Elijah tackled the monster, leveraging his greater mass to drive it into the ground. As he did, he used Iron Scales, though even with that ability augmenting his defenses, the creature dug its own claws into his body, ripping his scales free. Elijah ignored it, trusting Ron to heal hi...
2024-08-22 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“I almost expected that you would swoop in and try to save me,” said Adara, running a hand through her hair. It was caked with blood, with a little fleck of flesh stuck just behind her slightly pointed ear. Her armor wasn’t much better off, and though it was high quality, it had...
2024-08-22 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostElijah slammed into the wall with enough force to break bones. Thankfully, the impact was spread across most of his torso, so he didn’t shatter his skeleton, but that didn’t mean he wasn’t afflicted with an enormous amount of pain. Agony shot through him as the breath left his b...
2024-08-21 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostElijah could feel the captive crafters deep within the compound, but for now, he ignored them. Even if the ultimate goal was to free them, the others were in the middle of fighting one of the most terrifying foes he’d ever encountered, and the only way to stop her was to remove the head o...
2024-08-21 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAs Elijah ran across the wall, he had to wonder why he always seemed to end up as bait. But he knew the answer. He was the fastest and most capable of adjustment, should the plan go awry. Even so, it wasn’t precisely enjoyable, knowing that one little mistake would see him ove...
2024-08-20 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe hammer smashed into the knight – named Callum Fris – with the force of a falling mountain. Yet, when the head of Voromir met the man’s blade, he remained unmoved. A shockwave erupted from the point of impact, tearing through the surrounding crater and felling buildings for b...
2024-08-20 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you okay?” asked Atticus, his hand resting on the woman’s shoulder. She was clearly frightened, but, when she looked up at him, flames of defiance danced in her eyes.
“Bah – worry about yourself, child,” she spat. “These so-called Immortals won’t break...
2024-08-19 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostZeke sat atop the wall and took a bite of the pastry. The lemon filling was tart, perfectly complimenting the sweetness. The city of Moreth stretched out before him, and the sound of ongoing battle echoed through the streets. Everywhere he looked, legions of kobolds fought again...
2024-08-19 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostIt's that time of the week again!
This week has been pretty cool. Not only are the numbers for Path of Dragons continuing to climb (it's been in the top ten most popular stories (each week) on Royal Road for months at this point), but the number of followers and favorites have been stead...
2024-08-18 20:15:47 +0000 UTC View PostColt smashed against the wall, the impact rattling his bones and dislodging a cloud of dust and pebbles that fell upon his shoulders. For a moment, he struggled to breathe, but he shoved the resulting panic aside and threw himself into a roll that allowed him to narrowly avoid the descendin...
2024-08-18 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostNexus Town had never been densely populated. Even a few weeks after the Trial of Primacy had begun, only a few areas had been occupied. However, as Elijah and Dat entered the settlement, a pall of abandonment hung over everything. That wasn’t helped by the sight of occasional ...
2024-08-17 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Master, it looks at us with ire!” spat one of the little demons as it hopped from one pile of rubble to the next, clearly incapable of standing still. “Make it stop!”
“Deal with it,” muttered Benedict with a shake of his head. He shrugged at Elijah, then apologized ...
2024-08-16 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIf Zeke was honest, he would have said that he expected what had ended up happening. However, the reasons behind it were surprising. Walking through Moreth, he’d been suitably impressed by the architecture. To date, he’d had few chances to see truly awe-inspiring settlements...
2024-08-16 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostOscar Ramirez leaped to the side, then slammed his hatchet into the creature’s forehead. It fell, but he knew from experience that it wouldn’t last. Escobar barked, and with each sound came a softball-sized mass of roiling fire that slammed into the fallen creature. The smel...
2024-08-15 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“At the risk of stating the obvious, you could have just drained the earth attuned mana,” said Eveline. “That would have weakened them enough that –”
Panting, Zeke rested his hammer on the ground. “I know that. I didn’t want to do that.”
