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The rest of the building was just as creepy as the foyer. Corpses were stacked like firewood against one wall in the next room, black stitching holding open Y-cuts across their chests. The other walls had animals and the third was filled with a myriad of monsters. Santi looked over the dead humans and saw that their wounds looked consistent with being beaten with blunt objects. The type that the Revenant Warriors had been carrying.
“Naomi,” Santi said calm...
2025-03-18 23:33:27 +0000 UTC
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“I have to be close to getting a level, let’s see if this will push me over the edge,” Santi said, more to himself than to Naomi. The woman looked at him from the corner of her eye and a faint smile cracked her face.
“The rush of levels has been fun. Once you get past Disciple, the leveling slows down dramatically. The power from each level is massive but it’s not as rewarding as seeing the numbers skyrocket.”
“I remember hittin...
2025-03-17 22:05:05 +0000 UTC
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9.
Santi sped up as he cast an overpowered [Windblade] at a pair of lined up amalgamations. The spell burst the two of them apart as Santi cast [Gust] and aimed it at Naomi. It wasn’t the full powered spell as he was coming down from using the overpowered spell, but it still pushed Naomi off target.
She wasn’t quite in range of her target and she looked over at him and threw him a dirty look but she had the hint of...
2025-03-16 05:12:13 +0000 UTC
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“We’re going to have a discussion about definitions,” Santi said as he used [Air Manipulation] as a poor telekinesis substitute. Shambling, rotting, corpses were picked up with a flex of his willpower and mana and thrown high into the air. They came down in silent showers that popped across the street in a spray of gray diseased bone and rotten flesh.
Reanimated Corpse lvl. 16
“Why are you so grumpy? Th...
2025-03-14 02:32:09 +0000 UTC
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7.
“Feel better now?” Naomi asked as she walked over toward where Santi was perched on top of the dead monster. Santi kept his foot wedged on the monster’s chest as he ripped the lance free. He could have willed it loose, dissolved the blade back into its normal semi-solid state, but there was a joy in ripping apart the monster.
“You were right. I did it for wounded pride. They were mental hunters, physically weak and corrupted, but I shouldn’t have done...
2025-03-13 22:37:13 +0000 UTC
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“I’m not complaining, just saying you’re not very good at this teamwork thing,” Naomi said as they worked their way through the second nest. It had been an ongoing fight for them as they left the dark dwarf den. Santi had tried to defend himself and slowly the woman had used logic and reason to show that he was not a good teammate.
“We’ve been working together alright,” Santi defended himself weakly, the fire of the fight finally fading away...
2025-03-12 04:14:38 +0000 UTC
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5.
Sounds of fighting were distant and echoed across the building. Metal on metal and the cries of the dying as Naomi raced around the upper levels of the den. Santi pulled and tugged using [Air Current] to bring him the sounds of the fight. It didn’t take the Apostate long to work her way through the building, by his count there were only four quick skirmishes before Naomi started on her way back.
Keeping his eyes locked on the abyss in f...
2025-03-11 00:17:21 +0000 UTC
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4.
“Are you planning on killing me?” Naomi asked as the two of them walked down the street. Santi was holding onto the map his scouts had made for him, locating the first of the dens. He looked over at the older woman who was staring at him with calm eyes. Her sword was still sheathed and the distance was enough that he could get away before she drew and struck at him. Not a threat then, but a genuine question.
“I was thinking about it,” Santi answered hon...
2025-03-07 04:20:00 +0000 UTC
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3.
“I’m not saying you're bad. In fact, you’re quite skilled. I’m just better,” Alan told Cameron with a smile. The two of them had developed something of a rivalry as the teams ripped through monster nests, to the point they were betting on it. Everyone was watching the father and son as they verbally jousted. Santi wouldn’t admit it, but Alan was getting the best of Cam.
Cam didn’t mind, jousting with his father was an old tradition that he s...
2025-03-04 23:05:59 +0000 UTC
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I'm pausing payment starting today while i work on getting caught up on everything. I owe a ton of chapters and don't have anything for Bloodsworn at all. I can only pause for a month so payment will start up again on March 28th. I'll be pushing chapters of Return first till we're 15 ahead then working on Bloodsworn.
