Merzhin’s despair had quietened.
The choir was silent.
Stillness hung heavy in the dead god’s throne room as hardly a breath was heard.
“More secrets?” the Saint suddenly cried, shattering the silence. “More hidden truths! More lies! Were you ever planning to ...
2023-07-21 22:46:43 +0000 UTC View PostThere was an ancient saying in the realm of Thameland, one that had largely fallen away as the centuries wore on.
A simple phrase of gratitude, spoken during harvests, weddings and births: Our plenty comes from Uldar.
For thousands of years, the phrase was spoken in churches,...
2023-07-20 20:59:50 +0000 UTC View PostSlight warning cuz I know some people read this book to their kids. So in PG-13 films, you get ONE use of the word f*ck. I'm using my one use here.
You'll see why.
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“Tell me…do you know what a patch is?” Hannah had asked on that fateful day...
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Alexander Roth looked at the top of Uldar’s Rise while the night deepened, feeling as though he was standing on the edge of a cliff.
There—rising before him—the place he’d sought since he’d turned eighteen and Uldar, the god of his homeland, had left his mark on his life. Two long...
2023-07-18 21:27:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe iron golem strode through flame, light dancing across his reflective form. His fire-gems glowed like embers while his metallic fingers flexed and relaxed, metal groaning each time he tensed them. All damage to his body was gone; the massive hole in his torso dealt by the First Apostle was a b...
2023-07-15 22:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostEarlier, an arrow scraped through Alex’s greater force armour, a throbbing line of pain had seared his body, burning flesh on his right side like a fireplace poker had been rammed into it.
Stone fists like cudgels rushed past his ears; Uldar’s statues missed his head by mere inches, any...
2023-07-14 23:27:57 +0000 UTC View Post“You have to let me out!” Carey cried.
Standing on her bed, the young woman gripped the bars on the window, transfixed by the carnage outside. In the village, all traces of idyllic peace were gone, replaced by a bloody deluge of death.
Panic surged through Carey, guilt followed so...
2023-07-13 22:43:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe world stood still.
Silence crowned the village, broken by trembling breaths, the clink of metal, and creaking of leather.
The rain had stopped.
The battle paused.
And the First Apostle stared down on all below him.
The tension in the air was too ...
2023-07-12 21:54:15 +0000 UTC View PostAlex returned to the village after leaving the injured Watchers in the care of a blood mage team, and was met by the aftermath of Drestra’s first attack against members of the secret church.
She’d dipped into her vast mana pool, combining dragon power with the power of ...
2023-07-11 13:09:01 +0000 UTC View PostEldin froze mid-knife stroke while the world trembled as though a titan was shaking it apart.
Monsters roared from outside.
People shouted.
Steps away, the Saint began to turn.
Knowing his chance was lost, the holy leader plunged back into the stone.
More pressing th...
2023-07-08 23:10:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe song was driving Carey nearer to madness.
When she’d first found herself in this prison that her kidnappers were much too fond of calling her ‘room,’ her thoughts had been jumbled, her mind too full of questions to notice much of anything but them. Now, she couldn’t shut the gra...
2023-07-07 21:54:44 +0000 UTC View PostIt was subtle.
So subtle that most folk wouldn’t have noticed it.
From deep within Alex’s mind, an intruding urge and an insistent whisper sprouted.
There’s nothing down there, it said.
I’m wasting time here, it whispered.
<...
2023-07-06 23:38:53 +0000 UTC View PostThis was it.
They had a direction.
Floating freely in the jar, the third eye was fixed on the southeast—Alex had placed the Eye-Finder down on the peak of a mountain—its ‘vision’ piercing hills, distance, and woodlands. Somewhere to the southeast, Carey waited...
2023-07-05 21:41:55 +0000 UTC View PostInterrogations were useless with obstinate creatures like the ones Professor Jules had in her lab. They would neither bend, yield, nor crack, so she’d taken a different tack, locking herself in her lab with her assistants, the single-minded Ravener-spawn, and leaving strict orders for everyone ...
2023-07-04 20:36:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe First Apostle’s face reddened, and he raised his hand higher.
Uldar’s divine light flared brighter, but Carey still felt none of its unwelcome warmth from earlier.
“What is happening?” Izas demanded again.
