Twenty-Four
“She’s crazy,” Diur muttered under her breath as she looked down at the canyon filled with monsters. They were tall, weasel-esque, furred six-legged beasts filled with needle-like teeth. They scampered up and over the downed fallen trees, rotting foliage, ...
2025-04-27 19:56:58 +0000 UTC View PostTwenty-Three
“Hit me!” Alice’s voice cracked the silence of the early morning and Kon flew into his attack without hesitation. He kicked dirt at her eyes and then charged, intent on wrapping her up in a tackle and crashing to the ground. His toes gouged the soft earth...
2025-04-25 00:52:50 +0000 UTC View PostTwenty-Two
Diur and Kon stepped outside of the room a moment later, the Ulmna girl having shed silent tears as she bowed over her grandfather’s corpse. She took his fallen blade and belted it around her waist and left as Alice looked at the corpse with a grim expression. ...
2025-04-23 23:29:27 +0000 UTC View Post31.
“Describe these beasts again,” Victoria ordered as they all stood in the retrofitted hangar bay. Soldiers had quickly stripped the trucks of everything they had loaded up and Rutledge was in fine form as she ranted about the lost research. Erak felt a stab of doubt ...
2025-04-23 00:58:20 +0000 UTC View PostTwenty-One
“Help me, please,” Diur, the Ulmna girl, pleaded. Her grandfather’s unconscious body sagged in her arms and she struggled to hold him upright. Kon stepped around Alice and grabbed him by his wounded arm. The old man groaned but didn’t wake as they dragged him back i...
2025-04-22 23:58:43 +0000 UTC View PostTwenty
Mud squished beneath his battered boots as Kon tried to quietly walk through the trees. The terrain changed slowly as they moved closer to the other cultivators. The ground grew firmer with every step, the trees more sparse, and a series of hills rose up seemingly fr...
2025-04-22 18:49:48 +0000 UTC View Post15.
“Mom! Mom!” Santi yelled as he walked through the house. He had no reason to yell, his mom could hear him just fine from down the block if he spoke in a whisper. There was a familiarity to yelling for her that was comforting too. The chancla that came flying f...
2025-04-22 01:11:22 +0000 UTC View Post30.
Goblinoid lvl. 27
The horrors of dark science mixed with Essence, these hardy creatures are loathsome and violent, raging out against their own creation and the world around them.
As they cleared the line of trees in the forest, Erak saw them fully for the f...
2025-04-21 23:42:30 +0000 UTC View PostNineteen
The rain stopped a day later and Alice resumed Kon’s training. She hadn’t been waiting for the rain to subside but more for Kon’s legs to heal. He hadn’t torn anything but the strain of running for as long as he had had left him with a bad case of noodle le...
2025-04-21 18:21:41 +0000 UTC View PostEighteen
“Uhhh…well. I fought a monster.” Alice shrugged and had the decency to blush as Kon picked himself up from the ground and stared her in the eye. He was always reminded of the closeness in their ages when she acted like this.
“You just told me no...
2025-04-18 21:20:25 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: This is the last chapter that I have pre-written. I'm launching next month but the chapters will be coming sporadically till then.
Fifteen
Dane Rawlings
Lvl. 3
Race: Human
Stats
Strength: 12
Dexterity: 10
Enduranc...
2025-04-18 19:49:05 +0000 UTC View Post14.
Local Leaders
Alan Murtaugh (22)
2. Santiago Silva (21)
3. Naomi Weaver (20)
4. Chloe Smith (19)
5. Cameron Murtaugh (19)
Regional Leaders
Alan Murtaugh (22)
Fourteen
The scout was fast. Dane leveled his tracking skill to F-2 as they followed after the Aji-Abami. Tolic’s corpse had collapsed and the spirit floated along, inane chattering flowing in an unstoppable stream.
“So we’re robbing this stage and the owner hops out and y...
2025-04-17 20:11:27 +0000 UTC View PostSeventeen
The trees bent under the deluge of water, each strike a hammer blow that hurt and bruised his skin, but Kon sat silently. Below him, hiding from the rain, was another rift. Alice said it was the last of the F-Grade rifts in the area that they could easily reach an...
2025-04-17 20:08:32 +0000 UTC View PostSixteen
“This rune is about healing muscles,” Alice carved the rune into the loamy soil and Kon leaned over to study it. It was a series of gentle, sloping lines around a circle , meeting near the middle.
“That’s just for healing muscles?” Kon said in minor ...
