Jerin slumped against the portcullis of the checkpoint gate, taking a deep breath from his pipe, then exhaling over the course of several seconds. Smoke billowed out before him, slowly fading in the evening air.
“You know that shit’ll kill you, right?” Another soldier said,...
2024-01-14 05:57:30 +0000 UTC View PostLeif sat at the edge of the village, partially to keep watch, and partially to focus on the magical ring Samil had looted from the bandit leader. The process of attuning to a magical item wasn’t overly complicated, it just took time and focus. As the minutes ticked by the connectio...
2024-01-12 06:02:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe atmosphere within the village was oppressive and dour. Men, women and children sat or stood in groups, some trying to move their stolen belongings back into their ransacked homes with others staring blankly into space. As the tension slowly broke many of the villagers broke down ...
2024-01-10 06:06:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe impact from the bandit’s heavy blow rang down Leif’s arm, the palm of his hand cracking slightly from the sheer force behind it. But he didn’t flinch, in fact by the horrified looks and the quickly spreading shock and panic he could sense rippling through the armed men the ...
2024-01-07 06:13:32 +0000 UTC View PostMost people in his situation would likely relish the position of power he held over the people he was currently pointing a sword at. Or at least, that's what Sarb thought as he ushered a bunch of dirty farmers out of their homestead point first. He wrinkled his large nose at the smell ...
2024-01-05 06:05:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe functionality of [Healing Palm] has been regained as you have restored its structural integrity!
Class [Adept] can once again be levelled up!
In his mind’s eye, Leif watched as the separated chunks of the [Healing Palm] skill finall...
2024-01-03 07:12:14 +0000 UTC View PostIt was with more than a little trepidation that Leif deactivated [Tree of Respite], allowing him to slip from the trunk like a stone breaking the surface of a pond. Light and sound and smell all struck him at once, the clarity of his post evolution senses striking him all at once. He...
2023-12-31 06:09:53 +0000 UTC View PostEvolving felt amazing, and Leif hadn’t yet left the comforting embrace of the domain tree. He felt something different about his connection to the tree, as if his relationship with the part of himself he had severed had changed. It didn’t take him more than a moment to r...
2023-12-29 05:43:20 +0000 UTC View PostTo gain a class you required a certain aptitude or affinity for the power it would offer. The description of his current class mentioned his deviation from what a typical blight monster would do, and Leif had assumed that simply acting against the norm had been why he had been given ...
2023-12-27 06:18:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe world faded around Leif, all details, sensations and stimulus falling away into the background. The spriggan found himself standing in an empty place, whenever he tried to focus on anything but himself he felt his attention be pulled back in.
He stood, no longer in tree for...
2023-12-23 06:17:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter prescript:
I may have lied when I said this chapter was entirely focused on the class evolution. Turns out I forgot I was writing a litrpg and need to do some house cleaning before then.
(its next chapter 100% on god on god fr fr no cap)
Ramb...
2023-12-22 05:45:29 +0000 UTC View PostUndead poured through the cylindrical chamber, running, scrambling and crawling as they moved along the walls, the strange nature of the room allowing them to defy gravity. Hundreds emerged from the darkness, Leif could even see them on what from his perspective was the ceiling.
<... 2023-12-20 06:23:20 +0000 UTC View PostA dozen spectres phased through the stone walls, floor and ceiling. Their translucent limbs were extended out towards him, their mouths stretched into feral snarls of agony and fury. Leif jerked back in surprise, raising his arms, both real and conjured to defend himself. Something col...
2023-12-17 10:48:46 +0000 UTC View PostIt took Leif seven hours to reach the temple he had once used to escape the very place he was trying to reenter. This was because, to put it nicely, he took the scenic route. Due to this, a good quarter of Pherin’s streets were now free of undead. Bones and dust littered promenades...
2023-12-15 06:07:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe landscape north of Far-reach was not what Leif had remembered. Which was only natural, deathly energy seeped into the very land, rotting it from within. It was a sombering, almost melancholy emotion that overcame Leif as he passed valleys blighted by undeath, forests barren of al...
