“You survived?” Ep’Nanorschi’s typical self-serving humour was gone from her voice. “How?”
Nyxil blinked. Her gaze tracked the former marketplace that was on the verge of becoming...
2025-11-05 12:40:35 +0000 UTC View PostNyxil sat at the edge of the arid mountain of crumbled black stone. A solar flare carved away at the former tomb, and she was left to wait.
Upon the pharaoh’s death, the ocean of cursed blo...
2025-10-23 08:09:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe spatial tear snaps shut in an instant, returning space to a single sheet of undisturbed fabric. The Titan is not so lucky.
When you live entirely on one plane of existence, then you rely ...
2025-10-20 13:38:29 +0000 UTC View PostNyxil’s song rang out across the lifeless dunes, joined by the echo of her tongue. She hated using the Fleshsmith’s ritual. Unfortunately, it was the only one that had a chance of making use of...
2025-10-17 17:59:35 +0000 UTC View PostPlumes of smoke burst out from a thousand criss-crossing cracks as they formed along the ceiling. First, tremors shook the earth. Then, the black stone crumbled all around her.
Nyxil leapt aw...
2025-10-14 12:43:08 +0000 UTC View PostTar floats skyward. Countless great pillars pierce through the patchy, shattered remains of false night. Wherever the viscous liquid touches those not-ceiling fragments, the creatures within — in...
2025-10-13 02:26:55 +0000 UTC View PostNyxil’s astral claws raked through the dam of curses like they were soapy bubbles. She hardly even felt them burst. For so long they had been denied their rightful punishment — suppressed whene...
2025-10-10 13:08:24 +0000 UTC View PostNyxil abandoned her weapon. Both halves of her skulk shroud clung desperately to her as her wings flung her backwards and her tentacles snapped free.
There was no time to think. No time to pr...
2025-10-07 13:58:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Interlopers.” The insectoid’s voice rang through the hall without echo. An undertone of clicking mandibles clung to Nyxil’s ears. She felt a permeating sense of foreignness. The being’s ...
2025-10-04 13:10:10 +0000 UTC View PostMy resolve to topple this impossible beast is welcomed with a mouthful of tar.
I never expected it to be easy, so I’m not surprised my fangs failed to pierce flesh, but for a bite to the ne...
2025-10-02 08:21:24 +0000 UTC View Post“So Ly͚sy͚rã struck her own cult members?” Val’Manis, the Everseeing Eye champion, said. “Why? I can understand her taking out the competition, but not this.”
Nyxil lingered out...
2025-09-29 14:12:54 +0000 UTC View PostDespite the major racket of what was almost an entire wall of stone scraping along stone, the embalmed crocodile remained unmoving. Its eyelids sealed.
Nyxil let out a low breath of relief. O...
2025-09-28 12:50:29 +0000 UTC View PostNyxil coughed, waving away dust from her face as her wings reluctantly hid themselves beneath her robe. Su’Baar slumped over his tank, crying over its damaged barrel. The thick metal had buckled ...
2025-09-26 13:25:33 +0000 UTC View PostI whip my body out of the path of a huge claw only for wind to crash against my side and the ocean of gravel to rise into my ventral scales. The impact tears me out of my flow. My head is torn from...
2025-09-24 07:00:46 +0000 UTC View PostNyxil didn’t know what was more terrifying: the massive boulder falling down on her, or Lysyra’s seeming omniscience.
The girl had known where they were. Not only that, she knew the exact...
2025-09-22 11:45:57 +0000 UTC View Post“Going somewhere?” Nyxil grouched as she caught up to Su’Baar and his machine.
He glanced back at her, hand rubbing the dented metal at his side. “Not particularly.”
“You le...
2025-09-21 08:55:57 +0000 UTC View PostNyxil’s blade pierced the large embalmed’s head, yet it did nothing to the creature. The insectoid didn’t so much as flinch.
Its longsword swung at her. Too close to properly manoeuvre,...
2025-09-19 14:15:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Other Side feels foreign.
By all means, I’ve spent more time here than back on the surface, yet… it is no longer so familiar. The endless ocean of churning gravel is isolating. Not an...
2025-09-17 13:06:23 +0000 UTC View PostWax coated chitin slid across jagged stone with more familiarity than the embalmed had for anything else. It twisted around a narrow corner and jerked to a stop. Both antennas pressed against the w...
2025-09-15 14:02:06 +0000 UTC View PostNyxil ran around the corner, intending to catch up quick so that Su’Baar didn’t grow suspicious. One foot squelched in the confines of her shoe, while the other left a thin layer of goop behind...
2025-09-13 09:10:12 +0000 UTC View PostLy͚sy͚rã.
A third evolution.
Harbinger prospectives at their second were already rare enough considering how short of a time they had between their naming ceremony and the Trials, b...
2025-09-11 07:05:19 +0000 UTC View PostSapients scatter in terror. No matter the settlement, chaos reins below; disturbed both before my appearance, and reaching a fervour after.
I cannot hear them, but my desire for silence isn...
2025-09-09 09:30:57 +0000 UTC View PostNatural laws hate being thwarted.
Each time Ossuul bent her spine and legs to contort to the shape of the tunnel, the default way of things came snapping down on her, determined to kick her u...
2025-09-05 06:04:55 +0000 UTC View PostIn the tight corridor, there wasn’t much space to dodge. Somehow, Nyxil managed.
The stone door slammed against the opposite wall before careening down the path she came. Each time it stru...
The pyramid was massive.
That was obvious from the outside, but as she walked through the dark tunnel, Nyxil was surprised she couldn’t even hear any other participants. There had been eigh...
2025-08-30 13:37:25 +0000 UTC View PostOrten peeked through the crack in the wall. He was four floors up, but that meant nothing to some of the beasts that rose from Kalma’s pit. If they could climb a hundred kilometres of vertical wa...
2025-08-28 07:37:03 +0000 UTC View PostNyxil breathed, letting the hymn fade and the reverberation of her second voice dissipate.
The battle had been a great teaching experience. So many times she had to hold back her instincts to...
2025-08-25 06:08:57 +0000 UTC View PostGrifvoi didn’t know what he expected when he’d heard one of the least likely people of his old ward had made a name of herself in the first section of the Trial. Of all those he’d shared a do...
2025-08-22 18:00:33 +0000 UTC View PostNyxil immediately disregarded the acolyte behind her. Whatever he’d done to sneak behind her, it had taken so much out of him that he now lay unconscious. She didn’t know how he’d gotten ther...
2025-08-20 16:10:21 +0000 UTC View PostNyxil landed on her feet.
The same could not be said for the teens around her.
With her heart thrumming, she took in the landscape around them before anyone else even realised they had ...
2025-08-20 06:42:24 +0000 UTC View Post