“Wait, Izas,” the First Apostle said. “I feel something...
2023-07-02 00:49:50 +0000 UTC View Post“The General’s Folly is something of a parable only taught in our holy order,” the First Apostle sat in a pew near the back of the chamber.
A seat very near the door, Carey noticed.
He gestured for her to sit, giving her a kindly nod.
She exchanged a look with Izas; the ol...
2023-06-30 21:34:13 +0000 UTC View Post“Wake up, my child,” an ancient voice called to her.
Carey’s eyes flew open. “What?”
“Don’t worry, you’re safe now,” the soothing voice said again. “No harm will come to you. You will be well taken care of among us.”
The young wizard’s mind raced.
...
2023-06-30 00:01:07 +0000 UTC View PostSame thing, this is a bit dark. I think. Just be warned!
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“What?” Butcher said. “What happened?”
“Track them!” Baker snarled, turning to a Hunter looking skyward. “Where have they gone?”
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Slight warning, the next couple of chapters are slightly dark. Not super, but a friend suggested I put this on. Enjoy, my friends!
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Sir Sean Swift had been awake for so long that he could mark the number of nights since he’d last seen his bed on most of t...
“What?” Professor Jules cried, grabbing Hart’s arm. “You mean one of those creatures that took so many lives at the Research Castle?”
“Ya,” the Champion of Uldar said. “It was spotted to the north.”
“Was it seen near where Carey was lost?” she asked, dread in her...
2023-06-25 00:06:51 +0000 UTC View Post“Come, we must keep moving,” Eldin said, emerging from the cave wall about a mile from where he’d left the Saint.
Several of his agents startled, hands reaching for holy weapons and only relaxing when they realised it was him who had spoken. They formed a circle in the wide tunnel, fi...
2023-06-23 22:39:33 +0000 UTC View PostMerzhin, the Saint of Uldar was troubled.
Carey’s words played through his mind, biting at him, gnawing at his resolve. There was a kernel of terrible truth in what she had said, echoing doubts he’d left unspoken, even in his own mind.
All of his life, there had b...
2023-06-22 23:07:08 +0000 UTC View Post“If I might have a word,” Merzhin’s voice came inches from behind Carey.
The young woman yelped, the specimen jar in her hands slipped to the rocky ground at her feet.
Glass shattered, gleaming like crystals as she whirled, finding herself face to face with an apologetic Saint o...
2023-06-21 21:37:23 +0000 UTC View Post“This weather isn’t what I would have expected in Generasi. I’m truly surprised.” King Aksuma shook his head, watching the outdoors through a window lashed by rain. “People travel to this land for its beautiful sunny skies, not gloomy pelting rains.”
Outside, the world was wrack...
2023-06-20 21:48:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe early morning sun trickled through the forest, filtering down beneath the lush canopy.
“Are you certain, holy leader?” one of Eldin’s agents whispered, alarm in her tone. The young woman—shockingly young—watched the clearing through the dappled light.
Ahead, figures emer...
2023-06-18 00:08:47 +0000 UTC View PostFlesh rippled.
Bone cracked.
The cerberus was gripped by a terrible change.
He growled and snarled, eyes shut tight—every muscle tensed—as Theresa’s enhanced lifeforce poured through him, empowering and transforming his form.
“What’s happening to Brutus?” There...
2023-06-16 22:34:21 +0000 UTC View PostAlex eyed the finished tonics as he searched for the right words.
He knew that Theresa was having doubts and feeling uncertain, so he didn’t want to push, or influence her in either direction.
“Last year,” he said. “In one of my magic theory classes, we learned that a good way...
2023-06-15 21:35:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe predator stalked its prey. Cunning, silent, deadly.
Fangs gnashed. Low growls rumbled from the beast’s throats, sounding like stone grinding deep in the earth’s core. Rippling haunches catapulted the creature through the underbrush.
…or at least, that’s what was probably g...
2023-06-14 19:36:16 +0000 UTC View Post“What does forever mean to you, Theresa?” Alex Roth asked Theresa Lu as they floated away, hovering above sand and crashing surf.
“That’s a strange question.” The huntress said, cocking her head to the right, while pulling her raven hair back as it tumbled down her shoulder. “Wh...
2023-06-13 22:05:26 +0000 UTC View Post