Chapter 116
“Looks like it was on purpose,” Suri murmured as their footsteps echoed through the narrow tunnels. Her tone was thoughtful, but her eyes were sharp, scanning the dark. “The Great Bees have a...
2025-09-19 10:12:01 +0000 UTC View Post
“Looks like it was on purpose,” Suri murmured as their footsteps echoed through the narrow tunnels. Her tone was thoughtful, but her eyes were sharp, scanning the dark. “The Great Bees have a...
2025-09-19 10:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe next stage was the most dangerous—at least for the dungeon scrappers. Everyone knew it, though no one said it aloud. The initial wave of Great Bee Guards always fell upon them first. That ini...
2025-09-18 10:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostWor-en studied the fifteen dungeon scrappers gathered in front of him. Fewer than he’d expected. Fifteen wasn’t nothing, but the budget for this raid had clearly gone elsewhere—thirty-five ce...
2025-09-17 10:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostThey weren’t even sure when his name had been mentioned—only that the sound of it, Wor-en, snagged in Boris’s ears.
Boris slipped out of the press of bodies, tiptoeing for a bette...
2025-09-16 10:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe trio hadn’t expected this.
As their wagon creaked up the frost-bitten road, the dungeon loomed ahead—but not as a lonely cave or half-buried ruin as Kana had pictured. Instead, an ent...
2025-09-15 10:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe underground district always smelled of smoke and damp stone. The inn at its heart was supposed to be hospitable—lamps glowing against carved walls, wooden beams polished smooth by years of to...
2025-09-13 15:31:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe trio slipped into the dormitory just as the curfew bell tolled, the muffled sound rolling across the campus like the low clang of a distant forge.The halls were quiet, lamps burning with a soft...
2025-09-12 10:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt was late afternoon when the trio pushed through the tall oak doors of the Adventurer’s Guild. The winter air clung to their cloaks, cold and heavy, even though the braziers lining the entryway...
2025-09-11 10:12:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt was the first day of the week, and the north training field stirred like a hive long before dawn burned away the frost. Kana and Suri moved together through the swelling crowd, boots crunching a...
2025-09-10 10:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe trio lingered near the newly built watchtower, their shadows long and flickering in the orange glow of the bonfire. The children had finally collapsed into sleep after hours of wearing Boris do...
2025-09-09 10:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe wagon’s wheels creaked as they rolled it back onto the half-frozen dirt road. To their surprise, it was intact—untouched by the chaos of scarecrows. Only faint ruts in the snow and cracked ...
2025-09-08 10:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostKana’s heartbeat hammered in her chest. Suri was gone—vanished as though ripped from reality. Even with [High Awareness], Kana couldn’t feel the faintest trace of her.
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2025-09-06 16:15:30 +0000 UTC View PostKier stood before the massive stone doors that marked the boss chamber, their surface etched with faint runes pulsing like veins of dim light. He turned, resting a hand on the hilt of his rapier. 2025-09-05 10:12:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The next few days at the academy blurred together—lectures, killing spawn summons in the training field, sparring, meals in the bustling halls. The tension from the field assignment finally began...
2025-09-04 10:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostField training with the help of adventurer’s guild summoners had gone smoother than expected. Their guidance shaved hours off the drills, and the students wrapped the session just in time for the...
2025-09-03 10:12:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe monthly student council meeting took place in the early evening.
The sun had long since dipped, leaving the sky awash in deep violet. Faint golden light from the lamps powered by magical ...
2025-09-02 10:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostSuri exhaled sharply as they stepped back onto academy grounds, the looming towers and banners catching the weak winter sun. The cold stone walls should have felt safe, but after the scarecrow’s ...
2025-09-01 10:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt was Valdis’ first time in such a gathering. Anonymity pressed down on the room like a second set of walls. Two dozen students, maybe more, stood scattered beneath the rotting rafters of the ab...
2025-08-30 16:04:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe basement where the heist had once unfolded had changed. The dust, broken crates, and scattered coins were gone. In their place stood broken shelves lined with ledgers, a long table stacked with...
2025-08-29 10:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostDuke Stark walked the length of his garden path, boots crunching softly over frost-hardened gravel. The breath that left him in steady bursts curled white into the air, only to fade into the pale b...
2025-08-28 16:13:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe slum children splashed in the nearby creek, laughter carrying on the breeze as Suri and Kana’s mother guided them through their first proper bath in who knows how long. On the other side of t...
2025-08-27 10:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe winter air bit at Kana’s cheeks, sharper now than it had been a few months ago. She tugged her scarf higher, its wool scratchy against her chin, and tried not to shiver. Beside her, Suri boun...
2025-08-26 10:12:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Congratulations on earning your gold badge,” Principal Light said, his tone pleasant, though his eyes studied her too closely.
Suri shifted uncomfortably in her chair, tapping her finger...
2025-08-25 10:12:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt was dawn when the work was mostly done, the last of the smoke rising from smoldering hearths and the scent of damp earth still clinging to the air. The chief’s house, normally quiet at this ho...
2025-08-24 10:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostKana and Suri had only just returned to their seats when Elle York raised her voice again, her tone crisp enough to silence the murmurs of the crowd.
“It does not end with them. There are o...
2025-08-23 15:48:16 +0000 UTC View PostFlowel’s fist slammed into the vault table so hard that the wood splintered, a sharp crack echoing through the chamber. He didn’t care. He wanted it to break. Everything around him felt like it...
2025-08-22 10:12:00 +0000 UTC View PostPrincipal Light sat at the rectangular long table in his office, the atmosphere was tense with deafening silence despite the number of people packed within. Professors lined both sides of the table...
2025-08-21 10:12:00 +0000 UTC View PostBalt’s vision swam, the forest twisting in front of him like a fever dream. His legs shook with every step, barely obeying him now. He wanted to run—needed to run—but his body betrayed him, m...
2025-08-20 10:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt was an emergency announcement a few moments ago. By decree of King J himself, the fastest royal knights were dispatched to the different training grounds where the academy’s students were scat...
2025-08-19 10:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostWor-en stood at the center of the third-years, their circle tight, faces pale in the sunlight. His own expression had hardened to stone, though his chest churned. The copper-class students were on ...
2025-08-18 10:12:00 +0000 UTC View Post