Chapter. 145: The End of The Nightmare (Part 1)
Through and through, the Forgotten Places were a hellish place. A place where life wasn’t meant to survive, a hostile place that had seen the end of hundreds of civilizations, a cursed and rotten place. And it was the place I had been unfairly sent to, all in the name of a stupid mission. All because I had fought to achieve my goals…
I was sent to an accursed land, one that was unfit to even be called anyth...
2024-01-08 12:31:19 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 144: Interlude: Collective Challenges
Reposted, nothing was changed from the previous 144
“It’s been almost two months, are you sure you don’t want to return to Arc and explain your mistake?” Jake asked in the background.
And Giselle gritted her teeth as the Erebus Spider went off in the background. It was much stronger than the Emera Spider even at the same Tier, and the only reason it existed was because of the mistake...
2024-01-06 13:46:16 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 143: The Beginning of the End (Part 5)
Heya all, I forgot to post this chapter, thankfully 144 is an interlude so those that got the email can read it first anyway!
The morning after could be considered a beautiful day, a beautiful orange twilight enveloped the sky and the atmosphere was quiet. If it weren’t for the blotches of inking darkness that were beginning to cover the sky, it would’ve been a beautiful thing. But instead, t...
2024-01-06 13:45:11 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 142: The Beginning of the End (Part 4)
Heya all, I hope y'all enjoy this chapter, it's a long one! 3103 words!
And after I agreed to Uwell, the Hero of Arlas’ offer, time began to pass. Asok focused his endeavors in helping and educating the “townsfolk” while sometimes checking on me. The Hero of Arlas focused on strengthening unity and making sure we had an “as one” mentality. Meanwhile, I focused on messing around with the d...
2024-01-04 08:49:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 141: The Beginning of the End (Part 3)
It was something that never crossed my mind. The corruption was gone, and with it, the world reverted. I stared at the azure sky, and while in the far distance I could see blotches of darkness it was hard to imagine the desolate wasteland this place had been. Instead, it looked like a world that was just now beginning to flourish.
The dilapidated ruins that littered the space bustled with life of different sh...
2024-01-03 09:45:38 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 140: The Beginning of the End (Part 2)
Sorry for the late chapter, I've been dealing with some personal stuff. Happy New Year everyone. Sorry there was no New Years chapter.
With those words, Asok began to immediately pace around the rather broken down building, grabbing notes he hadn’t pointed at before, and even swinging by the room I was in to grab some of the papers there. And that’s when I saw Sol’as’ Spear, or what i...
2024-01-02 05:13:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 139: The Beginning of the End (Part 1)
What the fuck—
And the whole chamber trembled from a hit coming from the outside. I winced. Asok was still outside, acting like a monster. Which also meant, I was stuck in this chamber. My mind whirled for a few moments before a dull pain spread through my stomach, a sickening hunger that I had been suppressing for a while now.
I shook my head and ignored the sounds coming from the outside...
2023-12-27 07:44:03 +0000 UTC
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Heya all,
I wanted to begin by apologizing for the lack of chapters during December, a lot of personal things have been happening on my side! All good, no worries. But I've been rather busy due to it, so I just wanted to shed some transparency on the matter! Whether it is stuff in regards to relationships, or holiday shopping, I've been quite busy with it.
While I understand this is not a chapter, I still wanted to share to you all something; and in this case it's the full art of ...
2023-12-26 07:59:33 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 138: Interlude: Shadow of the Past
The Heroine of Water.
A terrifying figure that Malz didn’t actually know much about. Of course, she knew enough. She understood that she was just as strong as the Hero of Flames empowered by his ultimate skill, if not stronger. Someone they couldn’t afford to anger; or even fight for that matter, and yet…
She was sitting in front of them. The Dragon of Water seemed as relaxed as ever as th...
2023-12-20 06:38:49 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 137: The Price Of My Life (Part 5)
My mind whirled — spun in utter confusion as I just stared; baffled and tense. I braced myself with the spear, looking at the corrupted being at the end of the room as if I had just gone insane. The room itself had blotches of corruption strewn about, as if it had been attacked and whipped all around. Meanwhile, the corrupted being, Asok, looked me up and down and then nodded.
“I can understand your… reaction....
