The sound of laughter filled the air, mingling with the slowly dying heat. The air was filled with the orange light of fire.
Melmarc rolled on his side, laughter spilling from his lips and winced. Pain flared in his side so terribly that he had to return to his position on his back. Still, he did not stop laughing. He could not stop laughing.
“That bad?” Ark’s voice came from beside Melmarc.
Melmarc turned his head to the side. His neck hurt a lot. He hoped he hadn’t...
2025-01-05 00:25:23 +0000 UTC
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It had been just over a week since their parents had shown them the training ground that was only accessible through the garden in the backyard. Even though there was no proof of it, Melmarc liked to think of the space as a training ground located just under the garden.
Considering the fact that it had been a teleportation spell that had sent them from the garden to the location, it was safe that for all he knew, the place could be located on the other side of the world.
Still, th...
2024-12-31 01:38:04 +0000 UTC
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Looking around, Ruth couldn’t help the frown that touched her lips. “Your country should learn to make up its mind. It’s either hot or cold, it can’t be in between.”
Inevitability only chuckled. “The last time I checked, I’m not a high ranking [Elementalist]. I don’t have the power to control the weather.”
“You can’t tell me that you don’t have one on staff,” she grumbled.
“You seem to forget the [Unbound] is also a Nigerian.”
Ruth waved a...
2024-12-25 23:42:05 +0000 UTC
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“Mom.”
Melmarc’s mom gave him a smile. “Yes, Mel?”
Removing his eyes from his mother, Melmarc looked down at where their hands met, hers holding his, then back at the notification in front of him.
[Dormant Oath detected]
[Detected Oath: War]
[Would you like to reactivate dormant Oath of War?]
[Y/N]
Melmarc was too surprised. His surprise left him unsure of how to say whatever it was that he ...
2024-12-23 12:13:55 +0000 UTC
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Today, he would live or he would die. Valdan knew this. There were no conversations to be had, no philosophical ramblings. Every day was a day a person could live or die, but every day is not a day that a person is so visually aware of it.
Valdan lowered his stance, solidified his footing as best he could. His stamina was low but he refused to check on it. He refused to blind his determination with what it truly was. Knowing it was more than he needed would lead him to make a mistake. K...
2024-12-16 17:45:25 +0000 UTC
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Valdan stood with a sword covered in blood. Despite how many times he’d swung it in an arc, he just couldn’t get rid of the blood.
Heaving, he took in his surroundings. The black sand was not stained with blood as he had expected. For some reason, the sand seemed to absorb all the blood. Whenever the blood touched the sand, it barely lasted long enough to be noticed, disappearing as if it had never been.
However, while the sand absorbed the blood, it did not absorb the corpses...
2024-12-12 23:18:01 +0000 UTC
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All nine assailants stood before Valdan. The distance between him and them was so large that it would be impossible to cross it without them noticing.
The technique?
Lord Lacheart had taught him two incomplete techniques. One was designed to put down around eleven opponents within a certain distance of each other while the other was designed to bring down one opponent. Valdan had only mastered the former well enough to take down three men confidently. Even then, he had no...
2024-12-09 23:18:00 +0000 UTC
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“If this is what you wish for, then come, child,” the [Sage] said in an unbothered tone, taking another step forward. “Defy me.”
Aiden stared at the [Sage]. Regressor or not, granted the secrets of the universe or not, he was not one to allow his hubris to kill him. When faced with a fight against a [Sage], there was only one answer.
His hands came up and he weaved a sign as quickly as he could.
[You have used class skill Enchanted Weave]
…
2024-12-05 23:18:01 +0000 UTC
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The soft hiss of metal against a whetstone slipped through the gentle evening air. The cadence was precise, each interval flowing easily.
The sun was somewhere in the horizon and the clouds were dowsed in the orange blood of the dying day as it slowly dipped into nonexistence. The slow hiss was its gentle dirge. The harbinger of its growing finality.
Valdan let out a very slow breath, staring into the clouds. Not for the first time today, he wondered how he’d gotten here.
...
2024-12-02 23:47:46 +0000 UTC
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Aiden hummed a tune as he strolled down the streets of the capital city. It was an old song from a ballad he knew about a lady who’d cheated on her husband with one of the gods only to find out that her husband was a god, too.
The outcome of having created such a song in Aiden’s old life had been the death of the ballad at the hands of a bunch of religious fanatics. Still, the tune was catchy, and Aiden liked it.
Beside him, Ded paid attention to everything that moved and brea...
2024-12-01 09:29:19 +0000 UTC
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Melmarc sat down thinking about it, really thinking about it.
