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Implode ~ 15!

“What are these supposed to represent?” Joe tried and failed to understand what exactly it was that his team was fighting right now. The creature itself had incredible Constitution, Meaning that it was incredibly difficult to make any damage that they managed to inflict stick to the beast. If there had been more than one of them at a time, it was unlikely that they would have been able to fight past it, instead of needing to rely on agility to escape or get around it in a different manner...

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Implode ~ 14!

Joe was on his third Omnivault of the fight, and the constant dodging was starting to wear on his patience. “Cleave! How are you killing them? This. One. Won’t. Die!”

He punctuated his statement by driving his Ritual Orbs one after another into the beast that was lunging at him, its mouth snapping closed on the location he had vacated only a moment ago. “Seriously, what are these things supposed to be? Snapping turtles mixed snails and leeches? Rocks with legs and teeth...

Implode ~ 13!

A quarter of an hour later, Joe was starting to get a little bit bored. He browsed his skill list and decided to try out something that he had practically never used: the spell ‘Message’. “It’s at Novice one. All that means to me is that it should level up real quick. Also that… it probably has a super high chance of backfiring, thanks to me being Excommunicated, but I have no idea what that would look like. Let's give it a shot!”

He chuckled evilly as he targeted Jaxon, who...

Implode ~ 12!

“I don't know who they are, but they’re gaining on us,” Daniella managed to voice amid her huffing and puffing. It was just past noon, and they had been running for over twelve hours. If Joe hadn't been nearly as exhausted as she was, Major Cleave would almost certainly have scooped her up and forced them to continue going. But with two humans on her shoulders, even she would be slowed down enough that the people coming after them would start to catch up just as they reached a ...

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Implode ~ 11!

They were only a little way outside of the city when Joe handed Cleave a small tile that contained a ritual he had spent a few hours crafting. “This is a Ritual of Bubble Travel. To activate it, all you need to do is put in a little mana right here, and it’ll send you flying in a straight line toward the capital. It only has a range of a hundred miles or so, but that should get you out of any immediate danger. I need you to swear that if we get into too much danger, you ...

Implode ~ 10!

“You… are Aten’s father.” Joe snorted and glanced at the Guild Commander. “I'm incredibly surprised, yet somehow it makes perfect sense. I hope you aren’t worried. I have come to understand that the apocalypse on Earth was not your fault, and you were only trying to give people a fair warning. Also, I got a pod ahead of time and was already a permanent addition, so you really have nothing to worry about from me.”

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Implode ~ 9!

Lay on Hands was surprisingly easy to capture in an orb. That made sense, as the literal instructions were ‘cast spell on orb’, and the spell was cast by touching something. It made him want to kick himself for thinking he couldn’t manage it—getting caught up in the spell’s complexity and forgetting the actual process—but he… refrained. He had to focus now that he was at the key moment in the follow-up ritual, attempting to place Essence Cycle.

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Implode ~ 8!

“I have a somewhat strange title effect,” Daniella admitted as they all sat together drinking cappuccinos. “I’m such a workaholic that I accidentally died of starvation, continued working in my respawn room, and got kicked out of the room… without noticing that I had died. It’s called ‘Hardworking Ghost’, and it decreases my respawn timer by a set amount.”

“Not gonna lie, that’s a sad story.” Jaxon patted her on the hand, earning a simultaneous eye roll from Dani...

Implode ~ 7!

As he waited for his death timer to count down, Joe decided that this would be a good opportunity to go over his messages and stats, and plan out what he needed to do to get the situation in his favor once again.

Name: Joe ‘Excommunicated’ Class: Reductionist

Profession I: Arcanologist (Max)

Profession II: Ritualistic Alchemist (1/20)

Profession III: Grandmaster’s Apprentice (14/25)

Profession IV: None.

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Implode ~ 6!

Joe swept up from the ground like a whirling dervish, ready to tear into the Elf that had launched the sneak attack. “What did you—oh, he’s dead. What did he do to me?”

“I'm pretty sure he marked you.” Daniella pointed at the sky, where the heraldry of the Elven Theocracy floated high above them. “Do you know any dispel rituals, or something that can cancel that out?”

Not exactly wanting to reveal his lack of diversity in spell casting, Joe could only shak...

Implode ~ 5!

“I don’t particularly like the fact that we’re going to be traveling over land for a long period of time, but I also feel that it'll be good for you.” Major Cleave shot Joe a pensive look as she took the lead. “There are several things that will be working in our favor for this trip, namely the fact that Dehur Bethi is in the exact center of Alfheim. Wha…? Not Alfheim, Alfheim! I… I can’t call the Zone by our name for it?”

“One of the curses that comes along...

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Implode ~ 4!

“Remind me again why we are walking instead of tearing apart our atoms and sending them across space so that we can appear directly in the next city over as they all come back together?” Jaxon spoke out loud to no one in particular, but it was Daniella that answered him.

“It is a safety feature built into the teleporters,” she informed him with a resigned tone. “In an effort to make it less feasible for spies to gain control of teleportation points and send troops directly int...

Implode ~ 3!

“That’s why we have a completely unknown amount of time to get this taken care of.” Joe was wrapping up his mission briefing to Major Cleave and Jaxon, just as Daniella arrived wearing a travel pack. “Off to… somewhere, Daniella?”

“I’m coming with you. I want to get out of this… whatever it is that you want to call it. I’m thinking you should name this Hamlet ‘The Gilded Cage’?” Her words soured Joe’s mood slightly, and he was a little less receptive than he ...

New art (Attempt #2!)

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I had put up an attempt at cover art previously, but a hefty number of people made really good points about the quality. So, I'm trying again! What do you think of this for the new Ritualist cover?

Implode ~ 2!

Incoming teleportation request.

“You’ve gotta be kidding me. I just want to get going.” Joe growled as he stared at the message that appeared on his city command tab as soon as the teleporter came online. “How long has this person been pinging us for their message to come through as soon as the teleporter goes live? Who even is it?”

Message: Invite me in. I’ve been waiting to use the Alchemy station, and you’re almost out of time.

“...

Implode ~ 1!

“I don't know what to tell you, Joe. We’re focusing on turtling up, and I’m actively against doing anything else.” Havoc tapped his cigar on on ashtray, sending the burning cinders to land in the porcelain dish with a too-loud *clunk*—as though rocks had been dropped into the dish. “The Shoe is closed tighter than an Elf's grip on one of their holy books. You’re just going to have to stay here and train like I’ve been pushing ya to do.”

“I'm telling you ...