Chapter 44: The Meaning of Breath
/Alright motherfuckers, gather round to hear some more of my venomous wisdom today. Gods, I love the anonymity writing gives me so much.
Oh yeah, it's time for another episode of my ranting ...
2023-04-07 23:04:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 43: Ragnarok and Runes
/Music, who'd think to write about that, eh? I reckon this is a little exploited topic, maybe even a niche in the market. Yes, a niche... my niche now! I shall patent this as... Musico Telofio!
Chapter 42: Dining together, newfound respect
/Obuk Ba'chak Iknog Arg! Eyldir ah unuga, eh eyldir ah murkska! Olok gnarig kum ustra at eyldir en grunga! Oh! Oh! Eyldir burut ah wallat, dra bokon eh spalat! Lugunga.
Un drika ...
2023-04-07 23:01:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 41: Punishment and Coin
/Yo, waddup bitches!! It's your main man, big FFF back in the house, comin' at you with some straight facts. Today on Homeboy Radio we got a new hot topic in da city of Stormbraver! 'Parently there'...
2023-04-07 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 40: The day of the Trial
/Cusarius: "What is a noble if not knightly, and what a knight if not noble?" He falls to the floor, pounding it with his fist.
Martor: "A fighter the second and a politician the first, dear ...
2023-04-07 22:59:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 39: The morning of the Trial
/Ah, yes. The good old grind for exp. The grind, where exp is only announced after monsters, if that is what people expect. But the thing is, not only killing monsters awards exp.
The sys...
2023-04-07 22:57:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 38: Ihn'ar
Hello!
It's been a while, I know, but it's me, your narrator. Lately I haven't been giving as much commentary, to preserve the intensity of the scenes, but I am still here! After all, this is my soothing v...
2023-04-06 22:24:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 37: Coming Together
/You know, mana gets too much rep for its usefulness. Stamina is at least as important and powerful. Actually, scratch that, any direction of growth should be valued just as much as mana. And in some re...
2023-04-06 22:24:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 36: Mana uses
/Woooooo, Skill shop time! The thing fucking sucks!
No, but seriously, hear me out there. The Skill shop is a total piece of shit. So, first of all, for a system that prides itself on fairness and equal...
2023-04-06 22:22:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 35: New Visitor
/It has puzzled many people before how the system handles these "stats", hasn't it? What decides your stats at birth? How are they influenced by your parents? How do they grow as one becomes older? How are ...
2023-04-06 22:21:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 34: Detective Mercury
/I love spiders, but by the gods, they terrify me./
Some biologist, probably.
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Mercury understood some of what was going on in the city fr...
2023-04-06 22:20:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 33: Politics
/Dear audience, today I have come before you to talk about but one topic. It may be a tall ask, but please weigh the words I say closely in your mind, yes?
I have come to talk about the leaderboards toda...
2023-04-06 22:20:19 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 32: Library stroll
Mercury woke up after the best night of sleep he had gotten in a while. His log was comfortable filled with blankets, and the night had been silent. He had some amount of money and was slowly making more...
2023-04-06 22:19:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 31: Nightly Business
/You know, some people may say that there are too many guilds to count, but I wouldn't quite agree with them. The problem with getting an accurate count lies not within the number, but much rather the ...
2023-04-06 22:18:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 30: Trouble brewing
/Well, this is a predicament, isn't it? I can't really start this by saying "sometimes the system doesn't put things clearly enough" because, well, I don't want a raging mob going after me. No, I defini...
2023-04-06 22:17:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 29: Dreaming
/"Anoth is a fickle mistress. She is the queen of spiders, the webspinner, the veiled one, the lady of lies and the spinner of secrets. The great weaver is many things, but if one had to nail her down to one, ...
2023-04-06 22:15:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 28: A new city
/Order is a magnificent thing. In the end, all things lead back to order. It is the one determining force everything relies on. Without order, there can be no rules. Without rules, there can be no existence....
2023-04-06 22:13:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 27: Reminiscing
/Arches. A curious thing, those are. Doors or gates, sometimes, and again others are rifts, tears, cracks, or breaks. What are these curious things, to make them so potent? What is it, that allows them to m...
2023-04-06 22:10:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 26: Double Robbery
Status:
Mercury Rainfall Starlight
Lv.: 13
Species: Zetraspa
Titles: <Tenacious Genius>, <Forest Usurper>, <Tutorial Completer>
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Hp: 105/105
... 2023-04-06 22:09:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 25: Faraway strangers and a home, left to return.
Mercury continued with a similar routine for quite some time, straining his mind and magic as much as he could without creating major problems for himself.
In essence...
2023-04-06 22:07:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 24: Knowledge is Power, an interlude
And then, Mercury practiced. He had thought about his next step, no, his next steps. Controlling individual masses of magical energy was only the first one. The second step was learning...
2023-04-06 22:06:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 23: Setback, Step back, Grow
After a while, Mercury felt visible improvement, both when it came to his training as well as in his relationship to Kintra. She was scared when he disappeared first, and even more scared when ...
2023-04-06 22:04:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 22: Steady Heart, Calm Soul
Unfortunately for Mercury, he didn't quite know where to start. I mean, what was there for him to do? He couldn't really stop all evil in the world. He couldn't stop the war. He couldn't start a...
2023-04-06 22:02:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 21: Heart(ache)
Seeing Mercury after the eclipse might have been crushing for Gladiator, Juno, Second or Cherry. He was in a sorry state, to say the least.
After having their home destroyed, the survivors of the ecli...
2023-04-06 22:01:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 20: One hell of a finale
The first one to rush in was, as usual, Gladiator. He snarled at the charging fighter for a moment, then looked at Mercury and began his run as soon as he received a nod. It only took a few seconds...
2023-04-06 22:00:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 19: Approaching magic
Overall, the arena fights went well. Mercury made quite a bit of progress trying out different roles on the battlefield, working even harder to fill the gap left by Second and keeping that same pace u...
2023-04-06 21:59:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 18: The Arena
With that first day in a city, Mercury's journey had truly begun. It was the first step towards creating his own kingdom, but before he could do so, there were more things he needed to know, namely how one ac...
2023-04-02 20:29:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 17: A whole new world
While leaving the forest, Cherry could still serve as a guide, since she had been to the town on the outside multiple times already, mostly to buy supplies and the like. That's also where she got the ...
2023-04-02 20:27:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 16: Journey's beginning
The three of them looked up to him, seemingly stunned that they could understand him. Seems like comprehending the fact that they could speak now was still a little much, so Mercury decided to expla...
2023-04-02 20:20:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 15: Moving forward
Just kidding, he wasn't naming them yet. Like, seriously, with the nightmares he had with getting himself a name you should have expected him to wait until they're able to consent to what he wants to cal...
2023-04-02 20:19:02 +0000 UTC View Post