Elessar Lore

47 — Trial by Fire

As Alex meditated on his fight with the bloodmist assassin, the Vitality of his body wasn’t what he recalled most vividly. Yes, fighting with an injured body was a challenge; it required he push his body to its limits, but he’d done that befor...

46 — The Phoenix

Hey, I just wanna give a quick apology for bein

45 — The Sword

Nychta felt fire. The flames that made a pyre of the mountain around them; the boil that rose in Alex’s veins. Most of all, she felt the fire slumbering dormant in his soul. Each time he swung her, each time she clashed with opposing steel, a fl...

Update

Hey ya'll, just want to let you guys know the chapter will be a few days late this week. Sorry about that. With the chapter I posted last week, we've actually gone through my backlog.

Now, this isn't too big a deal. I have the rest of book ...

44 — The girl

Gregorian Calendar, 1903
Southern Carpathian Mountains
135 Years before System Reset

As far back as the girl could remember, there’d been chains. They wrapped her wrists and ankles, trapping her to this dark cavern. ...

43 — The Bloodmist Assassin

From within the mists, the sheer scale of the Misting Valleys was obscured. The summits of mountains and the depths of its passages were both hidden, but this afternoon, it wasn’t just that. Rather than a sea of white, the mists were hazed over ...

42 — In the Dark

Alex’s soul returned to his body. He lay slumped on the altar in the middle of the room’s runic formation. Other than the moon, which was visible through an unfathomably deep-dug oculus, his surroundings were dark. The runic light on the forma...

41 — The World Before

Heya! Chapter 31 which I'm releasing on RR this week is a short one, so I'll be releasing 32 tomorrow to make up for that, and of course that means 42 will be coming up tomorrow on Patreon so look forward to that ^^

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Alex heard so...

40 — A Nightmare

Hey! Quick note: this chapter's got some pretty rough content, enough to warrant a TW for some. Patreon doen't let me spoiler mark text though, so I'll have those down at the bottom of this chapter for folks who'd appreciate it.

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39 — But a Dream

“They’ve promised that dreams can come true, but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Alex jolted awake, gasping and sweating. He hugged himsel...

38 — Sun Kissed

Update: Hey guys, the next and final chapter I

37 — Confessions

Alex’s indignant march took a detour when he spotted a line of groggy MCTC personnel. Pretending he was one of them, he lined up too, and the girl at the window cast him a skeptical look before handing him his coffee. 

He took a sip; ...

36 — The Island of Children

Integration 2nd Year
Atlantic Ocean, Earth
13 Years, 7 Months Before System Reset

The days had passed as noisily as Alex expected. It had started when Eric climbed the ladder to his bunk and tried whacking him in the f...

35 — Lost Souls

Alex’s fall down the abyss stretched an eternity. The wind that ruffled his clothes and lashed his wound were gone. With it, so too disappeared all signifiers that he was really there. Gravity upturned in his stomach. Yet his body became light a...

34 — Omen

The crow sailed through currents of mist, perching atop twisted trees as she waited for Alex. He hiked up the mountain, wary, but not of wraiths, and not of monsters. Nothing with enough sense to detect him would come anywhere near right now. Omen...

33 — Witching Hour

The girl sped through the forest in Stealth, cursing Alex. Like damnation she was sticking around to fight that beast. And what—put her life in his trustworthy hands? He literally just confessed he couldn’t beat it! C...

32 — The Marsupial from Hell

Author's note: Hey, I decided to split the chapter I was working on in two cause it was getting long. 33 will be coming tomorrow, along with 34. 35 not far after. Sorry they've been coming at odd times. We're gonna be catching up to 10 ah...

31 — Angel's Remembrance

Heya! This one's gonna be a shorter one. Thought I might release it with the next chapter for a fuller read since that one's a bit on the longer side, but edits to 32 it aren't quite done. Just letting ya'll know so you don't get caught off guard,...

30 — A Recipe for Disaster

Alex saw the crow perched on the branch of a tree. She had feathers black as night and pure white eyes that saw farther than any living creature. Yes, the crow was alive. The chill down his spine made Alex entirely certain. Their eyes met. Her lim...

29 — Self-care

When Alex awoke, Gloomy was gone. He feared for a moment that she might’ve left him, that last night could've just been a dream. Maybe it would’ve been better if it was. But it wasn’t, so Gloomy must’ve been off in the mists. She’d let h...

28 — Blood Mists Part 2

Distantly, Alex knew this couldn’t be real. He walked as though in a dream, or perhaps a memory. Through an Earth wasted by war and bloodshed, a planet that no longer looked worth fighting for. Corpses littered his path: The enemy’s. His own. ...

27 — Blood Mists Pt 1

Quick Author note:

Heya! I decided this was one of those instances where less is more, so I ended up folding the first part into this chapter as all one chapter, and cutting some stuff for cohesion. It's still a pt 1 tho. I've left a "-+-" t...

26 — The Wandering Smith

Integration 2nd Year
New York, Earth
13 Years, 7 Months Before System Reset

When the System Apocalypse began, gradual terraformation reshaped Earth’s geography in monumental ways. Continents shifted, landmasses once ...

25 — Bond of Brothers

Alex was surrounded; the killing intent from his adversaries made him feel as though he were being pricked by chilled needles. But there was an important distinction to be made between Alex’s un-appraised “Dangersense” and real Dangersense. ...

24 — The Third Scenario

“Do any of you know the easiest way to conquer an enemy? Divide and conquer, people! It’s turning the enemy against themselves. I haven’t been able to get my hands on a copy of The Art of War since the apocalypse, but Sun Tzu was saying ...