Eve waited patiently as the butler Ralph flowed into his first strike. She was in no hurry to demonstrate her full capabilities in anything, for now. Casually deflecting blows with the flat of her blade caused the older man to raise one eyebrow.
Assured by her demonstrated skill, Eve’s opponent began to flow into combination strikes at a faster pace. The spry elderly butler was attempting to open a gap in her defenses by chaining together blows in order to pull her out of position. It...
2022-06-26 05:53:31 +0000 UTC
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You asked!
So I have attempted to answer!
Xavier Joanblanq
The only plot point I care about is the capsule where the apprentice silver witch and the others are. I guess we're gonna wait quite a bit before it happens, but still. Can't wait.
The people left behind in Tal Mor will not be seen until Eve figures out a way to return past the Primordial Dust’s blockade of ...
2022-06-24 23:54:54 +0000 UTC
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They moved through the College courtyard towards the walled gate that exited the school. Eve spun together a Ritual burying it in a tiny orb the size of a large ball bearing. The silver sheen was worked with tiny runes scribbled in haste. Witch’s Dust was restrained to only the normal shielding of her body to minimize the drain. She’d left the passive monitoring dust in the Praetor’s office, but connecting to it would require physical retrieval to obtain the contained i...
2022-06-21 06:31:39 +0000 UTC
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“There is no Board of Directors for the College.” Charlotte said slowly her eyes glinting sharply. “If there was, my father would be on it. Is he in this group you can see, Eve?”
Eve realized she had applied her own understanding to a situation she didn’t fully grasp yet. Pulling the images from memory, she gave a short description of them as they sat in the room. It only took moments for the Praetor and Deputy’s expressions to turn even paler.
“Those sound like the ...
2022-06-19 02:29:59 +0000 UTC
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After a half-hour discussion conducted in the empty rooms of this section of the College, a consensus was reached. Eve didn’t bother paying attention because Nota would scribe everything into Eternal Memory. She did however take the time to shift her appearance into a younger version decked in exotic leather armor with two swords. Charlotte had explained that a bodyguard was easily explained, while a Demon, not so much.
Eve shrugged. Her natural body alterations, even...
2022-06-12 06:16:45 +0000 UTC
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Eve turned to face the guards and their minders. The crash of blades, the slam of shields, and the crunch of heavy armor never occurred. Barely a foot from Eve the guards stopped in place before the sound of croaking frogs replaced the crunching racket of steel.
“Since I’m not sure I can kill, here,” Eve said with a grin. “Best they learn their place in the food chain, beneath my boots.”
The oldest of the heavily robed and bejeweled individuals took the lead hardening hi...
2022-06-05 06:36:23 +0000 UTC
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Eve deliberately allowed her face to have a strict expression. She had sent Bennie over first both to check for safety, and to allow time to deal with Red. The conversation with the other dungeon core had been short and to the point. Red had quickly realized that Eve wasn’t another contender, and that pushing the boundaries of their agreement allowed the witch to push back, too. Bringing her thoughts back to the present she glanced at both of the children and pulled up their inform...
2022-05-29 05:42:15 +0000 UTC
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Justin Mickleton’s leather boots whispered across the flagstones of the kingdom’s premier College of Warlocks. It was deep in the witching hour and not a soul could be found in the College’s time-worn passages. The kingdom of Othuven where the school had been founded was one of the most ancient, but over the years their power had waxed and waned like the ocean tides. Now the kingdom was known only for producing the most powerful arcane casters on the continent of Aiqen. Glancing out one...
2022-05-22 04:58:00 +0000 UTC
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“Praise be to the stars; this Forest has an end!” Mishka said her expression ecstatic. Eve rolled her eyes as her clothing shifted from a bathing suit into the typical witch set of pointy hats, robes, and pouches. A long staff capped with Felix completed the look of a traveling caster accompanying a set of rich wealthy patrons.
Looking over the elf’s living area was a lesson in what put the Wood in wood elf. Trees had been shifted using elvish magic creating enormous redwood-sized...
2022-05-15 06:33:48 +0000 UTC
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“Why are we following the suspicious yet hot elves deeper into the forest depths, oh benevolent shining silver flame of the darkness?” Bennie said in a stage whisper to Eve before waiting on a response.
