They stood there for longer than Ike expected. Fifteen, thirty, forty-five minutes passed, and still no sign of Rufus. Standing at the wall, arms crossed, Ike frowned a little to himself. Had he mi...
2024-12-16 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe monsters kept coming. Behind Ike and Wisp, the castle’s ordinary spell formations and its cannons boomed out. The spell formations fired webs, catching the monsters in place, and the cannons ...
2024-12-15 15:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostIke lifted his hands to his mouth. “Mag!”
Feathers drifted down from overhead. Mag dropped from the sky and landed behind him. “What?”
“Go ask Relin about this round. Ask her ...
2024-12-14 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostIke tensed. Wisp stepped up beside him. Heavy footsteps pounded toward them. Trees crunched, and black smoke billowed into the sky in a column. A second group of fire monsters lurked out of the tre...
2024-12-13 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostIke leaped out of the round room and ran to the battlements. Fire blazed in the forest. Dark figures streamed through the trees, setting them alight as they passed. Their black, charcoal bodies bla...
2024-12-12 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIke ran through the woods. He headed toward Scar’s castle first. If she was still fighting, he could offer his aid. She hadn’t asked for any help, so he could only assume she was in fine shape ...
2024-12-11 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostRelin’s fist smashed into Ike’s shoulder. As it struck, Ike activated the skill. His shoulder went limp as her fist hit, and the rest of his body followed. The shockwave from her punch traveled...
2024-12-10 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostIke and Relin carried huge bags full of caltrops and carefully scattered them across the field. Ike noted the locations where they’d spread their traps carefully. As long as he memorized their lo...
2024-12-09 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostIke showed Wisp to the river. She quickly set about making herself at home, testing the various trees’ strength for use as the primary poles of her future web. He watched her work for a while, bu...
2024-12-08 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a round room just off the battlements with arrow-slit windows pointing in all directions. Ike had no idea what the purpose of it was, but it was big enough to fit the four of them, and it...
2024-12-07 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt had seemed simple to Ike. If he couldn’t cut through the pigwoman, then why bother cutting at all? There was more than one way to skin a cat… or in this case, cook a pig. If he couldn’t bu...
2024-12-06 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Yeah? What do you need?” Wisp asked.
“Listen…” Ike explained his plan to her. At the end, he paused. “And can you get Mag over here? We’re going to need an extra layer of distr...
2024-12-05 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostIke struck.
His blade flashed upward. A fierce wall of sword energy flew out. All the power he’d gathered surged, pouring into that one strike. It raced toward the spear and cut into its sh...
2024-12-04 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostIke raced toward Wisp’s voice. The boarmen loomed in the forest, each at least as large as the one Ike had dueled. This time, he wasted no time. Ike activated Storm Clad and tightened his grip on...
2024-12-03 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe earth shook. A huge shadow loomed in between the trees. All the other boarmen had been piglets compared to this monstrosity. His form rippled with muscle. His serrated tusks thrust feet from hi...
2024-12-02 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe members of the Old Guard ran to the ramparts. They stood in a sharp line, waiting for something. Relin stepped out in front of them, hands behind her back. She looked them over. “You all know...
2024-12-01 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWisp cleared her throat. She looked down at the crowd gathered outside the gates, deliberately not looking at Ike. “What happens if I don’t bring the boss out?”
“We’ll leave. And yo...
2024-11-30 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe third castle, like the second, was still rising when he arrived. He gazed up at it, hands on his hips. Was it Rufus, or was it Vi? Either way, he had to be on his guard. Compared to Scar, he tr...
2024-11-29 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe second castle wasn’t far, when he was running at the top of his speed. He didn’t bother activating Lightning Dash, but it didn’t matter. Now that he was Rank 3, his ordinary speed already...
2024-11-28 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Good morning. How’s it going?” Ike greeted the final two members of Relin’s troupe. By elimination, these two had to be Mars and Nett, though he had no idea which was which, just from look...
2024-11-27 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“So… how do you guys work?” Ike asked.
Fflyn blinked. “What?”
“You’re part of this trial, right? Like that young man I had a conversation with in the dinner trial. What ar...
2024-11-26 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostSunlight beamed down. Ike blinked it away, supremely unused to bright sunlight after so long in the centipede caves. He stepped out onto rough-hewn stone. The blocks were worn down the center of th...
2024-11-25 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostColin stood over Levi. He grabbed at the pieces, lost. “Levi. Levi!”
The familiar sensation of blood and life leaking out of him came over Levi. He tried to smile, but couldn’t. It...
2024-11-24 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe sharp object surged toward them. It filled up the entire cavern, its sharp tip centered on the cave, but if they stood still, it would crush them as it passed anyways.
Wisp’s arm tighte...
2024-11-24 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostKai stared at Levi. Levi stared at Kai.
“…So, are you betraying Vox, or are we both fighting him together?” Levi asked.
Kai thought for a moment, then nodded. “Let’s take him ...
2024-11-23 20:06:28 +0000 UTC View PostIke clenched the skill tight. Bright light swirled around his fist, and the skill poured into his body, warm and right. He drew it into his core and circulated his aether, unable to entire...
2024-11-23 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostLevi slashed open the giant’s jugular. Blood blasted off, so fiercely pressurized that even Levi, fully braced between the Spinal Cord and Handy, flew off. He tumbled across the ground, pushed al...
2024-11-22 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostWisp plunged. Ike waited, his sword at the ready. Shawn’s weight clung to her. He’d always been on the inside before, but from the outside, it was far clearer than he’d expected. Her expressi...
2024-11-22 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostMag reached the centipede grubs first. He transformed into his beast form in midair and swooped the grubs, snatching up fistfuls in his claws and flapping back up into the air. Seconds later, Wisp ...
2024-11-21 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHand-over-Handy, unhooking the Spinal Cord just to hook it in higher, Levi crawled up the giant’s back. Down below, Kai slashed at its feet. He darted in and dealt a heavy blow to its pinky, one ...
2024-11-20 17:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post