As they made their way through the town, Zeth looked out for any signs of movement around, and Astrys walked next to him, seeming much less vigilant. Instead of glancing around corners and watching...
2024-12-02 23:04:47 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Content warning for some graphic descriptions of violence and gore (more than has already been shown in this story.) You've been warned.
When they arrived at the edge...
2024-11-29 20:53:32 +0000 UTC View PostIt didn’t take long for the demon Astrys had beaten up, Withstrom, to accept Zeth’s original terms—fight for him in exchange for the one human life, plus any additional ones he may claim from...
2024-11-26 22:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt was gruesome, but Zeth cut the prisoners open without hesitation, lying each of their bodies upon the ritual circles so their blood would seep straight into the lines to power them.
He’d...
2024-11-23 21:42:09 +0000 UTC View PostAs Zeth backed away from the fleshtaker still gulping down the rest of its victim, the Inquisitors standing at the mine entrance were bombarded with monsters.
Those Sixth Realm dog things wit...
2024-11-22 21:10:27 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Another long chapter. Hope you enjoy!
The first thing Zeth did when he got back into town was get something decent to eat.
During the days he was stuck down in ...
2024-11-21 20:02:48 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Sorry for the lack of chapters these past few days! I ended up having to basically do an entire group final project by myself for one of my classes when both of my classmates stopped responding...
2024-11-20 06:14:45 +0000 UTC View PostZeth spent some more time practicing with Ephemeral Bloodforge, doing his best to try and Rank it up one more time before he slept. After a minute for each of them, the needles he made melted back ...
2024-11-16 22:27:34 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Patreon is acting weird. It might just be a site update, but let me know if this chapter came out looking strange and I'll see if I can fix it!
The first thing Zeth d...
2024-11-14 20:00:33 +0000 UTC View PostUpon returning to his lair, Zeth descended down the staircase and walked through the entryway, thinking over his options.
What Alfon had said set him on-edge. That man had always felt a littl...
2024-11-12 17:11:35 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Zeth awoke, he found several sensations all buzzing in his mind.
The first, and most obvious, of these sensations was the distinct tickle of a System notification waiting to be read. Or,...
2024-11-10 18:13:50 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Wrote this while a little sick/tired. Sorry if it has any errors or reads weirdly, please point anything that looks wrong out to me!
In the middle of the night, Zeth ...
2024-11-09 10:26:05 +0000 UTC View PostAs the hours stretched on, Speedy Rites Ranked up to five, and then six, before its rate of growth finally seemed like it was beginning to slow down. By that point, Empowerment Ritual’s requireme...
2024-11-07 18:11:47 +0000 UTC View PostClin still quite miffed by the treatment he’d been given by these Inquisitors. He’d been busy with work in the office, trying to ensure everything with the bandits went well, when they burst in...
2024-11-06 18:35:05 +0000 UTC View PostAN: I stayed up until 4 in the morning working on this one---it's pretty long. Hope you enjoy :)
After asking around a bit, Zeth found his way to the place the Inquisitor...
2024-11-05 17:02:09 +0000 UTC View PostBlood pooled at Zeth’s feet.
He was standing before what was practically a mountain of corpses, all of them mangled and slashed apart, piled at the bottom of his stairs.
Astrys stood ...
2024-11-03 16:17:25 +0000 UTC View Post[Sanguine Renewal’s Rank has increased to 4.
+1 Skill Point. You have 14 Skill Points.]
It was a difficult, painful, and loud process, but Zeth event...
2024-11-02 16:11:50 +0000 UTC View PostZeth stood at the top of his staircase, right below the trapdoor that led out into the forest clearing, listening to the people who had just discovered evidence of his base.
“I felt it,” ...
2024-11-01 16:00:46 +0000 UTC View PostIt took a while, but eventually Zeth finished drawing his Empowerment Ritual—all eighteen and a half hours of it. He worked in silence as Astrys slept in the bed across the room, thinking about a...
2024-10-30 15:14:21 +0000 UTC View PostZeth sat with Astrys up in the forest clearing. She lay on her back, gazing at the stars, as he sat nearby, leaning against a tree trunk.
“Do you remember the exact time I was summoned?” ...
2024-10-29 16:12:16 +0000 UTC View PostAs Zeth walked back to base from town, sneaking through the forest and doing everything he could to ensure he wasn’t being followed by anyone, he tried to figure out his future plans.
The I...
2024-10-28 15:13:19 +0000 UTC View Post(AN: Slight retcon. I accidentally edited a sentence out of the previous chapter when Rosalie is telling Zeth about what she found regarding the cabal, where she also mentions the fact that she's h...
2024-10-27 15:16:56 +0000 UTC View PostZeth sprinted through the streets, heading for his meeting place with Erza. He had absolutely no leads on what may have happened to Turn. Almost certainly, it was the Blood Mages, but why would the...
2024-10-26 15:31:01 +0000 UTC View PostAfter drawing out a ritual circle on a piece of cloth and giving it to Sophie, Zeth walked her back to their house, taking a prepared Hellfire Ritual along with him to act as a weapon just in case ...
2024-10-25 15:19:24 +0000 UTC View PostTo start with, Zeth decided to teach Sophie what Erza had taught him—mana fields.
He drew out a small ritual circle on the ground, not giving it any sort of sacrifice so that it wouldn’t ...
2024-10-24 16:14:47 +0000 UTC View PostZeth stood in the entrance of his underground lair, dozens of feet underground. The stone floor was covered in Hellfire Ritual circles, and the walls had lines of their own drawn across them, these...
2024-10-23 15:42:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe following is the entirety of Zeth’s Status as of chapter 59, including the Skill descriptions of every Skill he has purchased or unlocked in the story. There are some Skills in this list whos...
2024-10-22 04:52:17 +0000 UTC View PostDown in his base, Zeth spoke to Astrys.
After giving her precise orders on how he wanted her to move, he nodded. “So, those are your orders. Go up into the forest, search the surrounding ar...
2024-10-21 15:05:36 +0000 UTC View PostAstrys stared at Zeth. “What?”
“I don’t know for sure. But my Skill doesn’t mention anything about a time limit on how long demons can stay. And the Class I have has a history of gi...
2024-10-20 16:07:10 +0000 UTC View PostRosalie sighed in relief when the man and his demon left. She’d recognized that hood and mask—they were the same as what the person fighting the mannitor had been wearing. Perhaps it had been a...
2024-10-19 16:02:49 +0000 UTC View Post