Avoid witches. El-Prime told me to avoid witches. How the fuck do I know who’s a witch or warlock?
Morph liked his name. It set him apart from the other clones. In fact, he believed it put him a rung above Elvis on the clone ladde...
2025-07-17 18:15:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe vessel had departed from Iskander with three unlisted passengers: the Elder Wyrmkin, her familiar, and Shae’heed. Then, Lukas’s arrival brought their numbers to four. Neither the captain nor his crew questioned it when they disembarked wit...
2025-07-15 19:28:29 +0000 UTC View PostLukas sat cross-legged in his quarters and attempted to block everything. The sounds of the crew went first, their hollering, footsteps, and grunts as they carried heavy equipment past him. The vessel’s creaking and rocking went next. It wasn’...
2025-07-11 20:14:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe Shadowsteel coil hummed as Lukas channeled a gentle stream of electricity through it. The pieces of scrap iron he had ‘borrowed’ from the ship engineer’s waste bin wobbled, inching toward it. He couldn’t help but grin. It wasn’t idea...
2025-07-11 10:51:58 +0000 UTC View PostReaching the docks was no easy feat. Lukas and his companion clone had no pursuers. However, the parties after them knew to have blockades and watches near the port. It was the more probable and safer exit from Iskander, after all. Land transports...
2025-07-09 21:44:53 +0000 UTC View PostThunderstorm’s Eye: Tier 1| Rank 1
Spellweaver: Tier 1 | Rank 4
Shadow Clone: Tier 2 | Rank 4
Shade’s Mantle
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2025-07-08 13:34:18 +0000 UTC View PostSpell Sniper’s Focus
The focus’s runework assists with the accuracy and range of spells fired through it, reading the wearer’s intent to marginally adjust the angle of launched spells. The focus’s gems also absorb and store ambi...
Lukas had put a lot of thought into the essences for the shard upgrading ritual. The Essence of Cumulus was a perfect fit. Meteorology had never interested Lukas. However, he often put himself to bed with random documentaries.
“C...
2025-07-05 21:08:15 +0000 UTC View PostLukas dispelled the three clones. Their weapons and tools sat neatly piled on the broom cupboard’s shelf. When resummoning, he started with high mass and a steel weave but also channeled lightning through his body. He wove the energy into the st...
2025-07-05 15:52:54 +0000 UTC View PostLukas paid little attention to the auction. He sat back and humored Mister Grey whenever he spoke, mostly commenting on the passing lots. It wasn’t just the central attractions that were up for auction, but also parts of the display between them...
2025-07-04 22:26:44 +0000 UTC View Post“Why am I not surprised?” The expedition leader from the Pearl Hunt. He approached Lukas and Mister Grey as they studied the mask closely, loudly discussing its history and design. The Aquila guild’s emblem sat stitched across his left...
2025-07-03 16:58:50 +0000 UTC View PostI apologize for the slowdown of posts this past week or so.
June was kind of hell for me. I went through the breakdown of an 11 year relationship with a 7 month old in the middle of it. The soon to be an ex(and former beta reader/dev editor) wa...
The ride to City Hall was short, but they ended up spending twice as long waiting in the queue of carriages. Mister Grey nattered on, mainly talking about nothing. He commented on the city, neighborhoods, and passing people. Despite everything tha...
2025-06-30 22:06:11 +0000 UTC View PostSpellweaver: Tier 1 | Rank 4
Shadow Clone: Tier 2 | Rank 3
Shade’s Mantle
Shadow Steel
Steel ...
2025-06-26 16:54:52 +0000 UTC View PostMemories of Earth had faded during Lukas’s sixty-odd years on the Realm of Greater Beings. Core memories remained, but the people in them had blurred. Names, roles, and emotions lingered, but faces and voices had left long ago.
Now, ...