Waving casually Eve motioned aimlessly at the soft light from the false sun filtered down through the canopy painting a picture of peace. The arching canopy of green bathed the Forest in enchanted auras that dimmed with the approaching unreal sunset. Eve floated alongside her High Pr...
2022-05-08 06:17:49 +0000 UTC
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Ẃ̸̧͓̖͠h̴̉ͅa̸̛̝͚͍͋t̸̺̀̇ ̷̼̳̄w̷̮̹̃a̵̙͗͝s̷̺̾̏͠ ̷͓̰͛̈́s̷͔̺̽ͅṱ̴̰̞̐͝ȯ̴̫̬ḽ̶̡̐e̸̡̍͜n̷͙̓̅̕ ̴̲͎͈͆́w̸͉̿͑̈́i̴̯̊̉l̷̛̬͗̎l̸̡̬̹͝ ̶̨̣͚̅̏̕
So, if anyone knows how I can get this font, because all the font matching internet things don't seem to work on it...
I will, add, a SINGLE mention in some manner of a character of your making.
P.S. (Like a legendary adventurer, or something ...
2022-05-04 02:50:52 +0000 UTC
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“A dungeon doesn’t need to use monsters to kill you,” Eve said looking down at the currently bedraggled group of starship ex-leaders. Out of all of them, only the teleporter hadn’t been sucked into the trap.
“Traps.” Meyun spat in disgust as his nose wrinkled at the stench.
“Traps,” Eve said nodding. Her sense of smell filtered the stench out by reflex.
“Filed with substances both vile and unmentionable,” Iantha grumbled.
“Well, yes. For me, it wa...
2022-05-01 06:24:48 +0000 UTC
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The terror of the Collapse wasn’t planned by mortal minds.
-Librarian Moran of the Sun Tribe
The big boss of the Cat Tribe, Lion, stared at his current guest’s bright glowing green eyes before he said, “Ready to talk business, shorty?”
It was good the kid nodded affirmatively. While he wouldn’t ever admit it, keeping the kitten here was due to the terror of pissing off her Patron. Robert the Red hadn’t gotten to his current ripe old a...
2022-04-27 02:34:32 +0000 UTC
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I've switched to the pay upfront option. For those that are already subscribed this should have no impact to my understanding. It will only ensure the slight increase in people joining, then leaving after reading all current chapters, and then cancelling stops.
Sorry for the alteration, but it started to become an epidemic so I took pre-emptive action.
2022-04-24 17:22:26 +0000 UTC
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The tunnels of stone ended as the group exited from the cave connecting them to the desolate badlands of the next layer. The appearance of a massive mud plain baked by a fake sun above seemed to shock most of the party. The wind filled with the scent of blood flowed past the cave entrance bringing the feeling of butchery at work somewhere.
“When you said Dungeons were minor worlds run by their Crystal Core I didn’t quite grasp that,” Meyun said looking at the new scener...
2022-04-24 07:59:18 +0000 UTC
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As the tunnels they had been farming gave way to a large cavern Eve’s expression grew flinty. The cavern was large enough that the goblin tribe they had been fighting had established a village. Mud-covered wooden huts with fences that couldn’t keep a lizard out spread out like mushrooms after a heavy rain. Eve’s dust told her exactly what was happening in some of the huts causing her expression to grow cold and distant. It was clear that Felix’s Dungeon had more entrances than Eve had...
2022-04-17 07:20:08 +0000 UTC
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I've bitten the bullet and purchased an Editor from Fiverr to look the earlier chapters over.
If everything goes well, you might see a smoother word flow and change in my writing style as I absorb the lessons imparted from their edits.
Probably.
2022-04-14 22:51:51 +0000 UTC
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“Why do we start by killing goblins?” Meyun asked as two custom made floating drones took down another goblin patrol in the Dungeon tunnels. Currently, the entire party was being shepherded by Eve to ensure positive teambuilding camaraderie. Meyun continued, “They seem like a knock-off version of ugly human children. Evil ones.”
“Because it is easier to kill something that isn’t really human.” Eve said her figure blurring as the ten goblins attacking her turned into mince....
2022-04-11 05:34:52 +0000 UTC
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Finally finished moving from my house to the new place today, and I literally cannot move enough muscles to do more than force the voice program to type this.
Three flights of stairs are murder.
