"Grim!" Henderson shouted as he raced down the stone steps from his master bedroom within Castle Valeri to the throne room.
"Grim!" he repeated, though he didn't wait for an answ...
2024-05-24 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe Spectral Harbinger that loomed over Jordan while the Paladin was asleep in his bed seemingly unaware of the world around him, looked like it had been draining him for quite a while. Jordan’s ...
2024-05-23 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostHenderson and his group immediately backed away from the clearing where the onrushing herd of beetles was loudly approaching from, and the wolves quickly darted back towards the castle. The hobs an...
2024-05-22 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe three hobs that emerged from the portal and were currently charging as one conjoined unit across the arena sands at Titus and his friends were a respectable level fifteen apiece. It was above w...
2024-05-21 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThere was nothing that Henderson could do other than leap back in complete and utter surprise. If he’d been given a little warning that the bull beetle was standing right there, ready to go toe-t...
2024-05-20 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post“And we’re sure that we want to go and fight this time?” Petra said as the three made their way along the underground hallways to the arena prep room that stood before the sands. “Because i...
2024-05-17 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHenderson loved feeling the wind rushing through the fur on his face as he ran on all fours. Ever since the battle where he'd taken control of the Coeurl, he had longed to be in the body of a quadr...
2024-05-16 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“So what, just spend everything we can and pretend none of this ever happened?” Titus asked. “Because I’m getting a little tired of having to hide everything from everyone. First it was not...
2024-05-15 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post“Seriously, has no one around here ever seen or used a broom before?” Henderson shouted as goblins all around him shuffled their feet on the floor, trying their best to understand what he meant...
2024-05-14 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“My friends,” the old man said as the three walked up to him, as if approaching a God was the most normal thing in the world. “You do not need to go searching for my home if you wish to speak...
2024-05-13 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHenderson peered at the goblin who stood before him. The creature shuffled its feet on the ground nervously, its underbite and saucer-like black eyes making it seem both innocent and jittery.
People had died. More people than Titus had ever seen before, in or out of the Arena. And he didn’t truly know how to feel about it.
Since Miss Kane had left the Arena and been replaced as ...
2024-05-09 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostHenderson stared at the creature he’d named ‘Grim’ for a long time. In fact, he stared at him for so long that he wondered if the creature would ever become uncomfortable under his gaze.
<... 2024-05-08 16:00:20 +0000 UTC View Post"Did you see that?!” Sophia shouted as she watched the stone golem fall. The molten rock on the ground had started to cool, turning from a bright red to dull salmon colour. Titus wondered what wo...
2024-05-07 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostYou must report to the central colosseum in ten minutes.
Titus stared at the notification covering his field of vision, a sinking feeling in his stomach. He had ...
2024-05-06 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post"Do uh… any of you know what I’m supposed to be doing here?” Henderson asked aloud as he watched hobgoblins and regular goblins shuffle in and out of the room as he sat in his new throne. Non...
2024-05-03 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post"Have you uncovered anything of relevance, Kadiz?” Mr Valeri – or as he should now be called: ‘The Grandmaster’, asked.
Kadiz shook his head, not taking his eyes off the man sat in hi...
2024-05-02 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post“…and in light of what has happened over the last week and even before that, we have no option but to question the appropriateness of the Grandmaster in keeping her post as the head of our illu...
2024-05-01 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostJordan was the first to take action, dropping down onto one knee and facing the ground.
"My God… Lord…" he said, floundering.
"Oh, there's no need for any of that," the old man said...
2024-04-30 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post"If I see you eat another berry, I'm going to run you through!" Petra said as the three friends walked across the heavy wooden drawbridge, chaperoned by the large group of creatures. To their colle...
2024-04-29 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as the alarm bells had begun ringing, Henderson remembered what his master and mentor, the nest guardian, had told him: when the time comes for the Contestant to leave the Arena, he would k...
2024-04-26 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Well now we know what dark forces lurk out here in the unknown,” Petra said after the group had walked for no less than an hour without seeing anything other than dry, dead, arid, cracked grou...
2024-04-25 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing that Titus noticed was the ever-increasing number of experience points he needed to reach level seven. It wasn’t a surprise, but if things kept going up and up like they were, the...
2024-04-24 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostTitus didn't exactly know what it meant to take Petra's Mana from her but after a few minutes, something became apparent: if he didn't use it, the Mana slowly returned to his friend as if he were h...
2024-04-23 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post"Uh, I’m no meteorologist," Titus said as he and his friends continued their long march. "But doesn’t it feel like it’s getting a bit dark to either of you?"
"Of course it’s getting d...
2024-04-22 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post1. Excerpt from the diary of Beatrix Mungar. Before the Great War.
The air stank. The Arena itself, in fact, stank. Everything stank. I remember it as I wr...
2024-04-20 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThere was something odd about the way that the Hobs were lying on the ground. Not the fact that their bodies were entirely broken and bloodied, but something far more irregular than that even. Taki...
2024-04-19 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTitus stared with wide eyes as the lifeless and crushed body of his former combat Instructor fell to the ground with a dull thud. But then something amazing happened; the Ironjaw Behemoth that had ...
2024-04-18 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt was as if every single contestant and every single monster of Chaos stood still to watch what was going to happen next. The four Instructors, plus Theodore, had stepped forward to face the onrus...
2024-04-17 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Following us again?” Petra asked the large man. “And you think this is a good way to get us to trust you?”
“I could have simply turned and headed to the North Gate as I was about t...
2024-04-16 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post