Leaning forwards, Kaius peered around the shattered jewel-encrusted gate that led to the final district of the dwarven city. Like a mountain with its top shorn clean off, the pinnacle of the dwarve...
2024-11-14 20:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostKaius lounged on a settee, made of finely lacquered wood that was engraved and embossed with solid gold inlay; it was long enough for him to lie at full extension. It was also probably m...
2024-11-13 20:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostKaius did up the last buckle of his cuirass, the cold alloy wrapping him in a comforting protective weight. They’d stopped by the gate to the city, the shattered and twisted steel blown inwards t...
2024-11-12 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostKaius slid his feet through the loamy soil, twisting in place to allow the goblin serf’s adze to dig into the meat of his thigh. He took the wound with little more than a stoic grunt, even as the...
2024-11-11 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostBarely more than a few hundred long-strides into the fungal fields that surrounded the dwarven city, Kaius spotted his first goblin. It was a good way off, far enough that it wouldn’t notice them...
2024-11-10 20:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostKaius chewed his lip. The Depths had been explosive for his growth, but even for him, the gains he had made over the day had radically launched him to a few strides from the finish line. One Ho...
2024-11-09 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostKaius came to with a groan, every inch of his body aching like he had been trampled by a dozen draught horses. Everything about the last hour was hazy, as if he had witnessed it in a drunken haze. ...
2024-11-08 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostLook, I promise I am not sitting behind my computer twirling my moustache while I concoct the most brutal, heart wrenching cliffs possible.
It's quite genuinely just how I write, and avoi...
2024-11-07 23:47:37 +0000 UTC View PostFeeling the searing heat emanating from their soul, they knew they had to work quickly. Stabilise the link, before it collapsed and left them crippled. They needed the skill. Now.
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2024-11-07 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostKaius leaned forward, resting his elbows on his knees as he thought about what he wanted to ask Porkchop. The fact that his friend’s secret skill was a binding one was a shock. The fact that it w...
2024-11-06 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostKaius snapped his eyes open as his final legacy merge settled into place around his soul. Everything was prepped and ready for his final skill, the nexuses of power orbiting his soul locking into a...
2024-11-05 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe washroom available in the austere bunk rooms that dotted the biome were distinctly unpleasant. A narrow cubicle tucked around the corner from the kitchen, it was a far cry from the warm rainfal...
2024-11-04 20:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostKaius stood rooted to the spot, looming over the shattered remnants of the cat-like abomination he had just slain. He couldn’t take his eyes off the system notification that he had just received....
2024-11-03 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostAfter they finished their food, Kaius moved on to reinscribing his runic hymns as he sat by their bags in the little laboratory adjacent to the grand hall that held the menagerie of abominations. H...
2024-11-02 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostFour arcane needles slammed into the Champion. All but one hit Kaius’s intended target. Kaius grinned from where he lay slumped onto the inscribed glass that made up one wall of the enclosure. Tw...
2024-11-01 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostStepping aside so that Porkchop could join him in the airlock that led to the giant's enclosure, Kaius pulled closed the first steel door and locked it tight. As he’d originally suspected, the se...
2024-10-31 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostKaius looked on in awe as his friend crushed the skull of the bear abomination. Watching Porkchop’s battle from within the glass airlock had been rough, not the least because this fight ...
2024-10-30 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostPorkchop waited beside his brother who was turning the wheel to open the last door of the airlock. He kept his eyes pinned on the bear that prowled through the empty space. It was watchi...
2024-10-29 20:30:11 +0000 UTC View PostKaius groaned as he stared at the system notification that had appeared when he had identified the four armed horror that occupied one of the sealed enclosures that flanked the hall. He knew, now t...
2024-10-28 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt took them six hours of pushing through isolated rooms of flayed horrors and twisted teratomas before they found another rest stop. Hours of bloody work, hacking apart the twisted flesh of depths...
2024-10-27 20:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostStanding at the base of the stone pit that had been strewn with the gorey evidence of Porkchop’s battle with the Cystic Failure, Kaius stood at the edge of a particularly large pool of viscera an...
2024-10-26 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N so apparently I accidentally double posted this morning (this chapter was added to the end of the last one lmao.) - Will just treat this as a free bonus chapter. Schedule will continue ...
2024-10-26 02:17:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe latest Champion that they had found on their journey through the Depths ambled at the base of the pit. As far as flesh abominations went, Kaius didn’t see how it could get more grotesque. A m...
2024-10-25 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostKaius pushed his way through another door, quickly scanning the room for threats. They’d been traversing through the laboratory for the better part of a day now, and he had grown used to flesh ho...
2024-10-24 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostKaius sat at the writing desk in the mezzanine library, staring at the finished inscription of his newest runic hymn. He itched to test it out and saw no reason to wait.
“Going t...
2024-10-23 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostKaius charged into the room, confronting the full presence of the flayed horror for the first time. A full head taller than him, the skinless giant groaned in fury as it smashed aside tables laden ...
2024-10-22 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostMy friend path has over taken me on Rising Stars. This is a code red.
I repeat, code red. Maximisi...
*Biome Entered: Fleshwarper’s Laboratory*
Kaius winced as he read the alert that appeared in his vision as he crossed into the new biome. While he could...
2024-10-21 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostBacktracking their way through the city took days. Though thankfully their pace was faster than their ascent, as they no longer had to worry about clearing out goblin depths-born.
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A/N: Hey folks! Just dropping in to say thanks for all the support! I'm entering my final week before I start getting booted from RS, and this is a super important time in a stories growth....
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