OH NO! All we have left is the Epilogue!!!!! :P
“Not like this!” Zed screeched, his organs and skeleton able to be seen due to the approach of the intense red light shining toward them. An ocean of bloody illumination was expanding in a sphere; upward, side-to-side, and even digging through the ground as it moved. Only a second into activation, the spell was already moving as fast as a normal man could run… and gaining speed.
“Everyone get ...
2020-08-28 15:18:52 +0000 UTC View Post
“Tier seven!” Taylor screamed as they all charged toward the Scar at full speed. A quarter mile was nothing to this group normally, however they were continually ambushed by chimeras that hadn’t been consumed by the spell thus far. The Scuttlers especially would erupt from the blood and corpse piles, trying to take Zed down off Arthur.
“Why are they all after me?” Zed screamed as yet another Scuttler jumped at him only to be sliced apart by Lu...
2020-08-26 13:22:48 +0000 UTC View Post
A hooded figure stepped out of the portal, and in an instant… the Scar was reduced in size by at least a third. The sheer amount of power this one being represented must be utterly huge if the stabilized portal weakened this much just to let it through.
“Wake her up, wake her up, wake her up.” Luke muttered in manic repetition, a strange desperation flowing through him. The hood on the creature made it impossible to understand what he was looking at, but a si...
2020-08-24 14:54:54 +0000 UTC View Post
“Here we go.” Zed was watching the walls of the pass intently. A thin layer of moss had coated it as far as his eye could see, and over time most had fallen off except in a few areas where large green ‘X’s showed what Andre had hoped were stress points. Taylor was heading to the largest of them even now, using her stealthy ways to cross the distance.
Since she needed fairly close proximity, and the mana she devoted to the process would light her up like a beac...
2020-08-21 17:14:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Luke was yanked to the ground as two people on horses ran past him while dragging a net. He started skidding as they dragged him, but he was released in an instant as the horses slammed into a razor-sharp stone spike each. They collapsed forward, and Luke was sent flying as if he had been in a slingshot instead of a net. He flipped in the air, Innate Balance coming to the rescue and allowing him to be prepared for the new threat as he landed on his feet.
The people didn’t...
2020-08-19 14:41:19 +0000 UTC View Post
“Abyssal Murderhobo!” Taylor shouted in a fury, then forced herself to a calm state. “Andre, we need a wall at our backs. We need thorns for the fleshy foes, and thickets to force the armored enemies to come at us how we want them to come at us. Zed, sit.”
“Sit?”
“Sit.” Zed reluctantly sat, and a column of stone lifted him into the air. He shouted once, then went quiet as the stone surrounded him and left him with small...
2020-08-17 14:33:14 +0000 UTC View PostLuke paused as he felt something in the air. Something familiar. “I am uncertain what that is. Someone explain this to me.”
“You mean the increased mana density?” Andre stretched into a comfortable pose. “Yeah, that’s pretty high. Feels like going home.”
“Feels like there’s danger.” Luke rebutted with a grimace. “There’s a bug… it’s watching us.”
“Not a bug, it’s a Scar.” Taylor explained to the group. “There’s a portal to ano...
2020-08-14 23:39:48 +0000 UTC View Post
The night passed quickly, with the four of them taking turns on watch. Though it was past sunrise, the area they were in was still dark thanks to the towering mountains. The four began their information gathering mission, pausing every once in a while for Luke to check on ‘suspicious’ boulders.
“These are all fine.” He stopped looking after about fifteen minutes, and they began to pick up the pace. The thorns and other hardy plant life in the area bent a...
2020-08-12 16:20:23 +0000 UTC View Post
“I heard you clearly when you stated that there was a huge amount of enemies waiting in there,” Zed weakly smiled as they huddled all together in the cramped tent that he had managed to set up before the rain began falling, “but what does that mean for us? Do we flee and bring back an army? Two armies?”
“There is simply not enough information.” Taylor replied after a moment of thinking. “We don’t know where they are coming from, we don’t kno...
2020-08-10 15:42:59 +0000 UTC View Post
“That was a stricture called ‘Pass the Time’.” Zed explained as the group looked around in a slight daze. “It is a Mastery of mine, a way for me to tell an engaging story in a way that makes the mind fold in upon itself. Obviously, there are side effects, so I cannot use it when we are in dangerous situations, but it makes long distance travel much more palatable.”
They were standing at the foothills of a mountain range, and after he started talking, none ...
