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57. Waiting Out the Storm

The three of them sat in the cave, waiting for the storm to pass. Wind howled by the entrance, and rain splattered over the stone. Deep in the cave, though, it remained warm and dry. The other wolf...

56. Too Much Mana

He dashed on, dragged over the land by his skills, shooting lightning in all directions. Overhead, clouds gathered, and rain began to fall. The more he ran, the darker the clouds grew. Flashes of l...

55. Rooster Skills

“Let’s find these skills,” Ike muttered.

He started with the legs. At the thigh, a strange orb met his fingertips. He sliced it open and revealed another green skill orb. This one was c...

54. Twin Lightning Bolts

Loup leaped into the air and dropped down on the rooster’s head. She opened her mouth. Bright white light shone in her throat. She lowered her head, and thunder boomed as white light slammed into...

53. Fist of the Rooster

Loup slunk through the forest, searching after a scent trail. Ike followed after her. By now, picking his steps through the forest came as an instinct. He couldn’t move as quietly as Loup, but he...

52. Chickens for Days

The next few days blended together, each one the same as the last. In the mornings, at the crack of dawn, he and Loup rose from their slumber and took to the forest. They hunted chicken until night...

51. Hunting Like the Wolf

Loup launched out of the forest. Ike charged at the same time, closing in on it from the front. The chicken whirled to face Loup. It leaped into the air and kicked at her face. Loup jumped back, do...

50. Chicken Dreams

Between Ike and Loup, the two of them managed to finish the whole roast chicken in one night. Ike laid on his back under the stars, a hand on his stomach, gazing up at the sky. He let out a satisfi...

49. Gold Leg Orbs

Ike stared at the skill orb for a moment, struck dumb. Realizing he was just sitting there like an idiot, he wiped his mouth, stood, and walked over to pick it up, carrying the giant chicken leg wi...

48. Roast Chicken

The chicken turned slowly on a spit, roasting over a bonfire of deadwood Ike had found easily in the untouched forest. He’d crafted the spit out of the fresh green tree the chicken had downed. It...

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47. Beware of (Giant) Chicken

As the chicken settled down to sleep, Ike’s eyes widened. He lifted onto his toes and lunged.

Branches snapped under his feet. Leaves crackled. Vines tore. The chicken startled from its doz...

46. Tasty Food

That morning, Ike set off, following the tracks yet again. Loup woke up as he was packing up, gave a great yawn, and vanished off into the forest with no explanation. Ike watched her go, then shrug...

45. Depths

Water splashed. Ike landed on the final step and looked back up. The waterfall towered over him, seemingly unreachably high. He saluted to it, saying farewell to his campsite. “Hopefully, I won�...

44. Camping Out

Days passed. Ike camped out by the edge of the waterfall, slowly recovering his mana using Rosamund’s head. The wolf came around every now and again. It kept its distance, wary of him. A few time...

43. I Want a Dog

The wolf squirmed in his grasp, trying to wriggle free. The thick, loose fur around its neck gave it some wiggling room, and its eyes widened. It twisted harder than before. Ike’s grasp slipped.<...

42. Hunt, Hunted

The wolf leaped toward the tent’s flaps. Ike tensed, watching it drop toward the space outside the tent. Toward his final trap.

It slammed its feet down, inches before his trap. Its paws sl...

41. Silver Wolf

Ike sat at the edge of the waterfall, reading Orin’s guide for a bit. At last, he stood, brushing off his pants. Bustling around the edge of the waterfall, he set up his camp for the night. He pu...

40. Onward

In the end, he left the body behind, inverted and stuck between the rocks. There was no convenient way to free it from the rocks without risking serious injury, and once he did, the likelihood of l...

39. Black Liquid

Ike thought for a minute, looking at the doll body. There were three large gaps. One at the neck, where its head wasn’t. One at the stomach. One on the side of the body. Of the three gaps, he cou...

38. Come Get Them

“Come and get them!” Ike threw his entrails into the air.

Rosamund gasped. She ran in, lifting her hands as if to catch the rain.

The second she turned away from him, Ike charged. H...

37. What Remains

“Rosamund.”

He didn’t know how. He didn’t know what. He only knew that his life was in danger, and the form which that danger took. The monster. The shattered doll Rosamund had become...

36. Follow

Scrrr. Like nails on a blackboard, porcelain dragged over stone.

Ike glanced back. A puddle of dark fluid remained, but no body. Ice jolted through his veins. He hobbled faster. His ...

35. Into the Abyss

Holding onto Rosamund’s collar, Ike plummeted into the Abyss. Rosamund slapped his hand away. Ike released her, and she kicked away from him and threw her hand out. A rose appeared, but as soon a...

34. Storm Wolf

The wolves leaped at Ike. Ike raised his sword. The higher wolf crashed into it nose-first and fell back, crying in pain. The lower wolf smashed into his ankles, throwing its weight against his bod...

33. The Deepest Woods

Ike walked through the woods, following Orin’s directions to the Fulgur-Loups as best he could. He’d tried wearing the second toad armor backward, but the combined stiffness made it too stiff t...

32. To Hunt a Wolf

The toads dangled from a tree, strung up by the back paws. Blood drained out their necks, dripping onto the ground. Ike worked to skin the toad, slicing it open with his razor.

Behind him, Ro...

31. Giant Toad

Looming large over the forest, so large it blocked out the sun, the enormous toad lifted a claw to crush Ike.

Ike turned and ran. He sprinted toward the lake, away from the toad. The huge cla...

30. Glut

The toads leaped at Ike from all sides. Across the pond, the toads jumped at Rosamund and her handmaids. Rosamund shrieked in horror. “Get it off! Get it away from me!”

Ike put them to th...

29. Toad Hunting

They walked through the forest. Sunlight dappled the path before them, and a gentle wind blew. Ike consulted Orin’s book again and frowned. The man had a knack for giving the worst directions, an...