“This is a great treasure, my friends,” said Atticus, staring at the Seed of the Whistling Wind with an awestruck expression. “Truly a miraculous reward. Where did you get it?”
Elijah answered, “It was the reward for defeating one of the challenges.”
Briefly, h...
2024-07-03 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostElijah forced himself to watch, but all the while, he found himself wishing he hadn’t. Still, he didn’t look away while Sadie cut the woman to pieces. She started small, just removing a single finger, but over the course of the next few hours, the wounds grew steadily worse until ...
2024-07-03 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostElijah looked at the silver box hovering over the remains of the egg and asked, “Who wants to do the honors?”
Dat glanced at Sadie. So did Kurik. It made sense, given that she was the one who’d hold onto the reward, at least until they could have it identified. Hopef...
2024-07-02 15:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostTalia bent her back to the task of dragging the wagon along the uneven path. Once, it might have been well-preserved, but it had fallen into disrepair. Likely that had coincided with the fall of its host kingdom. Adontis might’ve been populated with monsters-in-human-skin, but...
2024-07-02 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Is this true?” Sadie asked.
Elijah looked away and rubbed the back of his neck. The sight of the battlefield didn’t make him feel any better. There were hundreds of corpses littering that stretch of the forest, and there were even more that had fallen prey to Kurik’s tr...
2024-07-01 15:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostTalia ducked under the sweeping sword strike, then leaped high into the air in order to avoid another. She landed in a roll that took her just out of reach of a descending axe. However, she could do nothing to avoid the stabbing spear from the fourth armored foe. It took her in ...
2024-07-01 13:00:46 +0000 UTC View PostEven at the best of times, landing was the most difficult part of flying, and Elijah had still yet to master it. So, trying to land with Sadie clutched in his talons was a recipe for disaster. That was why he didn’t even bother. Instead, when he reached Kurik’s Killin’ Fie...
2024-06-30 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostElijah broke through the canopy and into bright sunlight, only to see a dozen golden eagles barreling toward him. But he only had eyes for the one flying in the other direction. The huge bird had Sadie’s unconscious form clutched in its talons, and it flew further away with every pa...
2024-06-29 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostA wraith bounced off Sadie’s ethereal barrier, its forward momentum sending it skipping off the surface. It landed just past her, and though the gangly creature was dazed, Elijah and his other companions recognized the danger it still represented. So, they all focused their fire –...
2024-06-28 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostTalia stared at the man’s body, watching as it slowly lost its shape. It had been almost an hour since she’d killed Micayne, and even as his corpse dissolved into a mass of unrecognizable goo, she still had yet receive any kill energy. And that could only mean that he was still al...
2024-06-28 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“I want to go on record as saying that this is a stupid plan,” Sadie said, looking up at Elijah. “You’re going to end up dead.”
“Aww. I didn’t know you cared,” he said, stretching like he was getting ready to run a marathon. He didn’t really need it. ...
2024-06-27 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAbraham Micayne, destroyer of an entire realm, looked down on his greatest creation, wishing for everything he was worth that he could simply grab hold of her and enforce his Will. However, the girl who’d once been Talia Nightingale was beyond his reach. Undead though she was, she’d bec...
2024-06-27 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“You have to see this, bro.”
Elijah didn’t look up from the hunk of wood he’d been whittling. It had yet to take shape, and even though he’d originally set out to carve a facsimile of his old dog, it had turned out looking more like a child’s depiction of a camel. Si...
2024-06-26 15:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe wind whipped against Elijah’s body, threatening to rip him from the cliff face and send him sailing to the ground far, far below. Only an hour or so before, he’d made the mistake of looking down, which resulted in a wave of vertigo that nearly caused him to lose his grip. Thei...
2024-06-26 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Sadie stared at the Druid with unbelieving eyes. That disbelief was partially clouded by the man’s gruesome injuries. Despite spending more than an hour constantly healing, one of Elijah’s legs had still been quite crooked, so he’d had to re-break it before setting ...
