Noth reached out, her heart breaking at the anguish in Hal’s voice.
“Look, Noth,” Mira said, placing a hand on her shoulder. “Look!”
Blinking away tears, Nothricient looked with her eyes instead of her heart. It took her a moment to see through the pillar of golden-white flame that rose to the heavens around Hal.
No man should have been able to survive the onslaught, but somehow… Hal was. The silhouette inside was brought to its knees, the tri...
2023-09-11 04:19:58 +0000 UTC
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Author Note:
And here's the last of the new 5 chapter Patreon goal! Gold is now 30 chapters ahead of release with the next goal pegged at 200 patrons for 35 chapters ahead. If you want more chapters, spread the word about Voidknight! Hope you've all enjoyed the weekend chapters. Tomorrow (Monday) we'll resume our normal schedule.
“That’s the bad news,” Sam said, leading Matt out of the ten...
2023-09-11 01:19:17 +0000 UTC
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Matt waited to die.
The pain had been unimaginable, but at least it was over now. The angel of light had appeared to usher him to the beyond, and now he was floating in the darkness of the ether simply… waiting.
The velvety silence was broken by a shrill scream that continued to rise in pitch and terror. Matt was perhaps just as surprised as anybody else to realize, to his horror, that the scream was coming from his mouth.
His entire body was seized w...
2023-09-11 01:14:33 +0000 UTC
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Sam sailed through the air, wind and misted rain blowing through his hair. It felt freeing.
And, as it turned out, with his higher stats, the gap was easy to leap. In fact, he had overshot it by several feet. Sam traced the makeshift rope back to the tiny Skyshard and cursed.
Komachi was running along its slackened length with the graceful ease of all cats across the multiverse.
“Don’t leave Komachi!” she wailed, leaping onto his shoulder and diving into h...
2023-09-11 01:14:11 +0000 UTC
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Sending another pulse into the Void mana shell, Sam pressed the encapsulating barrier to the underside of the [Storm Crystal].
He had learned not to read the mana itself—that had been a huge mistake that he had to unlearn—like he had with the [Ember Vine Fruit].
What he did was much harder, but also far more reliable. By reading the fluctuations and reactions within his own Void mana, he could predict what would happen with the Storm mana.
And the more exper...
2023-09-10 02:31:14 +0000 UTC
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Ducking back inside the tent, Sam’s face was lit up by the blue glow of the crystalline shard in his hand. “This is… a fragment of the [Shatterblade],” he said in awe. “Only, it’s not quite the same….”
Raiko gasped in astonishment. “It survived?”
Sam held up the fragment of the [Shatterblade], so she could examine it as well.
[Sourcestone]
(Settlement Core | Honor Type) (X-Class)
(Unique)<...
2023-09-10 02:30:54 +0000 UTC
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Leaning back, Sam mentally swiped over to the next [Swordsman] skill in the list. One that had been probably the opaquest out of all the skills.
[Switch]
(Swordsman Ability) (F-Class)
(☆Primitive)
Through your experiences and training, you’ve stumbled upon a fundamental truth earlier than most and uniquely suited to Swordsmen. Where others must stay committed to singular stances, you have l...
2023-09-08 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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“Sonnuva bitch!” Darren cursed, holding the wound at his side. Blood dribbled out between his fingers.
Leilani pressed her hands to his side, casting [Cure] on the wound, but that bastard Simon had coated his blade in poison when he stabbed Darren.
Albert gave Darren’s wound a calculating glance. “What do you want us to do?”
Already, Darren could feel his power slipping.
Everything had happened so fast! He had no time to prepare or conjure illusi...
2023-09-07 13:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Matt barked a short, piteous laugh. His fingertips were broken and bloodied from scrabbling at the stone door blocking his way.
The poison ravaged his body, rotting it from the inside out. And all the while, he could only think of one thing: I just want to feel the sun on my face one more time.
All the loot he had? He would gladly give it away. Every last bit if it meant a few more seconds of life.
The disc-shaped elevator had risen as soon as he had st...
2023-09-06 13:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Long leafy vines unfurled from the ceiling, bearing round blue fruits that began to shine brighter than even the [Archflame Coal].
As hungry as Sam was, he didn’t have any time to inspect them as he hunted for a switch, a lever, something to help the people trapped mere inches away from freedom.
Komachi did though. Yowling, she leapt onto one of the mini-melons and dug in with her claws.
“Mana, it recovers mana!” The cat said between the noisy mun...
