After the trouble we ran into the night before, I had learned a valuable lesson. No Shattered could be underestimated, unless I had Observe’d them and even then, it wasn’t a certain thing. It could very well be that there would eventually be Shattered completely specialised in speed, capable ...
2022-12-17 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostCleaning myself with Darkness-Magic was incredibly weird. On one hand, it took insane amounts of Astral Power. Without Overflow, I was barely able to conjure enough of the all-devouring Darkness I used to cover one of my hands, and using Overflow, cleaning more than one arm at a time was exhausti...
2022-12-16 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostWhile I recovered from the strenuous act of conjuring my first weapon, I considered my options. The Shuttle would make for an excellent ranged weapon but the brittleness was worrying. My Ice Magic allowed me to hold the weapon together but if I wanted to use a similar weapon in melee, as somethin...
2022-12-14 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Silva and I finally made it back to the abandoned building we had taken as our home, I let out a sigh of relief. After the fight against the three more powerful Shattered, I had healed her, my Blood Rune Mastery jumping to four in the process and once that was done, we had stuck to the shado...
2022-12-12 16:59:25 +0000 UTC View PostOn our way back to our hideout, Silva and I kept destroying Shattered, trying to gain as many EXP as possible. The task had almost become rote, the Shattered quickly ceasing to pose a challenge to us, causing the speed of our advance to diminish. It made me wonder, would we have to start hunting ...
2022-12-10 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAs the night continued, we luckily were spared more earthquakes or similar troubles. Only more Shattered, many more of them, falling by our feet. It was a pure grind, we had a target-rich environment, no competition and a desperate need to get stronger, driving us into a killing frenzy that would...
2022-12-09 17:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostAs I have been writing Wandered Off, especially trying to write the great reveal of Dani's memory-troubles, I realised more and more that I made a fundamental error. I even know where that error is coming from, how it came to be, but that didn't mean I know how to cleverly fix it.
The probl...
2022-12-08 13:02:04 +0000 UTC View PostHunting with a partner was so much more comfortable than alone. It added a wonderful margin of safety, allowing me to focus on magically striking the Shattered while Silva was guarding me at my side, warning me of Shattered that were hiding out of sight and barrelling them over when they tried to...
2022-12-07 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostWith each step I took, the mist became denser. At first, I was able to vaguely see the outlines of trees but after a few steps, those outlines faded and even the ground beneath my feet seemed to blur, vanishing in the mist. It was as if I was walking within a thick cloud, even the texture I could...
2022-12-06 20:40:04 +0000 UTC View PostMaking my way out of the building, my face twisted into a scowl. While the sun was gone, covered by a combination of thick clouds and the planet itself, as it was setting somewhere in the far distance, those same clouds sent down a drizzle of cold rain. The cold didn’t really bother me, even wi...
2022-12-05 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostThere was something uniquely spooky about wandering the forests around Snowpoint City on my own. Most of the time, it was eerily quiet and the few moments it was not, I always had to be vigilant that the noise wasn’t a precursor for an attack.
During my first day, I noticed that I was sta...
2022-12-04 17:26:44 +0000 UTC View PostOnce my Darkness Rune Mastery was back, I began the slightly more painful process of regaining my Blood Magic. The initial runes there had to do with the simplest processes of healing and harm, of staunching a bleeding wound and of splattering the blood out. The foundational rune of it all, simil...
2022-12-03 16:59:03 +0000 UTC View PostMy sleep was uneasy, with nightmares, bittersweet dreams of Sigmir and the situation all around me all conspiring to keep me from getting rest. Distant screams ripped me from a light slumber more than once, while images of a forest burning down around Adra and Rai, with both of them screaming in ...
2022-12-02 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostClosing yet another book, I let out a soft sigh. Next to me, Aura was quietly meditating, his eyes opening from time to time to glance at me. Over the last couple of days, Aura and Vio had been the ones mostly accompanying me while I was reading, simply because their temperament was the most suit...
