“No armor?” asked Sadie.
Elijah stuffed the last of his wardrobe into his Ghoul-Hide Satchel, saying, “Flying under the radar.” He raised his hand, showing off the jewelry on his finger. “I’m even using my ring.”
“Has that ever worked for you before?” she asked...
2025-02-13 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostYanking his axe free of his latest victim, Zeke never even saw the blade coming for his neck. A second later, his head flew free and rolled down the hill. He remained aware for only a few moments before everything went black. Then, he awoke on a slab of stone, just like he alway...
2025-02-13 14:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostMiguel knelt near the site of the cave-in, his senses locked on his surroundings. The monster he’d encountered there had long since moved on, allowing a close inspection of the path to the surface. However, there were two immediate problems. The first was that Miguel was the o...
2025-02-12 16:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post“There is such a thing as too much soap,” Sadie said, her hands on her hips as she stared at the crates Elijah had piled next to the treehouse. As it turned out, his effort had produced much more soap than he’d ever expected. Some of that was due to his abundance of materials as...
2025-02-12 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“I hate you so much. Have I told you that recently?” sighed Carmen, turning the Verdant Fang over in her hands. She handled it much better than he’d have expected, given that she didn’t have a combat class. But in retrospect, her familiarity with weapons should not have ...
2025-02-11 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment Zeke stepped through the gate, he was blinded by the bright sun above. He blinked, clearing his vision with every passing second. When he could finally see, he was more than a little surprised to find himself looking at an idyllic landscape. Rolling hills of green gra...
2025-02-11 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe tree was ready.
Still, Elijah circled it, inspecting it with each of his senses. The smell was the most difficult to pick out, largely because it was overwhelmed by the grove’s other aromas. But just beneath the surface was an odor that Elijah felt most resembled mint.&nbs...
2025-02-10 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe accusers screamed their accusations, but Zeke paid them no heed. They had no more power over him. He’d accepted his sins and atoned for them, so they could no long affect him. Still, he did not feel the peace he’d expected. Instead, he could only think of what was ...
2025-02-10 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostElijah hefted the boulder, then raised it above his head, where he balanced it on one hand. The pressure felt almost negligible though he knew from experience that it probably weighed between nine and ten tons. The real trick was managing the awkward burden, though he’d combatted th...
2025-02-09 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostIsaiah peered at the monitor, which displayed a maze of tiny conduits. Some blazed with the current of ethera, while others conducted electricity. In a perfect world, the two would have worked in harmony, but anywhere they clashed, sparks flew. Thankfully, the system was designe...
2025-02-08 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Put yer gods bedamned pendants on, you rock-brained idjits!” shouted Kurik, his rough voice echoing down the tunnel well before Elijah caught sight of the angry dwarf. The sound brought a small smile to his face that only broadened when he rounded the corner and saw his friend demonstr...
2025-02-07 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostZeke hit the man in a shoulder tackle that should have shattered a mountain. But to his immense surprise, he rebounded as if he’d hit an immovable wall. He stumbled backward, a flood of divine energy flowing through him, and narrowed his eyes. The accuser looked upon him with ...
2025-02-07 14:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post“The Forge of Creation,” Carmen said aloud. “I don’t hate it.”
The name had been suggested after a survey of all the other crafters who would one day use the facility, and against all odds, she liked it – at least much better than any of the other options on offer. S...
2025-02-06 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostZeke stumbled toward the village, the weight of his struggles heavy on his shoulders. It would only take a simple pulse of divine energy to get him back to full strength, but he would need to keep it going if he wanted to continue to reap the benefits. So, he kept a tight hold on his ...
2025-02-06 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostElijah looked at his forearms with no small degree of consternation twisting his expression. Part of it was the power he felt coursing through his body. Strength unlike anything he’d ever experienced flowed through him. He had no idea how to quantify it, but he knew that takin...
2025-02-05 16:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostWith his legs crossed beneath him, Elijah sat atop a large, rocky edifice in the mountains. He was only a few miles away from where he’d fought the spider who’d once guarded the pass leading to Norcastle, but there was no life in his general vicinity. Even the microbes had been ki...
2025-02-05 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostBy all rights, Miguel had no business being included among the scouts. He was a Warrior by archetype, and his Green Warden class hadn’t given him anything like a stealth ability. In addition, the terrain didn’t lend itself to his nature attunement, which seemed to be much weaker a...
2025-02-04 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostZeke stepped forward with footsteps of thunder as a thousand pyres burned behind him. Every step shook the very nature of reality. Every twitch sent ripples of divine energy to scorch their way through the air. And his gaze carried with it the full weight of a demigod.
... 2025-02-04 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostElijah turned the seed from the ancestral tree over in his hand, studying its structure via Soul of the Wild. From a visual perspective, it was just a seed. The size of a walnut, its oblong exterior was rough and marked by deep grooves. It really didn’t look like much. H...
2025-02-03 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostHe burned.
But he did not waver.
He refused to give in, and somehow, his pool of divine energy responded. Not all at once, and certainly not quickly. But it answered the call, somehow sustaining him through a level of torture no soul could be expected to endure, and ...
2025-02-03 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostSadie stretched her arms above her head, the movement loosening her tight muscles. She’d gone a little too far with her training the day before, and even Elijah’s healing had been insufficient to truly banish the consequences of overwork. And then she’d pushed even further once ...
2025-02-02 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIf there was one thing Elijah already knew about his new form, it was that it was big. Very, very big. Considering that the world leviathan was in the description, that shouldn’t have been surprising, but even if he’d briefly experienced the transformation once before, he was stil...
2025-02-01 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“That is so disgusting,” Sadie grunted as she performed her sword forms. Each one was exact and sudden, cutting through the air with practiced precision. She executed an abbreviated uppercut that flowed into a downward slash, ending in a sweeping strike that would have cut most en...
2025-01-31 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“The Circle of Heresy is a misnomer,” Eveline said suddenly.
“What?” asked Zeke, still trudging along. “I thought you said you didn’t know anything.”
“Well, now I do. You know how my memory works. Or doesn’t work, as it happens,” she said. 2025-01-31 14:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
“How long has this been up?” Elijah asked, still looking at the notification hovering before his inner eye.
Ramik answered, “A little more than a day.”
Elijah frowned. He had to remember that, as a relatively important person – whether he wanted to always admit i...
2025-01-30 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe wall of blood hit Zeke with enough force to break every bone in his body. Yet, via the wonder that was the divine-energy-infused [Hand of Divinity], he managed to pull himself back together just in time to slam into the other wave that had come crashing into him.
For a long ...
2025-01-30 14:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostElijah spent almost an entire day touring the area around the nuclear plant, and he was happy to discover that his plan was working. Certainly, there was a long way to go, but the sunflowers were doing their job of filtering the radiation from the air. Curiously, though, that same pro...
2025-01-29 16:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post“We wait,” said Katis, scratching her short, blonde beard. “Reinforcements should arrive shortly.”
Miguel frowned, though he didn’t argue with her order. In a vacuum, waiting seemed like a good plan, but he knew that there was a good chance it would backfire. Aft...
2025-01-29 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostIrasi stood atop the walls of the citadel and watched as her people’s doom descended upon Aeristhûn’s walls. Perhaps the current charge would not destroy their defenses – after all, the powerful thrum of ethera through the walls was still as strong as ever – but she could see their...
2025-01-28 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostZeke slumped to the muddy ground, nearly collapsing in exhaustion, both mental and physical. Never before had he been tested so thoroughly than as he’d traversed the neverending battle. He’d lost count of the number of people he’d killed. Powerful or weak, it didn’t matt...
2025-01-28 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post