2020-08-07 14:50:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Their journey was not a short one, since they were walking at a fairly normal pace to allow Zed to stay with them. Most of them were used to solitude and silence, and only Zed was used to having regular conversations. Yet, roughly a week had passed since their awkward attempt at reintroducing themselves, and Luke was becoming more and more twitchy. Eventually, it got to the point that Zed, who had been dying for conversation and kept getting shut down, couldn’t h...
2020-08-06 02:23:51 +0000 UTC View Post
The four team members were marching through the woods again, but this time everyone except Luke was in a very bad mood. Zed looked over at the Murderhobo and had to hold back his scream of frustration. “Seriously, when you notice a flaw like a lack of a time limit? You keep that to yourself. You could have just… left! Gone to do anything you wanted to do for the next several decades, or until one of the members of the nobility caught up to you! Instead, you tau...
2020-08-03 15:12:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Luke had gotten bored simply walking when there was a fight that was clearly in progress. His sack of swords and armor had mostly been absorbed by Walking Arsenal by this point that time, and he needed another one hundred and fifty steel swords before he would be able to generate his own with his Mana. Sure, he was in the process of absorbing one right now, thanks to that sentry guy, but one sword was not going to cut it.
“Ha! Cut it! I'm still fun...
2020-07-31 18:53:07 +0000 UTC View PostHappy news! I've caught up in editing! The next round of edits is starting, and this should be starting narration in August! So exciting!
~ 40 ~
The four members of the newly-formed battle team were walking at a leisurely pace along a road that had clearly been beaten into the ground by thousands of feet walking on it. There was no true rush. They had orders to go, yet they did not have a time they had to be there. In fact, the majority of them were pleased wit...
2020-07-29 21:30:35 +0000 UTC View Post
“Well, first of all why don't we just talk with him instead of ordering him around or slapping him with spells?” Taylor’s tone was caustic, and she stepped forward carefully as if Luke was a wild animal. “Sir? I assume you are a man thanks to that… um, rather impressive beard. I'm going to cast a spell to clean you up and take care of any surface-level health issues that you are having. This is not an attack. Cleanse, Purify? Take care of him?”
Two insect-...
2020-07-27 17:17:13 +0000 UTC View PostOne of my personal favorites :D
“Whatever it is, I believe that it is coming from... him.” Luke slowly opened his eyes when he heard the voice that had plagued his nightmares for over thirty years. it had been so long that he thought he had imagined the voice of the Archmage, simply ascribing his hatred to a figment of his imagination. However, here it was, and he was too weak from opening the dimension to kill the man where he stood. “Throw a bucket o...
2020-07-24 16:00:50 +0000 UTC View PostHey all! We are going to be getting into a section where we are all coming together again!!! So, Since this changes how the book is written, be sure to point out issues or more things that you want to see in here! I can always add more!
~ FMH 37~
Just outside a small town where a defensive Fortress had just been completed, Woodswright, a portal appeared and a man walked out of seemingly nowhere. He looked around at the overgrown path, the trees that s...
2020-07-22 15:36:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Skill increase complete!
Luke waited for more, but it appeared that the system was done speaking to him right now. He sighed, and requested more information. “Skill page, changes only.”
Tier seven ‘Fully Geared’ has become Tier eight ‘Walking Arsenal’.
Walking Arsenal. (T8) Level 0. 0/100 to level 1!
Effect 1: You are able to absorb natural weapons and armor (Claws, fangs, scales) by touching them. By absorbing a ...
2020-07-20 14:50:33 +0000 UTC View Post
- Luke -
“Years.” Luke sighed as he looked at all of the scars that lined his body. They were faint and silvery, but he had only ever healed perfectly when he had been able to fully submerge himself in a pool of water. “Cookie is waiting for me, but it's taken years… five? Eight? Ten? Just to get through another two.”
Alert: system clock registers time since Sigil application as Years: 29 Months: 11 Days: 12 Secon-
“Just stop already!” Luk...
2020-07-17 16:59:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Taylor had been trapped in the same spot for the last few hours as the Fissure crawled along and snuffled. It was clearly searching for her, as it kept returning to the spot where she had entered stealth. It looked like an abstract cross between a giant lizard and a mole, and she wanted nothing to do with it. The words that made up its body were sharp and full of scribbles, like a twelve-year-old’s drawing of something ‘scary’. Every once in a while it would screech and cha...
