Chapter 261 (Am editing Chapter 260 to make it Gluttony's idea to go to the hot springs, as he 'senses' one of his marks there.)
The symbol of a scythe, a symbol of a red teardrop, and the symbol of a black sun. They were joined by the visage of the maw, and the related pillars of his soul continued to form branching spires each time the symbols flared.
Riven hovered three feet up off the water’s surface, bare-backed and only wearing a set of pa...
2024-04-03 03:18:50 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 260
“Gentry.” The man said, slowly taking Riven’s outstretched hand and warily eyeing the other demons stepping out of their portals. “You’re… a warlock? A summoner? It isn’t often you see true battlemages before the C-grades, but after watching your brief fight I’m not sure whether your strength and speed are your focus - or whether it is your magic.”
Riven chuckled at the uncomfortable dark elf in gold-trimm...
2024-03-31 03:17:51 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 259
“Into a bloody oblivion.” Gluttony stated sourly, watching as their mana tugged Genua’s lower and upper halves together while both Fay and the blood priestess herself cast healing abilities in the forms of Dark Pact and Transfusion Zone. “That is where the child would have gone if I’d let your careless, carefree attitude take it from us. You may be strong in the eyes of these lesser beings, Riven, but you are nowhere near the...
2024-03-30 15:49:40 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 258
Riven was pushing another spoon full of rich-tasting, brothy soup into his mouth after having Luke and Genua sprinkle some of their blood into it. Both his thralls were up far earlier than his demons were and the three of them were sitting around a small table over breakfast.
“So where were you all this time?”
Looking to Luke, where the old elf was examining the recent wound which was already healed along his wris...
2024-03-25 03:24:53 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 257
KABLAM
An explosion lit up the small workshop Gragle and Riven were working in, the third time that day, and Riven blinked away dust with a cough to the laughter of his two girlfriends at his back.
Wiping soot off his face and spitting out dirt, then spitting onto the ground, Riven playfully glared over his shoulder at the two demon women who cackled even more loudly at the absolute mess his attempt at creating Graphics had ca...
2024-03-24 09:19:23 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 256
Retesh Vorath’s unnatural, fleshy organs curled and unfurled randomly across his bones as the undead lich called a black mist from the ocean around him and flung the cloud at his pursuers.
Judith Marcina’s golden wings pulsed with energy, encompassing her in a shield of white light that let her rip through the cloud of necrotic gasses to tear her flaming sword through Retesh’s mount - cleaving off a wing of the large drake in a single go...
2024-03-21 08:09:57 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 255
Pride, Greed, Wrath, Envy, Lust, Gluttony, and Sloth.
Of all the original sins, Greed and Gluttony were at odds most.
For Greed wanted to claim all, and Gluttony wanted to consume all, and thus these two sins crossed paths time and time again - or so the saying went. No one truly knows exactly what happened between these two in the early dawn of creation that elicited such a ri...
2024-03-18 05:49:27 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 254
Azmoth’s roars joined the fray as he clashed with the swarm of electrical, winged serpents in the field of death beyond Riven’s fight. It was a good opportunity for the demon to level and catch up, and as Athela beat the living shit out of the matriarchal boss monster off - a huge golden tomb cobra that was getting tossed around the battlefield like a child’s plaything under the archdemon’s might - she made sure to keep tabs on Azmoth for whene...
2024-03-17 03:30:59 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 253
The four remaining cultists looked right, to where Riven’s carpet-bombing of the swarm had devastated hundreds of golden, flying serpents that were in large part still recovering just as Athela and her spiders plowed into them. Abilities from both sides activated as arcs of yellow lightning crashed into the archdemon, while a pillar of sin, ice and flame shattered the field and began decimating even more of the monsters.
“Did I hear that demo...
2024-03-14 06:58:20 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 252
Despite his sister’s choice to abandon the Blood God as a path to take to power, Riven wasn’t so sure doing so would be a good idea for himself. He was relatively certain that, over the course of his climb so far, the Blood God had been the man in his visions multiple times under the light of the blood moon. The shrouded man over an ocean of red.
If that was the case, this entity had gone out of its way - or his way - to help Riven with...
