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August Intruder- Chapter 58- Did I Lose Something?

Clinton frowned as he stepped out of the portal. There was a certain sense of disorientation then came with it as he stepped his foot on wet ground.

“Fucking hell!” he swore, raising his leg and looking down at the ground. “This shit stinks.”

He had ended up in what looked like a swampy region. But the water wasn’t so swampy. It was muddy and green, yes. But it was too shallow.

Clinton cast his gaze around and was welcome to the sight of trees, green and luscious. ...

August Intruder- Chapter 57- Optimum Existence

The room felt moldy, the air heavy somehow.

Melmarc walked back into the room, a lot still on his mind. The fact that he had just slaughtered a handful of [Damned] didn’t even impress him. At least his mind wasn’t paying much in the way of attention to it.

Standing in the room, silence was his only friend even as questions riddled his mind. Something grander than the questions was wrong with him. Almost as great as that was the fact that he wasn’t tired, not even in the slig...

ROTLE- Chapter 31- The Cave III

Even though Elaswit had agreed to have the first strike, she did not attack.

With her massive cleaver as long as any long sword and larger than any cleaver held out in front of her with both hands, she slowly inched backwards, increasing the distance between her and the gargoyle.

Aiden followed her, waiting for what she wanted to do. More importantly, he confirmed something that had been on his mind with the indicator above the gargoyle’s head.

[Gargoyle Lvl 28]

It w...

ROTLE- Chapter 30- The Cave II

Aiden remained unsure.

One did not simply walk away from a [Scenario] or a [Unique Quest]. He turned to Elaswit and scratched his head.

“What does your quest say specifically?” he asked.

“I could just show you,” she offered.

Before Aiden could reply, not that he was going to, an interface appeared between the both of them. It displayed the entire quest Elaswit had gotten.

[You have triggered a Unique Quest]

[Unique Quest: World Healing.]

You h...

ROTLE- Chapter 29- The Cave Part I

Inside the cave was dark. There was no bioluminescent moss or trickle of light from a localized ecosystem. It was simply dark.

Aiden led the princess forward with slow steps. He kept his attention on the path with hands and feet. Poking at rocks or elevated grounds, touching ridges as they moved.

“Why didn’t you bring a light?” Elaswit asked in a low, annoyed voice.

Aiden shook his head, smiling.

“Who said I didn’t bring a light?” he whispered back.

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ROTLE- Chapter 28- Ask Me Why

House Naranoff’s mansion was not as quiet as most houses at night. The maids never slept, at least that was how it seemed, but Aiden knew better. The night maids were simply different from the day maids.

But it wasn’t the maids he had to pay attention to. It was the soldiers.

At night they paraded the halls, keeping watch of everything that happened. There were also more than a handful that paraded the compound.

Aiden stepped out of his room in his trench coat all button...

ROTLE- Chapter 27- Dangerous

The sun was up by the time The first person showed up.

It was a young soldier from what Aiden could tell. He remembered seeing the man around a few times. Though he called him young, the man was probably older than twenty-five.

The man hesitated at the entrance, stunned. After a moment, he gathered his wits about him and went about his day. He cleaned as best he could, arranged as best he could. The man checked up on the dummies and the weapons but made no attempt to get close to ...

ROTLE- Chapter 26- Like Throwing Down The Gauntlet

For the next two days Aiden had the most awkward training sessions he’d ever had the displeasure of experiencing.

He trained under the attention of watchful, baleful eyes. He and Valdan trained only their techniques with no skills and the others watched them like hawks waiting for their prey to make a mistake. None of the eyes were directed at Valdan. And knowing what he now knew of Valdan, Aiden didn’t fear suddenly being jumped by many people during training.

Not all the sol...

August Intruder- Chapter 56- A New Form

In his life, Melmarc had heard a lot of surprising things. Nothing too great, but there were enough surprising things in his life to go around.

In fact, most of the surprising things he’d heard had come from Ark and Delano. Ark having surprising things to say wasn’t that big a deal, at this point Melmarc was used to it. He often attributed it to the fact that the kind of person Ark was led him to do things that led him to interesting points in his life.

Thus, the things he kne...

ROTLE- Chapter 25- Knight of The Crown

Lord Naranoff did not show up on the day of their arrival, neither did he show up the next day.

Nella proved herself to be a well enough and after a few moments of confusion, Aiden was informed by Valdan that house Naranoff had no lady of the house. Lady Naranoff had died a year ago during a specific daring adventure she had embarked on.

It turned out that Nella had inherited her love for adventures. Aiden wondered if the woman’s continued love for adventuring was because she lo...

