Chapter 231
The first to move was one of the bloodstricken sorcerers, who shrieked an unholy cry before their blood lances snapped forward with blinding speed. The monks countered with golden fires or barriers of their own, and the magics clashed across the gap between ledges in explosive fury.
Gluttony cackled and the great maw’s tendrils collided with the sunchosen in turn, smashing them backwards and dimming the barriers they created to a drastic extent...
2024-01-22 06:51:43 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 230
Chaos erupted.
A dozen intricate ritual circles overlapped one another in the air over Riven’s position, written in the flames of the sun. Celestial power tore down from above and crashed into his position, only for Azmoth’s defensive dome of hellfire to nullify the attacks with a thunderous boom that scattered the flames across the already molten room.
Battlecries roared out and heavily armored soldiers leaped from above with vampiric ...
2024-01-21 21:00:20 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 229
Captain Vros Kinal knelt on the outskirts of the forest clearing in full plate mail armor - the etched carving of a black sun embroidered on his breastplate. His pauldrons looked like they were aflame and caught in a moment of time from the way the metal was carved, and a long red cape flowed out behind him in the wind.
Unsheathing his silver-infused longsword forged specifically for killing vampires, picking up his kite shield, and lowering the ...
2024-01-21 09:22:05 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 228
All heads turned in Luke’s direction, with Jared in particular being quite captivated.
“So I went around asking people who I knew that’d done it, and I even made a forum post about this exact topic inside our empire’s forums to let other people know what my findings were. If you go look for yourself, should you ever visit the necropolis, I’m sure you’d see my post has been a very big hit.” Luke continued with a wave of his han...
2024-01-19 04:57:06 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 227
Flashing magics tore through the air on either of her sides as black hooded figures and screeching waves of undead intercepted enemies of the necropolis with overwhelming force.
Allie’s foot blurred - smashing down into the neck of a dying ratkin rogue, snapping the creature’s neck while sneered in contempt. With a lightning fast backhand she tore half the face off of another ratkin warrior who’d dared try to take her head on.
The cre...
2024-01-19 04:23:20 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 226:
“This feels very much like a vacation.”
The comment gained him some curiously amused looks from Jarla and her non-combatant fellows from the other group, but none of them said a word. How could they, when everything had gone so smoothly so far? Battle after battle, time after time, not a single one of the forward group had been seriously wounded - with Athela and the strange cultist-looking people having intervened twice to save someon...
2024-01-16 07:33:23 +0000 UTC
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Interlude between Chapter 225 and 226:
A Refresher from Chapter 21, Book 1:
[Totem Making – The Blessings of Fae and The Curses of Devils: Author Unknown.
Totem Making has long been used as a basic means of creating decorative monuments, household apparel, things to keep evil spirits out as a focus of old wives’ tales, and wasn’t originally such a lucrative or useful craft in the beginning. This is likely due to the disgu...
2024-01-14 07:58:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 225
All of them, they were all going.
Tanya, with her son Tim and daughter Julie. Hakim. Genua, Len, and Luke. Riven, Athela, Azmoth and Fay. The 23 skinwalkers in Athela’s new fan club, including Ak’ra and Selzi - better known to the people of Jerbyville as Sara and John.
They were marching through the forest, many of them laughing jovially in the early morning light amidst the chirping of birds and crunching of leaves an...
2024-01-14 07:29:42 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 224
3 Days Later near Hakim's village of Jerbyville…
The details on the vampiric elder god quest had been left with Allie to deal with since Riven would be leaving in a couple months for Chalgathi’s next trial. Allie had essentially dropped out of the Apocalypse Beast questline entirely after giving him her own piece, but that didn’t mean she couldn’t deal with the underdark while he was gone. He had faith in h...
2024-01-12 05:46:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 223
Mara’s hooded figure walked under a dreary sky alongside two necromancers, Nin and Vin, and two vampires, Gurth’Rok and Dr. Brass. Together the five of them ran most things on his side of the world, with the exception of General Bruner from Chicago who was not present today.
Crowds parted before their heavily armed escort, and they made their way through the active streets of Brightsville while heading in the direction of Riven’s guild hall...
2024-01-10 09:20:31 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 222
“Prince Riven Wraithtide, Princess Allie Wraithtide, and Princess Kathrine Vonsilla Crushada the 9th, we have brought the requested prisoner.”
