Donovan Talinat had been a [Telepath] for many years now. As an S-ranked Gifted, he had dedicated the use of the skills to the occupation of becoming a Delver. He supported some of the greatest minds, even finding himself with the occasional opportunities to work with SS-rank Delvers. At least one or two.
If there was one thing that he could say, it was that the complexity of a mind had nothing to do with the rank of the Gifted. All in all, all minds were relatively the same, the diffic...
2025-08-31 06:28:47 +0000 UTC
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The master of the Order sighed. “You sure took your sweet time with it, didn’t you?”
The [Sage] in Bandiv shot him a dark look but knew better than to indulge him. He, too, sighed, leaning back on his chair like a spent man.
“Please do not patronize someone who just ensured that we survive whatever the gods are about to do,” the sister of the master said. “It is unbecoming.”
The master rolled his eyes and walked over to his desk. He sat down on it, legs swingin...
2025-08-25 05:33:50 +0000 UTC
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Aiden missed. The spear cut through the air and slammed into Zen.
Zen was sent flying off his still moving jepat and straight into a tree. He stayed stuck to the tree, pinned to its trunk by the spear that now ran through his head. His eyes stared forward. Dead.
Aiden’s heart clenched. His lungs shook as the air refused to go in or leave. He waited, as if it would change something, as if waiting was the ultimate move. As if time would heal all wounds.
Feira screamed loud a...
2025-08-24 09:22:33 +0000 UTC
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A moment of silence settled on the group. Ted looked around, offering weak smiles to everyone. Aiden could see their worries on their face as well as Ted’s failed attempt to assuage said worries.
After the offering of weak smiles, Ted leaned into him conspiratorially and spoke in a whisper.
“Just déjà vu?” he asked quietly. “Or Déjà vu Déjà vu?”
Aiden was lost in his thoughts. Still, he heard his brother’s question.
“The other one,” he sa...
2025-08-23 04:16:21 +0000 UTC
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Torat frowned, unsure of how to handle this level of fear.
“I don’t understand,” he said in response to the master. “There is always a future.”
The master of the Order released Torat and let his hands droop lazily to his side. He took a very deep and long breath, then let it out.
He put on a sudden smile. Torat could see the way it frayed at the edges of his lips like a poorly sewn cloth.
That bad, he thought. This was the first time the being in fro...
2025-08-22 08:39:18 +0000 UTC
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The sun was making its descent when Aido made his way back to camp. His armor was a broken mess, shattered and ruined. It weighed down on him as he walked, dripping blood and fueling the soil beneath his feet from injuries long healed.
With each step his armor clanged and creaked. He sighed, ignored it, and continued forward. He walked up what was now a hill, into a sea of trees. Today was nothing but another day that he had failed to die.
The Immortal they called him. Why? Becaus...
2025-08-21 14:13:19 +0000 UTC
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Just what kind of group was Aiden running with. Letto had been on Nastild long enough to have seen a lot of things. Perhaps not half as much as there was to see, but he had seen enough. Being in the castle had given him enough experience with the [Healer] class. Even being outside him had shown him a few variations.
If there was one thing he could say for a fact, hands trembling as he kept himself to the wall, trying his best to look as small and harmless as possible, it was this: Elami...
2025-08-20 11:50:18 +0000 UTC
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The fight hadn’t lasted long. Still, it was lasting longer than Aiden had hoped. So far, he had dealt with a lot of opponents. He was down to only five now.
They moved quickly, almost acting in tandem. Fighting against him for as long as they had was given them some sense of teamwork. They were understanding each other to the point that he was beginning to wonder if they were all [Doppelganger]s.
Having dealt with all the long ranged opponents, he was free to calm himself. He di...
2025-08-18 14:20:14 +0000 UTC
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The first thing Melmarc could say with complete certainty was that he did not like the room. There was just way too much green. It seemed endless and unnecessary.
He took the room in at a glance as he walked in. The natural setting was too much, the wood brown, the leaf green. It reminded him of his time in the portal.
Still, he said nothing. Instead, he squinted at the middle-aged man on the seat, wondered why he was… translucent.
Has this portion of the test already ...
2025-08-14 23:18:00 +0000 UTC
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Patience watched him from a distance. Even without looking, Melmarc could feel her eyes on him. The few times he met her gaze, she had an expression that he could not quite place. She didn’t look pissed but she was definitely not happy.
As for Pelumi, she stood next to him quietly. She looked confused by what he had done to Devin. Her test had been at the hands of Eleanor, the girl that Ark had defeated. Apart from a broken nose, she’d sustained no damage from Ark. Rae had healed he...
