Chapter 119
I was cold. My body felt like I was left out in the snow naked. I was in the barn that I had arrived in this world. I was naked, and the air was freezing. My skin was goosebumped, and I felt like I was frozen solid, unable to move. I tried to force myself to move, and pain erupt...
2024-01-31 20:25:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 118 Aerial Ballet
The wyvern made the drake look small in comparison. Sebastian turned hard and low as he flew his drake among the scattered trees. The wyvern did not pursue but instead landed at the base of the tree where the summoner was. Konstantin and I used th...
2024-01-31 15:43:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 165 Gareth POV
Gareth woke early as he only needed two hours of sleep for a full rest. The tier one hasten dream ability had been awarded for his first Annual Tournament victory by means of a dungeon essence. To his disappointment, the Annuals had not been held since. &n...
2024-01-30 06:05:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 164
It had been just over a year since the Black Mauraders had attacked Skyholme. The Night Moon, controlled by the Black Mauraders, had passed overhead with no retribution from the organization. Each of the twenty-three moons in the Sphere was the size of a planet and had its own s...
2024-01-29 03:34:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 186 The Legacy
After many hardships, the Sylvan city ship Falffir had reached the deep space object they suspected was built by the Mavelolents and concealed by the quadrupeds. As they approached the dense mass, a rough metallic sphere of 4,980 kilometers was covered in the wr...
2024-01-28 06:11:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 135: Shared Dreaming
We all started to get accustomed to the persistent cold as it became the new normal. We sealed the doors to the small library as best we could and kept the five fires going in the offices. Part of my duties was to watch over Scholar Favian as he pag...
2024-01-27 03:36:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 134 All We Need is Time
Castile returned with the others over an hour later. Three specters had stumbled into the large library while we were gone, and they had been killing them repeatedly as they reconstituted, waiting for Castile to return with the kettle of souls. As...
2024-01-26 05:55:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 117
I followed Konstantin as he moved quickly through the trees. I knew he was experienced at this, but he seemed too aggressive—too excited. Why not wait for the company to catch up? I am sure Zyna could handle the summoner by herself. “There!” He whis...
2024-01-25 04:48:08 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the scouts returned, the men huddled near the center of the massive library. Konstantin and Mateo’s news that there were thousands more spectators under the city was not met with much cheerfulness. Mateo’s new runic elven blade was be...
2024-01-25 04:22:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 116
I started to walk with Konstantin when Zyna halted me, “Eryk, good job protecting me. Castile suggested I give you one of these as a reward.” She placed an essence in my hand, “Don’t get yourself killed,” she smiled and returned to talk with Castile, Delmar...
2024-01-24 19:11:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 169
The wheeled vehicles, each the size of two buses side by side, had parked outside the oasis. I sat on the lip of the well and kept positioning myself to appear as unthreatening as possible.
I was in my human form and wearing black combat fatigues. A thin person...
2024-01-24 06:48:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 163 Kiara (Interlude) POV Voted on by Readers
Kiara crouched low in the grass, her muscles tense. She could also sense the prey in the low grass assessing her back from inside its burrow. Her sister was far to her right, her black tail up in the air, twitching to attract...
2024-01-23 05:16:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 185 The Lull
While human-controlled space was engaged in endless battles for resources and control of strategic systems, the RIM worlds had a lull of peace. Millions of humans fled and scattered to the RIM worlds and beyond. The Brotherhood had checked human expansion, c...
2024-01-21 04:38:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 132: Glimmer of Hope
We had been in the library for most of the day, with the snow not letting up outside. The night was coming soon, and the windows of the library were darkening. They were not even real windows, just massive blocks of semi-transparent stone, probably q...
2024-01-20 01:49:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 131 The Library
The heavy, wet snow crunched under our feet as the discordant rhythm of our steps headed toward the western gate of Caelora. Adrian and Konstantin were out front and cut down another specter while Castile took its death essence. The dark walls of the city...
