The sound of laughter filled the air, mingling with the slowly dying heat. The air was filled with the orange light of fire.
Melmarc rolled on his side, laughter spilling from his lips and winced. Pain flared in his side so terribly that he ...
2025-01-05 00:25:23 +0000 UTC View PostIt had been just over a week since their parents had shown them the training ground that was only accessible through the garden in the backyard. Even though there was no proof of it, Melmarc liked to think of the space as a training ground located...
2024-12-31 01:38:04 +0000 UTC View PostLooking around, Ruth couldn’t help the frown that touched her lips. “Your country should learn to make up its mind. It’s either hot or cold, it can’t be in between.”
Inevitability only chuckled. “The last time I checked, I’m no...
2024-12-25 23:42:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Mom.”
Melmarc’s mom gave him a smile. “Yes, Mel?”
Removing his eyes from his mother, Melmarc looked down at where their hands met, hers holding his, then back at the notification in front of him.
[Dormant Oath detected...
2024-12-23 12:13:55 +0000 UTC View PostToday, he would live or he would die. Valdan knew this. There were no conversations to be had, no philosophical ramblings. Every day was a day a person could live or die, but every day is not a day that a person is so visually aware of it.
V...
2024-12-16 17:45:25 +0000 UTC View PostValdan stood with a sword covered in blood. Despite how many times he’d swung it in an arc, he just couldn’t get rid of the blood.
Heaving, he took in his surroundings. The black sand was not stained with blood as he had expected. For so...
2024-12-12 23:18:01 +0000 UTC View PostAll nine assailants stood before Valdan. The distance between him and them was so large that it would be impossible to cross it without them noticing.
The technique?
Lord Lacheart had taught him two incomplete techniques. One ...
2024-12-09 23:18:00 +0000 UTC View Post“If this is what you wish for, then come, child,” the [Sage] said in an unbothered tone, taking another step forward. “Defy me.”
Aiden stared at the [Sage]. Regressor or not, granted the secrets of the universe or not, he was not one...
2024-12-05 23:18:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe soft hiss of metal against a whetstone slipped through the gentle evening air. The cadence was precise, each interval flowing easily.
The sun was somewhere in the horizon and the clouds were dowsed in the orange blood of the dying day as...
2024-12-02 23:47:46 +0000 UTC View PostAiden hummed a tune as he strolled down the streets of the capital city. It was an old song from a ballad he knew about a lady who’d cheated on her husband with one of the gods only to find out that her husband was a god, too.
The outcome ...
2024-12-01 09:29:19 +0000 UTC View PostMelmarc sat down thinking about it, really thinking about it.
What did he really want to be?
“And please don’t say mana based,” Uncle Dorthna chipped in.
“I wasn’t going to,” Melmarc said. “But why?”
“Beca...
2024-11-28 23:18:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Is it still pending?” Melmarc’s mother asked.
Even though Melmarc knew the answer, he still pulled up his interface to be sure. He thought of the notification that he was looking for and it appeared in front of him without any delay.<...
2024-11-27 23:18:00 +0000 UTC View Post“You haven’t been very motherly these past few days.”
Aurora’s eyes darkened as she turned them on Dorthna. “What?”
A smile almost touched Dorthna’s lips but he stopped it. It was always interesting to see how she hovered...
2024-11-23 06:38:21 +0000 UTC View PostMorning found Aiden lying quietly on his soft bed. It was comfortable as far as comfort went. It was also larger than the one he’d been given in the Naranoff household which, to him, was interesting that he was paying attention to it.
He h...
2024-11-18 23:18:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe sound of clashing metal seemed muffled in the evening air.
Dull.
Aiden moved to the side, blade twirling as he moved to strike again. He went for his opponent’s weapon and not the opponent himself. Blades clashed again, ...
2024-11-16 04:02:08 +0000 UTC View PostAiden’s jaw dropped at the [Sage’s] words.
A little too proud of himself, Brandis sat back, arms folded over his chest with a self-accomplished smile. From what he knew, the [Sage] had only ever taught him and his father.
The man, ...
2024-11-14 23:18:00 +0000 UTC View PostAiden’s blackened hand shot after the [Sage’s] face the moment his interface popped up.
Aiden willed his hand to stop but it was as effective as commanding the wind. The [Sage] jerked in surprise and stepped away from him. Actually, Aide...
2024-11-14 10:33:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe slow caress of uncertainty filled the room. It crawled all over the walls and whispered in the open pages of the documents strewn across the table.
It had been a week since the Oath of Madness had found the [August Intruder]. A week sinc...
2024-11-12 13:24:43 +0000 UTC View PostDorthna had died once. That was what Melmarc had gotten from his uncle’s answer regarding the reason his indicator was red and grey instead of just one color like every other persons.
I had to kill Caldath twice, he thought as he ...
2024-11-10 13:56:18 +0000 UTC View PostBread tasted like bread. A part of Melmarc was disappointed to find out as he took another bite of his bread. He’d been expecting things to be different, in a manner, even if a little bit. It felt like starving for so long and looking forward to...
2024-11-08 00:41:45 +0000 UTC View PostAurora took a left turn down a street she didn’t know. Turning the steering wheel with a single hand, she remembered how much it irked David, her husband. He never said anything whenever she did it, but she’d grown to notice over the years. 2024-11-04 05:33:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Melmarc leaned slightly forward to look at Ark’s injury even though he didn’t have to. Ark called it a stab wound but what Melmarc was looking at was a massive scar. It would only classify as a stab wound if someone had run him through with a ...
2024-11-01 00:49:50 +0000 UTC View PostBrandis listened patiently as Aiden told his story of what had happened to him since leaving the castle.
Aiden told him of the effect of the first teleportation, how he had arrived on the other side covered in blood and confusion. A full rec...
2024-10-28 23:18:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Looks very intriguing.” Aiden turned his hand one way, then the other. “Also makes me look deadly.”
“There is nothing intriguing about it,” Valdan said with a frown. “We should be talking to [Mages], [Alchemists]. Anyone with ...
2024-10-27 23:18:01 +0000 UTC View PostDark walls surrounded the place, stained with bioluminescent plants. Algae and moss of different kinds stained the walls, creeping up from the ground. If not for the orb of light he’d come with, the light within the cave would’ve been annoying...
2024-10-26 10:40:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe sun was nowhere in the sky, but the sky was soft with the touch of daybreak. Aiden’s first touch of concern was the fact that Vanisi had not been the one to wake him up. He could’ve chucked it up to was had happened in the early hours of t...
2024-10-23 11:22:25 +0000 UTC View Post“Lord Lacheart?”
Things were not adding up. Aiden put his mind to work, the little that he could salvage from the fact that Vanisi worked for the Order. It had taken a while before Brandis had informed the nobles of him and the others. 2024-10-21 19:51:47 +0000 UTC View Post
The cover of the book was as hard as Melmarc remembered as he ran a finger over it. It was one of Ark’s old story books. It was a picture book not a comic book as Ark had always pointed out when they were younger.
It was a story of Dark Mi...
2024-10-19 12:23:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe team helped with loading Melmarc’s things in the car. It was quick and precise. Nobody grumbled and nobody complained. It was early into the morning, late enough that you could sense the touch of daybreak on the horizon. So they worked in re...
2024-10-17 05:13:30 +0000 UTC View Post“Mel,” Melmarc’s father said, voice confused. “What did you just do?”
The answer to the question was completely beyond Melmarc’s knowledge. But he had an answer, so he gave it hoping that it would make sense to his fathe...
2024-10-13 09:48:35 +0000 UTC View Post