2020-07-15 15:49:14 +0000 UTC View Post
“I waited for fifty years. Fifty years of trying to find someone to take this Archmage position without killing me off for it.” Don had an iron grip on Taylor's shoulder and was frog marching her along through a thick morning fog. “Now I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, and you… you just decide to do your own thing. One of the only things that I can’t order you to do is spend your Potentia as I see fit… a failing of that Sigil on your brow.”
He ch...
2020-07-13 14:50:18 +0000 UTC View Post
- Taylor -
“Taylor, you are six years into your training, and I still have to look over your shoulder to make sure that you are doing what I tell you to do.” Master Don’s voice was calm and collected, but it still made Taylor shiver to hear his admonishing words.
She had seen all too much of what Master Don was like. Over the years, the veneer of being a good person had faded, and faded… until one day he had just given up all pretenses. Don wanted out of his d...
2020-07-10 15:27:50 +0000 UTC View PostHis blood was still running down his back, and there was a shallow pool of it on the top of the stone. The circle he created in an attempt to bind the bear was more like an oval, but even so Andre had high hopes for taking the next step. The Cave bear was weakened, it couldn’t struggle out of the circle, and it’s personal mana pool had run dry. The conditions were perfect.
“Bind by Blood!” Andre roared in pain as the wound on his back popped open and a surge ...
2020-07-08 17:04:53 +0000 UTC View PostAndre had left the badland area and gone searching for plants that he could use to subdue that bear. It certainly wouldn’t be an easy task, but there was only profit in this plan. If he took down the bear non-lethally, he could attempt to bind it and reach the Second Circle. He would also gain whatever that plant was that was gathering mana to push through into the next tier.
The risk was absolutely worth it, especially since he would never get close enough that he would risk an atta...
2020-07-06 14:42:13 +0000 UTC View Post“No, I know these don’t naturally pollinate each other… I just don’t care!” Andre laughed at the samples. He was in hiding, and had spent the last few months working with his new ability to create something he could use as a weapon. Currently he was arguing with a sterile plant that he had created, a combination of fungal spores and dandelions. His goal was to make the spores that not only got into the air, but could drift over a huge area.
Since they were sterile, he didn’...
2020-07-03 13:09:01 +0000 UTC View Post- Andre -
Andre stood on top of a cliff, looking down at the dry valley below him. He had been preparing for this moment for years, and was looking forward to seeing how his regrowth project panned out.
This was going to be a proof-of-concept attempt. If he could use his power to grow plants in the harsh terrain below him, Andre would feel great about his long-term mission of returning the Scarocco desert to a grassland, and potentially even to farmland or forest....
2020-07-02 02:22:38 +0000 UTC View PostOn the eighth month after he started working on his cuirass project, Luke finished the final chest piece he needed. He started absorbing it right away, and thought over what had happened in the last six months.
Luke recognized that his carelessness in charging through guardian territory had nearly cost him his life, and he had done extensive testing with his armor since then to see what exactly it did. As it turned out, the ‘extra health’ was another way to say ...
2020-06-29 18:01:30 +0000 UTC View Post
“Goat Call!” Luke ordered his skill to activate, and a strange bleating resounded through the air. It didn’t take long before a couple of goats started running toward him, clear confusion in their annoying square eyes. Right now, Luke was after food so he decided not to use Cookie to turn them into inedible paste. He set her down and took a step forward, driving a fist down as the goat passed.
*Splat*.
For an instant, there was a shimmer ove...
2020-06-26 15:15:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Goats ran away bleating in terror as the personification of goaty death loomed large behind them. A white streak whirled through the air and left behind nothing but pulverized grass. At first the goats had made a proud and noble stand, but now the unified herd that controlled the entire grassland was in full retreat.
“Ha, ha! Thirty points in Fitness!” Luke bellowed after the fleeing creatures at the top of his lungs. He flashed forward, catching up to his targ...
2020-06-24 14:40:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Skill page requested. Skills: 2
Fully geared. (T7) Level 9. 477/11,500 to level 10!
Effect 1: You are able to absorb natural weapons and armor (Claws, fangs, scales) by touching them. By absorbing a certain amount of the same type of weapon or armor, you are able to ‘equip’ it on your body. Only one type of weapon can be created at a time, and only one type of armor per slot. Choosing a new type of weapon or armor will replace the previous ty...
2020-06-22 15:11:08 +0000 UTC View Post