Walking across the frontier, Kaius enjoyed the warm summer air as he gathered his thoughts about how he wanted to continue their story. Glossing over his first delve and the missions of the Guild h...
2025-10-02 20:30:01 +0000 UTC
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Kaius grinned as he looked at the slack-jawed expressions on Bronwyn’s team’s faces. Even Arc, his features obscured by plated bone and his ever-stoic disposition, was visibly surprised and con...
2025-10-01 20:31:19 +0000 UTC
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After Ro had rushed ahead to warn Bronwyn and his team that the danger had passed, it took them nearly three quarters of an hour to reunite.
While classers could move extremely fast wit...
2025-09-30 21:17:39 +0000 UTC
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Kaius trudged along open fields, the rolling hills and scattered trees of the frontier spreading out before him. It had been over an hour since they’d left the burning pyre that contained the rem...
2025-09-29 20:34:46 +0000 UTC
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Alchemical power surged through her veins as the wind howled in Ro’s ears. Her feet blurred, slamming into the dirt as she sprinted across the frontier.
Every step launched her dozens...
2025-09-28 20:30:02 +0000 UTC
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The wind carried a heavy note of finality as it cut across the ruined scars of their battleground. Surrounded by craters, shattered trees, and blackened, smoking grass, Kaius looked down at the fee...
2025-09-27 20:30:02 +0000 UTC
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Puppeteer’s Strings erupted from his hands, a constant tangle that stretched for handholds he could use to move ever faster. Each violet wire whipped through the air; in twos and threes,...
2025-09-26 21:30:01 +0000 UTC
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Across an engraved depiction of Deadacre and its surrounding landscapes, the scry net projected a layer of warbling blue light.
Every time the artifice detected a fluctuation in the bac...
2025-09-25 21:30:01 +0000 UTC
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She thought this would just be another kill quest. Oh, how wrong she had been. Lun Li held her saber in a white-knuckled grip, a grin twisting her face as she got an impression of danger from above...
2025-09-24 21:25:32 +0000 UTC
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Kenva was surprised at her lack of fear. More than ten Silvers — it should have been enough to put her ill at ease, or at least make her feel a creeping dread crawling up her back.
Yet all ...
2025-09-23 21:30:03 +0000 UTC
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Warm sunlight cut through the canopy above, gracing Torrin’s skin with its touch once more. He should have been more at ease. He was a hunter, a man who had lived his life on the move out in the ...
2025-09-22 21:30:02 +0000 UTC
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Kerel sighed and flipped the page of his book — a treatise by a researcher that chronicled a wayward expedition. The fool’s party had gotten pinned, forcing the mage into the Depths. This chapt...
2025-09-21 21:30:01 +0000 UTC
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Kaius bent over, tugging on the straps of his sabatons and making sure his armour was in place. With his Guardian rewards he was garbed in a motley collection — halfway between light plate and sc...
2025-09-20 23:59:32 +0000 UTC
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Bare-chested, Kaius grunted as he scrubbed at Porkchop’s fur with a rough-bristle brush, doing his best to wash out the clots of blood and oozing weepings before they could coagulate into a stick...
2025-09-19 22:25:16 +0000 UTC
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Kaius set aside his jerky, stowing it in a storage ring as he watched Porkchop stretch and shake himself. His brother’s muzzle crinkled as he noticed the way thick, steely-grey fur was plastered ...
2025-09-18 21:30:03 +0000 UTC
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The night was alive with the mingled scents of campfire smoke, damp soil, and the lush growth of well-watered grass. Stretched overhead was a recreation of the starry sky, broad and glittering abov...
2025-09-17 21:30:04 +0000 UTC
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Seated at the familiar desk where he had picked all of his spells, Kaius reached for the tomes that littered the lacquered wood and summoned the descriptions of the offerings available.
2025-09-16 21:30:01 +0000 UTC
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Walking through the familiar hall where he had trained with Porkchop and Ianmus — and where Rieker had forced him to confront the recklessness of his initial approach to delving — Kaius only ha...
2025-09-15 21:30:06 +0000 UTC
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Kaius gasped as he came back to himself. The heady rush of his body being suffused with quintessence hadn’t left him yet. The remoulding of his Class and Skills had felt like downing a beer and b...
2025-09-14 21:30:02 +0000 UTC
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Kaius pored over the three classes that had been offered to him.
He found each fascinating in its potency, its vibrancy, but also in how they differed from what he already had. It was clear t...
2025-09-13 21:30:03 +0000 UTC
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Kaius pored over the class descriptions with interest.
As he’d expected, the first one held little interest for him. If anything, he found it a little revolting — a class focused on...
2025-09-12 21:30:01 +0000 UTC
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Kaius hurried after his class guide, weaving through the tables that littered the Dusty Stables common room. His guide smiled at him, standing beside the door at the rear of the room — a door tha...
2025-09-11 21:30:17 +0000 UTC
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Hensch’s Inn. It was exactly as he remembered it.
The Dusty Stables had always been an inviting place — carved wood furnishings with a roaring fire. The common room was the exact ri...
2025-09-10 21:30:02 +0000 UTC
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Ark shifted uncomfortably in his seat, tugging at the heavy cowl that cloaked his features.
His arrival in Deadacre had been swift — and for all that his movements had been impossible...
2025-09-09 21:30:02 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Just noticed I cocked up the title of the last one — both this chapter and the last were ‘398’ in my doc so I got confused lmao. This is the actual last chapter of th...
2025-09-08 21:30:02 +0000 UTC
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Kaius cut left, sprinting through the mud.
He needed to hit the Guardian’s flank — before it could hurt another of his team.
Porkchop tore into the monster that was almost as ...
2025-09-07 21:30:01 +0000 UTC
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The slug rippled, sliding over an ancient and forgotten courtyard.
A gelatinous creature, it was half again as big as Porkchop, and left a smoking trail in its wake. Every drop of excre...
2025-09-06 21:30:01 +0000 UTC
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Ianmus stared off the cliff with a pensive expression.
This biome was one of the weirder ones they had seen. They were on a flat plateau that stretched as far as the eye could see in ei...
2025-09-05 21:30:07 +0000 UTC
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Reaching into the wellspring of energy within him, Porkchop drew in a deep breath and unleashed a roar.
His prey chittered, scurrying back into reach: beetles as large as dogs, their sh...
2025-09-04 21:30:02 +0000 UTC
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*Ding! You have challenged a Guardian: Glacial Sovereign!*
*Ding! Good Luck.*
The very mountain seemed to cry out as the spirit befor...
2025-09-03 21:30:01 +0000 UTC
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