“You know, I really need a better name to call you than ‘gestalt,’” Will mused, dashing upwards through his own darkness. “Too much of a mouthful.”
Predictably, the gestalt did no...
2024-07-04 16:07:16 +0000 UTC View PostOn vacation with my family in Singapore. Thought I would be able to get some chapters out. Nope. Instead I am very tired and in no state to produce a chapter that is up to par. Posting will resume ...
2024-07-02 15:36:34 +0000 UTC View PostProgress to [Eternal Throne]: [37/1000].
None of the elves Will had systematically annihilated so far had been gold rank. As such, each of them contributed one skull to the t...
2024-07-01 17:27:41 +0000 UTC View PostAs it turned out, it was significantly harder to track down the source of the Hunter’s Mark affliction when they were actively trying to avoid detection.
That wasn’t to say it was impossi...
2024-06-30 07:39:13 +0000 UTC View PostAlan didn’t have many beans to spill on the subject of his boss apart from his name, though even that wasn’t much to go off of.
The Contractor. Will had sent a few messages out to his con...
2024-06-28 13:39:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe sudden departure of the necrotic wyrm was the turning point in the battle for what had formerly been Washington DC. The city was almost certainly no longer going to be livable after this, not u...
2024-06-27 05:39:50 +0000 UTC View PostOver in Amelia’s ship, the bronze-rank Pilot was gradually realizing that the elf in the back had not, in fact, taken a parachute pack.
“Uh, it was Caiyeri, right?”
“That is my ...
2024-06-25 05:29:59 +0000 UTC View PostFor the majority of her life, Caiyeri’s life had been the same. Deployed as a rapid-growth clone into a corrupted area, she had little scenery to look at but the strange, dangerous caverns beneat...
2024-06-23 09:55:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe item was an interesting one. It was gold-rank, but it wasn’t as flashy as Will had expected a gold-rank item to be.
Then again, he supposed that to some people out there in the cosmos, ...
2024-06-21 15:55:11 +0000 UTC View PostMaybe hanging from the bottom of a magical fighter jet by literally holding onto its gun hadn’t been the best idea. Will and the man he’d accidentally knocked unconscious with his phantasm had ...
2024-06-20 15:53:18 +0000 UTC View PostNew York City had been a noisy, chaotic mess before dimensional rifts had summoned in city-wiping threats from other worlds.
Humanity was no longer in the same state it had been a mere two mo...
2024-06-18 08:19:44 +0000 UTC View Post“A full summoning,” the Hunger said. “I should have realized this sooner.”
“It is not the strongest one that could have been summoned,” the Elven Mother replied. “It is worrying...
2024-06-15 15:47:24 +0000 UTC View PostWhile most of the cultists had turned to funneling their energy towards the summoning ritual, a good portion of them remained on duty to guard the stunned Users and kill those who broke free of it....
2024-06-14 05:36:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe trial of the champion had begun with 2,938 members. During the course of the tournament, there had been one single addition in the form of Nathan, but there had also been a few hundred who’d ...
2024-06-13 02:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe cultists, of course, had not been idle. Ataraxis’ sect had been listening into the conversations through various means, and though they had not gained perfect information, they understood eno...
2024-06-11 13:25:13 +0000 UTC View PostThis was the first time in the tournament so far that Will had received rewards and not immediately thrown into a waiting room. His Equilibrium Mantle kept him and Osiris from being affected in the...
2024-06-10 11:43:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe teleportation this time was as smooth as it had ever been. Facilitated by Nynn, it avoided the bulk of the traps and knock-on effects that the cultists had laid for them. Will was glad for it.<...
2024-06-08 03:57:49 +0000 UTC View Post“I don’t want trouble,” Natalie lied. “There’s a far greater threat to deal with right now than the likes of you.”
The latter half of her statement, at least, was true. While the ...
2024-06-07 11:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post“This isn’t the end, is it,” Will said, checking for the fifth or sixth time with Sen’s eyes that the restraints Nynn had used on Ingrid’s now-defenseless body were still intact.
...
2024-06-05 10:51:57 +0000 UTC View PostEach time Will entered the Beyond, it felt more natural than the last. This time was no exception. His nightly ritual with the Hunger had continued even while they were on and around the Sentin...
2024-06-04 01:38:29 +0000 UTC View Post“The cycle is faltering,” Sadareth commented, looking down far below. “A shame, especially seeing how many of my champions made it so far. Yours, too.”
“Don’t remind me,” the Hu...
2024-06-03 10:26:35 +0000 UTC View PostOliver Turner was having a terrible month.
It had all started well. The R/V Sentinel had been deployed on its maiden voyage. As an oceanography vessel, it had been unparalleled. Oliv...
2024-06-01 00:49:30 +0000 UTC View PostSilver 4 wasn’t a massive barrier broken, but Will would take it. He put both of his unused points into Soul, knowing that he was going to rely on Sen’s sight to make up for the lack of his own...
2024-05-31 00:44:34 +0000 UTC View Post“Where do we start?” Ayla sighed.
“Probably from the beginning,” Will suggested. “I’ve gotten a lot better at handling this, but I can’t hold this forever.”
“Have you ...
2024-05-29 09:59:03 +0000 UTC View PostParticipants from the First Trial of the Champion of Cycle [REMOVED] advancing to the Top 16 by Sigil
[Kadael, the Hunger] and [Vyx, the Crown]:
“Cards on the table,” Ash said. “You’re a bit of an asshole, Five.”
“Five?” Will asked.
“The fifth in the order we can see,” she explained. “I figure you’re the ty...
2024-05-26 10:05:53 +0000 UTC View PostWill had heard about the sponsors prior to this point. They’d been mainstays of the leaderboard since about a week or two after the apocalypse had begun, and Lev had brought them up a time or two...
2024-05-25 10:42:06 +0000 UTC View PostNymlera Brooksoul was newly gold rank, and she knew that she was the most powerful participant remaining in this tournament.
Thalia, her daughter, had promise, but she relied on external fact...
2024-05-23 08:16:17 +0000 UTC View PostWill had to give it to the corruption cultists. As terrible a selection of people as they were, it was them who had broken into the tournament so thoroughly that Will had been forced to face the fa...
2024-05-22 08:37:26 +0000 UTC View PostWill reappeared in a familiar divine domain. A god waited for him within, its presence making its overwhelming power clear but no longer pressing it upon its sigil-holder.
The Hunger had inte...
2024-05-21 09:16:02 +0000 UTC View Post