Elijah spent the next few hours exploring the area surrounding Dragon Tiger Mountain, and he soon confirmed that Hong Kong Island had grown considerably, even connecting to the mainland by a half-mile-wide strip of land that had clearly originated in another city. Before, it had been around...
2024-12-05 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostZeke stepped into a setting he very much did not expect.
“What the…”
It was clearly a city, but one that had been abandoned for centuries. The sun beat down from overhead with enough intensity to create a heat shimmer that distorted his vision. The buildings th...
2024-12-05 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostElijah’s heart broke for his friend.
Dat made such an effort to maintain his appearance – to provide a thread of optimism to everyone else – that it was often difficult to see that mask fall away. Elijah had only seen it a couple of times, but each time had been eye-opening.&nbs...
2024-12-04 16:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostSitting on the bench, Dat stared at the floor. But he didn’t see the pristine white tiles. Instead, he was entirely focused inward, on the memories dancing in his mind. Some were comforting, but others – like the hours he’d spent carrying Lisa’s body back to Heaven’s B...
2024-12-04 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSitting in the center of the grove, Miguel focused on his surroundings. Because of his class, he’d been afforded the ability to perceive the grove in a way that exceeded the effects of his mundane senses. From what he understood, his uncle had a similar ability, though Elijah’s ve...
2024-12-03 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAfter spending a couple of days getting his mind right, Zeke was finally ready to enter Hell. However, before he did so, he had a couple of other details begging for his attention. The most important was his relationship with Adara, which would have to be put on the backburner for qui...
2024-12-03 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Whoa, now. I’m not –”
As Elijah tried to defuse the situation, a fighter stepped forward holding a pair of handcuffs. “Do not move. Do not resist. You will be –”
Elijah had no interest in letting anyone bind him. However, with the Envoy cle...
2024-12-02 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe Crimson Tower was abuzz with activity. Kobolds, large and small, young and old, made up the bulk of the crowds moving about the newly renamed Commerce District, but there were plenty of other races represented as well. Beastkin, most of whom had been enslaved by the Imperium, were...
2024-12-02 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
“That sneaky little…”
“Is it a problem?” Ron asked. “If it is, I’m sure we can –”
“No,” Elijah said, running his hand through his hair. “It’s not your fault. And obviously I’m going to do it. Your daughter’s health is worth way mor...
2024-12-01 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAfter getting Hope settled in their new – likely temporary – apartment, Ron decided to explore the city, and for a couple of reasons. First, he was genuinely curious, and that was supported by the little he’d seen while traveling from the dock to the apartment building. His init...
2024-11-30 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHope stepped through the odd portal, and the second she set foot on the other side, she stumbled. Some of her lost footing could be chalked up to simple surprise. After all, suddenly finding herself in paradise – especially after spending years in the frozen grip of winter – was q...
2024-11-29 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostZeke slammed his hammer against the vault door for what felt like the millionth time. In reality, it was probably more. Much, much more. For months, he’d been steadily beating his hammer against the giant vault, but to very little avail. He’d made some progress, as evi...
2024-11-29 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostElijah was frustrated.
Resting his hand on the trunk of a massive pine tree, he watched the line of refugees as they snaked their way through the forest. There had been thirty-four people living in Forest Hills, and thankfully, they’d all decided to follow Elijah. Unfortunatel...
2024-11-28 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m leaving,” Abby said, inadvertently shifting her eyes to the floor. After what she’d seen during the previous battle, which had lasted for more than a week, she knew precisely how little she belonged with Zeke and the others who’d joined him. She was an outcast, and one ...
2024-11-28 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostClaws were not meant for stonecarving.
Elijah knew that, and yet, they were a much better option than the couple of knives he kept in his Ghoul-Hide Satchel. Still, after roughly shaping the blocks and placing them into position, Elijah had been forced to give up on the Shape of Thorn...
2024-11-27 16:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostFor a moment, the scene looked like it was frozen in time. Tiny icicles dripped from pink and white blossoms as snow cradled its roots. Nestled among those snowy berms was a white fox with nine tails. Ethera swirled around the guardian like gusting wind that sent ripples of ener...
2024-11-27 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAs Elijah soared through the sky, he was entirely amazed at the landscape laid out below him. Enormous, snow-covered evergreens stretched as far as he could see, the carpet of white and green broken up only by a few remnants of the civilization that had once called the area home. ...
2024-11-26 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostZeke smashed his forehead into the black crystal trunk of the tree, shattering it with a single blow. At the same time, he grabbed hold of one of the thousand branches jutting from his chest and yanked. It came free with the sound of glass scraping against metal, sending a spurt of si...
2024-11-26 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostFor Elijah, teleportation was not an unfamiliar process. He’d experienced it on more than one occasion – first, with Roots of the World Tree and its predecessor, and then when he’d been transported to Ka’arath for the Trial of Primacy – but this instance felt subtly different.&nbs...
2024-11-25 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostZeke’s heavy feet thudded against the ground, digging deep divots into the muddy turf as he raced toward Oda. The demonic tree god had somehow possessed Ignatius, the leader of the Radiant Host, but he stood his ground as if he didn’t feel at all threatened. Perhaps he didn’t.&n...
2024-11-25 14:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostElijah landed just outside the grove, then initiated his transformation back into his human form. He’d admittedly gotten a little carried away while testing out his flight form, and he had spent the past few hours flying faster and with more agility than ever before. The influx of a...
2024-11-24 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Does he look different to you?” asked Carmen, her eyes trained on the multi-colored creature flying through the sky. “He looks different.”
“Looks terrifyin’ is what he looks,” said Carissa with a shiver. “How you spend so much time with ‘im, I’ll never know....
2024-11-23 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostElijah leaped from his balcony, his large, full-size mirror under his arm. He landed in the grove, reveling in his increased attributes. It wasn’t the first time he’d gotten them over two-hundred, but there was a difference between getting there with the benefit of buffs, equipmen...
2024-11-22 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostZeke rammed the gate, flexing his immense strength to give him more power. It shattered before him, launching backward across a courtyard and into a wall. It would have gone further, but the material of the gate was much weaker than the wall with which it had collided. So, it br...
2024-11-22 14:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostI just wanted to share with the latest piece of art I commissioned (yes, I have a costly addiction to cool art). It's the Shape of Thorn:
Elijah watched as he received one notification after another, each informing him that he’d attained another level. And with every notification came an influx in attributes that, as they flooded his body, gave him an odd feeling of power, jitteriness, and a healthy dose of nausea. Wh...
2024-11-21 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostZeke let out a sigh of relief as [Hand of Divinity] flooded into him, mending his wounds in only moments. The skill didn’t expel the arrowheads in his back, but rather, melted them down so they could join his now-transformed titanic body. Often, he’d chastised himself for using [T...
2024-11-21 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostOn the surface, there were only two choices that mattered. Both the Primal Lord and the Bloomwarden lived up to their Mythic rarities, offering far more power than their Legendary counterparts. Objectively, they were just better, so it was easy to discard the other three options. ...
2024-11-20 16:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Elijah landed lightly in Druid’s Park. Concerning his flight technique, he’d made a ton of progress since he’d gained the spell just outside of Seattle, and though he wasn’t quite at the level of a native flyer like a bird, he at least didn’t disturb the ground upon landing. ...
2024-11-20 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostElijah drifted in the center of the cave, hovering only a few feet from the bottom. The Leviathan Bones remained, though he could feel that they were far less dense than they had been before his bout of cultivation. As for the rest of the vegetation, it had been absorbed by his effort...
2024-11-19 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post