Chapter 41: Horde Against The Wall
Julius and Meredith, my dear friends,
I write to seek your guidance, for I am at the end of my wits.
The Wizard Order has escalated its operations within my border...
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Chapter 40: Demanding Footholds
“Watch the Funny Bone, the circus of undead! Don’t be afraid, they’re friendly!”
Ten children dressed in rags darted through the streets of Edge, preparing the ground for Jerry’s c...
Chapter 39: A Very Warm Welcome
The Wall of the Damned—or Damn Wall, as was commonly called—had been constructed with the terrain in mind. It mostly followed the plains of Escarbot’s northern border until their very center,...
2022-04-13 17:24:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 38: Birds Are Surprisingly Talkative
Necromancy is inaccurately named.
The practitioners of that magic school often deal in corpses, ghosts, and icons of death, but this is not where their domain lies. A more accura...
2022-04-13 17:24:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 37: The Treasure of Dorman
In the Kingdom of Escarbot, not many villages had inns—but the particular settlement Jerry was currently in, located on a main road, begged to differ.
The Fat Boar inn was a stub of a build...
2022-04-13 17:24:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 36: The Funny Bone Circus
“Come, everyone, come! Watch the Funny Bone, the one and only undead circus of the Three Kingdoms!”
Jerry stood on a crate and called out to the crowd, inviting them all to the performanc...
2022-04-13 17:23:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 35: A Novel Shock
Manna, Desistos, Gaia, Pyros, and Hydra.
The five Primordials ruled over our world for millennia, each a nature spirit representing the apex of a branch of magic. They were immor...
2022-04-13 17:23:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 34: The Perfect Plan
“Jerry!” Soon after the villages disappeared, a shout came from the hill’s base as a rugged figure burst out of the trees. It was Derek, panting as if he’d run all the way here and still we...
2022-04-13 17:23:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 33: The Price of Vandalism
Jerry’s tower had been vandalized.
The fence, arduously built over the winter, had been torn down in places. The wooden statue had been broken into two, lying on the hard ground, and Jerry...
2022-04-13 17:20:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 32: Rest In Peace
“Ohhhhh…” With a drawn-out groan, Jerry’s eyelids fluttered open. He was cold, for a moment, incredibly cold, before the feeling receded and his body started working again.
“Master!...
2022-04-13 17:20:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 31: Jericho the Green
“I WILL FUCKING DESTROY YOU!” Jericho roared, his voice shaking the leaves with its supernatural intensity. He stood on top of the fallen tree, on top of his brother’s corpse, looking down on...
2022-03-28 03:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 30: Paying One’s Dues
The slow collapse of a gigantic tree was not a peaceful sight.
The behemoth was almost a hundred feet tall, towering over everything else in the forest. Its dark bark moaned and screamed as i...
2022-03-24 18:45:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 29: The World’s Best Lumberjack
The moment Axehand threw off his cloak, grunted, and buried his axe-hand in the tree all the way to the forearm, many different things happened at once.
The surrounding guards froze at his wh...
2022-03-24 18:44:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 28: Shaking the World
Though the plan seemed far-fetched, it was their only option. By the time the sun began to set, all the details had been ironed out.
The ground team would be Axehand and Boney. The former was...
2022-03-24 18:44:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 27: The Greenskin Hideout
The bandit hideout was not what it sounded like.
When someone hears about a hideout, they imagine a shack hidden in the shadows, a rundown basement, or, at best, an abandoned, dusty, barely-s...
2022-03-24 18:44:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 26: Nice Shoes Can Save the Day
“ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT!” Reymond raved. “RELEASE THEM! RELEASE THEM THIS INSTANT!”
“No, see, they’re happy with this, right guys?”
The Billies nodded, causing bits of fle...
2022-03-24 18:43:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 25: The Return of the Billies
I was there during the Red Week.
We set hundreds of kilometers of forests on fire to keep the curse away from our land. We shot the animals and refugees with crossbows from afar,...
2022-03-24 18:42:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 24: A Will to Fight
The sun crested the horizon, showering the world with life.
A lone, dark figure stood in front of a necromancer’s tower, bow in hand. The tower was already bustling with activity, with the ...
2022-03-24 18:42:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 23: A Father’s Fury
Tom and Jerry stood atop the tower, gazing at the lands beyond. All across the mountain peaks and forests and valleys, the world sparkled, as if a mirror broken into a million pieces.
“The ...
2022-03-24 18:42:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 22: The Coming of Spring
But while the winter months passed timely, with all their joys and difficulties, Jerry still had the occasional guests over. Or rather, guest.
“Shit, man—” Derek slammed his cup against...
2022-03-24 18:41:23 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 21: The Irregular Necromancer
Of the many undead varieties, I find the skeletal ones most appealing. They are clean, easily reconstructible, and they do not smell hideously. But what they make up for in convenience, they la...
2022-03-24 18:40:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 20: The Grand Misunderstanding
Mayor Ashman welcomed Jerry into his house, heart pounding wildly.
Just what was the matter with those two?! Okay, necromancers were heavily distasteful, but they weren’t illegal! This one ...
2022-03-24 18:40:26 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 19: The Burden of Truth
Within Murdock’s grand house, two naked bodies embraced each other. There were juices involved, sure, but this was decidedly not herbalism.
Jerry pulled his senses back to his own body.
... 2022-03-24 18:39:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 18: Birds and Herbs
When the rain was past, Jerry ran outside to the moist forest. Water droplets hung from the edge of leaves and the air was filled by the scent of petrichor, one he particularly enjoyed. All through...
2022-03-24 18:38:26 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 17: Undeathly Consequences
Souls are the field of study that interests me the most, and at the same time, the one in which I know the least. Even this little, however, is enough to stand head and shoulders above most of ...
2022-03-24 18:38:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 16: Jericho the Green
Not much is known about nature spirits.
They are separated into five elemental alignments, and it is these alignments that the schools of magic are based on: pyromancy, hydromanc...
2022-03-24 18:37:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 15: Cracking Bones
Headless’ thrown head found Brad right in the chest. The man looked down. The head smiled. He screamed.
More screams kept coming from the forest. Through the treeline, bandits jumped out in...
2022-03-24 18:36:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 14: A Web of Secrets
“Hey!” Derek swung his hut’s door open with a big smile. “I’m back!”
“Hey dad,” responded Holly. She was using a round rock to squash some herbs on the table, as Murdock had t...
2022-03-24 18:36:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 13: Jerry’s Proudest Possession
Brad grumbled. When three men disappeared near that puny village, Pilpen, he’d assumed they’d run away. It was natural. What would a handful of villagers do to three hardened men? Feed them to ...
2022-03-24 18:35:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 12: Axehand and Elena
After the soldiers were gone and the tea was drunk—or poured through one’s ribcage, in Boney’s case—Jerry went to sleep. He dreamt about being a cow and chewing on grass all day long while ...
2022-03-24 18:35:15 +0000 UTC View Post