2024-03-10 22:28:25 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 251
Riven watched with interest as the naga assassin took another one of his strikes, the earth shattering and erupting underneath them under the impact with the sin energy flowing out of his body.
The naga’s scream of pain was accompanied by another flash of power when he regenerated and vaulted away in a swirling river of water, only to be intercepted by Athela’s own blood-form as her river of red crashed into his river of clear-blue.
The two e...
2024-03-09 07:53:19 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 250 (this first bit is recycled, let me know if it doesn’t fit. Also of note, am not entirely sure the ‘temple of time’ arc will ever come back the way it was, but some of that material may be re-used)
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Nearly 300 Years Ago…
Sheline sat meditating upon an ocean of blood, her vampiric heritage roaring about her while her ancient, spunky grandmother - Nephridi - went on and...
2024-03-05 08:04:17 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 249
The balcony Lahn chose was secluded enough for his liking, and at the demon’s request he took a seat overlooking a large part of the academy here on the top city floor - some of which had been rebuilt after Rippenvire’s attack. The gardens had all been regrown too with the help of nature-based mages, but to Lahn’s distress - the small animal sanctuary he’d made in those gardens was no more. Not after the bombardments from the fleet up hig...
2024-03-04 04:02:31 +0000 UTC
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Have been very busy with work again, and probably will be until I leave this job in a couple months from now. Because of that, during the weekends is probably when I'll focus on posting more - I'll try to get in 2-3 chapters every weekend (hopefully 3 a weekend) with at least 1 chapter posted during the weekdays. Just so you know, it may be lopsided like that for a while. Thanks for reading!
-Trent
Chapter 248
2024-03-02 17:48:11 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 247
The compromise Gluttony and Riven had come to was that - yes - Riven would feed on something. Anything, really, and given Athela’s incredibly high vitality along with her passive trait that required all three of her forms to die before she was only banished back to the nether realms - it made her an easy target for them to settle on. Even if it didn’t necessarily fit the requirement for ‘mortal blood’ his vampiric side needed, it still sa...
2024-02-28 07:54:12 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 246
Outside the small scavenger town was an absolute riot, with people coming out of their homes onto the streets and gathering at the walls to look out beyond the high stone barricade. Gragle nervously glanced at the blanching barkeeper, who only shook his head as if telling the scarred gnome not to antagonize the vampire, and he let out a shuddering breath when his eyes again landed on the blood priestess.
The bar was clearing out, and half the peo...
2024-02-25 09:17:22 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 245
The other Non-Cultists had quickly left, setting out from the tower towards their own destinations where their own quest markers were taking them. No one wanted to talk to Riven’s group with the one exception of the asian woman who’d helped him up the pyramid in the very first day of integration, no doubt due to the terrible reputation he had on the forums and the power he had to back it up. Riven, to them, was an absolute monster. He w...
2024-02-24 12:36:41 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 244
Porcelain masks, red flowing robes, and a swirling vortex of crimson that reached the sky.
Seven monsters of ancient power.
The seven elders of the Bloom Moon Requiem sat while floating meditative poses in a circular formation, facing inwards toward a globe of blood that was drawing from each of the thrall bodies their spirits possessed here on Panu. Each of these thrall bodies were slowly withering away, and the original souls to inhabit e...
2024-02-21 09:03:57 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 243
Queen Bez looked upon the ratkin woman she’d once called friend with only a mild amount of guilt, but that did not stop her from what needed to be done. Even despite Rasthalia’s begging sobs, and fully knowing she was using Rashtalia as a scapegoat and focal point for her people’s rage, to maintain order over the angry masses.
She stretched out a blood covered hand from the crimson pool, cutting the ropes binding Rashtalia with a slim clawe...
2024-02-18 09:24:15 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 242
Sweat dripped down her skin.
The molten cavern radiated hot energies even twenty minutes after the ratkin’s ambush, and it’d taken that entire time to find Azmoth even despite the connection they shared as co-minions under Riven’s control. If not for that connection, she’d never had found him in the vast desolation of what had once been the city of Deepnest.
Genua’s head remained bowed, hands steepled in front of her and only occa...
