Finding the camp the other had made was easy enough, their living presence, the subtle movement and flickering of their fire sticking out in the dead environment like a sore thumb. When we returned, Adra instantly noticed that something had changed with Rai, that his shadow was a little less pron...
2022-01-17 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“You are suggesting additional dimensions?” I asked, trying to wrap my head around the strings of information Galatea had sent to me. Calling the math she had assembled to demonstrate the concept ‘dense’ was akin to calling the Pacific a small puddle, it was horrifyingly complex, referenc...
2022-01-16 16:29:13 +0000 UTC View PostAfter my conversation about the future with Sophia, there were plans to make. The Greene’s and the organisation they were part of, the Colours, needed to go. There was simply no way around it, not if I wanted to ever have peace. Given that they were still hounding me, still abusing my name and ...
2022-01-14 19:53:49 +0000 UTC View PostWatching the specters, while keeping an eye on Rai, was fascinating. At first, I had thought their movements were random, purely the product of chance and malignant intent to feed or something along those lines, certainly not part of something greater. But the longer I watched, the more their mov...
2022-01-14 17:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostAs yet another skeleton fell to the ground, scattering into its parts, I had to smile. This one had been destroyed by Rai, who had taken to the anti-magic aspects like a duck to water and was now happily slicing through the magic animating skeletons and had even managed to convince Olivia to help...
2022-01-12 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“My long-term plans, you ask?” Sophia looked at me with a raised eyebrow, a slight suspicion obvious in her eyes.
“Yes, where do you see yourself in five years? In ten years, those kinds of plans.” reiterated my question, before adding, “You recently managed to gain your education...
2022-01-11 16:33:52 +0000 UTC View PostA wide smile stretched my lips, as I put the finishing touches on the latest addition of my arsenal. Making an item that wasn’t recognised as one under the definitions of the system had been a bit of a challenge, but careful control of my Astral Power and a piece-by-piece approach had made it p...
2022-01-10 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostI had heard of looking for a needle in a haystack, but the task of finding the cause of resonance within the crystals was worse by an order of magnitude. Galatea and I had to find a connection, or at least a correlation, between something, possibly a flaw in the crystal-matrix of that set of powe...
2022-01-09 20:42:01 +0000 UTC View Post“We have resonance.” Galatea reported, my own mind already delving into the sensor-readings, trying to make sense of what they were reporting. It was yet another experiment sparked by old observation, still trying to figure out just why, back in New Brunsburg, Voltic had been able to cause my...
2022-01-07 17:37:39 +0000 UTC View PostA painful twinge pulled my awareness back to my side, where Olivia was carefully healing me, or at least that was what I thought she was doing. The pain was contra-indicative of that, as Divine Healing was supposed to be painlessly perfect, a miracle of power that no mortal could ever mimic or so...
2022-01-07 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time Sophia had taken the long tunnel from our warehouse to the primary underground complex beneath the powerplant, I had managed to finish up everything with Nisha and see her off. After a quick check that everything was as it should be, that the robotic guards were ready and the hundreds...
2022-01-06 22:24:12 +0000 UTC View PostA thin figure, clad in a dark robe, with a staff of twisted ebon-wood held aloft above its head stands, hands and staff shrouded in an aurora of green and purple energy, constantly circulating and twisting. With a hoarse cry, the figure brings down the staff, the energy unloading into the ground....
2022-01-05 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostJust trying to breathe was a challenge and I didn’t even try to rise from my kneeling position, the pain in my side making sure I knew that to be a very bad idea. Lenore was nearby, half-sprawled on the ground, her feathers ruffled and I could vaguely feel her exhaustion over our connection. 2022-01-03 17:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
“It’s impressive what you managed to accomplish in these two years.” Nisha told me, now that she finally had time to visit in person. I had to make sure my smile did not turn into a knowing smirk, as there was a lot more to the place than the eye could see. On the surface, the work Galatea ...
2022-01-02 17:25:30 +0000 UTC View PostLetting out a content sigh, I let myself relax into Sophia's embrace. If there was one place I could relax and be content, it was i...
