[Skill-Eater] Chapter 63: Plan
Personal statistics: Edge Vasher
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Power: 3 (4) Reflex: 1 Enduran...
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[LotMG3] Chapter 20: Strategy Session
Half an hour later, they came across a room whose entrance was partially blocked by fallen rubble, with a narrow gap running along one side where they could squeeze through.
The runes above the door were obstructed, but judging from the interior, it seemed like they’d found another one of...
2024-07-26 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill-Eater] Chapter 62: Reflection
Edge woke up late the next morning, catching up on the sleep that had been in chronically short supply since arriving on this world. He rose from his bed feeling remarkably refreshed, ready to face the day and the challenges it would bring.
As he looked out the window with a smile on his fa...
2024-07-25 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill-Eater] Chapter 61: Stinky
After he left Ann’s, Edge walked back down Main Street. He turned right at the corner, then continued for a few more blocks, mulling over his options as he crossed into the commercial district. There were several places in town where you could rent a bed, and none of them were cheap.
<... 2024-07-25 14:29:55 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill-Eater] Chapter 60: Favor
Listening to Ann’s words, Edge’s heart began to race. She had uncovered far too much of the truth in almost no time at all, just by studying the contents of his pack.
He had been in town for less than an hour, and he had already revealed far more than he’d intended. I s...
2024-07-24 17:27:15 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill-Eater] Chapter 59: Ann’s
Five minutes later, Edge found himself standing in the shadow of his destination, looking up at a sign running along the top of the sprawling wooden building. A hand painted shovel and pickaxe were crossed over the name of the shop, which was written out in bright red letters.
The sto...
2024-07-24 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post[LotMG3] Chapter 19: Battlefield Reunion
They waited until the constructs passed them by, then they moved to a room with a door they could close and a window they could peer through.
“Don’t use your darts on those silver-coated ones if we wind up fighting any,” V whispered. “The swarm adapts and creates specialized defense...
2024-07-24 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill-Eater] Chapter 58: Stroll
Now that Edge was feeling a little less overwhelmed, he slid off the barrel and rose to his feet. He was eager to complete a few quick transactions, stuff his face, and then sleep like the dead.
That was when he caught sight of his reflection in a windowpane. Damn. Is that really ...
2024-07-23 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill-Eater] Chapter 57: Apple
As soon as the hunters were out of sight, Edge sat down on a barrel and summoned his Guide, watching as the mote of golden light detached from his chest and went darting around his head.
He pulled up his menus with a command, the speck of radiance centering itself within his view befo...
2024-07-22 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post[LotMG3] Chapter 18: Nick to the Rescue
By now, Nick had activated arctic clarity to sharpen his focus. He was already in the middle of casting another spell, picking out his targets while gathering his will. Piercing ray.
It was the first time that he’d been able to cast a ray while sustaining mana darts, a clear sign...
2024-07-22 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill-Eater] Chapter 56: Mel
Edge approached the deputy on duty, a muscular redhead named Melenia who went by Mel. She was armed with a massive two-handed axe, which she could swing hard enough to shatter a boulder without using a skill.
He was a little nervous, since he didn’t have the credits to pay for his p...
2024-07-21 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill-Eater] Chapter 55: Wall
“Please be careful not to disturb Lucky’s remains. I’ll pick them up on the way back. See you around, Edge.” Trapper waved and then disappeared into the tall grass, following Blue’s trail across the prairie. He had to admire the woman’s courage. Heading out alone after coming so close...
2024-07-21 15:22:08 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill-Eater] End of Arc 1 Wrap-up
Hey everybody. We made it to the end of the story's first arc! I hope that you have enjoyed everything so far, including the bonus chapters. If you haven't had a chance to follow and rate the story on RR, and would be willing to do it today, it would really, really help me out right now while I'm...
2024-07-20 20:20:25 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill-Eater] Chapter 54: Thanks
[Overdrive] cut off a fraction of a second after the reaver’s brain froze solid.
The searing power filling his chest faded away, and shadow step deactivated the moment that the mysterious engine stopped feeding it mana.
Edge and the reaver’s corpse mate...
2024-07-20 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill-Eater] Chapter 53: Finale
Edge sprang to his feet in a single motion, activating shadow step before his boots hit the ground.
His body transformed into flowing darkness, moving faster than ever before. The world faded away to silvery fog, except for Trapper’s crew, who looked washed out...
