This is Friday's Chapter! Two more will be coming this week!
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DuFont was thrown back by a column of energy stabbed the sky like a brilliant spear. Her armor and Tempered skin melted before its onslaught, and unimaginable pain wracked her for the first time since the Song of Fury had begun. A swelling of Sorcerous music surged within the boy, something that sounded entirely too similar to her Authority.
Primordial Spark Detected!
Divine Spark D...
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The stone covering above them was ripped away, and Felix desperately backpedaled, dragging Cal along with him.
"Hah! Yes! Now you flee!" DuFont crowed from above him. It was her hand that had ripped the last of his stone protection away, but it wasn't a Human hand. Stone and metal had flowed and congealed into an oversized limb that grafted to the chestplate of her Inquisitor armor. It was crude and jagged, but the strength it exuded was terri...
2021-05-26 08:03:29 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Mana filled the night with the sounds of screaming. Bestial roars and unintelligible gibbering were met with inchoate shouts and shrieking cries. Skills clashed as crimson blood and dark ichor was spilled in equal measure.
The shield wall disengaged from the horde, but it was not clean. With only a handful of those at Bronze Rank or above, there were too many points of contact to cover them all. Ice warriors, monkeys, and bugs all hit their lines ...
2021-05-24 14:40:11 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy! Things are really coming to a head.
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"Seven Tribulations!"
A storm of air Mana threw the Ghostfire Simians back, shredding through ten of them. Yet the ones behind them simply clawed their way forward, into the bursting spears and suffering lacerations that cut them to the bone. They did not stop.
You Have Killed A Ghostfire Simian (x11)!
XP Earned!
They have gone insane. Vess stepped frantically, pushin...
2021-05-23 04:15:59 +0000 UTC View PostFriday's chapter! FIIIIIGHTS!
Expect Saturday's chapter tomorrow night (EST), but sooner if I can make that happen!
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Vess steadied Atar and Alister both with a hand, as the streets tilted and sank. The stone beneath her feet drained away, and when Vess turned she saw why. A collection of hexagonal pillars shot upward after the Arcid's own wild growth, and Vess could see Felix atop it.
Fight for us, Felix. Vess turned her attention forward agai...
2021-05-21 18:33:43 +0000 UTC View PostThis counts as Thursday's chapter! Friday's will be up tomorrow sometime in the late afternoon (sooner if I can manage it, to get back on schedule).
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Vines whipped past Vess, growing at a pace she could barely match. Her feet blurred between the sundered streets and torn up stones, while floating spears danced at her back. She slipped into the pattern of Dragoon's Footwork as her main spear wove defensively, knocking aside attack after attack. Man-sized tho...
Enjoy! Another chapter will post tomorrow (Thursday) followed by the usual Friday/Saturday updates!
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Aenea gasped as the Bloodmoon's light shone upon the battlefield. The Reforged had grown to twice their size, while the monsters had gone almost insane with bloodlust. Their shield wall was barely holding up, despite the Bronze Rank support.
The little...Felix was right, she thought, almost numb. Vellus' moon returned. How? More than that, he...
2021-05-19 17:34:22 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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"Wait, that's it?" Evie asked. She looked at everyone assembled around the city map. "We just smash through the gates with a bunch of monsters on our heels?"
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Monkeys, insects, and ice warriors followed Felix like a streaming banner. They had broken open the Inquisition's gate by leveraging every single one of their best Skills, from Atar's newly evolved Imbued Sparkbolt to Harn's Raze. Even then, it had taken every ounce of Stren...
Enjoy! More on Monday.
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"Now is the time," the Archon rumbled.
Dark, almost black energy flooded a gate before him. It was the twin of the one he'd sent his other Arcids through, only far larger. The Archon considered it, still troubled by the sensation of something touching his Mind a few minutes ago. It had felt...familiar, and he did not know why. Only that it filled him with wrath, and the urge to crush everything before him.
The golden gian...
2021-05-15 06:49:10 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
Just a few more chapters in this arc!
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"Reed!"
Felix shouted and rushed across the battlefield, catching the big man by the shoulders before he hit the ground. He looked like shit, and his eyes were barely open.
"Fiend," he rasped, but fell unconscious without anything further.
