After my establishment of an accord, I awoke groggily, in a soft bed in the temple. Liam sat by my side, slightly hunched in a chair, but his piercing eyes trained on mine.
I blinked away the...
2025-06-27 03:19:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 254: Forgiveness
“Hey Marcel!” Avery said, giving a bright smile. He was holding his left arm in his right hand, using the torn-off appendage to wave at his friend.
T...
2025-06-24 03:10:13 +0000 UTC View PostI sighed, took the others once they were finished, and walked to the training hall. It was an uneventful stroll through the quiet city. People recognized us, but no one approached. Anyone who did, ...
2025-06-18 00:42:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 253: Baelzebuth
Bael leaned back in the wooden chair, which creaked slightly with the motion. The air in the room chilled a little, the friendly, calm atmosphere slowly growing...
2025-06-15 01:01:31 +0000 UTC View PostWhen spending my contribution, the thing I noticed was that there was a lot of it. Clearing the rifts counted for about twice, maybe three times as much as killing equivalent enemies on Ed...
2025-06-11 00:48:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 252: Quests and Guests and Blessed Artefacts
[Level Up!]
Mercury smiled at the small notification in the corner of his vision. He wanted to go home, so he did. His desire...
2025-06-10 00:24:42 +0000 UTC View PostI touched my hand to the altar of hir, the tombstone cold under my fingers. There was a faint wind that blew in the temple, feeling cool against my skin. I breathed, and then felt that touch of div...
2025-06-05 00:20:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 251: Separation
There had once been a vast world of steel.
Trees made of needles. Grass shaped like blades. Filled with creatures more sword than living, filled with thin...
2025-06-04 00:36:23 +0000 UTC View PostMatt stared at Fio as she made another outrageous claim. Fighting the goddess and winning? Was that the surge of Qi he’d felt before?
He felt within himself, where that influx of power cour...
2025-05-29 01:15:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 250: Bleeding Heart
Zyl’s heart beat and the entire mountain erupted into fire. Rock turned soft around him, glowing red with heat, and the human guise of Bael began to sizzl...
2025-05-28 02:30:56 +0000 UTC View PostI found myself standing in a world of pure white. The ground was covered in a thin sheen of milky water, and the sky was just as pale as the ground, too. There was a grayscale reflection of myself ...
2025-05-24 00:53:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 249: Inevitable
Fury poured from the sky like an unending torrent. There was so much of it. This whole realm was an embodiment of wrath, after all. It was never meant to be exh...
2025-05-21 00:14:55 +0000 UTC View PostStanding in front of the mirror, I took a long, deep breath. It wasn’t the same anymore. Not the one in my bathroom, the one that Zinnic had shattered. This was the one in our gateway hall, custo...
2025-05-15 00:47:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 248: Anger Overflowing
Mercury, now a level 1 Lumyron, opened his eyes.
With the efficiency of his stats having doubled, he felt much stronger than he used to. Mercury co...
2025-05-13 22:14:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe day after the funeral, I went on a date with Ann. We got ice cream, walked around the city a little, bought some more clothes, the usual.
Now, technically, using magic in broad dayl...
2025-05-08 15:51:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 247: Evolution part 4
Mercury faced a world of steel and flooded it with quicksilver.
Fire blossomed around him, radiant heat washing over the worl...
2025-05-06 00:38:41 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up. It was a long, dreamless night, and I overslept a bit. I stretched in bed for a long moment, taking my time to slowly open my eyes. I took a deep breath, letting the first moments of the...
2025-05-02 02:44:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 246: Holding up the Sky, just for a Moment
Proving that he meant well was rather easy when he did and had a Skill to show people his sincerity. In the passing ...
2025-04-30 03:12:14 +0000 UTC View PostWe killed the boss of the gate and then left it.
Rae exited at the same time as us, relying on the flash of light from the opening of the gate to dart away. I’m pretty sure Lyra, the govern...
2025-04-24 02:03:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 245: Metallurgy
[<Apprentice Runecarving> has levelled up! <Apprentice Runecarving lv. 1 -> 5>]
Over just a few days, Mercury had improved...
2025-04-22 04:12:27 +0000 UTC View PostMatt stood in front of a corpse.
I say “a corpse” because the lady Black Swan was no longer recognizable at all. Matt’s powerset included razor sharp petals being blown into a raging st...
2025-04-18 03:50:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 244: Romance
“Okay, let’s do this,” Mercury said.
“Are you sure?” Zyl hesitated. “I… don’t know if I’m ready.”
“Don’t worry...
2025-04-17 00:46:10 +0000 UTC View PostAnn was having some trouble. A lot of trouble, even. There were three arrowholes through her, mostly in non-vital areas, but they still rather hurt. Blood flowed from her wounds in a steady trickle...
2025-04-08 22:53:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 243: Absolute Power
When Zyl came back, Mercury was in the process of trying to cut a cake with his rijn.
This, of course, was difficult. He’d gotten g...
2025-04-07 22:54:09 +0000 UTC View PostI stood before the thing that had tormented me. The things that had taken my agency and taunted me with it. That had kept me from my world, that had tried to steal my soul, that were still trying t...
2025-04-01 02:02:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 242: Metal
More days passed. Enough for it to go from Blossom to Scorch. The days became hotter as the pages drifted by.
Mercury took care of the g...
2025-04-01 00:56:53 +0000 UTC View PostRae took a deep breath of the fresh air.
He felt at ease.
Complete.
Life was long. Especially for an old man like Rae, life had been long. Thousands of little experiences pl...
2025-03-25 02:31:19 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 241: Entirely Average. Probably. Maybe. Surely.
Lucia was having a lovely, calm night. Much of it was spent cuddling Iris in bed or reading until she dozed off. She still did n...
2025-03-25 01:22:49 +0000 UTC View PostWhite Tiger and the Avatar of Perception came crashing at me. Those were my enemies. Ann was fighting Eagleeye, Matt was duelling Black Swan, and Olivia and Chris were taking care of the small army...
2025-03-19 00:04:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 240: Idle Time, Barely Idling
Peace.
It was, in a lot of ways, a rather strange thing to adjust to after coming back from the fae realm.
Day after day, Mercur...
2025-03-18 22:40:27 +0000 UTC View Post