There was no more pain, at least nothing physical.
Melmarc just stared. He was reading the notifications or anything like that. He was merely staring. As if knowing it had lost his interest, ...
2024-01-29 06:08:06 +0000 UTC View PostThere is often a cold touch to death, a vivid reminding that the world is capable of loss. To most it manifests itself in a cold chill, a mental blanket of trepidation and fearful realization. Perh...
2024-01-29 06:01:38 +0000 UTC View PostSix days into their march they were going three thousand six hundred priests strong, and at most, seven one-thousand-man generals. At over ten thousand men strong—priest horses ridden by white ca...
2024-01-29 05:55:41 +0000 UTC View Post“What’s happening right now?”
Zed ignored Chris’ whining. As long as he had Oliver following him, he was more than certain Chris and Ash would be in tow.
He’d gone back only t...
2024-01-29 05:49:16 +0000 UTC View PostThey rode hard for five days. During the day they pushed the horses as far as they could go, and at night they set up camp anywhere they found themselves between cities.
They left Ardin six h...
2024-01-26 05:47:29 +0000 UTC View PostIt was strange not to hear the rushing sound of the wind in her ear as she ran through the building.
Gunag had said Oden had done something stupid, and while Tao Mei refused to believe it, Gu...
2024-01-26 05:44:17 +0000 UTC View PostAsh stared down at an array of brass knuckles.
Oliver was looking over her shoulders. “Too rusty, don’t you think?”
She shrugged. “Was just curious, Ollie.”
“Maybe. Bu...
2024-01-26 05:38:03 +0000 UTC View PostArk had returned with one of many comics in his hand. Melmarc didn’t recognize it so it was most likely a new one.
Spitfire was still staring at him and his scar still itched.
Ark too...
2024-01-26 05:31:21 +0000 UTC View PostSurprisingly, uncle Dorthna was more than happy to let Melmarc go on the excursion. He didn’t even give it much thought.
Melmarc asked when he got home, Dorthna tapped his cheek with a fing...
2024-01-26 05:21:29 +0000 UTC View PostThere weren’t a lot of Delvers who were Mages. Perhaps fifteen… maybe twenty. Twenty-five would definitely be stretching it.
The Class was one of the rare classes, and it had the least kn...
2024-01-26 05:18:22 +0000 UTC View PostMost Reverend Father Bratvi Arrufa was a muscled, middle aged man with a clean shaved head. When he spoke people were forced to listen. His pale skin marked his heritage as somewhere not within the...
2024-01-25 05:45:08 +0000 UTC View PostVelroo stood as still as an unmoving mountain, all his skills and power and command wound tightly into his core.
He’d been standing here for days without food or water. At his level of auth...
2024-01-25 05:40:43 +0000 UTC View PostArk was more than happy to announce very early the next morning that his class was Unranked, and his Growth Potential was B-rank before going back to bed. Though, to be fair, Melmarc didn’t know ...
2024-01-25 04:42:56 +0000 UTC View PostBoston squeezed the trigger and Zed was already moving.
The lady he had been oppressing and had almost crawled her way through the gate let out a terrified scream.
Zed ducked to the sid...
2024-01-25 04:38:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt was late into the hours of the night, or early into the hours of the morning, depending on what type of person was reading the clock.
Melmarc had fallen asleep on the dining table while co...
2024-01-23 05:45:21 +0000 UTC View Post“You’ve got to be kidding me.”
Seth darted away from the wide swing of a shroud wraith. Clawed hands clawing through the air were his head had once been. Gunag’s words registered in h...
2024-01-23 05:40:42 +0000 UTC View PostEzril’s return to the cathedral was welcomed just as was the return of the prodigal son in the scriptures; with threats of wrath and fury which were followed through.
He was received at the...
2024-01-23 05:37:50 +0000 UTC View PostZed and the others made their way down the hill and into the city below.
The city looked below as it did above. Tightly packed and somehow overcrowded. The first thing Zed noticed as they str...
2024-01-23 05:29:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Mel, please stop looking up ‘demon lord class’ on the internet. We already know what you’re going to get.”
“There might be something. I’m sure of it.”
“You’re alrea...
2024-01-22 05:07:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe world was cold here was cold. It was like walking in the faintness of winter’s approach.
As annoying as it was, it was acceptable. Everything between realms was cold.
However, the...
2024-01-22 05:03:05 +0000 UTC View PostDinma had said nothing in the past hour. When they walked through the gates of the city, he had paid her entrance fee while she looked around. Despite the hood concealing most of her face, she lean...
2024-01-22 04:57:58 +0000 UTC View PostThey hijacked two cars.
The first car had been easy to access. After much posturing on Oliver’s part, and the lie that had broken Kid’s heart, he’d broken the window and slipped into th...
2024-01-22 04:45:34 +0000 UTC View PostIt was into the early days of January when they found out what type of creature Spitfire was.
The winter snow still blanketed the ground outside, suffocating the grass and chilling the air. I...
2024-01-19 05:56:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dead Accords.
Not much was known of them. Their name was a product of an agreement between the powers of the world. But what they really were was something different. According to what ev...
2024-01-19 05:51:51 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: I'm sorry.
Shaking his head in refusal Ezril almost stepped away in disagreement with reality. His throat grew dry, choked up, and his eyes stung. He didn...
2024-01-19 05:47:55 +0000 UTC View PostTheir walk through the forest was relatively quiet.
The Olympians had nothing to say. Daniel led and they simply followed, while Zed and his group walked behind.
“Aren’t you the one...
2024-01-19 05:41:13 +0000 UTC View PostIt was not a Hydra, a wyrm, a basilisk…
Or an angel.
The last one had gotten a good laugh out of Melmarc’s uncle. It was a full belly laugh, satisfyingly it was not the roll-of-the-...
2024-01-18 05:01:13 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the others came halfway up the crater, Zed still had his arm around his new friend.
He waved at the others casually as they approached.
“You don’t look like someone who should ...
2024-01-18 04:57:47 +0000 UTC View PostClad in his hooded cassock, Sunders and bow securely strapped in place, and his quiver hanging low on his hip, Ezril left the hotel. When he relinquished his room key to the man behind the table at...
2024-01-18 04:42:32 +0000 UTC View PostFire crackled with the effervescent snapping of burning wood. It rested as small as a campfire in a fire place that had not been in Jim’s office the last time Seth was there.
Today he stood...
2024-01-18 04:35:15 +0000 UTC View Post