2023-09-05 13:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Vaskad thrashed with rage, and where Vaskad thrashed, the world upturned. Forests were ripped free from the soil of the starting island, monsters and protectors of the forests fled before his terrible might.
The granite-skinned ogre sucked in air through its nostrils the size of cave mouths. He had just been tracking that horrible human creature who had awoken it so prematurely, and then it was just gone.
Ogres, by nature, are not very smart. But Vas...
2023-09-04 23:07:20 +0000 UTC
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Hal stood in front of the two dragons, hands clasped behind his back in a stance that was becoming exceedingly familiar and comfortable to him.
Mira lounged at his side. Somehow, the elf was able to do so while standing upright. Hal could never quite get that level of ease and calm.
In truth, he would have preferred it to his current stance, but he’d tried it in secret a few times and it always looked odd. He would have preferred to be aloof, but that wasn’t in the cards.
<...
2023-09-04 04:13:36 +0000 UTC
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Sam’s grin grew wider with each sentence he read.
Komachi also got excited, even though she had no idea what he was looking at. He wished he could somehow show her the Shardscript.
And then her eyes lit up. “Cool!”
“Are you seeing this too, Komachi?” Sam asked, incredulously.
“Yep!”
Now that’s handy.
Komachi had been able to see his Shardscript before at times, but it never seemed entirely intentional. Now that he could...
2023-09-01 13:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Volquist staggered out of the portal and placed a steadying hand on a starfield pillar. He was free. Actually free!
And the person who had freed him… he just couldn’t shake the strangeness of it all. “I’m sorry, old friend,” he said to a distant memory.
While he hadn’t lied to Sam, he hadn’t told him the whole truth, either. But what else would you expect from the God of hidden truths and the darkness that veils them?
Still… he wondered if those ...
2023-09-01 13:00:12 +0000 UTC
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“What?” Sam laughed. “Why would we kill you?”
“Because I don’t want to be around for the nuclear fallout that will result from not one, but two Incarnates being pulled into this Shardrune,” Volquist answered. “Much less two of the most vindictive, power-hungry, and outright insane of the bunch.”
“Do you have any idea how much chaos you’re both about to sow? And don’t think I haven’t noticed you’re both insane enough to wield Ap...
2023-09-01 04:23:13 +0000 UTC
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“Listen,” Volquist said, “everybody knows you don’t cross War. If you’re here, then that means you’re out for revenge.”
“I did come with somebody else,” Sam said, as he saw a glowing spark of light from Raiko’s arrival. “Speak of the devil.”
The silence that radiated from the crystal was filled with a frigid dread.
“Hey Sam.” Raiko gave him a lopsided grin, then lifted a brow at the surrounding emptiness. “You appear to be… strand...
2023-09-01 04:22:42 +0000 UTC
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A blinding wall of noise and light washed over Sam and Komachi, throwing them back with a herculean force that ripped the floating hall apart.
The barrier exploded a moment later, bringing far more destruction than Sam intended.
The hall quaked, throwing Sam—just as he was standing up—clean off his feet and into the wall. The chamber, past where the barrier winked out of existence, erupted into flying rubble and clouds of dust.
A wave of utter destruction ro...
2023-09-01 04:21:09 +0000 UTC
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Widening his stance, Sam tightened his two-handed grip on his claymore. Concentrating on the magical barrier, he tried to use his bloodline to visualize a weak point.
The barrier shimmered hazily, just as the same as usual. No weak point at all.
Seconds ticked by, and nothing happened. It was the perfect opportunity for a tumbleweed to pass by, but the two of them were stuck underground in a dingy hall.
One that floated in the vast empty grayness of some magical...
2023-09-01 04:18:20 +0000 UTC
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Red and silver sparks of Fire and Metal mana flashed across Sam’s claymore as he tore it from his [Biting Sheath]. Though faint, he could sense the presence of that mana in the air. And even that each one was different and distinct.
With a surge of mana through his arms, joined by an accompanying rush of adrenaline, those sparks turned to molten globules that splattered against the stone monster.
He was aiming for its breastplate, considering that was a larger and t...
2023-09-01 04:15:43 +0000 UTC
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UPDATE (9/24/23): Cleaning this up a little to keep the goals front-and-center.
==New Goal==
- Our next goal is: 300 patrons
- Gold Ascendants will get: 35 -> 40 chapters ahead
==Completed Goal (9/24/23)==
- Our old goal was: 200 patrons
- Gold Ascendant got: 30 -> 35 chapters ahead
==Completed Goal (9/9/23)==
- Our old goal was: 150 patrons
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2023-09-01 04:08:06 +0000 UTC
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Komachi launched a fizzling bolt of mana at Sam, using her black-tipped tail of all things to cast the spell and make it harder to deflect.
