Sitting stiff and ramrod straight, completely oblivious to the soft embrace of tufted velvet upholstery—one of the very few seated accommodations present within the cool, well lit, and even finer appointed rooms of the Interior Minister’s office—Meredith just couldn’t seem to help the col...
2024-10-22 22:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThrough his periphery, R. Jun watched the girl scrutinize the weapon rack for what had to have been the sixth consecutive pass. This had been going on for quite a while now, and, seeing as she appeared no closer to making a decision, he figured he still had time.
Idly toying with the supern...
2024-10-22 22:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostIt was only with the advent of the Azure Queen that humanity struck the first decisive blow to rift born kind.
One that was heard around the world and back. Taking the war to them after countless centuries of indolence, the hero’s and fated champions, great warriors of old, rapidly expan...
2024-10-22 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostEleanor
Day 01
Journal Entry 01
Mary insisted I keep a daily journal chronicling my time here in the military. I don’t really have much to say so far. Oh wait! The wall! Of course. It truly is something else. I’m now positive that not a single one of the descriptions I...
2024-10-22 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe next mere handful of days were, quite possibly, the most hectic of Eleanor’s entire life.
Due almost entirely to the fact that, for most of it, she felt less like an active participant in goings on, and more like a helpless passenger purely along for the ride. In that time, she took ...
2024-10-22 22:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostUnwilling to let things go so easily, Jun tried pinpointing where exactly the problem lay.
Where he could’ve possibly gone wrong. It didn’t take long for him to recognize that some weapons evinced a greater resistance than others. While thinner blades, daggers, l...
2024-10-22 22:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Splitting Chop!”
One crosswise sweep and half a dozen undead fell lifelessly to the floor. Well, more lifeless than they had been, at any rate. And again, and again, and once more for good measure.
Jun’s arm a blur. His lemon-yellow extension a reaper’s blade, scything down ...
2024-10-22 22:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe sound of an explosion had Eleanor rolling to her feet before her brain, still half asleep by this point, had fully registered what was wrong.
Over the perpetual rhythm of the sodden downpour, she heard the rattle and snap of dozens of shutters, as many similarly tried to investigate th...
2024-10-22 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Up!”
Raina emptied the full contents of her bucket onto the sleeping form of their would be captive. Jerking him awake with a cold slap of well water, she only took a small amount of pleasure from the way he coughed and spluttered.
If her life had, by necessity, become this nigh...
2024-10-22 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostForty minutes later, and he finally felt as though he’d been brought up to speed.
Not that it made any of it any less confusing, mind you, but now at least he thought he had a better handle on the situation. First things first? It was official. He’d royally messed up. Tal...
2024-10-22 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAs five of the shadow wolves broke away from the pack, converging from seemingly every direction at once, he didn’t change his method of attack in the slightest. Well, if you ignored just one minor detail that was. Sensing the one to his left most keenly, he turned in that direction, ignoring t...
2024-10-22 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you sure about this?” Edmond asked, voice pitched too low for their guest’s ears to pick up. “I mean we don’t actually know if he’s any good in a fight. He could be terrible. Worse yet, he could die, and then where would we be? I...
2024-10-22 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Idiot girl!” Eleanor was awake and rolling to her feet before the swat of the broom could connect with her forehead. “That’s right! Off with you now. Get! And don’t let me find you sniffing round here again, you hear?! Daft urchin! What am I running here, a blooming orphanage?!”
<... 2024-10-22 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“You heard me! Are you daft, girl?! Give me all your damned money!”
Eleanor blanched, looking cross eyed at the rusty knife hovering only a few centimeters from her nose. Following the trembling arm up to the pockmarked face, she felt only an acute sense of despair as she looked into th...
2024-10-22 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Eighteen!”
With a smooth, almost mechanical motion, Eleanor pushed herself back up until her arms reached full extension. Hands planted slightly wider than her shoulders, body held straight from her head to her heels—almost like she had a broom handle stuffed down the back of her tun...
2024-10-22 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Could we really not have found a bigger cage?” asked Edmond. “It looks as if it were made for a small dog.”
“It was the best I could cobble together on short notice,” snapped Raina. “Don’t tell me you’re having second thoughts?”
