There was no more pain, at least nothing physical.
Melmarc just stared. He was reading the notifications or anything like that. He was merely staring. As if knowing it had lost his interest, the notifications disappeared.
After a while, he got up from his bed and stepped out of the room. The light switch was right next to the door, a...
2024-01-29 06:08:06 +0000 UTC View PostThere is often a cold touch to death, a vivid reminding that the world is capable of loss. To most it manifests itself in a cold chill, a mental blanket of trepidation and fearful realization. Perhaps it is in the understanding that mortality comes for everyone. There are those who experience it constantly enough to build an immunity and those w...
2024-01-29 06:01:38 +0000 UTC View PostSix days into their march they were going three thousand six hundred priests strong, and at most, seven one-thousand-man generals. At over ten thousand men strong—priest horses ridden by white cassocks leading war horses ridden by black armor—they were a sight to behold, and a force primed for battle.
Then they began doing what Ezril c...
2024-01-29 05:55:41 +0000 UTC View Post“What’s happening right now?”
Zed ignored Chris’ whining. As long as he had Oliver following him, he was more than certain Chris and Ash would be in tow.
He’d gone back only to grab Oliver by the wrist and pull him along. Oliver had protested mildly for a while, but only with his words, and Zed had hushed him with his facia...
2024-01-29 05:49:16 +0000 UTC View PostThey rode hard for five days. During the day they pushed the horses as far as they could go, and at night they set up camp anywhere they found themselves between cities.
They left Ardin six hundred priests strong under the command of two reverends, who reported to Bratvi. Once outside the capital, they quickly met up with another reverend ...
2024-01-26 05:47:29 +0000 UTC View PostIt was strange not to hear the rushing sound of the wind in her ear as she ran through the building.
Gunag had said Oden had done something stupid, and while Tao Mei refused to believe it, Gunag had already proven to be trustworthy since they began coming to the fissure nest.
But Oden wasn’t prone to impulsive actions. He obeyed as...
2024-01-26 05:44:17 +0000 UTC View PostAsh stared down at an array of brass knuckles.
Oliver was looking over her shoulders. “Too rusty, don’t you think?”
She shrugged. “Was just curious, Ollie.”
“Maybe. But haven’t you ever wondered what it would feel like to hit someone with brass knuckles?”
“Sounds more like something you’ve bee...
2024-01-26 05:38:03 +0000 UTC View PostArk had returned with one of many comics in his hand. Melmarc didn’t recognize it so it was most likely a new one.
Spitfire was still staring at him and his scar still itched.
Ark took one look at Spitfire and laughed.
“I leave him with you for a whole minute and you already have him thinking he’s human. Way to go.”
... 2024-01-26 05:31:21 +0000 UTC View PostSurprisingly, uncle Dorthna was more than happy to let Melmarc go on the excursion. He didn’t even give it much thought.
Melmarc asked when he got home, Dorthna tapped his cheek with a finger for all of two seconds and said yes.
“What about mom and dad?” Melmarc asked.
He wasn’t one to look a gift horse in the mouth, wh...
2024-01-26 05:21:29 +0000 UTC View PostThere weren’t a lot of Delvers who were Mages. Perhaps fifteen… maybe twenty. Twenty-five would definitely be stretching it.
The Class was one of the rare classes, and it had the least known information, right next to a class called Unbound.
People loved the Mage class because most Mages turn out to be the strongest and most vers...
2024-01-26 05:18:22 +0000 UTC View PostMost Reverend Father Bratvi Arrufa was a muscled, middle aged man with a clean shaved head. When he spoke people were forced to listen. His pale skin marked his heritage as somewhere not within the realm which made him a compelling sight, and his brogue, if it could be described as one, was flat, almost as if the man didn’t understand what int...
2024-01-25 05:45:08 +0000 UTC View PostVelroo stood as still as an unmoving mountain, all his skills and power and command wound tightly into his core.
He’d been standing here for days without food or water. At his level of authority, he needed none of those to survive. He could even go days without sleep. However, he ate when he could, not for sustenance but a simple indulge...
2024-01-25 05:40:43 +0000 UTC View PostArk was more than happy to announce very early the next morning that his class was Unranked, and his Growth Potential was B-rank before going back to bed. Though, to be fair, Melmarc didn’t know if he had even gone to sleep at all.
By general standards, it was a good Growth Potential rank
Most Gifted walked around with less. B’s ...
2024-01-25 04:42:56 +0000 UTC View PostBoston squeezed the trigger and Zed was already moving.
The lady he had been oppressing and had almost crawled her way through the gate let out a terrified scream.
Zed ducked to the side. The gun aimed at him had not been fired, but he didn’t need to wait for it. Toby took a moment to realize what was happening and fired his own ri...
2024-01-25 04:38:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt was late into the hours of the night, or early into the hours of the morning, depending on what type of person was reading the clock.
Melmarc had fallen asleep on the dining table while coming to terms with the fact that he wasn’t a bad person. At least Dorthna hoped that was what had happened.
