Trent Boehm

Chapter 192

Chapter 192

Athela sat on the bed, a downcast expression on her face while she fiddled with the crown Riven had given her as a gift months ago.

Fay remained standing, nervously shifting her weight from foot to foot while occasionally giving him sideways glances.

Meanwhile, Azmoth took it upon himself to direct Riven to a stool near the bathroom someone had brought into the room during his long absence.  It’d been a while since he’d come home, and th...

Chapter 191

Chapter 191

Captain Vros Kinal, champion of this expedition to Panu, harbinger of The Empire of Dying Suns, was quite amused.  “How long has it been now?  A few days?”

The other officers in plate armor cackled or snickered while drinking the rum of conquered locals as they sat atop a keep on a large hill - making the new scantily clad slaves dance for them as they talked about recent events.

“You’d be correct!” One of Kinal’s subordinat...

Chapter 190

Chapter 190

The seeds of gluttony inside the flesh abomination called to him, but they might as well have been whispers on the wind - the last thing on Riven’s mind.

Because standing there next to the large eviscerated corpse… was Athela.  Staring back at him with a vulnerable, almost sheepish glance before her eyes hit the ground.

It was really her.  How had he not known she’d come back?

He'd choked back his e...

Chapter 189

Chapter 189

Despite the Rippenvire fleet having been wiped out, at least for the most part, many hundreds of dropships had landed troops across different layers of the stacked city and were continuing to wreak havoc.  The royal fleet belonging to Dawn was also decimated, and their forces were already engaged at numerous points.  The vampires continued to slaughter civilians as fast as possible, either out of spite or simply because they didn’t know they’d ...

Chapter 188

Chapter 188

Despite the abrupt surge in power, despite revealing his ultimate form to combat this demonic arachnid, Tikus felt both inferior and small when the creature began to reform.  His gray wings sagged, his flex claws that’d so recently torn the spider’s body in half stiffened, and his eyes widened in shock as he beheld the creature’s new body recreate itself before his very eyes.

Bones snapped.  Scythe-like legs each bigger than he was snap...

Chapter 187

Chapter 187

Lahn watched in silence beside his mother Shovi and other refugees hiding here in a pub’s lower cellar.  Funnily enough, he even noted how a small group of other students from the academy were here - no doubt having fled down the stairway long before he did to make it down here without flying.  But overall it was the locals - the pub owner and his family, a farmer and his three sons, a couple women from the local brothel and a few merchants with ...

Chapter 186

Chapter 186

Gurth’Rok jogged at a fast pace, his green skin sweating from the exertion he’d put out in getting here with the rest of the legion behind him - but he was far from too tired to fight.  The sounds of war drums beat into the night sky where clashing fleets continued to battle it out over elevated slabs of land stacked on top of one another for each city level.  The clank of heavily armored death knights or heavy orc berserkers, many hundreds str...

Chapter 185

Chapter 185

Carnage erupted behind them, and they’d had to abandon their carriage in favor of walking due to the crowds.  They’d even lost all of their hired servants who’d either been pushed aside, behind, or had simply gone off on their own to try and force their way to the enormous spiral stairway and ramps leading to lower floors.  But they’d finally made it, given time by the defenders of this city sacrificing their lives - and the timely interven...

Chapter 184 (status pages will have their own individual chapter post soon)

Chapter 184

Metal creaked and groaned as cogs in the gigantic landstrider continued to churn.  They were the only sounds left now in the dark interior of the council’s room - only lit by a faint blue hologram spread out as a map along the tabletop.  Peskus shifted nervously in his seat, his eyes meeting the Slayfather’s only briefly before rapidly descending to look at the metal table in front of him.

Other officers of Rippenvire were the same, not w...

Chapter 183

Chapter 183

Lahn gasped, lurched, and screamed as Fay’s mana tendrils literally ripped the worm out of his skin.  The sightless brown creature was long, the width of Fay’s arm, wicked looking with numerous thorns, and had a gaping sucker that pulsed and slurped at the air using its tongue.  Lahn’s mother Shovi gasped in horror-stricken awe, and even the two rogues assigned to escort Fay were a little unnerved by the sight of the disgusting creature. &nbs...

Chapter 182

Chapter 182

Jestus was a tall, greater vampire, and like so many others of the Rippenvire faction he preferred a tophat and suit jacket with coat tails as his primary attire.  Gold trimmings laced a vest underneath with a pocket watch, a pocket protector, and two ornate pirate-styled pistols holstered under either arm.  He wore tall black boots up to his knees, dark baggy trousers, and his red eyes glowed slightly brighter than all the lesser vampires he lorde...

The last chapter (181) was just rewritten.

The last chapter (181) was just rewritten.  I felt like it was rushed and at least to me it seems better now, things changed a bit so tell me what ya think.  Otherwise chapters will continue as usual tomorrow :) The starting point of the rewrite starts at: "We have a battlefield to explore.”"

Chapter 181 (RE-WRITTEN as of 9/24)

Chapter 181

The huge African guy that’d first dove into the fray was covered in shallow cuts and large bruises, but he stood tall and limped over to where Riven was panting. Holding out a hand of friendship, he bowed his head in appreciation. “Thank you for doing what others would not. You are a good man. What is your name?”

The man’s voice had a thick accent, Nigerian maybe – but Riven...

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