2025-06-25 13:25:48 +0000 UTC View PostLukas reassigned the clones. Two now exclusively followed Stefan Santana, occasionally breaking away to tail suspicious people he interacted with. One continued to watch Mister Grey. It wasn’t that Lukas considered him a suspect, but because the...
2025-06-22 19:25:07 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Lukas returned to Esther’s, Penelope wasn’t in the clinic. Instead, the vet invited him into her house, leading him to the familiar green patch with the armchair. Penelope sat with Bass in her lap, drinking tea that smelled absolutely awf...
2025-06-21 12:39:48 +0000 UTC View Post“Elder Wyrmkin pride themselves in their close relationship to their dragon ancestors. The purer their bloodline, the more draconic their magic. It defines the theme of their magic or grants them metamagic. A frost dragon’s descendant will...
2025-06-18 16:49:18 +0000 UTC View Post“You guys got this?” Elvis asked his fellow clones. Shade’s Mantle no longer covered their bodies. They had shaped everything ahead of them, creating spiky obstacles for the incoming foes.
“Yes,” El-Two said through gritted t...
2025-06-17 16:35:56 +0000 UTC View PostChaos had broken out in the cavern. Bass and Elder Wyrmkin warriors fought each other while simultaneously trying to fend off and put down the mutated phaser. The clones were working to destroy or at least damage the ritual laboratory. Explosions ...
2025-06-16 07:51:09 +0000 UTC View PostSpellweaver’s description had warned Lukas to tread carefully as the consequences could potentially be disastrous. That didn’t matter now. He was specifically looking for disastrous consequences.
It was slow progress because of the...
2025-06-13 21:01:31 +0000 UTC View Post“What did you get?” Penelope asked when they found a quiet alcove. They kept pushing for another half hour until they were sure nothing had followed them, hoping for easy pickings. Chaos in the depths often drew attention, and the mutants were...
2025-06-12 16:45:55 +0000 UTC View PostEssence of Magic Shaping
It didn’t bother Lukas that Penelope’s essence had come late. He didn’t see it contributing much to upgrading the Essence. Instead, he believed it was a contender for Shadow Clone’s next tier...
2025-06-12 08:33:07 +0000 UTC View PostEntering Penelope’s room was an entirely different experience, with his Mind Pillar awakened. Lukas’s arcane senses had developed into something significantly more potent. He sensed strands of energy connecting to everything around him. His pa...
2025-06-11 10:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostWhen it rains, it pours.
Lukas had heard the phrase mostly in relation to bad luck or the affection of the opposite gender. He personally didn’t believe in luck and had mostly observed it in the latter instance. Whenever he was in a ...
2025-06-11 04:11:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe speedster form didn’t look significantly different from Lukas. Its muscles were more toned, joints more flexible, and limbs ever so slightly longer. The differences were almost impossible to detect unless they stripped down to their skivies....
2025-06-10 11:57:16 +0000 UTC View Post“This place is so much bigger on the inside,” Lukas said, failing to keep the shock and awe out of his voice. “It’s bigger than your clinic, isn’t it?”
“I had to put a lifetime of things somewhere,” Esther replied nonchalantl...
2025-06-09 20:17:46 +0000 UTC View Post“This is a pretty blade,” Lukas commented, holding up Magic Elvis’s creation up to the light. It was unbelievably light and sharp despite the lack of any enchantments or alchemical treatments. The almost-black blade intrigued him the most. ...
2025-06-08 16:09:47 +0000 UTC View PostIt took Lukas some time to patch together what had happened and what was going on. He had seen Wyrmkin in the clones’ memories, but they were different from the specimens he had encountered before. The last lot looked more like birds than lizard...
2025-06-07 17:14:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe mishap around the Eastern City Wall market had taught Lukas his lesson. He knew not to wander too close to the region and only sent clones for deliveries and investigations to the area. It meant Lukas couldn’t freely hunt for shards and esse...
2025-06-06 18:38:00 +0000 UTC View Post