Little Winging was quite possibly the quietest place on Earth. It was a small village in the Surrey region of England. As Mr. Reid drove Luke and his family through town, almost nobody could be seen walking the streets.
Gazing out the car window, Luke could ...
2025-01-24 21:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
No matter how powerful a person is, everybody has to sleep at some time.
Luke Walker was enjoying his third nap in a row when suddenly, two small hands grabbed his shirt and started shaking him violently.
“What. Is. It. Hail...
2025-01-23 21:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
After that frankly roller coaster of dinner, the Walker family's daily lives quickly became very busy. Luke’s father still had to work until the end of the week, so he got a break from the chaos, but it was all hands on deck for the rest of them.
Packing u...
2025-01-22 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Luke and Haillee descended the stairs hand in hand, neither too fast nor too slow, as they’d done countless times before. They did not need to rush. Both of them could sense their father's approach in their own ways and knew to speed up or slow down as needed.
2025-01-21 21:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Synopsis:
It only takes a single hand to tip the scales of fate. Luke Walker would do much more than that.
Blessed or cursed with memories of another life, fate is forced to change to accommodate him. Most changes are minor; after all, he's only a single person in ...
2025-01-21 05:09:09 +0000 UTC View PostFor a moment, we weren’t trapped underground.
For a minuscule second, I wasn’t worried about fighting for my life.
It would be so easy to let the world fall away and pretend I was somewhere else— But I couldn’t.
I desperately wanted...
2025-01-21 02:59:48 +0000 UTC View PostYou know, I'm looking forward to the day I open my eyes, and I'm not met with nothing but darkness. Though I will admit, I am reluctantly getting used to it by this point.
I don’t even think about it as I instinctively flare Sense Mana to get a quick idea of my surroundings. My scan quick...
2024-02-24 09:12:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe human mind can only take in so much at once. Increasing your stats and skills increases a person's mental threshold and helps with overload, but sometimes, it simply isn’t enough.
My Mind stat is decent compared to others with similar builds, and I was already used to scanning large s...
2024-02-15 07:20:21 +0000 UTC View PostI was back in the real world, but my soul still trembled. I'd been expelled out of my soul hundreds of times before, in all manners of the sense, but never like this. Being forcefully ejected was never easy, but at most, it only takes me a few seconds to recover from the sensation, no matter how ...
2024-02-10 05:46:32 +0000 UTC View PostClawing at my wrist, I try to get my fingers underneath the bracelet clinging to my arm, but no matter what I try, it's like the metal has fused to my flesh. There was no gap to slip my fingers into, and channeling mana between them wasn’t helping either. I wasn’t in pain or anything, but tha...
2023-05-19 07:55:21 +0000 UTC View PostI wanted to kick myself for suggesting we bury the remains instead of just cremating them, but it was too late now.
Tabitha and I had already worked together to punch through the brick flooring in the hallway outside the chamber. Initially, we tried to break the flooring inside the chamber ...
2023-05-15 06:29:53 +0000 UTC View PostStepping back, I slide next to Tabitha and raise my hand to my hammer's handle as the massive stone doors slowly open.
We were prepared for almost anything to come rushing at us, but we weren't expecting the veritable wave of foul-smelling humid air that exploded from the opening doors. The...
2023-05-11 06:32:33 +0000 UTC View Post“So, what am I doing wrong?” Tabitha asks as we walk down a dark corridor.
The humidity was rising the deeper we traveled into the ruins. The grey brickwork was still solid in most places, but after thousands of years, parts had started to give way, leaking dirt and moisture into the di...
2023-05-07 05:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostMy consciousness snaps back to reality, and my eyes shoot open, but all that greets me is darkness.
Slowly, I sit up from my lying position and scan the dark room with Sense Mana. Tabitha was where I left her, sitting still like a statue. She didn’t have her light spell activated, but her...
2023-05-04 04:28:14 +0000 UTC View PostEverywhere I looked, my soul was a complete and utter disaster. Of course, I expected some damage from the soul horror incident, but this was beyond anything I could imagine.
As soon as I opened my eyes, I was in the middle of a destroyed clearing. All the plants I’d painstakingly molded ...
2023-05-01 19:25:35 +0000 UTC View PostI always enjoyed working around other people, even if I was the only one doing the work. There was just something about having somebody watching me that always made me want to do my best.
