Seth and Devus stood in line with a few dozen other students on a wide cobblestone street, most of them being nobles in immaculate and shining tunics. They were all waiting to get their unif...
2025-06-18 11:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Seth exited the Adventurers Guild’s outpost, a broad smile on his face at the pleasant clinking of coins in his pouch. The twenty Stone-Scaled Sloths he and Nightmare had hunted before get...
2025-06-17 11:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Seth rose to his feet, tossing the fish bones in his hands aside, and glanced at Nightmare, who lay beside him. He didn’t need their bond to know the direwolf was still mad at him—fish w...
2025-06-16 11:00:11 +0000 UTC
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'Can you Identify me?' Nightmare asked as Seth slung his bow over his back and picked up his dagger.
'Really?' Seth tilted his head, a teasing glint in his eye. '...
2025-06-14 12:54:46 +0000 UTC
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Undead Boreal Wolf
Potential: Copper Tier Rank: 15 (High-Copper)
&nb...
2025-06-14 12:53:03 +0000 UTC
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Seth let out a deep sigh of relief before frowning as he focused on his Well.
Somehow, it was filling up at twice its usual rate and had already reached the sixty percent m...
2025-06-14 12:43:32 +0000 UTC
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Seth took several deep breaths, forcing himself to focus. Nightmare might have been injured by that gut-twisting force—or worse, driven outside and back toward the Inferno Bear. I need...
2025-06-14 12:40:08 +0000 UTC
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Seth's heart pounded in his chest as he weaved between trees and stones, a Stone-Scaled Sloth hot on his heels. The beast’s massive claws tore through the ground with each thunderous step,...
2025-06-14 12:38:59 +0000 UTC
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Seated among the spectators in the dozen audience stands, Seth kept his hood up as he watched the two young men battling in the middle of the training field. Professor Reat's aether barrier ...
2025-06-04 15:49:20 +0000 UTC
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Clad in his leather armor, Seth ran down the dirt road with Nightmare by his side. His dark green cloak swayed slightly behind him, partially concealing the large bag packed with beaststones...
2025-06-04 15:28:06 +0000 UTC
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Four weeks later…
Hidden in the shadow of an oak tree, Seth watched two Red Foxes circling each other, growling and spitting out sparks whenever one dared to move closer to the glowi...
2025-06-04 15:17:23 +0000 UTC
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Seth hammered the large door in front of him, holding Renwal tightly to keep him from falling. "Vandric! Wake up!"
Silence. Before Seth could pound the door again, a faint groan ...
2025-06-04 15:11:56 +0000 UTC
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Seth yanked out his bow, yet before he could nock an arrow, a large, blurry figure grabbed both his wrists and slammed him face-down to the ground. A knee then pinned him down, crushed his s...
2025-06-04 15:07:34 +0000 UTC
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Seth stood alone in front of the Adventure Guild’s outpost's door, its wooden sign swaying gently in the breeze. He and Renwal had parted ways, planning to meet up later that night. Unable...
2025-06-04 14:58:28 +0000 UTC
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There's no way I can beat any of them, Seth thought despondently as he watched Selena claim victory in the twelfth fight with a perfect arrow, striking her opponent, a Rank-10 Warri...
2025-06-04 14:51:34 +0000 UTC
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Seth came to a standstill near the center of the ring, about thirty yards away from his opponent. The brown-haired young man wore a green cloak that covered half of the sleeveless leather ar...
2025-06-04 14:24:29 +0000 UTC
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"Good evening, sirs," Renwal said, stopping the wagon a few yards away from the giant reinforced gate and the two watchmen.
Both guards were heavily geared in full plate armor, each wi...
2025-06-04 13:48:26 +0000 UTC
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Without hesitation, Seth dashed forward.
"No, wait!" Renwal yelled behind.
Seth ignored him and kept running as Identify's grooves took life in the back of his eye. His focus lan...
2025-06-04 10:52:44 +0000 UTC
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Seth stood up and gently woke the pup, then checked once more to be sure his new partner would stay out of the Wicked Forest while he was gone. Afterwards, he grabbed his old leather bag, wh...
2025-06-04 10:18:17 +0000 UTC
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Seth and Nightmare slowly moved through the dense underbrush of the Wicked Forest, searching for easy prey. The sun had just risen above the treetops, illuminating the leaves with its soft l...
2025-06-04 10:01:30 +0000 UTC
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Seth’s golden eyes widened as he stared at Nightmare. The pup had talked to him… through his mind.
'I… I can hear you,' Seth thought, delving into the strange connection...
2025-06-04 02:45:58 +0000 UTC
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Seth jolted awake in panic.
"Oh shit," he muttered, his gaze frantically scanning the sky to gauge how long he’d slept. The sun was still high, its light filtering through the flutte...
2025-06-01 18:58:00 +0000 UTC
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As Seth made his way toward the Wicked Forest, he ran a hand over his potion pouch, the fletching of his arrows, and his hunting knife—double-checking that everything was where it should b...
2025-06-01 18:55:00 +0000 UTC
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Early the next morning, Seth returned to Sunatown and bought another stickleback trap along with a few dozen arrows from a traveling merchant at the market. Normally, he would have bought th...
2025-06-01 12:37:00 +0000 UTC
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As the two fishes he had caught with the stickleback trap slowly cooked above his hand-made fire pit, Seth repeatedly cast Identify on things around him. Herbs, flowers, trees, rocks—it di...
2025-06-01 12:35:00 +0000 UTC
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Seth dropped his leather bag by the edge of the small, burbling river that ran through the forest and closed his eyes for a moment. After watching his house burn, he had run to the town's ma...
2025-06-01 12:33:00 +0000 UTC
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Seth woke up to a symphony of birds chirping outside and the sun, already high in the sky, gleaming through the window. Rubbing the sleep from his eyes, he swung his legs over the edge of hi...
2025-06-01 12:31:00 +0000 UTC
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"Don't get ahead of yourself," Marcus said, placing his teacup in the sink. "Most people need seven to ten stones to ignite their Well."
Seth already knew that, but he didn’t care. H...
2025-06-01 12:28:00 +0000 UTC
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Nine years later…
Crouched in a bush, Seth carefully pushed a branch aside, an arrow gleaming at the end of his bow. His golden eyes scanned the ground, and with every step, he made ...
2025-06-01 12:18:00 +0000 UTC
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"Where the hell did the king find that bastard?"
Leonard flinched as Marshal Vancaws’ voice reverberated through the room. The man's wrinkled face twisted in rage as h...
2025-06-01 09:48:00 +0000 UTC
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