0000 UTC View PostAfter dropping off the anqa and the cart at the church, Basil apparently sprinted back as fast as she could, as evidenced by her heavy panting by the time she arrives, together with the sweat wicking on her skin.
Fresh and Basil handle the morning rush together as Jubilee leaves ...
2021-05-29 16:11:32 +0000 UTC View Post