“Keep going!” Sarke pushed.
“I’m already as deep as I can go!” sounded Lim’s muffled reply. “Do you have any idea how much shit is crawling all over me right now?”
“And if you don’t keep your mouth shut, it will only be worse.”
There was a moment of delay.<...
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Again, apologies for the delay! And I will also be replying to comments as soon as possible!
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2025-07-10 13:13:19 +0000 UTC View Post“Get ready, the barrier is coming down soon!” Calli shouted. “Targets coming up next!”
The large boar, and even the matriarch and the rest of the boar family rushing over to their patriarch went grayscale under the influence of Calli’s granted [Strategist View] skill, which worked...
2025-07-09 10:24:51 +0000 UTC View PostCen gave out a strangled cry as she got entangled with a particularly gnarly bush and almost slipped on the dark, muddy floor to boot.
“You okay?” Lim asked, bending down to help untangle the hapless caster.
“Thanks, and sorry!” the caster said, making a face under her hood. 2025-07-08 10:24:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Nar kept his hooded head bowed under that endless pouring of heavy, warm water, his eyes on the underbrush at his feet. The colors and the lights of the Brightnight were dimmed and obfuscated by the relentless rain that poured down from the canopy above, and Nar grimaced every time he stepped and...
2025-07-07 10:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Right, with that settled, we still need to figure out how we’re going to be doing this,” Kur said a few minutes later, looking up from his cereal bar. “Our original plan was to split the parties in two. One stays to guard the camp, and the other heads out into the jungle to gather and ha...
2025-07-04 10:30:39 +0000 UTC View PostA little ball of fur darted towards them as they returned, and Nar picked up the little wolf cub, raising him to his face. Wetness lapped at his nose, and Nar groaned.
“Ugh… Wolfie, what did you eat?” he muttered, twisting his nose as he plopped the little beast back on the floor.
... 2025-07-03 10:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe rain didn’t ease overnight, and its constant droning kept pulling Nar into memories in the darkness of the B-Nex. When he managed to sleep, it wasn’t for long, as he woke up at the sounds of the others swapping for the last watch before dawn.
Knowing that sleep wouldn’t come, beca...
2025-07-02 10:16:14 +0000 UTC View PostMost people quickly dispersed after that, though Nar, feeling strangely awake, allowed himself to languish where he was, making small conversation with Kur while he continued to regrow the missing bit of flesh from under his left bicep.
As he chatted away with his party leader, recounting t...
2025-07-01 10:37:03 +0000 UTC View PostA short while later, Leon dropped onto one of their collapsible chairs with a groan of relief.
“I seriously can’t thank you guys enough,” he said again, looking in between Kur, who had introduced himself, to Nar and Viy, who had guided the exhausted party back to their camp.
“...
2025-06-30 10:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post>> Apologies for the delay! I wanted to add a big life update after the chapter! <<
Nar exhaled heavily, water droplets bursting from his face. The downpour was incessant, and he felt as though he was standing in a lukewarm shower as he considered the dead beasts around them. 2025-06-27 11:24:21 +0000 UTC View Post
More and more beasts dropped down on them from the swarming, massive tree trunks, and despite Nar’s frenzy of [Aura Blades], he achieved close to nothing in stemming that dark tide of fur and claw.
“You guys don’t have to die for us!” the male aethermancer suddenly shouted, his voic...
2025-06-26 10:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post“We do?” Tun asked, speaking before any of them could form any sort of reply. Nar glanced in the direction of the big tank, but he couldn’t read anything from his all-black eyes, or dark scaly face. Even the spines covering his skull and running down his neck remained still.
“Of cou...
2025-06-25 10:44:02 +0000 UTC View PostThey had barely made it five minutes away from the stream, when a massive, glowing green and purple snake leaped from its hiding spot to try and swallow Viy whole.
It had been perfectly masked within an agglomerate of green glowing bushes and and purple fronds, but fortunately, the halberdi...
2025-06-24 10:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe last watch of the night was an uneventful one.
Nar kept his senses up and extended to a wide radius around their tent, but other than the occasional shifting in the undergrowth, the darkness was peaceful, leaving the three auramancers to spend their time training their auras.
