60 – Threats looming
Melina kept watch over the caravan, sitting at a small fire while Lisette slept inside the tent. The air was chilly and moist, the smell of rain carried by the cold wind that had picked up half an hour ago. In the dist...
2024-03-27 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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59 – End of Obscuria
It was only after several seconds that Ishrin finally pulled out his hand from deep within Lucius’ chest. By the time he did, the former regent of Obscuria was nothing more than a shriveled shell, a dried-out husk de...
2024-03-26 15:00:06 +0000 UTC
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58 – Execution
Ishrin walked a good distance away from the caravan, letting the magical and mundane lights fade in the distance until he could barely see them anymore. He had dined and chatted with the merchants, but now they were all prep...
2024-03-25 13:00:11 +0000 UTC
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57 – Smite with the power of the sun
Melina scanned the horizon, her keen eyes missing nothing even as her mind wandered. Her cultivation had mostly recovered from whatever was holding her back, her constantly growing worldviews—expanded...
2024-03-24 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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56 – Immoral Merchandise
The party spotted Taiival’s caravan as soon as they left the forest and its intrusive mist behind. Before them were the vast plains that made up this little triangle of Nocturnia of the Winds between the mountain...
2024-03-23 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
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55 – Water wisp
The light drew closer. Before long, it emerged from the fog that was obscuring its features, revealing itself for what it really was. There floated a spherical blob of magic, shining bright when seen with magical vision, an...
2024-03-22 14:06:50 +0000 UTC
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54 – Back in the wild
Ishrin gently opened his eyes to the sound of voices. He had been busy absorbing the last of the energies from his cultivation ritual, pushing himself to the middle of Tier 3 in the process, and regaining some of hi...
2024-03-20 16:00:27 +0000 UTC
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53 – Awful secrets
Lisette was standing stock-still, staring at Lucius who was sitting at the head of the table. Guards had rushed into the room, brought to stillness by a single hand gesture of the regent who was staring at Ishrin inten...
2024-03-17 17:25:19 +0000 UTC
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52 – Playing games
Later that night, the party was summoned by a servant and told to meet the regent for dinner. Surprisingly, instead of arriving early to the room and be made to wait, they were greeted by Lucius himself right outside t...
2024-03-16 18:33:51 +0000 UTC
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51 – The mansion
“What is your name?” The scaled lizard-slash-man was at the lead, only treating Ishrin as an equal and leaving Melina and Lisette to struggle against the force of the crowd.
Whether they kept up or not did not ...
2024-03-15 14:05:51 +0000 UTC
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50 – Ambush
Melina’s eyes immediately darted around to scan the place as soon as the road began emptying itself of people. Five seconds ago the street was like a flood, an uncontrolled stream of people walking and shuffling, elbows and...
2024-03-13 14:32:24 +0000 UTC
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49 - Obscuria
True to Melina’s word, the party made good time. On the way to Obscuria, they encountered some beasts, nothing more than normal wildlife that had been touched and warped by mana and rendered feral. To anyone below Tier 1, s...
2024-03-12 13:13:42 +0000 UTC
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48 – New quest
In all fairness, despite his pompous declarations the dwarf failed to produce much useful information, enough so that Ishrin was quick to grow restless. He was deep within enemy territory, and making small talk with a weap...
2024-03-08 17:07:01 +0000 UTC
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47 – Dangerous visits
Lisette smiled at that. Ishrin was right to worry that she might have killed Goddard again, and she was very giddy to instead surprise him by telling him the opposite. She had realized how important the man...
2024-03-07 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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46 – Personal growth
A word of power, and the ritual came alive at once. But Melina’s attention was not on the ritual itself, even though the display was impressive, because a much more pressing issue had imposed itself at the forefron...
2024-03-06 16:08:48 +0000 UTC
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45 – Cultivating
Melina watched with interest as Ishrin prepared himself for yet another ritual. He was holding a small booklet in his hands, and sat cross legged at the center of a perfect circle drawn with quartz and enriched with diam...
2024-03-06 16:08:31 +0000 UTC
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44 – Dynasties and dystopia
“I’m going to disband the party,” Melina said.
Lisette grunted. It could have been in approval, or she could have been laughing at her, but Melina felt like she could not tell anymore. She did not ...
2024-03-04 23:08:03 +0000 UTC
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43 – Hope and conflict
Lisette limped ahead, pale as snow, holding herself up with her two blades sliding on the ground. The sound they made when they grated against the stone floor was unbearable but Melina, behind her, paid it no mind....
2024-03-03 18:48:28 +0000 UTC
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42 – I blame you
“Let’s go.” Said Lisette.
She threw the creature core, a Tier 6 blue one she just extracted from the carcass of the slain monster, at Melina. Judging by her tattered armor and appearance, one could think that...
2024-03-02 15:07:56 +0000 UTC
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41 – Damage
An explosion rocked the cavern. He saw, right before the currents of space and time sucked it all away, the far end of the room explode as the excess power was routed through broken circuits, devoured by the collapsing of the...
2024-02-29 18:05:49 +0000 UTC
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40 – Ritual setup
Ishrin was the one to stay behind, to prepare the room for the ritual. As he drew lines on the floor and on the walls all the way up to the ceiling, the girls went out hunting. Liù also joined them, to provide some ext...
2024-02-28 13:52:35 +0000 UTC
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39 – Dangerous plan
A small very unstable portal opened at the base of the mountain. From it, three shapes emerged, accompanied by another smaller shape that flew in the air above the three. Ishrin was the last of the three to appear, an...
2024-02-27 10:59:21 +0000 UTC
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38 – Actionable plan
Melina surveyed the room but was still within earshot of the other two as they cast the modified spell together. It was not lost on her that both Ishrin and Lisette had performed sophisticated math calculations in th...
2024-02-27 10:58:55 +0000 UTC
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37 – A crazy plan
Melina pulled on the metal handle of the door. A hiss, the rush of air, then the heavy slab of metal slowly began to move. Beyond the threshold they could see the deep light of something, blue like the rest of the energ...
2024-02-25 20:50:22 +0000 UTC
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36 – Emotional tension
The party stared at the two identical holes in the wall. They all led to a dark tunnel, devoid of ice, that went up an almost identical slope. There were few differences in the rock, but none that would indicate th...
2024-02-24 20:54:13 +0000 UTC
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35 – Powerup
“What do you mean maybe?” Lisette’s stare was unbearable. Usually, it wouldn’t have been. Ishrin had been able to stand defiant even when faced with the god of multiverse himself, and yet he found himself faltering.<...
2024-02-22 18:12:53 +0000 UTC
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34 – A dark shape
The dark figure didn’t move. Its rags undulated in the frigid wind of the cavern, which seemed to originate from nowhere at all, lit by a scant light that seemingly vanished upon touching the black cloth that covered ...
2024-02-21 15:42:05 +0000 UTC
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33 – Fights
The door opened with a hiss, revealing another long tunnel of ice. However, the deeper they ventured inside the impossible mountain, the more the technological aspects of its making became harder to spot. They were more sophi...
2024-02-20 19:13:23 +0000 UTC
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32 – Old friend Mekano
Melina sat and watched as Ishrin and Lisette assembled something on the ground. It didn’t look like a ritual to her, but then again Ishrin’s rituals rarely did look like normal rituals.
They made a great ...
2024-02-18 17:46:32 +0000 UTC
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31 – Locked door
Melina got up and walked over to where Lisette was currently stretching and flexing her body. She had cleaned herself after learning Ishrin’s spell, or else the foxgi...
2024-02-17 17:37:04 +0000 UTC
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