Chapter 108
They made camp later that night and trudged along the next day. Riven tried calling Allie twice, but each time he she’d quickly tell him she was busy and hang up shortly after confirming she was still ok. It was like she was avoiding him, and he was getting the feeling that she’d figured out her videos had leaked on the cortex for him to see. It was highly likely, knowing her, that she was trying to figure out what she was going to say ...
2023-07-02 01:08:07 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 107
He clicked on ‘Guild & Faction System’ first.
[You must create a guild with the ‘Create Guild’ command prior to utilizing this page. You must have at least 3 people to create a guild.]
Riven frowned and dismissed it, deciding to move on to the cortex first. He’d talk to the others about guild creation later, but that was a team effort and not an individual one. Clicking upon ‘Panu Cortex,’ he s...
2023-07-02 01:07:06 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 106
Dawn’s light had brought with it a flood of the undead, pouring over entrenched defenders like a tidal wave of death, bathing the northern city of Brightsville in blood when the two major factions present there clashed in the biggest battle yet.
And it had been short lived.
Allie glared down at Prophet’s second-in-command, an old wiry military veteran who’d managed to get a paladin class and cause grief for her forces numerous times. ...
2023-06-30 23:43:21 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 105
He left the others to their chatting and came up to the thick, solid wood with a few knocks on the door using his knuckles. He heard a muffled voice from inside telling him to come in, and opened the door to quickly shut it behind him.
There on the bed, Genua was holding Ethel in her arms while Len was spooned between the two of them. They had the covers drawn halfway up and all three of them showed signs of recent crying, though they all l...
2023-06-30 06:24:32 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 104
Elder Bren let out a deep sigh and one of his wives scurried over to the door, letting in a fuming Elder Preen. The old man was obviously disheveled from some kind of physical confrontation, with dirtied robes and a bleeding scratch along his right cheek. He stomped inside but quickly stopped upon seeing Riven sitting on the couch, flushing in anger and pointing an accusing finger Riven’s way. “His BITCH succubus attacked me! That...
2023-06-29 05:31:19 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 103
Elder Bren’s treehouse was the largest in the village, being formed from what Ethel described as ‘tree shaping’ to create rooms, balconies and multiple floors all the way from the base of the trunk to about thirty feet up. The leaves, bark and roots were all still intact and the tree was actually still very much alive, unlike many of the smoking husks of the other buildings in the village after the greenskins attacked, but it’d been expanded an...
2023-06-28 05:10:35 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 102
Despite the minor uproar that’d occurred because of the system-wide announcement, the elves went back to singing solemn hymns somewhere outside the cabin he was staying shortly afterwards. This was a to think about, and Riven sat there dwelling on it for a good amount of time before deciding to speak on this with Allie in detail later on. No doubt she'd have a lot to say about the whole 'Chalgathi is an apocalypse beast' thing.
The main r...
2023-06-27 03:59:19 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 101
“You let him leave intentionally? To buy yourself time?” Mara asked, confusion written all over her face with her hands behind her back. She stood beside Allie on a rooftop under the starlight, watching their army of undead - minions and sentient creatures alike - march northwards through the darkened streets.
Allie solemnly nodded, red eyes glowing, watching Vin and Nin pile up bodies of the civilians they’d just slaughtered to add t...
2023-06-25 08:33:44 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 100
[Riven Thane’s Status Page: (chapter 100)
- Level 38
- Pillar Orientations:] Unholy Foundation, Blood Specialty, Infernal, Shadow
- Core of Original Sin - Gluttony:] (Under Construction)(???)
- Traits:] Race: Pureblooded Vampire (Extreme Darkness Regeneration)(Sunlight Decay)(Extreme Weakness to Silver weapons, Sun pillar, and Light pillar attacks), C...
2023-06-25 06:08:57 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 99
Fay tried to intercept with a hissing lunge of her own, but she was in no way a melee fighter and was easily slammed aside with a shoulder charge that left her gasping. The rogue vanished and reappeared two feet in front of her original position the same way the other rogues earlier that fight had sidestepped one of his snares.
He stumbled and lifted up an arm to block the incoming attack, unable to summon magic to aid him, and shouted a curse as ...
