The first thing he heard was the clanging. The Plaza was alive with it—each of the forges lining the square boomed with the sounds of hammering, steel crushing steel. Smoke churned from the...
2024-12-15 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“It went exactly as you said,” said the man in the straw hat. “The scan showed an unusual amount of aura activity in Zone 18—on our doorstep. I dropped by to check. And it was hiding right ...
2024-12-12 02:33:26 +0000 UTC View PostThree days into meditating, he made a breakthrough.
Level up!
Aegis of Infinity Level IX -> X
Skill evolved!
Ae...
2024-12-11 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe murals on the sixth floor’s walls were sketched in simple gold lines. They depicted a pagoda towering into the clouds, out of sight.
The Skill this floor teaches, said the...
Hours later…
Zane sat cross-legged in the bone-white zone and meditated, feeling the war raging through his body. The uncanny ominous winds blasting him full-force, hour af...
2024-12-09 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt was fairly unpleasant. Enough to make Zane’s face twitch.
Shocks of nausea rolled through him over and over like waves on an angry sea, and he felt it trying to tear his body apart—try...
2024-12-08 02:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostHe bumped into little Prince Rei first thing on the planet—the boy was a little swaddle of yak furs, playing with a ball of pseudo-Stormfire near the lake under Zane’s house.
“Zane!” cri...
Zane was off to Sage Noughtfire’s home planet to claim his prize.
As he teleported into the main hub, he noticed the square was much sparser than usual—no crowds. There were a few worried...
2024-12-04 02:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostEvan seemed a little woozy when he arrived. He’d come from a long way out and had to take three long-distance teleporters to get here. He’d also drunk a great deal of apple cider, Zane gathered...
2024-12-02 02:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostLevel up!
Essence Level 472 -> 473
Level up!
Essence Level 473 -> 474
Zane slept well that night. He woke up with Reina still fast asleep o...
2024-12-01 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hey folks! Just a reminder I'll be off Nov 24th - 29th for Thanksgiving break. Happy Thanksgiving to the Americans out there!
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Zane woke, as seemed quite o...
2024-11-24 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostHaxorax couldn’t understand where Zane got the will.
He could barely keep himself up, yet he fought like he could still win this.
The Witch-King unleashed its domain, and the situatio...
2024-11-21 02:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe fifth wave rushed down the gorge and spilled more of Zane’s blood. It took another chunk of his essence with it.
If the mass of wounds crisscrossing his body bothered him, he didn’t s...
2024-11-20 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostZane was plunged deep into smothering darkness. Dropping down, down, down—he landed in a crouch.
He was fighting from the first breath.
The air alone would've killed most Ascendants i...
2024-11-19 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Patriarch had been silent that whole time, watching it all unfold with a quiet intensity, much like his son. But where his son's face grew colder and colder, the Patriarch's grin grew fiercer a...
2024-11-18 02:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostZane stood in a world of his own making.
A world of heat and searing gold and sheer destruction.
He gritted his teeth. He was already feeling the strain; torrents of essence poured out ...
2024-11-17 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostIcebergs came barreling at him and went blinding bright, vaporizing mid-air with piercing hisses.
The Monkeys screeched and dashed back. But even those little moments stuck in Zane's Domain c...
2024-11-14 02:30:17 +0000 UTC View PostZane slashed down.
It was an arc of pure sunlight—an arc spanning the length of a continent, holding the weight of a world. Flaring that pure gold-white. Seen from space, it looked like a m...
2024-11-13 02:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn't long before their surprise guests were at the door. Burnwater was still busily rearranging the seating mats, pouring out fresh cups, when it slammed open—no knock.
He jumped.
<... 2024-11-12 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostZane woke up with his face planted in a pile of quartz.
His head throbbed—a dull pounding. He rolled around, groaning, and propped himself up. Checked his body.
He wasn't sure how lon...
2024-11-11 02:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt was as though the world knew it had to strike now—that this was its last chance. Like it could feel what Zane was becoming.
He gritted his teeth.
Solar Flare surged and writhed abo...
2024-11-10 02:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostNothing had given Zane as strong an impression as back then, deep in the heart of the tornado. He needed that feeling.
He looked to the horizon and knew what he had to do.
It was just a...
2024-11-07 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostZane plunged into the heart of the tornado back-first, clawing at the air as he went.
His skin—toughened and tempered under planet-shaping pressures, bolstered by the powers of the Asura—...
2024-11-06 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostWell, that was strange.
Eh.
Zane was not particularly interested in prying into other people's business. And Burnwater seemed to really rather avoid talking about it, which was just fin...
2024-11-05 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostZane streaked through space, swerving around rifts streaming with pale, dreamy colors. It was a weird place—no sound, no sense of direction. He followed his gut. Let his senses, his intuition, le...
2024-11-04 02:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostNoughtfire examined the painting, sharp eyes glinting.
"The purpose," he said without turning, "is to hone precision. Destruction is a very potent thing... but it is most potent when it is co...
2024-11-03 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostZane spent a nice weekend with Reina back on Earth. They went on a beach date. She came in a little flower-print bikini which he found quite distracting; Zane didn’t need to change much—his dai...
2024-10-31 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostZane stepped up to the task.
He knew everyone’s eyes were on him. Outer Sect disciples made up most of the crowd, lightly clad in leathers. But there were Inner Sect Minor Gods and a scatte...
2024-10-30 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt felt like the fog in Zane's head was starting to burn away. His body was starting to feel good again too, tingling with pleasant, burning growing pains.
His body was nearing 100%—his mus...
2024-10-29 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt felt like the entire crowd was holding its breath. The only thing that moved was Zane—standing there, his whole body trembling, struggling to contain the force he had made.
They saw Zane...
2024-10-28 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post