The rest of the school day went by quickly.
Melmarc ran into Ark on two uneventful occasions. The first was on his way back to class from the cafeteria. Being a year older than him and a class above, their circles rarely clashed.
They exchanged a few words when they met, and that was it.
Ark asked what he was doing after school...
2024-01-16 04:42:57 +0000 UTC View Post“You could’ve killed me!” Seth roared in Nosam’s face.
“But I didn’t. And we won,” Nosam replied with a calm visage.
We saw him, one of Seth’s minds ranted. He was aiming for us. He wanted to take us out with the beast.
Behind them the beast laid dead. Its body was almost unrecognizable. One of...
2024-01-16 04:40:58 +0000 UTC View PostShade brought Ezril to Heldrag in two days. He’d been lucky enough to be set upon by bandits who had been too careless to spot the massive wolf sleeping a few trees away while he settled elsewhere for a piss. Four of them, all men with knives. He’d given them a beating and taken the one thing he needed and was in short supply of: coins.
<... 2024-01-16 04:34:06 +0000 UTC View PostAndker frowned down at the carnage in front of him.
This was another path in stress. He’d told his superiors that they couldn’t send him after Olympians with people who hadn’t experienced what happened when they rune shields weren’t working.
These men had spent most of their time hunting down mages in groups. Their shields we...
2024-01-16 04:31:37 +0000 UTC View PostClasses today were not necessarily interesting to Melmarc.
There was a high chance it wasn’t the fault of the classes in and of themselves but his inability to concentrate. He kept his head on his desk during recess and stared at Gilian, a classmate of his that sat by the window.
Their classroom was upstairs, so the window seats ga...
2024-01-15 04:28:35 +0000 UTC View PostZed hunkered down behind his shield.
He channeled as much mana as he could into it until it shone a bright purple. The last thing he wanted to do was get blown sky high.
The gun bucked in Andker’s arms, struck his shoulder with enough force to push it back. The explosive boom of a gunshot filled the air.
When the bullet hit, ...
2024-01-15 04:26:15 +0000 UTC View PostEzril dropped ten feet and landed quietly on his feet on the other side of the stone fence. But somehow, it still managed to feel as if he disturbed the serenity of the night. He turned his head both sides before moving on and unto the vast expanse of manila grass between him and the mansion he sought to invade. Certain no one was watching, he c...
2024-01-15 04:16:11 +0000 UTC View PostFrom behind the group Fray screamed like a broken banshee. The sound was useless in the heat of battle but did much to draw the attention of the Nooman.
Its head snapped in her direction with the same equal efficiency it had used to kill Natsuki. Then it charged the rest of the team.
With a resolved expression, Pride stood in its pat...
2024-01-15 04:08:21 +0000 UTC View PostIt was not a drake.
Melmarc had returned his mind to the task of sorting through mythical creatures. The plan was to go through all of them. Once he was done with what the west had to offer, he would scrape through what the east had to offer.
Ark had guess a chupacabra for reasons unknown to Melmarc. If his brother had seen a picture...
2024-01-12 05:11:46 +0000 UTC View PostSeth read the notification once more then looked at Nosam.
Hidden Objective: [Secret of The Silver Mage]
You have found an interest worthy of wagering dots of your supremacy on. Discover how the silver mage navigates the active nest and settle the score.
Objective: [Secret Discovered] 0...
2024-01-12 05:05:24 +0000 UTC View PostWith a new focus, Ezril rose and marched away, headed for his room.
He stood in mild annoyance beside the stables sometime later, his Sunders sheathed behind him, his bow strapped securely in place, and a quiver of arrows in dwindling supply hanging from his waist. After Ellenel had left him, he made his way to his room, retrieving a war v...
2024-01-12 05:03:28 +0000 UTC View PostDaniel and Ronda and Kid and Eitri looked just as confused as Zed.
But we don’t have it. Zed was peeking around from behind the tree. Or did someone lie to me? Can’t be. Right?
Why didn’t Festus just tell them that they didn’t have it.
“You heard me.” There no sign of concern in Festus’ voice. ...
2024-01-12 04:58:18 +0000 UTC View PostMelmarc was staring at the orange creature and just couldn’t see a dragon.
“What do you mean it’s not a dragon?” Ark looked between him and the creature. “That’s got to be a dragon.”
The creature unfurled itself from its cooped up position, and Melmarc saw its head clearly.
“Well, for starters, it’s got horns....
2024-01-10 05:02:24 +0000 UTC View PostFive minutes later, Melmarc arrived at his neighborhood. It was an interconnecting area of tarred roads and currently empty sidewalks. Houses stood side by side, demarcated from each other by white picket fences.
