Erik's eyes widened, but then his expression morphed into a lopsided grin.
"Oh, I just thought I would relax for a bit."
"Hmph!" Freya huffed and rolled her eyes.
Then the female ...
2025-03-25 00:57:57 +0000 UTC View Post"Endur, hide," the brown-bearded man said.
The kid did not have to be told twice as he ducked into an alleyway and hid behind a bunch of barrels.
Erik did not see the chief or his wife....
2025-03-21 16:51:30 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's note:
Apologies for the delay. There will be a double release today.
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Erik woke up still tired. And his wounds weren't any better either.
At le...
2025-03-19 15:02:15 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's note:
This is an extra chapter for being on the Rising Stars' main list over the last week! The next one for the regular Monday release will be uploaded in the next 8 ho...
2025-03-17 15:49:37 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's note:
A few small edits. The name of Jaren has been changed to Gareth.
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The area where they were was mostly open ground. Just between the foothills—w...
Author's note:
Hail Peerless Talent Holders!
I have received quite a lot of feedback, edit suggestions, and corrections on the grammar and spel...
Everyone packed up with the sunrise.
As Erik stepped outside, the morning sun did its best to grace the valley with its light through the bleak clouds. But it seemed like a lost cause.
...
2025-03-11 00:29:33 +0000 UTC View PostAll four of them scrambled for their weapons.
“What was that?” the annoying villager hissed.
“Quiet!” Thrane shushed him.
The small building they were in was a single-stor...
2025-03-07 17:34:07 +0000 UTC View PostThis time, he paid closer attention to his surroundings. The settlement wasn’t large—only a few hundred yards across, with a single main street lined with buildings. The people had done their b...
2025-03-05 16:35:01 +0000 UTC View PostSilence descended.
“Have you tried all the passages out of the valley?” Erik tried to move the discussion forward. If he could get these people to help them reach the Whisper Tree, their ...
2025-03-03 17:56:50 +0000 UTC View PostErik woke up groggily and in a daze.
This was... strange... what an odd dream... was it a dream?
Since he began Awakening his Talent, everything about him was enhanced a little...
2025-02-28 16:35:01 +0000 UTC View PostErik finished telling her what he had gone through, and Freya was no less surprised than he had been when it had happened to him.
"I've never heard of a Horror or an Accursed Nilgrims being i...
2025-02-26 15:32:01 +0000 UTC View Post"Who's there?" Erik said in alarm.
Wait! This voice...
He got up as quickly as he could, his eyes struggling to adjust to the dark cell. There was only a small window with iron...
2025-02-24 17:19:34 +0000 UTC View PostErik stood wide-eyed. He wasn't sure what he was looking at.
The snowman, on closer inspection, was actually a person who was covered in spider threads. But it definitely was not a cocoon, li...
2025-02-22 01:01:21 +0000 UTC View PostErik woke up rested, refreshed... and unable to move.
He also couldn't see, hear, or feel anything.
What's going on?
Beginning to panic, he struggled to move even a finge...
2025-02-22 01:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostBonus chapters:
There will be a bonus chapter released for every 100 patrons of the Talent Holder tier, until we hit 1000! Some of them may be staggered, but eventually all o...
2025-02-21 17:41:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe bug was much larger than regular mosquitos and dark grey in color.
They both stared at each other for a few heartbeats. And just as Erik was beginning to think this was some annoying inse...
2025-02-21 17:25:15 +0000 UTC View PostTaron’s hammer struck the wooden practice target with inhuman strength. But it remained unbroken. The simple doll was not so simple at all—it had numerous runes carved into it. However, a crack...
2025-02-21 17:24:16 +0000 UTC View PostAll four of them were frozen, staring at the new monstrosity that had landed on the roof.
The Shackled King was struggling to untangle itself from the mass of Draugr and its Mischiefs, but it...
2025-02-21 17:23:10 +0000 UTC View Post"Lord Yaren, please reconsider. We've already searched the whole castle. If we do not find it here, we cannot delay further, if—"
"Murin definitely left it inside the Whisper. And we wi...
2025-02-21 17:22:10 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Erik made his way through a collapsed section of the wall, he found himself in a small, dark alleyway. Two-story stone houses lined both sides of it, some of which had collapsed rooftops or w...
2025-02-21 17:21:01 +0000 UTC View PostVidar was reading a report on the latest activities of the explorers when he heard a knock on his door.
"Enter."
Magnus dragged his feet into the office, looking unusually tired even fo...
2025-02-21 17:18:38 +0000 UTC View PostBefore Erik could even grasp anything else about the situation, the skeletal arm collapsed.
He was having a hard time trying to figure out what was happening. Was this the manifestation of a ...
2025-02-21 17:17:28 +0000 UTC View PostA few images from the vision of the road made of bones and the onyx chariot flashed through his mind, but they disappeared almost immediately.
His sight cleared soon after that.
Erik fo...
2025-02-21 17:16:45 +0000 UTC View PostErik woke up before sunrise, his pounding headache gotten worse overnight, and now there was a constant stabbing pain in his chest. Any more, and he’d have trouble focusing on anything.
He ...
2025-02-21 17:15:56 +0000 UTC View Post"Look who it is! The cockroach is skirting around the city again!" Said one of the younger gang members and the others snickers.
Erik just kept quiet, he almost remained impassive, aside from...
2025-02-21 17:14:50 +0000 UTC View PostErik sighed as he read through the passage from the book in front of him.
“Well… that settles it. I guess I don't have a choice.”
Last night, after the events in the mausole...
2025-02-21 17:13:56 +0000 UTC View PostIt was the same one Erik had seen in his nightmares and visions—only smaller. It seemed… younger?
Unsure of what to do, he waited to see what would happen. Despite everything, he didn't f...
2025-02-21 17:13:21 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Erik was undergoing his Talent Awakening, Vidar—the branch leader of the explorers’ guild—sensed that something was amiss.
“What is this?” He rose from his desk and walked tow...
2025-02-21 17:10:45 +0000 UTC View PostThere, in the middle of the chamber, was a well made of dark stone, but suspended just above it was an extraordinary seed of what Erik assumed was some sort of a plant. As large as a human torso, i...
2025-02-21 17:05:47 +0000 UTC View Post