Ignyres's hand, which had long fingers and flames crackling along its shape, stayed still between Oscar and the Ancient of Fire, the open palm beckoning Oscar to grasp it in a formal welcome. Magma...
2023-11-25 04:20:35 +0000 UTC View PostOscar assaulted the barrier, all manners of his techniques and spells barraging the dense film of transparent Ein. Erden and Demon joined their attacks, surrounding the font of flowing Ein. Nothing...
2023-11-24 05:04:27 +0000 UTC View PostA few minutes prior.
Oscar's shield blocked most of Aiden's deadly strikes, leaving a few clean, burned cuts on the outlines of his body. For the briefest of moments, he swerved his body, adj...
2023-11-23 01:41:45 +0000 UTC View PostBright wisps of dense fire flared on the many ends of Erden's branched antlers. Like the ripe fruits of a tree, they fell and gathered in the center between the antlers and surged out in radiant so...
2023-11-22 05:53:22 +0000 UTC View PostRosett gripped her hammer and crushed the head of a flame elemental, resisting the searing flames that threatened to burn the skin off her flesh. The living flame staggered for a moment before the ...
2023-11-20 23:10:55 +0000 UTC View Post'How far does this tunnel go?' Oscar blinked under the cover of his Ein Shroud. A simple layer of Ein protected him from nature's consuming fire. Warily, he looked around, finding no signs...
2023-11-18 16:41:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe ground turned black, charred by the scalding smoke pluming from the cracks that spread along the bulging hills that stood where there were none before. Magma erupted, imploding the hills into c...
2023-11-17 05:15:29 +0000 UTC View PostOn the balcony, Oscar decided to remain and gazed out from the edge, gripping the stone ledge. When the two suns poked their smooth, radiant heads over where the lands met the sky, surrounded by st...
2023-11-16 01:49:18 +0000 UTC View PostDecades ago, before the opening of Ashen Grove and the war, when the four empires still had some relations with each other, the Pavilion welcomed its new students, the generation that eventually gr...
2023-11-15 03:44:19 +0000 UTC View PostPassing through the soot-ridden halls of the foundry, Oscar marveled at how everything could fit inside the Excrusier, though it shouldn't be much of a surprise. The Excruiser was a small floating ...
2023-11-12 22:14:22 +0000 UTC View PostSecond by second, minute by minute, the time ticked down. The armies came in droves, surpassing his paltry numbers like a tide crashing onto the sandy shore. Fatigue wracked his weary body as his m...
2023-11-12 01:03:17 +0000 UTC View PostOscar returned to the survivors in silence, some slowly backing away from the terrifying presence that contained all of his anger, sorrow, and hatred. Behind the helmet, tears still flowed without ...
2023-11-11 02:50:42 +0000 UTC View PostWhen was the last time he had a moment of peace? The past few days in the wastelands of Orbis felt like several years had gone by. The embers from the firepit rose and mingled with the stars above,...
2023-11-10 05:26:22 +0000 UTC View PostPutting on his helmet, Oscar watched the flames burning behind him, slowly but surely reducing any traces of the foul beings that lurked within into nothing more, forever to stay as a memory. Seein...
2023-11-09 00:11:53 +0000 UTC View PostSirsi tapped certain spots on the door, Ein glowing on her fingers, and a loud click of a latch loosening sounded out once she removed her hand. A series of other clicks and metal-grinding noises r...
2023-11-07 03:08:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment their smiles stretched from end to end, they opened their mouths, gaping wide to an unsettling oval shape. The frog's head puckered its lips, and Oscar dodged the incoming attack, a long...
2023-11-05 22:37:30 +0000 UTC View PostWhat were they? Oscar's eyes slowly widened, and he sent out a flare, engulfing them in bright flames that drove away the darkness and lit up the corridor. Part of him wished he had never come here...
2023-11-05 19:58:33 +0000 UTC View Post"Not me, and not the Voltens. This horde has nothing to do with Reis. My hands are clean of it." Sirsi shrugged. "The New Dawn has other areas of interest besides Reis for the sake of creating stro...
2023-11-04 18:38:30 +0000 UTC View PostAmid the crackles of lightning and the sea of beasts above, Oscar floated silently, ever careful of his surroundings, relying on Erden's extra vision and senses to make out the way. The fresh scent...
2023-11-03 04:26:02 +0000 UTC View Post"What happened?" Oscar blinked. The hectic storms, the bloody massacre of beasts and humans, and the fleets were gone, replaced by darkness. Everything was deathly still as the air choked him, a st...
2023-11-02 03:53:16 +0000 UTC View PostWhat was it? Oscar stayed put in the mess of the battle, peering beyond the scope of his tiny section of the battlefield to the others. Behind him, his soldiers acted fast and shouted to protect hi...
2023-10-31 21:42:09 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a few hours, he finally put Celestina's worry to rest and showed that his artificial arm was functioning well enough not to be a bother. If she reacted in this big of a reaction, then he sure...
2023-10-30 04:10:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe sand landed on his face, pinching wherever it met his exposed skin, the scent of old blood and salt contained within each grain. Oscar shook his artificial arm, beating it against the air, sati...
2023-10-28 05:29:16 +0000 UTC View PostOscar, with his access to the Abyss Prison granted by his master, fanned the flames of the furnace until they blazed out in roaring streams. Inside the forge room of the depths, the heat emanating ...
2023-10-26 23:07:14 +0000 UTC View PostLeaving behind Fred, Emily, and the others, Oscar and Erden floated upward to the shocked gasps of the crowds, their cheers rising higher as they waved their hands at his retreating figure. The tem...
2023-10-25 17:59:06 +0000 UTC View PostFacing the daunting hand of the powerful Greater Marshal Exalt, Oscar could see no way out, the pressure from the encroaching fingers constricting him like a rat caught by a snake. Cuts scraped acr...
2023-10-24 23:32:36 +0000 UTC View PostAlphos, the First Wind and foremost swordsman of his generation, swung his sword, countless winds slicing across the pouring rain, leaving great gaps where the air fell silent, nothing being able t...
2023-10-23 20:27:20 +0000 UTC View PostRight when Oscar rallied his army, the sky quaked with a thunderous roar, arcs of lightning illuminating the dark clouds that formed overhead, deafened only by the shouting behind him. From his fri...
2023-10-21 20:08:15 +0000 UTC View PostSeveral hours later, even the illusory world of clouds dimmed to the passing of time. As they fought on and on, Oscar understood more of their strength and abilities. Krowe, the shielder, focused o...
2023-10-21 15:18:57 +0000 UTC View PostAs the arrows from several Knight Exalts arced downward, Oscar raised his shield, a powerful Ripple Shroud altering the course of the hostile spells. A dangerous Ein of a fearsome individual piqued...
2023-10-19 23:14:21 +0000 UTC View Post