Chapter 635: A Parent
Merzhin’s despair had quietened.
The choir was silent.
Stillness hung heavy in the dead god’s throne room as hardly a breath was heard.
“More secrets?” the Saint ...
2023-07-21 22:46:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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Chapter 634: The Wail for the Dead
There was an ancient saying in the realm of Thameland, one that had largely fallen away as the centuries wore on.
A simple phrase of gratitude, spoken during harvests, weddings and births:
Chapter 633: Watching the Throne
Slight warning cuz I know some people read this book to their kids. So in PG-13 films, you get ONE use of the word f*ck. I'm using my one use here.
You'll see why.
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Chapter 632: The Five Heroes
Alexander Roth looked at the top of Uldar’s Rise while the night deepened, feeling as though he was standing on the edge of a cliff.
There—rising before him—the place he’d sought sinc...
2023-07-18 21:27:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 631: The Stone Prison
The iron golem strode through flame, light dancing across his reflective form. His fire-gems glowed like embers while his metallic fingers flexed and relaxed, metal groaning each time he tensed the...
2023-07-15 22:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 630: Everything and More
Earlier, an arrow scraped through Alex’s greater force armour, a throbbing line of pain had seared his body, burning flesh on his right side like a fireplace poker had been rammed into it.
...
2023-07-14 23:27:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 629: Everything.
“You have to let me out!” Carey cried.
Standing on her bed, the young woman gripped the bars on the window, transfixed by the carnage outside. In the village, all traces of idyllic peace ...
2023-07-13 22:43:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 628: Desperation
The world stood still.
Silence crowned the village, broken by trembling breaths, the clink of metal, and creaking of leather.
The rain had stopped.
The battle pau...
2023-07-12 21:54:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 627: A Living Legacy
Alex returned to the village after leaving the injured Watchers in the care of a blood mage team, and was met by the aftermath of Drestra’s first attack against members of the se...
2023-07-11 13:09:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 626: War Comes
Eldin froze mid-knife stroke while the world trembled as though a titan was shaking it apart.
Monsters roared from outside.
People shouted.
Steps away, the Saint began to turn. 2023-07-08 23:10:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 625: Explosion
The song was driving Carey nearer to madness.
When she’d first found herself in this prison that her kidnappers were much too fond of calling her ‘room,’ her thoughts had been jumbled, ...
2023-07-07 21:54:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 624: The Coming Storm
It was subtle.
So subtle that most folk wouldn’t have noticed it.
From deep within Alex’s mind, an intruding urge and an insistent whisper sprouted.
There...
2023-07-06 23:38:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 623: If We Happen to Die
This was it.
They had a direction.
Floating freely in the jar, the third eye was fixed on the southeast—Alex had placed the Eye-Finder down on the peak of a mountain...
2023-07-05 21:41:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 622: Three Eyes to Find
Interrogations were useless with obstinate creatures like the ones Professor Jules had in her lab. They would neither bend, yield, nor crack, so she’d taken a different tack, locking herself in h...
2023-07-04 20:36:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 621: Faith
The First Apostle’s face reddened, and he raised his hand higher.
Uldar’s divine light flared brighter, but Carey still felt none of its unwelcome warmth from earlier.
“What is ha...
2023-07-02 00:49:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 620: Folly
“The General’s Folly is something of a parable only taught in our holy order,” the First Apostle sat in a pew near the back of the chamber.
A seat very near the door, Carey noticed.
... 2023-06-30 21:34:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 619: In the Belly of the Beast
“Wake up, my child,” an ancient voice called to her.
Carey’s eyes flew open. “What?”
“Don’t worry, you’re safe now,” the soothing voice said again. “No harm will com...
2023-06-30 00:01:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 618: Vivisection
Same thing, this is a bit dark. I think. Just be warned!
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“What?” Butcher said. “What happened?”
“Track them!” Baker snarled...
2023-06-28 20:55:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 617: Shadow over Luthering
Slight warning, the next couple of chapters are slightly dark. Not super, but a friend suggested I put this on. Enjoy, my friends!
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Sir Sean Swift had been awake f...
Chapter 616: Terrifying Solutions
“What?” Professor Jules cried, grabbing Hart’s arm. “You mean one of those creatures that took so many lives at the Research Castle?”
“Ya,” the Champion of Uldar said. “It was...
2023-06-25 00:06:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 615: The Falling Dark
“Come, we must keep moving,” Eldin said, emerging from the cave wall about a mile from where he’d left the Saint.
Several of his agents startled, hands reaching for holy weapons and onl...
2023-06-23 22:39:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 614: Taken
Merzhin, the Saint of Uldar was troubled.
Carey’s words played through his mind, biting at him, gnawing at his resolve. There was a kernel of terrible truth in what she had...
2023-06-22 23:07:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 613: Broken Glass
“If I might have a word,” Merzhin’s voice came inches from behind Carey.
The young woman yelped, the specimen jar in her hands slipped to the rocky ground at her feet.
Glass shatt...
2023-06-21 21:37:23 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 612: Leaving in the Face of Storms
“This weather isn’t what I would have expected in Generasi. I’m truly surprised.” King Aksuma shook his head, watching the outdoors through a window lashed by rain. “People travel to this...
2023-06-20 21:48:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 611: Uldar's "Servants"
The early morning sun trickled through the forest, filtering down beneath the lush canopy.
“Are you certain, holy leader?” one of Eldin’s agents whispered, alarm in her tone. The young ...
2023-06-18 00:08:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 610: Metamorphosis
Flesh rippled.
Bone cracked.
The cerberus was gripped by a terrible change.
He growled and snarled, eyes shut tight—every muscle tensed—as Theresa’s enhanced lifeforce poure...
2023-06-16 22:34:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 609: Blood Ritual
Alex eyed the finished tonics as he searched for the right words.
He knew that Theresa was having doubts and feeling uncertain, so he didn’t want to push, or influence her in either directi...
2023-06-15 21:35:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 608: Prelude to the Ritual
The predator stalked its prey. Cunning, silent, deadly.
Fangs gnashed. Low growls rumbled from the beast’s throats, sounding like stone grinding deep in the earth’s core. Rippling haunche...
2023-06-14 19:36:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 607: A Simple Proposal
“What does forever mean to you, Theresa?” Alex Roth asked Theresa Lu as they floated away, hovering above sand and crashing surf.
“That’s a strange question.” The huntress said, coc...
2023-06-13 22:05:26 +0000 UTC View Post