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Flesh of the Wakened Earth is level 90!
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Flesh of the Wakened Earth is level 96!
Starsteel’s Descent is level 94!
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Starsteel’s Descent is level 98!
Harn picked up his axes, his Skills singing within him like a damn chorus. It was good, but it was distracting—he n...
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"Wow, that's one way to get the blood pumping!" Pit exclaimed. Above them, the Manaships and Thalgrym's aerial warriors clashed with the shadowbeasts. Bloody lightning raged across the skies as the gods cried out in annoyance.
For the moment, they were forgotten.
"Can we get the princess to the ships?" Pit asked. "We could run.”
“We'll never outpace a goddess." ...
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The voice of the gods crashed like thunder, and the Stormwardens appeared within the dark Tempest. Their limbs were like shadows even after breaking through the stormwall, slick darkness stretched up over their extremities as they thrashed the clouds to ribbons, as if they were fighting some invisible force. Their halo of lightning flickered between blue-white and a sickly bloody red.
"Oh no," Pit said, backi...
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You Have Proven Yourself Against The Tempest, Pit, Shaper of Chaos!
Be Welcome To The Halcyon Hold!
You Have Been Marked!
Authority Increased!
Stormtested!
You May Enter The Tempest With Impunity. The Stormwardens Will Accept You As One Of Their Own.
The voice of the sys...
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Pit stood at the edge of Euphonia, contemplating the stormwall.
A formal structure had been built there, leading off the edge of the floating island. It was Nymean-made; that much was clear to him. Their signature pattern of stars was repeated everywhere, and a motif of roots and vines were engraved into the tall pillars that framed the view.
The ground beneath him was carved with a sto...
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Primeval Drift is level 82!
Archie walked free of another jar, carrying two more wheezing bodies atop his shoulders. He stumbled to a stop as his ears started working again and whipped his head to the side. He blinked. A firehose the size of a waterslide was being blasted off from a…glowing guy?
What the hell happened? I was gone for like two seconds!
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Yari clutched the pole, his hands bloody from a long day of navigating the Poison Fields. His other hand clung the side of their flatboat as they were tossed by surging poisonous waves. In the distance, serpents did battle with a monster.
Monsters fighting abominations. We’re doomed.
Someone screamed. A clawed hand latched onto the side of the boat, pulling itself up into the midst of...
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Wrath of the Twin Fangs is level 93!
Colossus of the Everflame is level 96!
Forgesteel Skin is level 82!
Harn flicked blood off his gauntlets. "I had that, kid.”
“You were taking too long.” Kevin wiped his sickle on the Adamant’s tabard. “We're here to kill them, not chat them up.”
Harn grunted. He...
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"Beef has them fully engaged. Proceed to the Overlord's Manor," the sharp-winged matriarch said as she landed beside him.
Kevin, on Harn’s left, shuddered. "God, that's creepy. A voice like yours shouldn't be coming out of a giant skink."
"Hmm," Hallow mused. Then the water bubbled just feet away, and a shambling corpse rose from the muck. Their body was half-decayed and mostly bones un...
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Beef walked carefully on the dark edge of the jungle where dry ground met sudden noxious wetland. He'd taken his time, moving as quietly as possible through the underbrush as the sun rose slowly into the sky. Scratch that. As the sun tinted the sky, the sun's rosy hue faded slowly into early morning blue.
Harn is asking if you are in position.
Tell him to hol...
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They trudged through the jungle, the Wyrmkin with their spiral necklaces leading the way. Beef still couldn't see the wards that supposedly hid their presence, but the occasional flash of Mana vapor caught his eye. Even if he hadn’t, Beef had decided the Kobolds were cool. Mostly, it just felt good to have someone from Earth to talk to. Archie was great, if grumpy most of the time, and Felix was awesome, but the Kobold bro...
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The Theron's body ignited as crystalline Mana poured out of her Gates, congealing above her into the shape of a massive book. Easily the size of a car, it was made of translucent purple and gold light. The pages within gleamed with an oppressive power that rammed down at him, splintering the stone beneath Felix's feet.
“Order Departs.”
Her Spirit flared, smashing at his ...
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The elevator dinged as it reached the seventy-first floor, and the doors opened onto a pale white hallway lit with sconces filled by purple Mana crystals.
Zara peered out. "Can you sense her?"
"She’s not here." Felix leaned back into the elevator and tapped the sigils for the next floor. The doors closed and they fell silent.
“So we’re just gonna find her and c...
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The halls of the Violet Tower were quiet, but unlike outside, Apprentices and Journeymen were everpresent. Mages moved swiftly up and down corridors, speaking in clipped tones and shifting materials from one room to another. Everyone seemed to have work they needed doing, which was great for Felix and his friends. Their off-white robes meshed well with the Apprentice robes, and so long as no one slowed down enough to notice th...
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The first thing Felix saw as the skiff doors opened was purple. Great sheets of it, magical and slightly transparent, hung from every wall and solid surface he could see. Though they could only see the squat edifice of the dockmaster’s office from their vantage point, it was clear that no building went without a touch of purple. Where the Umber had a few select pieces of sepia magic glowing from its sides, the Violet ...