This was not one of those times.
I could deal with Tabitha giving me advice on any number of subj...
2023-04-29 08:02:35 +0000 UTC View Post“Will you watch over me?” I ask over my shoulder.
“I may not have full use of my left arm yet, but my right is just fine.” Thanks to the light spell hovering over Tabitha’s head, I can clearly see her flexing her one good arm as a show of strength.
"Okay then," I nod and foc...
2023-04-27 05:44:34 +0000 UTC View PostLV: 82 Experience: 836,754/ 1,484,280
Health: 1,784.96/2,530
Stamina 1,388.34/1,697
Mana: 561.22/1,030
Vitality: 253.05
Endurance: 100.40
I was awake, but I didn’t want to be. There was no reason to open my eyes, as we were still underground, and I wouldn't be able to see anything if I did, but that didn’t stop me from checking my surroundings with Sense Mana. Considering we weren't ambushed while asleep, it was safe to say we ...
2023-04-21 02:53:15 +0000 UTC View PostI need to hurry!
The rotating whisps of the goddesses’ power were spinning as fast as I could control them and were cutting through the soul horror experience like butter, yet everything wasn’t smooth sailing. The whisps were slowly shrinking, but that wasn’t the most significant prob...
2023-04-19 07:07:11 +0000 UTC View PostWhere the hell am I?
What am I doing here?
Wasn’t I just….
That's weird; I can't remember what I was doing.
I vaguely remember exploring the Endless Forest, but the details feel hazy. And whenever I try to recall any recent memories, I can't remember anything specific....
2023-04-17 19:04:06 +0000 UTC View PostThey were coming from everywhere!
Grabbing Tabitha by her armor, I quickly dragged her to the center of the room as a spectral hand reached for her through the wall I had her propped up against.
“Gods!” Tabitha exclaims as multiple ethereal shapes phase through the walls and ceili...
2023-04-15 05:29:03 +0000 UTC View PostThere was nothing like sitting in total darkness to make a person feel paranoid. Add the fact that the ruins were utterly devoid of sound besides Tabitha’s and mine soft breathing, and everything was ten times worse.
I didn’t have the mana to keep my light spell going, so I could do not...
2023-04-12 00:56:10 +0000 UTC View PostFuck that snake; I curse in my head. The damn thing just had to spit on us before we got away.
Still holding on to Tabitha by the scruff of her armor, we tumble down into the dark ruins below. Almost as soon as we jumped in the hole I created, it was covered again, either by bones or the sn...
2023-04-09 05:31:15 +0000 UTC View PostWe could not escape; the massive beast had utterly cut us off.
“Fuck! Of all the places to run into a lesser dragon,” Tabitha curses as she draws her sword while I stand frozen in fear.
I wouldn’t call the creature before us a dragon, but with the pressure emanating from it, I w...
2023-04-07 01:12:19 +0000 UTC View Post“So, how is it? Anything dangerous?” Tabitha asks me as soon as I open my eyes after using Sense Mana to scan the area ahead of us.
“None that I can sense,” I tell her. “But it’s weird.”
“How so?" Tabitha leans in, hanging on my every word.
Scratching the back of...
2023-04-05 02:50:53 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a pep in my step as I stood at the crater's edge, looking out at the dead spot in the distance. The training was fun, but exploring was way more exciting. And since the dead zone was our last target, there was an added sense of anticipation.
Scaling down the crater's edge would be...
2023-03-31 01:57:56 +0000 UTC View PostDarrius' Point of View:
Silvia and I lie silently next to one another, neither of us being able to fall asleep. We were both waiting for the other to bring up what happened during dinner, but there was only silence between us.
Leaning over, I wrap my arm around my wif...
2023-03-30 04:42:07 +0000 UTC View PostMana was such an exciting thing to play with. It was so malleable, yet uncontrollable at the same time. I know that sounds contradictory, but it was true. The more you try to control mana, the more it resists you.
Take, for example, my hand; I can gather mana in my palm effortlessly, but do...
2023-03-29 04:02:49 +0000 UTC View PostAfter three hours and thirty-six minutes, we finally reached the glowing lake in the center of the crater, and it was magical with a capital M.
Too bad we couldn’t see it up close.
“You sure we can’t just get a little bit closer?” I ask Tabitha for the third time. “I don’t...
2023-03-27 05:19:32 +0000 UTC View Post