2023-12-18 05:15:17 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 136: The Price Of My Life (Part 4)
I traveled through multitudes of ruins. Though, in one of my travels I encountered a Twisted Thing, and I realized that even with the spear I couldn’t fight it. It had taken a single hit from it for me to almost pass out. So in the end, I had to run from it. Even though So’las’ Spear gave me confidence it certainly wasn’t enough to kill everything. Though, if I still couldn’t fight a Twisted Thing…
What...
2023-12-18 05:13:38 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 135: The Price Of My Life (Part 3)
I blinked, a shiver traveling through my body before it became a like a wave of calm and relief. Finally, after a long breath I gave him my answer.
“I know. I just need to figure out how not to lose myself to it.”
There was a silence, the Hero of Arlas stared at me in silence for what felt like an eternity. Before finally, he shook his head. I couldn’t see his expression due to his helmet, but to some exten...
2023-12-15 13:08:19 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 134: The Price Of My Life (Part 2)
I swung the spear and sent the monster flying across the land, breaking through one of the pyramids.
My mental state was rapidly deteriorating, I was well aware of that. If I was being normal, I would’ve long run away as soon as I acquired the spear. But something in me had snapped. And now. I didn’t give a shit. I didn’t care for what was happening; what the forgotten places were, what would happen to me, or whe...
2023-12-14 11:06:30 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Heya all, sorry for the delays. I've been pretty busy with life stuff due to holidays! Hopefully in january it will all go back to going smoothly!
Chapter. 133: The Price Of My Life (Part 1)
The spear was just a few meters away, and yet it felt so far. My entire body was aching in dull pain, but now; now that I felt like I had a way to get out of this, I no longer felt dread, instead an intense sense of desperate urgency replaced ...
2023-12-13 00:46:57 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 132: Interlude: State of Affairs
Ceylon had undertaken all of the responsibilities of ruling Draliz on her back. Sometimes she listened to the Dragon of Water’s advice — whose collar had now received Malz’s mana instead out of precaution fearing her D Tier mana wouldn’t be effective — and other times she listened to Malz.
While, in the past, Ceylon didn’t know what to make of the Dragon of Shadows, but right now; based on everything sh...
2023-12-13 00:45:38 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 131: Salvation
My time in the safe-zone wasn’t spent all relaxing or asking random questions; it was spent learning how to survive. Whether it was from gathering information or just thinking about my experiences and the knowledge I had learned and finally I had reached a plan.
The first thing that happened when I exited was… silence. Outside of the grand building there was just an ashen plain of nothingness. The lights nearby illuminating the nearby...
2023-12-09 09:18:42 +0000 UTC
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Retcon to previous chapter.
The atmosphere turned weird, there was only silence as he met my gaze. I stared back for what felt like an eternity, anticipating his response until finally, he spoke shaking his head.
“Because in order for you to leave this place a part of you has to be corrupted.”
My heart skipped.
“There is no coming out ‘alive’ for you.”
Chapter. 130: Hero of Arlas
A sens...
2023-12-08 11:17:44 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 129: Who is Real
I immediately backed off, my legs thrashing on the ground as I hit the wall with very deep breaths. Before me was a man in tattered red armor, some corruption already flaking off his being, but the part that terrified me the most was what the system had said.
He was… the Hero of Arlas— the keeper of order— the man that had sent me to this place.
I stared daggers at him as I prepared [Frost, Stasis, Eternity and a Proph...
2023-12-07 09:15:08 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 128: Start of Book 3: The Forgotten Places
Sorry all for the delay, book 3 is much harder to write than I ever expected. Here's hoping chapter is good.
I had fought a corrupted chimera, had problems with the dragons as their ruler, and one became my servant — the Dragon of Wind, Faral — while another ended up as my slave: the Dragon of Water. All of this happened while visitin...
2023-12-06 10:33:28 +0000 UTC
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Retcon to Chapter 126 - updated ending.
“Relax, it’s not like you can reject it anyway,” he said simply, interrupting my thoughts.
And at that moment, my entire vision went dark as the world around me disappeared. Fading into nothingness. I found myself falling in a void as screens began to flash and disappeared out of existence.
My vision blurred before finally I caught the sight of one.
[ Levels cannot be gained in this place. ]
<...