2025-02-28 22:42:02 +0000 UTC
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2.
Naomi was working with him in the kitchen as the rest of the group settled around the kitchen. The talk that trickled in was shop-talk, going on about monsters they’d fought, survivors they’d found, skills that had overlaps that they were trying hard to manipulate and grow. It was the type of thing that they hadn’t figured out the first time around till a year or so. Now they were doing it in under three months.
Santi used [Air Current
2025-02-25 02:23:09 +0000 UTC
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A second of the insectile creatures crawled free of the burning lake and started after the first monstrosity. The second creature was identical to the first, all chitin and hard edges that cut at the air around it. It chittered, thorax bobbing, in a screech that made Erak wince as he started forward toward the Demonic Chimera lvl. 28.
The first creature lurched forward, legs wobbling as its many arms churned the air as it raced forward t...
2025-02-24 21:26:30 +0000 UTC
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“Damn, Santi! What did you do?” Cam asked as they looked over the monster den and the goblins that were laying on the ground. They were breathing shallowly but all of them were unconscious. Twenty hobgoblin warriors in burnished scale armor with swords and spears laying around them where they had fallen. Not a single one of them had managed to raise their weapons to protect themselves.
“New spell. Very powerful spell,” Santi teased his ...
2025-02-21 01:55:20 +0000 UTC
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13.
“Erak?” Sammus whispered. The hours had past in a mostly enjoyable silence, the three companions working their way through the forest. Nothing had passed in front of them larger than a bird. There was almost an eeriness in the forest, life stripped bare from its ancient grounds.
At least until they came upon the house by the lake. Humidity had begun to sneak into the air while the scent of water teased their senses. The buzzing of insects ...
2025-02-20 23:10:12 +0000 UTC
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12.
“You can eat spirits, Pompous?” Sammus asked as they explored the corners of the lab. Erak hadn’t found anything of use, or edible, as he tore through desks and overturned inert computers. There wasn’t much left aside from a pile of meat in the corner, scraps of cloth all that was left of their individuality. Pieces of lab coat showed that there had been a small science detachment here.
“I did. I consumed most of the spirit’s knowl...
2025-02-18 22:52:58 +0000 UTC
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They were missgotten and malformed behemoths of flesh and scale. None of the almost artistic grace of those he had seen in the lab beneath the sewers. Just lumbering forms filled with animalistic power, lunging forward with powerful surges in strength. Erak charged toward them without hesitation, sword sailing as the first of the quadrupeds leapt at him with a mouthful of yellow dagger teeth.
The dragonbone sword swept through the creature’s...
2025-02-17 23:10:49 +0000 UTC
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55.
A/N: that's the end of book 3!
Circlet of Lords
(Upgradeable)
15% Increase to all stats
Achievement: Kill a Regressor
Reward: Loot Box (Grand)
Achievement: Survive a Grand Curse
Reward:Title
Iron-Willed: Your mind is an impregnable fortress; none may tread upon w...
2025-02-16 23:30:10 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Feeling a little better. Sorry for going silent for a while.
“It’s all done?” Santi asked as he sat in the shade of the pillar. The afternoon had been a blur of burning and digging. Funeral pyres sent great billowing black clouds up to mingle in the heavens while the graves for Naomi’s people had taken a few hours. She had insisted that each of her four dead had their own graves, her non-combatant followers had trickled in and had started show...
2025-02-16 20:59:44 +0000 UTC
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Im fairly sick at the moment, I will be trying the best chapters out tho. I will be freezing payments on Feb 28th through April 1st so we can get all caught up and I can build a backlog so these things don't happen. Sorry guys.
2025-02-11 19:47:39 +0000 UTC
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10.
The floorboards creaked under Erak’s steps, each groan racing through the deserted space as he walked into the villa.Wall to wall with stained black furniture of heavy woods, silver draconic sculptures placed in every flat space, oil paintings of various Imperial figures hung from bronze hooks.
A chandelier swayed above the foyer, coated in black wax from the dozens of candles on it. The wicks had been coated in something that caused the fla...
2025-02-10 00:54:59 +0000 UTC
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They found the remnants of the Emperor’s party hours later. The sun was creeping further up the horizon, spilling its warmth and light over the road that wove through the forest. It allowed Erak a clear view of the devastation brought upon the Imperial part. Corpses were sitting bloated and chewed on, their rich clothes torn apart and scattered about.
