After spending the last few weeks actively avoiding the truthseekers the best he could, it felt strange for Asher to actually be seeking them out for a change. Thankfully, unlike Eight and his slippery assassins, he had a pretty good idea of where he could find them.
The entire ordeal with the inky assassin had barely taken more than a few hours, which meant it was still the dead of night when Asher found himself standing in front of the small building Bordan and Clare had taken him to ...
2025-07-28 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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“This has got to be one of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen. Easily in the top three at the very least.”
Asher rolled his eyes and ignored Thunder as they continued waiting for the assassin to wake up. They’d stripped the man of everything on him but his underclothes and dripped the Lesser Restoration potion into his ears, as there would be little point in interrogating a deaf man who couldn’t hear them, but they hadn’t poured any of the valuable potion down his throat. T...
2025-07-25 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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As much as Vin wanted to dive straight into working on his newest spell, there was one more thing he needed to take care of. Something that had gotten put briefly to the wayside with the reveal of Golrim having been responsible for founding the Red Dawn and the following ambush they’d had to prepare for.
While Lumel went back to trying to figure out that last secret of the Underside that continued to elude her, Vin mulled over the passive point he’d earned for hitting level 35. His ...
2025-07-25 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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“This… this might not work quite as well as I thought it would,” Thunder admitted, shooting him a weak grin up from the floor.
Asher stared down at Draken’s head of internal security, who was currently stuck about halfway under Crush’s bed. After they’d agreed to let her tag along and she called in a handful of trusted elites to take her place and guard Draken while he slept, the three of them had quietly retreated back to Crush’s house to wait for an attempt on h...
2025-07-24 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Debriefing Spur on the events of the battle took up the rest of the morning, and Vin decided afterward that he needed some time to unwind. While Spur got started screening Trod with the truth-gem, Vin grabbed two lunches from the now infrequently-used mess hall and made his way over to the dungeon.
Eventually, he wanted to bring up the idea of Lumel joining him for an actual sit-down meal at one of Terra’s new restaurants, but today was definitely not that day. Vin didn’t want to fe...
2025-07-24 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Despite Golrim having explained everything and Vin knowing Curash was essentially an undercover agent, he couldn’t help but flinch back and mentally prepare a mana-empowered Stone Shot the moment Curash appeared before them. The hunter looked no real worse for wear, but the same couldn’t be said about Trod. The massive orc was missing most of the fingers on his right hand, and he had a crossbow bolt shot straight through his palm, as well as about another dozen peppering ...
2025-07-23 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Asher blinked, staring up at the large man as his words finally registered. “Wait, you are you reason he’s wasted? What the hell did you give him?”
“A liquor he normally saves for very special occasions,” Crush admitted, grabbing his chair and spinning it around to face him rather than sit behind Draken’s desk. “Brewed by a famous woman from the capital with the Alcohol element. Yeah, it’s a thing.”
“No kidding,” Asher muttered, thinking about how dr...
2025-07-23 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Vin hid within the canopy of the forest alongside his team and the hundred and fifty combat classes that had volunteered to take part in the surprise attack. Most of the fifty Earthers looked a bit out of their comfort zone, balancing up high on the branches and shooting frequent glances at the near frozen elves hidden up even further above them. The assault force was stretched out across a decent chunk of the western forest, waiting for the Red Dawn to come running into their trap.
Acc...
2025-07-22 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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“…The what?” Asher responded, blinking dumbly at an exasperated Draken.
“The various stages people progress through as they unlock and develop their skills and elements?” Draken asked, pursing his lips as Asher remained silent. “This doesn’t ring even the smallest of bells for you?”
“No,” he admitted, before the flicker of a memory bubbled to the surface. “Wait… Moxy might have mentioned something about stages once or twice during our time together. She’d...
2025-07-22 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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“Boss… Are you sure about this?”
Curash sighed, quickly checking his surroundings to ensure none of the Red Dawn members were listening in. Even with his high focus and passives, one could never be too careful.
He hadn’t survived all these months leaving things to fate, after all.
“I told you this day would come, Trod,” Curash whispered, turning his attention back toward what would soon be the living grave of those he was temporarily forced to call his people. ...