Jeltuna the Sarak was lead bound and chained into a large and elegant hall, filled with some of the most prominent faces on the planet. Despite having led insurrections in protest of his people’s treatment, enslavement, butchering and worse - he couldn’t help but go slightly pale at the sight of th...
2024-01-08 02:34:21 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 221
“May I present Prince Riven Wraithtide, presiding master of this house - along with his sister, Princess Allie Wraithtide, his fiance, Kathrine Vonsilla Crushada the 9th, and his attendant demon - the succubus Fay.”
The doors to the great hall swung open, revealing an elongated room with an overhead crystal chandelier. Works of art such as paintings and sculptures of vampires performing great feats lined the walls where servants and soldiers ...
2024-01-06 11:06:45 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 220 (Will edit tomorrow, there are probably editorial and grammatical mistakes. Sorry in advance, but I wanted to post the chapter tonight even if there are a couple bugs. Goodnight!)
Skinwalkers.
They were… fawning? Over Athela?
If that was even the right word.
Prostrating or attending to her with different odds, ends, gifts and food they had on hand, Riven watched the strange pale creatures deliver her trays of refreshments whil...
2024-01-04 08:46:52 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 219
Riven stared down at the bag of Elysium coins glinting in the sunlight with a frown, ignoring the challenging tone of the rough-looking man in front of him. “Genua?”
The elf immediately straightened on her seat. “Yes, Riv?”
He snorted in amusement at the reduced name they were using for him in public. It wasn’t like his features were all that different and in time people would likely put two and two together, but still...
2024-01-02 07:42:45 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 218
Sara and John, which were the two names they’d adopted over the past couple months, were absolutely terrified. Their real names were Ak’ra and Selzi, Ak’ra being John and Selzi being Sara respectively. They’d escaped the Hells with their clan and moved to this desolate wilderness, away from the rest of the world to avoid abominations like the very creature rushing towards them at breakneck speeds.
“Selzi!” Ak’ra, or John, yell...
2024-01-01 07:43:47 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 217
The undead legionnaires were something else. Riven had watched alongside many of the others under the stars as he commanded them to battle one another, and although it’d only lasted for 5 minutes - the battle was a sight to behold.
They were classed as elites, each poised at his own level which was far above the norm on this planet, and the fields erupted in a brutal free for all as they clashed. Storms of blood energies and shockwaves of...
2023-12-31 07:17:02 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 216
Crimson threads tore out from the treasure and into Riven’s soul, but he didn’t scream - nor did he feel pain. The threads were soothing, caressing his damaged core and the obliterated Blood Subpillar that’d been reduced to fragments.
He watched as they intertwined with each of them, collecting them up and pulling the shards together - only to frown in confusion when other, pitch black threads flew forward from his fragmented shadow pillar ...
2023-12-30 06:29:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 215 (Extra chapters will be posted again this weekend due to time constraints with work this week)
The world was changing, and new empires were rising across the ashes of dead civilizations as the merged worlds creating Panu were beginning to come together. The tutorials were over, the initial shock of the integration now passed. It was a time of new beginnings.
The terraforming of the inner lands of the Thane Necropolis had been a blessing to ...
2023-12-29 03:17:36 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 214 (END OF BOOK 4)
Merry Christmas! Edits to the last chapter were made concerning the end where Riven is crippled. I obviously don’t want people to think this is a permanent direction he’s going in and wouldn’t change the entire direction of the story so he’d become a crafter lol (but I’m glad I was made aware of the reaction prior to publishing), so if you’d like to go back and read you can - o...
2023-12-25 18:43:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 213 (Second to last chapter of Book 4)
Allie’s world was a stark gray. Blood dripped from her eyes, ears, nose and mouth while she locked gazes with Jalel only a few feet away. He was the only other one moving in this out of body experience, but even he could only move his eyes - so he was limited in the same way she was.
[Malignant Prophecy has activated. Desired Action: High tier manipulation. Current Willpower stat: 800...
2023-12-25 08:14:17 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 212
Allie was missing a leg that for some reason wouldn’t regrow, Kathrine was severely poisoned and beginning to slow. Jalel was overpowering Captain Rusof, and Fimrindle was finally breaking out of the stalemate - slicing off limbs and heads before pushing Allie’s way with incredibly fast and jerky movements. A protective dome now encased The Blood Moon Requiem’s trading hub - preventing anyone from going in or out, and the battle within and ...
