Warm air splashed hard against his face. Lights gleamed painfully bright all around him. Golden lights. Stabbing lights. Lights meant to kill rather than illuminate. The hymn of the Priests echoed ...
2025-05-30 12:39:40 +0000 UTC View PostValens bolted through the streets, one hand over his burning chest, feeling his mana pool fast recovering as the ground fissured across their path. Nomad and Celme carved a path open while they fol...
2025-05-29 12:06:20 +0000 UTC View PostNever been much of a fan of AI images, but a friend did this one after reading the last chapter, and it just so happened to align with the image I had in mind of our dear Templars. Figured I should...
2025-05-29 09:53:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe mere light of Edric’s inner flame was enough to force the tides of the undead to cower senselessly back to the skirts of their Liches where they stood, shivering, blinking, sucking deep breat...
2025-05-28 17:07:28 +0000 UTC View PostValens didn’t know how he patched the end of the street with Gravitating Earth, raising a giant block of soil to block the rush of the endless horde. He adorned it with spikes to make it difficul...
2025-05-27 14:07:32 +0000 UTC View PostBurning flames blasted the creatures into pieces, scorched the rot out of them, and scattered their blood hissing against the earthly walls rising about him. Dozens, hundreds of them rushed toward ...
2025-05-26 14:33:03 +0000 UTC View PostA lump of rotten meat clad round a skeletal frame came stumbling closer to him, bony fingers clasped tightly around a sword. A bastard of a sword, Garran reckoned, reeking of death and wrong. Somet...
2025-05-23 15:42:36 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Valens was about to open the clinic door, he caught a subtle shift in the Resonance. It was early in the morning, the sun's first lights barely flashing from beyond the thick swarm of clouds, ...
2025-05-22 14:45:32 +0000 UTC View PostMartha Bell breathed in the fog seeping through the shutters of the house, an old place by the Knuckle Alley that hadn’t seen much use for the last few years. She breathed in the fog, then turned...
2025-05-21 11:28:55 +0000 UTC View PostIn the following days after opening the clinic, Valens found himself in a monotonous rhythm of healing patients and trying to spread his image amongst them. He made a point of coming across as shad...
2025-05-20 12:17:48 +0000 UTC View PostNomad blasted through the front gate, Heartstone thumping in his chest, the leathery handle of the sword scraping against his bony fingers. He ducked down as an arrow whizzed toward him, stre...
2025-05-19 12:20:31 +0000 UTC View PostFoggy morning time, and Valens was busy handling the mold gathered from the box of bread laid by the side. He had already distilled the alcohol and prepared the rest of the ingredients for penicill...
2025-05-16 13:50:08 +0000 UTC View PostVireth pulled at the chains around the doorknob, checking for one last time to make sure she would be left alone during the Assembly. Her collection of shadows, lined across the shelves in the room...
2025-05-15 15:34:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe edges of the portrait creaked and shifted as Mr. Gray stared at his own image displayed magnificently between the shelves.
“I appreciate the intent here,” Valens broke the silen...
2025-05-14 18:07:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe Hexsurge threads flashed along the wavering lines of void-tinged flames, pounding over them like beasts out looking for prey, the fleshy walls of Valens’s chest stinging in response. One by o...
2025-05-13 17:48:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe young servant led him through a set of colorful corridors, down a pair of spiraling steps, across the under halls of the mansion where portraits of important-looking men and women dotted the wa...
2025-05-12 17:19:23 +0000 UTC View PostHey there, it's me again.
It's been a busy week, as like others, and I'm all up for it.
Writing a ball was quite the experience, even if it hurt the pacing a little, but painting the pi...
2025-05-09 14:14:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Val, wait!” Celme stumbled clumsily out into the hallway, the hems of her dress clasped tight in her hands, lips stretched into a tight frown. “I’m talking to you! Wait!”
Valens si...
2025-05-09 13:56:12 +0000 UTC View PostA quartet of strings played in the backdrop, music soft and easy on the ears, just high enough to shade the low murmur of conversations being shared among the guests. The light of the mana lamps, a...
2025-05-08 14:16:22 +0000 UTC View PostValens leaned against the walls of the main door, taking in the view of his clinic.
He’d been at it for some time, as there was a lot to appreciate about his own work after spending ...
2025-05-07 15:33:44 +0000 UTC View PostValens swept the cloud of dust with a Gale, filtered it through a Blockage, and was confronted with the pair of laborers staring agape at the recently grown one-story building that clearly l...
2025-05-06 17:11:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, a group of specialized personnel, supposedly from the Department of Internal Affairs, arrived from the Cathedral to start the operation. They parked their horse-drawn carriages...
2025-05-05 14:08:43 +0000 UTC View PostValens spent the rest of the night scribbling in his diary a list of things he would need in the clinic. Sanitary conditions were the first thing that came to his mind, though there was an inkling ...
2025-05-04 18:34:30 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, I'll be handling some important business today and tomorrow, so I'll post today's chapter on Sunday. All good here, just want to let you know!
Cheers :3
2025-05-02 19:57:30 +0000 UTC View PostNight fell by the time they finished with the other houses. All different cases with eerie similarities between them, mainly the victims being widowed women who suffered from terrible losses...
2025-05-01 16:33:50 +0000 UTC View PostValens sat in the wooden chair, creaking along with one hand over the table, peering silently out into the empty walls, waiting for Percival to bring him the licenses. It was past morning time, but...
2025-04-30 17:13:45 +0000 UTC View PostHe was in a house. Dusty floors were broken in a few places, cracked in others, where a host of worms squirmed impatiently to climb up through the wooden planks, making their way to the door visibl...
2025-04-29 16:25:27 +0000 UTC View Post“There have been a few complications. We’re not giving you a tour of the city today,” Garran said, and glanced at the captain whose hat seemed like a rat being squashed in between his arm and...
2025-04-29 16:23:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day Valens woke up and came across a peculiar, but not in the least undelightful, sight in the main hall. Placed atop the wooden table was a plate with two sausages steaming hot, a ...
2025-04-28 18:16:49 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a dark, foggy night outside, and Valens walked with a spring in his step through the deserted streets of Belgrave. His visit to the Magi’s Guild had taken a much different turn than...
2025-04-28 18:10:27 +0000 UTC View Post