“So, back to the main course?” Ben taunted, trying to keep the focus on him while at the same time, Abel dropped her hominid form to wrap the demon and secure him to the ground with her flesh. “Just couldn’t resist the succulent meal before you compared to the finger food?”
“Doesn’t exactly matter in the end, I suppose,” he said back, able to break Abel’s hold on the ground below but not get her off of him. “This entire world’s going to be on my plate soon enough, ...
2025-08-29 12:06:42 +0000 UTC
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In one movement they did as they were told, the other adventurers running away to protect and evacuate the civilians around them while he, Thera, and Abel stayed to fight, two of them moving in their own ways as Thera tore up the stone streets to bring them crushing down on him while Abel joined, creating and moving her monstrosities to wrap the demon in her flesh to hold it in place, with neither being enough to trap him as he grew in size, smashing through the restraints and breaking free w...
2025-08-28 07:23:00 +0000 UTC
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In those first milliseconds, Ben did all he could, pulling the rest of the adventurers with him into his head to tell them what he’d found and how that was going to change their plans while also not bothering to call out to Myriad, instead directly sending a part of himself to his god’s realm and connected to him to force the deity’s perception of time up to match his own.
“We have an emergency.”
“We already had an emergency.”
“Okay, a worse one! I was wrong....
2025-08-26 11:21:21 +0000 UTC
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Letting Thera stop to sleep and eat for just a few hours before the sun rose, it wasn’t long until they were on their way again, once more speeding through the clouds, only dropping back down when Abel spoke up.
“You’re coming to another site. Maybe four hours behind?”
Four hours isn’t bad.
Slowly but surely they were gaining on him, the shifter fast but all of them faster thanks to Thera covering the transport, with her carrying them down closer to the gr...
2025-08-24 12:05:53 +0000 UTC
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Hey all, hope you had a great month. It was a hot one for me, felt like it was just heatwave after heatwave but it's starting to cool down.
Other than that, towards the end of september I've got a small trip to visit some friends I haven't seen in a few years. It shouldn't affect posting (or if I think it will I'll either tell you or make it up if for some reason I can't tell you in time) but I just figured it would be good to give you all a heads up, just in case.
2025-08-24 00:49:59 +0000 UTC
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“Alright, I need to do a bit of work at the grove so if I leave the two of you alone for a bit, can you both be on your best behaviour?” Fontesh asked, her attention mainly focused on her daughter when it came to them both, with Mora already having enough trust, leaving Delair to roll her eyes.
“We’ll be fine, Mom. We’re the picture of responsibility. Isn’t that right, Mora?”
“I’ll make sure she doesn’t take anything apart while you’re gone,” Mora told her ...
2025-08-24 00:28:02 +0000 UTC
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Myriad, I need you. Code red.
<What is it?>
Hit a little snag in this investigation. We haven’t found Foast yet but he is, with little doubt in my mind, being controlled by something powerful.
<What makes you so sure?>
He ate a village.
<What?>
Yeah, Abel’s confirmed that everyone within it is either dead or gone which, let’s be real, means everyone’s dead. We’re lacking in information right now and...
2025-08-22 13:45:53 +0000 UTC
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They checked a few more houses from there and found mostly the same.
Mostly.
Nothing looked taken. There was still fresh food to be found and the enchantments around still held a trickle of power, yet occasionally, small things stood out. A knocked-over glass or chair, items and food that looked more like they had been thrown than spilled. While in the cases of houses with opened doors and windows it could be chalked up to animals getting in, that couldn’t explain all of it, pai...
2025-08-21 15:52:54 +0000 UTC
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The entire day spent flying showed more than anything else how much of a lead Foast had, watching the sun start to set by the time they broke free of the woods and left the untamed lands of the planet, getting to see some signs of logging activity that had gone on down below, telling them all that some sort of settlement had to have been nearby.
“Thera, take us down lower,” Ben told her. “Even if it’s slim, if we see anyone, then I can check to see if they might have found anyth...
2025-08-19 05:55:21 +0000 UTC
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As the sun rose, marking the start of the day, a small scream came from Thera’s tent while Ben was deciding what to have for breakfast, him already having enough of a guess as to why that he didn’t feel the need to check and was confirmed in his suspicions when his girlfriend carried Abel out by the scruff of her neck, looking far more awake than she would most mornings.
“So, Abel’s here?”
“Yeah, she showed up last night.”
“And any particular reason I woke up...