He thrust his hand out, straining to push the unwieldy mana up his arm and into his hand to activate [Scour] mid-motion. The numbing cold of the Apocalypse mana wasn’t helping things any.
Void mana burst from his palm in a wide horizontal spray of black and silver flames. It collided with the colorless bolt of mana and utterly c...
2023-08-31 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Now that he was alone, Sam pulled up his stats before he got started and selected his bonus point allotment.
With the Void Path unlocked, Sam now potentially had a broader use for stat allocation if the talents were any hint. At the same time, the Fighter Job and the Void Path both appeared to double down on Strength and Vigor.
Which suited him just fine.
That also applied to his new Art, [Scour]. Since it gave bonuses to both Strength and Insight, he figured th...
2023-08-31 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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“A Stat Talent?” Raiko shook her head. “About the only thing I know for certain is that, very rarely, Paths award them upon level up, seemingly instead of raw stats. I suspect talents enhance physical and magical stats beyond their capacity, but to what degree, I can’t begin to guess.”
She squinted at him. “Why do you ask? What have you done?”
“I unlocked a Void Path,” he answered truthfully. “And like usual, nothing explains what it means. But it ...
2023-08-31 01:28:18 +0000 UTC
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Sam held the ring up to the pale light that suffused the Dark Vault’s airy arena.
[Ducal Guard’s Signet]
(Ring) (F-Class)
(☆ Primitive VII)
Enhancements
Physical Defense I | Status Resist I
+1 Strength | +1 Vigor
+1 Dexterity | +1 Awareness
A ring passed down from one Ducal Guard to another in serv...
2023-08-30 15:00:05 +0000 UTC
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“Finally,” Sam said, pulling out some plated gloves and holding them up to the light, “some equipment upgrades!”
There were several pieces of equipment in here. And at first glance, Sam could tell some of it wasn’t meant for him. But there were heavier pieces of equipment that his Fighter Job could definitely use.
No breastplates or other chest armor upgrades that he could see, but there did appear to be a set of “half plate” equipment.
[Br...
2023-08-29 15:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Refusing to let the fear take root, Sam struggled for a solution. What Raiko had just said sounded like the only option for him was to die.
And that wasn’t going to happen.
I can’t shut it down!
Sam watched as his MP drained down to the single digits. No wonder he felt so weak. But he had no idea if it would stop just because he ran out of mana.
The way Raiko talked about it… he didn’t feel particularly keen on waiting around to find out.<...
2023-08-29 15:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Pumping the Archflame’s Heat into his blade, Sam focused every ounce of his bloodline into the tip of his claymore straight into the center of the Warden’s face.
It would have been nice to say that it worked just as the bloodline described. The more impervious the defense, the greater the weakness Sam could inflict, in theory.
In reality, as soon as the tip of the [Charred Claymore] hit the Warden’s body, a field of shimmering force held Sam back from piercing i...
2023-08-29 03:37:45 +0000 UTC
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Venturing into yet another cavernous space within the Dark Vault that was even bigger than the last, Sam found it strange how there were no monsters. Just more puzzles and labyrinthine rooms that would have taken them days to get through if he couldn’t bust down the walls.
Which Sam gladly did.
He much preferred flipping each obstacle into yet another training exercise for his [Breaker] bloodline. This way, he’d eventually discover whatever secrets this Dark Vault...
2023-08-28 15:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Hal dreamed.
Having been marked by the Kindred of Dream herself, his dreams were something more than the standard fare. That wasn’t to say they were prophetic or deeply insightful. No, instead they offered him ideas and possibilities that he had never thought of before.
It was rather strange, now that the potential was laid out before him.
His Bonecrafting was a unique crafting skill, one he could—and should—hone alongside his newer Aetherochemy. In fact, ...
2023-08-27 08:45:38 +0000 UTC
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I’ve never been so fucking hungry, Matt thought as he staggered into a tree and rested against it for a moment to catch his breath.
One thing after another in this blasted forest wanted him dead. If it wasn’t the spiders, it was centipedes on steroids, and if not them, then some strange little gremlin creatures that used crude stone weapons and poisoned darts.
He tried not to rub the tiny pinprick of a wound with its black spidery veins at the thought of ...
2023-08-25 15:00:04 +0000 UTC
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