2025-07-21 16:00:31 +0000 UTC
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After a quick apology to Rosh for scaring the living hell out of him yet again, and a promise that he would try and figure out if there was a way of warning his marks before he suddenly appeared next to them, Asher took off into the night. Before he went to run his plan by Draken and Crush, he had a mark to check on.
Unfortunately, his hope of finding another one of the Guild’s hidey holes by heading toward the mark that had once been on Leonard’s body was quickly dashed. A...
2025-07-21 16:00:28 +0000 UTC
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The next day was perhaps the busiest Vin had ever seen from the newly built town.
The goal was for the Earthers to take down the entirety of the Red Dawn in one fell swoop. Not only without letting a single one of them escape to wreak havoc elsewhere, but without losing a single Earther on top of that. To that end, Golrim, Vin, and Shia ended up being essential.
The three of them worked in tandem to go over every possible detail they could recall about the Red Dawn, giving the ama...
2025-07-18 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Asher had only intended to sleep for a few hours, which meant he was more than a little surprised to wake up to find that the sun had already set and he’d slept the entire day away. He’d known his body was tired from the combination of barely any sleep and running out of skill energy twice in one day, but he hadn’t realized just how tired he’d truly been.
“Asher!” Brian shouted, jumping onto him and driving the air out of his lungs with his surprise tackle. “You...
2025-07-18 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Asher let out a breath of relief as the world twisted around him and he suddenly found himself standing in the middle of the Lavash Forest. Having used the last dregs of his energy to get here, he almost fell to his knees, stumbling and barely managing to catch himself on Samantha’s outstretched arm.
Recall – Lvl 5
“Asher?!” she gasped, looking him over and carefully helping him sit on a nearby fallen tree. He hadn’t expected the hunter to actually be up...
2025-07-17 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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As it turned out, it took more than just a bold declaration and rallying the troops to prepare for wiping the Red Dawn from the face of Edregon. After Golrim admitted to having formed and controlled the band of marauders from afar via his soul-bond with Curash, there were a number of things that had to be taken care of.
Such as marching Golrim straight over to Spur’s new residence and waking up the sleeping colonel to fill him in on everything Vin had just learned. Luckily, despite te...
2025-07-17 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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To Asher’s surprise, only seconds after he’d launched into his explanation about how the Head of the Guild was personally testing him, Bordan silenced him with a gauntlet-clad hand.
“Not here,” he said, changing his mind as his eyes scanned the alleyway as if searching for eavesdropping assassins. “Clare, bring him with us.”
And so it was Asher found himself floating along beside the apprentice truthseeker as she followed Bordan deeper into the city. While the larger t...
2025-07-16 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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The last time Vin had paid Gorlim a visit with the intention of pulling answers from the cunning man, Golrim had thrown him for a loop by revealing his entire skeleton had been turned into a conglomeration of runic objects, allowing him to bypass their truth-gem among other things. This time, Vin wasn’t going to let himself be distracted or awed or given half-truths. He was going to get some answers, and by God, Golrim, better hope they were good ones.
Despite everything he’d done f...
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Asher simply stood there for a few moments, trying to get his racing heartbeat under control as he thought over everything Owl had told him. The fact that Samantha and Brian had been put at risk simply because the Head of the Guild wanted to test him largely diminished any sort of pride he would have felt at his skills being recognized by what sounded like one of the more powerful people in the entire kingdom.
Though I suppose Eight was the one that chose to send me the mag...
2025-07-15 16:00:13 +0000 UTC
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After getting his journal back and thanking Vin for his contribution, Sean had personally entered Kym’s apartment to fetch the Advisor. Apparently, Kym had been deep in one of his books and hadn’t even heard Vin’s knock. Vin thanked Sean for his help and wished him good luck with getting the last couple of signatures he needed before heading into the apartment and stopping dead in the front hallway.
Spur had mentioned that with the lack of a library, more often than not when someo...
2025-07-15 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Asher’s victory was short lived, as despite the fact that he’d taken down his target, her body was still flying at him with all the speed of an out of control skier. Her corpse slammed into his chest, knocking the wind out of him as he and the body were sent tumbling to the ground and skidding across the ice. Groaning, Asher rolled the woman’s corpse off of him, rubbing his sore backside that had slammed into the cold, hard earth.
