A month. That was, give or take, the amount of time I spent in Eden before things went poorly. If I were to give an exact number, it would have been forty-one days. More than a month, really, but t...
2024-02-05 16:59:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 182: A Game of Questions
More time passed without much trouble. Mercury practiced smithing with Yasashiku, getting better bit by bit. Was he still making nails? Yes. But, t...
2024-02-04 00:35:37 +0000 UTC View PostI threw up in an alley before I made it to the guild. There was blood on me. On my shoes, on my shirt. It clung to my hair. It was disgusting.
The smell of iron was so much worse inside a cit...
2024-01-29 18:50:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 181: Practice makes Perfect
“Mercury.”
Only half a page had passed. Mercury had spent his days learning a small routine for once. It mostly consisted of consisten...
2024-01-27 04:06:15 +0000 UTC View PostBefore I knew it, I was in front of the Golden Dewdrop. I breathed. I’d sunken deep into [Single-Minded]. The talent helped me focus. This time, I focused on walking, apparently, because everythi...
2024-01-22 18:30:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 180: New Sight
In the evening, they had found Ruvah a place to stay, and it wasn’t in Mercury’s home. He would live in the gloryhall for now, where there were enough sp...
2024-01-20 03:35:44 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the morning, we discussed what to do next. My Gateway was fully grown now, but it was not fully strengthened. It took some playing around with [Gateway] and some of Cass’ help, but eventual...
2024-01-15 23:53:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 179: Iridescence
As quite often before, Mercury found himself waking up in a bed. It was in a familiar wooden room, in his house.
And wasn’t that quite a thought! H...
2024-01-13 22:33:29 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a new day in Eden.
I woke up in our guild, Dawn of Ambition. The beds in Eden were a little less comfortable than back on the other side… Neamhan....
2024-01-09 02:43:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 178: Ghost Hands
Mercury blinked at the child in front of him. “What?” he asked.
“What are you doing in this city, little storm?” The boy cocked his head, loo...
2024-01-06 02:16:26 +0000 UTC View PostSomewhere, far away, there was a room that didn’t exist.
Someone, though perhaps calling them a “person” would be an exaggeration, sat on a chair in tha...
2024-01-01 19:57:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 177: Frayed
‘Yr’enzel,’ old Uunrahzil greeted him. ‘I see thou’st found a Truth?’
Mercury regarded his teacher and, frankly, friend. He smiled, then nodde...
2023-12-30 01:20:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe also have a discord server now! To talk about the story, ask questions, or just hang out in general ^^
If you discord is linked to your patreon, you automatically join and get a fancy role...
2023-12-25 09:23:38 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! remember that second series I was working on? Book 1 is done! I'm putting it on patreon for all paid tiers, since I'm just gonna include tenets in my already existing tier. Which mean...
2023-12-24 23:42:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 176: Slices of Cake
Midas walked into the small house, looking around, and judged it… inadequate. The furniture was made from regular wood, without any decorations. The c...
2023-12-23 00:12:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 175: Apology Gone Wrong
Mercury pranced around the house. Their house. His house, partially. Zyl and him signed the ownership deed together. Mercury’s handwritin...
2023-12-16 02:02:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 174: To Mercury!
Mercury liked going out to drink. Even with such a strange, motley crew like his current companions, there was a charm to it. Being able to let loose, and ...
2023-12-09 04:21:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 173: Disorganised Coincidences
There was a brief lull in the conversation, then. People looking around, seeing who’d speak first. Gazes swiping across the room.
Eve...
2023-12-02 04:17:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 172: Get-Together
The days passed peacefully.
Sometimes, Nir came to visit. Sometimes she didn’t. Zyl’s mother had recovered from her injuries, too. Fully transfo...
2023-11-25 03:53:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 171: Chasing Sunlight
The journey home was just as swift as the journey to the mountain. The roles, however, were inverted.
Where Mercury was the healthy one before, ...
2023-11-18 03:28:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 170: Cats need Naps
Berthorn stood and stared at him for just a moment, then regained his mind for just a moment. “Just die!” he yelled, stretching out his hand.
...
2023-11-11 01:45:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 169: Rain Falls
Berthorn instantly shifted his Skill over to Trinya. The beast had not shown any signs of escaping, firmly trapped within his prison of acid and poison. Ins...
2023-11-04 04:32:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 168: Fire and Brimstone
Mercury felt a storm crash upon his fur.
No, even calling it a storm would have been inadequate.
Mercury was a friend of the <Wind>...
2023-10-28 01:18:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 167: Freedom is finding Water in the Desert.
Zyl, Mercury, and Irrithuriel immediately started scrambling.
“What do you mean it’s moving?!” Zyl asked, hopping u...
2023-10-21 03:55:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 166: Gratitude
“Is it working yet?” Zyl asked.
“I dunno,” Mercury answered.
“I don’t feel anything.”
“You shouldn’t,” the mopaaw said....
2023-10-14 01:16:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 165: Thievery, except only stealing what they aren’t looking for
Trinyakorie sat at her desk - her distinctly damaged desk - and wore a very ugly expression on h...
2023-10-07 02:11:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 164: Tactical Breaktime
“Wait, that worked?!” Irrithuriel looked at Mercury, completely aghast as he showed the map to her. Getting out had been much easier, t...
2023-09-30 01:05:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 163: This is a Heist Story now.
Nir read over the letter in her hands again. The servants brought it to her, saying it came without a sender, but that it was not magically ...
2023-09-25 02:25:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 162: Plotting and Scheming and maybe a bit of Tomfoolery
Zyl and Nir talked, for a long, long while. It was evening when they started, and by the time they were done, it wa...
2023-09-16 03:10:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 161: Honesty
Not too long after his first bit of ice magic, Mercury showed it off to Zyl, who praised him and gave him a hug for it. Irrithuriel just so happened to see it ...
2023-09-09 01:51:15 +0000 UTC View Post