Riftside - Chapter 37
I charged the burning golem, Knut veering off for the other, when Eryn's voice called out clear and strong from behind me.
“I love you too! Don't do anything stupid!”
A heat fully d...
2025-02-27 22:33:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Riftside - Chapter 36
The flames warmed my skin as I stood next to the burning golem carcass. Its massive form was fully engulfed like a bonfire. I pulled my cloak forward, running my fingers over the rough fabric that ...
2025-02-26 22:24:54 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - Chapter 35
My heart thundered in my ears as I crouched behind a massive bone rib that thrust up from the ground like an ancient monument. Two hundred feet away, the Ironroot Golems stood motionless, unaware o...
2025-02-26 22:24:03 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - Chapter 34
The wooden bridge creaked under our feet as we approached the rift. A group was already waiting to cross the other way with a steelhusk log. The workers below were putting the finishing touches on ...
2025-02-25 20:56:11 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - Chapter 33
I could barely see in the darkness as I bounced out of bed. Sleep had come late and left early, but I couldn't bring myself to care. Not today. There was way too much to do.
Water sloshed fro...
2025-02-25 20:55:28 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - Chapter 32
“By all the Kingdom's forges,” Pa said, his voice dangerously soft as he ran his fingers along the workbench's scarred surface. “What did you do to my smithy, son? Have you been wrestling mon...
2025-02-24 18:52:39 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - Chapter 31
“And this one?” Ma asked, turning over one of the platemaw pieces in her hands, the armor gleaming in the shop's morning light. None of us could still believe how it all turned out, and even Pa...
2025-02-24 18:51:57 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - Chapter 30
“Come on,” Eryn said, tugging at my arm and pulling me away from the street where I'd been pacing back and forth for the last hour or so. “Wearing a path in the dust won't make time pass any ...
2025-02-23 21:54:45 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - Chapter 29
I rolled the first mind gem between my fingers, watching the patterns swirl deep inside the crystal. An almost hypnotically blue-white light danced within, moving as if caught within a vortex.
<... 2025-02-23 21:54:02 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - Chapter 28
The striker exploded into a storm of deadly shards after I smashed Roq through its torso. I ducked, fragments pinging off the Scuttler plates reinforcing my shield.
“Two more from the left!...
2025-02-22 13:48:13 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - Chapter 27
“Nothing. Not a single gem in either of them.” Roq's disappointment rang through my skull. “We should press deeper into the chasm. That's where the real treasure...
2025-02-22 13:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - Chapter 26
The gates of Sentinel Station creaked open, revealing the killing fields. Two short rings of the bell announced our departure to everyone within earnshot. We'd secured another simple scouting missi...
2025-02-21 22:34:53 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - Chapter 25
Darkness had settled over Dawnwatch when Eryn kissed me on the cheek.
“Good luck,” she said, shooting me a wink before making her way down the keep's scaffolding. “Don't give him ...
2025-02-21 22:33:59 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - Chapter 24
The walk back was slow and blessedly free of monsters. Each step sent twinges through my hip while Roq worked hard on mending it. Hopefully, he wouldn't consume any of the corpses with gems inside....
2025-02-20 20:11:55 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - Chapter 23
Pain lanced through my shield arm as I skidded across the ravine floor. My head spun, vision blurring from the impact. Small rocks dug into my back through the damaged leather armor, some cutting i...
2025-02-20 20:11:02 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - Chapter 22
I settled into position below Eryn's perch, my shield ready. Above me, she made a soft clicking sound with her tongue, which was our signal for a target spotted. I clicked in return.
She scra...
2025-02-19 18:35:24 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - Chapter 21
I scanned the ravine's metallic terrain. Loose shards of stone littered natural ledges. Perfect ambush spots. But also perfect for what we had set out to do.
“It should come up through ther...
2025-02-19 18:34:22 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - chapter 20
A hazy mist washed over us as we stepped out of the rift's portal into Sentinel Station.
Teams of loggers trudged toward the east gate, heavy axes leaned on shoulders. Above us, guards exchan...
2025-02-18 19:35:01 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - chapter 19
Pa had laid out our Scuttler parts in neat rows on the workbenches. The smithy’s double doors were closed tight, and my belly was warm and full after a hearty breakfast. Ma had been showing off, ...
2025-02-18 19:34:23 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - chapter 18
The forge blazed with its usual warmth as Pa stood at the butchering station, running a whetstone along his favorite dissection blade. The metal sang with each stroke. I kept my arm wrapped around ...
2025-02-16 21:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - chapter 17
I halted a bit down the road from home, and Eryn stopped to look at me.
“Changed your mind?” she asked.
“Not at all. Just, you've seen Ma, right?”
She nodded, setting her ...
2025-02-16 20:59:52 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - chapter 16
Eryn and I walked across the courtyard to the medical station, positioned close to the rift for rapid response. The tan canvas stretched across a temporary structure, and stood out against the stee...
2025-02-16 20:59:18 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - chapter 15
The walk back to Sentinel Station was blessedly uneventful, with Edwin carrying Knut easily, his strength making the mercenary seem light as a child. Eryn stayed close to my side as we recounted wi...
2025-02-16 20:58:47 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - chapter 14
Scuttler legs kept pushing through the gaps. I crushed them one after another, but all the monster goo mixed with my own blood as their attacks found me time and time again. A pincer caught my thig...
2025-02-16 20:58:17 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - chapter 13
I stared at the Scuttler's crushed shell and the monster goo that was splashed across the ground, my arm tingling from the impact.
“Roq? How can such a light hammer deliver such a power...
2025-02-16 20:57:43 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - chapter 12
A hint of light caught in the metallic shavings beneath my feet, each tiny flake trembling like leaves in a storm, except they were too heavy for the wind to move. The massive silver tree at the he...
2025-02-16 20:57:20 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - chapter 11
The soul chart hovered in my vision like a thick tendril of smoke that wouldn't dissipate. I tried to withdraw from it mentally, but the damn thing just stayed there as if mocking me.
Com...
2025-02-16 20:56:53 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - chapter 10
Pa's strong hands helped me to my feet, though my legs still shook.
“Easy there, son. You don't look so good. Sit for a while.”
The workshop door burst open. Ma rushed in, her face ...
2025-02-16 20:56:24 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - chapter 9
Pa always said that a weapon told its story to whoever bothered listening close enough. As I stood in the smithy's doorway, watching him arrange steel with great care, I wondered what story the sou...
2025-02-16 20:55:54 +0000 UTC View PostRiftside - chapter 8
The shadows lengthened as I walked the circular path that led toward the town keep. It had risen so fast that the outer walls already stood three stories high, steelhusk planks fitted together in o...
2025-02-16 20:55:29 +0000 UTC View Post