CH 154: Teach
Hugo winced, wrists twisting sideways as his face contorted with marks of concentration. Veins bulged on his body - and one near his forehead looked ready to pop.
He let out a small grunt, an...
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Hugo winced, wrists twisting sideways as his face contorted with marks of concentration. Veins bulged on his body - and one near his forehead looked ready to pop.
He let out a small grunt, an...
2025-07-02 14:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostReid was frozen. His palms were clammy. His pulse thrummed in his ears as he hyperventilated, and he started to summon his knife.
Hugo was a good person.
Hugo could crush souls. 2025-06-30 14:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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One month.
It had taken a solid four weeks, twenty-nine days, if his math was right, before Reid was properly recovered. He knew from the start that he'd lived...
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Vidita looked between different sets of footprints in the dirt, and frowned.
"I'm still not good at this, you know. We could be chasing people that left ...
2025-06-25 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post<//| Fozz |\\>
Old oak with ornate carvings covered the room. It was present in the multiple benches and tables for the involved parties, it made up the rather uncomfor...
2025-06-23 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostA moment stretched where neither side moved.
The trio, armorless but armed, were a few feet inside the stone structure. The doorway was only wide enough for a single person, but Reid could ma...
2025-06-20 13:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostEvery step was a war. Every movement was pain. Magma found gaps in his armor and Reid's nostrils filled with the smell of his melting flesh. He roared and pushed forward through it all, one eye tra...
2025-06-20 13:25:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe crab-like Duke stood nearly motionless on the surface of the volcano. It didn't shift or move, even when Reid had taken a misstep down the interior slope and caused a small series of rocks to c...
2025-06-20 13:20:00 +0000 UTC View PostWith every step, the heat and the smell intensified. Reid stopped near the summit, but he found himself still sweating after an hour of rest and recovery. No environment so far had caused him this ...
2025-06-20 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostSeeing Norton excel as soon as he held the right tools had shifted something within Reid's realm of understanding. He heavily relied on his power, dexterity, and skill resistances. That was true in...
2025-06-18 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostReid's scream carried a knot of frustrated emotions with it, and his mace whipped hard into the hooked claw of a deep red insect. The dog-sized creature just made more ominous clicks with its mandi...
2025-06-16 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostReid awoke to a stick poking his shin.
"...has to be. So he's not right. He still hasn't reacted."
"He said he might scream, though, and then he did. So maybe this is normal?"
"Oh...
2025-06-13 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post-/-)) Travis ((-\-
There had been a crack there, and a evidence of a bloody gash underneath. He was sure of it.
But the blood was gone - or hidden behind armor...
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Reid batted a green hornet away with his bare Palm. The impact sent bits of bug guts spraying over him and his surroundings.
He was getting so many kill notifi...
2025-06-09 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe 'beast lord' this time around wasn't a single creature, but a colony. A tree towered twice as high as any other near it, and an absolutely massive hornet's nest hung from an unnaturally thick a...
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He slammed a palm onto the table in excitement. The force of his strike left an indent in the weaker metal, compete with the outline of his good fingers. 2025-06-04 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Reid spat out another few grains of sand, then went back to work with the carving knife. The naturally mottled pale blue skin separated and peeled back as Reid sliced through to the relatively ...
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Waiting before he went back to camp would've been the smart thing. Coming up with something to tell them all instead of trying to explain himself on the spot w...
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Connection.
Reid didn't know how he was going to do it, but he could sense possibility.
He pulled the spring down in a diagonal from th...
2025-05-28 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostReid dove into himself, eager and ready for a new challenge - a puzzle to solve. He put himself into his threadspace, and took a few moments to survey the winding tangles that stretched farther tha...
2025-05-26 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post-/-)) Travis ((-\-
They'd been close.
Close enough that one of the carcasses hadn't quite yet decayed. Close enough that rain hadn't fully washed away the rema...
2025-05-23 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostReid's pulse thrummed in his ears. He scanned the text twice, then did it again.
You have defeated Beast Lord, Branching Terror [Elder Drus] - lvl 43. Experience Awarded (+400,000 xp)...
2025-05-21 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post[ Mom is still away on her trip, and Marlene got some letter from James and disappeared. I ended up venting to Mark yesterday, just to have someone to vent to. The man has some incredible b...
2025-05-19 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostReid felt the wind whipping past his legs as the seconds ticked down.
The glow in his hand intensified, then abated as Brock appeared.
This was it.
The one dumb idea that might ke...
2025-05-16 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostWind whipped past Reid and made the skin on his cheeks flap. His free-fall had already taken him past Pippin - and despite Reid's attempt to get a blow in on his way down, the beast lord was uninju...
2025-05-14 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostBrocks fell like bone artillery shells and slowly drained the troop's number. Reid used extra energy from his ring to keep himself close to topped up. Everything went incredibly smooth for a glorio...
2025-05-12 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostReid looked at his new creation, and felt a twinge of pain as his eyes shifted.
"Now, it's good work, but far from perfect. I'm going to point out four errors that you need to correct bef...
2025-05-09 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostBrock flew unopposed into the midst of the Guinea Pig troop. Reid hoped to give two or three some decent wounds - maybe a kill. He wasn't exactly hurling grenades, after all.
His projectile s...
2025-05-07 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostReid cracked his neck, and pulled Mole King steaks out of his ring. He still had a few of the lesser ones, but G-grade beast meat didn't quite fill him up the way it used to. F grade meat made reco...
2025-05-05 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post"Is this lesson going to help me kill those damn guinea pigs?"
"Probably. We're going to use this as an opportunity for you to improve your osteal smithing."
Reid couldn't tell...
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