Tsaimath

Chapter 1181

No matter how powerful I was as an individual, the raging storm outside reminded me that I was still an ant compared to the actual forces of nature. A glacier could exert magnitudes more force than I could, tides could erode any rock if given enough time, and the torrential storm was stronger tha...

Chapter 1180

Sitting in my newly established underground lair, I could only laugh at myself and shake my head when considering just how easily I had let myself get distracted. The idea of the underground lair was a sound one, even the Burned Land with its Bitumen and artillery beasts would need some time to b...

Chapter 1179

Dreams could be decidedly weird; there was no question about that. Not only were there instances of Lady Hecate using dreams to communicate with me, pulling me into Her realm so we could have a conversation, but there were also recurring dreams about Neyto, or rather, about the Crystal Forest sur...

Chapter 1178

Talking with the Chief was incredibly interesting. When it came to his speciality, he was just as adept as Mrs Wu, and a part of me wanted to watch these two face off in some sort of sneakiness challenge or something like that. While the Chief never outright explained what he had been doing in th...

Chapter 1177

As it turned out, the “Chief” was present in the small town, though the expression of worried annoyance on his face made me think that he didn’t really want to be. When Catherine and I turned up, the man was quietly talking with a few other guys, and a woman or two, all of whom had the appe...

Chapter 1176

It was quite impressive how quickly the otherwise nearly mundane woman could move when thinking that her child might be threatened. While I didn’t use Observe to confirm her level, the rest of my senses could give me an estimation that she was below level twenty and a lot closer to ten than twe...

Chapter 1175

The first realisation I had when looking at the people we were about to meet closely was that their skin and skin colour were quite interesting. Since the Change had introduced attributes to people, skin condition had improved to a certain extent, as a lot of environmental factors, things like ha...

Chapter 1174

• AN: I'll be gone the coming week (17th to 25th) but unless something goes wrong, Dragon-Patreons should get the chapters as usual, while the Wolves will get four chapters on the 17th, to last them until I get back from vacation.

If there was one p...

Chapter 1173

With the information given to me by Lady Hecate, I started to look for the people apparently calling out for aid. Given that they were supposedly in fairly close proximity, I used some scrying constructs during the day, when we couldn’t hunt for Bitumen in the burned area, to scout things out f...

Interlude: Livin' on a prayer

Looking back, Jenn was, once again, wondering how she had managed to get from point A to point B. Just about two years ago, she had prepared to give birth to her first child, while her husband had celebrated a promotion at the bank he had been employed, making both of them deliriously happy. That...

Chapter 1172

“Good evening, my dear.” There was only one entity I knew who spoke with three voices at once and, as it happened, that particular entity was also the one who had repeatedly pulled me from my dreams, inducing the fairly discombobulating sensation of being aware without being awoken, the human...

Chapter 1171

After the initial experiment to acquire a core from one of the Bitumen was an abject failure, I tried a few more things, but none of them worked as I wanted them to. Sure, I learned quite a few interesting, and some fairly disgusting, things in the process, but ultimately, I wasn’t able to con...

Chapter 1170

Sneaking into the territory of the goop men was somewhat nerve-wrecking, but at the same time, it was necessary. I needed to know what exactly the terrain these creatures spread did, whether there were any additional effects we would suffer under just from walking across it, if there were some so...

Chapter 1169

Readying myself for the next experiment was just a little odd, as the situation was both similar and dissimilar to the one I had been in the night before. The biggest similarity was that I had positioned myself on a hillside and was planning to poke a fairly large bear. Granted, this particular b...

Chapter 1168

Even after we returned to our camp, it took me almost another hour to remove the various shards and splinters from my body, a process that ultimately left me exhausted and with a bit of lingering soreness, but that didn’t mean I wasn’t able to discuss the entire issue with my daughters. And t...

Chapter 1167

My awareness returned slowly. At first, I was barely able to hear Lia and Luna’s voices, mainly Lia explaining what had happened while they likely made their escape from the fallback point, just in case more attacks were incoming. It was quite amusing to listen to them, despite the worry I coul...

Chapter 1166

Channelling vast amounts of power was always an intense experience. A faint feeling of omnipotence, stray thoughts intruding on my mind, suggesting just what I might be able to accomplish with that much power, alongside an aching pain in my body and a buzzing in my mind, it was incredible. Yet, a...

Chapter 1165

After my constructs were dispersed, I realised just how interesting this area might be. Even from above, it had been difficult to determine how large it actually was. The smoke continued to obscure my constructs' vision until they got high enough to be above it, which was just about where the clo...

Chapter 1164

When we saw the mess we were heading towards, the first thing we did was stop. Even from afar, we could see that there was a lot going on there, but without getting a lot closer, we couldn’t tell what that entailed. So, instead of running in like fools and finding out what dangers were there by...

Chapter 1163

Seeing smoke on the horizon could either be a very good or a pretty bad thing; it completely depended on the amount of smoke one could see. If there was a little smoke, rising in a somewhat distinct column, it usually meant one was seeing a singular, likely controlled, fire, often lit by another ...

Interlude: A matter of perspective

As so often, while the spirit and even the flesh were willing and eager to accomplish their stated goal of tearing down the edifice of wicked darkness, reality was not so accommodating. In fact, the entire tower stood defiant against all their attempts, the doors of heavy stone not even budging, ...

Chapter 1162

Title gained

You gained the title: Spirit Binder

You bound a spirit of nature into a physical form, allowing you to harness its primal power for your needs. Those sensitive to these elements can recognise your deed, shaping their perception of...