2023-12-24 06:47:19 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 211
(Will be posting extra chapters this weekend, sorry yet again for late posts - this week has been hell due to work and holiday related stuff! Hope y'all are doing well!)
Allie was in trouble. She was being attacked and her life was in danger.
And his reaction was instinctual. Without any thought of his own safety, he would persevere for the woman who’d taken his heart with the kindness she’d shown...
2023-12-23 06:53:37 +0000 UTC
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NEW Chapter 210
The dining hall had been redecorated according to the description Riven had given Allie prior to this, though she couldn’t be certain because it was her first time here after all. She’d never had reason to visit the compound before now, but the looming threat of planetary annihilation by an intergalactic vampire empire that her mother had been part of was nothing to take lightly - should she spurn the rules of the Queen and council. Despi...
2023-12-20 04:41:37 +0000 UTC
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NEW Chapter 209
Lord Justo Barimont was a handsome man, even for a vampire, and he let that fact be known as he swaggered around the compound giving orders to the various soldiers or maids while two personal thralls from the heartlands waved large white fans to cool him off. His eyes were bright crimson as all purebloods were, and his platinum-trimmed robes had the symbol of a green flame embroidered on his chest to symbolize the house he hailed from.
“Thi...
2023-12-17 09:06:56 +0000 UTC
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NEW Chapter 208
Bridgar Mush was an officer of his majesty’s legions, a veteran of many battles and a dwarf with a truly splendid red beard. Brown eyes and a firm, square jawline stared out underneath a thick stone helmet carved out of the very caves they lived in and molded by forgeries and mages accustomed to the Volcanic Subpillar. Most of the dwarves of his majesty’s legions were imbued with that particular subpillar, and thus the army Bridgar now st...
2023-12-15 04:55:00 +0000 UTC
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NEW Chapter 207
The portal stabilized, and a notification appeared signaling that it was slightly different than the prior portals he’d already linked to.
[Heroic Intervention’s portal is now accessible through your Portal Master key concerning your spear-staff Jackal. Due to the nature of this portal’s origins, you will need to infuse extra mana to create this portal again and the portal will disappear after a short time of no use, but the ori...
2023-12-12 22:42:43 +0000 UTC
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New Chapter 206
Matt shifted his gaze from the portal, to Hakim, to Riven, and then the three demons partially covered in pastry. His grip tightened around the axe he still held against Julie’s throat amidst the dead silence of the room and he immediately pulled out his revolver to lower it at Julie’s skull with a click. “Hakim!!! Hakim you backstabbing little bitch! I told you that I’d blow your girlfriend’s head off if you betrayed me...
2023-12-10 18:10:22 +0000 UTC
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Here is the long asked for status page sheet many of you asked for, sorry it took so long to do. ^.^ Let me know if there are any glaring mistakes!
Status Pages @ Ch. 205-206
[Riven Thane’s Status Page:
- Level 130
- Pillar Orientations:] Unholy Foundation, Blood Specialty: Profane Cyclone (Tier 1 of The Path of Red and Black), Infernal, Shadow (Subserviently linked to Blood Specialty Pillar), Sin Core (Gluttony)
2023-12-10 07:27:00 +0000 UTC
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NEW Chapter 205
The room was that of an old but very large and neatly kept cabin. The banner of a red hand hung down on poorly knitted fabric overhead, and various people wearing that same symbol on their clothes lined the room on armchairs, sofas, or just stood.
Hakim was in the middle of it, handcuffed and on his knees. He grunted with the impact of a fist on his face, spitting blood and a tooth out while Juile loudly sobbed behind him.
“WE D...
2023-12-08 05:34:56 +0000 UTC
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NEW Chapter 204
Approximately 1 day ago…
Kathrine nervously fumbled with the locket of her family’s crest around her neck. Glancing nervously over to the high prince next to her as the array began to buffer, she caught his gaze and received a wide smile.
“What’s wrong?” Riven asked curiously, tilting his head to one side. “You look nervous. Surely the queen isn’t that bad.”
Kathrine would have...
2023-12-07 02:49:54 +0000 UTC
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