Each home had its own front yard with each individual designs. Some kept clean lawns and others let theirs grow out in odd ways,...
2024-01-09 06:12:24 +0000 UTC View Post“I think Mr. Trald and Ms. Pentint are dating,” Delano North said, rubbing his left eye furiously with one hand as they walked down the sidewalk. “He keeps looking at her the way Eroms looks at milkshake, and she keeps making jokes about him eating her plate clean when they think we can’t hear them.”
His left eye was red as an ap...
2024-01-08 04:32:59 +0000 UTC View PostMelmarc remained in the hospital for another few weeks before he was discharged. According to the doctors, he was fine, healthy. They had only kept him for further observation.
“Just a precaution,” one of the doctors had said to his father. “We just want to be a hundred percent certain that he’s good to go.”
His father had ...
2024-01-08 04:27:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe car pulled to a stop. As smooth as the ride had been, the stop came with a jarring halt. At its back three adventurers staggered, then caught themselves in a sway. Seth was not one of them. Instead, he placed a hand on his rifle case to keep it from falling.
They exited the car, Seth and his companions dismounting like vagabonds scalin...
2024-01-08 04:25:07 +0000 UTC View PostNosam’s teammates were a generic group of adventurers. They wore the acceptable light armor. Nothing too flashy; just right for mages of their authority.
In number they totaled at three girls and five boys.
Introductions went around quickly and easily, and while he paid no attention to their names, Seth knew his minds kept them lik...
2024-01-08 04:23:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe guild hall wasn’t far from where Seth and the team had their meeting, so Seth walked its spacious halls thirty minutes after.
He perused the contract boards with a middling disinterest. Glances and half noted turns gave him no newer information than he already had. The requests pinned to each board were filled with half-truths and un...
2024-01-08 04:22:30 +0000 UTC View PostMidday saw Ezril walking the cathedral. He started at the building that housed him and his brothers a few hours before high noon, covered a mile around the Bishop’s mansion, then past the stables, sparing Shade no attention, and through the chapel of his ordination. Now he walked towards the exit. Salem’s words from last night peeling at his...
2024-01-08 04:20:25 +0000 UTC View PostEzril lost his Tainted to his brother.
An acceptable sacrifice, he thought, taking Salem’s bishop.
He had sequestered it to a point at one end of the board, hoping Salem would be forced to claim it so he could in turn take the bishop that had caused him so much trouble in the past five minutes.
Although, the piece ha...
2024-01-08 04:17:51 +0000 UTC View PostHe didn’t know it. In fact, this was the first time he was hearing of it. He hadn’t even known it was possible to have it done at a city court, or that his name was in any official register. But if he did, what would he have done? Would he have gone to…?
The king wrapped an arm around Ezril’s shoulders, pulling him down to his heig...
2024-01-08 04:12:37 +0000 UTC View PostZed wasn’t sure if he liked or hated how things were going.
For one, Jennifer wasn’t dead. For another, anyone still alive inside the ship was at the mercy of Andker, third command to the rebellion. Sounded like a supervillain name if it was set in a militaristic world.
He couldn’t say he disliked it. It was suave. And the man ...
2024-01-08 04:07:02 +0000 UTC View PostIf Zed was being honest, things weren’t looking very good.
He’d been hiding behind a tree for what amounted to a minute and a handful of seconds wondering if it would be too much to use his aura to seek out the others when he heard his first signs of life.
The massive ship currently sitting in a crater in the ground was smoking f...
2024-01-08 04:01:47 +0000 UTC View PostZed hit the ground. He stumbled, struggling to keep Shanine in a gentle hold, before righting himself.
That could’ve gone smoother, he thought, shaking his legs out.
He was surrounded by countless trees. They were so many that they were capable of holding up the crashed ship.
Oliver hit the ground with a loud thud an...
2024-01-08 03:55:47 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone wants to be Gifted, including Melmarc Lockwood.
Sadly, even if he's lucky enough to become a Gifted, it is one thing to be a Gifted, one of the select few to develop powers beyond the human limit, and another to be worthy of it.
his goal to become the strongest Gifted alive is too far in the distance to...
2024-01-02 03:47:43 +0000 UTC View PostNo, we are not going on a short or long Hiatus. This is just as the name says. This is an apology. It hasn't been fair to everyone how short the chapters have been for a long time. And while there might be reasons, there are no excuses.
However, I intend to do something different. I will keep the posting of four chapters a week, but the sc...
2024-01-02 03:37:10 +0000 UTC View Post