Luke did not consider himself to be a particularly observant person. Even here on Aros, after all the fighting for his life and the system giving him the ability to literally count the ants on a tr...
2023-06-26 12:47:12 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a completed novel available exclusively to library tier patrons that was originally written as the first book in a trilogy. Those other two books... are not written yet.
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2023-06-26 12:31:45 +0000 UTC View Post“Back on Earth, we had this thing called a telescope that let us see stuff from far away. They came up with all sorts of stuff from it, microscopes used for medicine and science, binoculars used ...
2023-06-23 13:22:40 +0000 UTC View PostIt took Zea two days to admit that she just couldn’t do the enchantments that blocked scent with her current level of skills. “Maybe we should call off the whole thing,” she told Luke.
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2023-06-22 13:57:41 +0000 UTC View PostLuke prodded the dead boar… thing… with his foot. It had a lot of bone spurs across its skull and shoulders, and instead of hooves on its front two legs, it had appendages that looked an awful ...
2023-06-21 13:05:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe ship was called Averast, which maybe meant something, but neither of Luke’s language skills translated it for him. It was one of the big ones he’d spotted earlier, which was somewh...
2023-06-20 12:45:34 +0000 UTC View PostLuke was just settling his packs back into place with their new additions when he heard Zea moving toward the tailor’s shop. Specifically, he heard the clinking sound of coins smacking together w...
2023-06-19 14:51:08 +0000 UTC View PostSicanti was smaller than Luke expected it to be. He supposed it counted as a city by Aros standards, but it didn’t seem like it could hold that many people to him. Then again, they were approachi...
2023-06-16 13:40:35 +0000 UTC View PostZea’s eyes went wide. “No. Noooooo. Bad idea. No!”
“What? Why? What’s the big deal with ants?”
“You have to have a special build to be an ant hunter,” Zea told him. “B...
2023-06-15 12:17:23 +0000 UTC View PostLuke experienced a moment of sheer, visceral panic when he read that notification and realized that his lungs wouldn’t open up to pull in air. He could try to take a breath, but there was nowhere...
2023-06-14 13:21:22 +0000 UTC View Post“This is bullshit,” Zea muttered under her breath. Even from across the room, Luke could clearly hear her, and he wasn’t sure how far away he’d have to be before he couldn’t. She wasn’t...
2023-06-13 15:03:20 +0000 UTC View PostLuke stared down at the headless corpse in shock. “What even the fuck?”
A moment later, he got the ding of the kill notification, which was a whole new level of fucked-up. Had that merc b...
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2023-06-09 15:35:58 +0000 UTC View PostBertram Singer had joined the Blacktongue Mercenary Company when he was sixteen. He had spent the better part of his life fighting men and monsters, sacrificed his future for the privilege, and gro...
2023-06-09 12:27:50 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t that Luke expected to get away, though that would have been the best possible outcome. Enough of the Blacktongue mercenaries had run off that he’d accepted he wasn’t going to kill a...
2023-06-08 13:04:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Gods above, what are those idiots doing up there?” the boss muttered to himself as he glanced up at the ceiling.
Zea would have laughed if she hadn’t still been gagged. Luke was genera...
2023-06-07 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostLuke was planning on killing a lot of people in the next few minutes. He wasn’t sure what the exact number would be, and he supposed that really depended more on them than it did on him. But he w...
2023-06-06 13:30:49 +0000 UTC View PostLuke had forgotten how uncomfortable a rank 1 language skill was. The way it twisted his lips and tongue around to form sounds he was pretty sure he’d never made in his entire life was downright ...
2023-06-05 14:40:39 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Luke wove through the trees to reach the next archer, a woman at level 24 with high agility and perception, but not much else going for her as far as [Analyze] was concerned,...
2023-06-02 11:39:32 +0000 UTC View PostThey were both up early the next morning, having only gotten a few hours of sleep. Even that was more than Luke needed, but Zea continued to insist that she was going to sleep every night, regardle...
2023-06-01 13:16:39 +0000 UTC View PostLuke supposed it wasn’t unusual for a hotel to have a bar somewhere in the building. People liked to drink, hotels liked making money, so it made sense to him that they’d try to tap their curre...
2023-05-31 13:42:31 +0000 UTC View PostThey left a lot of miles of dirt road behind them that afternoon. It wasn’t that it was hard to keep a conversation going while they ran, but it was easy to just fall into the rhythm of the movem...
2023-05-30 14:14:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe road ran north and south, and the farther north they followed it, the more the trees thinned out. Within an hour, the landscape had given way to wide, flat plains dotted with occasional farmhou...
2023-05-29 15:25:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe breeze didn’t bother Luke so much because it was cold; it was just that he was aware of the breeze in the first place. Despite his best efforts to turn the leftover scraps of his clothing int...
2023-05-26 14:31:49 +0000 UTC View PostNow that the fight was over and the adrenaline was wearing off, Luke started to feel all his injuries. He’d had a few dozen holes of various sizes poked, ripped, or torn in his body over the cour...
2023-05-25 13:55:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe lesser guardian’s snapped off arm regrew before Luke’s eyes, a process that took a second at most. High stamina wouldn’t account for that, so he was guessing it was some weird skill the m...
2023-05-24 13:33:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe lesser guardian of nature crashed through the squirrels, unheeding of the damage it did to them in its rush to reach Luke. The squirrels themselves dodged out of its way, an action which reduce...
2023-05-23 12:25:00 +0000 UTC View PostAt first, he had a hard time picking the thing out of the background, but eventually it stepped away from the trees. It was shaped like a man, but eight feet tall. Long, spindly arms made great, po...
2023-05-22 14:46:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe tree wasn’t moving very fast, perhaps only a foot or two every second. Occasionally, a huge root would break itself free, slam down into the earth, and drag the whole thing forward in a ten-f...
2023-05-19 14:31:33 +0000 UTC View PostIn hindsight, altering their direction to run closer to the mountains probably wouldn’t have actually helped that much. The squirrel folk seemed to keep an absolutely enormous amount of territory...
2023-05-17 15:36:01 +0000 UTC View Post