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ROTLE- Chapter 172- [Spellsword]

“Your arm’s no longer black, Lord Lacheart.”

The words echoed in Aiden’s ears, but he knew better than to be distracted in this moment. In fact, he doubted that distraction would do much to hinder him. If anything, he was doing his best to stay his hand. His anger was working on him in this moment.

Ted and Zen were only the gods knew where. Valdan was stuck with them, unconscious at the mercy of a healer who had been very comfortable to bargain with his life.

Survivi...

ROTLE- Chapter 171- An Enemy of The Church?

Joleleh woke up with a dry throat. He missed his traits as a tribreed already. Doomed to the life of a [Prisoner], jumping from world to world at the behest of his captors, he was growing tired.

It was a difficult thing always having to start afresh. Most people liked to say that if you had climbed to the top before, then you could do it again. Why? Because you already knew how to do it. What they did not understand was that knowing how to do something tedious did not make it any less t...

ROTLE- Chapter 170- Break The Binding

Pain flared in Estabel’s side as a tail as wide as she was tall, maybe wider, slammed into her. The blow sent her flying, soaring through the air.

She slammed into a tree beside the thing that had fallen. The small crater it had created had raised a cloud of sand and dust that was yet to settle so she could not see what exactly it was. However, what it was happened to be the least of her problems as her interface popped up in front of her.

[You have been dealt a Critical Blow!]<...

ROTTLE- Chapter 169- Fire Ball

[Anomalous World Enchantment Detected]

Pain seared through Aiden’s blackened arm as if with a personal vendetta—as if the arm had wronged it somehow. He dropped to his knees. The fingers of his normal hand dug into the blackened one, as if trying to rip the pain out.

“Aiden.” There was panic in Ted’s voice, and he was already move.

Aiden shook his head violently. “No!”

He couldn’t have Ted getting too close. With World Enchantments, you...

ROTLE- Chapter 168- Life Displacement

Aiden sidestepped, dodging what would’ve been a glancing blow. The paw blurred into motion once more, aiming for his head. Fueled by his weave of speed, he dodged the blow easily, then stepped into the monster. With his blackened arm, he struck it in the chest. This was the fourth time he was doing it, striking the exact same spot. The previous attacks had done nothing evident to it. This one, however, drew blood. It spilled to the ground in rivulets, and the beast staggered back in shock.<...

August Intruder- Chapter 181- Trapped Not Fallen

It was a cool night, the moon was absent in the sky. Tosin stood with a semi-automatic in hand, guard to a building he hadn’t even entered. Beside him Emmanuella was eating nuts.

“You’re really not sharing?” he asked her.

Blue eyes smiled at him. Her brunette hair held up in a tight bun, Tosin could see every feature of her face. She was as beautiful as the first day he’d seen her, which was funny because his friends said that she had a crooked nose and her jaws were too...

August Intruder- Chapter 180- Promises

Anji’s hands were still shaking. It had been a few days now since he’d met this man who had asked him if he knew what an Oath was.

He looked down at his hands, seeing them even in the darkness of the night. They stared back at him, trembling things beyond his control. He wrapped one in the other, then vice versa. The trembling didn’t stop.

You are not scared, he told himself. You’ve seen a lot of things since working with Ariadne. You are strong.

Hi...

August Intruder- Chapter 179- Snitches Get Stitches

The thud as the bag hit the ground was very loud in the silence. Melmarc’s jaw dropped as Ark locked the door behind him.

Melmarc stared at the room in front of him. It was only the living room but it was beautiful. White walls, an amazing white ceiling with white lights. Black leather sofas, a television set so wide it had to be more than fifty five inches. The ground was black marble, reflective. It was also a large living space.

“So,” Ark said, standing right next to him....

August Intruder- Chapter 178- Will You Judge A Man

The room was quiet for a long while. It settled all over the room like a dead thing. Ark remained silent, there was no sign that he was breathing. His only sign of life was in his ever deepening frown and the blinking of his eyes.

Melmarc remained quiet on the bed as his half-folded clothes stood witness to what was about to happen. He hadn’t wanted to tell Ark about meeting the Player.

Norman.

He could still remember the man’s name. The strong features of the m...

August Intruder- Chapter 177- More

“You good?” Ark asked, giving him a curious look. “You haven’t said anything in a minute.”

Melmarc shook his head. It was less of a response and more about dispelling his thoughts. He had fought a Demi-god before, it had been all he’d needed to know that there were gods. The problem now existed in the possibility of his new knowledge. Gods were real, but were the gods that people knew on earth also real?