2022-12-01 21:23:20 +0000 UTC View PostGetting nudged by a cold, slightly wet, nose was enough to pull me out of the depths of my mind into which I had spiralled. Indecision, guilt and the question of whether or not I should have the feelings I had, all those emotions and thoughts were pointless. The past, and my actions in the past, ...
2022-11-30 16:59:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I returned to the lobby area, Vio was still outside her Pokéball, walking next to me. Uncertain of what the exact rules for Pokémon activity in this town were, I pressed the bell to call the receptionist, planning to hand in the Pokéballs of Charm, Aura and Su, while Vio would stay with m...
2022-11-29 20:27:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe seconds stre...
2022-11-28 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostWalking the streets at night was a little eerie at the best of times. With fires spreading, replacing the light normally shed by the streetlamps and screams, some distant, some nearby, replacing the general din of life, it was worse.
And yet, in these eerie streets, I was feeling remarkably...
2022-11-26 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostMy lips curled into the first, genuine smile since this whole mess had started. Magic, and learning more about it, that had been my second favourite thing about Mundus. Only Sigmir had been better, but she was and always would be, in a class of her own.
When I stepped a little too close to ...
2022-11-25 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostFinally taking my fist out of my mouth, I realised where the odd taste had come from. When stabbing the Shattered, I had gotten blood on my hand and thus, when biting down on my hand to keep from screaming, in my mouth. Spitting in an attempt to get rid of the taste didn’t help and I realised t...
2022-11-23 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostWith the Major Change in Jaded Life, I decided to remake the Character Sheet, making it a lot more comprehensive and useful. There are multiple pages, you can switch them with the rider at the bottom. I'll occasionally post a new version here.
Character-Sheet for Chapter 1055 - Second...
2022-11-21 17:12:14 +0000 UTC View PostA part of me was rather amused at the realisation that a nice, dark alley in the middle of the night, a place anyone should normally avoid, was a lot more comfortable than the building I had called home. Granted, that was mostly due to that building, along with everything else, being on fire and ...
2022-11-18 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe last stretch up to Snowpoint City was one of the hardest. Not so much because of the terrain but because it felt as if the road was stretching endlessly, countless serpentines winding up the steep hill, turning maybe a kilometre of incredibly steep hill into a slow climb of almost five kilome...
2022-11-17 22:31:01 +0000 UTC View PostReflexes, conditioned by long hours of training with Mrs Wu, took over, making me twist to the side and back, even as my hands came up to guide my assailant. Without thought, I gripped his collar, pulling him forward, even as my other hand pushed, sending him stumbling past me, further into the h...
2022-11-16 16:56:49 +0000 UTC View PostFor a moment, I was utterly flabbergasted. Discombobulated. There were so many wonderful words floating around in my brain, I just couldn’t find the right one. My mind was an utter mess, not accepting the reality before me, if that was even reality and not some incredibly weird hallucination. 2022-11-14 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Things had been interesting these last few days. After the battle for the Citadel, the World of Mundus and the forum had been on fire. Literally, when it came to Mundus. From what I could tell, looking at the widely varying accounts and videos, the Nidhögg had successfully been resurrected, even...
2022-11-13 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostOfficial Road to Purgatory-Beta Forum
Morgana, you shall never get away with this. The Gods will smite you and all you have created will come to naught. The People of Mundus will never accept a tyrant, be it o...
2022-11-12 17:36:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe song the Nidhögg and I wove together continued, now no longer directed into the Astral River and towards a distant place, but influencing the world directly around us. This time, I was able to monopolise the power of the Nexus, the Nidhögg had devoured enough power from the Verdant Sea to h...
2022-11-11 16:54:08 +0000 UTC View PostWith the evening’s entertainment dealt with, I focused on the main event. Above the shroud of shadows the Nidhögg had woven, the sun had set, leaving us in a wonderfully black night. There was no moon, only a scant, few stars, allowing us to view the complete and utter Darkness adobe in its fu...
2022-11-10 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post