2025-08-17 06:02:09 +0000 UTC
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The others around the campfire began to stand as the sounds of crashing came through the forest, warnings ready to be shouted on their lips before Ben waved them down.
“Stop, it’s not what you think.”
Still too far to connect to them to read their mind but that didn’t matter. He had his soul sight and his sacrilege, both not limited by a mere few meters of range that told him all he needed to know about what was coming as a mass of flesh and bones threw itself into the cle...
2025-08-15 18:09:36 +0000 UTC
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“So, this freaking sucks.”
“No luck then?” Myriad asked when Ben arrived, watching his apostle collapse to the ground in response.
“We know he made it to the sixth site you guys gave us and continued on from there, we’ve even been able to keep following his trail, only needed to stop to sleep but the biggest problem is that you’re still a bastard for putting me in charge of these people.”
“I didn’t put you in charge of anyone, I just neglected to mention ...
2025-08-14 17:59:34 +0000 UTC
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At the fifth site, it was the same story. Signs of Foast investigating, taking different shapes to do it but ultimately flying off once he’d gotten whatever he’d needed and going off to begin his journey to the next location, leaving the rest of them in a similar boat as Quin opened more portals to go through, taking them on their way to what should have been around the final known destination of his journey and left Ben’s fingers crossed as the trackers began their search.
“Got...
2025-08-12 17:08:01 +0000 UTC
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He did his best to keep a careful eye on everyone as Quin opened her portals, watching them with his various senses as well as connect, stretched out as far as it could go to keep track of all they thought and felt, finding himself doing well enough so far.
None of them felt openly hostile having him as their leader, though a few were curious about him too. There were a few small flashes of recognition from a couple he’d copied skills from in the past but overall, the biggest issue an...
2025-08-10 13:59:06 +0000 UTC
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You’re a bastard. Ben thought to the heavens above. You’re such a huge bastard that I’m finding every copy of your holy text that’s ever been written and using my magic to stealth-edit it to call you Myriad the bastard every time you’re mentioned by name in it.
<Consider this payback for all you put me through.>
Gods shouldn’t be so spiteful.
<You bring out the worst in me. Still, it will be fine.>
How’s it going...
2025-08-08 12:16:27 +0000 UTC
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<SOUL SOURCE LEVEL INCREASED>
<REALM ACCESS LEVEL INCREASED>
<MAX LEVEL OF THE OUTSIDER JOB ACHIEVED>
“Oh thank god,” he muttered, reaching his goal just before the sun began to rise. “Just made it. Myriad, I need you.”
<Hmm? What?>
“Finished my job and don’t know if you heard but I’m being set off to help find Foast. Tell Phixth that I’m taking a new one early since I don’t know how long I’ll be gone for so you ...
2025-08-07 14:34:01 +0000 UTC
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Getting up to start dinner that night, Ben’s course only changed as a knock came to the door, leaving him to find Ceselee behind it with her foot in the way before he could close it again.
“Not so fast,” The guild master told him. “You already told me you wouldn’t complain the next time I needed something.”
“Well, in my defense, I hoped you’d forgotten,” He sighed before opening it wider to let her in. “You need me and Thera?”
“I do.”
“Alrig...
2025-08-05 13:39:14 +0000 UTC
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“Hmm, what’s wrong?” Thera asked as she and Mora came through the gate, finding Delair clear in moping, even if she didn’t let it distract her from her work while Ben explained.
“Abel was called off so she’s disappointed she doesn’t have someone to work with now,” He said, getting to see a small frown flash across Mora’s face as well, even while Thera nodded in understanding.
“Something urgent then if she didn’t even get time to say goodbye?”
“Appar...
2025-08-03 12:52:25 +0000 UTC
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<MIND BREAK LEVEL INCREASED>
Mmh, what happened? Quox wondered as he slowly came to his senses. I’ve been being used somehow but then-
A jolt of fear ripped through him, unbecoming of any god and seeming without source but it quickly faded, chalked up to a side-effect of his continued confinement. He knew in that moment he was nothing more than a trapped soul but he was less aware of how he was being used, only able to feel as he was stretched and warped ...
2025-08-01 16:16:43 +0000 UTC
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“So, I wanted to talk to you guys about an easy way to power up Abel.”
“Just spoiling every one of your children then, huh?” Myriad asked without even glancing away from his work to enjoy the frown the statement brought to his apostle’s face.
“Don’t you start, Thera was joking about it until she went to sleep. I’m not adopting her.”
