In the end, there were no assassination attempts made through the night. When the announcement came, Erani, who was the last one on watch, woke everyone up so we could read it.
CONQUEROR...
2024-04-06 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe man who’d just been threatening my life knelt on the ground before the woman whose life I’d saved.
“Lady Magdalene Peersguard,” he said. “W-what can I do for you today, on this ...
2024-04-04 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostEntismo glanced around the ruined town.
Oh, no, this has gone terribly wrong.
That Demon had gone on a horrible killing spree, ending in the deaths of at least a dozen Humans n...
2024-03-28 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostXhag’duul hid in an alleyway in a dark, dangerous city. He could feel the Spell that’d summoned him forcing him to return to his prison now that the immediate danger was over. That Human that...
2024-03-24 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostI stared at the man wearing Dark Plate, who looked at me with an equally cautious stance.
For once, I completely understood what Erani had always talked about regarding me looking like I was ...
2024-03-20 12:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe massive bald guy stared down at me with a furious expression, ready to attack me. So he thought I was an iron titan, huh? Add him to the list, I supposed.
But then, this guy was different...
2024-03-17 00:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostI did eventually find the woman in armor. As the crowd thinned out and I retraced my steps, I spotted her standing on a dune, staring out into the distance. Once again, there were a few people mill...
2024-03-13 12:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostIt took about ten minutes to get three crystals for each of us. Not much time at all—we just needed to walk a little bit out from the walls, get up onto the highest dune, spot some crystals from ...
2024-03-08 10:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostWe didn’t anticipate grabbing up enough crystals to complete the challenge to be difficult at all.
I finished explaining to Erani and we woke up Sylvie and Ainash still with a good few minu...
2024-03-03 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostI ended up getting a crash course on the current knowledge surrounding Ray of Frost. This was the Spell Erani had originally planned on taking at Level 10, so she had quite a few thoughts on the Up...
2024-02-28 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostSitting upright in the bed we’d rented, I sat and meditated. I had 3 Stat Points and a Spell Upgrade waiting to be assigned, plus the more general improvement of a Soft Cap increase, meaning I co...
2024-02-27 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostIn the few moments that passed before the wave of monsters got to us—this one being the largest by far, consisting of the hundreds that had starting coming for us from off in the horizon back whe...
2024-02-23 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostAs I backed away from the charging Sand Stompers, I took distinct notice of the fact that the person in plate armor didn’t take effort to retreat, themself. Instead, once the Sand Stompers got cl...
2024-02-19 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostIn the distance, I spotted a couple Sand Stompers wandering the dunes.
Perfect. Monster territory. Let’s go that way.
Quite simply, I’d have rather dealt with some monsters...
2024-02-15 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostErani, Sylvie, Ainash, and I stood outside the city walls, gazing out into the desert. Our job was to find and retrieve one desert crystal of each primary color they appeared in—red, yellow, and ...
2024-02-11 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostSylvie did, indeed, puke all over the floor. She’d collapsed onto the hard ground the moment we arrived in the desert cave we housed our Beacon Anchor Point in, and after a few moments of groanin...
2024-02-08 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Aliss left, we took Sylvie with us out of town and toward the Goblin forest. Despite Sylvie’s best efforts, we never did figure out what Aliss had been doing this whole time, but she assure...
2024-02-06 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostXhag’duul stared at a Human in a damp, dark room. Streams of light were let through the open door, the silhouette of a man standing within.
“D-Demon!” he shouted.
A half dozen ide...
2024-02-02 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostSylvie stood in the middle of Boy’s living room, staring at Aliss. “Where in flames have you been?!”
“Who are these two?” Aliss asked, nodding to me and Erani. Neither of us were in...
2024-01-29 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostTeleportation using the Beacon was different from teleportation using a circle in terms of feeling. It was more ‘unstable,’ in whatever way teleportation could feel like that—I arrived slight...
2024-01-27 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostA Devil sat at a desk in a damp, dark room.
This room, though, was different. Its walls were made of wood—a strange substance that didn’t exist in the Underworld—and it was absurdly cl...
2024-01-25 14:26:19 +0000 UTC View PostErani, Ainash, and I stood in the nighttime roads with the courier, who apparently had a message from Sylvie.
“So, what is it?” I asked.
“She says,” the courier said, showing us...
2024-01-22 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostPike walked around the sand dunes, retrieving all of his lost weapons. In the meantime, I looked back to Ainash. “Are you okay?”
After a moment, she finally answered. “...H...
2024-01-19 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe “inspector”—Pike Pinesteel, victor of the third Conqueror’s Tourney, apparently—charged at Ainash, wielding the glowing daggers that’d just appeared in his hands. She instantly read...
2024-01-17 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAfter signing up for the tournament, we then went to a nearby government office that the recruiter had pointed us to. The walk there was slightly confusing, but having slightly flawed directions wa...
2024-01-15 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostStanding in the middle of the run-down city streets, the woman blinked, looking us up and down after my declaration of interest in this tournament she’d been talking about.
“You wanna kno...
2024-01-12 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostOver the rest of that afternoon and night, we traveled through the desert to Precipice, the capital city. I passively practiced Noxious Grasp the whole time as I watched the sky darken, day shiftin...
2024-01-10 09:59:43 +0000 UTC View PostAs we sat in the back of the carriage, separated from the driver up front, I heard a sudden voice.
“Hey, Arlan,” Erani said, “do you mind asking Index to help me with something?”
<... 2024-01-06 13:58:23 +0000 UTC View PostAnd then I was back, sitting in the back of a carriage driving peacefully through the sandy dunes.
The first thing I did was check my XP.
Currently at 1.87k/3.5k, huh? Not bad....
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