“This is a great treasure, my friends,” said Atticus, staring at the Seed of the Whistling Wind with an awestruck expression. “Truly a miraculous reward. Where did you get it?”<...
2024-07-03 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostElijah forced himself to watch, but all the while, he found himself wishing he hadn’t. Still, he didn’t look away while Sadie cut the woman to pieces. She started small, just removi...
2024-07-03 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostElijah looked at the silver box hovering over the remains of the egg and asked, “Who wants to do the honors?”
Dat glanced at Sadie. So did Kurik. It made sense, given that she...
2024-07-02 15:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostTalia bent her back to the task of dragging the wagon along the uneven path. Once, it might have been well-preserved, but it had fallen into disrepair. Likely that had coincided with th...
2024-07-02 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Is this true?” Sadie asked.
Elijah looked away and rubbed the back of his neck. The sight of the battlefield didn’t make him feel any better. There were hundreds of corpses...
2024-07-01 15:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostTalia ducked under the sweeping sword strike, then leaped high into the air in order to avoid another. She landed in a roll that took her just out of reach of a descending axe. However,...
2024-07-01 13:00:46 +0000 UTC View PostEven at the best of times, landing was the most difficult part of flying, and Elijah had still yet to master it. So, trying to land with Sadie clutched in his talons was a recipe for disaster...
2024-06-30 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostElijah broke through the canopy and into bright sunlight, only to see a dozen golden eagles barreling toward him. But he only had eyes for the one flying in the other direction. The hug...
2024-06-29 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostA wraith bounced off Sadie’s ethereal barrier, its forward momentum sending it skipping off the surface. It landed just past her, and though the gangly creature was dazed, Elijah and his ot...
2024-06-28 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostTalia stared at the man’s body, watching as it slowly lost its shape. It had been almost an hour since she’d killed Micayne, and even as his corpse dissolved into a mass of unrecognizable...
2024-06-28 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“I want to go on record as saying that this is a stupid plan,” Sadie said, looking up at Elijah. “You’re going to end up dead.”
“Aww. I didn’t know you cared,” he ...
2024-06-27 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAbraham Micayne, destroyer of an entire realm, looked down on his greatest creation, wishing for everything he was worth that he could simply grab hold of her and enforce his Will. However, t...
2024-06-27 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“You have to see this, bro.”
Elijah didn’t look up from the hunk of wood he’d been whittling. It had yet to take shape, and even though he’d originally set out to carve a facs...
2024-06-26 15:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe wind whipped against Elijah’s body, threatening to rip him from the cliff face and send him sailing to the ground far, far below. Only an hour or so before, he’d made the mistake of l...
2024-06-26 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Sadie stared at the Druid with unbelieving eyes. That disbelief was partially clouded by the man’s gruesome injuries. Despite spending more than an hour constantly healin...
2024-06-25 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe black sun imploded, and the world shattered into a thousand pieces.
Even though he’d made it a few hundred yards away, Zeke screamed as his body followed suit. It wasn’t the end...
2024-06-25 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostDesperately hanging by his fingertips, Elijah looked down, where he saw Kurik and Dat dangling in the air. The rope barely held, swaying back and forth as a giant, golden-feathered eagle swoo...
2024-06-24 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostJasper drummed his fingers against his belt, and the army of kobolds were enveloped by the power of his skill. Mana suffused them, speeding their reactions and pushing them to new heights of ...
2024-06-24 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostElijah’s sense of danger, born from One with Nature as well as other, more mundane senses, screamed at him, and he’d experienced enough that he wouldn’t even considering ignoring them. ...
2024-06-23 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“It occurs to me that I’m not invincible,” said Elijah, looking up at the massive Singing Cliffs. Then, he glanced at Kurik and asked, “Do you ever feel that way?”
“All the ...
2024-06-22 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostElijah slammed the butt of his staff into a wraith’s skull, using Storm’s Fury to finish it off. The creature absorbed some of the ethera from the spell, but it was incapable of completel...
2024-06-21 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe thing Zeke had learned about fighting massive monsters was that they often had difficulty dealing with anything smaller than a mountain. Most could manage it, though not without significa...
2024-06-21 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post“Paradise. That’s what he said,” Sadie spat. “He’s been living on some island sipping mojitos while we’ve been fighting for our lives against nightmare monsters!”
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2024-06-20 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Talia raced through the empty streets, her horror at what she’d just seen having overwhelmed any emotional distance she’d managed to maintain. It didn’t matter if she had h...
2024-06-20 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“How did you find me?” asked Delilah, sitting atop one of the buildings within the Nexus. Her toned legs dangled off the edge as she peered out at the people gathered around the market.&n...
2024-06-19 15:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs Miguel walked beside the laden wagon, he couldn’t keep himself from gaping at his surroundings. Mountains, larger than any had been before the world’s transformation, towered all aroun...
2024-06-19 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAs Elijah followed Kurik from the amphitheater, he caught sight of one of the men he’d healed in the infirmary. Normally, when he engaged in mass healing as he had alongside Rob, the patien...
2024-06-18 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe monster was bigger than the cyclops had been, and Zeke knew it was far more dangerous. Death-attuned mana wafted off of it like heat from the sun, visible as whirling mists of aquamarine....
2024-06-18 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostBenedict was nervous, and rightly so. For whatever reason, when he’d been transported into the Trial of Primacy, his newly summoned Malicious Guard had been left behind. He had no ide...
2024-06-17 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostZeke ducked beneath a fist the size of a compact car, then between its owner’s legs, rolling to his feet a moment later. Normally, he wouldn’t engage in such acrobatics; indeed, he usuall...
2024-06-17 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post