I leaned to get a better view of the chamber, and there they were, wriggling like maggots in a pool of blood and ash—the jailors that survived the chain explosions. The floor near them looked lik...
2025-08-04 17:49:59 +0000 UTC View Post“Wait! No, no, no!” I tried to stop what I had set in motion, but the runes were already forming to name my repaired wand anew.
Jackpot
Rank: Unique
Type: Rem...
2025-08-01 11:19:00 +0000 UTC View PostI swallowed, hard, and let my fingers brush against the ominously crimson threads of the weave. They flashed in response to my touch and I almost fell off the stool as I recoiled back, shielding my...
2025-07-31 17:17:14 +0000 UTC View PostI stood up and dusted off my pants. My clothes had held up remarkably well despite me exploding myself multiple times. Well, my pants and armor had in any case. One of my shirt’s arms had ripped ...
2025-07-28 15:07:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Come out you fucking thing!” I hissed. “I’m in no mood for games.”
The statue was quiet, no rustling could be heard, no cracking, no sounds, no nothing.
Why can't a...
2025-07-25 21:06:10 +0000 UTC View PostHey ya'll. Just a quick update. I've got a wisdom tooth coming and it's gotten inflamed to hell so I've been struggling with keeping focus. Hopefully some antibiotics and painkillers will get me wr...
2025-07-23 21:04:19 +0000 UTC View PostI growled, pushing against the strain on my breast. “What do you mean?!”
No answer, again.
I weighed my options. Nine jailors, four seconds. That meant in the best case ...
2025-07-20 14:18:17 +0000 UTC View Post“There’s no time for heroics!” Nea barked. We zoomed past my old cell. The others weren’t more than ten meters ahead of me, the jailors about twenty behind.
“There’s no othe...
2025-07-15 14:47:03 +0000 UTC View PostIn hollow halls where silence weeps,
The Jailors tread, their vigil deep.
Chains of old and tongues of lies,
They bound the storm that scorched the skies.
The Wayward Da...
2025-07-11 13:38:42 +0000 UTC View Post“What the hell!” Samuel yelped and staggered into the kneeling John. John moved like a whirlwind, turning to catch the teen before they both fell onto the corpse. He was the first person I’d ...
2025-07-11 13:30:27 +0000 UTC View PostI glanced down at the others, Samuel and John clutched at their weapons like their lives depended on it.
“There’s no telling what we’ll see from here, be ready for everything,” ...
2025-07-10 21:28:23 +0000 UTC View PostI blinked to make sure I wasn’t seeing things. The description had grown, and by a lot. There was a lot to unpack. Firstly, the weaver seemed to be a lot more powerful than I had thought. Secondl...
2025-07-10 19:40:32 +0000 UTC View PostAs usual, Hugo was silent. He smiled and nodded at the passer-bys, but didn’t offer many words to them either. When we walked past Samuel, he stopped for a beat, and shared one of those handshake...
2025-07-08 17:41:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe doctor did not die.
That much was sure as soon as I woke up. My surroundings were kind of similar to the ones I had blacked out in, but at the same time, vastly different. For start...
2025-07-07 22:53:51 +0000 UTC View PostThey had been killing people here. Our people.
I had no idea what kind of use the hospital served for them. All I knew for a fact was that these corpses were people from earth....
2025-07-07 13:43:37 +0000 UTC View PostWhile I am focusing on Blessed wholeheartedly I often work on new ideas as well. Would you like me to post the "pilot" chapters of these future stories here?
2025-07-07 12:31:03 +0000 UTC View PostHis breath fogged up against the window as he leaned in close to peer through the rain of soot. The uppermost part of it ajar, so as to let him shoot without obstruction.
I pressed my c...
2025-07-07 11:53:57 +0000 UTC View PostJohn did a good job in diverting their attention away from the amphitheater, the horde followed him like a cohesive tail, trailing throughout the streets. He made sure to skirt the library and the ...
2025-07-04 22:19:44 +0000 UTC View PostJoanna, Samara, and a man I hadn’t yet met sat opposite of each other at a round table, they all had a cup of something in front of them. I inched closer and had a peek inside Joanna’s. She stu...
2025-07-04 13:44:04 +0000 UTC View PostMy heart raced, I glanced at the door left ajar. “Eh, are you sure?”
“I swear to God I’ll slap you.”
That meant a lot coming from a preachers daughters. I gulped a...
2025-07-04 00:24:10 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s right!” I exclaimed.
“Uh, Cal?” he said nervously.
“What?”
“You look like a hobo.”
***
“Oh, and did you know that p...
2025-07-02 23:08:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe armour embraced me snugly, it was quite comfortable. I wasn’t sure about the look though. It made me look like I had just escaped a mental asylum, so walking around town with it on probably w...
2025-07-01 23:45:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe hag’s body fell to the floor like a lifeless heap. Her head skittered across the floor, leaving bloody stains wherever it bounced, only to end up at my feet. It turned, slowly, to stop with i...
2025-06-30 23:27:50 +0000 UTC View PostMy lovely patrons,
I'm just writing this post to tell you that I'm making some changes to the early chapters on royalroad. I was made aware of a gaping plot hole that I didn't want to let re...
2025-06-30 09:04:59 +0000 UTC View PostMy knife was stuck neatly in the hags chest, lodged between the fingers of a hand fastened to her body. She was covered in them. They stuck to her like an armour of flesh. Her unnaturally long arms...
2025-06-29 22:37:32 +0000 UTC View PostIt hadn’t been so apparent before; now the stench of iron stung at my nose. “Keep looking,” I urged Yusuf as much as myself. “There has to be something we missed.”
He kept dry...
2025-06-29 00:21:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Why?!” I exclaimed and stared at my feet. Piles of bones filled the room like eerie stone altars, the ones that vikings left. One side of the room had shelves with dolls. Bald ones. The other ...
2025-06-28 20:49:34 +0000 UTC View PostFor the first time in forever I dreamt—not about hugs, kisses and roses, but of the damned jailor and his lagging footsteps chasing me through the streets of the abandoned city. I dreamt of faces...
2025-06-27 16:36:02 +0000 UTC View PostI coughed. “What do you mean?”
How the fuck did she know? Sera was supposed to be hidden, right? She never explicitly said that was the case, I just assumed.
This ca...
2025-06-24 13:21:19 +0000 UTC View Post“What… what did you call her?” John asked. His expression softened with confusion.
I cleared my throat. “Eh, Mirror girl?”
“My name is Nea!” she growled. Colou...
2025-06-23 15:23:43 +0000 UTC View Post