Felix set the big man down, but wasn't quite fast enough to catch his friends. Cal, Harn, Evie, Vess, Bodie and the two Elders all collapsed with the abse...
2021-05-14 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAs promised, an extra chapter this week for patrons! Enjoy!
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The Arcid screamed in unwilling rage, but Felix didn't care. Felix's Will was iron, and the Arcid broke itself against him. Mana and Essence tore from the Sphere, its Body and Mind and Spirit all draining into Felix's bottomless Hunger.
"You...Those are...mine," it rasped.
"No," Before its eyes flickered out, Felix met them and twisted his arm deeper into its chest. "They're mine."
The w...
2021-05-13 02:19:24 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy! I'll have another chapter up later this afternoon (5/12)! Then another Friday and Saturday for all patrons!
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Thangle rushed up the ladder in the rain, fast enough that the entire thing wobbled precariously. He weighed little, but the Gnome was frantic; the people in the camp were dying by the dozen, engulfed in white fire that the defenders were not stopping. He couldn't—he wouldn't—let it continue and after guiding the Untempered into t...
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Influence of Primordial and Divine Essence Nodes Detected!
Calculating...
First Threshold Exceeded!
Calculating...
Second Threshold Exceeded!
Calculating...
Harmonic Threshold Exceeded!
Calculating...
Felix shook and fell to a knee. His Blade and Femur fell from his hip and back, almost forgotten in his spate of violence and new, System induced evolution....
2021-05-10 04:17:53 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy! More on Monday!
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Status Condition: Spirit Damage 27% > 17%
Status Condition: Mind Damage 20% > 10%
Status Condition: Body Damage 20% > 10%
Felix's Aspects made their discomfort known as he climbed. It hurt his concentration, send occasional tremors through his muscles, and made something deep in his chest ache fiercely. He had hoped reaching Journeyman and the Second Threshold would knock them out, but all three of his Aspect...
2021-05-08 11:18:28 +0000 UTC View PostFriday's post! Another will follow Saturday!
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Congratulations!
You Have Been Granted Territorial Authority!
Authority Accessed.
Welcome, Lady Eliza DuFont.
What Song Do You Wish To Sing?
Eliza had opened the notifications at least twenty times since it had appeared. She toyed with the translucent panel before her. Its meaning was relatively clear, but she did not understand the significance of the last line.
What Son...
2021-05-07 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy! Another Chapter will be up Friday and Saturday!
Edit: minor edit to stats shown. I made a calculation error!
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Blind and deafened, Felix spun his cores. Pit did the same, screeching under the same burden. The protective dome his Essence had erected was torn asunder, and his core was flooded with System energy. They were buffeted by forces neither of them could fully perceive or explain, colorless light and a deep, vital darkness clashing within their share...
One extra today for patrons only! Tomorrow (probably midafternoon) I'll post another!
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Felix had no time for anything except to brace himself. The multicolored wave impacted his core space and was met with violence. The System's power struck the build-up of Primordial energy like a hammer meeting an anvil, and Felix was iron between.
Buzzing Dissonance met angelic Harmony, and a light show of Essence and Mana burst all around him. He was in the center...
2021-05-05 00:45:25 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Vellus gripped him, body and soul. The goddess had engulfed Felix's vision in all directions, and the mountain the size of a planet dragged at him. An endless storm within her thundered closer and closer, its lightning shattering stones the size of continents. Those clouds churned with magenta, disgorging torrents of sanguine rain in razor sheets of driving rain. Lightning and blood channeled through Felix, and he sensed them bypassing his core. They so...
Enjoy! More on Monday!
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Bastion of Will!
Sovereign of Flesh!
Felix was thrown hard against the burning surface of the Scale, though the sensation soon paled before the onrushing violet light. It seared against his exposed limbs, just as terribly as the rush of corrosive Essence stripped his already weeping channels. Something else rioted within the light, a piece of the Archon fused with the explosion; one last wave of that damn arr...
2021-05-01 07:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAnother chapter tomorrow. Enjoy.
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Influence of the Wisp!
Reign of Vellus!
The lashing claws around him froze, most of them Enthralled by his Skill as Felix exploded back toward the Arcids. He burst through the Revenants and redcloaks, Blade and bone slashing his way forward.
Before he even reached the edge of the madness, he saw a massive beam of Profane energy rip across the sky. It punched through the miasma and crossed the entire cave...
