Chapter 46: Sharing
Three daggers, controlled and propelled by telekinesis, flashed forward. The sharp metal glinting under the sun. To Leif’s sight they were trailed by a thin line of gold.
Leif ...
2023-08-30 05:14:28 +0000 UTC View Post
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Chapter 45: Observations
Hera saw. Her perception, honed from her high level archery class, and further enhanced from light magic let her see much further than most of her level. She stood on one foot...
2023-08-28 05:11:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 44: Training by Dawn
Leif’s fist rushed through the crisp morning air. He stepped forward, and moved into the next part of the training form. His every strike sent a small rush of wind blowing across the...
2023-08-27 05:04:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 43: Skills
Two new classes. Both were very similar in description. Leif was at a loss, which should he pick? [Attuned: Life] or [Adept]?
Both?
Neither?
He knew from pestering bo...
2023-08-25 05:08:26 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 42: Advancement
The night air brushed against the bark that Leif possessed in place of skin. He felt no discomfort, no pain. It took him a moment to adjust to the completion of the trial, his mind soa...
2023-08-23 05:09:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 41: The Decision
Everything faded away into darkness. One by one the stars winked out and the evening wind stopped blowing. Leif found himself floating in an empty void, it was absent of all defining f...
2023-08-21 04:58:23 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 40: Tag Along
“Kossia?” Leif asked.
Hera raised an eyebrow and tilted her head. “Oh, you got something to say?”
Leif hesitated. “I know, or rather, I think I knew that name.”...
2023-08-20 05:04:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 39: Blade and Hand
“I normally do the cooking.” The old lady said as she casually walked into the camp. “But it’s Academy policy to teach those on expeditions basic survival skills. You see?”
That...
2023-08-18 04:52:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 38: The Expedition
Leif didn’t know what to do. Should he do his advancement trial right now? He was currently at the skill threshold and Marcus and Sieg could be gone for a few hours to a few days.
<... 2023-08-16 05:01:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 37: Shared Sympathy
Marcus was dead. Or rather, he felt like he was dead. He drifted in and out of consciousness over the course of several hours. When the memory of what had happened to him bubbled to the surface a s...
2023-08-14 05:08:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 36: Connections
It was three days later and Marcus still hadn’t awoken. According to Sieg, falling into a coma-like state after being extensively healed was common. Leif held his mostly regrown arm up to the sun...
2023-08-13 04:54:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 35: Learning
Leif was halfway through constructing a hog pyramid when Sieg emerged from the partially wrecked house. The spriggan had periodically checked on both sleeping humans every other hour.<...
2023-08-12 04:57:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 34: Sanctuary
As the sun began to set two humans, a spriggan and two deer walked into a destroyed bar. There was no punch line, or an actual bar for that matter. The building had been split down the middle from ...
2023-08-11 04:45:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 33: Hostile Negotiations
A clone of shadow scaled the exterior of the devastated temple as Szesis watched through the copy. Both human and spriggan were in rough shape, clearly injured from a life and death ba...
2023-08-09 04:55:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 32: Surface of Chaos
Eventually the beams stopped, which disappointed the deer. The light-show had been pretty. As mundane, mostly normal animals the two creatures naturally had no idea what was g...
2023-08-06 06:58:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 31: Endearing Idiocy
All important discoveries are made when someone says; ‘This is a stupid idea, but let's do it anyway’.
Most spectacular failures are also predated by these exact words but do...
2023-08-06 05:01:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 30: Arisen Myth
Posted in the wrong order, sorry about that.
It charged.
Marcus called his gauntlet and retreated clockwise around the chamber. Sieg flooded the floor with as much ic...
2023-08-05 21:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 29: From Below
The trio dashed forward, away from the falling stones and towards the terrifying presence. They would have outrun the collapsing tunnel if every step didn’t feel like wading through malevolent mo...
2023-08-05 21:13:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 28: Unnatural Combinations
“Two…” Leif said. After neither man replied for several seconds he hissed and elaborated. “Once… like… you. Person…”
In nervousness he checked the progress of his skill fusion...
2023-08-04 02:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 27: Fortune
The trembling had finally, blessedly stopped. The lower levels of the Mythhold seemed to be far more intact than what Leif had traveled through to get this far down. After a few minutes of rest Mar...
2023-08-02 04:58:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 26: Bloodbath
Goblins came screeching at the trio from all sides, they rushed forwards over a dozen at a time. Purple bolts of power danced through the oncoming tide, goblins fell one by one, fried by Marcus’s...
2023-08-01 06:02:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 25: Fissure
Letlet watched in awe as what he could only assume were gods did battle in and above the ruined streets of the former human city; Pherin. To witness such glorious displays of power was something he...
2023-07-31 04:55:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 24: Into The Depths
“I can’t close the maintenance door. It’s like the whole structure is shutting down.” Marcus said as he held up the door key.
“And you can’t use your skill?” Sieg asked.
...
2023-07-30 04:52:19 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 23: The King and the Princess
Szesis was bored. Not in the ‘I have nothing to do’ way that you probably imagined. But bored in the ‘I have nothing of value to do’ kind of way. He had never been good at waiting,...
2023-07-30 04:51:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 22: Silent Anticipation
Leif flowed from one stance to another. The basic forms flew by and the exercise increased in complexity, speed and overall difficulty. He reached the peak of the intermediate training, from experi...
2023-07-30 04:51:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 21: Understanding
Leif brooded while he waited for his [Gilded Body] skill to recover after overuse.
Imagine for a moment, that if, whenever you wanted to talk, you had to solve a puzzle cube while balancing o...
2023-07-28 04:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 20: Tongue Tied
Apparently Marcus and Sieg had a campsite set up in one of the previous chambers the two men had explored in the few days they had been exploring the underground complex. They had given Leif direct...
2023-07-26 23:40:06 +0000 UTC View Post