ROTLE- Chapter 24- Nella

The events after their teleportation were simple.

After Aiden had drunk his potions, Elaswit demanded that the carriage remain in the Naranoff’s teleportation port for a while longer. She hoped to use it to allow Aiden catch his breath despite all his insistence that he was fine.

Clothes and bowls of water were brought into the carriage. Since there was no practical place to take a bath, Aiden was left to clean himself of his own blood with wet clothes as best he could.

Th...

ROTLE- Twenty-Three- Resilience

“IMPACT!”

Aiden heard the words loud and clear, felt the mana in the air thin the way it always does before every teleportation. He’d been teleported enough times to know how it worked. It wasn’t about mana strength or level or anything of the kind.

You either withstood it or you did not. The ones who did not were people who didn’t know how to prepare themselves.

Or at least that was what he’d been told. Fear was another thing that affected teleportation effects....

August Intruder- Chapter 55- Raw Mana

Ruth staggered away from the barrier, surprised.

[Gathering of Nature] was supposed to be able to withstand anything. Yes, there was the small loophole that occurred if you were able to strike a single spot continuously and overtime, but that was more a loophole based on her than the skill itself.

But here Madness was leaving a crack in her skill. It had to be a skill he was using. [Gathering of Nature] had faced far worse attacks than a punching Oath.

Madness remained calm ...

August Intruder- Chapter 54- Effect of Insanity

David Lockwood shrugged his shoulders, then cracked his neck from side to side.

There was a small crater where he stood while his men above continued their slow descent to the surface of the ship carried down by their parachutes.

He checked them once more, accounting for every one of the six men under his command, dressed in military attire complete with vests and guns and grenades and flash bangs. Certain that there were no problems, he walked over to the door in front of him. 2024-05-26 13:48:04 +0000 UTC View Post

August Intruder- Chapter 53- Oath of Madness

The moment [Knowledge is Power] came back to Melmarc, he knew he needed to stop walking.

Evening was coming to an end and this was the last ruin he was going to be checking for the day. If Naymond wasn’t in it, he was going to clear out any of the monsters inside and hole in there for the night.

The moment he received the information, Melmarc’s entire plan changed. Sleeping for the night became the last thing on his mind. He sucked in a deep breath, suddenly worried. He was ju...

August Intruder- Chapter 52- An Eruption of Darkness

Four walls were hidden around each other, leaving Melmarc with the ability to only see one. The remaining three were positioned behind it and none of them were facing him.

Melmarc tossed up the rock he’d used to mark all four walls and caught it one more time before dropping it on the ground.

“Here goes nothing.”

He activated [Knowledge is Power] and shook his arms out in preparation for what he would do next, and just because he could.

He still hadn’t figured ...

ANNOUNCEMENT ON (TPOR)

IT IS WITH DEEP REGRET THAT I MAKE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. I HAVE DONE THE BEST I CAN OVER DAYS AND HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO CREATE ANOTHER CHAPTER FOR THE PROMISE OF RUNES. WHAT THE CHAPTERS GOING FORWARD SHOULD BE ARE THERE BUT EACH TIME I PUT MY FINGERS TO THE KEYBOARD THE WORDS JUST WON'T COME.

I AM TRULY SORRY TO THE READERS OF THE PROMISE OF RUNES THAT HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER AND DEEPLY APOLOGIZE FOR THIS. I CAN NO LONGER MAKE A PROMISE ON ITS CONTINUATION.

August Intruder- Chapter 51- Bless Your Kindness

On day eleven Melmarc was tired.

He had relegated himself to the safer parts of the meadows, ruined buildings already cleared out previously, plateaus that possessed no sign of life. Simple things like that. The ruins of Caldath was yet to run out of [Damned], though. There was always one somewhere, mostly they were usually in a group.

Melmarc was also, to his greatest annoyance these days, still very far from the castle ruins that reached up to pierce the sky. It was almost as if...

August Intruder- Chapter 50- Oaths

Alfa had seen commissioner Bubat terrified, now she was seeing him confused. Really confused.

Was it the question she’d asked?

Could he have been talking about actual oaths, like promises?

It didn’t make sense to her. Bubat had spoken as if he had been talking about people. After all, promises didn’t have children.

And Nan still wasn’t picking.

“Sir?” she tried when Bubat continued to just stare at her in disbelief.

“He didn’t tell ...

(TLO) Chapter 172: Drognile

The air was heavier than usual this far away from the mountain. It wasn’t necessarily unusual, though, seeing as they’d told her it happened every once in a while. But it was worrying. Just last month they’d been forced to move their hideout farther back than usual when the phantasms increased in numbers and they’d lost one of their golds.

