Chapter 77
Senna nodded yet again. “My people called the planet I come from ‘Zazir,’ though neither of our worlds exist as they once did if what the administrator said is to be believed. I cannot grasp the meaning of all this… I… I need to get back to my family. How long have I been asleep?”
Athela thought back to the battle in the forest. “Almost two days now.”
“Two days!?” Senna repeated, dumbstruck. “Wer...
2023-05-26 01:05:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 76
Riven turned heel and walked out of the room, cloak flowing out behind him, leaving the other people to talk amongst themselves about what had happened. Tensions were high and he could still hear the creatures above occasionally roar through the ceiling even despite how thick it was.
Riven gazed upwards. “They probably just found new prey.”
“Actually…” The teenage boy interrupted his thoughts with a nervous laugh, having foll...
2023-05-25 04:33:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 75
Visions of towering monoliths flooded Riven’s mind as his mana channels surged and reformed themselves. He wasn’t passed out or out of action like his minions seemed to think him to be, but rather he was attempting to craft an evolution that was rapidly taking shape even as he lay convulsing on the couch. After he’d thought the fight was done when he’d basically blown up the entire parking lot, he’d had to make a choice due to...
2023-05-23 03:11:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 74
Allie sat meditating in her bone garden atop what had once been one of the downtown skyscrapers under a starry night sky. Well, she supposed it was still a skyscraper - but it’d been converted into her home base of operations and had a rather spooky feel to it after the makeover. The building itself had an aura to it, with ripples of teal and black mana occasionally shimmering across the structure while it was being pseudo-terraformed into a dea...
2023-05-21 07:56:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 73
Doors from nearby rooms slammed shut and people started barricading themselves inside immediately upon hearing the rushing wave of oncoming monsters, and soon Riven stood alone with his demons as enemies flooded into the main entrance hall from four different directions. Rippling muscles and rounded abyssal maws full of teeth and writhing tongues bore down on him with clawed limbs, racing ahead like hairless great apes.
But he remained calm. ...
2023-05-20 01:13:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 72
Riven had heard enough, and was about to start walking towards the two talking men when he heard Athela whisper. “Don’t.”
Riven shot the demoness a look of anger. “What do you mean, don’t?”
“That’s what I mean.” Athela stated flatly. “Whatever that creature is upstairs, I can sense its aura from here… and there are more of them coming. It feels like… like a hive mind creature of some sort. We c...
2023-05-18 03:57:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 71
The scene was chaotic, and it looked like it would be a mad scramble without any order at all at any waking moment. The only things really holding people together was the occasional armed guard patrolling the halls and the hope that the medical staff was giving people as they treated hurt or sick loved ones.
“This is absolutely crazy…” Riven mumbled, taking the brunt of the elf’s weight on one leg when he pivoted around a kid who ran past....
2023-05-16 03:17:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 70
Riven took his runic mask off, pointed to a widening smile and extended his fangs for the two to see. The duo gasped in shock, before he retracted both fangs with a shrug. “I became stronger, fought against a dungeon miniboss and won a good amount of Elysium Coins. The dungeon was a sentient being and offered me a deal to get the coins back, I ended up teleporting out of the dungeon and ended up on the mountains to the west. Fought s...
2023-05-15 04:16:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 69
“THAT’S WHATSUP RIVEN!”
“Yes, I am the kinkiest.” He referred to her earlier comment, glanced over his shoulder and winked at Athela who was licking off her toned extremities with her elongated, black, ribbon-like tongue - and he gave her a genuine smile. “Thanks for coming. Having you around has been a lot of fun.”
Athela paused mid-licking and her red eyes focused on him for a moment before she blinked and turned ...
2023-05-13 17:14:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 68
Shotgun guy just laughed, then he got tired of kicking – took aim – and fired again. Another good-sized chunk of wood blasted off the door into bits and pieces, but the idiot had been too close when he’d fired and recoiled as chips of debris hit him in the face and eyes. “Fuck!”
He staggered back, rubbing at his face and cursing loudly until he managed to clear his line of sight… only to blink rapidly as he came face to face with...