2023-06-25 05:09:40 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 98
Azmoth’s bellowing roar and the gleeful screeches of Athela intertwined with one another as sounds of battle climbed higher, and Riven teleported through a black rift in space as an axe from another charging enemy rounding the corner sliced across his robe and nicked his shin.
*CRUNCH*
The back end of Riven’s staff crushed the orc’s skull in completely with an explosion of shadow that radiated out upon impact - a relatively ...
2023-06-24 07:01:14 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 97
The predator inside screamed with excitement alongside gluttony’s core, but he kept his sanity and mentally tugged at Fay’s contract. The succubus landed beside him within seconds, eagerly standing with clasped hands in front of her.
“Azmoth will be the focal point. Athela, do your thing as soon as I start. Assassinate on the bigger threats first if you can. Fay, we’re sticking to the shadows for a while. They can...
2023-06-24 06:59:51 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 96
Riven’s recovery was a little longer than any of them had expected. He slept far into the mid afternoon of the next day, and the others let him do it without interruption. Athela was able to hunt down and carry back a deer, and Fay went out to collect some berries and nuts. Meanwhile Dr. Brass stayed with the two elf girls. If something was to attack them they’d be sure to wake Riven up, but otherwise the amount of power he’d exp...
2023-06-23 07:36:44 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 95
Senna tried to get up on her injured leg and tripped backwards, hobbling towards the tree line to get away from the monster that’d made its presence known to the pale-faced and jittery party members not far off.
Riven was now staring at a huge, rotund cyclops. It was nearly as tall as some of trees nearby, with a brown horn protruding above its single yellow eye. Each of its two hands had three sausage-like fingers, its nose looked like it...
2023-06-22 09:44:42 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 94
When he woke up, he was filled in by Dr. Brass on what had happened with the other humans during the fight while Senna snored softly as she curled up next to Ethel under a blanket.
Dr. Waters had been adamant that Dr. Brass leave with her, calling him a fool when she and all of the nurses had taken the long hike down the underground sewers to find a way out. When asked why Dr. Brass hadn’t left to begin with, he’d just said that he’d taken a...
2023-06-22 06:54:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 93
On one hand, Jarmosh seemed a little less trustworthy given that he’d put loopholes in his contract. Athela had outright told him he couldn’t accept the contract in the way the beholder had worded it, so he’d have to get Jarmosh to agree to rewrite it the way Riven wanted it done or he’d have to decline no matter what. He also didn’t like the idea of Jarmosh experimenting with live and innocent creatures, though he could have some leeway...
2023-06-22 05:20:37 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 92
The wyrm continued to stare blankly back at him, its imposing figure raising its neck and rearing back like a cobra.
Riven’s eyebrows raised and cleared his throat. “Do you understand anything I’m saying?”
The wyrm’s mouth slowly began to open, and it displayed rows upon rows upon rows of jagged black teeth all around its circular maw. Dark light emitting a pale purple-gray color intermixed with sparks of red accumulated insi...
2023-06-21 03:30:57 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 91
[These 4 demons have been following your progress and are interested in obtaining you as a partner. Click on each for further details concerning the potential minion and their contracts.
- Beholder, Unholy, Level 27 - a buffer and siege type demon predominantly with high cooldown long range attacks, and shielding abilities. This particular beholder is very good with identifying enemies or objects. [25 Willp...
2023-06-20 05:19:09 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 90
Captain Vros Kinal stood on a large hovering platform that loomed above his marching legions. Their heavy armor gleamed in the bright rays of sunshine illuminating their glorious planet. The soldiers chanted, slamming their spears into the ground in unison time after time - an act that caused the very city around them to quake due to their numbers.
Meanwhile the crowds in the stadiums on either side of the military parade were going wild. &n...
2023-06-18 08:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 89
He turned the corner just when Athela was thrown across the room - face planting against the wall but recovering quickly to turn on the giant, grotesque clown. His demons were in the process of winning this fight already, but the monster had incredible regeneration and was battling back fiercely. Maggots wriggled and sightless, eel-like appendages with sharp teeth grappled the other titanic combatant while Azmoth’s fire-imbued armor slammed into...
