The golem continued sparking as Cass ran toward it and Alyx. She redirected arch after arch of lightning to the side. Where the lightning struck stone, monsters rose from the ground or emerged from the walls. They were gaunt creatures, their form hazy and indistinctly humanoid, ghostly and glowin...
2024-11-06 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m full,” Pellen announced a little while later.
Cass’s Focus has recovered too, but her Health was a long way off.
Stamina: 129/129
Focus: 441/441
Health: 41/114
“Let’s get moving...
2024-11-04 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostNo longer possessed by the single-minded focus of demonic impulses, Cass finally had enough presence of mind to look around the room.
The backroom reminded Cass of the science lab back in high school.
Oh, it was a fair bit nicer than the permanent portable building they’...
2024-11-02 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt was an interesting set of choices. Tempest Blade sounded like a better version of what she already had. Like Wind and Mana Blade, she could continue transforming her staff into a glaive. Better yet, it sounded like it would be both cheaper and more powerful than the combination of Mana Wind Bl...
2024-10-30 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostCass woke with a killer headache. Alyx, Marco, and Pellen all leaned over her. She was covered in the glowing purple ichor and still lying on top of the Keeper’s corpse.
“Good, you’re alive,” Alyx said, reaching a hand down to help Cass up.
Cass’s first instinct was to...
2024-10-28 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostSomeone shouted her name. Her vision spun. What was happening?
Kill that thing, Salos hissed from her chest, feral and forceful. Devour it whole.
Cass blinked, her vision clearing to see Alyx and Marco in battle against a giant spider-man.
The space beyond was more dark, stone corridors. It went straight away from the opening Cass made. She closed the entry behind them so Fioreya couldn’t follow and they set out down it.
They were getting closer.
Her body was shaking in anticipation. Her mouth watered.&nbs...
2024-10-23 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostLoot collected, resources reasonably recovered, the group—now made up of five—backtracked to the main path. With Alyx and Marco, they had little difficulty with the nest of snakes in the previous room.
Standing in the main hall again, Cass looked between the doors. She still didn’t kn...
2024-10-21 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostCass fixed up the remains of the campfire while Marco carried Pellen closer to the fire and laid her atop a sleeping mat from his pack.
In a few minutes, all of them were seated around a blazing little flame, warm and comfortable in the glow of Beacon of Home and Hearth. Cass even bro...
2024-10-19 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe wolf didn’t wait for them to regroup before lunging the nearest person. That was Alyx, who parried with an aura-shrouded blade. Their blades locked for a moment while the gophers and snakes rushed back in around them.
“There’s a lot of ‘em down here,” Marco observed with the s...
2024-10-16 22:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostCass raced back toward the Pellen and the central circle. Only to run into a horde of gophers in between.
Aventis Gopher (lvl 17) x3
Aventis Gopher (lvl 18) x2
Cass’s staff swept through them, dismembering the arms ...
2024-10-14 22:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostTime passed slowly, their Focus ticking up point by point.
Cass? Salos’s voice flickered at the edge of Cass’s awareness.
Salos? Cass called back.
Oh, you are still alive. Good.
Couldn’t you feel me? Cass asked.&n...
2024-10-12 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostA chest sat in the center of the next room. Sigils glowed around it in a wide circle to Cass’s ordinary vision and her Mana Sense. Trap Detection and Atmospheric Sense both had words to share as well.
Trap Detection informed her stepping over that ring was likely highly ill-advised while ...
2024-10-09 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe next room was filled with snakes. They coated the floor in a writhing mat.
Silversoul Snake (lvl 15) x 57
Silversoul Snake (lvl 16) x 33
Silversoul Snake (lvl 17) x 9
Silversoul Snake (lvl 18) ...
2024-10-07 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostTime passed slowly as their resources recovered point by point and Pellen’s injuries closed up. They took turns dozing, but neither was truly comfortable enough to sleep.
“What now?” Pellen asked many hours later. “Should we return to the main path?”
Cass reached...