2022-01-01 16:40:41 +0000 UTC View Post“Lady Eleutheria, protect us!” Olivia’s soft prayer broke the silence that had gripped us, right after the massive undead had formed. It was both, mundane plea for help and magical incantation, causing a golden light to settle around us, bolstering our courage against this dangerous foe. An...
2021-12-31 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Those are a LOT of undead.” I muttered, looking down into the valley Lenore had guided us to. The valley itself was unremarkable, sparse vegetation, many rocks and nothing that looked like thriving life. But then, given that there were countless figures, all with glowing, ghastly green flame...
2021-12-29 17:29:57 +0000 UTC View PostThere were many ways one might react to seeing Undead slowly shamble towards you. Showing fear or anger would be reasonable, a demonstration of grim resolve commendable. But bursting out in amused laughter, not even trying to hide the giggles that shook me, as I saw skeletons slowly move towards ...
2021-12-27 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostJust as announced, there was a new function within my capsule. Ruins of a Broken World(Alph...
2021-12-24 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostAs smoothly as we had changed into our Avatar-form, the process to release it was still jarring and more than a little confusing. Some memories of the last hour were clear, almost as if they were my own, especially the mental process of constructing my Throne, others were blurry and fading quickl...
2021-12-22 17:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Welcome back.” I greeted the others, after pushing myself out of my Hallow. “What did you find out?” I asked, after giving Sigmir a hug.
“We received a quest, but it’s a weird one.” she replied, while Olivia and Adra simply nodded in agreement. As she said so, a blue window p...
2021-12-20 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAfter we spent a week, each day praying to Eleutheria and running for hours and hours afterwards, the distance we had covered was somewhat mind-boggling. Hundreds of kilometers, passing by multiple cities, two of which the others had entered for a night and to get some shopping done and countless...
2021-12-17 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Thank you for meeting me on such short notice. The procedure regarding your wife was a success, as the physicians have likely told you already.” the soft, unconcerned voice could have ordered a cup of coffee, for all the excitement it betrayed.
“Think nothing of it. You saved my wife...
2021-12-15 18:08:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Mother, wake up!” Galatea’s voice pierced my mind, dragging a small part of it into a vague wakefulness. I was feeling as if I was thinking through thick, viscous liquid, my thoughts slow, unfocused and blurry.
“Mother, you need to see this!” she insisted, using the space we shar...
2021-12-15 18:06:23 +0000 UTC View PostOn my travels through Mundus, I had seen quite a diverse range of terrain, the frozen forests and tundras of the north, the windswept plains further south, the cragged, dusty mountains of the Turan Mountain Range and finally, the forested areas between the Turan and White-Mountains. All of them b...
2021-12-15 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a lot of additional preparation to be done, setting up and calibrating the equipment, talking and consulting with the doctors who had provided care thus far and finally, preparing Mrs. Acharya for the procedure. Working with her doctors was an interesting experience, once Mrs. Acharya h...
2021-12-13 18:20:40 +0000 UTC View PostEventually, we settled down and made camp, my mind still somewhat reeling from the sheer magnitude of Olivia’s spell. Jealousy and pity were warring within me, both directed at her, as I was jealous of the tremendous power she was wielding, the effect of her divinely granted spells simply somet...
2021-12-13 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe stand-off between Mr. Acharya and myself was finally solved by a simple suggestion from Nisha. Namely, that her Mother, who’s life was on the line, was allowed to decide if she wanted to trust a Powered her Daughter vouched for or if she wanted to hope for a miracle of some sort. The idea r...
2021-12-12 17:30:38 +0000 UTC View Post“So, are you now going to tell us how this will work?” I asked, looking at Olivia with a raised eyebrow. When Lenore and I had returned to their accommodations last night, Olivia had told everyone to be ready to leave before dawn, without specifying why. In the morning, she had guided the oth...
2021-12-10 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post“So, did anything interesting happen while I was gone?” I asked Lenore, as I was looking out from my Hallow. The others were still in Narristo and judging by the surroundings my guess would be that they were replenishing our supplies. Lenore was sitting on the edge of a roof, looking down as ...
2021-12-08 17:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post