He sat on his favorite couch, star...
2024-01-23 05:45:21 +0000 UTC View Post“You’ve got to be kidding me.”
Seth darted away from the wide swing of a shroud wraith. Clawed hands clawing through the air were his head had once been. Gunag’s words registered in his mind but he ignored it as he turned his handgun on the wraith and shot it in the head. The kick back from the gun was as heavy as his rifle’s and...
2024-01-23 05:40:42 +0000 UTC View PostEzril’s return to the cathedral was welcomed just as was the return of the prodigal son in the scriptures; with threats of wrath and fury which were followed through.
He was received at the end of drawn Sunders of varying designs, and displaced of his Sunders, bow and quiver. They’d even taken his insignia from around his neck. Somehow...
2024-01-23 05:37:50 +0000 UTC View PostZed and the others made their way down the hill and into the city below.
The city looked below as it did above. Tightly packed and somehow overcrowded. The first thing Zed noticed as they strolled into the city was the smell.
“That’s horrid,” Shanine said, almost gagging. “How this place smell so bad?”
“Too many peo...
2024-01-23 05:29:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Mel, please stop looking up ‘demon lord class’ on the internet. We already know what you’re going to get.”
“There might be something. I’m sure of it.”
“You’re already on page ten. All you’re getting are anime references.”
“And that’s because those are the popular searches. There are a lot of hidden ...
2024-01-22 05:07:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe world was cold here was cold. It was like walking in the faintness of winter’s approach.
As annoying as it was, it was acceptable. Everything between realms was cold.
However, the true annoyance did not lie in the temperature. It laid in the fact that Velroo was not here of his own accord. It laid in the fact that he had been s...
2024-01-22 05:03:05 +0000 UTC View PostDinma had said nothing in the past hour. When they walked through the gates of the city, he had paid her entrance fee while she looked around. Despite the hood concealing most of her face, she leaned back to take in the buildings and people around her.
They were just returning from the healer’s house where he’d gone to show her to a fr...
2024-01-22 04:57:58 +0000 UTC View PostThey hijacked two cars.
The first car had been easy to access. After much posturing on Oliver’s part, and the lie that had broken Kid’s heart, he’d broken the window and slipped into the car.
Apparently, he’d postured because when he’d looked through the tinted glass, he’d seen the keys in the ignition.
They’d gon...
2024-01-22 04:45:34 +0000 UTC View PostIt was into the early days of January when they found out what type of creature Spitfire was.
The winter snow still blanketed the ground outside, suffocating the grass and chilling the air. It was a vacation period so there was no school. Even if it hadn’t been, it would’ve been good enough to call it a snow day. So there would’ve st...
2024-01-19 05:56:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dead Accords.
Not much was known of them. Their name was a product of an agreement between the powers of the world. But what they really were was something different. According to what everyone learnt, the world had once held seven continents, one of which was covered in ice and snow and uninhabited by humans. Now there were ten, two o...
2024-01-19 05:51:51 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: I'm sorry.
Shaking his head in refusal Ezril almost stepped away in disagreement with reality. His throat grew dry, choked up, and his eyes stung. He didn’t fight it. He let the tears well up as he reached his hand to the woman’s face. Her voice had strained to push the words out even as a whisper, an...
2024-01-19 05:47:55 +0000 UTC View PostTheir walk through the forest was relatively quiet.
The Olympians had nothing to say. Daniel led and they simply followed, while Zed and his group walked behind.
“Aren’t you the one who knows the way?” Shanine asked after a while.
“I found the exit,” Zed said.
“So why are they the ones leading?”
“Jus...
2024-01-19 05:41:13 +0000 UTC View PostIt was not a Hydra, a wyrm, a basilisk…
Or an angel.
The last one had gotten a good laugh out of Melmarc’s uncle. It was a full belly laugh, satisfyingly it was not the roll-of-the-chair laugh that was their uncle’s trade mark.
“An angel? What gave you that idea?” uncle Dorthna asked when he was done laughing.
M...
2024-01-18 05:01:13 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the others came halfway up the crater, Zed still had his arm around his new friend.
He waved at the others casually as they approached.
“You don’t look like someone who should be waving casually.” Ronda was giving him a testy look, as if she had more to say.
Kid said it for her.
“What are you?”
“Tir...
2024-01-18 04:57:47 +0000 UTC View PostClad in his hooded cassock, Sunders and bow securely strapped in place, and his quiver hanging low on his hip, Ezril left the hotel. When he relinquished his room key to the man behind the table at the entrance, the man said nothing, choosing to receive the key in silence. Smart men never asked priests questions. Especially when they were in the...
2024-01-18 04:42:32 +0000 UTC View PostFire crackled with the effervescent snapping of burning wood. It rested as small as a campfire in a fire place that had not been in Jim’s office the last time Seth was there.
Today he stood before Jim’s desk with hands behind him and legs spread apart at shoulder length. Right now he was not an adventurer reporting to his benefactor. H...
2024-01-18 04:35:15 +0000 UTC View Post