~ 55 ~
Joe held back his fury and read onward, hoping that the benefits would be worth it. In fact, they seemed to be more of an explanation than anything else.
Benefit one: You now have the ability to process all materials down to basic components. All raw materials, processed materials, and items are able to be ‘reduced’. You are able to reduce all materials by using mana alone. There is a ritual engraved upon your being now, a ritual that only requires the ...
2020-04-08 14:43:49 +0000 UTC
View Post
Ohhhhh boy! With this chapter, we are nearly at the end! Only 5 to go! Ahh! So exciting. This full book is in final proofing right now, and the preorder will be live for people on Wednesday! Y'all will get a copy a week in advance of release, but you will have the book right here by the end of next week! All edits and changes will be in the new copy, so make sure to read and see all the changes when we get you that copy!
Here's the chapter!
~ 54 ~
All...
2020-04-06 15:27:28 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 53 ~
“I do, in fact, have a plan.” Aten told Joe, much to his surprise. “It requires a bit of legal mumbo-jumbo, so bear with me.”
“Rawr!” Joe waved his hands in front of him like they were claws. Seeing that no one was smiling, Joe coughed into his hand and settled into a seat. “Sorry, was trying to ‘bear’ with you.”
Aten tapped the table with his index finger a few times, then shook his head. “Just… alright, here we go. Will ...
2020-04-03 20:07:16 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 52 ~
Joe jogged toward the Grand Ritual Hall, not even slightly bothered by all the smoke in the air. One of the benefits of having a higher constitution was that he was able to shrug off things such as smoke or weak poisons. Besides that, smoke inhalation was a stacking debuff, and his Neutrality Aura made sure it never had a chance to overwhelm him.
When he had left to try his luck, Joe had left the others in his Coven in charge of the defences. As far as he could...
2020-04-01 16:31:07 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 51 ~
Joe was running as hard as he could. He had given up on the ground, and was now taking his chances with much less stable footing: people’s heads. Even with all the death Joe had just caused, there were simply too many people packed together to make a huge commotion. It might have been a different story if his lightning had thunder that accompanied it, but the near-silent kills only caused people to shout after a short while. Nearly everyone was still facing the tow...
2020-03-30 14:43:03 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 50 ~
Joe sprinted up to the test dungeon, only to find the guards in front of it being attacked by a swarm of low-level people. In a real way, the guards were more annoyed than anything else. They were holding interlocking shields, and thus blocking the entrance to the tunnel as solidly as if they were a steel door.
“Filthy enemies of humanity! Get out here!” One of the attackers shouted at the shields.
The guards were having none of it. “Oh, yeah, sure....
2020-03-27 17:38:13 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 49 ~
There was an almost unbroken circle of vomit around the sparkling new bathhouse. The office workers that had been on the outermost ring had been spun so quickly that a few had passed out from the g-forces that they had been subjected to; not to mention that most of them were the people that had their mana forcibly opened. Joe was watching and hoping… if his characteristic was going to be applied to the building it would be any second now.
Structure ...
2020-03-25 17:56:10 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 48 ~
“That’s the last of the spare buildings.” Joe wiped his face with a towel as he landed on the ground with the rest of the members of his coven. “All that we have to do now is wait until we have a higher-grade Core, and we can get the main bathhouse up and running.”
“Can I say, that sounds super out of place?” Hannah offered seriously. “You said that it's an open air Japanese-style bathhouse, right? That makes no sense with the rest of our archit...
2020-03-23 14:42:23 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 47 ~
“So is there a reason that Aten made me come with you?” Mike grumpily demanded as Joe and several other people with extremely high carrying capacity walked deep into Ardania. “I know that you said you needed help, but why should the Vice Guild Leader have to be the one that helps you with a secret task?”
Joe stopped dead in his tracks and turned to Mike. “Listen. Do you remember when I talked to the guild about buying up all the items and suc...
2020-03-20 15:32:17 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 46 ~
“Now that ya mention it, Joe, I am getting ah vibe that somethin’ mighta gone wrong.” Bard mumbled as the flame finally finished transforming. A person now stood on the altar, and he danced around on it without leaving the confines of the stone. Hearing Bard’s words, the being turned and stared down at them with a cold expression.
But, seeing who had spoken, the man did a backflip off the altar and landed in front of them; somehow facing them dire...
