breakerofhorizons

Chapter 66

“What else?” Nic asked. The dungeon should be over. And if there was a final challenge to be overcome, frankly, Nic wasn’t sure he had that left. Everything about him felt tired.

“Not...

Chapter 65

The jackal-warrior snarled, lifting his swords into position and beginning to stalk forward, refusing to play Nic’s game, to rush to try and cover the ground between them– leaving him defensele...

Chapter 64

Nic climbed the steps. They were vast, obsidian, black monuments to the ancient power of this place. They were sized for a giant; each stair forced Nic to grab the edges and haul himself up like a ...

Chapter 63

Nic materialized a long, long ways away, on a ruined island where he’d once planted one of the Wind Palace Lotus seeds. A field of hardy flowers now extended across the shattered statue of the go...

Chapter 62

For a moment, in the eye of the storm, Nic allowed his eyes to dull and look inward.

There had been a time he expected to die any day. When every adventure seemed to be leading towards the mo...

Chapter 61

Nic flexed his hand open and shut, trying to focus in on the feeling of the Aleph.

Antares was ravenous, consuming…

Fomalhaut was violent and shaky, trying to rip free of his...

Chapter 60

Nic dug back to his original tunnel network and dropped down onto the smoothed, tar-covered ground, checking the nearest warding talisman to make sure nobody had broken in while he was away. The ta...

Chapter 59

Nic was still grinning as he sank into the earth and vanished.

The musician was a dangerous, unpredictable opponent, but one who relied on bizarre and surprising attacks to keep an enemy at b...

Chapter 58: Two Birds, One Stone

The eagle descended with lightning streaming out around its wings, claws outstretched.

Nic flung himself aside and was still caught by the shower of broken rocks as those goliath claws raked ...

Chapter 57: Live for the Moment

The stone organ and the eight Aleph marks were fine prizes, but Nic wasn't done with the Valley of Memories quite yet. A quick sweep of the area brought him mixed news. Someone - almost certainly S...

Chapter 56: Scorpion and Tarantula

Scorpion and tarantula faced each other in combat. The scorpion was a massive armored creature, its body covered by spiked plates of rusting iron. The tarantula was sky blue, with luminous hairs mi...

Chapter 55

(( Hey again. For anyone who wonders where I've been, this post exp...

Chapter 54

Nic burrowed his way out nearly a mile from their landing point, the Princess scrouging along behind him in the tunnel on her hands and knees. It was slow, sweaty work, but he didn’t want to risk...

Chapter 53

Nic stood up from the dry, dusty earth, the wind casting sand into his eyes. They had landed beyond the walls of the dungeon, beyond the oasis of relative shade and comfort provided by the floating...

Chapter 52

Nic lunged for Yvaine. His hands extended into a flurry of blows, unleashing shadows of ash that crashed down like a storm. Yvaine was met and outmatched; her strength was at her limit, and she cou...

Chapter 51

With the battlefield churned down to a muddy crater, Nic held the absolute advantage in terms of terrain. While Yvaine’s wounds had already sealed, Nic could see that her skin had lost much of it...

Chapter 50

The wind of the desert poured over them as they descended on the Altar of Night. In the early morning, everything was a shadow overlaid on a background of shadow. The altar was a huge, five-sided m...

Chapter 49

Killing intent.

Nic searched his soul for the meaning of those words.

It seemed impossible he would actually lack the ability to kill; after all, he had done nothing else since arriving...

Chapter 48

(( Apologies for missing last week's update. I've decided to return to daily updates, as this schedule doesn't seem to be working out for my peculiarities of focus and attention. I hope everyone un...

Chapter 47

Welcome To

The Scales of Sand

Rise to the heavens

Guide your ship to the Hall of the Su...

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Chapter 46:

Nic watched as Talnu’Mo inscribed anchoring marks onto Redjaw’s skin, carefully driving an ink-tipped needle into the slimy, sluggish flesh again and again. It was so sharp it barely hurt, simp...

Chapter 45

((Apologies for this being late!))

Nic returned to Winterhome triumphant, the sun setting golden over the trees. Carving his way through six Trials was exhilarating, and had won hi...

Chapter 44

Nic watched the earth surge and ripple at the movement of his hand. Each gesture caused the mud to surge, reaching up tendrils, shaping itself at his command. With a casual movement he could unseat...

Chapter 37

It took painstaking, slow effort to build the bones of the Sigil. Each circle, each set of points and lines like constellations, took a careful hand to grow from nothing. The concept of the Sigil w...

Chapter 36

Nic spent a good amount of time with Kline, helping him plant the new herbal specimens in his strange, demonic garden. The soil was dark and good, crumbling wetly under their fingers as they dug. E...

Chapter 35

((Chapter Warning - Gore))

Nic felt with agonizing clarity the moment his body began to ‘die’ in the illusionary world. It was when the thorned branches of the cherry tree growing within ...

Chapter 34

As Nic and Tarquin returned to Winterhome, a familiar shape flitted through the air to meet them, a small as Nic’s hand but ferociously loud.

“The TRIUMPHANT HERO returns! From the DESERT...

Chapter 33

Li Blackleaf, the old ghost Nic had unleashed from the frozen world, stood before them. To Nic’s surprise he didn’t make any aggressive motions.

He simply spoke.

“Beh, what a way ...

Chapter 32

He sailed across the sky on Tarquin’s back, following to where the nearest of the pillars had arisen. As they landed, the woods were full of life. Confused, blinking life - a giant, bipedal bird ...

Chapter 31

Pills. In bamboo vials, they smelled fragrant and sweet. There were dozens of different vials, each labeled in the same tidy script. The bug must have had some talent alchemy, because there were si...