2024-01-18 23:59:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 115 Pig Roast
I had asked my question about the variety of giants to be rhetorical, but Maveith answered me anyway. “The Titans come in many varieties. There are the cloud and fog giants of the Dresimere Mountains. Then, the corrupted two-headed ettins, but you a...
2024-01-18 03:57:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 168 The Nomads
Sharn was not unattractive for an orc. Although my entire perception of attractiveness was changing the longer I was an incubus. Her naked body reminded me of an amateur weightlifter. She had nice feminine curves. I had even become accustomed to the ...
2024-01-18 03:04:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 114 Zyna, the Fire High Mage
I had been ordered to talk with Castile and the High Mage, who seemed familiar with each other. I walked down the hill from our camp, stepping between the stakes. Castile was a head shorter than the auburn-haired High Mage. They both tu...
2024-01-17 16:40:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 130
As I joined the company for breakfast, I didn’t feel immortal. Quite the opposite. Even with my slow aging active, I was constantly in danger being part of the legion. I realized I had become somewhat numb to a fear of injury and death—it was just part of m...
2024-01-17 01:53:23 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 162 Book Three Epilogue
I was inside my dimensional closet. It had grown substantially when it reached level twenty-three and received another evolution. The space had continued growing with my aether core as well. The space was now a twenty-five-foot cube and was ...
2024-01-16 05:25:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 161
My reunion with Aelyn had not gone as I had imagined. She looked and acted different than I remembered her. As I watched her, she was authoritative, confident, and focused. “Glint,” she yelled at the Minotaur, who snapped to face her. “I want everyo...
2024-01-15 01:58:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 184
The slow-burning of human-controlled space laid a lot of guilt on my conscience. Hundreds of millions were fleeing the central systems toward the Rim worlds. Admiral LaRoche’s Federation welcomed them with open arms as they typically brought resources in the form o...
2024-01-13 05:42:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 129 Traeliorn Kelran POV (Patreon Vote)
After arriving in the Telhian wilderness, Traeliorn left his apprentice Vaeril and the Ranger Raelia and flew north on the back of Kylma. The ice drake was a good mount and friend, she moved with his body and did most of the work as they...
2024-01-12 04:49:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 128 Dire Feelings
The dreamscape looked as I left it—I was half expecting to find strangers inside for some reason. Oscar greeted me with his bobbed tail wagging emphatically. I petted the excitable Australian Shepherd. I continued the dog therapy by talking to h...
2024-01-11 23:14:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 113 - Sebastian's Entrance
The march on the road was mostly orderly. We kept three men abreast, spaced ten feet apart, with Castile, Adrian, and Delmar leading. We passed refugees headed to Sobral every few hours. The refugees found the most interesting thing about...
2024-01-11 02:14:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 127 The Black Blade
I followed Konstantin down to the training yard, carrying my pack and two blades so I would be ready to leave when the company marched. It was still dark when we arrived. The training yard was adjacent to the Citadel barracks, where the rest of the co...
2024-01-11 01:50:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 112 Raelia POV (Voted on by Patrons)
Raelia walked the promenade in the King’s Palace, following the mage. After being sent home by her brother from Macha, she spent two days recovering in the Rookery. She had been mucking nests and showing the newest class of Griffin ...
2024-01-10 18:22:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 167 The Oasis
The temperature had plummeted after the sun had set. I removed and gave the magical sleeping bags from my mind space for Aurora and Bedelia. The bags drew a trickle of the occupant’s aether to keep them warm.
The two were sleeping as the Molten Fist...
2024-01-10 01:42:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 160
I breathed relief as the black dragon ended its attempt to intercept when the Maelstrom altered its course away from the Black Spire. There was no way the dragon could match the speed. The Sky Wraith was proceeding to slow crash into the orchards a distance away, its...
2024-01-08 04:58:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 159
We waited in silence as the minutes ticked by—my small group across from the hundred Bricios and the Mage Hunter, Devious. Relik seemed content to wait everything out. At this point, I was willing to trust his judgment. I was concerned as I could hear explosi...
2024-01-07 00:00:20 +0000 UTC View Post