“Wait!” Kenva cried as Kaius took a step towards the entrance to their new Arachnacine Landyacht.
“What?” he said, looking back. Her face was aghast; what could possibly have...
2025-12-11 22:04:49 +0000 UTC View PostBlinking away the System notification and shock, Kaius snatched up the orb. It was weighty, denser than he expected, with a fine texture and densely patterned runes engraved on its surface. The nam...
2025-12-10 20:37:23 +0000 UTC View PostA single solid rap against the door announced the Castellan’s return.
It jolted Kaius from his contemplation. After he and his team had reviewed their gains, they’d taken the moment of qu...
2025-12-09 23:44:50 +0000 UTC View Post“Come on, you big lug. Let's get you to that chair.”
Kaius simply grunted, his arm thrown around Kenva's shoulder as he awkwardly hopped forwards. Kenva bore his weight without complaint....
2025-12-08 21:23:42 +0000 UTC View PostKaius stared at the plain steel table that just moments before had held the image of the long-dead Duke Unterstern. The Castellan sat still and silent, like its life had fled in the same breath tha...
2025-12-07 22:25:34 +0000 UTC View PostKaius stared at the image out of time, unsure how to process what he was looking at. The man named him successor; it had to be one of his ancestors. Some hidden condition met due to that very Sover...
2025-12-06 01:28:56 +0000 UTC View PostThat roiling pool of arcane in the centre of the room held him in a tight grip, claws of regret and horror sinking deep into his chest.
A library.
He didn't want to belie...
2025-12-04 20:41:17 +0000 UTC View PostKaius listened to the Castellan’s words numbly.
A duke. Him.
It was patently ridiculous, even before he considered the fact it was the duke of a long-dead Empire that had ...
2025-12-03 20:24:25 +0000 UTC View PostFor the first time since it had cut off his leg and hailed him, the Castellan moved. It was a slight thing, a mere tilt of its head so that it could meet his eyes. Yet the motion sent a spike of pr...
2025-12-02 20:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostIts form was perfect, a rendition of man cast from bronze that was almost entirely untouched from their previous assault.
From his position on the floor, Kaius ogled at the hard lines o...
2025-12-01 20:33:17 +0000 UTC View PostBronwyn faced what he was certain would be his death stoically, with friends at his back. Swiftly as he could, he clambered down the side of the mountain spire, his eyes locked on the monstrosity t...
2025-11-30 20:50:58 +0000 UTC View PostAn icy chill shot through his veins as Bronwyn felt his stomach drop. The statue. The totem — It was alive, a thinking creature. And it was controlling the beasts.
He might have lacked an i...
2025-11-30 00:49:03 +0000 UTC View PostWithered rock crumbled under his fingertips as moss and dew made Bronwyn's grip slick. He adjusted his hold, paying it no mind as he calmly adjusted his weight and kept his footing steady on the tr...
2025-11-27 20:46:13 +0000 UTC View PostKaius didn’t know what was more terrifying: that the Castellan-executor was fucking Mythril, a middle Tier Three, or that the bastard had teleported right into the middle of the mana core’s dom...
2025-11-26 20:38:43 +0000 UTC View PostKaius left his team behind, watching his back anxiously as he waded deep into the fires of mana irradiated from the mana core. He licked his lips, feeling the energy prickle on his tongue. It was l...
2025-11-25 20:56:54 +0000 UTC View PostScintillating and tightly controlled, mana wormed through his flesh.
Kaius was focused and driven — finding a window of quiet between patrols where they could duck into a side room an...
2025-11-24 20:43:41 +0000 UTC View PostKaius laid his hand flat on the slab of steel which had sealed them into the barracks that had been their home for several weeks now. Feeling the cool touch of the metal on his skin, he held his ma...
2025-11-23 21:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostSweat streamed from his brow in rivulets as Kaius clenched his jaw. The level was nice, but it was only a reflection of the inordinate effort he had undergone for closing in on two weeks now.
“Gods’ damn bastard of an artefact!” Kaius said, setting the cylinder down on the ground. He hurriedly drew a rag from his storage ring and wiped off a plastered layer of viscous oil that had...
2025-11-20 20:43:39 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Ianmus watched on with curiosity, Kaius pawed over the slain remains of a worker drone. They were odd up close. Now that they were no longer charging at him, with their multi-jointed limbs wh...
2025-11-19 20:26:26 +0000 UTC View PostMetal growled in distaste as Kaius dragged one of the limbless, still-living worker drones into the room they had chosen to make their base of operations for the foreseeable future.
Now that ...
2025-11-18 20:49:45 +0000 UTC View PostThick hardened steel, built to withstand war and violence, slammed home with a basso thunk. Kaius felt the jolt in his marrow, despair welling within him like the door itself was a guillotine, and ...
2025-11-18 00:29:19 +0000 UTC View PostGot to take the missus to an important appointment, and only half done with editing. Should be out in a couple hours -- only ten mins of work to do when I get back.
2025-11-17 20:40:39 +0000 UTC View PostA dense net of bush at his back, Bronwyn stood at the edge of a steep canyon that ripped its way deep into the earth. Before him lay Strangspine. It was as awe-inspiring as the first time he...
2025-11-17 00:57:41 +0000 UTC View PostTangled and dense, the vast wall of bush slowly dispersed before them. The trail they had been following was overgrown, poorly tended to, and had likely been untouched since Tyne’s Rest had falle...
2025-11-15 01:14:36 +0000 UTC View PostTongues of flame reached skyward, each one a crackling lash that threw off shadows in the deep dark of the brush.
Spectres lurked there — things of fang and claw from times long past....
2025-11-13 21:04:23 +0000 UTC View PostHardwood creaked and groaned as the wheels of their cart juddered over yet another rut. Deep in the bush, the roads were poor quality. They were paved to an extent, but rain had worn away at their ...
2025-11-12 20:35:14 +0000 UTC View PostKaius ran through the wide-open halls of the imperial ruin, bay windows flashing past to reveal workstations and creations of unknown artifice alike.
Backtracking as they were, their pa...
2025-11-11 20:47:36 +0000 UTC View PostKaius widened his eyes, slamming his blade home once more into the ragged hole he’d left in its chest as he unleashed a Bound Maelstrom. He didn’t know what was coming, but whatever it...
2025-11-10 20:20:12 +0000 UTC View PostKaius wheezed, shoving down the burning agony of the hole in his chest. He didn’t know what the centurion's beam had been made of, but it was potent. It had scythed straight through all ...
2025-11-09 21:41:54 +0000 UTC View Post