2023-12-13 06:46:30 +0000 UTC View PostLani considered her short life to have been one strange series of coincidences and bizarre happenings. Perhaps the most strange of these being the fact she could consider at all. She remembered the moments leading up to her evolution clearly, the nomads and the animals that followed ...
2023-12-10 06:11:52 +0000 UTC View PostLeif watched as Ram took a swig from his seemingly endless bottle, then the goatman handed the bottle to him. He took the bottle and eyed it suspiciously, it was normal alcohol, this wasn’t the first time Ram had offered Leif his bottle in the past hour. The spriggan tilted back hi...
2023-12-08 06:13:09 +0000 UTC View PostAmber blood pooled from the wound where a metre long jagged spike of ice had punctured Leif’s torso and punched clean out the other side. There was a finger deep gash in the side of his head, both his legs were missing to various degrees of severity and one of his arms was mangled ...
2023-12-06 06:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe elemental loomed above him even though it was still fifty or so metres away. All around the valley the piles of ice that littered the ground were coming to life, whether it was because the reconstituting monsters had detected the being who had almost killed them and were coming a...
2023-12-03 06:31:31 +0000 UTC View Post“Now how the hells did you awaken before level fifty?”
Ram’s question hung in the air, as if by merely being spoken it charged the environment with static electricity. Leif wasn’t overly surprised Ram had figured him out, but he was surprised the goat cared eno...
2023-12-01 06:30:37 +0000 UTC View PostLeif trudged along a hillside, he maintained his focus on a ball of wood that was constantly being reshaped and moulded into different configurations. When the wood began to destabilise and his manipulations became too much for the object to handle, Leif would send a trickle of heali...
2023-11-29 05:46:38 +0000 UTC View PostLeif stared dumbly at where the newcomer lounged next to the fire. The horned man was dressed in what looked like a dozen different animal pelts that had been stitched together, and he was absolutely covered in dirt and grime. Splotches of blood and less identifiable things stained h...
2023-11-26 05:24:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe supply crate lay on its side, a faded and weatherworm symbol was painted onto its side though Leif couldn’t make out the details. He sunk clawed fingers into the wooden exterior and lifted the container, carrying it to where he was gathering all the leftover supplies he could f...
2023-11-24 05:02:10 +0000 UTC View PostLeif had spent three days trudging through the wilderness after having departed from Far-reach. During his exploration he had finally seen the world in daylight. The landscape was withered and desolate. The malevolent presence brought about by deathly energy had corrupted and blighte...
2023-11-22 05:07:11 +0000 UTC View PostLeif stared down at the campfire, if he had a face capable of emoting it would possess a look of contemplation, perhaps consternation. This hadn’t been here during the battle, for one it was in the middle of what had once been a commonly walked path. For another, the area surroundi...
2023-11-19 05:42:04 +0000 UTC View PostCommencing skill fusion!
Fusion of skills [Grounded Stance II] and [Enduring Grit] 1/100%
Leif could have taken the first skill fusion in any number of different directions. He had some fairly wild ideas and some potentially crazy aspirat...
2023-11-17 05:39:22 +0000 UTC View PostNew class skills available! [Enduring Grit] or [Power Strike]!
New class skills available! [Vitality Tether] or [Wave of Restoration]!
The first choice was simple. [Enduring Grit] was an enhancement skill, almost certainly with the [body]...
2023-11-15 05:25:43 +0000 UTC View PostLevel up! Class [Amber Blight Spriggan] is now level 16!
For defeating a host of undead in defence of the living you have gained a level!
+1 to [Might] +5 free points!
Level up! Class [Amber Blight Spriggan]...
2023-11-12 05:36:28 +0000 UTC View PostA tree, twelve and a half metres tall with smooth ivory bark topped with a canopy of vivid crimson leaves stands at the north most point of a rocky bluff, said bluff is south of its much larger and less isolated sibling, and both contain the remains of stone and wood structures devas...
2023-11-10 06:23:38 +0000 UTC View PostLeif’s eyelids fluttered open revealing an open expanse of pure blue sky. He felt the breeze as it rustled through vibrant, finger length grass, the warmth of a brilliant golden sun radiating down on him. He lay there, unmoving for what felt like an eternity.
The sun fell, th...
2023-11-08 05:05:40 +0000 UTC View Post