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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 80 - While I was Gone

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...

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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 79 - Homecoming

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...

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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 78 - Necessity and Enmity

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...

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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 77 - Completion

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...

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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 76 - Blood From Metal

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 ...

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Chapter 669 - Bridge of Fractured Trust

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...

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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 75 - The Prime Core

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...

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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 74 - The Forge of Adaptation

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...

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Chapter 668 - Hollow

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...

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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 73 - The Prime

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 ...

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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 72 - Endurance

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...

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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 71 - A Failed Iteration

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...

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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 70 - The Furnace Tesseract

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 ...

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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 69 - Familiarity

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...

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Chapter 667 - The Frozen Abyss

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...

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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 68 - Through the Smoke

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...

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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 67 - Prisoner

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...

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Chapter 666 - The Weight of Vulnerability

“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...

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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 66 - Project Complete

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 ...

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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 65 - Root and Vine

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...

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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 64 - Connected in all the Worst Ways

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...

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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 63 - Horrors Aplenty

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...

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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 62 - The Veinroot Hollow

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...

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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 61 - The Abyssal Glassworks

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 ...

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Chapter 665 - Shattered Delusion

“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 ...

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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 60 - Desolation

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...

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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 59 - Worry

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...

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Chapter 664 - Crumbling

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...

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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 58 - Progress

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...

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Path of Dragons 8 - Chapter 57 - Adaptation

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...

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