Malcolm Tent

Call of the Void chapter 19

Wish upon the Stars chapter 1049

After reincarnating Brad, we descended into the pit with no issue. The spikes had all vanished, and the whole place just felt…empty. Which was an odd thought to have about a hole in the ground, but even more than most holes, Brad’s former pit ...

Secret Ending chapter 148

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Wish upon the Stars chapter 1048

Arriving at the pit wasn’t hard. The orangutans had, I suspected, been sent to bring us there directly after we’d spent hours mapping things out. The pit had become hungry, and was tired of waiting for its food to step into its salivating maw....

Secret Ending chapter 147

Wish upon the Stars chapter 1047

“You know, you scare me,” I said to Dayna conversationally as I stared up at the giant bronze lantern fish pinned to a large nearby tree. This was the third time I’d felt the need to mention that to her, but the pincushion she had made of th...

Call of the Void chapter 18

Wish upon the Stars chapter 1046

Despite the unhappiness, they DID leave most of their forces inside my Domain. Dayna and I stepped out with the two leaders (Renier and Edward, or blue and red respectively) into the castle proper. Renier, who had arrived first and was nominally i...

Secret Ending chapter 146

Wish upon the Stars chapter 1045

No one was amused by my banter, sadly. Their weapons all came up (spears mostly, but made of a weird hooked crystal with an energy sphere floating inside the hook) and they levelled them at me pointedly. “Silence!” screamed one of them. “Sta...

Call of the Void chapter 17

Wish upon the Stars chapter 1044

The first thing I noticed about the Void was the power. Not like it gave me strength or anything like that. It just returned what so many places in realspace had taken. The Void wasn’t a place, not really. Not was it exactly the absence of place...

Secret Ending chapter 145

Wish upon the Stars chapter 1043

I stood among my people. That was really the only way to describe it. I wasn’t feeling particularly noble or leaderly at the moment though, just…safe. I was with family. I was loved. And it was ending. It was time to go out on my own, to do my...

Secret Ending chapter 144

Wish upon the Stars chapter 1042

I was a long night, and by the time I dragged myself off to bed, my head was ringing with the endless waves of congratulations, ass kissing, and doubletalk. But I still found time (with the help of Piece of Mind) to consider exactly what I could d...

Call of the Void chapter 16

Wish upon the Stars chapter 1041

Changes. That was the first thing I noticed. Not just the recent ones, but all the changes I’d gone through. It had been years now, since I started this journey, and in those years, I’d changed so much. Rank-ups, abilities, my Domain, and now ...

Secret Ending chapter 143

Wish upon the Stars chapter 1040

We headed to the terminal to make our way to the back palace. Instead of heading to the same place as the sword dance symposium though, we made our way through the hallways until we got to an unassuming looking stairway. “You’ll be going up th...

Call of the Void chapter 15

Wish upon the Stars chapter 1039

The next morning came with a surprising lack of pomp OR circumstance. I woke up, rolled out of bed, and then just kind of…sat there. Today was the day. My coronation. My ascension to Wishmaster. 

Despite having known it was coming, ha...

Secret Ending chapter 142

Wish upon the Stars chapter 1038

After I finished talking to the old man, I went home and went to bed. I was…so exhausted. The kind of exhausted where you actually pass tired and loop back around to be being energetic, only with a brain that works hilariously badly for any comp...

Secret Ending chapter 141

Wish upon the Stars chapter 1037

Power. A recurring theme in my life for the last few years. More than any other, honestly. Love, family, choice, I’d grappled with some heavy things in my time as an Ascendant. But power was perhaps the heaviest. What it meant. What it required....

Call of the Void chapter 14

Wish upon the Stars chapter 1036

Extending my Domain inside the core turned out to be effortless. I’d half expected to run into trouble, given the weird interactions between Domains and the Void. The old man told me I was a moron, because I’d been opening my Domain in the Wis...

Secret Ending chapter 140

Wish upon the Stars chapter 1035

We emerged from the portal back out of the council chamber, into the same hallway we’d entered from. The council was waiting for us. As were my parents, my grandparents, and several other people, including the Moonlight Pope and Uncle Sam. As so...