Royal guards were laying strewn about, casters laying strewn about where they had fallen. A ...
2025-02-07 00:25:35 +0000 UTC
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53.
Santi’s eyes cracked open and light flooded in. For the first time in what felt forever the pressure of the curse wasn’t there waiting for him. The hunger that had gnawed and hollowed him out over the last week finally no longer there. The pleasure from the release of the strain was mind numbing, his senses weren't as razor sharp as normal.
It took him a moment to realize that he wasn’t alone in the safety of his home. Nor was his companion a ...
2025-02-06 22:06:38 +0000 UTC
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8.
Bark exploded in a spray of splinters, ringing off his armor as Erak drove the werewolf through the corner of the tree. Wood broke apart, littering the forest floor in forearm sized chunks of wood as the wolf yipped and tried to run away from him. Its claws dug through the forest floor, sending sprays of dirt to rain on Erak as he rushed to finish off the last of the pack.
The dragonbone sword was currently buried in a tree, pinning a wolf ther...
2025-02-05 04:29:51 +0000 UTC
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The echoes of the Essence based howl faded away and the world still spun about, but he firmed his stance and stood resolute as a massive dark shape came rushing through the trees. He held the dragonbone blade in front of him, angling it at a forty-five degree angle.
Pomp growled, vibrating on Erak’s shoulder as frost billowed out from between his clenched teeth. Erak smiled as the shape got closer, filling up his viewpoint as the massive crea...
2025-02-03 22:17:07 +0000 UTC
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A/N: I'll be pausing payment on Patreon on Feb. 28th through April 1st. I've failed to keep up with my promises on chapters and yall deserve the free month. I'll be pausing RR too as I work on actually forming a backlog to try to keep chapter releases smooth and regular.
The air became charged with power, positively crackling as incandescent white light shone through the lines that Yessi had wrapped around the town. The riftheart finally put to work, the ...
2025-02-03 21:12:04 +0000 UTC
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The darkness flooded the forest, filling the air and smothering the world as Erak and Sammus walked through the old growth. Thick branches were weighted down by thick boughs, bending to the breaking point. The forest floor was well maintained by Royal Wardens, clearing the normally thick scrub so that Erak and Sammus could walk unbothered.
Even miles from the city, the devastation wrought by the opening of the grand portal was seen here. Civilians we...
2025-01-31 05:01:51 +0000 UTC
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The rich bastards did have the best larders. Erak was chewing on some overripe fruit as they walked through the Emperor’s pleasure estate. The wide doors had been broken open, exotic wood laying in splinters on top of luxury rugs imported from the Easter Reaches. Marble statues involved in lewd acts decorated the halls, tapestries of deviancy decorated the walls, and the chandeliers had red lights glowing from them.
A stench remain...
2025-01-28 23:46:50 +0000 UTC
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Alan Murtaugh stood there in the middle of the bloody battlefield with his eyes locked onto Santi’s. He was still staring at Santi with a fixed gaze to the exclusion of everything else when he was stabbed in the gut with a machete by one of the remaining cursed. Alan looked down, puzzled at first, then lightly slapped the cursed warrior and Santi saw the string of aura connecting Alan to the raider.
Santi leapt back into the fight, his blade...
2025-01-28 22:04:51 +0000 UTC
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Erak stood caked in blood at the edge of the capital city. He dripped as he walked and his body was tired, the hordes of low level spawn having taken their toll on him even if they couldn’t kill him. They had left a trail of the dead behind as they fought further and further away from the palace’s walls.
He looked up to see the princess still on her armored horse. The horse had managed to turn enough spawn to paste beneath its hooves; he wa...
2025-01-28 01:29:45 +0000 UTC
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Curse of Bloodlust (Grand)
You are the hunger in the night, the bloodletting shall only tickle your hunger as your strength soars. Drink and bathe in gore as your foes tremble before you, lost in the insanity of the kill.
All Physical Stats increased by 100%
Santi stared at the alert with horror, watching as he hit the highest ranking for the curse in a matter of moments...
2025-01-27 20:49:56 +0000 UTC
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