Ayla stepped away from a concentrated beam of black reia, dodging the attack and separating the head of the beast from its body with a length...

(TLO) Chapter 171: Silver

Nosam turned, looking at the chaos around him. This fight, regardless of how it had started, had proceeded properly, going down the right path. His team had been overwhelming the priests. Fighting them to equality with numbers then over powering them. So what the hell is this madness.

Around him his teammates where dying like flies.

At first, Noel and Hannah had been occupied by the unarmed priests, struggling to hit him as if he was a fly buzzing around and avoiding the ...

(TLO) Chapter 170: Carnage

The pain in Seth’s hands would be bloody if he gave it any of his attention, but he didn’t. Pain was merely information. Information he left his brain to deal with since he had other things to deal with.

His actions sent everyone into chaos. His brothers charged forward and their enemies closed in on them.

Seth stepped to the side and a bar of fire the breadth of a finger shot past where he’d stood. He ducked low as a silver mage swung a massive blade at him, missing him by ...

(TLO) Chapter 169: A Single Decision

“Now, tell me, what did you tell my boy?” Russel Beltwich asked.

In front of him sat the famous oracle. The man wore one of those Hawaiian hats and a floral print shirt over cream colored shorts. He spotted a scattering of beards that cast his jaw in a mild shadow and listened to him with a lopsided grin that continued to annoy him.

“Have I suddenly become the government’s prisoner?” the oracle asked.

Russel frowned at the man’s bravado, his leathery face wrinkli...

(TLO) Chapter 168: Not A Swordsman

Running through a mountain path was not as easy as people made it look. For Seth and his brothers, however, their training under the seminary’s rules made it easy. Unfortunately, whatever the silvers of the government had done to get here gave them the same poise and control needed to traverse rocky grounds.

They ran on, chased by silvers that counted more than ten in number. Seth’s minds assured him there were twelve of them.

Beside him he knew he was slowing his brothers dow...

(TLO) Chapter 167: Run

Seth turned in a chaos of carnage. He ducked a swipe from a massive spider limb and rolled to the side, covering himself in patches of red dust. When he came back up it was with crossed shortswords that took the blow of an enormous scorpion sting that was powerful enough to send him reeling back. As he did, Barnabas took his place, appearing out of nowhere to deflect the beast’s attack with a swinging sword.

The sound of his blade meeting its limb was muffled but Seth heard it clearly...

(TLO) Chapter 166: Wandering Herald

“That you think we’d just let you in says more about you state of mind than your intelligence!”

Faust grimaced at the Baron’s raised voice. Shouting never solved a lot of things, especially in a world filled with men who could birth lightning from something as simple as their skin. In a world with soul mages, why did people still shout.

“Are you new to this?” he asked the man seated on the other side of the table.

The man who’d introduced himself as Lucas kept ...

(TLO) Chapter 165: Making Us Look Bad

Hidden behind a curve on the mountain side, a government official observed a fight between some of his own and a team of priests. He scowled as he watched one of them get bludgeoned to death in one hit, and from a sword, at that. Not even a blunt weapon.

He would’ve had a negative review for the man if the priest that killed him wasn’t holding off a gold. It meant the monster of a priest, because he was just that large, was either a gold or an unnecessarily powerful silver.

As...

(TLO) Chapter 164: Those of the Seminary

This was what fights against those of the seminary looked like, not whatever bumbling mess he was displaying. A touch of shame held him. How was he struggling so much against a silver mage? He’d fought silver beasts before.

Not alone, his mind reminded him.

It was true. But even then he’d been better than this. He remembered the Nooman he’d fought during his pastoral year. While his Iron authority teammates had been dying at its hands, he’d been scoring hits after...

August Intruder- Chapter 49- Blood of Edinka

The whole place was buzzing with the active life of people. The police had since cordoned of the entire building but there was only so much they could do. The house was the venue of the incident and they were only allowed to cordon off the house, not disturb other families.

The first responders had been actual everyday police officers, responding to a report about gunshots in the environment. According to one of them, they were met bet a member of the neighborhood watch who’d pointed ...

August Intruder- Chapter 48- Hula Hooping Delver

Melmarc woke up with a start.

His mind came alive in a brush of chaos. His bed was too hard. His leg refused to move. His mom still wasn’t back from her last portal deployment. His dad, too.

Panic rose in him with the confusion, followed by terror.

And moving was extremely difficult. He breathed hard and he breathed fast. There was nothing wrong with his breathing. But it was the one thing he had real control over so he made the action as manual and violent as he could. 2024-05-02 09:48:58 +0000 UTC View Post