2023-05-12 02:51:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 67
The mission was threefold – figure out what was going on with the city concerning the people he needed to find, find some more food, and find a location that would be suitable Riven to stay in long term… if there even was one. There hadn’t been any system notifications since leaving dungeon Negrada, but Athela was utterly certain there’d be more to come.
“Each integrating planet has its own unique trials!” Athela said to him, trying an...
2023-05-11 01:53:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 66
Jalel adjusted his dark, well-made, form-fitting robes and smoothed out the sleeves where they meshed with fingerless gloves. The brunette slave girl attending him adjusted his collar and he gave her an appreciating nod of respect, one she blushed furiously at before smiling widely and exiting the waiting area.
He smirked himself, finding it quite funny how little was required of him to make a slave’s day like that. Despite being quite the...
2023-05-10 02:13:19 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 65
Athela watched her master curiously… watched him sink his fangs into the dying goblin’s arteries. Watched him give in to the hunger he’d been feeling over the past day. Then, letting out a long sigh of acceptance, she turned and bolted through the trees to kill the last of the little green creatures. Catching up to them over the next twenty seconds of sprinting, she nearly tripped over a tree root – but collected herself with an eyer...
2023-05-06 18:11:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 64
Senna had never been so scared in her life.
Her world had been flipped upside down, with the land that the tribe had known for generations being mix-and-matched with new landscapes and sceneries overnight. The new creatures and dangerous monsters now appearing out of nowhere… appearing from ambient mana in what the Elysium System had called the world of ‘Panu.’ These creatures had already killed many of her kin already...
2023-05-06 17:58:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 63
The thoughts that had once repulsed him after killing that man in the dungeon now swept through his mind like a tidal wave of hunger. It had satiated him then, and he didn’t feel crazed like he had in that moment of blood-starvation, but he could still feel the effects of wanting it. It’d been a little over two days since he’d fed, and he was getting hungry.
His red eyes cast over the corpse of a nearby bird, and he frowned. Anim...
2023-05-06 17:46:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 62
Ah. So that’s what it was. Riven had read about creatures like this in fantasy novels, though he’d never thought them to be real up until now. He supposed it shouldn’t surprise him though, considering what he’d been through over the last little while.
Wait, why didn’t his identification give any more than a name? Wasn’t it supposed to come with levels, or at least question marks afterwards? It didn’t give him ...
2023-05-04 17:28:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 61
She’d gained a new silencing ability or trait concerning the movements of her body, in addition to the elongating razor-sharp tongue she could now use as a weapon.
As he silently admired her new look. She dropped from the ceiling and sputtered a cough of irritation.
“Ugh! I can’t seem to get this shape shifting thing under control!”
Riven watched as she furrowed her brows in concentration, saw her nose began to shift slig...
2023-05-03 10:53:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 60
Riven couldn’t help but smirk at that one, and he began to feel a little bit better having his friends back so he could talk about what happened. “Succubi huh?”
“YES!” Athela whacked him again and sat her big thorax down on his lap with a prompt humph. “Though you should really wait a while before you even attempt to bind one. I assume they’ve already started knocking on the door in your mind?”
Riven blinked...
2023-05-02 00:50:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 59
*BOOM*
The door to her left shattered in a cloud of splintered wood, and the roar of battle could be heard all around her.
Allie ducked and weaved in the dying light of day, shredding a man in a spray of viscera with a black arc of light from her wand. Granite exploded amidst a hail of holy lightning smites that fractured the building around her, and dozens of skeletons poured forth through the courtyard to ...
2023-04-29 16:31:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 58
Riven took in what the dungeon avatar had said concerning his affinities and rubbed his forehead. “Have you found something obviously worth the full amount yet?”
“My treasurers are still looking.”
The only thing he could truly compare to with Athela gone was the basic system of 1 copper equals 1 dollar, give or take. Trying to gauge just how much each of these were worth without a baseline was guesswork, so he put out some feel...
