Zarian wondered if he should put his Level 23 Straight Darkness +1 back in the beta skill section. Even while walking openly in the day, enduring the bothersome shine of the morning suns, he was st...
2024-07-25 16:05:52 +0000 UTC
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It was another Early Autumn morning. The fortress town of Central Bramblevale stirred awake, slowly, carefully. It was as if all the townspeople were letting go of an uneasy breath after the past c...
2024-07-24 15:11:36 +0000 UTC
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Twenty-five hours after Operation Steal Skill, Zarian found himself frustrated while sitting at his study desk. It was dark out in the early morning hours. If he listened closely, he could hear the...
2024-07-23 18:38:44 +0000 UTC
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I wrote it already. I just need to edit it. Lol! I burned through what I had yesterday for the dump!
2024-07-23 17:04:30 +0000 UTC
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Zarian struck first with a powerful dark javelin. Dax lunged out of the way with inches to spare, his aura crackling and sparking around him while it was ablaze.
The javelin landed with enoug...
2024-07-22 22:05:48 +0000 UTC
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Zarian’s mind was lit with possibilities. What spells should he combine now that he had two spell slots he could run at the same time? Or would those be considered concentration slots?
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2024-07-22 21:08:14 +0000 UTC
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“What the hell?! What the hell was that?!” shouted Havard, horrified by the sudden deaths and splattered remains of his men. Some were crying out, still alive, having only been caught on the ed...
2024-07-22 20:21:38 +0000 UTC
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While Zarian and Gilbert stalked forward from the shadows, bandits laughed and cajoled as they tossed around poor and defenseless beggars as if they were mere toys.
For the bandits, the begga...
2024-07-22 19:44:07 +0000 UTC
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The rainfall was heavy. But the flooding was light. Unlike Miami, Central Bramblevale figured out how to funnel water off their stone streets using a proper storm drain system.
Zarian could h...
2024-07-22 18:39:59 +0000 UTC
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Hours later, Zarian was in his room, sitting at his heavy study desk. The dread gator grimoire was open in front of him.
It was late into the afternoon, getting close to dark. The room’s il...
2024-07-22 17:45:21 +0000 UTC
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Zarian hadn’t noticed until now that he had readjusted his walking speed and other physical movements while in the mansion. When he paid more attention to the mansion’s servants, he noticed how...
2024-07-22 16:58:00 +0000 UTC
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On an Early Autumn morning, Zarian woke up in luxury. He woke up in bliss. He woke up wanting to cry with joy.
For the first time in a long time, Zarian woke up in an actual bed.
It was...
2024-07-22 16:17:03 +0000 UTC
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This again? Either they really don’t like having evil humans around or they really wanted Roland’s soldiers sacrificed to the gnolls. Or maybe it’s both.
Zarian looked up at th...
2024-07-22 15:18:31 +0000 UTC
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“Bramblevale, finally!” Zarian pumped his fists into the air, his Parasite Cloak flapping dramatically in cheer behind him.
Together, he and Para scared the nearest soldiers. The outburst...
2024-07-22 14:05:43 +0000 UTC
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Zarian found his party in the woods away from the soldiers. They had their own campfire going.
Gilbert still looked despondent after not getting any coffee. Bianca, Naomi, and Hannah were sit...
2024-07-22 04:32:31 +0000 UTC
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Yeaaaaaah, buddy!
I have 10 new chapters coming in hot tomorrow (technically 11, but that extra 1 doesn't count since it's the usual daily chap).
Then we'll be 40 chapters ahead of Free...
2024-07-22 00:07:29 +0000 UTC
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For the sake of Roland’s upright and law-abiding nature, Zarian hunted down a medium-sized beast and dragged its carcass around the camp the soldiers had set up for the night. He found his party,...
2024-07-21 13:30:16 +0000 UTC
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Gilbert was on guard duty while the ladies bathed and cleaned up in a crystal clear pond behind him. The trio were further ahead of the soldiers’ march, left of the path the young men were taking...
2024-07-20 15:15:35 +0000 UTC
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Before Zarian could examine his rewards, he had to admit he was damn lucky few people had the Identify trait. If the gnoll elders could use Identify like him and Foodie, they would’ve known he wa...
2024-07-19 15:33:43 +0000 UTC
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A war party of gnolls had killed the remaining wulvers last night. Zarian could hardly believe the news while his remaining spectral spiders danced to tell the story.
Not all of them made it ...
2024-07-18 13:40:49 +0000 UTC
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Zarian focused his fractured attention between the aura link to keep Bianca fueled and fighting at the front like an off-brand warrior. It didn’t take long before he realized his current physical...
2024-07-17 14:47:43 +0000 UTC
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There was no sign of the monster den while Zarian and Bianca flew around in the air. At least not from close to the dire wolf den. Their hopes picked up when they saw a squad of spectral spiders wa...
2024-07-16 15:24:40 +0000 UTC
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Check it out. Leave a rating/review/follow please. That helps push the story up (and fight off the hatred of the haters).
Enjoy!
2024-07-15 17:18:01 +0000 UTC
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If it was anyone else they’d frozen with a mind-invading magic howl, the wulvers would’ve torn through the pair of adventurers and finished their genocide of the dire wolves. But Zarian was her...
2024-07-15 17:15:07 +0000 UTC
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Zarian’s entire body was on fire, the enjoyable kind. His mind was lit like a cluster of stars. He hadn’t eaten breakfast on purpose, allowing the unreasonable hunger to build up from inside of...
2024-07-15 17:12:43 +0000 UTC
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Zarian knew he was acting crazy, but the recent power ups reminded him why he’d made a scene in the mall and opened a portal to another world. He wanted to play with magic and grow his dark power...
2024-07-15 17:11:19 +0000 UTC
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“So, I think we’ve started a war,” Zarian said, while wolfing down the cooked meat of a large beast he’d hunted in the forest.
His party was there, sitting around the campfire after g...
2024-07-15 17:09:44 +0000 UTC
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While Zarian dealt with hunger worse than he’d ever felt before, Jack Masters ran out of goblins to slaughter on the subterranean floors of Castle Grimrock.
Jack hadn’t expected this to b...
2024-07-15 17:08:05 +0000 UTC
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The amount of concentration it took to fire one powerful dark beam while charging up a second in secret was so enormous, Zarian overworked his aura channels, making his brain feel like it was unrav...
2024-07-15 17:05:15 +0000 UTC
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Zarian had his hood up, his cloak covering his body to hide his features from the surrounding soldiers. Bright blue magic torches shone with a quiet, vibrating hum around the former battlegrounds, ...
2024-07-15 17:04:00 +0000 UTC
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