“Well, no....
2024-10-22 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostEleanor didn’t snap awake from bleary unconsciousness, so much as she passively recognized her own growing sphere of perception.
Sight, sound, and an indecipherable sixth sense slowly expanding out and away from her a few paces at a time—a diffuse light, with no identifiable source, st...
2024-10-22 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAt first there was pain. Then there was darkness. Darkness and pain. Pain and then darkness. His consciousness a faulty light fixture. A torch buffeted by hurricane winds. Flickering. Faltering. Barely there and then gone. His mind operating on quarter rations. His body always a ways away. He cou...
2024-10-22 18:32:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe unnerving, gut twisting sensation of being folded in on himself, over and over, until his total remaining body mass could fit inside a pinhole, was brought to an immediate halt with a forceful yank.
Then, all of the sudden, he was somewhere else entirely. Hovering several hundred meter...
2024-10-07 06:07:58 +0000 UTC View Post“Alright! Roll call everyone!”
There was a general chorus of piteous groans at this, bringing to Jun’s immediate attention the four individuals lying prone on the other side of the barrier. Well, three prone figures and one woman standing tall with her arms crossed. This despite...
2024-10-07 06:05:11 +0000 UTC View PostSuddenly, it was as if the world around the young cultivator changed, as something that should’ve forever remained intangible… swiftly solidified.
Standing far too close to the epicenter for comfort, Raina felt the sting of several small cuts digging into her flesh. This d...
2024-10-07 06:00:55 +0000 UTC View PostSimon dabbed at his still damp hair with the coarse bundle of cloth he’d been given in place of a towel.
Absentmindedly he hooked a finger beneath his sweat-soaked collar and tugged. As if the pervasive heat could be released so easily. Uncanny and serene as this oasis might’ve been, i...
2024-10-07 05:57:05 +0000 UTC View PostWhile he struggled with himself internally, Jun didn’t fail to notice their peculiar reaction. They looked at him almost as if they didn’t recognize him. Which didn’t make any sense because they’d have had to recognize him first and he’d only just met the group.
“That was me, ac...
2024-10-07 05:54:47 +0000 UTC View Post“I still don’t see why I should stay hidden when it’s unlikely anyone down here is bound to care one way or another,” Ivory grumbled from within the inner folds of his robes.
They’ll have seen us together, Jun thought back.
It’s just not a risk we sho...
2024-10-07 05:53:49 +0000 UTC View PostCaitlyn could only watch on in mounting horror, as the beast that was supposed to have died, stabbed Andrew through the guts, then tossed him casually to the side.
She flinched upon hearing the meaty thwack of his landing. The sound alone so terrible she couldn’t e...
2024-10-07 05:52:46 +0000 UTC View PostKit let out an ululating cry as he planted his spear deep into overgrown rat skull.
Gritting his teeth, he powered through the jolt of numbness which ran up his arms all the way to the elbow. Nearly disarming him at the most pivotal of moments. As his attack was not only met by unequivocal...
2024-10-07 05:51:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe way he saw it, there were two questions that needed answering, and one he was still unsure whether he actually wanted to know.
The first: What exactly was the nature of their mental bond?
The second: How in the world was she able to do the things she did? 2024-10-07 05:49:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Jun had expected mockery, all manner of derisive remarks, and poorly hidden sarcasm to pepper him as he mounted the stage.
What he hadn’t expected, was to be barred from participating entirely.
From out of nowhere a hand appeared to bar his way. Glancing up from perf...
2024-10-07 05:46:25 +0000 UTC View PostIf the concept of crushing were somehow personified it’d be akin to a mindless brute with the biggest club in town and an insatiable penchant for putting it to use—if, and or when, any problems should arise—irregardless of whether a caved in skull or shattered kneecap was the best possible ...
2024-10-07 05:43:38 +0000 UTC View PostCrushing Attuned Fruit of Enlightenment (Uncommon)—4,000,000 SP
3,000,000 SP (-25%)
Piercing Attuned Fruit of Enlightenment (Uncommon)—4,000,000 SP
3,000,000 SP (-25%)
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2024-10-07 05:41:45 +0000 UTC View Post