In many ways, it would have been kinder to let Analia proceed with her suicidal combat plan. The amount of pain breaking the multiple geases her father had laid on her was going to inflict was inde...
2023-04-03 14:33:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe spell wasn’t quite as good as the one he’d been under after he’d touched Niramyn’s memory cube, but it did have the advantage of being usable by Nym. An ascendant might notice a presenc...
2023-04-03 14:33:25 +0000 UTC View Post“This place looks familiar,” Nym said.
They stood in front of a large four-story manor house. It was impressive, he supposed, but he’d seen far more spectacular-- not to mention physics...
2023-04-03 14:33:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe bandit snarled and tried to punch the side of Luke’s knee, but he was too injured and at too awkward of an angle to take a serious swing. Luke smacked the fist away with his mace anyway, shat...
2023-03-31 14:39:59 +0000 UTC View PostAs his control over Transcendent arcana grew, Nym became more comfortable with using it to do actual magic. In many ways, it reminded him of the early days when he was still exploring first and sec...
2023-03-31 14:35:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe Abilanth of a hundred years ago looked a lot like the version Nym was familiar with. There were some superficial changes, sure, but the street layout was the same, and the walls limited the spr...
2023-03-30 13:35:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe bandits weren’t prepared for Luke in any way, shape, or form. They probably should have been, considering he’d already killed a few of them, but he caught them by surprise. Two of them died...
2023-03-29 15:01:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe ascendant Nym was meeting was named Hozim. Baracia had arranged the meeting, and Nym waited with her for the new ascendant to show up. “Anything I should know about him?” Nym asked.
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2023-03-29 14:54:49 +0000 UTC View Post“No, it’s impossible,” Nym said. “There’s no way.”
He could buy that he’d lost track of time, that maybe he’d been there for a day instead of twelve hours, but almost two mont...
2023-03-28 15:04:24 +0000 UTC View PostIt only took a few hours of traveling before they left the grasslands behind and found themselves once again heading into the forests. Luke considered that to be good news, since they hadn’t foun...
2023-03-27 16:18:59 +0000 UTC View PostOnce the pleasantries were done, Nym and Baracia dove right into the meat of the conversation. “How much do you know about what’s happening in our society, about the fight between two of our Ex...
2023-03-27 16:11:32 +0000 UTC View Post“What’s this place called?” Luke asked. They stood on a hill east of the town, big enough that he couldn’t easily count all the houses, never mind the dozens of farms dotting the landscape....
2023-03-24 14:57:31 +0000 UTC View PostSince he’d had the time anyway while he waited for his copy to absorb the information Baracia had sent him and confirm it wasn’t trapped in some way, Nym went ahead and set up four more sanctua...
2023-03-24 14:52:31 +0000 UTC View PostThat was the problem with peepholes. It was impossible to look out without making himself vulnerable to others looking in. Whoever had sent him the letter was likely an ascendant, which meant it wa...
2023-03-23 15:11:25 +0000 UTC View Post“[XP Mask] is a unique bloodline skill,” System said.
“Why the hell didn’t you tell me that?”
“You never asked.”
“Aldrick,” Zea cut in. “You...
2023-03-22 15:25:43 +0000 UTC View PostNym stood there, awkwardly waiting for Rizin to say something. The fox didn’t oblige him, having chosen instead to lay on his oversized cushion and pretend to be napping. “I guess… we’re do...
2023-03-22 15:20:30 +0000 UTC View PostThere were no less than a dozen assistant golems waiting for Nym when he finally opened the door. “Exarch! You’re alright,” Naera said, stepping forward from the crowd.
“Of course I...
2023-03-21 14:48:44 +0000 UTC View PostLuke woke up a little bit stiff, sort of cold, and ravenously hungry. Zea was practically lying on top of him with both her own cloak and his pulled over top of her. Their legs were tangled up and ...
2023-03-20 15:55:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe assistant golem regarded Nym steadily. It wasn’t one he’d ever spoken with before, but Naera was busy setting everything up to his specifications from the other day. At first, he thought th...
2023-03-20 15:36:41 +0000 UTC View PostHello, here is a sample of my dark fantasy novel about necromancers fighting other necromancers and undead in a world where everyone who dies rises back up as an undead all on their own.
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It might have been more merciful if the pain knocked Luke out, but he wasn’t that lucky. He got to see all four inquisitors approach him, or at least hear them and sense the XP that was infused i...
2023-03-17 14:58:04 +0000 UTC View PostThere were actual spells that used sixth layer arcana, but Nym only knew one, the hidden presence spell Rizin had taught him. Anything else was just using the arcana to fiddle with reality. Technic...
2023-03-17 14:49:18 +0000 UTC View PostEverything felt weird now, but Nym couldn’t quite figure out exactly how. It obviously had something to do with ascending., but it was indescribable, and he found it annoyingly distracting. “It...
2023-03-16 17:02:43 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: I have been saying this on Royal Road for about two weeks now, but forgot to ever mention it here. Now that the initial chapter push is done, and since I am still writing two project...
2023-03-15 16:10:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe conduit lanced out past the edge of reality, where it was bolstered by Nym inside the first layer. It leapt ahead, through each consecutive layer, guided by the parts of himself that existed th...
2023-03-15 16:02:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe secret den of a magical fox that transcended the powers of a mere mortal did not, surprisingly, have a lot to eat. Nym had used magic to stave off the needs of his body, but for the time being,...
2023-03-14 16:04:32 +0000 UTC View PostHello Everyone!
Without committing to any hard numbers or dates, I am expecting to be finished writing Ascendant within the next three months. The God Machine is going to keep running for at ...
2023-03-13 20:20:07 +0000 UTC View PostA break to catch his breath would have been fantastic right about then, but that third inquisitor, the woman who’s been practically invisible, had disentangled herself from Luke’s trap and was ...
2023-03-13 15:07:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a clever spell, one designed to take advantage of the unique terrain of the fifth layer of reality. The light was blinding, and it seared Nym’s body, but the true twist was the mirrored su...
2023-03-13 15:01:41 +0000 UTC View Post“Nice,” Luke said as he looked at his handiwork.
[Survivalist] hadn’t seen much use lately, but it was a general-purpose skill that was extremely flexible. It gave him ...
2023-03-10 16:53:20 +0000 UTC View Post