Oscar squatted at the tree line, his hand on the trunk of a massive oak as he studied the glade. His face remained impassive, but his mind roiled with the events of the past few days. The end of the Trial had taken more from him than he ever could have expected, and upon his return to...
2024-11-01 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostZeke surveyed the battlefield, taking in the situation. They had been fighting through the Imperium for what felt like an eternity, and though most of the cities had been abandoned, there had been enough resistance that it had required significant effort to progress.
And now, th...
2024-11-01 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostA silvery moon hung high in the sky as Elijah sat atop one of Ironshore’s buildings, watching the proceedings below. The residents were in a celebratory mood, and rightly so. By the time he had returned from the Trial of Primacy, those people had already made peace with their own de...
2024-10-31 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostAbby hit the ground in a roll that did very little to arrest her momentum. Instead, she skipped across the ground, digging a deep trench with every instance of contact. Finally, after almost half a mile, she slowed to a stop, where she lay in the overturned soil, her entire body smoking with th...
2024-10-31 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostAvara, the Queen of Desolation blinked awake.
Confused, she looked around, and all she saw was a frigid expanse teeming with deathly ethera and demonic influence. The stench of rot and death wafted into her nose, but even that was overpowered by the smell – acidic and sickly sweet ...
2024-10-30 15:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Elijah arrived at the gate, he found his nephew – with his armor so damaged that it likely offered no protection at all – standing over a decapitated body. A handful of other dark elves knelt at his feet, having been disarmed. One of the lunar deer from the island stood guard...
2024-10-30 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostGeneral Rham D’vix stood atop a roof overlooking the square where his army had gathered. The casualties of the street-to-street advance had been extensive, but he had soldiers to spare. At last count, he still had nearly thirty thousand good fighters at his disposal. The vast ...
2024-10-29 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostZeke nearly sighed in disappointment as he saw Abby disappear in a ray of light. Had she planned the ambush? Or was she ignorant of the trap? Zeke had no idea, but either way, he wasn’t truly surprised. Either she was woefully naïve when it came to the people to which s...
2024-10-29 13:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostColt rammed his sword into the dark elf’s gut before wrenching it free. Blood and intestines followed, filling the air with the smell of iron and human waste. To his nose, it was barely even noticeable. Not only had he been immersed in that smell for countless hours, but he ha...
2024-10-28 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Don’t do anything rash.”
Zeke barely heard Eveline’s warning. Instead, his entire focus rested on the conflicting emotions flowing through his mind. Some were easily explicable, like the sense of relief underlying everything. He’d often wondered about Abby’s f...
2024-10-28 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostElijah let Shape of Thorn slide away, returning to his human form. Like that, he knelt atop the slain Lightning Emperor. He barely remembered the details of the last leg of the fight. It was all lost amid so much ripping and tearing. And squeezing. Milky white blood ...
2024-10-27 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSadie watched in horror as Elijah, in his flight form, dove. There was a glint of metal right before he became a bolt of lightning. An instant later, everything went dark. Sadie’s mind went blank until, only a moment later, she found herself flying through the air. She h...
2024-10-26 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostElijah raced forward, already shifting into the Shape of Thorn, but he knew he wouldn’t get there soon enough to save Dat. Even as a huge, lightning bolt-shaped staff appeared in Yloa’s hand, Elijah’s body twisted and transformed. As the staff fell toward Dat’s head, Elijah le...
2024-10-25 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostZeke felt a dozen skills hit him all at once, but he didn’t even stagger under their collective force. If anything, he only found it irritating. If he’d known that the resistance was destined to be so light, he would have remained in the tower. At least there, he could prete...
2024-10-25 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“I have watched your progress,” said Yloa, pushing himself upright. He crossed one set of arms, while the other set met behind his back as he slithered down from the throne. He didn’t shout, but his words echoed like thunder through the throne room. “I am impressed.”&n...