2023-04-27 00:00:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 57
Riven gave Negrada a skeptical look and then pulled up the options for his new class choices. To his surprise they were indeed combination classes for 2 of the 3 options just like Negrada had talked about - so apparently the system thought Riven was a good match. Athela had told Riven that the system only handed out class options for those who earned them, and apparently the last fight he’d had with the satyr warlord in conjunction with his race evolu...
2023-04-26 01:48:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 56
The more he thought about it, the more of a good idea doing a deal here and now became. He wasn’t about to just hand the money over, but there was a good chance he’d even be killed and robbed for this amount of wealth if people realized how much he had; even if he DID find some way to move it all out of here when he summoned the portal out of here. Even if he DID find an Elysium Altar after that to buy from. So he was going to use as muc...
2023-04-24 23:26:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 55
[You are now well fed, your insanity fades.]
Riven regained his sanity an hour later, with the fuzzy details beginning to outline themselves now that he was in a right state of mind. He rapidly blinked and furrowed his brows, finding himself wrist-deep in Ben’s intestines. Once he realized what he was doing he began to backpedal and scream. It was a scream not filled with the primal rage or hunger he’d experienced ...
2023-04-23 02:27:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 54
Riven began to push himself off the wall when he felt the bones in his arms snap back into place. The pain was immense, and he could barely breathe as he began violently coughing up fluid that his lungs had accumulated - but he managed to get to his knees.
He needed to speed up his recovery.
That’s when he saw the second vial of sinner’s blood he’d accidentally dropped on the floor. He reached for it, fumbling with the cork.
<... 2023-04-23 02:25:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 53
Riven hadn’t realized that only one specialty pillar could be obtained beyond normal sub-pillars, but he didn’t dwell on that for more than a half-second.
The exploding corpses nearly blew Riven’s eardrums out and tore into the satyr with intense ferocity that covered the surrounding walls in layers of red. Simultaneously streams of blood from all around the room began icing over and streaming across the floor at insane speed to race up Rive...
2023-04-23 02:24:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 52
The two behemoths collided and the room reverberated underneath the weight of their strikes. Azmoth’s flaming fingers tore chunks out of the other large demon in huge gashes, but the sturdiness and regeneration of the satyr was obvious immediately afterwards. The purple miasma surrounding the satyr quickly healed the repeated slashes or burns that Azmoth was dealing, and the enormous miniboss stood to its full height a second later - tearing thr...
2023-04-23 02:23:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 51
Riven glanced around at the bodies of the satyr, then smirked and shrugged. “I figured you wouldn’t know… which sucks, but that was expected. Either way I seem to be doing ok so far, I’m more worried about Allie and Jose - the two I’m gunning to meet with after this. The real problem here is that YOU don’t have any abilities or oriented pillars.”
Riven refrained from letting Ben know he had two ability scrolls in his bag....
2023-04-23 02:23:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 50
He was going to complain about the pain still radiating across his recently injured arm to Athela when he paused in what he was about to say… and a lump in his throat began to form. Further back in the darker recess of the cell, past the blonde man, there was a pile of four small bodies. All of them human, all of them children, and all of them dead with dark marks of bruising around their necks… Riven had a good idea where they’d come from c...
2023-04-23 02:22:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 49
Riven’s heart sank when he realized he’d been just barely too late to save the woman, or the man out front, but there was still one person they could save.
His muscles flexed, his body stiffened, and he turned to Athela with a determined upwards gesture of his hand. “Go.”
She understood and immediately slunk into the room to start crawling up the wall while the satyr were distracted. Riven took in a deep breath and exhaled as h...
2023-04-23 02:22:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 48
Athela had already vaulted over the stone ledge encompassing their solitary refuge amidst the rubble and was sliding down a large stone slab leading to the dirt below with a chittering cackle. Hitting the ground running, she lunged forward on all twelve legs towards the temple as fast as she could - which was pretty damn fast - with Riven and Azmoth scrambling to catch up.
His heart pounded and his nerves were on edge. Those definitely sound...
2023-04-23 02:22:13 +0000 UTC View Post