“You’d ra...
2024-08-15 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostColt rammed his sword through the dark elf’s chest until it burst from his back in a shower of blood. In the flickering light of the camp’s fire, the viscera was dark – almost black – as it sprayed against the side of the cavern. He yanked his blade free and spun into a backha...
2024-08-14 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostHalima stared at the destruction, feeling strangely detached from the scene before her. Blood covered everything in her field of vision, and body parts were scattered in all directions. At some point, her clothing had been ripped to shreds, exposing her in every way imaginable, but as...
2024-08-14 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostElijah collapsed onto the ground, having left the latest challenge far behind. For a long time, he just lay there, his eyes closed as he steadied his breathing. As much as he had gained inside, he never wanted to see anything like it ever again. He didn’t even want to think ab...
2024-08-13 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostPredictably, the mountain elemental hit quite hard. It swatted Zeke out of the air with barely a thought, and he went flying across the valley for more than a mile before hitting a vertical cliff. He shattered its surface, digging a crater almost ten yards deep before finally coming t...
2024-08-13 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostShadows danced against the walls, caused by the flaming torch in Gwenivere’s hand. Thankfully, it emitted no smoke, instead giving off a scattering of ethereal motes that dissipated after only a few moments. She sighed, glancing around. The structure of the mine was precisely ...
2024-08-12 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe forest was still. There were no rustling leaves, no chirping birds or chittering insects. It was entirely silent, but for Zeke’s heavy footsteps. Following a few miles behind was a troop of kobolds and his more capable companions, but the rest of the kobold army remained i...
2024-08-12 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostSo, I haven't done one of these "weekly" check-ins in a couple of weeks, which begs the question of whether or not I should change the name. Whatever the case, the last couple of weeks have been pretty big. First of all, Death: Genesis 6 briefly hit #1 in a couple of categories on Amazon, and e...
2024-08-11 18:11:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe ta’alaki slithered forward, then miraculously, they extended a hand. Elijah took it, and the native of Ka’arath helped him to his feet.
“What is going on?” Elijah asked.
The snake-tailed creature looked away and sighed. That gave Elijah a moment to truly ...
2024-08-11 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostElijah stumbled along, his fingers trailing across the wall as a thousand accusatory voices screamed in his mind. He no longer paid attention to their visual representations, instead simply trudging through them like the figments of his imagination they were. However, he couldn’t ig...
2024-08-10 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostElijah thrust his claws through the chest of an oncoming beast, and before it could latch its unnatural tentacles onto his arm, he shook it free. The creature fell, its screeches reaching a crescendo before the sound was cut short by the monster below. Elijah didn’t look down to see...
2024-08-09 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe air surrounding Zeke rippled, but not with mana. Nor was it his Will making itself known. It was something else, something for which he had no label. Whatever it was, though, he couldn’t deny its profundity. Every ripple brought with it understanding. With ever...
2024-08-09 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostYou are weak.
The whispered words hung in the air, and for a long moment, Elijah didn’t respond. Then, his mind wrapped itself around the fact that he was not alone. Still standing on the pillar at the center of those slimey webs, he whipped around in a circle, search...
2024-08-08 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Who dares attack my people?!” came a roaring voice from the other side of the vale. Zeke raised his eyes, looking past the carnage-filled battlefield and at the figure who’d finally arrived. If he was honest, Zeke had expected it. He knew a little about troll society, and...
2024-08-08 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostElijah passed into the tunnel, careful to avoid the tendrils of corruption spread across the floor. Fortunately, it was far denser on the walls than the ground, which gave him plenty of room to pass through without touching them – something he wanted to avoid, and not just because he thou...
2024-08-07 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostElijah continuously looped ethera around the facets of his mind. It slowed his regeneration quite significantly, but his instincts told him that he was on the right track concerning the cultivation of his Mind. He wasn’t certain what he was missing, but the moment he found it, he wa...
2024-08-07 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post