Judgement – Lvl 7
2025-07-14 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Despite every fiber in his being warring against his decision and telling him he’d regret what he was about to do, Vin raised a fist and knocked on Kym’s door. The former king’s advisor was one of the very few exceptions who had been given a smaller apartment entirely to themselves. Provided one didn’t include the guard that was positioned outside who, for whatever reason, currently looked like he was trying to stare in any direction other than toward Vin.
Shaking his h...
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The moment time sped back up, a few things happened in quick succession. Asher was already low on energy and didn’t want to burn through even more by activating his Personal Rift while he was in the astral realm. Instead, he used one hand to keep his neck as firmly attached to his shoulder as possible while he jumped down to the streets below on the opposite side of the houses from Jennifer and the senior assassin. Before he’d even landed, he’d yanked a vial from his rift.
Sur...
2025-07-11 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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It had been a few weeks since Vin had picked up his last skill, and he hadn’t once regretted his decision to go with Drawing. The ability to keep a journal with accurate pictures of the different people and monsters he encountered in each fragment was critical to his goal of teaching others about Edregon. The only question now of course was…
What should he pick for his newest skill?
Vin scrolled through both his class list and general list, keeping an eye out for anything that...
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“You know you could warn me when you plan on sleeping over,” Rosh said, staring down at him with a raised eyebrow. “I’d have the tavernkeep bring in some extra blankets or something. There’s no way that’s comfortable.”
“Didn’t know I’d be spending the night myself,” Asher yawned, both hearing and feeling his joints pop and creak as he stretched out against the cold wooden floor of Rosh’s room. After spending the night on the hard floor, his body was feeling surpr...
2025-07-10 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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The rest of the day was spent taking care of things on Vin’s to-do list. First, he tracked down Theodore once again and finally gave him his new artifact. The Spy agreed it was probably best to wait until he’d actually prestiged before risking sneaking past the dungeon monsters and into the Underside, but Vin gave him a quick rundown on what to expect and how to use the corridors anyway. For now, Theodore would partner up with some of the more adventurous combat classes and physically ste...
2025-07-10 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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For the first time ever, Vin was the first one to arrive at the council meeting. After waving hello at Linda and leaving her to help a crafter put in what sounded like an application for some sort of pickling shop within town, Vin entered the newly built council room and grabbed one of the open chairs. Just like their old meeting place, the council room was little more than five comfortable chairs spaced evenly around a large, round table. There were a few whiteboards on the walls, and a smal...
2025-07-09 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Asher and Samantha waited until Brian was asleep, tucked up within a bedroll out under the high up canopies before sneaking away. They didn’t have to go too far to prevent him from hearing their conversation thanks to his Spatial Lock, and after making sure sound wouldn’t escape the barrier, Asher quickly explained everything that had happened since they’d last spoken. It took him a good while, but Samantha waited patiently until he’d finished before chiming in.
“I think hidin...
2025-07-09 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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“Asher?” Samantha yawned, giving him a bleary-eyed look as he popped into the room with Recall and she was woken up from her slumber. The hunter was in light sleep clothes to help ward away the chill in the night air, and she squinted as she tried to examine him in the darkened room. She’d reflexively reached for the enchanted bow and arrows she kept on her nightstand, but paused when she realized it was only him. “What’s wrong? Did your tailing mission go poorly?”
“Not ex...
2025-07-08 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Vin was surprised to be greeted by an unfamiliar face when he entered the town hall. And not just because he didn’t recognize them, but by the black bracelets wrapped around her wrists as well. Unlike many of the former prisoners, the only indication that she’d lived a rough life before now was one small scar bisecting her right eyebrow.
“Hello there,” the woman nodded, giving him a warm smile. “Welcome to the town hall. Normally, I would ask if you were here for a permit or s...
2025-07-08 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Once Vin finished chatting with Lumel, he stepped out of the dungeon and calmly made his way over to what was finally looking like a real town. In fact, Vin actually had to stop as soon as he left the dungeon treeline, because he was caught off guard by what he found.
At this point, it had been almost a week and a half since Witherson had put forth the motion to turn the camp into an actual town. Obviously, there had been quite a lot of construction and progress being made during that t...
2025-07-07 16:00:19 +0000 UTC
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