Just...
2025-06-23 10:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostLeta proved to be an absolute delight of a person, with an easy smile that proved impossible to deny.
They were surprised by a large, land-based bird beast with short short wings but wicked claws and beak within five minutes of leaving the others behind, and while between Nar, Tuk and Rel, ...
2025-06-20 10:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Good job, you got the alpha couple that lead this float of tygalos. That’s what you call a herd of them, by the way,” Sej spoke in the stunned quiet. “The rest of the float will now feed on their dead, and fight to see which couple will rise to take the leadership.”
“And they w...
2025-06-19 10:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostHe landed with a grunt, and half blind but still feeling something trying to chew through his bone, he turned with a growl rumbling past his lips. And pulling his sword out of his inventory, Nar brought it down squarely in the middle of the tygalo’s forehead.
There was a moment of resista...
2025-06-18 10:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostNar was on the move before most of them could even react to Kur’s orders, his sword slashing in deadly arcs of brilliant aura and cutting down beasts before they could gain a foothold ashore. But it was only a matter of time before the beasts went around him…
“Nar!” Tun thundered be...
2025-06-17 10:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“We are getting separated in this,” Tun suddenly said, above the hubbub of conversation.
Row and Kur had forbidden anyone from using either the domain party chat or their individual party chats for anything other than serious business or threats, and staying completely silent had only l...
2025-06-16 10:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostConversations, shouts and calls quickly faded behind them as the party headed south, wading deeper into the Jungle Tops and the Brightnight itself to put some distance between them and the stream of still arriving parties.
It was disturbing how quickly the jungle seemed to gobble up the sou...
2025-06-13 10:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostFrom amidst the crowd of green and brown clad apprentices, Nar stared up at the glowing red, half cube before him.
The gathering of the Scimitar’s apprentices was being herded by their guides towards either of the two middle and crimson shining cubes jutting from the impossibly tall wall ...
2025-06-12 10:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe two guides took them under a structure made up of benches and rows of columns, where apprentices and guides were gathering and checking gear, their backpacks and chatting amongst themselves, filling the air with a near deafening hubbub.
Lights flickered from fans overhead as they squeez...
2025-06-11 10:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Keep heading towards the exit. Just follow the red arrows and stay inside the red lines!” one of the Scimitar’s crew shouted as they exited the beetle and headed down the stairs from the landing pad. “And pay attention to what's going on around you!”
Nar only had time to glimpse ...
2025-06-10 10:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostPart 2 - Brightnight
“And yet, like them, I cannot but wonder why aura and aether are so antithetical. A non-insignificant portion of ex-Climbers cling to the belief that aura is a punishment power source forced upon them for the Original Sin committed by their ancestors, and that aur...
2025-06-09 10:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostTys ducked under his elbow, her neck bending back as she lowered herself to effortlessly avoid the hit to her face, and Nar groaned inwardly as in the grips of his accelerated [NPC], he knew that he had just opened himself to a Creation of hurt.
However, instead of her dagger punching into ...
2025-06-06 10:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe broken constructs zoomed in and out of focus of her right eye, the left being forced closed under a liberal seeping of dark blood that poured down from a gash just above her eye.
Breath came quick and hot from within her, her jaw dropped, her sharp teeth showing, as she sought to regain...
2025-06-05 10:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThey sat quietly around the table in their common room. Before them, their touch-screens were filled with the endless file that was their prep material for the jungle domain.
Nar sighed and stretched his back, his eyes gritty, and checked his UI as he did so.
Almost midnight. The ...
2025-06-04 10:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThey left engineering earlier than they had intended, carrying with them a still unconscious Cen. They promised to return to get a proper tour of the place, but feeling Mok’s burning eyes on his back, and remembering their conversation, Nar doubted he would return. At least not for a good while...
2025-06-03 10:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Remember, if it gets too much at any point, just come back to the lift, alright?” Mok told them, not for the first time, as the lift slowed towards their mysterious destination.
“We’ll be okay, M, don’t worry,” Tuk said, patting her back.
“I’m being serious! The aethe...
2025-06-02 10:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post