2023-12-02 07:52:46 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 126: Ceremony (Part 8) UPDATED ENDING
I had died…
I found myself in a world of white, a world that I hadn’t expected I’d ever return to. To my left lay the defeated Overlord, and to my right lay a spear that was dug into the ground. It wasn’t any normal spear however, it was instead the training spear. I was… back at home.
And then before me laid the all familiar portal that I had seen before to leave. I didn’t really understa...
2023-11-29 20:06:11 +0000 UTC
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125: Ceremony (Part 7)
I needed mana.
That was my first thought as my surroundings increased by dozens of degrees to a scalding heat. My skin began to burn a second later, sizzling with aching pain. The heat was more dangerous than I ever thought.
I needed mana to shut down his skill but…
My eyes darted around. I also could feel that the flames from the skill didn’t come from mana but from something else—
“So you’...
2023-11-28 16:52:58 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 124: Ceremony (Part 6)
The Hero of Spirits screamed under my grip. I was… fed up for lack of a better word, and also in deep pain. Now, after my mind had calmed. I felt a sense of relief but also, a deep grudge for the pain I had endured. Also there was the fact that Iris had died which just made me all the more annoyed.
She had chosen to sacrifice herself fully knowing it would kill the Hero of Spirits too. Was the Hero of Spirits worth as much as he...
2023-11-27 13:24:33 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 123: Ceremony (Part 5)
So in the end…
I was most likely going to fail, huh?
A small sigh left me watching the spirits rushing towards me; in the end I just had to fight.
* * * * *
The Hero of Spirits smiled, grinning wildly.
Things were going just perfect; or as perfect as they could be. He never expected for the Heroine of Frost to be able to kill him in the blink of an eye. It was an incredibly terrifying ab...
2023-11-25 13:21:47 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 122: Ceremony (Part 4)
Thrill.
That was what I always sought every single battle.
I used [Quick Step] and dodged the explosions of fire, the vines, the thunder strikes and the volley of arrows that came my way. The earth was torn asunder, the ground quaked, and the ice around me shattered.
But somehow, even though I was experiencing it now, it was different.
It wasn’t fear, I knew that for certain....
2023-11-24 12:38:46 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 121: Ceremony (Part 3)
An eerie silence descended upon the room as a cold gust of wind blew, shifting the newfound mist across the Grand Hall. The temperature had dropped by numerous degrees to a freezing cold. The once ornate space was now filled with ice shards and at the middle there was a large cold monolith with multiple clusters and overgrowths of ice.
A testament to what had just happened moments prior.
Everyone had seen it; the white...
2023-11-22 11:27:55 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 120: Ceremony (Part 2)
The Hero of Flames rose from his slumber deep within one of the castle rooms. Pain was still very much present in his body, but he knew that he could no longer rest.
“So, in the end, you’ve made your move,” he whispered. “Guess that in the end, our battles are fated.”
Slowly he rose from his bed as he looked into the darkness in the room.
“The Hero of Shadows was vanished, never to be seen again…” He sh...
2023-11-21 12:58:23 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 119: Ceremony (Part 1)
Today was the day.
The day of the ceremony. The week had passed by in a blink, I had spoken with Ceylon’s mother after changing the ice sculpture I had made. Apparently, I wouldn’t be able to access the Institute of Magic for some time; though I didn’t even know why I cared about it all that much. I did intend to check it out in the future, but for now that was the end of it.
Now, my priorities laid in today; the day t...
2023-11-21 10:32:14 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 118: Life Through Ice
[Skill Fluidity Capsule. Tier: S]
I observed the dime-sized blue orb under the sunlight. I was standing before a wide ocean, my emotions were rather weird for some reason. I didn’t know if it was due to pride; pride of using someone else’s tools to accomplish my goals. Or if it was due to I guess… also pride; just the artistic kind.
I had traveled far, as far as I could from everything; past the Dar...
2023-11-19 11:46:19 +0000 UTC
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Chapter. 117: Disciple & Mentor
At first I had almost said no to Ceylon’s proposal. But I knew I couldn’t value my art above killing the Hero of Spirits and my other goals. So in the end, I had accepted. Though I felt upset as the meeting ended.
Ceylon wanted to say something to me but she was dragged out by her father in the name of an important discussion, though she still managed to apologize to me by what she had proposed before that.
I underst...
2023-11-18 10:33:02 +0000 UTC
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