Arrayed before Elijah was a maze of coral and seaweed. Even as he floated only a few feet above the seafloor, he forgot the conflict of the previous day. Instead, he focused entirely on the setting...
2023-11-15 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostI hate Templars. They have so much power, and yet, they choose to allow the occurrence of one injustice after another, always claiming that if they intervened, the consequences... 2023-11-15 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The sun shone bright in the clear, blue sky as Elijah padded across the tundra. His steps were so light that he barely even left prints across the snow, but even as cautious as he was, he still mov...
2023-11-15 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostIf you've enjoyed Path of Dragons (or any of my stories, really, but mostly PoD), I would ask that you head over to Royal Road and leave a rating and/or review. I'm really invested in this st...
2023-11-14 23:42:43 +0000 UTC View PostThey weren’t real – not as he recognized reality, at least. Elijah knew that without a shadow of a doubt. However, that didn’t seem to matter when he was surrounded by suffering people. Even ...
2023-11-14 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostEven as his thunderous steps cracked the tiles beneath his feet, Zeke wove a braid of pure destruction, powered by his twin attunements and held together by his Will. At first, it tried to escape h...
2023-11-14 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostBefore Elijah swam to shore, he took a moment to take on the Shape of the Predator. However, the moment he did, he got a bit of a surprise when he suddenly realized that mist panthers were apparent...
2023-11-13 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostElijah stalked the Voxxian monster as it, in turn, attempted to do the same to him. Of course, because he was cloaked in Guise of the Unseen, it had no clue where he was – which was precisely how...
2023-11-13 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostElijah stalked forward, moving as quickly as he dared without rendering his Guise of the Unseen ineffectual. The ability was usually very effective, to the point where he could sneak up on most ani...
2023-11-13 15:09:00 +0000 UTC View PostElijah leaned against the ancestral tree, slowly chipping away at the hunk of wood that he hoped would one day become a recognizable figure. But even with the knives he’d taken from the invading ...
2023-11-13 15:08:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs summer laid its hand over the region, the island transformed. Flowers bloomed, fruit ripened, and wildlife became more active than ever before. Elijah was no exception, spending his days hunting...
2023-11-13 15:07:01 +0000 UTC View PostElijah bounded off the embankment, using his enhanced Strength to launch himself at the enormous crab. At some point within the past few weeks, the crabs had experienced another growth spurt, and t...
2023-11-13 15:06:00 +0000 UTC View PostElijah stalked forward, his feet falling silently against the forest floor as he followed his prey through the forest. Even if it hadn’t made so much noise, there was no mistaking the scent that ...
2023-11-13 15:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostCarmen stood in front of her forge, staring at the flames. She had built the thing herself, and to exacting specifications. However, she knew just how much room there was for improvement. Still, as...
2023-11-13 15:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostEason Cabbot ran his hand along the thick bristles of his blood red mohawk as he sat at the desk he’d been given. Ostensibly, he could have commandeered any building in the budding settlement of ...
2023-11-13 15:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostElijah opened his spellbook and looked at the new additions:
Despite the lingering fee...
2023-11-13 15:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs Elijah knelt on the beach, he stared at the slain panther. But he didn’t really see it. Instead, all he saw was what he’d just done. Strangely, he didn’t feel the least bit guilty about th...
2023-11-13 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostElijah heaved a rock above his head, pushing as high as he could. As soon as his elbows locked out, he dropped it back to the ground. Once it settled into the soft, spongy forest floor, he bent dow...
2023-11-13 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re not real,” Zeke growled, his fingers tightening on his hammer’s grip. “You can’t be real.”
For a long moment, his father sat languidly on the elaborate and impressively ...
2023-11-13 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostI'm sure some of you might have noticed that I recently tossed thirty chapters of my new story, Path of Dragons on here. So, this is probably a good time to let you all know that I'm going to...
2023-11-13 04:40:57 +0000 UTC View PostNothing happened – at least not outwardly, but Dirk’s eyes briefly glazed over. It only lasted a second or two before he refocused. “It’s done,” he said.
“Well, that was anticlima...
2023-11-13 04:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“I know it’s not a new Playstation, but…happy birthday.”
Miguel looked down at the weapon in his hands. It was a compound bow not unlike the one Roman still carried, but it had been m...
2023-11-13 04:29:01 +0000 UTC View PostElijah spent the rest of the day preparing his mind for what was coming. Nerthus couldn’t tell him much about what he could expect to find on the other side of the dimensional portal, so he’d c...
2023-11-13 04:28:01 +0000 UTC View PostElijah let out a deep breath as he slowly opened the Ethera-bolstered partition in his mind. For the first few seconds, he only let a trickle of sensory input through while forcing the rest to rema...
2023-11-13 04:27:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt was like a bomb going off in Elijah’s head. If he’d thought using One With Nature was a little overwhelming, then the deluge of sensory input that came when he’d completed the Grove nearly...
2023-11-13 04:26:00 +0000 UTC View PostElijah wasn’t sure what it meant. Certainly, on the most basic level, the list floating before his inner eye was easily understood. There was no mistaking that much. But the implications were far...
2023-11-13 04:25:00 +0000 UTC View PostAlyssa leaped toward the monster before she even took the time to properly analyze it. Using Impale, she thrust her spear forward, but to her horror, the creature’s heavy scales turned the blade ...
2023-11-13 04:24:01 +0000 UTC View PostWinter had come, blanketing the region around the settlement in a thick layer of snow. The temperatures had plummeted well below freezing, and as a result, food – as well as every other necessary...
2023-11-13 04:23:00 +0000 UTC View PostFor the next few weeks, Elijah fell into a rhythm. With winter tightening its grip on the area, the days shortened, and the nights grew longer. However, to his surprise, the cold didn’t seem to b...
2023-11-13 04:22:01 +0000 UTC View PostElijah awoke shivering in the middle of the night. Winters in the Pacific northwest could be brutal, and it seemed that his island was no exception. Fortunately, his initial investment into the Con...
2023-11-13 04:21:00 +0000 UTC View Post