Kevin McLaughlin

Chapter 102 - Four Clan War Leader

As soon as the two control stones touched, they melded together, their material flowing and interlocking until they’d solidified into a single object. In shape, it looked about the same as...

Chapter 101 - The Harder They Fall

A tier two ant tried to get in my way, but a quick blow with my sword sliced it in half. I glanced behind me. Sue and the rest of my undead were keeping the remaining ants occupied. Sue had ...

Chapter 100 - Battle of the Cavern

I had my forces retreat a few feet, falling back a bit into the passage. There, my juggernauts formed a solid wall of bone, barring the ants’ way. By holding them back just inside the tunn...

Chapter 99 - Not the Scared Girl

Before I launched the attack I spent a few more minutes Animating additional troops. If I wanted to make absolutely sure we finished the job, that meant having all the troops necessary to ma...

Chapter 98 - Tier Seven

(Usually only hit five chapters a week, but I had time to write an extra one over the weekend, so I thought you'd appreciate a bonus chapter! Enjoy! - Kevin)

We made...

Chapter 97 - Evil Men

Carver slipped from shadow to shadow, silently moving through the darkened city streets. His scouts had investigated the situation at the waterfront extensively over the past few days, but a...

Which Domains??

Which Domains are you rooting for? :) Since Selena doesn't have one, yet anyway, we'll leave that out. But which of the Domains are you hoping to see succeed?

Chapter 96 - Critical Condition

The road back to the base was a long one, and I was worried, it being night, that we’d get attacked every step of the way. Thankfully, most nocturnal monsters must have taken one look at a...

Chapter 95 - Full Ripley

The room had dozens of entrances, and in the dim glow given off by the eggs, I saw twitching antennae sticking out from all of them. Hope gave a soft growl of warning. I looked back—behind...

Chapter 94 - Kingdom of the Ants

To set the tone, I had Sue send a Fireball down the dark passage ahead. It flew a good ten meters before it hit a wall, bursting into a gout of flame and setting several nearby ants alight. ...

Chapter 93 - Fractured Future

I took to the air in a flash, darting skyward so I could get a better view of whatever the hell was happening over there. I’d only gone like twenty meters away from Sue and Kara, figuring ...

Chapter 92 - How Strong I’d Grown

Maybe it was my shocking burst into the air, or maybe they’d just noticed us anyway by that time, but Kara was spot on. It looked like every undead in the area was making tra...

Chapter 91 - Training Session

As we got closer, I realized that this was not actually going to be anywhere near as much fun as I’d expected. Nope, not this time. Because the first thing I spotted as we approached the c...

Chapter 90 - Multiple Dilemmas

Turner sighed, and then to my relief, he nodded.

“I agree. My problem is that the horde isn’t my only problem.” He gestured to a pair of red marks closer to the lake. One was a l...

Chapter 89 - Steel Golems

The journey to the Guard base was, thankfully, quick and passed without further incident. The avians watched us from a distance, but they never came anywhere near to spell range. They were c...

Chapter 88 - Demonstrating Trust

The question of the day seemed to be ‘should I be more furious with the mom for being stupid, or myself for stopping to help?’ Yeah, okay—there were kids who probably didn’t know bet...

Chapter 87 - Peeps

I dropped a Drain Life on the avian trying to kidnap the kid. I was surprised—it didn’t just drop, which was new. Most monsters just went down with one hit from that spell these days. Th...

Chapter 86 - Bullies

Nobody else felt it, of course. I was the only one who had a control stone, so I was the only one who sensed when one of them was activated. But Kara and Patches both noticed when I froze, t...

Chapter 85 - If Not You, Who?

I had Sue approach the fort with caution. When we left the place, it was surrounded by enemies. There was no telling what the current state was. The horde had likely withdrawn, but I didn’...

Chapter 84 - Licking Our Wounds

I let Sue just run for a good distance, leaving the enemy far behind. Kara and I remained silent during the flight. I couldn’t think of anything useful to say, and I suppose neither could ...

Chapter 83 - It’s Coming

I hit the ground hard, the breath knocked out of my lungs. Something snapped in my chest, sharp pain stabbing along my right side. I gasped, barely able to suck in air. Stars flashed in fron...

Chapter 82 - We’re Under Attack!

It wasn’t just a few of the things, either. This was a sea of zombies. An ocean of undead. I hadn’t seen this many of the things in one place since watching “World War Z.”

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Chapter 81 - Three Domains

We swung back through the mall’s parking lot again before taking off for the evening. Didn’t spend a lot of time there. Just enough to give me some more fodder for Animate Dead. It had b...

Chapter 80 - The First Domain

Carver felt like he’d studied the control stone long enough. It was time to take action. He picked the thing up, hefting it in his hand.

Once he did this, he’d be linked with the l...

Chapter 79 - A Lot Of Stones

It took longe than I’d thought to collect all the crystals outside the mall. Dead zombies were strewn over a space the size of several football fields, so I suppose I shouldn’t have been...

Chapter 78 - Writing On The Mall

Whatever was controlling the zombies had flipped the game on me. I’d had their army out chasing me across the parking lot, and although the going was slow, it was also steady. Sue and I ma...

Chapter 77 - Loot Run

Kara slipped into the mall through one of the regular doors, flashing a grin at the skeleton dog following close behind her. Leave it to Selena to send a guardian angel to watch over her! It...