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1018. Loco Mortis

Thump

An array of footsteps clopped with a hideous squelch. Obsidian-black boots took Frost down a bloody path. The red veins along her apparel pulsated with the frequency of the hea...

MA: 100. Welcome To Aire - The Town At The Crossroads

Aire.

It was a town situated at the crossroads of the Justicia Highways. Long stretches of clearings divided the forest into seven major regions; the Central Forest, the Northern Forest, the ...

1017. Raoul, The Repenter of Treachery

“My Executors would prefer you to drown. Liken to the olden trials of Stars, Moons and Beholders– it shall be performed by a Beholder and a Star.”

Galia retrieved the Justitia Scale fro...

1016. A Grand Welcome

The grand welcome was unexpected. Nav could have given her a head’s up, but her library-bound companion did not give a reason as to why she kept her mouth shut.

A surprise, Frost figured. N...

1015. The Ruins Beneath The Surface

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< Leaving H9 | 2 minutes >

The Leviathan rattled. The unsettling murmurs of me...

1014. A Promise To Remain Human

Aiming, healing, communication, combat – Frost excelled in games revolving around these. But when it came to games of chance, and when she shut her eyes and used her invisible eyes to view the wo...

1013. A Sense of Normality

Now that dawn had faded, and Joy was tucked into bed by Cer, the married duo could now enjoy the night of H9 to their heart’s content.

Their dresses were different this time around.

F...

1012. The City Never Sleeps At H9

The Repenters took their leave alongside with Horus.

The woman had every intention of taking her sweet time in H9. She fanned out a stack of coupons for massage parlors and certain services o...

1011. Sceneries Passing By

The crop fields of H5 shrunk in the distance.

The wild plains of H6 came to pass. The giant hill where Cer had first opened her heart to Frost flashed by.

Then came the forests of H7, a...

1010. To The Promised Date

“Have you ever seen a red tide?”

Acedia asked this question from out of the blue.

Nothing prompted her to speak.

It had been an hour since anyone had spoken on the Leviathan, ...

MA: 99. The Black Widows and Huntsmen of The Green Rangers

< See their stats. The blue box doesn’t lie >

It was enough to calm Red down, but not enough to keep a blade held close to h...

MA: 98. Potion Taster

Rounding the bandits up was the easy part.

Keeping them alive was an entirely different story. If someone told Red that humans were prone to throwing their lives away, then she’d laugh and ...

1009. Summit of World Impurities

A body fell into a pit far too deep to tell where it ended.

Their blood-curdling cry came to an abrupt stop just seconds into the descent.

Replacing it was an absolute silence that did ...

1008. The String Is A Lie

Silence befell the Upper Sanctums of the Nexus for exactly thirty minutes following Frost’s ascent from G-Y0.

But this silence was not universal.

It only pervaded the Floor of Ego whe...

1007. Cleaning Up Loose Ends

“Where are they?”

An impatient woman clicked her tongue as she stalked the streets. She lurked in the shadows, hid behind shrubs and walked alongside guards as she noticed blue-suited per...

1006. Remember to Endorse Attachment

G-Y0 imploded into itself two hours later. The confirmation came straight from Nav, who had heard this through her telepathic connection with all Moons possessing the Blessing of the Amalgam.

1005. Nearing Level 450

Indeed.

Frost had lost a single Light. It had been taken by Cer to crystalize new Skills.

I see. So the Nexus is the enabler. Or rather, a powerful Light is. Sort of like how say, E...