Elijah didn’t hesitate.
He used Flicker Step.
Flicker Step
Slip into the shadows, emerging behind your opponent. Only usable while under the influence of Shape of Venom. Cooldown based on Dexterity....
2024-09-05 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Elijah lowered his staff and cast Nature’s Rebuke. It had been incredibly effective against the zombies, so he expected it to do just as much damage against the tidal wave of rotting flesh coming his way. The spell hit the mass, and for a moment, he thought it was going to work.&nbs...
2024-09-05 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostZeke shoved his hand through the monster’s chest. Its scales were durable, but a simple punch from Zeke could shatter boulders with ease. As a result, he felt almost no resistance until he latched onto the creature’s spine. Then, he reared back and kicked the monster in the ...
2024-09-05 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostElijah barreled through a pair of zombies, throwing them aside with so much momentum that when they hit the wall, they splattered like bugs. Still, he knew they weren’t truly dead because their brains remained undestroyed. He didn’t take the time to finish them off, though. ...
2024-09-04 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe pyramid hovered in the air, suspended by nothing Elijah could sense, and glowing with aquamarine energy. Even though the clouds had parted, the sun was nowhere to be seen, and the world seemed permanently cast in shades of grey. Elijah couldn’t explain it, but then again, he did...
2024-09-04 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostElijah leaped free of the falling skeleton, flipping through the air until he landed on his feet a few yards away. Black bones clattered to the ground, collecting into a large pile as he clutched the faintly glowing white crystal that had been around its neck. After he skidded to a st...
2024-09-03 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostCarmen pressed her foot against the pedal, sending a surge of ethera through the machine and activating the grinder. The attached belt had been made from leather covered by ground dragonstone, creating a fine grit that could grind down the most stubborn of metals.
Not that such ...
2024-09-03 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostFlames danced across Zeke’s metallic forearm, casting it in an orange glow. It tingled a bit, but due to his nearly perfect resistance to fire, it was incapable of harming him. Beside him, Adara took a sip from a metal flask, saying, “I don’t have an infinite supply of this fire...
2024-09-03 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe giant skeletal warrior’s steps thundered with incalculable weight that shook the ground beneath Elijah’s feet. It was more than twenty feet tall, and the bones that composed its body were far thicker than they should have been. They were also pitch black, as if they’d been c...
2024-09-02 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostA paradoxically cold wind drifted through the tunnel, cutting through Elijah’s Cloak of the Iron Bear and seeping into his spirit. He shivered, but after many hours spent fighting through the labyrinth of a crypt, he’d grown accustomed to the discomfort. And crypt it was, as evide...
2024-09-02 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostZeke watched the dragon flee into the skies, its wings, huge as they were, seemingly incapable of holding it aloft. Not helping that perception was the fact that its flight path was erratic, its flapping wings stuttering every so often. Clearly, it would take quite some time for it to...
2024-09-02 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember is here!
That means we're starting another accelerated release month. My goal is to keep it going all month, and I think I have enough backlog to do that. However, as always, if I can't manage it, I'll cut it short. That said, expect the extra chapters on Wednesdays to be suspe...
2024-09-01 19:16:06 +0000 UTC View Post“You can handle it, right?” asked Elijah, glancing back at Ron. “I can’t understate how damaging it can be.”
“I’m fine,” Ron said.
“I ain’t,” Kurik muttered. “How ‘bout I just sit this one out? I can –”
“Don’t be scared, ...
2024-09-01 15:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs Elijah circled the tallest tower in the region, he felt a combination of electricity, ethera, and death dancing across his wings. He banked, avoiding a bolt of teal lightning, then latched onto the spire at the top of the tower. Like that, he remained stationary for a few seconds, ...
2024-09-01 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“It ain’t proper.”
“You were welcome not to use the cultivation cave, you know. Complaining about it now isn’t going to change anything,” Elijah said, striding alongside Kurik. Before, the dwarf would have struggled to keep up – on account of his much shorter legs ...
2024-08-31 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“You already understand it,” said Sadie, pushing her sweaty hair out of her face. “I don’t think there are any other layers to it.”
Elijah shook his head, then jabbed the fire with a stick. Sadie was not the person he would have normally chosen for esoteric discussions...
2024-08-30 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostZeke took an inadvertent step backwards as a wave of primal fear swept through his mind. It only lasted a moment, but in the brief instant, he knew what others might feel when they looked at him. Violently, he shoved that away and studied the creature looming over him.
It ...
2024-08-30 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostIt was almost certainly a bad idea.
Elijah was well aware that he should have at least gone back to the cultivation cave to let everyone know what he was going to do. Yet, as he stepped past the threshold, he pushed those thoughts aside and focused on the excitement building in ...
2024-08-29 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“That was weird,” Zeke said as he leaped over a fallen tree. The forest all around him looked as if it had just been hit by a hurricane of epic proportions, but he knew that wasn’t the case. For one, they were too far from the ocean for that, and for another, he’d been assured...
2024-08-29 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostFor what Elijah had planned, he needed as much ethera density as he could find. To that end, he returned to his corner of the cultivation cave, where he settled down to inspect the branch he’d stolen. At first, he felt a little bad about breaking off a piece of the tree and taking i...
2024-08-28 15:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostElijah opened his eyes, frowning as he looked around his section of the cultivation cave. To say he was disappointed would have been a vast understatement. He’d spent the past three days trying to advance his Body cultivation, but he’d made absolutely no progress. It wasn’...
2024-08-28 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMiguel sat in the center of the grove, his eyes closed as he basked in the dense ethera surrounding the ancestral tree. Now that he’d used Pledge of the Green Warden, everything felt so different. It was like comparing a two-dimensional drawing of a forest to walking among the trees...
2024-08-27 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostZeke shook his head as he looked at the long lines of shackled prisoners. There were thousands of people there, and plenty more remained within the city, where a few pockets of resistance had sprung up to defend the civilians. The scouts had found more than one mass grave containing h...
2024-08-27 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Remove those things from my sight, or they will be removed,” Sadie intoned, her voice low but firm as she leveled her sword in Benedict’s direction.
For his part, the Warlock seemed surprised by the altercation, and for good reason. He’d clearly taken great pains to avo...
2024-08-26 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe spear, glowing with radiant power, skittered off Zeke’s ribs, and he returned the failed attack with a backhanded blow from his hammer. The Knight took it on her shield, activating some sort of skill, and for a brief second, she resisted the momentum of the strike. Then, an expl...
2024-08-26 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, so this week has been pretty awesome. I've been writing up a storm, and I'm super excited about my progress. You'll all see the results of this whirlwind of writing progress in a week or two. Anyway, let's get right into the update.
First of all, Mistrunner 3 is releasing Tuesda...
2024-08-25 21:50:50 +0000 UTC View PostElijah heaved a body onto the pile, then took a deep breath that he immediately regretted. His sense of smell had recently taken a step forward – or perhaps his Mind was now capable of parsing the sensory information more completely now that it had progressed to the Jade stage – so gett...
2024-08-25 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“They’re comin’, hoss. Ain’t nothin’ we can do about that. All we can do is get ready.”
Ramik gripped the arm of his chair, his knuckles paling as he stared at the map on his desk. The man standing before him looked like he’d been through a war. His clo...
2024-08-23 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTucker staggered down the street, lifting a jug of rum to his lips and taking a long swig. The taste wasn’t anything spectacular, though it wasn’t terrible, either. Still, it did the job, which was all he could ask for. As he lowered the jug to his side, it slipped from his ...
2024-08-23 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post