Asher had been lucky that Leonard’s attack only ripped out what felt like a quarter pound of flesh from his leg. Unlike ruptured organs, torn flesh and broken bones healed relatively quickly. If ...
2025-07-07 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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With his plan to slap an Eternal Mark on the senior assassin and follow him back to Eight thwarted by his own hand, Asher simply stood there, wondering what was a good plan B. He did still have his...
2025-07-04 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Alka had done her best to find the dungeon entrance while the two of them spoke with the neilans, but she hadn’t had any luck. Each fragment was twelve miles wide at its largest point, meaning th...
2025-07-04 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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That is one hairy man, Asher thought as he took in the horrifying visage waiting for him within the building the assassin he’d been tailing had run into. Standing nearly seven feet tall ...
2025-07-03 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Come morning, Vin and Shia sat down with a rather unhappy Naib and grilled him on the specifics regarding his people’s ritual. Vin certainly didn’t have any plans to shunt all their monsters of...
2025-07-03 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Leonard’s stomach let out a deep, gurgling growl, the noise practically echoing through his empty office as it disrupted his concentration. It had been nearly three hours since his last meal, whi...
2025-07-02 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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“Vin? What’s wrong?”
Vin glanced up at Shia’s concerned face, realizing he’d walked all the way back to their temporary campsite without even noticing. She and Alka must have realiz...
2025-07-02 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Asher kept his mental trigger-finger on his skills, prepared to slip into the astral in the event that the woman surprised him with another deadly skill. But to his surprise, she slowly raised her ...
2025-07-01 16:00:20 +0000 UTC
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Vin just sat there, staring at the nervous man who was still largely huddled in a ball across the room from him. It was certainly one of the stranger conversations he’d ever had, but the fact tha...
2025-07-01 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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It took a few minutes for Vin to explain what he’d felt with Tremorsense to his companions, but once they got a better picture of what they were dealing with, they decided to str...
2025-06-30 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Asher silently crept across the second ring, trusting in the darkness of the night to keep him hidden from any prying eyes. While most of the questionable members of society strolling around this l...
2025-06-30 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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“Asher!” Samantha gasped, flinching back as he popped into existence right beside her in the living room. Based on the hooked needles and yarn in her lap, it looked like the hunter had been in ...
2025-06-27 16:00:18 +0000 UTC
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Seeing as the inhabitants of this fragment showed no sign of leaving their dwellings anytime soon, the three of them picked a spot far from all the strange plants but only a few hundred feet away f...
2025-06-27 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Asher spent the next hour learning all he could about Eight and the Guild from Draken before the gang leader told him he had other business he needed to attend to. He welcomed Asher to stop by agai...
2025-06-26 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Vin watched closely as the top half of Dancing Leaf sliced through the shimmering barrier with little resistance, cutting a neat line straight down to the ground. The wall of grey energy seemed to ...
2025-06-26 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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“You look oddly smug,” Shia said, narrowing her eyes at him as he walked out of the bedroom for breakfast. “…What did you do?”
“What, I’m not allowed to be pleased with myself o...
2025-06-25 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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“Asher?” Draken blinked, clearly caught off guard by his sudden appearance. The gang leader seemed to gather himself remarkably quickly however, his surprised expression quickly morphing into o...
2025-06-25 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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“Wh-what do you mean?” Kree stammered, the hope in his eyes quickly fading as he realized he wasn’t just going to be let go like he’d hoped.
“I just marked you with one of my skills...
2025-06-24 16:00:13 +0000 UTC
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The last time Vin had come here, there had only been a dozen elves wandering around the base of the Tree of Ancients, tending to it by pouring nature magic directly into the mana-starved roots. Now...
2025-06-24 16:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Author's Notes: Hey everyone, just a quick heads up about a few past changes that have been made! I occasionally add tiny changes here and there, but when I make more significant e...
2025-06-23 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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After a quick check in with Spur to let him know they’d probably be gone for a couple of days, Vin, Shia, and Alka took a moment to go over Vin’s map of the surrounding fragments. At this point...
2025-06-23 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Author's Note: Hey gang, it is time for yet another Edregon bonus chapter as a thank you for our RR members for reaching our fourth rating and review milestone on Royal Road! Like ...
2025-06-20 22:30:01 +0000 UTC
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“I need to get out of here before some other crazy thing pops up and I’m asked to deal with it. Got any interest in picking a random direction and running screaming towards it?”
Shia bl...
2025-06-20 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Despite knowing he’d be back later than evening, kissing Samantha goodbye once more was one of the hardest things he’d ever done. Thankfully, the hunter was a very early riser, so at the very l...
2025-06-20 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Vin wanted nothing more than to grab his friends and take off on another crazy adventure into an unknown fragment, risking life and limb along the way. Instead, he found himself sitting at the roun...
2025-06-19 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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The rest of the evening was rather uneventful compared to how it had started. Brian came back and regaled Asher with the tale of how he’d managed to track down and shoot the rabbits all on his ow...
2025-06-19 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Taking a seat at the dining table, Asher stared at the unassuming parcel. The Reaper was written on it in plain, black letters, and the parcel itself had been sealed with some sort of glue...
2025-06-18 16:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Vin didn’t sleep easy after he finished helping Spur and Phil collect Abby. Part of him felt guilty when the guard had revealed that it had been his own actions that had sparked her realization t...
2025-06-18 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Asher stood at the edge of the clearing, gazing at the familiar face of his old enemy. He’d picked out a heavy boar standing far from the rest, and was watching it calmly eat away at a particular...
2025-06-17 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Greg sighed, scratching his stomach as he leaned back against the solid wooden chair one of the crafters had made for them. He knew the simple fact that he had any furniture at all and a roof over ...
2025-06-17 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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