2024-10-24 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“They are animals!” shouted Ignatius, sweeping the map and the paper weights from the table. “Do you have any concept how it makes us look that we can’t deal with a horde of savages? The rest of the world is laughing at us! Worse, they’ve lost all respect for our power...
2024-10-24 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostColt leaned back in the chair, his feet on the table as he looked at the still-unfamiliar cards. He barely understood the game, but somehow, he was currently in the middle of an inexplicable hot streak. He didn’t believe in luck – a man made his own fortune, as far as he was conce...
2024-10-23 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostA volley of thrown javelins hit the ceiling, carving a line of destruction in Elijah’s wake. Rocks and tiles erupted into dust upon impact, but he barely managed to outpace them. Finally, he reached his destination and leaped, fangs bared. He never reached his goal, because an...
2024-10-23 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostElijah was only a step behind Sadie when he shouted, “Get Dat and Helen! I’ll hold them off until you get them to safety!”
He didn’t wait for her confirmation before he initiated a shift into the Shape of Thorn. Meanwhile, Benedict’s bull-demon charged the front line o...
2024-10-22 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostZeke knelt in the center of his meditation chamber, unsure how he was supposed to feel. After finally reaching the peak of the realm, he felt a little lost. Adding to that was the latest notification he’d received:
Due to outside forces, level one hundred skill ch...
2024-10-22 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostAn unidentifiable stench washed over Elijah only a moment before the scaled wolves hit him. He braced himself, catching one only seconds before its jaws snapped shut on his face. The thing was big, and it was strong enough to cause real issues as it raked its back claws into his torso...
2024-10-21 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t until Zeke saw the comparatively small head – like that of a snake – at the end of the tendril that he realized he wasn’t dealing with some sort of undead tentacle monster. Instead, he faced a many-headed creature, not unlike a hydra out of Greek mythology.
Exc...
2024-10-21 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostOscar didn’t think.
He didn’t feel anything but rage.
He and his pack only cared about one thing – vengeance. He leaped atop the snake-man and, with a roar, buried his hatchet in the creature’s face. Then, his other hatchet came around to join the first. He w...
2024-10-20 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe ka’alaki hulk lashed out, backhanding one attacker while grabbing another. Then, in a move that brought a terrible memory to mind, it ripped the woman apart before throwing one half at one of her party members. The other half went sailing across the square until it splattered ag...
2024-10-19 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“That was the grosses thing I’ve ever experienced,” mumbled Sadie, squeezing the water out of her hair. To Elijah’s surprise, entry into the Seat of Thunder had gone off without a hitch, and all four groups had managed to squeeze into a vacant building. The way had been wracke...
2024-10-18 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostZeke’s fingers tightened around the haft of his hammer as he glared at the man standing upon the platform. Micayne had clearly joined his minions as one of the undead, judging by his maggoty pale skin, hollow cheeks, and stringy hair. He barely resembled the well-groomed man Zeke ha...
2024-10-18 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
“This is weird,” Elijah said. He turned to Kurik and added, “It’s weird right? It’s not just me, is it?”
“’Course it’s weird. Everything ‘bout this place and you people is weird,” the dwarf grumbled. “But Explorers have weird abil...
2024-10-17 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIn some ways, it was a familiar feeling, being ripped apart by his own power. Certainly, he’d experienced something similar when he’d managed to evolve his path. However, it was also wholly different, and in ways both subtle and profound. Destruction was, at its core, a fund...
2024-10-17 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
“You saw that, didn’t you?” said one of the members of Lamar’s team.
Another shook her head, adding, “I got some of that blood on me. It almost ate through my whole arm.”
“He was inside that thing for a long time, and…”
Elijah pretended not t...
2024-10-16 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostElijah resisted the impulse to recoil.
It wasn’t easy. The creature descending upon them was like the abyssal giants he’d seen, though wholly different as well. And not in a good way. Everything about it was wrong, and when he looked upon the thing, he struggled not to...
2024-10-16 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post