Double-Blind CH80
The words shot adrenaline through me like a spike in the heart. I couldn’t feel the pain from the impact and had no idea how bad my injuries were.
All that mattered was keeping whoever it...
2022-04-19 23:25:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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Next Chapter 4/19 and General Housekeeping
Couple points of order. Taking Monday off, as there's a holiday and I've been feeling a little under the weather recently. Normal posting will resume on Tuesday. I've already batch uploaded the cha...
2022-04-15 21:53:58 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH79
Sara and I spent the next few minutes sharing information before the rest of her people arrived. Many of them were from the same region, so they were able to get a head start on gathering the Illu... 2022-04-15 21:40:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Double-Blind CH78
That was unfortunate.
Tyler—and his “Adventurer’s Guild” were the closest thing I’d found to a decent organization. Every other group at the open forum was either disorganized, na...
2022-04-15 21:39:28 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH77
The address was just a few miles off the historic district. Five minutes away from me, if that. I toyed with the idea of simply leaving it. There wasn’t a lot of Lux in that directio...
2022-04-15 21:37:20 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH76
Once flat road now dipped downward at an almost 90-degree angle. I barely caught myself in time, wedging a foot into a newly opened fissure and grabbing onto the edge of a curb with my...
2022-04-14 20:59:10 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH75
The Overseer stared at the camera. With his mask in place, it was impossible to know for sure, but displeasure seemed to radiate off him at the mere mention of my class. Eventually, he...
2022-04-13 21:54:24 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH74
It took barely more than a glance to realize what they were all staring at. The sun was gone, what should have been a clear blue late-afternoon now appeared to be evening—only the stratosphere w... 2022-04-12 21:48:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Double-Blind CH73
That’s the problem with loneliness, isn’t it?
It’s always miserable in the beginning. Then days stretch into weeks, into months, into years. You learn little tricks to cope...
2022-04-12 00:04:34 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH72
“Wait!” Gray-hair called out to someone behind me.
I looked back, just in time to watch Sae disappear back through the entrance to the trial. I clenched my fist in frustratio...
2022-04-08 23:58:50 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH71
Floodlights blinded me. My eyes barely adjusted before I heard Jinny scream. There were twelve figures waiting outside the trial for us, all arranged in a half circle. On the left and right edges ... 2022-04-08 23:56:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Double-Blind CH70
We’d paused at the elevator, leaving the disgusting and decidedly eerie boss chamber behind. No one wanted to wait to level up. Probably for the best, just in case anything happened on our way o... 2022-04-08 23:52:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Double-Blind CH69
Nick’s sword carved clear through the Matriarch’s neck. The blow decapitated her and split her carapace open, revealing the brightly colored guts that spilled out into the water in a sickening... 2022-04-07 22:51:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Double-Blind CH68
I returned to the spider, noting the locations of various gas traps and pitfalls at the entrance. They were subtle and flush with the chitin wall, but not perfect. For the gas traps, there was a s... 2022-04-05 23:11:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Double-Blind CH67
<Harrowing Anticipation: Just as a common spider senses movement through vibrations in their web, you may tap into the weaves of mana that bind together the many reali...
2022-04-04 23:15:53 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH66
My blood ran cold. There had never been any mention of penalties for friendly fire, but since we entered the Trial as a team, the system might have certain limiters in place to prevent team killin... 2022-04-02 23:19:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 65
Jinny crumbled. She breathed out shakily, then back in, her eyes glassy and moist. For a moment, the decorative robes and bulbous wand faded away and all I saw was the scared person beneath it all... 2022-04-02 23:18:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Double-Blind CH64
I’ve said before that predicting someone’s behavior is easy. That you start by assuming the worst, and raise your expectations slightly until you have something more realistic. That of all the... 2022-03-30 21:55:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Double-Blind CH63
<Born Nihilist> calculated something in the back of my head for me. Judging from the number of footsteps, there were either three arachnids at best, or twelve bipeds at wors... 2022-03-30 21:53:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Double-Blind CH62
This was bad fucking news. You didn’t need extensive game knowledge to piece together that splitting the party seldom went well. Granted, this particular section of the Trial was designed for it,...
2022-03-29 21:50:24 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH61
Other than the two-to-three hundred selve sprinkled around the circular portion like set dressing, there was far more in a handful of wooden boxes. The total came to around six-thousand, a surpris... 2022-03-28 12:40:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Double-Blind CH60
Three violet shards of crystal flew by my head. All three of them thwipped into the Swordsman’s torso, while a gout of flame emitting from Jinny’s hand held the other at bay. I had...
2022-03-28 12:38:24 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH59
Imagine, for a moment, waking deep underwater. The salt stings your eyes. Your lungs burn, little bubbles of oxygen tickling your nose as they slowly trickle out. You struggle, try to fight your w... 2022-03-28 12:37:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Double-Blind CH58
The screeching feedback was almost enough to send the rage bubbling beneath <Born Nihilist> soaring to the surface. I ducked my head, grimacing, trying desperately to stay f... 2022-03-28 12:35:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Double-Blind CH57
It took some convincing. I tried to be patient, reminding myself that the others had never experienced a dungeon. In the end, everyone agreed to leave the more obvious door alone.
But that ...
2022-03-28 12:34:36 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH56
The interior was entirely different from what the door implied. It wasn’t grand and palace like, or strangely modern, as the adaptive dungeon had been. The walls were a washed out gr...
2022-03-28 12:32:44 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH55
Nick held his sword out to Sae. Her hands glowed, and a creeping layer of slick green covered his blade.
“I wouldn’t do that,” Talia warned, holding completely still. Her v...
2022-03-28 12:31:29 +0000 UTC View Post