2024-02-17 20:31:06 +0000 UTC
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Brief side note: I just wanted to say thank you all for the patience concerning my less frequent posting times recently. I fully intend to get back to posting every other day at a minimum, but I've been absolutely hammered at work. That will eventually change for numerous reasons and I'll try my best to continue posting on a normal schedule or even a make-up schedule that posts more, but 3 other doctors recently left the practice and it's been a nightmare juggling all their patien...
2024-02-14 02:00:52 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 240
TO EDIT: Some good points were brought up in the comments and I definitely need to address them, so the following changes will be made soon and Chapter 239 is marked for editing:
- It is very unrealistic for Genua’s skills to control someone about 100 levels over her. I’d thought of this myself shortly before someone posted it and that’s certainly a flaw, so I’m either going to add that she was drugged in the ...
2024-02-11 18:44:42 +0000 UTC
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Sorry again for the late posts. Been working 80 hour weeks, I'll try to post extra this weekend. On the bright side, in about 6 months from now I'll likely have more time to spend on writing when my job changes. So this time crunch is only temporary. Thanks again for reading :)
Chapter 239
Colonel Landers slapped aside a rock that one of the civilians threw his way as the boos and roars of disapproval echoed ...
2024-02-09 09:00:54 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 238
Gaia looked out over the land from a mountain’s peak. What had once been a world full of beauty and balance, with green pastures and lush forests full of life, had turned into a blighted black and gray version of itself with death and undeath in abundance. Only silver grasses and occasional trees of neon teal leaves, black bark, and occasional deep red shrubbery or vines stood out amidst the dreary sea around her.
The blue skies overhead ...
2024-02-06 09:06:47 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 237
Drums.
Drums echoed in the dark.
A blast of strange, azure-blue colored mana with an unfamiliar origin in the Unholy Foundation tore through the halls. Her eyes went wide mid-sprint and she was sent blasting across the stone laden with ancient texts, crashing into a pillar and spinning rapidly in the air until she cratered into the opposite end.
Coughing up blood and snapping one arm back into place, her body smoldered with wisps of t...
2024-02-04 06:41:48 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 236
Had the tunnel led out of Bernzee, likely saving Allie’s life?
Sure.
But it certainly hadn’t led to safety. They were traveling deeper into the underdark, and into a tunnel complex of twists and turns that were undocumented concerning the original map she’d been provided to get to the vampiric city - or the map she’d found in the partially destroyed Bloodmare estate.
What was even worse, was that Fimrindle suspected this tunne...
2024-02-01 07:12:08 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 235
The bloodsilk nest Athela had created had been converted into a multitude of hammocks in anticipation of Jarla’s group to meet them before nightfall, with the previous idea of throwing a victory party being soured after having found numerous local groups to be slaughtered through the dungeon on the way down. Ones that’d been caught by the invaders on their trek through the dungeon.
Still, everyone else insisted that they should drink it off l...
2024-01-30 09:47:35 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 234
Genua came into consciousness with an absolutely enthralling sense of power coursing through her soul. The abrupt sensation caused her to gasp, and she felt the divinity channels rushing through her body explode with crimson radiance.
Her vision went red as her eyes blazed with light, her skin flared with profane crimson sigils that buried themselves into her to remain as red tattoos across her otherwise tanned skin, and the shudder escaping her ...
2024-01-28 09:18:09 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 233
The room beyond the trapped door was something to be seen. Dim light reflected off thousands upon thousands of coins and jewels from a glow-stone embedded in the ceiling. A pile of weapons and armor with lesser enchantments were also stuff into a corner on the right hand side of the square room, while trinkets, baubles and low-grade artifacts were piled in the very front. It was the smaller pile to his left that caught his attention most, a...
2024-01-27 08:20:57 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 232
*Previous guild notifications switched between 100 members and 20 members for totals over previous chapters, so I changed it back to 20 wherever it said 100.
*Someone brought up whether or not demons (fay) could be healed by holy magic (from Jenny). I am pretty sure I once said they can’t be so I may have to edit prior chapters to mirror this if that is the case - will edit this over the next couple days.
2024-01-25 02:42:33 +0000 UTC
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