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Ch. 65: Obsidian Golem

The golem continued sparking as Cass ran toward it and Alyx. She redirected arch after arch of lightning to the side. Where the lightning struck stone, monsters rose from the ground or emerged from...

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Ch. 64: The Seventh Floor

“I’m full,” Pellen announced a little while later.

Cass’s Focus has recovered too, but her Health was a long way off.


Stamina: 129/129

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Ch. 63: Loot

No longer possessed by the single-minded focus of demonic impulses, Cass finally had enough presence of mind to look around the room. 

The backroom reminded Cass of the science lab back ...

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Ch. 62: Identity

It was an interesting set of choices. Tempest Blade sounded like a better version of what she already had. Like Wind and Mana Blade, she could continue transforming her staff into a glaive. Better ...

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Ch. 61: Aftermath

Cass woke with a killer headache. Alyx, Marco, and Pellen all leaned over her. She was covered in the glowing purple ichor and still lying on top of the Keeper’s corpse. 

“Good, you...

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Ch. 60: The Crystal Keeper

Someone shouted her name. Her vision spun. What was happening?

Kill that thing, Salos hissed from her chest, feral and forceful. Devour it whole.

Cass blinked, her vis...

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Ch. 59: Madness

The space beyond was more dark, stone corridors. It went straight away from the opening Cass made. She closed the entry behind them so Fioreya couldn’t follow and they set out down it. 

<...

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Ch. 58: The Sixth Floor

Loot collected, resources reasonably recovered, the group—now made up of five—backtracked to the main path. With Alyx and Marco, they had little difficulty with the nest of snakes in the previo...

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Ch. 57: Rewards

Cass fixed up the remains of the campfire while Marco carried Pellen closer to the fire and laid her atop a sleeping mat from his pack.

 In a few minutes, all of them were seated around ...

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Ch. 56: The Cavalry

The wolf didn’t wait for them to regroup before lunging the nearest person. That was Alyx, who parried with an aura-shrouded blade. Their blades locked for a moment while the gophers and snakes r...

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Ch. 55: Time Remaining

Cass raced back toward the Pellen and the central circle. Only to run into a horde of gophers in between. 


Aventis Gopher (lvl 17) x3

Aventis Go...

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Ch. 54: Trove Trial

Time passed slowly, their Focus ticking up point by point. 

Cass? Salos’s voice flickered at the edge of Cass’s awareness. 

Salos? Cass called back.

<...

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Ch. 53: Pellen

A chest sat in the center of the next room. Sigils glowed around it in a wide circle to Cass’s ordinary vision and her Mana Sense. Trap Detection and Atmospheric Sense both had words to share as ...

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Ch. 52: Hide and Seek

The next room was filled with snakes. They coated the floor in a writhing mat. 


Silversoul Snake (lvl 15) x 57

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Ch. 51: Silversoul Snake

Time passed slowly as their resources recovered point by point and Pellen’s injuries closed up. They took turns dozing, but neither was truly comfortable enough to sleep. 

“What now?...

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Ch. 50: Ship of Theseus

Level Up!

+ 1 Dex

+ 1 End

+ 1 Wll

+ 1 Ala

+ 4 Free Points

<...

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Ch. 49: Reinforcements

Cass and Pellen settled on either side of the side room’s door, their fire set between them in front of the door, recovering their Focus and Health under the benefits of Beacon of Hearth and Home...

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Ch. 48: Locked Doors

Focus: 369/369


The time had come. Cass had to decide. No matter how she ran the risks and benefits, Option 4: “Go Find Some Treasure” came out the best. <...

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Ch. 47: Crocodiles

Cass started running. She didn’t know where she was going, just that she couldn’t stay here.

A bolt of lightning ripped through the air, sparking blue and white and illuminating the chasm...

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Ch. 46: Falling

Falling was only a problem if you couldn’t fly, as Cass was finding. She had fully expected the stomach twisting drop of the floor falling out from beneath her and nauseating free fall to follow....

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Ch. 45: Conflict

The tang of iron hung in the air of the next room. 

A body lay slumped against one wall. The stone doors across the way hung open, stairs leading down waiting beyond.

“The stairs...

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Ch. 44: Gophers

They continued in silence down the hall. Every room was full of more destroyed guards, their masks dented and beaten, their bodies mangled. 

Behind you! Salos shouted. 

...

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Ch. 43: Entrance

They stepped over the threshold of the storehouse doors and the change in the air was immediate and stark. The morning air in the arena had been cold but fresh, moist with the dew of a new day’s ...

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Ch. 42: Opening Ceremony

Cass and Marco followed Alyx into the coliseum’s arena the next morning. Salos sat on her shoulder, his tail curled around her neck. They all were dressed in their armor and armed with their weap...

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Ch. 41: The Workshop

Cass followed Alyx out of the manor and up the main road of the palatial hill, only to turn off the road a little further up.

The entrance was well kept, but the path quickly became overgrown...

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Ch. 40: Guestroom At Last

“Oh, Alacrity’s mercy!” Alyx exclaimed as Cass stepped into her guest room. The swordswoman shot up from the couch by the hearth and rushed to Cass’s side. “You’re alive. Where have you...

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Ch. 39: Madam of the House

A woman was standing outside the manor when Cass finally found her way to it. Identify called her a level 17 Human Servant, and she was dressed to match in simple, though good quality clothes. ...

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Ch. 38: Alyx: An Audience

“The lord wishes to see you,” Aldrick said with a bow of his head. He was a narrow-faced man in a fitted suit. He was her father’s head butler. 

Alyx looked between the darkening s...

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Ch. 37: The Library

Cass had mostly calmed down by the time she reached the library. Every sound was sharp and dangerous to her ears, every motion out of the corner of her eye a threat, but she was breathing normally,...

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Today's chapter

Apologies everyone, there was a mistake in the scheduling of chapter release today.

For reasons only the Aster of yesterday could possibly answer for you, I initially, incorrectly scheduled ...

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