What did he really want to be?
“And please don’t say mana based,” Uncle Dorthna chipped in.
“I wasn’t going to,” Melmarc said. “But why?”
“Because you’re a [Faker] and an [August Intruder]. Your mana is going to increase by default from just being those. Unless your plan is to beat the record of having the highest mana count.”
“Can I be an all-rounder?” Melmarc looked to his p...
2024-11-28 23:18:00 +0000 UTC
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“Is it still pending?” Melmarc’s mother asked.
Even though Melmarc knew the answer, he still pulled up his interface to be sure. He thought of the notification that he was looking for and it appeared in front of him without any delay.
[Permission requirement detected!]
[Your Oath of Inevitability wishes to send a system message to all Oaths of your world.]
[There are no system protocols in place detected.]
[Would you like to allow system me...
2024-11-27 23:18:00 +0000 UTC
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“You haven’t been very motherly these past few days.”
Aurora’s eyes darkened as she turned them on Dorthna. “What?”
A smile almost touched Dorthna’s lips but he stopped it. It was always interesting to see how she hovered on the edge of strategic violence anytime anyone stepped on the topic of her family in any kind of negative light.
“Motherly,” he repeated. “It’s been two days and you haven’t been very motherly to the kids.”
She frowned at h...
2024-11-23 06:38:21 +0000 UTC
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Morning found Aiden lying quietly on his soft bed. It was comfortable as far as comfort went. It was also larger than the one he’d been given in the Naranoff household which, to him, was interesting that he was paying attention to it.
He held a card up to the ceiling, looking at it. It was a wooden brown with a silver sheen. On its surface was the word ‘Aiden’ written in something black as if it had been burned into wood. Charred. Flipping it, Aiden checked on the back, not that h...
2024-11-18 23:18:01 +0000 UTC
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The sound of clashing metal seemed muffled in the evening air.
Dull.
Aiden moved to the side, blade twirling as he moved to strike again. He went for his opponent’s weapon and not the opponent himself. Blades clashed again, the sound rang through the open space.
Again, it seemed muffled.
Dull again. Aiden frowned.
Three strikes and three parries. He wouldn’t call it boring, but it was dull. Something was wrong somewhere.
He stepped int...
2024-11-16 04:02:08 +0000 UTC
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Aiden’s jaw dropped at the [Sage’s] words.
A little too proud of himself, Brandis sat back, arms folded over his chest with a self-accomplished smile. From what he knew, the [Sage] had only ever taught him and his father.
The man, too enamored by his own self-importance had always claimed that teaching anyone outside the family line was something he had no interest in. He had agreed to train the [Hero] should he come from the castle’s summoned, but nothing more.
So whe...
2024-11-14 23:18:00 +0000 UTC
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Aiden’s blackened hand shot after the [Sage’s] face the moment his interface popped up.
Aiden willed his hand to stop but it was as effective as commanding the wind. The [Sage] jerked in surprise and stepped away from him. Actually, Aiden couldn’t categorize what the [Sage] did as stepping away. One moment he was standing within the reach of Aiden’s blackened arm, the next his body was a static blur and he appeared a step away.
Aiden couldn’t tell if the [Sage] was too f...
2024-11-14 10:33:19 +0000 UTC
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The slow caress of uncertainty filled the room. It crawled all over the walls and whispered in the open pages of the documents strewn across the table.
It had been a week since the Oath of Madness had found the [August Intruder]. A week since they’d been looking for the Oath of Madness. His wife had been shoved out of whatever portal she had been in, the same with every other Gifted only a few days ago.
Chetam turned his attention to the large television in the office. The chann...
2024-11-12 13:24:43 +0000 UTC
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Dorthna had died once. That was what Melmarc had gotten from his uncle’s answer regarding the reason his indicator was red and grey instead of just one color like every other persons.
I had to kill Caldath twice, he thought as he approached the front door. Did someone have to kill him once?
Everyone else was already outside, apart from Spitfire who was in the kitchen doing whatever it was doing.
Melmarc opened the door and closed it behind him. His parent...
2024-11-10 13:56:18 +0000 UTC
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Bread tasted like bread. A part of Melmarc was disappointed to find out as he took another bite of his bread. He’d been expecting things to be different, in a manner, even if a little bit. It felt like starving for so long and looking forward to eat an tire buffet just to get full after a few spoons.
He placed his half eaten slice of bread on the small tray beside him and stared at the interface in front of him.
[Name: Melmarc Jay Lockwood]
[Class: Faker – Call of The Wi...
