The cries of an infant leaked through the heavy set door and out into the dark, candle lit hallway. There were voices within the maternity ward, Lucia could make out proud and confident tones of her father, the weary congratulations of the ...
2024-05-31 07:24:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe uproar of the arena crowd made continuing the quadriad for the day an unlikely prospect. A hundred voices all yelled questions or stood to run off and find somebody who may have an answer. An ageing couple two rows above where Leif and the oth...
2024-05-29 08:19:34 +0000 UTC View PostZane Low closed his eyes and took a long, deep breath. He pictured in his mind's eye the courtyard before him, the fifty wooden training dummies, their limbs bobbing slightly in the wind. He exhaled, and every dummy was beheaded at once. Th...
2024-05-26 07:29:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe history of the Mekrys empire was an interesting, if highly embellished read. The empire, a collection of provinces bordered large swaths of three, interconnected, seas. The Rien, the largest and most western of the three seas, was what Leif ha...
2024-05-24 06:26:51 +0000 UTC View Post
The seaborn mist was still rolling over the archipelago as Leif stepped through the portal arch, seamlessly teleporting from one hub building to another in less than a breath. Three guards turned at his approach, though they otherwise ignored ...
Chapter Prescript:
Sorry for the day late chapter, its a revolving door of illness at the moment.
Anyway, here's the chapter, hope you enjoy!
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The living room was spacious, though the stacks of paper and piles of...
2024-05-20 07:02:04 +0000 UTC View PostLeif stared up at the shadowy ceiling of the underground training chamber, feeling as something inside him snapped back into place. He couldn’t feel pain, it wasn’t something his body was physiologically capable of, though he could intellectua...
2024-05-17 06:14:37 +0000 UTC View PostLeif stared up into the grinning face of the eighth Blade, feeling the temperature in the large stone room slowly drop, though not from anything Mouric was doing. Despite the man’s ice powers, the cause of the drop in temperature was Sieg...
2024-05-15 08:19:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Prescript:
Sorry about the delay, I've been a bit busy lately.
Enjoy the chapter!
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Leif was about to leave his seat and return to the library, when the sands below were finally cleared of ...
2024-05-13 07:05:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Mouric Voknar! And his opponent, the seventh Blade: Daniella Low! The inevitability of ice clashes with the fury of steel and flame!” The announcer roared, riling up the crowd much as he had done during the previous day. Leif was buffeted by ...
2024-05-10 08:17:58 +0000 UTC View PostLeif, Hera and Melissa sat in silence within the living room of the apartment turned Blade residence. Night had fallen, bringing with it an sea born mist that rolled over the archipelago like an ethereal blanket. Lucia and Royce had been given a g...
2024-05-08 07:30:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe carriage pulled up a gentle slope, the well greased wheels and stable suspension making the journey comfortable, if slow. Leif found it strange knowing where his occasional buds of insight on the construction of wagons and carts were originati...
2024-05-05 06:49:07 +0000 UTC View PostLucia felt cold. Even under the afternoon sun and surrounded by the raucous energy of the arena stadium her limbs felt numb and her skin was clammy. She had witnessed the fight between the tenth and ninth blades of the Academy, but in truth...
2024-05-03 07:56:45 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s starting! It’s starting!” Roy said, bouncing from foot to foot. “We need to get inside!”
“Patience Roy, we’re at the front of the line.” Lucia said, placing a comforting hand on her younger bro...
2024-05-01 06:46:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Prescript:
It is both hilarious, and very frustrating, that the day after I announce that I will be increasing my writing speed I get sick.
Anyway, this was written a few days ago. But I feel like death so I'...
2024-04-28 06:48:02 +0000 UTC View Post“And this is the Pellus public bathhouse. You might be able to tell from the architecture that the building predates the rest of the town by several centuries. Usually the older structures that predate the Academy are used by the Academy, but th...
2024-04-26 08:30:17 +0000 UTC View PostLucia awoke for the first time in what felt like an eternity without the sharp tang of hunger nor the everpresent, bone deep ache that had been a constant tag along for the past year. The rocking of the ship and the warmth of the blankets threaten...
2024-04-24 06:21:54 +0000 UTC View Post
The pervasive dampness in the tight confines of the lower decks made Royce feel as though the world was pressing down on him. His chest tightened and gunk oozed its way into his windpipe. Even at eight years of age he knew how dire his situati...
Lucia put her head down and worked until her knuckles were raw and her fingers ached with exertion. The dishes, plain creations of carved wood kept piling up before her, accumulating faster than she could clean. Lucia grit her teeth, and kept goin...
2024-04-19 06:45:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe sky skimmer didn’t have individual rooms below deck. Instead it was a wide open space between the reinforced hull and the deck above, the distance between both forced both Leif and the taller passengers and crew to duck, but only slightly. T...
2024-04-17 06:32:13 +0000 UTC View PostNikolas sat within his spacious and well decorated office. His boots were kicked up onto the desk before him, his chair tilted back as he read through the last of the day's reports. Acquisition forms, personal records, monster activity and dungeon...
2024-04-14 07:19:55 +0000 UTC View PostRam didn’t like cities. He didn’t like towns either, or villages for that matter. Sure, he’d spent much of his early, unintelligent life on the outskirts of northern settlements, but he had never grown to appreciate them. But watching one be...
2024-04-12 06:02:36 +0000 UTC View PostThis chapter has no content other than a full character sheet overview. I recommend bookmarking it so you can reference Leif’s skills easily.
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Name: Leif Vin
Race: Scion of Aeons
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2024-04-10 07:24:17 +0000 UTC View PostYou have selected [Charisma] as the beneficiary attribute for the +30% bonus! Confirm? Y/N
Leif confirmed the prompt, the space around him seeming to ripple as his aura flexed from the sudden rush of power....
2024-04-10 07:16:51 +0000 UTC View PostLeif stared at the figure made of crimson light, a sketch of a smile stretched across their otherwise undetailed face. “Who- or what are you?” He said, both on guard and alert at the figures' sudden appearance.
“Hmmm, little...
2024-04-07 06:07:38 +0000 UTC View PostIt didn’t feel real, and perhaps, maybe, that was because it wasn’t. Could the system really know? How accurate were these projected futures? Were they divergent realities somehow split from the main path at specific points in time? Or were th...
2024-04-05 06:33:21 +0000 UTC View PostLeif stared down at the shattered remains of the Noble, the tiny shards of crystal reflecting light that didn’t exist within the empty world of the trial. Was that supposed to happen? He wondered. Or was he just that fragile?...
2024-04-03 07:17:31 +0000 UTC View PostLeif’s golden eyes flickered between the four versions of himself the system had created, trying to wrap his head around just what he was seeing. He had said it outloud already, but he truly didn’t understand how any of the people befor...
2024-03-31 07:43:49 +0000 UTC View PostCommencing advancement trial!
Experience the paths in life you did not walk!
Passing this trial will break the level 50 bottleneck and allow for further advancement!
Good...
2024-03-29 07:25:19 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a quiet rumble to the streets of Ahle-ho, the way people moved from building to building, their steps quick and their heads down as if to ward off misfortune by speed and subtlety. The number of people had risen like the tide, the...
2024-03-27 06:14:11 +0000 UTC View Post