There was no more pain, at least nothing physical.
Melmarc just stared. He was reading the notifications or anything like that. He was merely staring. As if knowing it had lost his interest, the notifications disappeared.
After a while...
2024-01-29 06:08:06 +0000 UTC View PostThere is often a cold touch to death, a vivid reminding that the world is capable of loss. To most it manifests itself in a cold chill, a mental blanket of trepidation and fearful realization. Perhaps it is in the understanding that mortality come...
2024-01-29 06:01:38 +0000 UTC View PostSix days into their march they were going three thousand six hundred priests strong, and at most, seven one-thousand-man generals. At over ten thousand men strong—priest horses ridden by white cassocks leading war horses ridden by black armor—...
2024-01-29 05:55:41 +0000 UTC View Post“What’s happening right now?”
Zed ignored Chris’ whining. As long as he had Oliver following him, he was more than certain Chris and Ash would be in tow.
He’d gone back only to grab Oliver by the wrist and pull him along. Oli...
2024-01-29 05:49:16 +0000 UTC View PostThey rode hard for five days. During the day they pushed the horses as far as they could go, and at night they set up camp anywhere they found themselves between cities.
They left Ardin six hundred priests strong under the command of two rev...
2024-01-26 05:47:29 +0000 UTC View PostIt was strange not to hear the rushing sound of the wind in her ear as she ran through the building.
Gunag had said Oden had done something stupid, and while Tao Mei refused to believe it, Gunag had already proven to be trustworthy since the...
2024-01-26 05:44:17 +0000 UTC View PostAsh stared down at an array of brass knuckles.
Oliver was looking over her shoulders. “Too rusty, don’t you think?”
She shrugged. “Was just curious, Ollie.”
“Maybe. But haven’t you ever wondered what it would feel l...
2024-01-26 05:38:03 +0000 UTC View PostArk had returned with one of many comics in his hand. Melmarc didn’t recognize it so it was most likely a new one.
Spitfire was still staring at him and his scar still itched.
Ark took one look at Spitfire and laughed.
“I lea...
2024-01-26 05:31:21 +0000 UTC View PostSurprisingly, uncle Dorthna was more than happy to let Melmarc go on the excursion. He didn’t even give it much thought.
Melmarc asked when he got home, Dorthna tapped his cheek with a finger for all of two seconds and said yes.
“W...
2024-01-26 05:21:29 +0000 UTC View PostThere weren’t a lot of Delvers who were Mages. Perhaps fifteen… maybe twenty. Twenty-five would definitely be stretching it.
The Class was one of the rare classes, and it had the least known information, right next to a class called Unbo...
2024-01-26 05:18:22 +0000 UTC View PostMost Reverend Father Bratvi Arrufa was a muscled, middle aged man with a clean shaved head. When he spoke people were forced to listen. His pale skin marked his heritage as somewhere not within the realm which made him a compelling sight, and his ...
2024-01-25 05:45:08 +0000 UTC View PostVelroo stood as still as an unmoving mountain, all his skills and power and command wound tightly into his core.
He’d been standing here for days without food or water. At his level of authority, he needed none of those to survive. He coul...
2024-01-25 05:40:43 +0000 UTC View PostArk was more than happy to announce very early the next morning that his class was Unranked, and his Growth Potential was B-rank before going back to bed. Though, to be fair, Melmarc didn’t know if he had even gone to sleep at all.
By gene...
2024-01-25 04:42:56 +0000 UTC View PostBoston squeezed the trigger and Zed was already moving.
The lady he had been oppressing and had almost crawled her way through the gate let out a terrified scream.
Zed ducked to the side. The gun aimed at him had not been fired, but he...
2024-01-25 04:38:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt was late into the hours of the night, or early into the hours of the morning, depending on what type of person was reading the clock.
Melmarc had fallen asleep on the dining table while coming to terms with the fact that he wasn’t a bad...
2024-01-23 05:45:21 +0000 UTC View Post“You’ve got to be kidding me.”
Seth darted away from the wide swing of a shroud wraith. Clawed hands clawing through the air were his head had once been. Gunag’s words registered in his mind but he ignored it as he turned his handgun...
2024-01-23 05:40:42 +0000 UTC View PostEzril’s return to the cathedral was welcomed just as was the return of the prodigal son in the scriptures; with threats of wrath and fury which were followed through.
He was received at the end of drawn Sunders of varying designs, and disp...
2024-01-23 05:37:50 +0000 UTC View PostZed and the others made their way down the hill and into the city below.
The city looked below as it did above. Tightly packed and somehow overcrowded. The first thing Zed noticed as they strolled into the city was the smell.
“That...
2024-01-23 05:29:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Mel, please stop looking up ‘demon lord class’ on the internet. We already know what you’re going to get.”
“There might be something. I’m sure of it.”
“You’re already on page ten. All you’re getting are anime ref...
2024-01-22 05:07:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe world was cold here was cold. It was like walking in the faintness of winter’s approach.
As annoying as it was, it was acceptable. Everything between realms was cold.
However, the true annoyance did not lie in the temperature. It...
2024-01-22 05:03:05 +0000 UTC View PostDinma had said nothing in the past hour. When they walked through the gates of the city, he had paid her entrance fee while she looked around. Despite the hood concealing most of her face, she leaned back to take in the buildings and people around...
2024-01-22 04:57:58 +0000 UTC View PostThey hijacked two cars.
The first car had been easy to access. After much posturing on Oliver’s part, and the lie that had broken Kid’s heart, he’d broken the window and slipped into the car.
Apparently, he’d postured because w...
2024-01-22 04:45:34 +0000 UTC View PostIt was into the early days of January when they found out what type of creature Spitfire was.
The winter snow still blanketed the ground outside, suffocating the grass and chilling the air. It was a vacation period so there was no school. Ev...
2024-01-19 05:56:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dead Accords.
Not much was known of them. Their name was a product of an agreement between the powers of the world. But what they really were was something different. According to what everyone learnt, the world had once held seven conti...
2024-01-19 05:51:51 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: I'm sorry.
Shaking his head in refusal Ezril almost stepped away in disagreement with reality. His throat grew dry, choked up, and his eyes stung. He didn’t fight it. He let the tears well up as he reache...
2024-01-19 05:47:55 +0000 UTC View PostTheir walk through the forest was relatively quiet.
The Olympians had nothing to say. Daniel led and they simply followed, while Zed and his group walked behind.
“Aren’t you the one who knows the way?” Shanine asked after a while...
2024-01-19 05:41:13 +0000 UTC View PostIt was not a Hydra, a wyrm, a basilisk…
Or an angel.
The last one had gotten a good laugh out of Melmarc’s uncle. It was a full belly laugh, satisfyingly it was not the roll-of-the-chair laugh that was their uncle’s trade mark. 2024-01-18 05:01:13 +0000 UTC View Post
When the others came halfway up the crater, Zed still had his arm around his new friend.
He waved at the others casually as they approached.
“You don’t look like someone who should be waving casually.” Ronda was giving him a test...
2024-01-18 04:57:47 +0000 UTC View PostClad in his hooded cassock, Sunders and bow securely strapped in place, and his quiver hanging low on his hip, Ezril left the hotel. When he relinquished his room key to the man behind the table at the entrance, the man said nothing, choosing to r...
2024-01-18 04:42:32 +0000 UTC View PostFire crackled with the effervescent snapping of burning wood. It rested as small as a campfire in a fire place that had not been in Jim’s office the last time Seth was there.
Today he stood before Jim’s desk with hands behind him and leg...
2024-01-18 04:35:15 +0000 UTC View Post