2024-06-25 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe black sun imploded, and the world shattered into a thousand pieces.
Even though he’d made it a few hundred yards away, Zeke screamed as his body followed suit. It wasn’t the endless abyss waiting for him, though. Instead, he briefly saw past the construct of reality, onl...
2024-06-25 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostDesperately hanging by his fingertips, Elijah looked down, where he saw Kurik and Dat dangling in the air. The rope barely held, swaying back and forth as a giant, golden-feathered eagle swooped in, raking its talons across Dat’s hastily upraised arm. The Witch Hunter let out a scre...
2024-06-24 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostJasper drummed his fingers against his belt, and the army of kobolds were enveloped by the power of his skill. Mana suffused them, speeding their reactions and pushing them to new heights of strength. He hummed, adding a wordless melody to the bass, enhancing their natural regeneratio...
2024-06-24 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostElijah’s sense of danger, born from One with Nature as well as other, more mundane senses, screamed at him, and he’d experienced enough that he wouldn’t even considering ignoring them. So, even as the screech echoed off the cave walls, he used Shape of the Guardian. As he transf...
2024-06-23 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“It occurs to me that I’m not invincible,” said Elijah, looking up at the massive Singing Cliffs. Then, he glanced at Kurik and asked, “Do you ever feel that way?”
“All the damn time. Like a normal person,” the dwarf grumbled.
“Oh.”
“Don’t...
2024-06-22 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostElijah slammed the butt of his staff into a wraith’s skull, using Storm’s Fury to finish it off. The creature absorbed some of the ethera from the spell, but it was incapable of completely negating it.
Because, as with all things, their ability to drain ethera had limits.&nb...
2024-06-21 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe thing Zeke had learned about fighting massive monsters was that they often had difficulty dealing with anything smaller than a mountain. Most could manage it, though not without significant issues. However, the gargantuan abomination-turned-necromantic vessel was far clumsier than...
2024-06-21 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post“Paradise. That’s what he said,” Sadie spat. “He’s been living on some island sipping mojitos while we’ve been fighting for our lives against nightmare monsters!”
“I don’t think that’s the whole story, bro,” said Dat, adjusting a harness that held a brace o...
2024-06-20 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Talia raced through the empty streets, her horror at what she’d just seen having overwhelmed any emotional distance she’d managed to maintain. It didn’t matter if she had heartsblood singing through her veins. Even if she hadn’t, the blanket that normally covered ...
2024-06-20 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“How did you find me?” asked Delilah, sitting atop one of the buildings within the Nexus. Her toned legs dangled off the edge as she peered out at the people gathered around the market. Elijah couldn’t help but notice the long, puckered scar that ran from beneath her armored ski...
2024-06-19 15:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs Miguel walked beside the laden wagon, he couldn’t keep himself from gaping at his surroundings. Mountains, larger than any had been before the world’s transformation, towered all around, reaching toward the blue sky and piercing the clouds. A gentle wind blew, carrying with it ...
2024-06-19 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAs Elijah followed Kurik from the amphitheater, he caught sight of one of the men he’d healed in the infirmary. Normally, when he engaged in mass healing as he had alongside Rob, the patients’ identities tended to devolve into blurs. However, he remembered this man for two reasons...
2024-06-18 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe monster was bigger than the cyclops had been, and Zeke knew it was far more dangerous. Death-attuned mana wafted off of it like heat from the sun, visible as whirling mists of aquamarine. The flesh abomination itself was only humanoid in the most basic sense of the world. It...
2024-06-18 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostBenedict was nervous, and rightly so. For whatever reason, when he’d been transported into the Trial of Primacy, his newly summoned Malicious Guard had been left behind. He had no idea why that was the case, and he feared what such a creature would do, having been freed of his contr...
2024-06-17 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostZeke ducked beneath a fist the size of a compact car, then between its owner’s legs, rolling to his feet a moment later. Normally, he wouldn’t engage in such acrobatics; indeed, he usually preferred to stand his ground and trade momentous blows with his opponents. However, in this...
2024-06-17 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post