Was there an actual god named Amadioha somewhere out there? If ye...

August Intruder- Chapter 176- Something To Save You

Aurora was getting tired. She’d even missed Melmarc’s call at some point.

Where are you David?

Deoti had no idea, and she couldn’t disturb the woman too much since she was in tracking down her own lead in figuring out the drug that had made its way into the country. A drug that was linked to the Romanian cartel that was capable of increasing ranks and changing class was a big problem. And it wasn’t just about the country. It wasn’t safe for a drug like that to m...

ANNOUNCEMENT

For those of us not in the discord channel, I write this to offer my deepest apologies for the disappearance. Coupled with work stress, I fell sick. I'm getting better now and have returned to writing. I truly appreciate your patience. There would be no this without you all. I understand that this was not fair of me, and better is expected of me, I will try and be better.

That said, August Intruder chapters are scheduled to resume in Twenty Four Hours.

ROTLE- Chapter 167- Something Greater

Alobam had lost interest. Aiden could see it in how the colors in his eyes seemed to dull and die out. The giant’s smile waned a little. It almost dipped into a frown but he kept it in place.

He held it for what seemed to last forever before he just deflated.

“Did it have to be that?” he asked. “There are a million more things that you can ask, why does it have to be that one.”

Aiden was not dissuaded by Alobam’s disappointment. “Because it is the one that matt...

ROTLE- Chapter 166- A Patient World

Author's Note: My deepest apologies for the disappearance. Coupled with work stress, I fell sick. I'm getting better now and have returned to writing. I truly appreciate your patience. There would be no this without you all.

Without further ado, here is chapter 166: A Patient World.

Luscious green and mud brown. It was all Rometo could see no matter in what direction he turned his head. There were trees with trunks as wide as houses. Their barks a glossy mud brow...

ROTLE- Chapter 165- Alobam

Being an easy man to read was never a compliment. It did not matter what situation. Even among lovers, Aiden could never see the compliment in it. Shewa, his ex in his past life, had used that sentence on him once before and things hadn’t ended well.

Aiden gritted his teeth and prepared himself for what Elami’s bargain was going to be. Beside him, Ted looked disappointed, let down. Aiden couldn’t blame him. Ted had all but motivated Elami and, in truth, Ted was the reason the [Hea...

ROTLE- Chapter 164- Tribreed

The endless dark blue was a sight Boten could not get accustomed to. He’d been standing here, doing nothing, saying nothing, for hours now. The beauty of what he now was lay in the fact that time was not a problem. He could stand here for what could seem like eons and his mind would not cave under the pressure of time.

As for Jang’Uk, he seemed to be handling it as best he could. He fidgeted every now and again, mostly to Boten’s annoyance.

“You must learn control,” Bote...

August Intruder- Chapter 175- Another Side of Madness

Naymond counted his words carefully.

“Well,” he said, very cautious. “I’ve been going around destroying labs like this.”

Madness looked at him from his place sitting on top of a very corpulent man. Naymond knew that the man was still alive because the man had woken up twice and gotten a fist to the face both times.

Madness looked around the room they were in. “Places like this.”

“Yes, sir,” Naymond answered. “I’m hoping that if I can find all of t...

August Intruder- Chapter 174- Save Us or Kill Us

Pacing was one of the few things that Okoro truly disliked. It was a show of annoyance, often times, impatience. To him, those qualities showed a lack of control.

“For the love of the fallen can stop doing that,” Mrs. Talwort groaned in exasperation. “The carpet is over a century old. All that pacing is going to ruin it.”

Okoro stopped pacing. He took in a deep, calming breath, then let it out. It did nothing to calm him.

“You heard what I said, right?” he asked,...

August Intruder- Chapter 173- Probationary Admission

“Hello, Marc.”

The entire hall was spacious and scanty. There were maybe a handful of people moving about, heading from one destination to another. There was a waiting area with chairs aligned side by side that currently held no applicant.

The receptionist was a lady so young that Melmarc could’ve sworn she was a student. It was interesting because he was beginning to think that simple duties like the receptionist duty on this side of the school were outsourced to students. ...

August Intruder- Chapter 172- Perks of Being Older

Monday morning was a testy morning for Melmarc. Tired and not really wanting to, he slipped on a jacket after his shower. He’d been waiting for Monday morning since getting his probational admission on Friday. Why? Because while he could make a phone call and find out what exactly the probational requirements of his admission were, he was more interested in going into the student affairs office for a face to face conversation.

Then on Saturday morning he’d gotten another email infor...

