Chapter 71
A Dungeon’s True Purpose
Quest Complete: The Dungeon's Purpose. You have found the true purpose for this dungeon. Rewards: ERROR...
That was the message that flashed in Alexa’s mind.
During this time, Alexa first felt, then saw the fabric of reality around her begin to diss...
2022-12-24 08:26:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 185
Lykan
The Expert
Call it karmic justice, or maybe something far more sinister at play, but Lykan was ready to face off against nearly any form of monster that emerged from the impact crater. Yet, when the monster that appeared from the crater resembled a human, if only a slightly smaller version of a human, Lykan al...
2022-12-23 21:35:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 70
Consolidating Gains
Alexa felt the surges of energy still coursing through her, as she made her way through the trap dungeon. This was a dungeon she had already run through multiple times, and her innate class ability to see magic still helped her out. Though this time there was a difference with what she was able to perce...
2022-12-23 10:56:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 130
Cleaning Up An Intergalactic Mishap
As it turns out, cleaning up an intergalactic incident is easy. First it requires a lot of money, then a lot of political promises. Then more money and finally an FOB strike.
“Yes, you heard me an FOB strike. Did you already forget what one was?” I found myself asking the memb...
2022-12-22 20:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 69
The Nap
Thursday
Time Until Integration: 1 Month, 29 Days, 7 hours, 23 Minutes…
When Alexa went to the healer’s hut for her assigned time, unlike every other time she entered, this time Alexa asked for a personal favor.
“Could I lie down in the back?” Alexa asked, her cold tone denoting a trace of...
2022-12-22 11:59:53 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude VI
Thursday
Time Until Integration: 1 Month, 29 Days, and…
Captain Rayne Johnston
It was a miracle made flesh. Dragons were killed. No, not just killed, but slaughtered by nearly the dozen. If the intelligence that Rayne was getting was to be believed, they were all killed by Alexa Thyme, her ...
2022-12-21 12:14:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 184
Brenna
The Impact
Traveling through the dark continent was interesting to say the least. The lands and vegetation looked much the same, but also different. The was just something about the level of ambient qi that was around that seemed to be invigorating, at least at first. Of course, when three new qi users with h...
2022-12-21 06:02:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 68
The Favor
Thursday
Time Until Integration: 1 Month, 29 Days, 9 Hours, 44 Minutes…
Class ended without too much fanfare. Alexa wanted to call a meeting, to have everyone gather but still didn’t know where to begin. She wanted to go into the dungeons to start her next stage of the Trials of Ascension<...
2022-12-20 12:20:14 +0000 UTC View PostBonus Chapter 5
Doctor Thurston Charleston (13th Universe)
The emergence of the plague was like something out of a children’s tale. One where people showed their true inner demons and began running wild in the world. Oddly enough, only the doctor seemed immune. Worse he wasn’t even the right type of doctor to rea...
2022-12-20 05:58:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 67
The Parent Trap
Thursday
Time Until Integration: 1 Month, 29 Days, 17 Hours, 52 Minutes…
Luke and Alexa were among the last two students to arrive. Fortunately for them Ms. Tutlidge was also late.
“Are you okay?” Kylie found herself asking Alexa as soon as she made her way towards her seat.
...
2022-12-19 11:56:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 129
Wall Ornaments of Unusual Sizes
We were safe, the virus had stopped spreading, at least the people around me were safe. The girl was back with her parents. Though looking around, I saw that the girl didn’t seem to go anywhere.
“Hey kid, where are your parents?”
At that question, the little girl just look...
2022-12-19 04:37:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 66
Visions
Thursday
Time Until Integration: 1 Month, 29 Days…
Sweat poured down Luke’s head as he found his body tossing and turning all night. His mental attributes were low, very low compared to what he needed to do. That was part of why only now in his dreams could he truly begin to see the visions that wer...
2022-12-18 11:42:27 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude XVII
Garum Yual
Garum Yual, former exiled prodigy of the Gamma Cluster Observatory felt his pod awakening him from his nearly year’s long slumber. The vastness of space was too far an expanse for most cultivators not of the Immortal realms to survive without entering deep space stasis chambers.
Garum Yual was no exc...
2022-12-18 02:09:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 65
Finding Solace In The Woods
Alexa needed time to think, she was on an all time high of personal emotions and she knew that any minute her high would come crashing down. Worse, she had so many things to work through, to plan for. How did things get this far?
First thing was first, she needed to get away from this scho...
2022-12-17 11:49:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 128
Flame Retardant Zombies Because Regular Zombies Aren’t Scary Enough
“What is that?” Some said.
Scratch, scratch.
