Elijah appeared in the center of the grove and immediately collapsed to his knees.
“What did you do?” demanded Nerthus.
Elijah looked up to see the spryggent looking dow...
2025-03-09 15:00:03 +0000 UTC
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The density of the atmospheric ethera had decreased significantly, but that was as expected, given that Elijah had just conquered the Primal Realm. The stark difference was still a little sho...
2025-03-08 16:10:03 +0000 UTC
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Miguel yanked his sword from the hairy monster’s body, then jerked around to continue the battle. However, after only one look at the slightly dazed solders – and all the bodies carpeting...
2025-03-08 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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As the golem fell apart all around him, Elijah found himself in a maelstrom of bubbles, swirling water, and corroded metal. He cut through the current, tucking his head as far back as he coul...
2025-03-07 16:10:01 +0000 UTC
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Elijah jerked awake to the roar of wind.
A piece of metal smashed against his face, pulling him fully back to awareness. And he did not like what he saw. Still in the Shape ...
2025-03-07 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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The sound of fracturing ice followed Zeke as he stepped into the cavern. All around him, the wails of the damned – each one encased in ice – joined the cracking ice to form a discordant c...
2025-03-07 14:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Elijah clung to the ceiling, looking down at a mass of golems. There weren’t just thousands of them. Not even tens of thousands. If there less than hundreds of thousands, he wou...
2025-03-06 16:10:01 +0000 UTC
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The world shook.
Ethera surged all around, infusing the very air with dense energy. As he gripped what was left of the massive mechanical heart, Elijah looked around in confusion – an...
2025-03-06 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Zeke launched a punch at the first of the frozen monarchs, but the second his fist came close, it shattered on a wall of ice. A quick pulse of [Hand of Divinity] came by instinct, mending the...
2025-03-06 14:00:13 +0000 UTC
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The heat enveloped him, clinging to his skin and burning his lungs. The Temperate trait of Elijah’s Cloak of the Iron Bear helped mitigate all but the worst of it, but what made it through ...
2025-03-05 16:10:01 +0000 UTC
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Roiling flames washed over Elijah, superheating the air until every breath scorched his throat. The huge slab of metal in his hands grew hot enough to burn his hands to ash, and the wall behi...
2025-03-05 16:05:01 +0000 UTC
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The sound of metal grinding against metal hissed through the air as Elijah beheld a monstrosity – a macabre fusion of man and machine. It – or maybe he – looked like two disparate creat...
2025-03-05 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Elijah should have known it was a trap.
It was too convenient. Too easy. And yet, after spending most of a day fruitlessly exploring the factory, he was so eager for answers that ...
2025-03-04 16:10:01 +0000 UTC
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Elijah ripped the head free of the harpy, finally ending its life. He’d been hunting the creatures for nearly two weeks, and he’d finally found their lair. Thankfully, there had onl...
2025-03-04 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Zeke shivered so violently that it sent tremors of pain up his spine.
Looking around, it wasn’t difficult to see why. He stood upon a nearly featureless plain of black ice, a bl...
2025-03-04 14:00:14 +0000 UTC
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The smell of smoke hung dense in the air, filling Elijah’s lungs and feeding the flames of his fury. The sight of the factory – for that was all it could be – only made it worse, and he...
2025-03-03 16:10:01 +0000 UTC
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For the longest time, Elijah was only half aware of his surroundings. The fight against the mutated and many-tendriled Vey’thaalian had taken more out of him than he ever could have expecte...
2025-03-03 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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“It’s okay,” came a soothing voice. Zeke expected to feel an accompanying hand on his back, but there was nothing. “Just breathe. Don’t let it overwhelm you. In an...
2025-03-03 14:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Carmen leaned close, her face only an inch from the glowing metal. If she got any closer, even using abilities like Endure Flames and Energy Shielding, she would have been burned. Even ...
2025-03-02 16:10:01 +0000 UTC
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Elijah rushed forward, leaping over a clump of twisted flesh vines and raising his scythe high above his head. As he brought it down on the monster’s mutated body, he released Storm’s Fur...
2025-03-02 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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The smell of the Veinroot Hollow was uniquely unpleasant. It was musky and sweet, with undercurrents of iron and rot. Was that why Elijah found the meat so grotesque? Or was it so...
2025-03-01 16:10:01 +0000 UTC
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The blade of the Verdant Fang sliced through the air, then sunk into the flesh spider’s torso with a squishy thunk. Elijah yanked the weapon back with enough force that he split the thing i...
2025-03-01 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Elijah studied the coral growing at the bottom of the glassy cave. If his chelonian features were capable of twisting into recognizable expressions, he would have narrowed his eyes. How...
2025-02-28 16:10:00 +0000 UTC
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It felt like Elijah was trapped inside a prism.
Everywhere he looked was glass, and the way the ambient light refracted through it felt extremely disorienting.
With a flick ...
2025-02-28 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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“What do we do?!” hissed Zora. “When he wakes up –”
“He’ll think it was all another one of his hallucinations,” came a male voice. Zeke didn’t have the strength ...
2025-02-28 14:00:20 +0000 UTC
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There were so many. More than Elijah could have ever expected, in fact. Even having experienced the near constant flow of monsters, he’d lacked the context necessary to truly understa...
2025-02-27 16:10:01 +0000 UTC
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Ducking beneath an enormous, iron-studded club, Sadie swept Final Verdict around in wide arc. The blade bit deep into the ogre’s knee, severing tendons and fouling the joint, but the ten-fo...
2025-02-27 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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On shaky legs, Zeke pushed himself to his feet. His bones creaked and his knees crackled under his meager weight, but for the first time in a long time, he refused to let himself feel the pai...
2025-02-27 14:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Elijah staggered through the gate, then collapsed in exhaustion, slumping against the wall. The gate slammed shut behind him just in time to stop the monsters from invading the city. It...
2025-02-26 16:10:01 +0000 UTC
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The ground rumbled with charging soldiers, each one armed with a shield and spear. At the head of their wedge formation was Elijah, glowing with green fire and brandishing the Verdant Fang.&n...
2025-02-26 16:05:01 +0000 UTC
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