T. A. Star

31 - I Am Not a Tyrant

An hour later, they had finished talking with Dazien’s merchant contact as she offloaded not just the Shards but a large amount of monster materials that she hadn’t found a use for yet, including th...

30 - Cultivating Our Experiences

“Come in,” Phoenix called out as a soft knock came from her bedroom door. She was drying and combing her hair as she sat on the edge of her bed, looking out the tinted glass wall that revealed the c...

29 - A Lot of Interesting Quirks

Dazien stood with his arms crossed as Phoenix slid down the hillside to engage with the pack of Crystal Caste snolves and found himself intrigued. He had never seen such an assortment of odd powers befo...

28 - One Against Many

Paul sat in his father’s study which now belonged to him. He was going through a stack of tedious paperwork trying to sort out all the responsibilities and messes that his new inheritance had dropped ...

27 - A Little Domineering

The wind whipped around wildly as the group stood at the top of what seemed like a massive crack in the earth not far from the outcropping of rock that the group had gathered on. Phoenix had managed to ...

26 - For Adventure

Phoenix had spent the last four days locked away with Paul and Bliss, training like her life depended on it. While she felt much more comfortable with her skills now, she was incredibly nervous about pu...

25 - Special Pretentiousness Requirements

Phoenix was grateful for Traveler’s upgrade as she continued to reference the map of Tulimeir in her book. She had quickly realized from the aerial overview it offered that the entire city had been me...

24 - Practice

Phoenix followed closely behind Paul who were both dressed in the standard training garb of the AOA. It looked like a tight cycling uniform made from silvery spandex-like material that clung to her form...

23 - Weapon Wielding Warrior

Paul wasn’t surprised to find that Phoenix had slept for the rest of the evening, through the night, and well into the next day before he woke her up with a gentle nudge. Once he saw she was awake, he...

22 - A Little Light Reading

Paul’s eyes narrowed at the pair of priests half-carrying his new Protégé towards him. Phoenix looked ragged and shaken and he was already unhappy with the events happening since they entered Tulime...

21 - The House of Wayland

Paul watched Lester lead Phoenix away for a few moments, not liking the feeling settling in his gut, but he wasn’t about to start picking fights with even more gods. So he turned back towards the path...

20 - Finding the Path

The priest of Scholar arrived once more to help Phoenix to her feet and guide her to yet another temple. This one more curved and reminiscent of the Taj Mahal with intricate carvings of fantast...

19 - Why Do You Fight

Dazien rolled his amethyst eyes at his reflection in the mirror as his partner voiced concerns about their timeline and he tried to reassure the man again, “I’ve told you already, Uriel. I won’t b...

18 - Tomes of the Scholar

Tulimeir felt like a huge industrial metropolis with tall metal-framed glass buildings crammed together to try and accommodate the limited horizontal space of the walled-in fortress city. Despite the dr...

17 - Tulimeir

They arrived in the fortress city of Vallinsarvi the following night and Phoenix was grateful she would finally be able to sleep in an actual bed. Paul was first heading to talk to the city's baroness a...

16 - Tundra Training

New Quest: Tundra Training

Time to test your mettle.

Objective: Defeat ten Crystal Caste monsters. 2023-11-06 21:16:01 +0000 UTC View Post

15 - How Long

It was another hour before Phoenix finally had a breakthrough when she realized her four Auras that had always felt layered were exactly that. She had to will them all in concert and she had been focuse...

14 - Walk and Train

Phoenix rubbed at the spot on her chest where the god and goddess had actually come into physical contact with her. There was no longer any pain but the memory was still creating phantoms in her mind. S...

13 - Hero's Quest

Phoenix stretched as they stopped for the evening. Paul hadn’t deigned to fill in the silence with conversation which she hadn’t minded after such an eventful week and the flood of information she w...

12 - Crystal Caster

“So you’re sure this won’t turn me into some sort of space werewolf or something?” Phoenix asked as she held up the [Moon Aspect] while taking another bite of the sweet fruit Paul had given her ...

11 - Ritualist

When Phoenix regained consciousness, it was to the sight of dark canvas above her, the sound of a crackling fire, and the smell of meat roasting. She slowly sat up, carefully testing out her left arm to...

10 - Reality Rift

In the morning, the odd pair continued as they had the day before, crossing the vast hilland which slowly began to level out. The sun had just hit the midway point in the sky above them when she noticed...

9 - Ends Without Redemption

Despite their absurd pace across the grassy hillocks, they eventually paused to eat after a solid three hours of… jogging? Was he seriously only jogging that whole time? He didn’t even appe...

8 - Paladin of the Purifier

Phoenix stared at the man for a few awkward moments as she tried to come up with a suitable answer that wouldn’t result in her getting captured or killed… again. The golden man didn’t interrupt he...

7 - Escape the Monsters

What Miles described sounded too much like becoming a drugged up lab rat for Phoenix to accept as she conjured her magical black dagger into her hand and plunged it into the man’s back, hoping to make...

6 - Not a Safe Place

“So you’re an orphan?” Miles asked curiously as, almost an hour after their departure, Phoenix tried to explain the hospital she had come from and her world’s supposed lack of magic, “Nobody l...

5 - Waypoint

Phoenix continued traveling during the day, grateful for the decrease in monsters, though she wasn’t sure where they had all gone at first. It wasn’t until she came across the evil tree monster agai...

4 - In Darkest Night

Phoenix had managed to find a few wild berries during her excursion through the mountainous woods, silently praying to whatever gods this world might have that they weren’t poisonous. Thankfully, she ...

3 - Guiding Stars

Phoenix stumbled on a protruding root and barely caught herself from falling before glaring at the offending tree and continuing down what she believed to be a game trail she had stumbled across. She wi...

2 - Book of Choices

Phoenix felt groggy, like she had slept for far too long. This in turn made her panic slightly that she had slept through her first round of treatment for the morning and she pushed herself up to try an...