The centipedes practically stood still while he killed them, offering no appreciable resistance to his spear strikes. The moment they were dead, he was in the air, rising on a powerful jump and spe...
2025-01-01 00:55:00 +0000 UTC View PostWhen he’d been a child, Velik had learned some basic woodcraft from a transient woodsman who’d come through the frontier. His parents had quickly and loudly objected to their son spending time ...
2025-01-01 00:54:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe first indication that he wasn’t alone was a peculiar plopping sound that Velik had first heard a few days ago in the upper reaches of the flesh caves. His eyes snapped over to the entrance, b...
2025-01-01 00:53:41 +0000 UTC View PostI took a few seconds to just breathe. It was over. Ammun was gone. His soul had been released from its phylactery and passed into the reincarnation cycle. Someday, it would return as a new person, ...
2024-12-31 13:50:45 +0000 UTC View PostBones were a lot more fragile than people gave them credit for. Comparatively, they were stronger than skin and muscle, but in the grand scheme of things, there was a reason nobody built tools out ...
2024-12-30 13:48:44 +0000 UTC View PostHi guys, I meant to put this as an author's note in today's post but forgot. I'm taking a week off from DB so I can focus on the last few chapters of my other story, and also because it's both the ...
2024-12-27 14:25:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe fleshy coating on the walls wasn’t uniform in any way. It had varying texture, smooth in some places and rough in others, and a smattering of scars. There were long, jagged slices that had he...
2024-12-27 13:38:05 +0000 UTC View PostA band of force girdled my stomach, serving as a tourniquet to put pressure on a wound I couldn’t really feel. It was serious enough that had I still had a normal human body, it might have been t...
2024-12-27 13:31:01 +0000 UTC View PostMuch like the scorplings, the monsters that the system called stone leg centipedes attacked with the strength of numbers and a venomous bite on their side. Unlike the scorplings, however, they were...
2024-12-26 15:14:13 +0000 UTC View PostAmmun’s shadow rejoined the fight about twenty seconds later, which, while entirely expected, didn’t make things any easier for me to deal with. Suddenly, I had twice as many spells coming at m...
2024-12-26 15:12:26 +0000 UTC View PostVelik paused in front of the corpse of the scorpling brood mother. There was less of it there, somehow, like the dungeon itself was slowly reclaiming it. He didn’t have time to stand and watch, b...
2024-12-25 14:42:38 +0000 UTC View PostI was willing to bet that Ammun hadn’t felt pain in a thousand years or more. His soul might be writhing in tortured agony every moment, but the copy of his mind that piloted that skeleton didn...
2024-12-25 14:40:26 +0000 UTC View PostSildra had been impressed with Jensen’s work. He was quick, decisive, and devastatingly accurate with that bow of his. When the monsters had threatened to overwhelm them, he’d magically pulled ...
2024-12-24 14:28:39 +0000 UTC View PostUp to this point, we’d mostly been testing each other and buying time. At first, I’d thought that Ammun was just stalling to give his worker golems more time to build his control silo, but as s...
2024-12-24 14:25:07 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: As of today, the $10 tier is fully online and is 20 chapters ahead of RR (15 chapters ahead of this tier).
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Velik ended up spending another hour tak...
2024-12-23 12:38:59 +0000 UTC View PostI’d done my best to keep this conversation going now that I was here, not because I wanted to talk to my former apprentice, but to give my shadow time to break the first ward stone. As soon as th...
2024-12-23 12:36:28 +0000 UTC View PostAs far as defensive traits went, sheer size was a good one. Even with a vulnerability identified and in reach, Velik lacked the range to give the brood mother a deep, fatal wound. The champion elit...
2024-12-21 02:20:14 +0000 UTC View PostAs many scorplings as he’d killed, Velik didn’t have much trouble keeping up with the waves chasing him down. He was nimble enough to keep them from reaching him in groups larger than two or th...
2024-12-21 02:19:55 +0000 UTC View PostVelik felt the exact moment the sun went down, even though he hadn’t seen the sky in going on three days now. A measure of weariness sloughed off his limbs mid-fight, and the scorplings he was sl...
2024-12-21 02:19:36 +0000 UTC View Post“And then I spent about twenty thousand decarmas storming the building and killing the corrupted seed bearers inside,” Jensen said. “We got everyone we could out and retreated into the forest...
2024-12-21 02:19:14 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: I finally got my backlog far enough ahead tonight to bring mid-tier online and offer an additional five chapters. Next goal: reach twenty chapters ahead of RR for high-tier s...
2024-12-21 02:18:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe assassin scorpling was proving to be more worthy a hunt than Velik had given it credit for. It had been close to an hour now, and the amoral giant bug had stayed ahead of him by leading him on ...
2024-12-20 12:21:13 +0000 UTC View PostAmmun’s shadow fled the battle immediately. I let it go; there was no point in chasing after it. Destroying it would have done nothing but allowed him to reform it at his side once more. That mig...
2024-12-20 12:18:22 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: Accidentally posted chapter 57 again. Here is the correct chapter.
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Velik kept the monsters at bay for another few moments with
It was beyond obvious that Ammun was controlling both of the undead dragons, but I suspected he’d split the workload between himself and his shadow. In a way, that was good for me, since it meant...
2024-12-19 16:54:58 +0000 UTC View PostAnd that’s eight… nine… and ten. How many more of these damn things are there?
The scorplings weren’t so bad one at a time, but the last batch had been three of them, and the...
2024-12-18 14:33:18 +0000 UTC View PostHistory books weren’t entirely clear on whether it was the moon beam firing down on Manoch or the mana draw from Ammun’s reprisal that had caused the death of the world core. The only one who k...
2024-12-18 14:31:25 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: I'm finally getting far enough ahead on the backlog that I can keep 5 chapters in front of the RR release, so expect daily updates Mon-Fri for this story now. I'm considering...
2024-12-17 14:55:22 +0000 UTC View PostIt didn’t take long for Ammun to make an appearance. Or rather, it didn’t take long for the next prong of his assault to manifest. Despite my best efforts to clear Ralvost of people and deprive...
2024-12-17 14:49:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Why now?” Mother asked. “He never showed any signs before.”
We were gathered around the kitchen table. I’d gone to fetch Father, and Mother and Senica had gone home with a now-soun...
2024-12-16 14:36:26 +0000 UTC View Post