The next few days were an odd combination of relief and pain. The first was the most explicable. After all, the expedition into the Primal Realm had been through hell. They’d watched thousands of their comrades die, often in gr...
2025-09-24 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostElijah’s first batch of mead was an unmitigated disaster that tasted cloyingly sweet and a bit rancid. It didn’t take him long to pin the problem on unhealthy fermentation. The fix was thankfully simple, and it only required him to...
2025-09-23 15:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostHui Shui still thought of himself as a researcher, though it had been quite some time since he’d looked at the world through the eyes of a scientist. His keen sense of observation remained, even if the current situation didn’t truly call...
2025-09-22 15:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Ew.”
“Is it supposed to smell like that?”
“Gross.”
Elijah nearly rolled his eyes at the kids’ reactions to his yeast colony. Admittedly, it had grown a bit out of control over the past few days, but ultimatel...
2025-09-21 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post“I want to do more,” Elijah admitted to Atticus.
It had been three days since he’d departed Seattle, but the aftermath of the war elf attack still stuck with him. In an effort to deal with those feelings, he’d gone to Argos, wh...
2025-09-21 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostA massive troll took Sadie in a shoulder charge that, despite her abilities, sent her skidding backward into a thick-trunked tree. It shook with the impact, sending a cascade of moisture raining down upon her head. She barely felt it.&...
2025-09-20 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe trolls noticed him within moments.
And the swamp colossus’ attention soon followed.
Even as Miguel charged, Trevor’s hooves kicking up black dirt along the way, the colossus let out a gurgling roar that very nearly burst ...
2025-09-19 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostZeke lay on the bed, his hands behind his head as he mentally toyed with the local threads. He didn’t make any changes. That would be far too dangerous, and it would risk destabilizing the entire world. He and Talia would doubt...
2025-09-19 13:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostMiguel looked down at his armor – or what was left of it. After eight months of constant fighting in defense of the fortress, then another few weeks racing across the swamp, it had been torn to splinters. What’s more, it was covere...
2025-09-18 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostFor a while, Zeke just wandered the Ways, which had been entirely reconstituted by the Creator. It was a display of power Zeke could only barely understand, though he could at least recognize that it wasn’t all on that omnipotent being.&nb...
2025-09-18 13:00:35 +0000 UTC View Post“How many?” Elijah asked, not bothering to look up from the blood-covered floor. People had already begun to clean the other parts of the hospital, but they’d not made it to Elijah’s area. Maybe because it was in one corner of ...
2025-09-17 15:10:02 +0000 UTC View PostElijah did not enjoy killing people.
Or that was what he kept telling himself. He almost believed it, too. Parts of it, at least. On the surface, it was true. He didn’t like the idea of killing sapient creatures.&nb...
2025-09-17 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostIsaiah watched from his seat of power as Seattle’s forces let loose on the invading army. A hundred screens, each one the size of a tablet, showed him exactly how thoroughly his people were outnumbered.
But while the war elves ...
2025-09-16 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostOn the timescale of Zeke’s current existence, a month was not a long time. When measured against centuries, it was nothing. And yet, his time with Pudge somehow managed to feel even shorter than that comparison implied. So, whe...
2025-09-16 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostHate had no place in war.
Certainly, there were some who managed to harness that all-encompassing emotion in an effort to push themselves further than they ever could have otherwise. In those instances, it was undeniably effectiv...
2025-09-15 15:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe wall exploded.
Debris rocketed across the building, skipping across the floor before a wave of stone and steel swept over the soldiers. Elijah ducked his head, bracing himself to weather the shockwave, but there was nothing he coul...
2025-09-14 15:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostElijah spread his wings and let out a rumbling roar that echoed throughout the Undercity. The sheer volume of it rustled his leaves and shook the surrounding buildings. If any of them had featured glass windows, they would have shatter...
2025-09-14 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostDesdemona finally let a broad smile spread across her face. It felt like it had been years since she’d allowed such an expression to touch her. Even longer since she’d felt true joy. But as a dense wave of ethera swept over h...
2025-09-13 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Stop!” came a voice from inside.
Elijah ignored the order, extending his Mantle of Authority to its full strength. He’d developed some control over its size, but the strength remained consistent no matter how he used it.&n...
2025-09-12 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostPudge looked old.
Of course, that was because he was. Zeke had no idea how much time had passed since he’d last seen the former direbear who’d become his adopted brother, but he was certain that more than a few thousand years had p...
2025-09-12 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostElijah was disgusted.
Part of it came from the situation, and rightly so. The notion that someone from Argos, of all places, hated him enough to participate in an assassination attempt against him gutted Elijah in a way he couldn’t q...
2025-09-11 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostZeke watched, awestruck and terrified, as the cage of the Framework encapsulated him. The Creator, in a form almost as unknowable as the Abyss itself, descended from his perch and planted himself at the rift exposing reality to its opposite....
2025-09-11 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostGunnar Lindstrom squatted a few feet from his prisoner, then slid a bowl across the concrete ground. It made it within a couple of feet, but the girl didn’t react. Sighing, he pushed himself upright and said, “You have to eat.” 2025-09-10 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post
“First things first,” Elijah said, leaning forward in his seat. Atticus’ assistant had already come by to offer them coffee, and despite Elijah’s attempt to get things moving, he’d waited until he had a steaming cup in front of him...
2025-09-10 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAnxiety hung over the grove like a storm cloud, and to the point where everyone had begun to step lightly around him, lest they entice the tempest to the fore. Elijah tried to focus on rest and recovery, but his worry for his friends and fam...
2025-09-09 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostElijah felt them coming.
The group of hunters had a few levels under their belts, with one – presumably the leader – having ascended. They also seemed to have taken a few steps forward regarding their cultivation, probably because ...
2025-09-08 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s been almost ten months,” Elijah said, pacing back and forth. “They should be back now.” He glanced up at Nara, asking, “Right?”
“I don’t know,” she replied, her patience clearly running thin. Not s...
2025-09-07 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostSitting on one of the gurneys, Elijah finally leaned back and let out a sigh of relief. After spending the past two days healing the people of New York, he had long since exhausted the sick and injured in the district. But once word go...
2025-09-07 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSolomon Thorne sat on the floor of the keep, his back against the wall as he picked at his fingernails with a small knife. The Explorer – a pretty woman with short, black hair – stood near the door, watching for the incoming messenger.&n...
2025-09-06 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Good question,” Elijah responded, thankful that Isaiah was willing to play his unwitting part. “The answer comes with two sides. The first follows from my explanation. Keeping the Primal Realms under control helps everyone...
2025-09-05 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post