Magnus stepped forward and bit down on the struggling woman's neck. Mana slipped through his teeth, and he started sucking it in. She began to fight it, but the woman stilled as Áine slid he...
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I shifted my balance and transferred the eye into my other arm. Holding it up, I addressed the titan. “What exactly will returning your eye do for you?”
Not that I don’t understand ...
2024-01-11 18:06:00 +0000 UTC View Post
(INSERT NEW ROYALROAD COVER FOR FHC B2 :D It's on RoyalRoad with the Font but here's base image)
I chased, I hunted, I found the prey.
Through t...
2024-01-10 18:06:01 +0000 UTC View Post
“What about the nobles? Are we taking them along?”
Neyenna raised her head and stared at me with wide eyes.
In response, Devon temporarily set the eye down and moved to the four-pos...
2024-01-09 18:06:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Metal reverberated as a gauntleted fist smashed into one of Celanae's barriers. The guardsman behind it grew twice in size and charged like a mad bull. Instead of crashing into her barriers for a s...
2024-01-08 18:19:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hanse's corpse collapsed to the floor, and Devon's fur returned to normal. He turned, and I looked up at the hulking werewolf. He raised his head and howled.
Slowly, Alice stepped out of the ...
2024-01-08 18:06:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe following two days were ones of calm and boredom. It felt like the rain before a storm—drowsy, slow, and with no real idea of what was to come.
We only had to stop so I could use the ba...
2024-01-05 19:19:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Chaos.
Everything was going downhill so fast.
"Freki, help Devon," I ordered.
Freki dived into the shadow realm, and I ran for the backroom. My heartbeat began to pick up, and ano...
2024-01-04 18:07:00 +0000 UTC View Post
"And the chamber? You smelled that, right?"
Devon pulled a door off its hinges and stepped through the curtain covering the doorframe. "I did. We'll investigate after completing the hunt." 2024-01-04 18:06:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I stopped behind Devon and crouched down to peer over his legs.
We didn’t travel far once we got above the mountain pass. There was a series of tunnels we took that Devon assured us contain...
2024-01-03 18:11:03 +0000 UTC View Post
"Alice!" I hissed.
She stopped moving and turned to look. I pointed to the door and shook my head as Freki reemerged.
"Trapped?"
"Yeah. Same rune as the one from the entrance, but...
2024-01-03 18:07:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jezzra returned, thundering in on his horse with a grim expression.
Captain Volk was missing.
I had Freki start searching independently, the giant wolf disappearing into the shadow real...
2024-01-02 18:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I felt something pulse from underneath the kidnapper's shirt. I turned and stared at the man trapped in my hand and then looked down. He smiled a blood-stained smile, missing gaps in his t...
2024-01-02 18:06:01 +0000 UTC View Post
(Accidentally uploaded fhc for tgw. Fixed, Sorry!)
"You need me to leave?" I asked.
He nodded. "Yes, I do."
"Okaay. Where?"
"Helio."
"Helio? That one city?"
"Exa...
2024-01-01 18:19:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Another hole forced the front-left wheel to dip. I gripped the side and watched a box slide towards the front, where Alice kicked it away. The wheel climbed out of the hole, and I braced as the bac...
2024-01-01 18:06:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Carrying the boar back to camp was solved by lifting it and placing it on Freki's back. Freki looked somewhat unhappy about being used as a beast of burden for the corpse, but I fed him some extra ...
2023-12-31 01:01:14 +0000 UTC View Post
"You! Wha-what?" Isaac's father started.
In a rush, she boweled him aside, and Nathan stepped over his face, dragging his water robe across his head.
A loud sputtering could be heard ec...
2023-12-29 19:19:00 +0000 UTC View Post
"Apologies, sir Grimm. The next trek will be through a mountain pass. It's a tight fit and very long, so we'll want to stock up on supplies while we can," the captain explained. He pointed towards ...
2023-12-29 18:06:01 +0000 UTC View Post
After bathing in the river, I helped hitch the horses back onto their reins and hopped in. The wagon in front of us set off, and we followed.
Leaning back into the crate I chose as my spot fo...
2023-12-28 18:06:00 +0000 UTC View Post
With a crowd seeking entertainment, I felt silly circling Alice. Her eyes called for blood even if her body remained completely at ease.
I breathed in and then out, expelling unnecessary thou...
2023-12-27 18:06:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The wagon hit a nasty hole that jarred the cabin's interior. A small box fell on my head, and I nearly crushed the thing before I calmed down.
"I hate this!" I yelled to no one.
Devon l...
2023-12-26 18:06:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I stood inside the crowded main hall with Broken Tower and watched as another individual subtly bounced off Celanae's barrier.
Teddy's parents were still nowhere to be found, but we managed t...
2023-12-25 18:19:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Shadows consume. Shadows writhe. Shadows rage!
New hunt. Chase the prey. Ignore the pups.
Red. Red. RED!
Blood across my teeth, flesh on my tongue!<...
2023-12-25 18:06:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The guy looked like a tank, a wall of meat sporting rich ochre skin and thick bull-like horns. He had cropped hair, short and spiky, while his eyes glowed a dark yellow muddled with brown. Surprisi...
2023-12-22 19:19:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It took another hour, or what felt like an hour, just to stabilize the dot of light inside the void. Concentrating, I began moving the image, removing the static around it and letting the ...
2023-12-21 18:06:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Alice was surprisingly at ease with the girl, adeptly handling questions as they came, while Devon occasionally answered whatever inquiry the father managed to slip in between his daughter's barrag...
2023-12-20 18:06:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I stared at the mirror and tried to smile. The result was pathetic.
Yeah, not working.
Thankfully, I didn't have to smile if I didn't want to. I slipped on my mask, and it magi...
2023-12-18 18:19:00 +0000 UTC View Post
(Welp accidentally posted chapter 4 early so I guess no post tomorrow. Woopsy, enjoy the double post today.)
As we exited the tree line, we approached a leather-cl...
2023-12-18 18:06:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I pushed past a bush and had to bend the branches out of the way just to make it through. Not for the first time, I wondered why our guide wanted to lead us through some of the worst terrain imagin...
2023-12-18 18:06:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I moved to the side and ignored the commotion coming from the next building over. The noise irritated me enough that I almost put on my mask just so I could openly snarl.
Sleep had f...
2023-12-15 19:19:00 +0000 UTC View Post