2020-03-18 18:51:15 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 45 ~
Joe grumbled as he pounded on a bar of iron so that he could get it soft enough to pull into nails. “This is stupid and I’m going to fix this entire broken buisness model and it dumb face and-”
“Hey! The metal knows when you’re treating it badly.” The smith was a player that had worked with metal his entire life before coming to Eternium, and his skill level was already near the mid-Expert rank. It would be higher, but there was so much more
2020-03-16 13:48:56 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 44 ~
Joe had started getting into a good routine again, and there had been no signs of an incoming attack. He and his team had managed a few more quests and test dungeon runs, and now that the curse on Alexis had been broken, team cohesion was moving slowly but surely higher. Three days had already passed, and Joe had managed to pull in another eight thousand experience, reaching level eighteen. During this time, the guild had been working to gather building materials and e...
2020-03-13 07:42:31 +0000 UTC
View Post
Good morning everybody! Hope you’re all doing well. My schedule is a bit wonky, as I’m in London, but everything should be back to regular soon!!
~ 43 ~
“Come now, you admitted that you didn't know what this was. You have no way to use it to its full capacity. Sell it to me.” Jake demanded calmly.
“Jake, tell me what it is, or I’m going to take it somewhere else and get it appraised.” Joe replied quickly, reaching out to grab the cauldron...
2020-03-11 09:46:55 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 42 ~
With public opinion turning against them, the Wanderer’s Guild started having a rough time. At four in the morning the day after the battle, hunting parties were sent to respawn in the woods near Towney McTownface. By seven in the morning, it was discovered that player run shops in and around Ardania had started increasing their prices for guild members, and their cost of living started to increase.
This forced the guild members to begin frequenting non-player...
2020-03-09 07:17:55 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 41 ~
Ruthless Defenders: this is a guild-wide title. You have stood against an invasion of at least a thousand strong, protecting what is yours and not leaving a single invader alive. To upgrade this title, destroy an invading force of at least ten thousand without letting a single invader escape! Effect: While defending the territory of the Wanderer’s Guild, reduce damage from invaders by 5%, and increase damage dealt by 5%. Enemies slain on the guild’s land have a...
2020-03-06 16:58:10 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 40 ~
Joe left the dungeon a six hours later, having finally defeated the full one hundred Neigh-Bears required by the quest. In total, he had slain one hundred and thirty-six of the creatures on this trip, and he had gained good rewards for doing so. After confirming that he had only gained four dexterity -three for the challenge, and one for the uninterrupted twenty-seven minutes of training - Joe counted all the Cores he had gained, pleased with the amount.
“Twent...
2020-03-04 20:34:34 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 39 ~
Joe looked at the six Cores he had managed to obtain, then down at his tattered clothing. “I… I think that was worth it?”
Each of the Cores held thirty-five hundred experience in them, putting them right in the center of the Common ranks. Meanwhile, Joe’s equipment had dropped in durability from the beating he had taken at the paws of the herd, as well as his own attempts to regulate mana flow to his jumping skill. “Ugh… if only that elite would have ...
2020-03-02 14:49:56 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 38 ~
You have entered the Dungeon ‘Trial section 118b’. Please cast your vote for party challenge! Strength / Dexterity / Constitution / Intelligence / Wisdom / Charisma / Perception / Luck.
Joe selected the dexterity option. The odd cube-shaped world rearranged itself and settled. He jumped to the platform, then to the door, and stepped inside.
Average party dexterity… 70. Scaling difficulty to 50-100 dexterity range. Good luck!
...
2020-02-28 16:13:20 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 37 ~
“No way am I letting you tear it down!” Mike told Joe as he looked at the new building with shining eyes. “Our guild members would eat you alive!”
“I don’t understand.” Joe admitted after staring at Mike long enough to make both of them uncomfortable. “Did I not just tell you that once every five days or so, someone will die in there?”
“Exactly!” Mike’s eyes were practically releasing light of their own. “Only o...
2020-02-26 15:25:31 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 36 ~
Sunset was approaching by the time Joe completed his diagrams. He looked over the shifting surface of the diagram, pleased that he was going to have a room to sleep in tonight where he wouldn't be awoken by a drunk barfly shouting from the common room. It had taken so long to formulate the diagrams only because these buildings were Uncommon ranked, right at the edge of Rare buildings. Luckily, his Architectural Lore skill had helped him fix a few of the issues on the...