“Why not? Despite a few of your own personality issues, I genuinely think you’d be a good father to her.”
“...I ...
2025-07-31 14:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Helori’s speech went smoothly, no new disaster there to justify either Ben or Abel’s presence but had a clear effect on all of her faithful who’d come to hear it. The crowd hung on her every word, just being in the presence of a goddess was a reward the vast majority of people thought they’d never get to enjoy and while there wasn’t much to be said beyond the need for people the world over to continue doing their best, coming from a deity it was enough, with Ben’s presence adding ...
2025-07-29 10:57:28 +0000 UTC
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His mental map carried him to the next two destinations while his nose brought him to the last, with Foast finally confident he’d locked onto the smell of whatever monstrosity had been wreaking havoc on the expeditions sent to slay it while he surveyed the fourth site, finding it the same as the other three.
Signs of attacks of all sorts, both magics and weapons that made it clear the group that had found it last had descended on one another, one more point to dark magic controlling t...
2025-07-27 06:37:43 +0000 UTC
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“Alright, you sure you want to come along, Abel?”
“Yeah, sounds like it’ll kill some time.”
“And you’ll be on your best behaviour?”
“When aren’t I?”
“...Good enough, then let’s go.”
Stepping through his gate, the two passed through to Anailia and the greater gate network beyond, making their way to the edge of the city holding Helori’s main church and finding many of her believers already in the surrounding area as they walked, all o...
2025-07-25 14:48:51 +0000 UTC
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Staring in the sky above at the meat construct he’d made while it contracted and pulsed, Ben wondered briefly if it was time for a change once more as a notification rang out in his head.
<REALM ACCESS LEVEL INCREASED>
“Yep, that seals it. Time to remodel my realm.”
While flesh was the current theme, with towering structures of muscle and bone twitching everywhere he looked, with the new level expanding his area of control he’d decided it was a go...
2025-07-24 10:05:42 +0000 UTC
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Well well well, I guess it's time to get this monthly poll up and running. Ignore that I have one character in two different options, I have two different ideas for him and since one of those ideas would prominently feature a different character too, that's how it worked out.
Other than that, my last day off was good for getting some editing done, I'm actually feeling pretty well ahead right now which is always good but other than that, that's it for me. As always, pick whichever catch...
2025-07-24 02:58:10 +0000 UTC
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Sitting down with his legs crossed, Bloom stared at a small clay pot in front of him filled with soil, along with a single item more relevant to him and his interests, the seed of one of the giant trees found in the succubus lands.
With only a bit of intent making it sprout, the great spirit watching with interest as the first bit of red it held poked above the dirt, the colour matching the leaves it would eventually grow as it kept going, starting to split and rise up higher before his...
2025-07-24 02:46:26 +0000 UTC
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The hell have I been sent to deal with this time?
It was the question immediately on his mind when he got to the first site, landing and shifting back to his hominid form to find the destruction that had been left behind by the beast he was hunting, along with the unfortunate group who’d stumbled into it as they’d been clearing the land.
No bodies remained, they never lasted long out there, but the signs of battle did. Foast could see examples of all sorts of combat, ...
2025-07-22 10:17:21 +0000 UTC
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Sachel he was only able to push into a single new level, even if they’d kept training beyond that in the hopes of lowering her next threshold, while Valaria continued to keep up with her previous trend of withstanding his mental training the longest, showing her worth as the high priestess of Myriad to claim three for herself, even if it left her completely drained by the end.
Really, the entire crowd had managed it far better than he’d been expecting. His ability to force them to l...
2025-07-20 08:22:01 +0000 UTC
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“You doing alright back there, Mora?” Thera asked the child she was carrying on her back, getting a mumbled reply.
“Kind of.”
“You know, if things got too intense for you, you can always slip out of that. Can’t feel sick if you don’t have a stomach.”
“No, if I’m going to use this then I need to keep using it to see if it works. I just wasn’t prepared for something so…”
“Bloody?”
“Smelly,” The boy gagged, thinking back not to the ...
2025-07-18 17:23:14 +0000 UTC
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“And another hundred done,” Ben muttered as more tiles of mana crystal were ensouled, making up the majority of his work for that day.
He’d started off by creating more rainbow mana crystal materializers, wanting to have more of the tools at the ready to keep up with his demand for all he’d needed to make. Not just wanting to create holders for souls designed to give faith to both Myriad and Helori, but himself as well. He was going to be a god one day after all, it would be bet...
2025-07-17 16:22:23 +0000 UTC
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