Rolling up his linen sleeves, Luke poked his head into the Gordian’s room to check on its progress. Judging by the pale barrier of excited electricity leaking out of the Gordian sphe...
2024-03-23 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostA naked old man ran through the woods.
This was not good.
Neither for the old man, nor the trio of ex-dock workers chasing him with hooks and chains. And it was decidedly u...
2024-03-22 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostLuke retreated quickly to the safety of the hallway, runes dancing in his head as he tried to figure out what it was he needed to do.
“Containment,” he muttered, wiping the f...
2024-03-21 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostLuke lowered the dagger and stared in awe at the tableau before him.
It took him some time to understand what he was looking at. Even then, he wasn’t entirely sure his eyes wer...
2024-03-20 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostBefore Luke could be fully drawn into the darkness, a hand gripped the back of his neck and yanked with such force that he was surprised his spine didn’t crumble.
“What do yo...
2024-03-19 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostLuke collapsed back onto the stone floor, heart hammering in his chest, the [Cipher Sword] gripped tight in his fist.
A glance at his vital resources told him that the unsettling...
2024-03-18 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostLuke summoned a pulse of abyss-black shadows ahead of him like a sonar ping.
Squaring his shoulders, he stepped deeper into the passage. It opened up just a few feet in and split...
2024-03-17 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostGlancing at the wall the Discordant Dragon had just passed through in his vision, Luke went and scooped up the miniature obelisk. It burned his skin with freezing cold, but Luke refuse...
2024-03-16 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostLuke reached into his belt and took out a small black throwing knife, driving it as hard as he could into the wooden pole. His [Climbing Gloves] were instantly negated by that oil.
... 2024-03-15 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostBubbling darkness swelled around Luke until a complex series of rooms grew up and encased him within stone walls and ceiling all around him.
Okay, this is starting to get int...
2024-03-14 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostPain consumed Jimmy’s life, filling in every crack and crevice of his battered soul.
He would be the first to admit he was no boy scout, but he didn’t think he deserved to be...
2024-03-13 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSomething primal snapped within Luke.
Shadows erupted out of his body, writhing across the floors and walls like a two-dimensional ink tornado. The color of the world inverted, t...
2024-03-12 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostLuke crawled forward through a cramped, narrow passage on his hands and knees. He wasn’t crazy about confined spaces, so he hurried to the extent that his high Dexterity could carry ...
2024-03-11 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe closer Luke got to the dungeon, the faster the [Dungeon Key] pulsed with mana. It felt strange being able to sense mana outside his body. It was almost like his ability to sense sh...
2024-03-10 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostNow that he had a moment to breathe, Luke spent his free points between Wisdom, Willpower, and Endurance. The first two because his new echo ability relied heavily on them, and the lat...
2024-03-09 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostLuke struggled to decide between the two Thief skills. One started at unusual-rarity tier, while the other was at uncommon-rarity tier.
That was a massive divide in power.
...
2024-03-08 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“We make a good team,” Glenn told Luke as another one of the blighted creatures fell to Luke’s onslaught.
He was breathing harder than Glenn was. Both of them reeked, and t...
2024-03-07 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostGlenn gingerly stepped forward onto a rickety platform in the gloam filled darkness lit by pinpricks of warm light. Torches on various distant scaffolds were perched over the darkness ...
2024-03-06 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostGlenn stepped away from the edge of the cylindrical hole and shivered. He could hardly see, even though his night vision was better than most. As an Archer, he seemed to have exception...
2024-03-05 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLuke watched the Company Shop while his wounds were closing and the poison in his veins was clearing out.
He waited several long seconds before the items began to disappear. Thei...
2024-03-04 05:47:36 +0000 UTC View PostIt was the first concrete evidence he had of Fate playing a direct role in this new world. While a second per Fate didn’t seem like much, Luke doubted there were many people with mor...
2024-03-04 05:47:15 +0000 UTC View PostThey had been so close, and then that bloodthirsty idiot, Gretchen, had ruined it all. The Rogue was no better than theirs despite his disturbing ability to blend into the dar...
2024-03-04 05:46:56 +0000 UTC View PostUnsurprisingly, flowing sewer waters lit on fire didn’t smell any less rank or foul.
If not for the choking smell, the patches of burning water, and the fact that Luke was bein...
2024-03-04 05:46:42 +0000 UTC View PostJimmy didn’t like the large room. The pool of light their lantern cast marked them out as easy targets, but nothing had attacked them yet.
Worse, there were still no monsters. ...
2024-03-04 05:46:13 +0000 UTC View PostLuke had hoped he’d be in the top 100 at least.
It was clear that there were some serious contenders out there who did nothing but farm monsters all day long. Which made him do...
2024-03-04 05:45:58 +0000 UTC View PostLuke dropped a throwing knife into his hand. He used his [Lacerate] and [Barrage] skills in quick succession, then let the knife fly.
The blades doubled up to 4, each of them cop...
2024-03-04 05:45:33 +0000 UTC View PostShaking his head, Luke pushed to his feet and turned to his status to apply his saved up free points. He had been so busy fighting monsters and testing out his bloodline that he kept p...
2024-02-03 11:11:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe fact that each class had a different amount of awarded stats per level was interesting. Without any means of rating the power of these classes, such as level or rarity tier, that was really the...
2024-02-03 11:10:39 +0000 UTC View PostSitting with his back to the cool dark stone, Luke was pleased to find that the earlier class skills he had declined to take were still there.
You have Rogue skills to se...
2024-02-03 11:06:51 +0000 UTC View PostIt was slow going through the dilapidated warren of passages and rooms beneath the ruin bridge. Luke slipped from one passage into a storeroom, keeping low by a pile of stony debris. 2024-02-03 11:06:46 +0000 UTC View Post