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It was morning, and the sun had barely crested the horizon when Felix, Zara, and the rest crowded aboard Vilas Tern's personal skiff, headed for the Violet Tower. At first, Felix had been nervous. They had spent the night strategizing on the best way to approach the Tower and achieve their objectives. The preparation, however, was not as soothing as Felix had hoped.
Now, he drummed his fingers within the conf...
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"So, you chose Beefhammer as your name? That's hilarious.”
“Better than Shadowlord, Devon,” the green-gold Kobold snickered.
"Hey!” The purple Kobold poked his brother. “We don't use our old names unless we want to! That's a rule, remember?”
The green-gold Kobold raised his hands in defeat. “You’re right. You’re right.”
“You go ...
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"Enough!"
A voice boomed through the chamber, halting everyone in their steps. A physical pressure pushed down against them, shoving Wyrmkin to their knees and even Beef felt it weigh on his shoulders. The rebels gasped, most falling backwards, and Beef turned around.
At the far end of the chamber, past the now-dead Witness Flower, a pair of statues extended from the ceiling. Once obscur...
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"What do you mean we gotta be tested?" Archie asked.
The Elf leading them through the jungle looked back at him, a glimmer of pride in his eyes. "We're bringing you to meet the Wyrms, but in order to see them, in order to access the true might of the resistance, you must pass through the test."
"I'm not great at tests," Beef said. "Is it, like, written?"
For some reason, Archie held his head in his hands. Bee...
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After Thalgrym’s declaration, Pit and everyone else were confined to their ships, forced to wait out the night in the ancient berths near the eyrie. As the moons crested above the foggy horizon, Pit sat on the deck, staring around at the floating islands and picking apart what he had said to the council.
"I shouldn't have lost my temper," he muttered, trailing a crystal claw across the deck. It skipped across th...
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Pit was among the first to greet the Chimera. As his friends disembarked from the ships, Pit and A’zek approached the line they made around the star-shaped platform. Lots of sniffing and excited jostling marked the line of Chimeras as they came close, but not too close, to the Manaships, as if there were a line in the sand they were unwilling to cross.
“Welcome brethren!”
“A tenku and a harnoq from away. That is...
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Their fleet followed in Scylla's wake.
Pit flew with her, easily keeping up with the smaller Tenku as the storm intensified. With every beat of his wings, it seemed they drew nearer the heart of it, until the world thundered around them like the growling of a ferocious beast. Wind, rain, and ceaseless lightning dropped from the skies. Clouds swirled above and below, until there was little telling...
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A storm crackled overhead as their ships anchored against its terror. All nine Manaships were lashed together in the aftermath of the Twilit Apes' attack. The wounded were laid out on the decks, wrapped in bandages to staunch the worst of their injuries. Soldiers were busy doling out potions, but there were too many wounded to handle separately.
Pit needed them close.
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After tea was had, and nerves had settled as much as Felix imagined they would, Tern set his saucer down and grimaced.
"I suppose it is time for me to fulfill my end of the bargain," he said.
that would be nice.
The elf narrowed his eyes at Atar. "Such a strange, chatty Urge for something bent on destruction."
"Undying Flame," Atar corrected. "He just li...
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They settled into a study of sorts. A fireplace sat behind them, cast out of iron in the likeness of a curling, serpentine Dragon. The interior of the fireplace, however, was filled with more books. As was the mantel, which had a number of dog-eared tomes beside a collection of small ivory monster skulls. The walls were lined with built-in shelves filled with yet more books, along with glass cases filled with dust-covered oddments and bau...
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Felix paced at the edge of a sloped roof, the sky of Levantier above him full of Manaships slowly meandering between him and the clouds. He worried at his lip with his teeth. It had been several long minutes since Pit had eaten the Twilit Ape, and all Felix had to sooth himself was silence.
Pit. Is it done? Is the fight over?
Yeah. His Companion sounded tired. People got hurt, but ...
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Archie fell through the street and, for a brief moment, it was as if he ceased to exist.
It was always like this. Using Primeval Drift wasn't like closing his eyes. When he phased through solid matter, his sight stopped functioning entirely. His ears were deaf. His voice was muted. There was no color nor light and even if there were, there was no way to take in that information—it was as if he were trying to ...
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Down the main thoroughfare the new construction continued, though beyond those blocks Archie could tell it was mostly residential. The town was too small for much else. The quality of homes varied as the smell of mildew and water filled the air—a thin river cut through the southern end of the town, and the homes changed rapidly from large estates near the center of town to hovels at the muddy coastline.
Hmm. ...
2024-06-21 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostBonus chapter for Journeyman Tier! Enjoy!
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It was a short jaunt down a fern-crowded defile and across a half mile of dense jungle before the two of them reached the road. In Archie’s opinion it barely qualified as such; made of hard-packed dirt studded with half-sunk blocks of stone scattered at seemingly random. Deep ruts marred its surface too, enough that Archie had to hop over them just about every other step. Beef didn’t have much iss...
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"So this thing is supposed to help us?" Archie asked, poking the worn stone panther face. It snarled at him silently, its fangs bigger than one of his daggers. "It's just a road."
They stood on a segment of elevated highway, or at least that's how Archie understood it. Some ways distant from the ruin that held the Shadowgat...
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