Bacon Macleod

B5 Chapter 510: Unwanted Gold, Finale

Black carapace lay shattered and broken, the final royal guard reduced to a lowly wretch. Ichor weeped from its wounds, as its health desperately tried to recover the damage. Two of its legs had be...

B5 Chapter 509: Unwanted Gold, pt. 6

Deep beneath the earth, Kaius stood in a chamber full of ghostly lilies and faced down his opponent. 

An armored knight, the mantis watched Kaius, waiting for the slightest hint of an op...

B4 Chapter 508: Unwanted Gold, pt. 5

It was a quiet sound, more of a faint wrapping sensation than anything else. Niles stilled, the leather wrapping of his sword hilt squeaking under his grip. Holding his breath, his heart pounded li...

B4 Chapter 507: Unwanted Gold, pt. 4

Kaius peered into the room. A rounded chamber, fifty long strides or more across. The ceiling was far higher than the rest of the catacombs — though its walls were still filled with the same grav...

B4 Chapter 506: Unwanted Gold, pt. 3

Deadacre’s catacombs were barren things. The sewers above were labyrinthine, but there was a method to their madness. Ventral waterways cut through the ground beneath like arteries, while smaller...

B4 Chapter 505: Unwanted Gold, pt. 2

Yellow wardlights flickered in the Plucked Hen’s common room. They were well made — mimicked the soft luminance of candle fire in their tone, and a gentle waver. But even quality struggled to h...

Slight additions to chapter 461

RR is getting to the Castellan reveal, and I noticed I never actually mentioned how the Castellan identified him through his blood lol. Added a small section, as seen below

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As his...

B4 Chapter 504: Unwanted Gold, pt. 1

Kaius sat in the common room of the inn that had been chosen as a command centre. Everyone was there, from the city and guild leadership to the elites. Yet another meeting. They’d taken to having...

B4 Chapter 503: Ashen City, Finale

Kaius was more than experienced with the many varied ways in which growing stronger could be unpleasant. 

Refinement was up there, though perhaps a little more tolerable than the years o...

B4 Chapter 502: Ashen City, pt. 2

The devastation Kaius had witnessed at the eastern gate followed him as Kenva led their team further into the city.

Oh, it wasn’t as severe. Most of the structures by the wall had been leve...

B4 Chapter 501: Ashen City, pt. 1 

As the searing heat of Ianmus’s spell faded, Kaius looked down at the corpse of the nightscale as he sucked in heaving breaths.

Ianmus’s voice sounded in his ear.

“Forsaken hells,...

B4 Chapter 500: Nightscale, Finale

Porkchop roared as the nightscale broke into the open square. Bulwark’s Challenge hit the creature like a physical blow, yanking at its head so it had eyes only for the demon-fa...

B4 Chapter 499: Nightscale, pt. 4

Being chased by a lizard the size of a house had a certain way of hurrying his thinking. 

Bent low over his brother’s gore-splattered back, Kaius did his best to ignore the constant ro...

B4 Chapter 498: Nightscale, pt. 3

It was so nice to cut loose; to feel that marrow deep thrill as his world collapsed to just him and his target. 

The nightscale was a vicious creature, no doubt about it. Nothin...

B4 Chapter 497: Nightscale, pt. 2

Kaius swung for the nightscale’s side with all his might, the burning aura of his Investiture prickling against his skin like a god’s spite made manifest.

Unenhanced, A Fathe...