Now it was time to find out what he could do at the rank of Instinct of Toxin.
As he swallowed the poison pill, the start of his minute was called and he leapt up onto the neck of the monster...
2024-12-27 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post“Fifty one seconds!” Michael exclaimed excitedly. Heath pulled Eik’s arm over his shoulder as Sonja looked on with a smile.
“Solid strategy, Eiky,” she said.
“Yeah, that was...
2024-12-26 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostMerry Christmas, guys! Here's a Christmas chapter (not really)
Just like how it had been set up down at F-rank, the E-rank endurance test consisted of an Awakened specializing in close...
2024-12-24 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Where’s Heath?” Michael asked, feet up on Eik’s kitchen table with Mis lounging lazily in his lap. She had an uncanny ability to ingratiate herself with literally anybody she met and recen...
2024-12-23 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Rumors?” Heath asked.
It was hot. Almost unbearably so. Heath seemed completely unaffected by the temperature that had caused Eik’s entire body to become drenched in sweat within a few...
2024-12-20 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post“No.”
For a number of seconds, Robert simply stared. Then he swallowed hard and looked back down to a note in his hand and repeated his message. “It is with the greatest pleasure that w...
2024-12-19 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“How’s it coming along?”
Eik smiled brightly as Olivia walked into the new Eik’s Excellent Elixirs. Ever since she’d recovered she’d been spoiled by all of her friends, and she wa...
2024-12-17 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostOlivia’s face was a bruised and bloody mess. If not for her hair, Eik wasn’t sure he’d have been able to recognize her. He couldn’t draw breath. Everything stood still. Why? Why did she loo...
2024-12-16 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostNone of the manticores seemed to pay Eik any mind as he ran along the edge of the clearing. Many of the weaker monsters did but with the effects of Potion of Mighty Strength, Noxious Invigoration, ...
2024-12-13 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe other B-ranker, a man in heavy plate armor, was already present in Travis’ office when Eik arrived. He didn’t carry any weapon that Eik would have expected from such an outfit. In fact, he ...
2024-12-12 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe building was small. Eik had specifically asked for that. The property, however, was quite large and pretty centrally located. This small place was all he really needed right now and he could al...
2024-12-10 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe flimsy wooden box rattled and creaked under Eik’s weight as he gazed out over the crowd.
“What the hell is this guy doing now?” Heath groaned from his place in line at a stall that ...
2024-12-09 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Worldbreaker, huh?” Heath said, lips pouting as he digested Eik’s story. “I mean, that sounds absolutely awesome but why are you so worried about it?”
“Didn’t you hear me, dude...
2024-12-06 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post“What the—…” Eik whispered as the barrier moved up, down, and from side to side in response to his will. Was this a new aspect of his ability brought about the evolution to Instinct of Toxi...
2024-12-05 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post[Reached threshold: Evolution to ??? possible]
[Evolve?]
Hands trembling, Eik initiated the evolution while his cat honed her claws on his shirt...
2024-12-03 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as the reinforced door clicked shot and the locks began to slide into place, Eik leapt to the door and took the handle, hoping they had done it correctly as he pulled on the door. With a qu...
2024-12-02 16:08:53 +0000 UTC View PostThey woke up at the crack of dawn and headed for the prison to try to get their hands on information about Menka’s final sentence.
Eik’s evolution from Acolyte of Toxin still didn’t see...
2024-11-29 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostHeath and Sonja continued fighting for another forty seconds before the effects of the potion began to wane — first from Sonja, despite having consumed the drug slightly later, and then from Heat...
2024-11-28 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for reading! <3
As if it had been waiting for his call, like a little horse waiting to be let out to gallop on a field of flowers, Profound Toxin rushed through hi...
2024-11-26 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostEik flew to his feet with a sharp gasp. His heart was racing away like a hammer as he frantically scanned the room. It was quiet. It was dry. This was not the lake in that strange world. He was bac...
2024-11-25 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAs Eik sat there he hoped that the attacks by the snakes made of Profound Toxin had stopped. At least for long enough for him to try this.
To help him visualize the attempt he put his hands o...
2024-11-22 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostEik waded through the murky, knee-deep swamp water from the coffin to the bank where he stamped off the worst of the foul sludge. This really was the same place he’d woken up when he had been off...
2024-11-21 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“You want to walk?” Mikla asked with a raised eyebrow. “You do know that it’s almost a four and a half hour walk back to your apartments?”
“You shouldn’t have to open portals fo...
2024-11-19 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostInside was a tiny room, no more than four meters by four meters, even at a generous estimate. Besides the door they had come through, there were two other doors. One seemed even more heavily reinfo...
2024-11-18 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostShe held his gaze firmly. “We need to know for certain, Eik. We need to know if she’s actually going to die this time.”
“I know.”
“It’s dangerous to snoop around. Very...
2024-11-15 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostNo… it couldn’t be, could it? After all of that effort, it was his most jaded and apathetic attempt yet that finally hooked something? Only he who is willing to tear his gaze away from the ...
2024-11-14 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“And these dried bas’akar’ar leaves are the best in this side of town. And I’ll throw the roots in for half off if you buy all of this now,” the plant breeder of Leafy Sundries with the g...
2024-11-12 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“And how does it do that?”
The plant breeder, who was an older man with gray hair falling lightly around his shoulders, tapped his gloved fingers on the fleshy leaves of the plant Eik had...
2024-11-11 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“This is a—”
“bag of holding!” Eik exclaimed before Atla could tell him. “That’s a bag of holding, isn’t it?”
“It is, yes. Good eye,” she said with a smile. “Thi...
2024-11-08 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post“Now, who wants to see the rewards? Two times compensation and the reward for the rescue mission!” Atla said and clapped her hands.
“Wait,” Eik began. “Atla, I know you didn’t mak...
2024-11-07 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post