Chapter 133: Moving On
/Welcome back motherfuckers, to this installment of wow I hate this planet. Today, I'll be getting upset about mana and affinities. Because what the actual fuck is up with that shit, huh?
Seriously. Ev...
2023-04-29 12:07:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 132: Companionship
/Illuhm, the light, was the first of the gods. The overlord of all that glows, of all that is radiant, and good, and well. Of the beautiful and the rich, of opulence, of desire, and of good food. He is t...
2023-04-29 12:06:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 131: Surviving
/The demon rulers.
For many a chapter have they been in constant conflict. Some say their battles stretch over acts, sagas even, whole songs written about their battles and repeated by the bards that r...
2023-04-29 12:06:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 130: Consequences
The last section of this chapter contains themes of depression that may not be suitable for all readers. Viewer discretion is advised.
/The Thing had felt terror.
That emotion was n...
2023-04-29 12:04:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 129: In the Distance
/When the Hunter met a good challenge, it was always a joy. They found countless creatures to hunt. They gave chase, set up traps, drove things to exhaustion and delivered the final blow, rarely savour...
2023-04-29 12:02:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 128: Guiding Self
"Oh come the fuck on," Mercury cursed, taking a couple steps back from the water. In that time alone the small ripples on the pond's surface had begun to increase, growing larger and more solid, reaching ...
2023-04-29 12:01:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 127: Pest Control
Traversing the ash-filled wasteland was not as bad as the dream to Mercury. sure, there were more monsters, but they were the kind he could see and harm. All made from flesh and blood. And teeth and claws, but those...
2023-04-29 12:00:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 126: On the Horizon
Mercury's legs moved as fast as they could carry him, leaping through the mud in hopes of losing whatever that thing was. His mind was still shaken by what he read when he looked at that thing.
It...
2023-04-29 11:59:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 125: Nightmare
/When the young Hunter came back to themselves, they had many messages from the system to get through. After the battle was over, they'd eaten and drank a little, before passing out in their last hideout. Th...
2023-04-29 11:59:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 124: Ashen Monsters
/The chase was long and brutal on the young Hunter. They'd been living in the wilderness for a while now, certainly, and they had hunted creatures superior to them one way or another. Critters were fast...
2023-04-29 11:58:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 123: Barren Landscape
The first thing Mercury saw when he woke back up was pitch black darkness. He found that every bone in his body still ached, and he couldn't currently move at all, but he was still alive. Barely.
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At any rate, chapter 142 will be out sometime wit...
2023-04-29 11:55:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 122: Day of Reckoning: Dusk
5 minutes is a very strange timeframe. Of course, we all know that it's not very long, you can't exactly get a whole lot done in 5 minutes, and yet, sometimes they really do feel like forever. L...
2023-04-10 23:37:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 121: Day of Reckoning: Noon
/Stalking was fun to the young Hunter. Tracking good prey down, then watching its habits and movements, finding the right time to pounce, was thrilling. The danger of being discovered was someti...
2023-04-10 23:36:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 120: Day of Reckoning: Dawn III
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Chapter 119: Day of Reckoning: Dawn II
/The Hunter was born ordinary, back in the day. A beastkin child with six eyes, related to a rare kind of spider, but nothing that was beyond reason. They grew up quickly, as most kin do, lea...
2023-04-10 23:35:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 118: Day of Reckoning: Dawn I
/What the Thing did to that village is something beyond words on a page. It is something one would need to have seen in order to imagine it, and even then, it would be a nightmarish descriptio...
2023-04-10 23:34:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 117: Final Day: Prelude to Bloodshed
/After its change, the Thing was faster, more nimble, and able to catch most things of the mountain more easily. It was big as an ox, strong as a bear, fast as an eagle, and ravenous like a starvi...
2023-04-10 23:34:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 116: One Day: Hope Stirs.
/The Thing's first hunt was most likely what truly ended up defining its character. Well, perhaps not the very first, but rather the first few. For you see, it failed in those hunts. It chased aft...
2023-04-10 23:33:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 115: Three Days: Rain
/There is a story yet to be told. Of a thing with many legs that hunted a young boy. But that thing, of course, had a life before that too. In fact, before it hunted the boy, it was entirely different...
2023-04-10 23:32:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 114: Four days: Reconciliation; Greed, Mind, Blood.
/Today is a good day, friends! The time has finally come. After so much convincing, and a rather long process of getting my honor approved, which included wrestling with ...
2023-04-10 23:32:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 113: Six Days: Siege
On Weddan, there wasn't very much that happened. By the time they arrived at Yasashiku's residence, it was already evening, and the sun hung low in the sky. There were few clouds, and they didn't expec...
2023-04-10 23:31:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 112: One Page
/All of you still alive? Good. You better be ready for some exercise, because we're talking about Moves today. No, not those kinds of moves, but Moves!
Yeah, that's fucking right. The stamina-equivalent...
2023-04-10 23:30:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 111: The third Truth
Zyl sat down in his room to meditate. For this procedure he didn't need any complicated apparatuses or devices, just himself and a good amount of time. Berthorn would probably start suspecting things w...
2023-04-10 23:29:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 110: Ticking Clock
/Not all gods fall on the simple ends of kind or cruel. In fact, most are somewhere in between. Light can warm or scorch, anvils may make shields or swords, and webs may catch food or trap prey.
Ye...
2023-04-10 23:29:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 109: Schemers scheme, Teachers teach
Zagan was beyond excited. Her hall of extravagant art was growing more and more, especially since the invention of the whinyl machine, and now there was an opportunity unlike any before...
2023-04-10 23:28:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 108: Mind Invasion
/The dead boy woke up once again. Not always on the same day, sometimes even months apart, but he would eventually wake up and make his way back to the city. He saw the people there had moved since his l...
2023-04-10 23:27:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 107: Shopping Spree
/After the dead boy escaped, the story was to follow two people. The thing that chased, and the running boy. But as the story is named after the boy, that which happens to him shall be told first.
Chapter 106: Recovered
Perhaps, while Mercury is resting, there is time to indulge another story. There once was a boy who ran away. A boy who ran, until he could run no more.
Now, why would a boy be running? From his respon...
2023-04-10 23:25:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 105: Lazy Days
/The first school of magic to give me trouble was force. I had blasted through other disciplines at record speed before that, learning water and ice spells in the blink of an eye, mastering wind soon after, ...
2023-04-10 23:23:24 +0000 UTC View Post