2025-08-13 16:49:46 +0000 UTC
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Oboz, I think you should stop the match.
The voice rang in Oboz’s head. Enma was an A-rank [Telepath] with visual acuity. Interestingly enough, it didn’t mean what most people thought it meant. In her case, it meant that if you granted her permission, she could see through your eyes.
Oboz did his best to keep aa flat expression as Devin used his skill [May I Come To You] once more. It was already surprising enough that he had lost in a head on collision when he had us...
2025-08-13 00:12:38 +0000 UTC
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“Remind me of why you are here,” Chetam said, not looking up from his laptop.
“There are a lot of things wrong with that sentence structure,” Ruth answered, smiling.
Hearing the smile in her voice, Chetam looked up from the laptop, abandoning his online game to whatever was happening.
They were seated in his main office at the highest floor of the company building. It was a spacious room, with a large glass work desk. Ruth sat at the center of the room were a set of ...
2025-08-11 05:05:02 +0000 UTC
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Ms. Ensineta was a cute, young girl with pink blushes and a blonde pixie haircut. She walked out with her hands clutched to her chest as if she was hiding something. She seemed timid simply because she looked cute.
Instructor Oboz didn’t even bat an eye when she passed. He didn’t worry for her safety. She bowed respectfully as she passed him and he returned her bow with a simple nod of the head.
“Isn’t that the daughter of Quick dart?” someone in the crowd whispered.
...
2025-08-10 20:13:30 +0000 UTC
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The instructor raised a curious brow.
“A name I’ll never forget,” he mused, repeating Ark’s response to his question. He gave it a moment’s thought before turning his attention to Melmarc. “And you’re the younger brother?”
Melmarc nodded. The action seemed to surprise the instructor.
“Interesting,” the man mused, his voice deep. “Normally, the younger ones are more quirky, not the other way around. I take it your brother is a late bloomer.”
Rath...
2025-08-10 03:00:57 +0000 UTC
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Slight rage built up in Melmarc as Veebee continued to call out to him. He turned each time, searching for the source of the voice. He found nothing, Only darkness looked back,
Ark stood patiently, waiting for him.
It took around two minutes before Melmarc’s annoyance built up completely and he ignored the voice. What had he been thinking? That he would find a creature that existed within the portal inside Fallen High?
It was nothing but an illusion. An illusion that had s...
2025-08-08 12:24:51 +0000 UTC
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Arms folded Enji did his best to hold back his laughter. It was subdued, quite poorly, into a snicker.
Okoro spared him a glance before shaking his head. Enjin could not be matured to save his life. But he guessed it was the man’s childishness that kept him loved by the students of the school. He was in charge of Gifted Physical Education and the children loved him to hell and back.
Enjin leaned forward suddenly, staring intently at the screen.
“My money says that the gi...
2025-08-06 20:51:04 +0000 UTC
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The sunlight slipped in through the window at the dining section of the room. Apparently, they had forgotten to close the curtains.
Melmarc woke up with dried spittle at the corner of his mouth. For reasons he could not immediately understand, he was on the ground, lying right next to the slight bloodstain on the white rug in his room.
Groaning, he turned on his side, then pushed himself up to his feet. He half-expected to be hit by a bout of vertigo. He kept his feet stable benea...
2025-08-03 10:47:39 +0000 UTC
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Aiden woke up, kicking and screaming with aa searing pain in his arm.
The pain was livid, tearing through him like some rabid thing. It was like having arm being eaten alive from the inside by rabid parasites with lamprey teeth. Ripping and biting and chewing.
Aiden muffled his cries as he fought for some control over his own pain. He grabbed his blackened arm with his normal arm and squeezed.
It did nothing.
Biting back on his pain, he refused to cry out. It was a thi...
2025-07-28 11:30:40 +0000 UTC
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A wandering chill tickled his lungs as Jang Su came awake. He was groggy and his feet were sore as if he’d walked a million miles. He raised himself up to one knee, first. Shaking his head, he tried to banish the grogginess that held him.
It worked very little, but it also showed him that he had a headache, and a banging one at that. It was like having a marching parade in your head.
He frowned at it before finally pulling himself up to his feet.
Around him the world was c...
2025-07-27 14:36:15 +0000 UTC
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The expanse of land looked down at them. The moonlight streamed in from whatever space was open above.
Aiden stared at the crystal in front of them. It didn’t seem to stare back in any poetic way. If it was being poetic, the crystal seemed to not care for their presence, like a drunken king willfully ignorant of his subjects arraigned in front of him in supplication and imploration.
