"Every living creature has Quintessence. We use it for everyday activities. You regain it from eating and sleeping. All animals - and even - plants have Quintessence," Cobalt explained as the two t...
2024-11-02 03:04:53 +0000 UTC
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The blue-haired beast-cursed collapsed in front of Liadrin. She was still shocked and slightly scared; everyone who had been chasing her - which she knew included several guards from Ghelard - was ...
2024-11-02 03:04:21 +0000 UTC
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Wind rushed past Cobalt's face as he screamed, plummeting from the highest point of the whole world. His breath gave out after the first few moments and he could see the ground below getting larger...
2024-11-02 03:03:50 +0000 UTC
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"Girl, clean that up right now - get to it!" The portly woman shouted as she threw the rag into the soapy bucket.
Liadrin - already on the ground and bruised from the fist that had slammed in...
2024-11-02 03:03:04 +0000 UTC
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Blurb:
To be cursed is to be an outcast. To be a mage is to be feared. To be both is really bad luck.
Cobalt has been studying under The Magister for years. A...
2024-11-02 03:01:33 +0000 UTC
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Priam could feel Jace’s ragged breath next to his chest. Jace was pushing himself on the verge of exhaustion – and still kicking up a spray of dirt and clods of grass as he jogged across the pl...
2024-11-02 01:45:06 +0000 UTC
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Jace kept sprinting at top speed as the terrain began to shift gradually between the plateau and lake region he started to enter. The hard, cracked ground under his feet gave way to softer soil and...
2024-11-02 01:28:19 +0000 UTC
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Jace looked around for the source of the noise but saw nothing save for the empty dunes of the desert.
“There are 58 dungeon cores left, and a duo in the far Southwest desert tile have 42. ...
2024-11-01 13:56:20 +0000 UTC
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Jace crouched, “I’m guessing someone you knew?”
“…My brother…” Priam whispered. He kept the hat over his face and Jace could barely hear the voice despite his obscenely enhanced...
2024-10-31 13:54:20 +0000 UTC
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Yholl Tristrus, the Archmage Ascendant, colloquially known as Double-A, was pacing his throne room as he watched the various screens that showed visuals from all his sensors across Nihilethelea.
2024-10-30 13:46:25 +0000 UTC
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Jace touched down and released the Ghostlight Grapnel as Priam clambered off him. “Wow, this place is old,” Priam said aloud as he spun around. “The structure remains perfectly
2024-10-29 13:55:13 +0000 UTC
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The duo kept trudging onward. Jace had tasked Priam with watching the desert horizon as he kept an eye out for that magic-face thing that was sometimes watching them. As soon as he spotted it, he t...
2024-10-29 01:24:37 +0000 UTC
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Why did the other half of this phylactery thing have to be in a desert? Jace was panting from the effort it took to walk along the desert surface. Not having something solid to grip i...
2024-10-28 13:46:44 +0000 UTC
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Priam was sprinting at full speed, hearing the steady ‘clank’ of the booted, armored people following him. Bloopa reappeared with a pop. I notified Ollie – why are you running?
2024-10-27 16:14:52 +0000 UTC
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Quinn got home with Greg shadowing her, “What do you think? A day of rest and then back out there?”
Greg nodded and cracked his usual grin, “This last one got us a hefty reward.”
<...
2024-10-27 16:13:42 +0000 UTC
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The Archmage Ascendant, Double-A to some, Yholl Tristrus as he once was known – sat on the balcony of his enormous castle in the once-capital city of Nihil’s Hold. Now his personal, luxurious e...
2024-10-26 15:21:53 +0000 UTC
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Jace was struck with a slight bit of concern, soul energy? He thought. What the hell is that?
Priam nodded as they began shimmying out of the tight lava tube alongside ...
2024-10-26 04:39:30 +0000 UTC
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As soon as he had passed the threshold, Jace saw a small line of text floating in front of him. Not a System message, but a magical message in the air.
[4:55]
And the timer was slowly t...
2024-10-25 13:53:29 +0000 UTC
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I didn’t mean to let slip that Verve comment, Jace thought as he traveled with the zero-gravity launch towards the next Complex. Priam is just…so like him. Naïve, trusting, willin...
2024-10-24 13:58:25 +0000 UTC
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“Make sure you hang on tight,” Jace told Priam.
“You got it, Flicker!” The Nebula Priest clutched tightly to Jace’s back, arms wrapped around his torso and legs wrapped around Jace...
2024-10-24 03:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Priam’s head pulsed with pain, and his jaw was sore. He smelled the scent of slightly charred fur, and his sharp hearing picked up the sound of movement. Sitting upright, he looked around and saw...
2024-10-23 14:02:49 +0000 UTC
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What the hell? Jace felt the air blast around him, and it was so mighty, so forceful, that it would have pushed him off of his feet if not for the claws on them. The winds curled in a...
2024-10-23 04:40:27 +0000 UTC
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Jace crept into another lava tunnel with the slight stream of the superheated rock and metal flowing past him. His Dark Matter Shield (Rank 2) and Dark Matter Blade (Rank 5) [Rending] were both act...
2024-10-22 13:58:22 +0000 UTC
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Jace felt his breath coming in shorter and shorter gasps. Ollie flew in front of him and filled his vision. “Hey. Come on. You’re better than this.”
“I…I-I can’t…...
2024-10-21 13:53:01 +0000 UTC
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There’s 9 more Complexes on this volcano tile, and I’m at 39. That would put me at 48 if I cleared them all, Jace thought. Way more than the prior record of 22. “Why so...
2024-10-20 15:35:51 +0000 UTC
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Renlas crested the largest cliff thus far and was huffing in deep breaths of air. Reaching down, he helped Bellor up the last bit of the way. “Thanks,” Bellor grumbled. The two laid down and su...
2024-10-19 13:30:01 +0000 UTC
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Jace landed on the side of a mountain with a gentle ‘thud’, locking his feet-claws into place before letting the Dark Energy Mine effect fade. “And we have arrived!” Ollie shouted as he lef...
2024-10-18 13:30:03 +0000 UTC
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Jace moved quicker than he had ever before. On the plains tiles he was going around 13 miles per hour comfortably, without any exertion. Now? He estimated easily 20 miles per hour. And it was almos...
2024-10-17 13:59:31 +0000 UTC
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“Hurry up!” Bellor shouted to Renlas.
The stockier, shorter, red-haired man clambered up the mountain. The two had neglected dungeons in favor of reaching the ones that appeared to have h...
2024-10-16 13:30:03 +0000 UTC
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[Warning! You are about to enter a Complex!]
[This location has been marked by The Cosmic System as Tier 2.]
[Number of foes to clea...
2024-10-15 13:55:27 +0000 UTC
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