Chapter 198
We traveled through the night, and I began to think that we’d escaped safely–that the merchants wouldn’t find us or guide others to our trails. The faint rumblings of thunder on a clear day t...
2024-08-22 06:11:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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Chapter 197
[Tariel POV]
As soon as he saw what Lierthan was so angry about, Tariel stood tall and began to rush forward to the head of the damned Alniyh’s tortoise. He couldn’t stop himself from jum...
2024-08-21 05:36:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 196
Naddarah,
You have spoken appreciatively of the mild winters and temperate summers of Viertaal. You have wondered why it is that the salt witches of our ...
2024-08-20 06:28:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 195
“Thank Nievtala.” I breathed out thanks to the goddess, but they were almost more of a curse. Not towards Her, of course, but instead because of what Rulac and Foire had found.
In t...
2024-08-18 07:11:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 194
As the swarm passed through the hills that grew taller and rockier by the day and the gray smudge that I’d seen across the horizon became clearer and clearer to me, I finally realized that what I...
2024-08-17 08:08:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 193
When last I’d sparred or fought with Wisterl, I had been a khatif and she a keelish. Though I had enjoyed a significant advantage in stats, I still found myself struggling in combat against her w...
2024-08-16 05:12:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 192
“The monster’s found you! Flee before it devours you whole!”
Trai’s screams echoed across the watching members of my elites as I stomped exaggeratedly towards her with my eyes shut ti...
2024-08-15 05:45:19 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 191
“Nievtala give me patience and wisdom. Nievtala bless me with understanding and strength. Nivetala give me victory and power. Nievtala make me whole. Nievtala give me patience and wisdom. Nievtal...
2024-08-13 04:59:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 190
[Fen POV]
Doluk was boring. Though she couldn’t talk as good with him as she could with Varali, Fen could still have something like a conversation with a creature as intelligent as Doluk wi...
2024-08-12 05:54:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 189
The crocodiles’ hissing roars and the keelish’s defiant screeches filled the air, but I paid them no mind as I focused on the new notification from the [System].
[Skill: Quaking Claw; an ...
2024-08-10 06:11:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 188
The swamp lizard’s scales along its back were different from our own–they protruded proudly from its spine all the way down its tail, and each scale was so thick that they felt like either armo...
2024-08-09 04:43:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 187
Let the Inkulu’aka’s voice be heard. Let the Inkulu’aka’s call be answered. Let the Inkulu’aka’s will be made manifest.
Those who have ...
2024-08-08 04:53:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 186
Panic surged through me as loud shrieks filled my head. I sat bolt upright, something hitting my shoulder as I rose and looked for the threat. The suns had begun to rise, so I’d been asleep for s...
2024-08-06 05:16:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 185
I strained my arm, then shoulder, then back and legs as I struggled to wrench the creature’s body out of the waters, but it refused to give up trying to get a bite of me. My khatif face had narro...
2024-08-05 06:22:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 184
The words shot adrenaline through me, forcing me to fully shake off the grogginess of sleep and the confusion ofdivine conversation. I stood tall, my spine crackling from the base of my skull to th...
2024-08-04 06:44:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 183
At last, I am able to meet with Drolick, and his face remains as craggy and crotchety as ever, the lines carved into his face from long decades of his pure stubbornness protecting his p...
2024-08-02 06:00:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 182
As I listened to the cries of my keelish, I was again tempted to shift my vision to perceive heat signatures, but with a force of effort, instead I strode forward, my magic bubbling within my throa...
2024-08-01 04:57:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 181
Days continued to pass, the journey difficult and somehow easy at the same time. There wasn’t anything unusual to do, simply to continue on our path while hunting enough prey to keep the swarm fe...
2024-07-30 21:21:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 180
[Varali POV]
A week had passed since Varali and Fen had left Stonestep, and the journey continued to be a strange conglomeration of tranquil and infuriating. The jungles remained beautiful an...
2024-07-27 22:16:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 179
[Mualtir POV]
Mualtir had been stationed as the High Colonel of the Thnufir River’s Fort Thnufir for nearly a decade now, though before that she’d spent most of her whole life here as a s...
2024-07-26 05:36:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 178
Immediately, I raised my head and began to search for the source of the confusion, though I couldn’t see far or clearly in the dimness of the setting suns. I could at least be sure that Arwa’s ...
2024-07-25 05:38:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 177
Though Drolick and I had interacted several times in the past, I wouldn’t have called him even an acquaintance. The mayor/guard captain/spiritual leader of the insular community lives...
2024-07-23 05:55:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 176
I wasn’t sure how, I wasn’t sure when, and I wasn’t sure why, but what I did know was that Took literally held Rulac’s life in her jaws. She had dragged him back to the rest of the swarm, h...
2024-07-20 07:21:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 175
And there should be another chapter tonight!
[Took POV]
Took had long become accustomed to being the largest around, and she liked that. It helped her to feel like there was at least s...
2024-07-19 22:24:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 174
My brief visit to the New Empire complete and the Republic of the Indlovu’s city-states behind me, I made my way into Shandr once more. In the years since my last visit, nothing had s...
2024-07-18 06:12:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 173
The arrival of Private Varali served to guide us more directly and immediately to our goal, and her continued presence among the garrison has been positively impactful, especially for t...
2024-07-17 05:46:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 172
WARNING: much of this chapter is super [Skill] focused, since I don’t think there’s ever been a full run-down of every [Skill] and its evolutionary possibilities as of yet. Here, th...
2024-07-16 05:40:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 171
High Colonel Mualtir di’Thnufir:
High Lord Leialt Alniyh is only half a day’s travel away from Fort di’Thnufir. Upon his arrival, he will accompany...
2024-07-13 07:10:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 170
Foire was immediately smitten with his daughter and couldn’t seem to be bothered to look at me, though I didn’t care or even want him to. Though, looking at her, I wasn’t sure how Trai would ...
2024-07-11 05:34:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 169
[Foire POV]
Since Treel’s death, all that Foire wanted was the next assignment. He’d always just wanted the next thing to do, but now… the quiet moments were the hardest, the longest, t...
2024-07-10 05:55:16 +0000 UTC View Post