2024-07-20 05:11:39 +0000 UTC View Post
[Skill-Eater] Chapter 52: Overdrive
Congratulations.
Skill-Eater has evolved to stage [1].
Cycles required to reach the next stage have increased from [7] to [21].
Your core has gained the following powers:
<... 2024-07-19 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post[LotMG3] Chapter 17: Warrior Rogue
Nick sprinted down the tunnel, his pounding pulse accompanying the slap of his boots striking the rocky floor below. He fought down the urge to burn stamina along the way, so that he would be ready to leap into the fight at full power the moment that he arrived.
He wasn’t sure what he wou...
2024-07-19 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill-Eater] Chapter 51: Skill-Eater
To Edge’s astonishment, something grabbed him and began to pull.
It was the first time that anything had been able to touch him in this strange space. He thought that he was under attack until he realized that he recognized the sound it was making. By this point, he was intimately familia...
2024-07-18 23:27:50 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill-Eater] Chapter 50: Upgrade
The instant that Edge acknowledged the prompt, his consciousness was peeled away from his failing body and pulled inside his core.
He found himself standing in a place that he had begun to think of as the central chamber. Unlike many of the cores he had visited while [Extracting] a sk...
2024-07-18 20:41:25 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill-Eater] Chapter 49: Seven
Edge had been hoping that the deputies would arrive in time to save them. But when he glanced in the direction of town, he still didn’t see anyone coming. Meanwhile, the reavers surged forward in a tide of living shadows, scissor-claws poised to strike.
Riller fired off a final po...
2024-07-18 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill-Eater] Chapter 48: Power
The momentum of the battle had swung back in the monsters’ favor when the shadowreaver evolved, but the hunters weren’t going down without a fight.
Jumo had reengaged the poisoned monster after Lucky died, trading hits a few feet in front of where Edge stood. Taking Riller’s warning t...
2024-07-18 01:54:04 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill-Eater] Chapter 47: Evolution
Edge had never witnessed a monster evolve until that moment.
It was one of the subjects that the System always censored on the feed. He had read plenty of firsthand accounts of the process though, often describing the final seconds of a tourist’s Prison World run. Even still, he had...
2024-07-17 17:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post[LotMG3] Chapter 16: Samples
The first test that Nick wanted to run was simple. He merely stood in place for the next five minutes, hidden behind the half-closed doorway, waiting to see if the constructs reacted to his spells. To his relief, they showed no sign of noticing the mana he’d spent and just kept gnawing away at ...
2024-07-17 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill-Eater] Chapter 46: Bladewire
Trapper reached behind her back, detaching something from her pack in a motion that had become smooth as silk through repetition. The instant that her attention was divided, the closest monster rushed in for the kill. It sent mana surging into its claws...
2024-07-16 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill-Eater] Chapter 45: Slash
After surveying the battlefield, Edge knew exactly where he needed to appear.
He closed the last few feet of misty terrain while raising his claw-sword over his head in a two-handed grip. Then he deactivated shadow step, still running at full speed.
The world ar...
2024-07-15 21:49:34 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill-Eater] Chapter 44: Rescue (Thirty Seconds Earlier)
Edge pushed his body into a burst of speed, adrenaline burning away his exhaustion in an electric tide of anticipation. He could see the walls of Puppet Town in the distance, the promise of safety so close that it made him ache for the end to his prolonged ordeal.
But that wasn’t th...
2024-07-15 21:49:11 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill-Eater] Chapter 43: Sasha
Sasha thrust her flaming spear at the monster’s face, driving it back so that it couldn’t lunge with its cruel yellow beak or disembowel her with its scissor-claws. It seemed to have an instinctual fear of fire, or she wouldn’t have been able to k...
2024-07-15 17:28:00 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill-Eater] Chapter 42: Chase (Back in the Present)
Edge slept like shit that night, lost in memory and scattered fragments of dreams. Every cry in the distance, each gust of wind stirring the canopy, brought him back to full alertness with his heart hammering in his chest.
He was groggy and miserable by the time that the sun began to ...
2024-07-15 17:27:01 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill-Eater] Chapter 41: Catastrophe (Three Days Earlier)
The sky turned black, then white, then both at once.
A clamorous roar filled his ears, like the world was breaking in half. Electricity buzzed in the air, the ground shook, and Edge was drenched in a tide of magic so thick that he could taste it even without a core.
Then, for just a s...
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