2020-02-24 17:42:26 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 35 ~
Directly after the meeting with Mike, Joe went to the temple area of the Pathfinder’s Hall to tell Tommulus that he had failed his quest. He was sure that the deity already knew, but it was better to be forthright about it. It was a Bad Idea, with intentional capital letters, to ignore the god of wrath.
Joe walked into the odd interior of the temple, moving around the mid-sized Ents that were growing along the edge of the river. Walking directl...
2020-02-21 16:47:51 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 34 ~
“Seriously.” Joe complained as he worked to fine-tune a ritual diagram. “I warn them about an incoming attack on our town, and they shrug it off like it doesn't matter that a huge amount of people are coming here to claim the greenhouse and smash up our town.”
“They obviously don't know that the time investment there is absurd.” Hannah grumbled along with him. “Did you know that a couple deer got in there and totally destroyed the apple tree...
2020-02-19 16:01:07 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 33 ~
Joe pounded his fist into the wall as he appeared in the Grand Temple of Ardania. “That slimy son of a-”
Reward calculations granted! Item descriptions available! You now have a choice: you may forfeit any of the items collected. You may keep any of the items collected. Each item will be assigned a point value, and all items turned in will grant each party member an equal share of points. If there is a dispute, party members may use their points t...
2020-02-17 12:01:00 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 32 ~
There was nothing to do but keep fighting. Eventually, the group got to the boss of this area, or where the boss should have been. Instead, there was only an empty room, with a book at the other end. Joe looked at the book with excitement: the cover was a deep, burnished gold.
Joe had found what he was looking for! Cautiously moving through the room, they watched for traps or sudden boss encounters. But there was nothing.
Zone cleared! For part...
2020-02-14 17:05:36 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 31 ~
Poppy was the first to point out the obvious. “We need to start moving! Even if everything in here starts at level one, we’ll only have half a day before they start catching us in level. Somehow, I doubt anything worth keeping will only be guarded by something at level one, so that means we need to move even faster!”
Please name your party.
“What?” Joe stated without thinking.
There are 27 parties attempting to use party name ...
2020-02-12 18:25:00 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 30 ~
“Gas, gas, gas!” Bobby the guard shouted as a wave of charcoal smoke washed toward them. They knew what was coming, they had been close enough to hear the entire conversation.
The street filled with panic as everyone in it tried to avoid the poison that was billowing around. After only two seconds, the guards were swallowed up and trapped in darkness. Only a few seconds after that… the smoke cleared. Bobby looked around frantically, “Everyone okay? What...
2020-02-11 01:58:41 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 29 ~
The week had gone by in a blur of training, studying, and practicing. Making rituals had been put to the side in favor of gaining the skills needed to improve rituals to a higher degree than fancy circles would allow for. Since Joe had devoted all his time until now into ritual circles, it was understandable - if frustrating - that the other skills would take as long or longer to reach the same heights. Still, Joe was proud of the results.
Name: Joe ‘Tatum’...
2020-02-07 13:38:46 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 28 ~
Soul Forge complete! Skill gained: Retaliation of Shadows.
Retaliation of Shadows (Apprentice I) (Legendary): You have forgone the active usage of the Shadows around you for the ability to use the Shadows at a more… instinctual level. When you are attacked, your mind automatically reacts. Whether it be from a physical blow, or a magical attack, the shadows will lash out on your behalf. Effect: upon taking damage, an instant retaliation will...
2020-02-05 17:34:52 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 27 ~
It took a while to make their way through the damaged buildings, but Joe was pleased to see that any of them that didn’t need to be torn down looked shiny and new at the end. The main reason this process had taken so long was that the materials seemed to be torn apart and placed into the structure bit by bit; so much so that it looked like the building was growing instead of being built.
“Looks like non-processed materials are fine,” Joe nodded at Hannah, ...
2020-02-03 14:04:00 +0000 UTC
View Post
~ 26 ~
“They’re threatening to wipe out our base.” Aten began the meeting as soon as the last person had filtered in. “We’ve been number one for too long, and it's clearly attracted the notice of some unsavory people.”
A sharply-dressed man that Joe hadn't seen in a long time cleared his throat and lazily spoke from the relaxed position of his chair. “So, what do they want? I’m sure they demanded to be paid off or some such nonsense.”
“Mr. Bank...
2020-01-31 15:21:33 +0000 UTC
View Post
