You sure you don’t want me to join you, boss? Lux asked.
“Bringing a bladebow on the first day of class might send the wrong message,” Dallion replied. Even so, he tucked the N...
2023-01-20 20:42:02 +0000 UTC View Post“I didn’t kill my father!” Celsius shouted in H-Sec’s interview room.
It had been half an hour since the rune carriages had flown myself, Celsius, and his girlfriend to their main off...
2023-01-19 20:37:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt had been a while since Dallion had visited the novice administration building in the Learning Hall corridor. The staff seemed rather amused by his new appearance, Dealing Dallion with no choice ...
2023-01-19 01:28:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe exam room was in a different part of the novice section. It was rather large, mixing elements of an awakened training room, an auditorium, and a small arena. Knee-length walls separated four se...
2023-01-18 13:22:38 +0000 UTC View PostFinding a human charm addict in a slum of uncharted was a lot more difficult than it sounded. If it were an undercover agent, a tourist, or even a newcomer there wouldn’t be anything easier. Rega...
2023-01-17 22:42:58 +0000 UTC View Post“You couldn’t make it?” The dwarf arched his brows.
It was a difficult decision to make, but Dallion decided he couldn’t risk putting something of the sort in the hands of others. The...
2023-01-17 01:17:29 +0000 UTC View PostThere were many ways of catching a suspect. H-Sec could get anyone’s information in minutes, then suck all the gargoyles in the city to fetch them. There were a few issues with that. Despite bein...
2023-01-16 19:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostI’d never seen the faces of my parents. Back when I was a child, we didn’t have faces. We didn’t have a single form, either, floating through the ocean like threads in fabric. I suspect they ...
2023-01-15 16:21:00 +0000 UTC View PostDAGGER Level 3 has been cleared!
Continue on to fulfill the DAGGER’s destiny!
A gate emerged, marking the path to the next section.
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2023-01-15 16:20:22 +0000 UTC View PostGetting picked up by H-Sec or any of the local authorities was common in my part of the slums. Being driven back, though, would be remembered for years. I asked Clayton to drop me off at the waterm...
2023-01-14 23:22:32 +0000 UTC View PostIn my part of the city, if someone had to be questioned, they’d be grabbed, runed, and dragged to the station of the guard where the authorities would spend hours interrogating them in less than ...
2023-01-14 23:21:58 +0000 UTC View PostEntering the metropolis area was like entering a bank. Only difference was that instead of walls and armed guards there was an invisible line circling the area. Cross that line and a hundred gargoy...
2023-01-14 23:21:25 +0000 UTC View PostSleep and I have always had a love-hate relationship. One could almost call us ex-lovers. She’d keep tempting me to go back into her arms, and I’d pretend to ignore her. Sometimes I’d flirt w...
2023-01-14 23:20:45 +0000 UTC View PostHello, all!
Due to my temporary posting reduction I've decided to post a (short) story I was working on for a contest.
Five chapters will be posted today with all a few more tomorrow. 2023-01-14 23:19:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Drawing runes on a soul sucker turned out to be a difficult and highly inefficient task. Dallion had to spend a lot of attention not to kill the creature outright with the tip of his harpsisword. D...
2023-01-13 18:52:25 +0000 UTC View PostThree circles of symbols merged together within another fragment of the copyette, this time causing a grid of spikes to shoot up from the floor all the way up to the ceiling. In a fraction of a sec...
2023-01-11 21:38:19 +0000 UTC View PostHeya, all!
Hope you're doing well in 2023 :)
Apologies. Have been feeling tired lately (possibly still recovering from last year).
Hoping this will soon pass, but for the moment I...
2023-01-10 20:26:15 +0000 UTC View PostIt had been so long since Dallion had been hired to clear an item that it almost felt unnatural. Back then, Dallion had just become an Icepicker guild member, and it had been his job to clear spher...
2023-01-09 19:41:10 +0000 UTC View PostBumping into Katka had made Dallion lose his appetite to the point that even Ruby wasn’t able to snap him out of it. The shardfly was initially pleased with the brief journey outside of the room,...
2023-01-08 17:10:32 +0000 UTC View PostHunger greeted Dallion when he returned to the real world. In Nerosal, or even in the wilderness, that wasn’t an issue, since he could always go find some food. Here, though, things were differen...
2023-01-07 08:59:50 +0000 UTC View PostFor hours, Dallion kept on trying to create magic strands. He had changed the approach dozens of times, yet each time he thought he was on the verge of a breakthrough, nothing came out. Several tim...
2023-01-06 05:28:06 +0000 UTC View PostYou’ll get punished if you keep stealing cups from the dining hall, Nil sighed. Remember, it’s not about skill level, but the knowledge how to use spells adequately.
Ign...
2023-01-04 21:33:31 +0000 UTC View Post“Crumble how?” Dallion asked.
The building guardian had indicated nothing of the sort. Just to be on the same side, Dallion had had a brief talk with him to check. The guardian seemed as ...
2023-01-03 23:40:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe adrenaline from the vortex’s absorption didn’t let Dallion have a blink of sleep all night, constantly causing him to shift between agitation and restlessness. Most of the time he spent pac...
2023-01-02 10:54:14 +0000 UTC View PostConfirmation came just as predicted. A new set of land probes were sent to pull out the fractal trees and investigate the cobalt deposits. I expected the people to feel relieved upon finding out, b...
2023-01-02 03:15:47 +0000 UTC View PostRed alert messages flashed on all walls throughout the ship. The war in our section of the front had taken a turn for the worse. While the Fleet had managed to make significant progress in one area...
2023-01-02 03:14:51 +0000 UTC View PostSpark infused quills filled the air like a swarm of bees. The aethervore teleported from spot to spot, faster than the quills could reach them. However, its ability to cast spells was significantly...
2022-12-31 15:58:13 +0000 UTC View PostWalking around the surrounding section of the Academy ended up being a lot more interesting than expected. Dallion almost forgot his immediate problems and concerns, as if he’d taken a brief vaca...
2022-12-31 00:33:19 +0000 UTC View Post“No! Absolutely not!” Palag said.
The fury barely raised his tone, but from the view of a ten-year-old it was the same as if he were shouting. Despite himself, Dallion suppressed the urge...
2022-12-30 09:10:34 +0000 UTC View PostDallion and the mage ripped the air, clashing like two comets of polar opposed magnetic ore. Each side had its own method of fighting, resulting in the utter destruction of the arena around them. D...
2022-12-29 09:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post