When the next day dawned, I woke with sore muscles but otherwise, I felt good. Immediately after waking up, I went into the bathroom, to take the third shower during the brief stay at the Mountain ...
2022-10-11 21:14:01 +0000 UTC
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- AN: I'll try to post a chapter a day until the next major turning-point, around chapter 666 as there will be a lot of Cliffhangers around here. The other tiers will get those chap...
2022-10-11 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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With the cry of a raven and the howl of a wolf, the next phase of our battle was started. Now, there were no longer four individuals fighting, it was only us, united in common purpose as a pack, wi...
2022-10-10 16:00:13 +0000 UTC
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The cats we had appropriated from the elves were quite impressive sprinters. Sadly, their ability to cross long distances at that pace was less sufficient, after only ten minutes of dashing at thei...
2022-10-07 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Focus, as so often, was the bane of concealment. It was relatively simple to remain undetected if your opponent wasn’t actually looking for you. You just had to trick their eyes and blend into th...
2022-10-05 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Dinner was an interesting affair. The food was simple but incredibly good, the bread fresh from the oven, a hearty stew and salad fresh from their vegetable patch all came together for a great tast...
2022-10-04 21:26:09 +0000 UTC
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“I’m getting worried,” Sigmir quietly admitted, whispering into my ear as I was held in her arms. Normally, these moments were reserved for those delicious, sweet nothings that made my heart ...
2022-10-03 15:59:50 +0000 UTC
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After a brief shower, a mere twenty minutes of gloriously hot water pouring down on my body, I dried off and left the bathroom for Claire. After a quick look around the room, I decided to get to kn...
2022-10-02 19:33:15 +0000 UTC
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Once again, a bunch of trees were consumed by the black flames of Nidhogg and power was being siphoned off by the soul prison. Lenore and I kept incredibly close watch, making sure that no portals ...
2022-09-30 16:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Somehow, travelling down the mountains was just as exhausting as hiking up the mountains. Or maybe a different kind of exhaustion, instead of having burning thighs from constantly pushing yourself ...
2022-09-29 18:34:36 +0000 UTC
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“Well, damn,” I muttered, looking out of the forest, the wet boundary before us stopping our progress.
“Yes, a dam would help here,” Adra snickered in reply, making me let out a soft ...
2022-09-28 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Why couldn’t the elves be less competent?
That question flashed through my mind, just as yet another wave of magic washed around us, kept at bay by the combination of wards cast by Adra and...
2022-09-26 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Sometimes, you don’t just walk along your Road to Purgatory.
Sometimes, you are the hunter on the road, sometimes you are the prey.
2022-09-23 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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It was early morning when Lenore and I managed to get back to the others, the first rays of the sun just hitting the canopy high above. It would easily take an hour, maybe two, for those rays to fi...
2022-09-21 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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I was mostly rested when Cliff woke me up for the last watch of the night. Vio was still snuggled against my chest, making a few discontent noises when I started to move, at least until she fully w...
2022-09-20 21:14:46 +0000 UTC
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Once again, I felt a pulse of magic in the distance, the elves communicating amongst them in their hunt for us. They hadn’t been able to find our tracks, the combination of Adra and my magic enou...
2022-09-19 15:59:03 +0000 UTC
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Maybe there was some sort of male survival instinct that made Cliff and Lucas aware that Claire and I were in a cold, slightly murderous rage. When we walked up, I noticed that a few beads of sweat...
2022-09-18 20:57:21 +0000 UTC
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After the Avatar state ended, I staggered for a moment, my mind needing those few seconds to catch up with my body. Around us, the smell of blood was thick in the air, the elves all lay dead while ...
2022-09-16 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Luckily, the sudden storm passed as quickly as it appeared. We didn’t have to stay in the small cave Myna had found for more than an hour, just enough time to sit down, make some tea and relax, w...
2022-09-15 20:08:47 +0000 UTC
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We closed our eyes, for a brief moment of stillness, to bring our concentration to the maximum. The positions and expected actions of the elves below filled our mind and our plans to deal with thei...
2022-09-14 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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“Okay, Yo, that’s enough,” Claire called, ending the sparring match between Aura, my Riolu, and Yo, her Meditite. Since leaving Celestic Town three days ago, we had let the two of them train ...
2022-09-13 19:00:17 +0000 UTC
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If nothing else, the third feeding of the Soul Prison managed to stoke a fire in the elven realm. While we, in the field, didn’t notice all of it, mostly increased patrols and magical activity sw...
2022-09-12 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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To keep things unpredictable, I had waited for one night, before Lenore and I headed back out, this time travelling multiple hours to the northeast, essentially travelling back in the direction we ...
2022-09-09 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Dinner at Professor Carolina’s place had been a wonderful affair. Amusingly, the addition of four younger people made it a little less lifely, with Cynthia and Joyce acting as responsible elders,...
2022-09-08 19:59:52 +0000 UTC
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Armed with a few keywords and ideas, I did the obvious thing. The writers at Pantheon Entertainment had obviously taken a lot of inspiration from various Greek and Norse Myths, so looking at those ...
2022-09-07 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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“So, where have you taken shelter these days? The attendants at the hostel let slip that you haven’t been staying there since you left over a week ago,” Claire asked, looking at me with that ...
2022-09-06 15:26:01 +0000 UTC
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Lenore and I continued to move around the forest randomly, trying to create multiple false trails, if the elves could even find those. To disrupt things further, we kept switching in and out of eac...
2022-09-05 16:01:04 +0000 UTC
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Addi and I took up position behind Kodra, while Claire and her opponent went at it for another round. This time, it was a battle between Twiggy, her Grotle, a Haunter, the evolution of Ghastly, the...
2022-09-04 21:31:12 +0000 UTC
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“Today, we have four challengers seeking to earn the Oracle Badge. Two are currently in possession of three badges and the other two are in possession of four badges. Are there any trainers at th...
2022-09-02 20:06:58 +0000 UTC
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Just as expected, Sigmir’s enthusiasm for the idea that I would head off in the middle of the night for some magical experimentation with the ability that had brought our current troubles was… ...
2022-09-02 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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