2025-04-16 22:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostFourteen
“Faster! Faster!” Alice urged him with a laugh. Kon grit his teeth and pumped his arms as the baying of the monsters behind him sounded closer and closer with each passing moment. He risked a look backward and saw the sleek, reptilian hounds as they leapt over a fallen log. Fou...
2025-04-14 20:08:11 +0000 UTC View PostFifteen
How Alice managed to make the crude leathers, Kon didn’t know. He had sat there watching her as rune after rune had lit up on her one hand, but he still didn’t understand. There was no stitches, she didn’t have thread and a needle, and she obviously hadn’t c...
2025-04-14 20:05:11 +0000 UTC View PostThirteen
For the first time he got to work his way through his stat screen and see the growth happen. Dane knew the in and outs of early leveling, the work needed to be done. His original plan had been to become a [Scout], [Skirmisher], or [Ranger]. Using skills to flesh ou...
2025-04-14 16:47:11 +0000 UTC View Post29.
Erak dropped into the depths without another word, his one free hand on the rungs as he jumped several at a time as he descended. Pomp flew off his shoulder and down further while Sammus followed after Erak with only slight prodding from Rutledge. His grousing was loud ...
2025-04-13 22:37:37 +0000 UTC View PostThirteen
“Up and at ‘em!” Alice booted him in the leg and Kon jerked upright, sputtering as he peered around himself owlishly. Alice looked stern as she stared down at him.
“Did you fall asleep on watch duty?” she asked, her voice deadly serious. ...
2025-04-13 19:07:56 +0000 UTC View Post28.
Hours had passed in near silence, the whistling wind overpowering any other slight noise. Erak had managed to nap off and on, catching his sleep wherever he could, the smooth roads lulling him like a lullaby. Sammus had managed to keep his mouth shut for the most part a...
2025-04-13 00:49:40 +0000 UTC View Post27.
“Podzki, get your ass in gear before I wedge my foot in it!” Constance growled at the man as he dawdled. Weasley looking, the lean man looked toward his sergeant and squinted as he thought to the furthest extent of his abilities.
“Your foot in my ass o...
2025-04-12 00:56:12 +0000 UTC View PostTwelve
“Now stay still, I’m not the greatest at this,” Alice said. She set her axe down on the ground and raised her hand up and over him. Runes began to appear, but not the little fragments he had seen her use before. It was dozens of twisting lines, circles, triangl...
2025-04-11 23:28:30 +0000 UTC View Post13.
“I’m just saying. It sounds like an excuse,” Alan said with a shrug as he lounged in a chair as he nursed a warm beer. Where he had found one, Santi didn’t know but the older man looked smug as he drank. The rest of his temporary party were sprawled out across t...
2025-04-11 01:14:52 +0000 UTC View PostEleven
Kon started to curse himself a few moments later when he realized he was a giant, glowing torch that anyone could see. The heat of the half hundred balls of light was beginning to grow uncomfortable and he panted heavily as he aimed for the nearest of the abandoned h...
2025-04-10 22:18:13 +0000 UTC View PostTwelve
ARHOOOO!!!! The sound trumpeted through the forest as Dane ducked low and rolled across the forest floor as a tree exploded behind him. Chunks of wood and splinters sprayed across the area and peppered Dane as he got to his feet and looked at his newest target. It wa...
2025-04-10 20:01:44 +0000 UTC View PostTen
Kon watched as a hand encased in bronze reached out and wrapped six, long, skeletal, fingers around the edge of the stone sarcophagus. The lid tilted and fell with a booming crash and a head raised itself up and over the edge and Kon breathed out a sigh of relief.
Eleven
Xeroc ducked under a tentacle, the pink limb whistling above him. It hit the warrior next to him, wrapping around the woman in a blink. She barely had time to yell before it yanked her up in the air before dragging her into the ocean. Monstrous sea-spider...
2025-04-09 22:23:29 +0000 UTC View Post26.
Sparks leapt across the air as Snowbeard’s hammer struck red hot iron. His apprentices had collapsed hours earlier as the heat and the exertion had driven them to the ground in exhaustion. The old dwarf was pale faced with a sheen of sweat, deep bags under his eyes, b...
2025-04-08 21:47:59 +0000 UTC View PostNine
An F-Grade rift was little more than a tear in space no larger than a doorway. Without Alice to guide him to it, Kon would have never found it. Up and over the crest of the hill and down into a small, rocky gully, the two traveled in silence. Alice had let him rest, eat and drink...
2025-04-08 20:51:13 +0000 UTC View Post