An ominous sound of a body bag moving as its current inhabitant begins to move.
They say that times of strife are the one time when you truly get to know yourself. There is also...
2022-12-16 19:10:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 64
What Are You Doing In Dungeons?
Fortunately, this time Alexa never passed out. She never lost consciousness, which was why she saw the final effects of her stint in the dungeon made manifest on the real world. Seeing the different monster corpses on the ground, she also saw something that made her heart beat just a tiny bi...
2022-12-16 12:08:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 63
Failure to Integrate
A blood and viscera covered Alexa stood over a mountain of corpses. Her fort had long since been ransacked, forcing her to enter both close quarters combat with elves and orcs alike.
Panting.
Why did they stop? Is this some ploy to drag out the final few minutes? Alexa won...
2022-12-15 12:43:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 183
Lykan
The Rematch
A lot had to go right the last time Lykan found himself squaring off against a leviathan. He had to manage to break through the sonar waves of qi that were sent through the water. He had to slowly lure the creature up to the surface of the water, and beyond. Then finally he had to manage to kill th...
2022-12-15 06:33:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 62
The Dais of Death
The realm that Alexa found herself in was a nearly perfect realm that seemed to span out for miles in all directions. At least that was the visual representation that was being displayed. However, with Alexa’s Eyes of the Architect, her view was drastically different.
Behind her w...
2022-12-14 12:00:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 127
Everyone Always Aims For The Healer First
In combat, it is well expected that people will just aim for the Healer. Honestly, it makes the best sense, especially if they are a combat medic, which I technically am. Okay, maybe more combat than medic, but still why does every guard feel so intimidated by me, that they automa...
2022-12-14 06:22:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 61
The Escape
Energy crackled and flowed about in luminous waves. Well waves that were visible to Alexa’s class provided sight. Even charging forward caused the unstable energies of the dungeons to come billowing forward in cascading waves of brilliant light and aura. Waves that her body hungrily drank up.
Abs...
2022-12-13 11:53:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 182
Brenna
Ocean Voyage
In all, finding a vessel to sail in was a lot easier for the trio than anticipated. The village that they had stumbled upon had a harbor filled with many ships that had been destroyed or capsized over time. With the use of qi, the trio managed to find a boat, patch the holes with qi, then forcefu...
2022-12-13 06:09:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 60
Demon Night
There are stories so old that they are considered to be more myth than reality. Stories where the veil between worlds becomes the thinnest on Halloween, the one day when monsters and magic can break the protective veils between worlds and run amok, if only for a night.
Of course, the myths aren’t entire...
2022-12-12 12:07:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 126
The Outbreak
In an effort to apply myself, I soon found that I had taken on more ways to improve myself. Not just with working out, but also with practicing my music, and trying to learn new things. In fact, I got to the point that the only time I would look forward to relaxing was when I was doing a temple run, either by...
2022-12-12 06:03:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 59
The Actual Party
The trio made their way out of Angel’s room. Angel had a look of calm acceptance on her face, until she turned to look at Alexa, at which point her condition changed to Reverence.
Gina on the other hand had a wide-eyed look of shock on her face. Not due to what was said, but rather what wa...
2022-12-11 12:16:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 181
Pentra
The Boat
The trio made their way east, following trails and paths that no one would normally follow. Dungeons littered their path, but they decided to avoid closing down these dungeons. While they could be stopped relatively quickly, it was ultimately decided that stopping the red flare and the doom that the ...
2022-12-11 05:47:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe votes are in.
After having my most successful poll (by number of people who participated).
The results are in:
My number one priority for writing will be ALEXiThymiA (after receiving over 90% of the vote).
Followed by the 13th Loop, then Outcast.
What this means.
Daily I will work on progressing the story of ...
Interlude V
Bullford / Fletcher
It had been the purest sound the two had ever heard. A note so pure that the monsters they had both been struggling to conquer for years finally stopped. No, not just stopped, it was as if the components had never been there at all.
“For the first time since I took the final pr...
2022-12-10 11:30:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 125
Knowing Your Limits: A Doctoral Thesis
There comes a time in life when we all realize we have met our limits. That mental point where we have gone to the ends of what we are personally capable of and must accept the fact that we cannot go any further.
As it turns out, I apparently reached my limit after my first tem...
2022-12-10 05:42:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 58
Déjà Vu
The event was staged. Everyone appeared to be ready and waiting. The nervous twitching implied that everyone was aware of something that was about to happen. What that was, Alexa didn’t quite know.
Years of dealing with people led her to understand that people didn’t normally just form semi-circular for...
2022-12-09 11:28:05 +0000 UTC View Post