Gradually, the other members of Mina’s group agreed to share with the opposing team.
She thought the teenager and the older gentleman who had initially objected remained a little reluctant....
2023-10-24 20:16:12 +0000 UTC View PostJames reached out to Anansi and gripped the extended limb by pure instinct.
Something inside him was deeply attracted by those words. “Dreamwalk with me.”
And then the whole environ...
2023-10-24 00:21:43 +0000 UTC View Post“Congratulations, James!” The voice was familiar, jovial—and grating, despite having a generally smooth and pleasant sound. James was immediately annoyed to hear from Anansi,...
2023-10-20 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostNikolai Rostov’s eyes focused once more.
He blinked twice and tried to clear the frustrated look from his face as quickly as possible. This had been one of his least productive conferences ...
2023-10-19 19:09:17 +0000 UTC View PostMina recalled how the System Homunculus had explained magic as she charged her Mana.
It was the first time she’d practiced outside the Tutorial.
Activate the Skill. Basic Elementa...
2023-10-18 21:41:20 +0000 UTC View PostI definitely want to tell the story of what happens in their Orientation, but I'm not sure if I should constrain it to fit within the current format (chapters of Volume 2) or if I should just say, ...
2023-10-17 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHow the hell do I get myself into these situations?! James asked himself, exasperated.
He didn’t think he’d misinterpreted Anansi’s invitation.
But it was a bit hard to b...
2023-10-17 15:56:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe camp was alive with the sound of murmurs.
People talking quietly among themselves about the newcomers, and almost as much about who wasn’t there.
So, you really didn’t come ...
2023-10-17 00:26:05 +0000 UTC View PostJames looked all around himself. He was in a small, circular chamber with three exits. The diameter of the room would have been roughly double his current height, and the ceiling stood roughly a fo...
2023-10-13 19:45:35 +0000 UTC View PostAs James passed through the opening, the alerts kept coming.
[Dungeon entered! You have arrived in Dungeon: Anansi’s House!]
[First human of Earth-73 to enter...
2023-10-12 21:20:56 +0000 UTC View PostMina awakened, blinked her eyes at the sunlight streaming in through the window, and smiled.
She was still smiling softly, looking through the window at the early morning light, when her sist...
2023-10-12 00:57:24 +0000 UTC View PostAs they fell into darkness, James threw his head back and laughed. It was a horrible, ragged noise thanks to the hole in one lung, but that didn’t stop him.
“What the fuck is wrong with y...
2023-10-10 22:18:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Who the hell was that guy?” Officer Ross wondered aloud, staring into the impenetrable darkness that had swallowed up the intruder and Jan Roest. Once they’d fallen beyond some invisible pla...
2023-10-09 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostMina looked around cautiously.
The System had dropped her in a strange place. A frozen environment. Snow covered the ground everywhere she looked, a pattern broken only by the images of other...
2023-10-06 20:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostKurt Royersford crawled on all fours, desperately trying to get away from the blazing inferno, tears boiling up at the corners of his eyes.
Oh my God! That friggin’ psycho blew them all...
2023-10-06 01:22:23 +0000 UTC View PostJames raced through the dark, into the tree line, away from the yellow walls of light and toward the one side of the camp that wasn’t blocked off by those structures. The only way out.
...
2023-10-05 00:50:19 +0000 UTC View PostJames and the cultists stood transfixed, the fighting on pause for the moment, as the prisoners slowly approached the battlefield.
James didn’t mind the pause, since he was still charging M...
2023-10-03 20:28:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe blade pulled out of James’s back, and he thought: Now! I need to get out of here now! I can still move well enough. I just need to heal and–
Predator’s Instincts s...
2023-10-02 21:19:05 +0000 UTC View PostAs the text filled his view and the voice recited absurd information into his ears, Officer Ross looked around. His training and experience had taught him that in an emergency situation, he needed ...
2023-10-01 19:14:38 +0000 UTC View PostOnce the appropriate amount of earth mana had settled around James’s body, he directed it downward, shaping the earth according to the image he had in his mind.
The lattice-like ceiling of ...
2023-09-30 16:20:15 +0000 UTC View Post“So, I hear you’re going to go off and deprive us all of the pleasure of your company.”
James turned and saw Sierra standing there in the twilight. Her expressions were usually harder f...
2023-09-30 16:16:49 +0000 UTC View Post“So, are you going to explain what happened back there?” Alan asked once they were around a mile away from the camp.
“Certainly. The leader of the cult of Moloch agreed to let us go, ba...
2023-09-30 16:15:54 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, of course that’s not my intention,” James said. Perhaps not very convincingly, but that was alright. A plan was beginning to form in his mind.
There was an awkward silence for a ...
2023-09-30 16:14:49 +0000 UTC View PostJames could sense the speaker bending toward him, leaning in closer and closer to the ground. He had a split-second to make a decision. It wasn’t fight or flight, it was fight or give in.
...
2023-09-30 16:13:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Who’s going with you?” Cliff asked when he announced this plan. James wondered if the lawyer still felt excluded despite being given his own, equally important task.
It was reasonable ...
2023-09-30 16:11:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the evening was spent in celebration.
The family gathered as a group to eat together, tell stories, sing, and dance. A couple of them even had instruments, a guitar and a harmonic...
2023-09-30 15:58:59 +0000 UTC View PostSierra approached James as he stepped out of the forest. The sun was rising behind him. The new day found her tired and bleary-eyed. After her nap, she had barely slept during the night. She’d to...
2023-09-30 03:56:52 +0000 UTC View PostJames spent the next hour celebrating with the Rodriguezes and reconnecting with one of his original party.
“Good move solving the food shortage,” Alan said. “You’ve won everyone here...
2023-09-30 03:52:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe figure approached, and Sierra recognized him now.
It’s James after all, just about a foot taller and more muscular. Never thought I’d be relieved to see him.
She starte...
2023-09-30 03:45:09 +0000 UTC View Post