August Intruder- Chapter 171- With A Clause

It was midday, the sun high up somewhere in the sky. Still, the hearth was lit, flames burning and wood crackling. The smoke rose into the tunnel that guided it out through the chimney. Mrs. Talwort sat, nestled in a high-bakced chair, its carved oak arms worn smooth by years of hands before hers.

The room around her breathed history. Stone walls were draped in rich tapestries. Beams were darkened with age. The scent of jasmine candles lingered in the air. In an old civilization history...

ROTLE- Chapter 163- Cosmos, Not Universe

Two days, Aiden thought with a frown. They’d been in the forest for two days. His frown deepened, wrinkles forming on his forehead as he forced himself to calm down.

It’s not like I’ll need them to get the heart, he reminded himself, watching Zen and Feira as they sat sweating by the tree.

Feira didn’t just need to learn [Mana manipulation], she needed to learn the foundational skill [Dash] as well. Fighting the urge to run a frustrated hand through his h...

ROTLE- Chapter 162- A Leak

It had been a day since Ted and Aiden had returned to the group. Zen’s question about who nightcrawler was had been left by the side of the road. Aiden saw it on his old friend’s face that he had chucked it up to Ted just say confusing things.

Aiden’s intention to start training Ted on the use of the blink dagger had been from a place of necessity. The blink dagger was an expensive weapon for low level adventurers because of the cost of purchasing one.

A simple fighting weap...

ROTLE- Chapter 161- Nightcrawler

Ted’s footsteps were quiet as he approached Aiden. He walked slowly, cautious but not stealthy. At least Aiden didn’t think he was trying to be stealthy.

Aiden took a moment to raise his head up from the enchantment he was engraving. He paused, but his hand continued to move. With his knife, his hand continued to engrave, carving the enchantment into the tree.

“How many trees so far?” Ted asked, opting for a casual tone.

Aiden knew that his brother was worried. Every...

ROTLE- Chapter 160- Sinepore

Sinepore was tired. So very tired.

It had been so long, too long to remember. He had lived through more than five civilizations. Once upon a time, he had been young, beautifully young. He had soared through the skies, basking in the agility that came with youth.

Now, here he was, older, too old. Waiting to die.

Sinepore sighed, the air that left his nostrils was like a geyser. With age had come size. Like most people in the old world knew, with dragons, age came with power a...

ROTLE- Chapter 159- Fate Watched

“I have a task for you,” Aiden said to Oncot, his jepat moving at a steady walk. “A path you will—”

“That’s a pretty bird,” Ted muttered.

 A bird, feathered in rainbow colors, zipped through burning trees. It heralded a notification.

[Fate is Unwoven]

Hands tightening on the reins of his jepat, Aiden froze.

Pain filled Aiden. It sucked him into it as it ripped his heart out of his chest, breaking ribs and shattering everything else in its way...

August Intruder- Chapter 170- Even If I Was Given Permission

“Why Fallen High?” Isaiah asked on the big screen.

Okoro folded his arms over his chest while he lounged back on his seat, doing his best not to swivel as swivel chairs were designed to.

The conference room was filled with those who were actually in charge of making the final decision of which students were going to be fully admitted into the school and which students were going to be advised to transfer out to a less preferred school.

Among those in the room was Delet, ...

August Intruder- Chapter 169- One In A Million

The entire space was empty. It left him wondering if the [Telepath] was really alright or if this was just another part of the test.

Melmarc looked at the door once more, wondering if at any point in time it was going to open.

Sitting forward, he rested his arms on his knees and sighed deeply. He was hungry, not necessarily starved, but hungry. It was interesting considering he hadn’t eaten all day. It was common knowledge that strong Gifted didn’t need food like the un-Gifted...

August Intruder- Chapter 168- To Undermine A Person's Sacrifice

Ariadne hated her life.

She frowned as she knocked the trashcan cover over. It clattered to the ground, loud in the dark night. This was not her life. She was done with life in the slum. She had been done with it for a very long time.

Now, she’d been thrown back into it. What was worse was that Naymond had done everything in his power to lock her out of leaving. All her connections back out of the slums had shunned her. Every time she reached out, they shut her down, telling her...

August Intruder- Chapter 167- Friends

Looking back once more, Melmarc scratched his head as he walked down the hallway. He’d just walked through a wall, seen a man go from translucent to physical and gotten the room of examiners worried. How much of the room, he wondered, was just an illusion?

Was the whole room an illusion?

The people in the room were real, though, that much he knew. He doubted any illusion could be that good. At least he didn’t think any illusion would’ve recreated an Oath.

Another thoug...