2021-04-30 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy.
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"So you recognize our majesty?" said the Arcid at the front. It was a small thing comparatively, barely bigger than a normal Human and colored like mud. Felix's Manasight picked out currents of dusty brown circulating around the creature, concentrated around its hands and skull.
Earth Mana. It's got a spell ready.
"I recognized your stench, yeah," Felix said.
All three of the Arcids stiffened, and their Spirits blazed with...
2021-04-28 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostSo as of this Saturday we're looking at 4x a week updates for May! Already have today's chapter completed and it'll be up at midnight. Working on more now.
I received my second COVID vaccine today, which means tomorrow may or may not be a Bad Day. I know some that had no issues, and others that were laid up in bed for the day. Fingers crossed it's nothing.
Either way! Updates for Monday, Wednesday, Fridays, and Saturdays...
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Wild Threnody is level 50!
Journeyman Tier!
You Gain:
+5% RES, MIG, FEL
Lightning consumed the Blight, tearing from it's throat and lighting up the former chorister's insides. His friends leaped away, bowling through the encroaching horde while smaller, foot thick bolts of electricity arced outward, lighting up the Revenants nearby.
You Have Killed The Pride Of Blight!
XP Earned!
Enjoy. More soon.
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Rock dust and pulped vegetation blasted outward. The sound was deafening so close, and Felix watched as large, horse-sized hunks of stone fell silently into the fog below. Yet before the debris cleared he could feel his eardrums healing. Sound returned with a strange sort of pop and Felix looked up to see the crystal...still there.
"Shit."
The Belais Crystal was hanging at an angle, half attached to the rocky cavern r...
2021-04-23 17:15:31 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Felix balanced himself between the crystal and the granite shelf, wings folded and his legs holding him in place easily. It was an awkward fit, made more so by the fact that having wings was still entirely too new, but it allowed him to both rest and stay free of the Guilders' relentless attacks. The Mana bolts had stopped coming so furiously, instead appearing in tight bursts every couple seconds. They grew more precise every time he ventured beyond th...
I'm working on getting more advance chapters for everyone to enjoy. Watch this space.
Enjoy!
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The screams below were rising louder and louder below, Tempered lungs proving their worth as Inquisition cut a bloody swath through the horde. But the Revenants weren't holding back either; Teine watched in rapt fascination as the beasts rallied with all the fury of a hive protecting their queen.
Teine looked at the Broodmother, his Analyze enough to tell ...
2021-04-19 16:33:14 +0000 UTC View PostEvie is extremely fun to write. Enjoy!
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Vess' heart roared in her ears.
Those last few strides, just before their relatively tiny force hit the encroaching horde, Vess was viscerally reminded of their fight through the Domain keep. The fear and scent of burning blood was the same, even the glimmer of metallic Mana from Harn's steady axes. Though Vess held her spears at the ready, though she trained all her life for combat, she could not help the chill tha...
2021-04-16 16:14:39 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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It was chaos.
Evie rolled beneath the lumbering swing of an Acolyte at the same time she scooted away from the flashing claws of a Revenant. She had hoped to see some action, bored as she was, but this was proving to be entirely too much.
The leaders of her hunting party had followed a pack of Revenants as they had loped off into the distance, just barely able to keep up with the beasts. Soon enough, they had led them to anoth...
2021-04-14 17:21:58 +0000 UTC View PostA bit late, I had internet issues today! Resolved now, thankfully. Enjoy!
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"Strength of Many!"
Bodie's arms and shoulders swelled, ballooning with muscle in a way that was almost obscene. His empowered mace crashed into the Ghoul's leading leg, and the thing's kneecap literally exploded into red paste. It tried to scream in pain, but Cal appeared at it's shoulder, and her blades tore it's scaled throat out. All that escaped was a harsh gurgle, and the mon...
2021-04-12 17:45:02 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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How come no one ever said scout work was so burnin' boring?
Evie had been marching along with her "torch" for what felt like glasses, unable to leave her rigid position in the formation. It was a light jog, usually, nothing she couldn't handle. Their Endurance was almost impressive, doing it in full plate and all. Almost. They had strength enough to talk among themselves, too. Their conversations weren't exactly enlightening, but Evie...
2021-04-09 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post