Chapter 235: A Game of Rescue
They had thought of a way to work off their newfound energy, but not everything was going to plan. There were…disagreements.
Anna narrowed her eyes. Ian stared back, eye...
2022-07-13 00:45:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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Chapter 234: The Great Expedition
“Hoist the sails! Quickly now, before she catches up! C’mon ye salty sea dogs, the Great Expedition awaits!” a voice cried out, the sound tinny and weak despite its owner’s best ...
2022-07-09 18:12:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 233: The Great Wall of Plant-Flesh
“I still can’t believe that the Council agreed to this so quickly,” The Unrepentant One said, his head shaking back and forth like he couldn’t decide where he wanted to look. I t...
2022-07-05 18:40:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 232: Reporting To Authority
Elara stood, arm dangling limply at her side. It still hadn’t healed, even with so much time spent in range of the Guardian Statues. She was starting to think that it never would. Heal...
2022-06-28 05:06:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 231: Life Hunter
It wasn’t a hard decision.
Okay, it wasn’t that hard of a decision. It was still a little hard. There were a lot of options that I wanted; [The Go...
2022-06-24 06:26:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 230: Transient Reanimation
It was the sudden absence of cold that got to me, even in my near-senseless state. A change from the horrible, consuming chill that had invaded my body, one that was just barely held bac...
2022-06-23 00:55:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 229: Phase Two
“Wake up! Wake up!”
Kala’s shout was like a needle piercing Elara’s ear - light, at least compared to the battle that swirled around her, but no less noticeable for it. No ...
2022-06-15 05:10:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 228: Honing The Blade, Tearing The Flesh
She tried shaking it harder, stepping backwards to give herself some extra space. A lone section of flesh hit the ground in a wet, meaty plop. Elara’s heart soared - and then ...
2022-06-11 06:08:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 227: Taking The Blade
“...I’m still down one.”
I watched from my perch as The Grateful One’s arm flopped about, frustrated at my inability to fight. At my inability to do anything other...
2022-06-09 01:36:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 226: Meld
Doran was frustrated. It was a combination of things that caused it. The creeping chill that invaded his body in fits and starts, alternately beaten back and reinvading again as it warre...
2022-06-03 05:08:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 225: Phase
I flinched, nearly losing hold of my tail as a Coreless-shaped mass blurred past me in a gust of wind, only to end in a deafening crash of ore-flesh against stone. From the corner of my ...
2022-05-31 06:19:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 224: The Core’s Inner Sanctum
The heart of the Core’s lair, its inner sanctum, was a mess of bones and flesh and stone. Corpse after corpse covered the floor in varying states of decay, the amassed flesh broken up ...
2022-05-27 00:28:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 223: A Need For Focus
It was more than a little longer, or at least it felt like it. The tunnels leading to the Lesser Core seemed endless, a mess of twisting and turning darkness, filled with corpse...
2022-05-24 02:03:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 222: Mana Strain
Lesser Core Skill: [Life - Vigor X] Increased.
[Life - Vigor XI] Acquired.
The thought-light flickered as a stream of gold...
2022-05-23 22:02:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 221: Making Improvements
Weakness rushed through Valera’s veins in a frigid stream, like her blood had turned to ice. It pulsed at the edges of her skin, causing her limbs to grow heavy, and her breath to come...
2022-05-18 06:55:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 220: Not Alone
“Which way do you think he went?” Valera asked. The darkness wrapped like a cloak around the world around her, an occluding barrier that blocked out what lay behind it. Only faint te...
2022-05-17 21:13:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 219: Blood And Mana
I slumped back with a satisfied hiss, feeling a tingle in my scales; an electric jolt akin to a great many [Sting]s, only without any pain slithering alongside ...
2022-05-12 04:50:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 218: Life And Death
Make sure prev chapter didn't get skipped, posted a few minutes before this one
The mana-water glimmered, casting forth a searing radiance that was more than enough to remind...
2022-05-09 22:24:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 217: Death And Venom
As I shattered another swath of mana beneath my will, forcing it into the shape I needed, I couldn’t help but think about the difference I had found between the essences of li...
2022-05-09 22:21:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 216: Loop 3 Day 1
There was another chapter posted immediately before this, make sure you didn't skip it!
I pulled free from my scale-flesh, fighting back a wave of revulsion strong enough to ...
2022-05-03 04:11:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 215: Loop 2 Day ? Part 3
Elara had become depressingly familiar with corpses as of late. More than she ever thought she could be. It was hard not to, what with the time she had been forced to spend as a Core’s...
2022-05-03 04:10:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 214: Loop 2 Day ? Part 2
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Chapter 213: Loop 2 Day ?
The snake slithered along, the bitter cold of death wrapped around its scales like a second skin - but not quite that. Because it was more than that. Food. Drink. Comfort. Heali...
2022-04-27 03:52:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 212: Loop 2 Day 9 Part 3
2nd chapter today, make sure you didn't skip the previous.
If I had learned one thing during my most recent life, it was this - preparing for a battle ahead of time went a lo...
2022-04-24 21:47:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 211: Loop 2 Day 9 Part 2
2 chapters done so far today, but I'll try to get out one or two more after that if I can manage. Here's the first.
Ever since my creation, I had an instinctive understanding...
2022-04-24 21:46:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 210: Loop 2 Day 9
As a whole, the lake of the leviathans was a craggy mess of weathered stone and neverending mana-water; at its edges, in the places where not even a real shore was formed, the walls rose...
2022-04-21 03:25:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 209: Loop 2 Day 7 Part 3
As my spore-puppet and I plunged back below the lake’s surface, the scent-taste of blood pressed against me; cloying, even when spread across the vastness of the mana-water. Even from ...
2022-04-20 05:34:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 208: Loop 2 Day 7 Part 2
I could not figure out how to end this chapter for some reason. I wrote so many different ending scenes to this chapter and could not find one that I was actually happy with. I still don't ...
2022-04-15 05:39:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 207: Loop 2, Day 7
Dimmed swathes of mana-water slid across my scale-flesh, stolen light rushing into my reservoirs with every passing touch. I flexed my length forcefully, cutting through the lake with a ...
2022-04-08 05:10:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 206: Loop 2, Day 5 Part 2
Looking down on where the river met the lake, the rushing water dropping the length of a great many not-Needles and finding its home below, I felt a surge of excitement. Finally...
2022-04-04 19:37:29 +0000 UTC View Post