Jerry leaned against the railing and took a deep, deep breath. The ground rolled below, seemingly slow but actually fast, and the wind buffeted his face, sending strands of black hair flying backwa...
2025-01-09 18:36:01 +0000 UTC
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Sup necromancers. I did a small overhaul of my Patreon page to match the new story, including new tier names. Check them out -- I'm open to ideas and suggestions, especially about the name of the 1...
2025-01-08 18:36:01 +0000 UTC
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Jericho grinned at Axehand. “You think you’re something, don’t you?” he said. “A pitiful, stupid undead who can’t even talk…”
Unlike Jericho, Axehand didn’t taunt—what lum...
2025-01-07 18:36:01 +0000 UTC
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Jerry’s and Maccain’s souls clashed midair.
Like two armies fighting, or two bodies of water trying to drown each other, they split into strands and streams, coiling and twisting and ensn...
2025-01-06 18:36:00 +0000 UTC
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“Hurry, hurry!” Laura hissed in Boney’s ears—or where they would be if he had any. “Get the airship started! We cannot fight a Herald!”
Boney didn’t need to be told twice. He ha...
2025-01-05 18:36:00 +0000 UTC
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Maccain and his two undead stood in the rubble, confi...
2025-01-04 18:36:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey necromancers. I didn't have the chance to say it before, but I want to wish you all a very happy new year. Love, joy, courage, fulfilment... All the things which comprise a happy life, I wish t...
2025-01-03 18:36:01 +0000 UTC
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With a creak that felt ear-scratching—but was really rather quiet—the iron door swung open, revealing the manor’s outer courtyard.
Trees and bushes lined the gravel paths, shining under...
2025-01-03 09:19:05 +0000 UTC
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The Wall of the Damned stretches for a thousand miles, coast to coast, completely cutting off the Dead Lands from the Three Kingdoms. It measures an average width of six feet and an average hei...
2025-01-03 09:17:05 +0000 UTC
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The manor of Count Decaron was placed on the city’s edge, as far away from the Wall as possible. Tall walls surrounded it, painted red, pristinely maintained, and with spikes at the top, while th...
2025-01-03 09:16:29 +0000 UTC
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“What do you think about this, Boney?” Jerry pointed to a length of rope. “Can’t we use it?”
“We already have rope, Master.”
“We have rope, yes…but what about a second...
2025-01-03 09:16:00 +0000 UTC
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Little is known about the Great Enigma. What happened six hundred years ago? Where are the Primordials, are they alive or dead, and why are those world-shaking events missing from every histori...
2024-12-28 11:01:31 +0000 UTC
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Julius and Meredith, my dear friends,
I write to seek your guidance, for I have reached the end of my wits.
The Wizard Order has escalated its operations within my...
2024-12-28 10:57:37 +0000 UTC
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“Watch the Funny Bone, the circus of undead! Don’t be afraid, they’re friendly!”
“An undead circus is rarer than flying whales! Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!”<...
2024-12-28 10:57:08 +0000 UTC
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The Wall of the Damned—or Damn Wall, as it was commonly called—had been constructed with the terrain in mind. It mostly followed the plains of Escarbot’s northern border until their very cent...
2024-12-28 10:56:38 +0000 UTC
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Necromancy is inaccurately named.
The practitioners of this school of magic often deal in corpses, ghosts, and icons of death, but that is not where our domain lies. A more accur...
2024-12-28 10:56:07 +0000 UTC
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In the Kingdom of Escarbot, not many villages had inns, but this one begged to differ.
The Fat Boar inn was a stub of a building, short and square. It barely had room for three tables inside,...
2024-12-28 10:55:06 +0000 UTC
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“Come, everyone, come! Watch the Funny Bone, the one and only undead circus of the Three Kingdoms!”
Jerry stood on a crate and called out to the crowd, inviting them all to the performanc...
2024-12-28 10:54:35 +0000 UTC
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Manna, Desistos, Gaia, Pyros, and Hydra.
The five Primordials ruled over our world for millennia, each a nature spirit representing the apex of a branch of magic. They were immor...
2024-12-28 10:20:48 +0000 UTC
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“Jerry!” Soon after the villages disappeared, a shout came from the hill’s base as a rugged figure burst out of the tree line. It was Derek, panting as if he’d run all the way here, and sti...
2024-12-28 10:16:18 +0000 UTC
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Jerry’s tower had been vandalized.
The fence, arduously built over the winter, had been torn down in places. The wooden statue had been broken into two, lying on the hard ground, and Jerry...
2024-12-28 10:15:43 +0000 UTC
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“Ohhhhh…” With a drawn-out groan, Jerry’s eyelids fluttered open. He was cold for a moment, incredibly cold, before the feeling receded and his body started working again.
“Master!...
2024-12-28 10:14:58 +0000 UTC
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“I WILL FUCKING DESTROY YOU!” Jericho roared, his voice shaking the leaves with its supernatural intensity. He stood on top of the fallen tree—his brother’s corpse—while looking down on e...
2024-12-28 10:14:20 +0000 UTC
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The collapse of a gigantic tree was a slow but tense sight.
The behemoth was almost a hundred feet tall, towering over everything else in the forest. Its dark bark moaned and screamed as it t...
2024-12-28 10:13:42 +0000 UTC
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The moment Axehand threw off his cloak, grunted, and buried his axe-hand in the tree all the way to the forearm, many different things happened at once.
The surrounding guards froze; two of t...
2024-12-28 10:13:15 +0000 UTC
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Though the plan seemed far-fetched, it was their only option. By the time the sun set, all the details had been ironed out.
Axehand and Boney made up the ground team. The former was the core ...
2024-12-28 10:12:40 +0000 UTC
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The bandit hideout was not what it sounded like.
When someone hears about a hideout, they imagine a shack hidden in the shadows, a rundown basement, or, at best, an abandoned, dusty, barely s...
2024-12-28 09:25:39 +0000 UTC
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I was there during the Red Week.
We set hundreds of miles of forest on fire to keep the Curse away from our land. We shot the animals and refugees with crossbows from afar, not d...
2024-12-28 09:25:05 +0000 UTC
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An odd procession greeted the woods. Ahead walked Derek, his powerful yet dexterous form leading the way for everyone else. At the very back was Axehand, pulling a cart filled with some of Jerry’...
2024-12-28 09:24:31 +0000 UTC
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The sun crested the horizon, showering the world with life.
A lone, dark figure stood in front of a necromancer’s tower, bow in hand. The tower was already bustling with activity, with the ...
2024-12-28 09:24:01 +0000 UTC
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