The marble columns drew closer as they walked. It didn’t matter which direction the due walked towards, for all roads led to the center of this astral/mental space, and indeed as the pillars of white stone became tall...
2023-11-10 16:06:24 +0000 UTC View PostJeff, talk to me. Did it work?
Affirmative. However, cohesion is lower than expected.
Albert looked around, having found himself along with Scrappy in an unknown place. He wa...
2023-11-08 14:44:58 +0000 UTC View Post“Ah, Lina isn’t feeling well. I had to put her to sleep.”
Scrappy wasn’t stupid, of course. “Why was she attacking you? I saw her, that I did. Is she ill in the head?”
Albert nodded. The girl was q...
2023-11-06 17:43:27 +0000 UTC View PostAlbert was aware that someone was watching: he had felt a presence hidden somewhere when he arrived in the cave, but he had been unable to do anything about it. Now he was struggling to protect the girl from the onslaught of fl...
2023-11-04 15:48:09 +0000 UTC View PostScrappy weaved through the obstacles, straining her muscles and her limbs in ways she didn’t think possible. It wasn’t easy. In fact, it was the opposite of easy. It was painful, tiring and extremely taxing on he...
2023-11-02 17:05:13 +0000 UTC View PostScrappy read the contents of the mysterious box in front of her with sparkles in her eyes. Tears too, if she wasn’t mistaken, but she barely noticed that she wiped them away with her hand. When she was done, she r...
2023-10-31 16:25:38 +0000 UTC View PostAlbert sat cross legged on a small stone that was cold but, fortunately, not frozen over. He was thinking of ways to get the job done, giving Scrappy enough magic so that he wouldn’t have to worry about her survival....
2023-10-29 14:32:39 +0000 UTC View PostSlowly the narrow dark tunnel of the catacombs morphed into a more natural-looking cave. Here and there, spent torches lined the walls, coming to life with bright orange flames before the duo passed thanks to a subtle flex of Alb...
2023-10-24 21:26:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe city quickly turned into a prison for Albert, at least in his mind. It was fascinating to see how quickly his mood could change given the different circumstances, and although he had the Power to leave if he...
2023-10-19 11:24:07 +0000 UTC View PostWe need to go back to Bastion. We are being chased by five A-rankers, judging by their tokens, and no amount of creative use of Power will ever even the odds if we come to blows again. They know me and my strategy n...
2023-10-14 14:35:07 +0000 UTC View PostAlbert groaned. The world was, once again, spinning. But he had escaped the A-rankers, if barely. There had been five of them, armed to the teeth. Two cultivators, one mage, and two others he could barely classify....
2023-10-09 12:05:07 +0000 UTC View PostScrappy suddenly stopped walking, perking up and sniffing the air like a cat. Her ears seemed to twitch ever so slightly, but they were covered by her hair and it was hard to tell. It was clear, however, that she was straining ...
2023-10-05 15:01:24 +0000 UTC View Postjust a heads up: i broke my collarbone yesterday and... writing is not easy with the injury. we still have a healthy dose of backlog for the patreon, even more so for RR, but I wanted to let you know just in case
Al...
2023-10-01 17:44:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as Albert name-dropped the Kirkesis Core, the guild master’s whole demeanor seemed to change abruptly. Albert was not so clueless as not to realize when he made a potential mistake, and with a budding h...
2023-09-27 20:19:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe man crumpled to the ground even as a faint hint of a headache made itself known to Albert’s sensibilities. The man’s power was clearly below Albert’s own 33, and it was easy to tell even without a scan by...
2023-09-25 16:47:03 +0000 UTC View PostAlbert woke up with a groan. The edges of his vision sported the familiar blackness to them that he had, unfortunately, gotten used to as of late. Feeling the pain in every inch of his body, he tried to pull himself up, he...
2023-09-21 17:21:14 +0000 UTC View Post“A room for two.” Albert said. “No, wait.” He looked at the boy standing next to him like a puppy. “That came out wrong. Two rooms.”
The innkeeper nodded without speaking, and produced two keys. Albert took th...
2023-09-19 15:24:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe large stone gates of Bastion hung wide open, and the paved road – which did not extend more than a hundred meters away from Bastion before reverting to a bland dirt road – was devoid of people so that the large ...
2023-09-15 12:30:26 +0000 UTC View PostYou overdid it again.
Show me logs. What happened?
Power +1
Critical failure: Focus dropped below 8%
Power +5 2023-09-12 13:51:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Reality Bending Power: 14 -> 19
You might be happy to hear that I have enough data to correlate Power growth with Focus drops.
Ugh. Albert groaned in pain. His...
2023-09-09 18:55:05 +0000 UTC View PostAlbert’s Focus dropped to 55%, and he flooded the mana that gathered in front of his body with Intent. Intent to transform the tree he was staring at into a horse.
Nothing happened, and the mana lost cohesion.
... 2023-09-07 12:59:24 +0000 UTC View PostOn the way back, Albert encountered the same monste...
2023-08-29 14:07:06 +0000 UTC View PostAlbert focused inwards. He pictured the process of fortifying his mind, holding the image in his brain as best he could. Mental Fortress was a passive skill back when he still had a system, which meant that he never got...
2023-08-27 12:25:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Did I build this?” Albert asked out loud, examining the cube. He was nothing short of mesmerized, despite the situation he was in.
He laughed weakly. If his theory was correct there was no need to speculate, he could ...
2023-08-25 13:45:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe knife stopped in mid-air. There was no magic being expended, no pull of energy from his now absent core. Albert simply willed the knife to stop, and it did. A faint outline of a faraway headache began to appear in h...
2023-08-23 12:17:01 +0000 UTC View PostAlbert felt the ravaging Alignment Energy sear his mind and his body. He convulsed on the ground, whimpering in pain.
His mind felt like liquid fire. A distant part of himself was vaguely aware that he only had a ...
2023-08-22 14:24:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe present.
“The central spire of Sitea, ancestral home of the Scarlet Sorceress.” Kainen said.
“Yep.” Albert replied, looking at the small gleaming tip of black metal, barely visible behind a...
2023-08-20 23:05:57 +0000 UTC View PostThree years ago.
Albert sat contemplating what he saw when he leveled up. Close to him, Kainen kept watch, walking in a circle around the crackling fire. Often times he stopped, peering into the darkness,...
2023-08-18 12:32:34 +0000 UTC View Post