2024-11-08 00:41:45 +0000 UTC
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Aurora took a left turn down a street she didn’t know. Turning the steering wheel with a single hand, she remembered how much it irked David, her husband. He never said anything whenever she did it, but she’d grown to notice over the years.
David was meticulous like that, the safest driver she had ever seen, amongst other things. But anyone who knew her husband well enough knew that his meticulousness had nothing to do with safety but control.
Regardless, anytime she was in a ...
2024-11-04 05:33:27 +0000 UTC
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Melmarc leaned slightly forward to look at Ark’s injury even though he didn’t have to. Ark called it a stab wound but what Melmarc was looking at was a massive scar. It would only classify as a stab wound if someone had run him through with a pole or something.
“How did you get that?” There was a touch of worry in Melmarc’s voice.
The injury looked old, though. It was nothing but a scar now. A massive scar that filled up the entire left side of his abdomen. It was a larg...
2024-11-01 00:49:50 +0000 UTC
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Brandis listened patiently as Aiden told his story of what had happened to him since leaving the castle.
Aiden told him of the effect of the first teleportation, how he had arrived on the other side covered in blood and confusion. A full recovery potion had proved ineffective in supplying him with full health stats so a partial recovery potion had been used.
Next, he spoke of meeting Nella at the entrance to the manor—the front door, to be specific.
“And what did you thi...
2024-10-28 23:18:01 +0000 UTC
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“Looks very intriguing.” Aiden turned his hand one way, then the other. “Also makes me look deadly.”
“There is nothing intriguing about it,” Valdan said with a frown. “We should be talking to [Mages], [Alchemists]. Anyone with a class that loves researching.”
Aiden cocked a brow. “[Necromancers]?”
“If they’ll be able to help, yes,” Valdan answered without missing a beat.
Elaswit sighed, pinching the bridge of her nose. “How are you not worri...
2024-10-27 23:18:01 +0000 UTC
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Dark walls surrounded the place, stained with bioluminescent plants. Algae and moss of different kinds stained the walls, creeping up from the ground. If not for the orb of light he’d come with, the light within the cave would’ve been annoying to work with.
And this was enough for them to see with? Clerent wondered as he got up to his feet.
He would be lying if he said that he wasn’t impressed. In his hand was a small piece of rock. It was different from every other...
2024-10-26 10:40:02 +0000 UTC
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The sun was nowhere in the sky, but the sky was soft with the touch of daybreak. Aiden’s first touch of concern was the fact that Vanisi had not been the one to wake him up. He could’ve chucked it up to was had happened in the early hours of the morning. She was either still reeling from the fact that he claimed to have run into someone using a code from the Order or she could’ve just been shy since he’d rejected her advances.
It mattered very little.
Right now, Aiden’s ...
2024-10-23 11:22:25 +0000 UTC
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“Lord Lacheart?”
Things were not adding up. Aiden put his mind to work, the little that he could salvage from the fact that Vanisi worked for the Order. It had taken a while before Brandis had informed the nobles of him and the others.
Certainly not this early, he thought.
But Lord Naranoff had said that the king had a habit of sharing secrets with him because of how close they were—or something like that.
Did it mean that the same thing had happened in ...
2024-10-21 19:51:47 +0000 UTC
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The cover of the book was as hard as Melmarc remembered as he ran a finger over it. It was one of Ark’s old story books. It was a picture book not a comic book as Ark had always pointed out when they were younger.
It was a story of Dark Mist. As a Delver, he had been the most famous story book character when they were children—when he had still been alive. In all variations of the story books and comic books, he had only one origin. It was his true origin.
His real life and hi...
2024-10-19 12:23:58 +0000 UTC
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The team helped with loading Melmarc’s things in the car. It was quick and precise. Nobody grumbled and nobody complained. It was early into the morning, late enough that you could sense the touch of daybreak on the horizon. So they worked in relative darkness.
Throughout the entire process, Deoti just stood and watched, her attention fixed entirely on Melmarc. At some point, she and Fendor exchanged a few words that Melmarc did not hear.
Through it all, she looked bothered.
...
2024-10-17 05:13:30 +0000 UTC
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“Mel,” Melmarc’s father said, voice confused. “What did you just do?”
The answer to the question was completely beyond Melmarc’s knowledge. But he had an answer, so he gave it hoping that it would make sense to his father.
“I established dominance?”
“Was it intentional?” his father asked.
Melmarc shook his head. “I didn’t mean to do it.”
The moment the words were out of his mouth, his father’s expression went back to what Melm...
2024-10-13 09:48:35 +0000 UTC
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