2024-10-05 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostLevel Up!
+ 1 Dex
+ 1 End
+ 1 Wll
+ 1 Ala
+ 4 Free Points
Confounding Mists has reached level 4.
Stealth has reached ...
2024-10-02 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostCass and Pellen settled on either side of the side room’s door, their fire set between them in front of the door, recovering their Focus and Health under the benefits of Beacon of Hearth and Home.
“So, why do you suppose the boxes unlock for you?” Pellen asked.
Cass shrugg...
2024-09-30 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostFocus: 369/369
The time had come. Cass had to decide. No matter how she ran the risks and benefits, Option 4: “Go Find Some Treasure” came out the best.
The only questions now were: was she going on her own and which door was she going to try?
... 2024-09-28 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostCass started running. She didn’t know where she was going, just that she couldn’t stay here.
A bolt of lightning ripped through the air, sparking blue and white and illuminating the chasm for a fraction of a second, revealing the walls and casting strange shadows through the rubble.
... 2024-09-25 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostFalling was only a problem if you couldn’t fly, as Cass was finding. She had fully expected the stomach twisting drop of the floor falling out from beneath her and nauseating free fall to follow. Earth, human Cass certainly would have felt it. She’d gone on a drop tower once at an amusement p...
2024-09-23 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe tang of iron hung in the air of the next room.
A body lay slumped against one wall. The stone doors across the way hung open, stairs leading down waiting beyond.
“The stairs, finally,” Alyx said with a relieved sigh.
Cass froze in the doorway. The body was st...
2024-09-21 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThey continued in silence down the hall. Every room was full of more destroyed guards, their masks dented and beaten, their bodies mangled.
Behind you! Salos shouted.
Cass spun. Something popped up from the solid stone. A child-sized figure.
It was a s...
2024-09-18 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThey stepped over the threshold of the storehouse doors and the change in the air was immediate and stark. The morning air in the arena had been cold but fresh, moist with the dew of a new day’s beginning. The air that surrounded her as she stepped over that threshold carried a touch of the gra...
2024-09-16 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostCass and Marco followed Alyx into the coliseum’s arena the next morning. Salos sat on her shoulder, his tail curled around her neck. They all were dressed in their armor and armed with their weapons. Marco wore a pack with supplies over his shoulder, his shield strapped across the back. 2024-09-14 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Cass followed Alyx out of the manor and up the main road of the palatial hill, only to turn off the road a little further up.
The entrance was well kept, but the path quickly became overgrown as they walked further down it, weeds and thistles reaching over the cobble path and growing up bet...
2024-09-11 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh, Alacrity’s mercy!” Alyx exclaimed as Cass stepped into her guest room. The swordswoman shot up from the couch by the hearth and rushed to Cass’s side. “You’re alive. Where have you been? Why didn’t you meet up when we agreed?”
Alyx’s words slowed as her fingers ...
2024-09-09 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostA woman was standing outside the manor when Cass finally found her way to it. Identify called her a level 17 Human Servant, and she was dressed to match in simple, though good quality clothes.
“Miss Cass Yuan?” the woman asked.
“Hi?” Cass said with a wave. This couldn’...
2024-09-07 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“The lord wishes to see you,” Aldrick said with a bow of his head. He was a narrow-faced man in a fitted suit. He was her father’s head butler.
Alyx looked between the darkening sky and the manor’s entrance. Cass wasn’t here either and it was getting late. Still, she couldn...
2024-09-04 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostCass had mostly calmed down by the time she reached the library. Every sound was sharp and dangerous to her ears, every motion out of the corner of her eye a threat, but she was breathing normally, at least.
“Thank you for walking me here,” Cass said to Daidyn at the doors.
...
2024-09-02 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostApologies everyone, there was a mistake in the scheduling of chapter release today.
For reasons only the Aster of yesterday could possibly answer for you, I initially, incorrectly scheduled it for tomorrow (Sunday) instead of today (Saturday). Today's Aster is as confused as you are.
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