A pure metal desk from the 50s is not evil incarnate, it is a hell dimension of its own. And yet, you cannot get rid of it because it's 'sentimental value' is greater than thy sanity *cries in a corner*
2022-04-10 06:25:43 +0000 UTC
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Eve floated around the firetrap of the Daedric Doorway in a circle taking a glance at each of the projects going on while chatting with Iantha. It was a temporary reprieve from the boredom of power-leveling, but that was all. She had never expected gaining the power to be so utterly mind-numbing boring. Perhaps this was why all those crazy cultivator stories had them meditating for centuries at a time. It was to stave off the madness of boredom!
“Is there something, in particular, you...
2022-04-03 05:10:11 +0000 UTC
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Iantha was in the most dangerous battle of her life against an enemy that knew no mercy. The heinous evil of a complete lack of action was robbing her of coherent thought. Thankfully, she had a ragtag group of starship misfits to alleviate the onslaught of questions about their savior.
“That plate is violating the laws of physics,” Meyun said pointing at the rune engraved hover plate Eve had gotten from Jeffery T. Wellington a drow for a moderately minimal price. He was a c...
2022-03-29 05:24:27 +0000 UTC
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Eve moved until she was directly under the massive starship falling from the still open breach. Even as she watched, the Primordial Dust was already taking action flowing into the breach as it rapidly ate away at the spatial rift. A casual calculation told her that the starship would finish exiting at around the time the silver dust started closing the hole to another world. She shifted her form and clothing to mimic the look of a pointy hat, a classical witch complete with random pouches. He...
2022-03-27 07:21:52 +0000 UTC
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Eve's attempt to compress her Status to something easier!
Did it work?!
2022-03-20 08:29:47 +0000 UTC
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Time passed without end as Eve pondered how to increase her personal power going forward. The Prison Plane, and even Tal Mor were only temporary stops in her journey. She was currently powerful in the domain run by Wilson, but she didn’t plan on staying here forever.
What if the next place I arrive at has a completely different power structure? Eve thought. One that is run by something without sapience, a robotic System without a soul. Even worse, one of those Cultivation...
2022-03-20 07:18:34 +0000 UTC
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Tracking someone without magic in a desert is akin to tracking someone swimming underwater.
It just doesn’t work in reality like it does in the movies.
Wind erases tracks, sunlight bakes clues, and any attempt at tracing the passage of a person is a fruitless endeavor of insanity.
Fortunately, there’s magic for that.Eve thought tracing the Cardinal’s mana scent across the sands easily. Spatial Step allowed her to cover the distance at a ground...
2022-03-13 07:14:54 +0000 UTC
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Falling isn’t hard. Eve could do it with her eyes closed, in fact. Falling from the ceiling without causing damage to anyone beneath was a smidge more difficult. The solution was to drop just out of range, but close enough to give the jump scare required. Accompanying her fall was the loud screeching wail of a banshee’s death music. In a darkened room, with no light, and a frightening noise people do not calmly respond with logic as Eve well knew.
No, in such situations people r...
2022-03-06 07:27:15 +0000 UTC
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Life isn’t fair, Death is.
-Silver Empire Legion Proverb.
Kyo’s sleep was untroubled by nightmares or dreams although the darkness of pleasant sleep eventually gave way to a small room. A tiny square table separated the chair she was sitting in from that occupied by a floating blue crystal.
Kyo blinked as she realized the crystal was familiar.
The crystal floated while spinning in slow manner of blinking facets.
“I’m pretty su...
2022-03-05 17:15:25 +0000 UTC
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2022-03-05 15:34:30 +0000 UTC
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“I’ll handle them all leaving the corpses for you to eat,” Eve said, her expression in a withered evil old witch’s manic smile of glee. “In exchange, provide a floor for me to use.”
“How?” the floating red crystal asked.
“Recently, I experienced the thrill of a group designed specifically to hunt my Race.” Eve said with a flicker of annoyance, “Their tactic, while basic, crude, and lacking artistry, would have been effective if the power diff...
2022-02-27 06:05:44 +0000 UTC
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Eve glanced at her status noting a few changes had occurred.
Mana: (Infinite)
Ritual Runes of Body V
Runes (5/5):
Rune of Shroud
It was irritating that she couldn’t find a way to compress her full Status. The only option not to display everything was to look at bits and pieces for now. Eve put it on her list of things to do, to find a way to compress the length while allowing her to still see i...
2022-02-20 05:45:59 +0000 UTC
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