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2025-04-10 07:11:52 +0000 UTC View Post51st of Season of Air, 59th year of the 32nd cycle
The plateau stretched to Newt’s left and right, seemingly into infinity. A mere hundred feet ahead, stood the next wall, and Newt pulled himself up over the ledge b...
2025-04-10 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post49th of Season of Air, 59th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt distinctly disliked being the center of attention. The establishment Dandelion had chosen was a great place to be when Dandelion won the event, and when Newt’s...
2025-04-09 00:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostDay 131, 11:15 AM
“Welcome to the dungeon,” we’ve got fun and games. My voice is much more normal than the words might imply as I step onto the first floor, leading Millie and Elie.
“Millie, I n...
2025-04-08 18:06:14 +0000 UTC View Post49th of Season of Air, 59th year of the 32nd cycle
Whenever a lull happened, Sleek came to the game of microraptor and mouse played by the Explorer’s Gate’s Newstar Blazing Salamander and the Shadow Valley’s Wil...
2025-04-08 16:04:53 +0000 UTC View PostDay 127, 10:00 AM
“I’m too old to be anything other than what I am.” Of all the dumb things Harlos could have said, this is probably the dumbest. He’s barely a kid.
“My knees ache, and I have trouble w...
2025-04-06 01:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post49th of Season of Air, 59th year of the 32nd cycle
One against two, Newt had no intention of being a gentleman. He fireburst towards the closer swordsman, Magmin Scales and Granite Crust enveloping his body. The grand...
2025-04-05 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post49th of Season of Air, 59th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt’s flags buried themselves into the soft, squishy ground yet again.
“This is so annoying,” Newt mouthed the words, but did not vocalize them.
He...
2025-04-04 18:39:27 +0000 UTC View PostDay 123, 6:10 AM
“Where do you think you’re going?” Edna asks, her treant army blocking my path.
“Neat creations. Did you come up with the design?” I don’t answer her question and watch her reaction....
2025-04-03 23:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post49th of Season of Air, 59th year of the 32nd cycle
Finally, after waiting half an hour in the bushes, Newt could move again. He skulked through the jungle for a handful of minutes, carrying four flags in his hand, when he sa...
2025-04-03 06:00:28 +0000 UTC View PostDay 106, 11:50 AM
I start yet another loop, fifty-third, I believe, by quickly reaching level six of the mage class. Thanks to plentiful experience, I can cast and maintain six active spells at the same time. That sho...
2025-04-02 01:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post49th of Season of Air, 59th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt had taken Dandelion’s advice for what it was - a roundabout confession that he would throw future matches against Fiery Glory, and that he should not bet on hi...
2025-04-01 23:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post47th of Season of Air, 59th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt watched round after brutal round until the only ones left were the Sword Abode and Dandelion. A female announcer listed the victors amongst second-realmers, list...
2025-04-01 05:18:27 +0000 UTC View PostDay 119, 7:30 PM
My two weeks passed quickly. An hour a day, usually around meals, went on teaching the girls new spells. The rest of the time I spent on searching for secret compartments and wasting mana to improve my capacity.
The mo...
2025-03-31 05:37:05 +0000 UTC View Post47th of Season of Air, 59th year of the 32nd cycle
“I’m spent, Newt,” Flare’s voice came from the other side of the fort. It was just the two of them, two gates destroyed and over a minute left until the end o...
2025-03-30 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post47th of Season of Air, 59th year of the 32nd cycle
“The eighth round is about to start with only seventy-two teams remaining, two of which are independent cultivators.” Northstar interrupted Sleek’s heated cheer...
2025-03-29 03:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostDay 106, 7:30 AM
An invisible force pulls a carp the size of my forearm from the pond and places it atop the paralyzed tarantula we caught along the way. Edna sings a wordless song of two trees which have merged as the...
2025-03-29 02:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post47th of Season of Air, 59th year of the 32nd cycle
The wall gave one loud crack before Newt arrived at the scene. The nanuqsaurus had a bloody face and a pair of legs sticking out of its jaw as it bashed its head once more against the reinfo...
2025-03-27 01:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostDay 106, 4:10 AM
Hundreds of drums beat in the darkness. The sound of rain battering at the roof and gushing through the drains is reassuring and intimately familiar after the years I’ve spent in this room. My chest feels ...
2025-03-27 00:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post47th of Season of Air, 59th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt appeared on a flimsy wooden wall fifteen feet above ground, his eyes at the level of the jungle’s canopy. The surrounding greenery was dense, with a path heading straight from...
2025-03-26 05:25:04 +0000 UTC View Post45th of Season of Air, 59th year of the 32nd cycle
A group of disciples from five different sects surrounded Dandelion, enthralled by his story.
“So there I was, in front of an army of fearsome cannibals, them starin...
2025-03-25 01:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostDay 105, 1:45 PM
The blinding lightning, moth dust, and the spasming urchin’s backstab started a havoc amongst the minor abominations. Three died to my spell, five more injured, all of which frenzied and tearing at each ot...
2025-03-24 08:26:31 +0000 UTC View Post45th of Season of Air, 59th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt followed the corridor alone. It was a gentle slope, ever rising upwards. His heart raced, unbidden thoughts assailing him. Could it be that the previous team were mere ...
2025-03-23 02:30:34 +0000 UTC View Post45th of Season of Air, 59th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt lost three sect-mates in the three following battles, each time finding himself forced to finish the matches personally. Spell formation scribes, in particular, present...
2025-03-22 04:41:39 +0000 UTC View PostDay 101, 11:30 AM
There’s a lot of magic I was passively training during the decades-long loop. My internal clock is now precise down to seconds, and the information constantly trickles into my mind, letting me know the ex...
2025-03-22 03:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostDay 86, 10:01 AM
I turn around in the service corridor once more. Instead of going to get drunk and cause a needless incident with Edna, I head back towards the library. I must look like a madman to anyone watching. Fortunat...
2025-03-20 09:35:15 +0000 UTC View Post45th of Season of Air, 59th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt’s taunt worked. The wielder of the slender sword, probably a woman by the shape of her body, lashed out. Newt thrust his glaive towards the center of her chest, but s...
2025-03-20 00:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post45th of Season of Air, 59th year of the 32nd cycle
Newt was not tall by any means, but he never considered himself short either. That changed when the black giant stepped forth to meet him. The man loomed, easily seven feet ...
2025-03-19 05:18:55 +0000 UTC View Post45th of Season of Air, 59th year of the 32nd cycle
Twochains won the duel with some difficulty, meaning he was also between yellow and orange on the power rainbow. The moment the decisive blow landed, the yellow-orange man v...
2025-03-18 04:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostDay 86, 10:00 AM
I rub the phantom pain out of my neck. Snapping it while Edna was having a mental breakdown was one of the worst deaths in a long while. Well, not exactly, it was no worse than cleaving my head, but the desp...
2025-03-18 02:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post