They were, ultimately, unimportant to the crystal.
Are you really going to use it on Va...
2025-07-26 03:50:31 +0000 UTC
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There was an explosion. There was dust.
Aiden reacted in the blink of an eye, unburdened by the presence of a weapon. His feet moved slightly into the explosion of dust. He felt the mana in the air and ignored it. There wasn’t enough of it to harm him. Meanwhile, out of the explosion a man charged at him with spear held out.
The edge was sharp and Aiden didn’t care enough to take in the entire detail.
His arm shot forward, forearm raised as if stopping a swinging blow. H...
2025-07-23 06:05:40 +0000 UTC
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Even as the idea slipped into Aiden’s mind, he wondered if it was a good one. If it was a worthy one.
A slight frown touched his lips at the idea of the sacrifice. He looked down at Valdan’s face. It was rigid, firm. One would say that it had no expression on it. Aiden had sparred with Valdan enough times and watched him fight to know that he was going through a lot of pain.
Valdan had once said that prolonged pain in the presence of the enemy should be taken like a stone. Wit...
2025-07-21 04:48:46 +0000 UTC
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Teff had always been a loyal and focused mercenary. At least she had been for more than ten years of her life in Trackback. She fulfilled her contracts diligently, no matter how difficult they were, and never cheated anyone.
As her current teammates liked to tell her, she had a sad story but not a unique one. It was filled with loyalty, love, loss and a sense of betrayal by the world. Then she’d gone down a dark path, a path of vengeance. Trackback had a common saying: you either died...
2025-07-17 03:53:30 +0000 UTC
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No, there is no problem. Just apologizing for the delay. ROTLE chapters will be coming very soon.
2025-07-14 09:08:08 +0000 UTC
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Melmarc wasn’t so sure what Ark was so disappointed about. No matter how close he and Pelumi were, she had just shown up in their room unannounced and unasked when she was healthily not supposed to know where they were.
It required questions and answers.
Pelumi leaned into him. Melmarc leaned into her, lowering himself so that their faces could be closer.
“Are you always this suspicious?” she asked in a whisper.
“Just in case you were wondering,” Ark announce...
2025-07-14 09:07:09 +0000 UTC
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Ark was still laughing.
He was having too much fun, hand on his side with tears in his eyes, his voice was a little loud. He wasn’t trying to be rude, Melmarc knew that, but a stranger would think otherwise.
Melmarc rolled his eyes as he shoved his bag into the room wardrobe and lowered his backpack to the ground. He bent over it, unzipped it and pulled out his laptop.
“Did you see the look on his face?” Ark wheezed.
Melmarc sighed. “Yes, Ark. I saw the look on...
2025-07-10 04:26:38 +0000 UTC
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Grand.
It was the only word Melmarc could use to describe the gates to Fallen High’s entrance. From what he knew from the internet, the school had four gates. The south gate was considered the back gate and most alumni just called it the back gate.
It was funny because the gate that was considered the entrance was the West gate and everyone just called it the front gate.
“A bit arrogant,” Ark said, smiling up at the gate, watching it through his rolled up window as the...
2025-07-07 10:31:59 +0000 UTC
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The thumping in Aurora’s chest had finally subsided. She could breathe a little better but still not well enough.
Suddenly fatigued, she plopped herself down on one of the new chairs. As far as comfort went, it was top notch. Still, its comfort did not calm her. It did not comfort her.
The new television was playing a show about a man who kept losing an arm every episode. While she didn’t understand the premise or enjoy it, the show held Dorthna’s attention so vastly. He wat...
2025-07-06 13:46:58 +0000 UTC
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They had set up a residence in one of the homes that had somehow survived the attack. Here they made battle plans whenever they needed to. It would not be long before they stormed Nel Quan. Until then, they needed to make the necessary plans required to gain their victory.
It had only been a month or two since he’d known the boy but Oyedi could feel the absence of Ebube like a missing limb. The boy’s cold detachment had been a consolation, a reminder that intelligent people still su...
2025-07-02 15:43:32 +0000 UTC
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The unfortunate part about being in the same team with Taeli was that she was almost always rude. Dreg was yet to meet an employer that she actually liked. The best he had ever gotten from her was tolerance, and that was only when the employer proved to be significantly stronger, which was rare.
Regardless, employers were always weaker and Taeli had a habit of walking all over them. So, when Lord Lacheart had accused her of doing something wrong, he did not doubt him. But Dreg was the l...
2025-06-30 09:10:53 +0000 UTC
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