The containment facility is only about thirty feet wide, so my skills are strong enough to rock the very foundation of this place. I have half a mind to take this fight outside, away from the still-prone Sierra, but I’m running out of time and m...
2023-05-20 08:09:20 +0000 UTC View PostSierra, Adrian, Simon, and Rin are all within a hundred feet of each other. They’re at the edge of the range of Locate Person, barely within range of my skill, but they’re up there somewhere. The “levels” underneath me hav...
2023-05-18 07:46:24 +0000 UTC View PostI think back to the unfathomably powerful being that dragged me into its personal world. I think of the overwhelming force that its mere presence in a soulspace had, of the monsters it unleashed upon us even hundreds of miles away.
There is ...
2023-05-17 08:19:18 +0000 UTC View PostWith one mockery of a god dead and another one subdued, I have a lot more power to bring to bear.
I need to figure out what to do with it.
A glance up at the ceiling reveals that yes, it’s starting to cave in. Pieces of rubble tumble...
2023-05-15 08:08:42 +0000 UTC View PostOh, now this is interesting.
My passenger doesn’t react to the new skills, but this is… truly something.
Heretic is a trait, and it doesn’t seem terribly interesting at first. The others all do something...
2023-05-12 08:56:16 +0000 UTC View PostYou may also evolve your class.
Try as I might, the text won’t go away. The voices, at least, only speak every now and again rather than remaining as a constant drone in my head.
I wonder if there’s any merit in li...
2023-05-11 07:31:17 +0000 UTC View Post“My… people?” the dweller asks, confused.
I activate a Blood Echo and end my control over her instantly, using Shape Blood on the resulting mass of fluid in order to get a general sense of what’s aro...
2023-05-08 00:01:31 +0000 UTC View PostSteel punches through the center of my back and out from where a human heart would be. The sensation of being stabbed in the chest is getting uncomfortably familiar.
Lethal in a human. Still lethal for me, but not immediately.
Instinct...
2023-05-05 00:44:31 +0000 UTC View Post“Welcome to Tsubera!” Sierra says, gesturing grandly at the metropolis around us. “The capital city of Novarath, to be precise.”
“You can drop the cheeriness,” Adrian grumbles. “This place is a shitheap.”
Getting around...
2023-05-03 04:03:15 +0000 UTC View Post“Four of them got away,” I sigh, bunching up my undershirt and wringing it. Seawater splashes to the deck of the ferry, joining the rest of the slowly-draining deluge. Adrian uses his skills to send the flood overboard, but there’s so much w...
2023-05-01 23:53:08 +0000 UTC View PostMy Diamond tier Devour is an offensive skill now, but it’s still stuck at level 1. I didn’t open with it because I haven’t proved its effectiveness in battle yet.
Its utility, however, is vastly improved from what I’...
2023-04-28 17:35:15 +0000 UTC View PostThree days into our boat ride, I’ve come to the realization that I deeply dislike enclosed spaces that don’t allow any opportunity for advancement.
That’s not to say that this place is particularly drab or anything—far from it. If I ...
2023-04-27 08:06:12 +0000 UTC View PostLothel, the Crowned City
“We have sent the First Elite Company into fire and flame. We have sent them to end wars before they can start. We have sent them into a hell. You’re telling me they failed?”
“...
2023-04-25 06:37:41 +0000 UTC View PostPatch Notes: chapter 44's ending has been slightly tweaked to reflect skill ups
I open my eyes to find myself looking into a sharp green stare. For a second, I wonder why Marie’s gaze holds so much concern for me. Before p...
2023-04-23 07:11:37 +0000 UTC View PostI won’t let this opportunity go to waste.
As branches crumble away under the force of her magic, I carry myself forward, lifting my broken body on a platform of blood. Demonic Heritage does what it can to keep me together,...
2023-04-21 07:10:27 +0000 UTC View PostDemonic Heritage is beginning to work, but healing comes slowly. It’s not going to repair me to a fully functional state before I make my way to the tree. As soon as I enter combat again, the trait is going to become inactive. 2023-04-19 04:47:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Irrational hatred fills my body, pointed rage directing me to abandon my spot and kill the woman who’s partially responsible for shaping me into what I am, but I separate myself from the anger and prepare to fight the demons encircling me.
I tumble ever deeper into the watery darkness, a prisoner in my own body.
At the surface, something wearing my skin propels itself forward.
No. The thing driving me is every bit as Evelyn as I am, just… made more. As much as I hate t...
2023-04-13 16:09:22 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Evelyn literally melts before her and dives towards their mutual adversary, Sierra is close behind. She glances once at Adrian. He’s already halfway to the tree, leaving the Blue Mage and the Relentless Demon behind him. Jets of water prope...
2023-04-12 05:38:53 +0000 UTC View PostThis chapter may be edited before being posted. If you've got feedback, I welcome it.
Patch notes 4/9 1:05 AM EST: Added detail to the ending.
The upgraded skill isn’t the only source of power coursi...
2023-04-09 01:09:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs it turns out, the only last words the bowman has to offer me consist of incoherent screaming.
I cock my head. “I haven’t even set you on fire yet.”
That seems to spark the bowman into action. He draws and fires in one quick mo...
2023-04-08 05:44:09 +0000 UTC View PostNoren’s statement takes both of them off guard, though Adrian physically recoils while Sierra just tilts her head.
“So that’s how it is, then,” Sierra says neutrally, eyeing me. I have Bloodstep prep...
2023-04-06 06:27:37 +0000 UTC View PostIf the demons in the water weren’t terribly keen on attacking me before, they practically flee before me now. Using Wraithfire to its fullest extent is deeply draining on my magic power, which I need to keep my ...
2023-04-04 06:27:24 +0000 UTC View PostLeveling up begins to restore me to full health just like it’s done before, but it’s slower. I don’t think that the slowed healing has to do with my soul damage—last time I leveled up, my soul was severely damaged, and I still got a full h...
2023-04-01 21:59:14 +0000 UTC View PostRiver water has been splashing onto me this entire time, so the chill isn’t unexpected, but the sheer force of the Ravendale river throws me off, threatening to send me tumbling downriver.
The forty-foot barbed tentacle slicing through the...
2023-03-30 17:49:18 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a bit of a sticky situation. On the one hand, I’d much rather avoid having to avoid joining the company of men and women that very much want Evelyn Carnelian dead.
On the other, the Baron’s man’s tone brooks no argument. He’s...
2023-03-28 16:11:07 +0000 UTC View PostBloodstep makes me much faster than they can run, and a single usage of it no longer magically exhausts me, so I activate it immediately.
My first target is the Thief. All three of my enemies have basic classes, no evolution...
2023-03-27 16:04:37 +0000 UTC View PostI think neither Sierra nor Adrian have chosen to follow me—I planned on this, given that they’ve freshly recovered from demons taking up residence in their body—though I can’t bring myself to care.
Having allies is helpful, but I nee...
2023-03-26 16:07:38 +0000 UTC View Post“Much to discuss,” I say. “Does that, perhaps, include why these two are knocked out and…”
Possessed is the word that jumps to mind, but I let the sentence trail off.
“Corrupted, possessed, glassed,” Saph says, r...
2023-03-26 01:27:53 +0000 UTC View PostAh. That… changes things, doesn’t it? As it turns out, while I thought I had all the pieces to the puzzle, I was still missing one or two.
“Not a gang leader, then,” I mutter.
What does the role of baron entail here? Relevant p...
2023-03-25 16:02:51 +0000 UTC View Post