2023-06-17 06:18:09 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 87
Riven stormed through the sewers to where the rungs leading up the tunnel were within reach. Grabbing onto them: Athela followed closely behind. The clothes they’d gathered were strung up in large sturdy bags they’d procured from a back room in the clothing store, and they were dragged up along the tunnel’s side too.
The hatch unlocked and swung open to let in the firelight of the lanterns. Riven continued up and out of the tunne...
2023-06-13 04:06:23 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 86
The storm had died down to a low drizzle, but was still flashing lightning overhead when Riven stepped foot outside.
The bone garden was open to the air on the wide tower rooftop and heavily guarded. A door from the large staircase with an arch made of bone led into it, where over a dozen armed warriors and an equal number of robed mages stood watch. There was even one bone giant, standing three times the height of Riven who wielded an absol...
2023-06-11 23:17:50 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 85
Riven couldn’t help but be impressed with what Allie had built here.
Hundreds of sentient undead walked, talked, bartered, built and laughed with one another as Allie and Mara took him on a grand tour of the tower. The skyscraper’s walls had been knocked down in some areas, terraformed in others, and in some places had been kept up. A mix and mash of steel, bone, death mana, and even sometimes sinewy muscle created various parts of the s...
2023-06-10 18:59:04 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 84
The girl removed her mask, allowing Riven to confirm that it truly was her.
It was Allie.
His little sister broke down into violent sobs and rushed towards him and he met her in the middle, sweeping her up off her feet and crying along with her as he hugged her to his chest in a death grip.
They just stood like that, neither one of them saying anything as they shook and held one another for well over a minute. Riven’s breathing was r...
2023-06-08 06:24:41 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 83
Allie’s eyes went wide when the demoness lunged for her and quickly erupted with power, encompassing the area around her and demolishing the rooftop she stood on to blast the creature backwards. However the demon was far faster than Allie had anticipated, and it used strings of red webbing to adjust her trajectory and avoid the blast entirely before catapulting underneath the roaring death mana to clip Allie’s right leg with one of her elongated ara...
2023-06-06 05:20:43 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 82
The rat man’s voice was definitely a little on the rough side of raspy, and it was only moderately deep. Not nearly as deep as was expected. It also sounded like he’d been hacking furballs all day. “Why do you come-walk here in upper-top of the dark-black of the tunnel-ground?”
Well. This rat man certainly had an odd way of speaking, but Riven could deal with it. “I was trapped and had to get out using this sewer ...
2023-06-03 22:44:31 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 81
*CRASH*
The tunnel echoed as yet another one of the larger creatures had made itself known. A good thirty feet in length and coming down from a side-passage, it ripped around the corner at breakneck speed with pincers gnashing and chitin plates scraping loudly along the stone walls. Gunk and sewage splashed like it was in the middle of a tsunami, and a horde of the smaller wyrms followed in its path - some of them even being...
2023-06-01 06:59:54 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 80
A lithe, snake-like figure measuring at the very least a couple dozen feet tore up through the trash and scummy water at insane speed – roaring an earth-trembling screech. The creature was covered in armored, spiked chitin, with a round mouth full of rows of teeth. It had no eyes, and two large pincers in the front of its maw with no legs.
[Infantile Spiked Wyrm, Great Beast]
Riven didn’t have time to take in the r...
2023-05-31 06:00:17 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 79
“Oh shoot, hold that thought! I forgot I needed to check my status page after that fight with the dream creatures. I got some notifications, but was busy experiencing that dao vision…” Riven’s words trailed off while he was halfway down the ladder into the sewers, and his eyebrows rose in shock.
He’d killed goblins, men, and hundreds of dream creatures over the past two days. He’d been thoroughly caught up in events -...
2023-05-29 22:56:42 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 78
“No Riven, this is typical of your species.” Athela had stated flatly with an uncaring yawn as she watched unspeakable things done to various victims across the city through Jake’s vision. “You people call us demons bad, but really there are a lot of humans out there who are easily comparable to the worst of demonkind given the opportunity to obtain power.”
Marketplaces had all been looted by this point, and as the dragonflies scouted fu...
2023-05-28 01:13:25 +0000 UTC
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