“We should keep in touch, Apprentice Cal,” Ken said as he watched Cal tie the oxen to a recently purchased cart. “The Masters here seem to like you. I think I can convince them to make you a preferred vendor for your territory.”
That...
2025-07-15 18:11:55 +0000 UTC View Post“—last call and sold! To the young woman with great taste!” The auctioneer closed the bidding on the tenth item for over three guildmarks. The couple, dressed in finery, had bought every item, consistently overbidding to nonsensical amounts....
2025-07-15 03:12:56 +0000 UTC View Post“I want to learn,” Cal blurted out. Reason set in right after. “But am I allowed to? I can’t imagine the Harvest Union being happy about it.”
Arhan gave him a look before muttering under his breath about the Celestial Order. The to...
2025-07-14 20:20:03 +0000 UTC View PostEDIT: I changed Vern's name to Arhan.
“This is one that I planted just a few months ago. What do you think of it?” Arhan asked.
This farm had caught Cal’s eye on the way to town. It stood out from the purple-colo...
2025-07-14 20:19:12 +0000 UTC View PostCal stood in front of a nondescript warehouse surrounded on both sides by even larger warehouses. Then again, the whole town was like this, so it wasn’t a surprise.
He didn’t doubt where Bran had led him. After he detected the Masters in...
2025-07-11 00:22:46 +0000 UTC View Post“Boy, move out of the way!” The driver yelled as he navigated the carriage around the increasingly dense crowd.
Cal had become accustomed to the crude way the driver spoke since they hired him from Mariner’s Rest. He had been ready to ...
2025-07-11 00:21:51 +0000 UTC View PostCal scratched his chin as he left the house when the sun was barely peeking over the horizon. He could hear arrows striking the hardened barriers in the distance. Seris had woken earlier than him by some miracle and was putting the extra time to g...
2025-07-08 18:21:33 +0000 UTC View Post“—and then Cal casually said he needed to visit the cursed sinkhole! With no information! Can you believe that?” Tavia said with exaggerated hand movements. She had been on a similar rant ever since she pulled over two friends from their hou...
2025-07-08 18:20:56 +0000 UTC View PostCal continued to shovel the rubble, using the pickaxe when needed to create more. He frequently emptied the wheelbarrow near the dirt hills, creating a new one for the deep hole he was digging. He suddenly appreciated the golem for doing this tedi...
2025-06-28 04:22:18 +0000 UTC View PostCal returned to the farm, his mind still on what the overseer wanted him to do. He steps past the tree line and entered his field and saw some unexpected visitors.
Outside the farm’s borders, Miren and Torin huddled together, reviewing the...
2025-06-25 20:48:22 +0000 UTC View PostCal had spread the mana tendrils to cover the whole town, including the port. His goal was to sense the overseer as he entered the town, but that was easier said than done. Overseer Marek was one of the few that he was blind to when using [mana se...
2025-06-25 01:26:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt was too quiet. Cal felt it was odd that there wasn’t the constant sound of hammer hitting anvil near Orrin’s house.
He entered the doorless house and passed through the rooms filled with failed creations. He exited through the back do...
2025-06-24 06:26:09 +0000 UTC View PostCal stepped off the lift and took in the atmosphere of the busy port. That wasn’t strange in itself, but nearly all the workers were busy moving Sunfire Grains onto ships at the loading dock. There seemed to be far more ships than was necessary,...
2025-06-23 19:44:43 +0000 UTC View PostHe saw the silhouette of a man waiting in the distance, unmoved by the wolf pack that was prowling around him. This was a familiar sight, though in a slightly different location.
Cal gently patted the pack leader’s head to stop him from mo...
2025-06-21 23:14:18 +0000 UTC View PostCal found joy explaining how to treat the dead soil of this land while patting the sack of mulch at his side, one of the many that were stacked high. He had already introduced the tubs of loam and powered crystals before the mulch.
It was th...
2025-06-21 23:13:27 +0000 UTC View Post“Finally!” Cal clenched his fist in victory. The slab of surface he successfully separated from the soil dropped to the side. It had taken him the entire night to get to this point.
The interface didn’t prompt him for a name for the sp...
2025-06-21 23:12:45 +0000 UTC View PostKade Beckett
Arcana Level 60
Class: Arcane Lancer | Skills: 9 | Abilities: 6
Soulrend (Awakened Spear) | Abilities: 1 (Stored)
Race: Baseline Human...
2025-06-17 15:25:45 +0000 UTC View PostKade stared at the ceiling of the room and thought of the city-wide party that had started yesterday and still continued today.
The initial crowd, which witnessed Kade’s overkill killing of the kobold, spread into the city, causing the ent...
2025-06-17 15:24:25 +0000 UTC View PostKade stood by the doorway of the hotel room and watched over a dozen [Healers] work to save Tugan from the jaws of death. They had just stopped the copious bleeding from the stump, and now they were restoring his vitality.
“I thought you w...
2025-06-17 15:23:43 +0000 UTC View PostKade could feel the cracks on the wooden shaft, but he couldn’t do much other than try to avoid putting it danger of direct strikes. He met Tugan’s eyes and took a deep breath before advancing.
His [Soulrend] and feet moved in harmony, a...
2025-06-17 15:23:01 +0000 UTC View PostKade shuddered in disgust when the metallic surface on its head rippled. A vertical tear appeared in the center before it pulled back, revealing deep-set, sharp grey eyes meeting his gaze.
The man’s skin was weather-beaten, tinged with a g...
2025-06-17 15:22:17 +0000 UTC View PostA whole day had passed as over ten thousand people traveled to Chicago. It was slower than expected, but that was about to be fixed.
Kade watched from afar as several survivors with newly recovered limbs ganged up on a single, upright reptil...
2025-06-17 15:21:32 +0000 UTC View Post“This is not what I imagined,” Kade mumbled to himself, leaning on his [Soulrend] to stop his knees from buckling.
There wasn’t a scratch on him, but that didn’t mean the hours of slaughter he inflicted on the monster legion hadn’t...
2025-06-17 15:20:48 +0000 UTC View PostKade ripped his [Soulrend] out of the troll’s leg as it fell to the ground. He walked up to the head and ended its suffering quickly.
He eyed the monsters watching him and walked away, signaling his intent to disengage. They had put up a d...
2025-06-09 18:08:19 +0000 UTC View PostDavid wasn’t sure what he felt as he stepped onto the official battlegrounds. The leaders had called it the line of control, and it was a fitting name.
A monster breaching the line meant the city’s territory would contract.
He wasn...
2025-06-09 18:07:34 +0000 UTC View PostKade stopped far from the city. It was under siege.
There was a legion of monsters moving closer step-by-step, unphased by the culling of their vanguard by the defenders.
Most of the monsters he had dealt with in the Class F rift zone ...
2025-06-09 18:06:38 +0000 UTC View PostHe had come across plenty of roving bands of goblins and gnawers, but there wasn’t a specific point of origin. They appeared randomly scattered.
He heard a rustle beside him, but he ignored it.
Kade had long deactivated [Suppression]...
2025-06-09 18:05:37 +0000 UTC View Post“Is it the goblins? Has there been news that I missed about stronger monsters roaming Earth?” Kade said, sending a message to Finn.
He could see them rapidly approaching Chicago. Hellion’s flying was faster than his running, even with ...
2025-06-09 18:04:38 +0000 UTC View PostAshley had an easy role: a scout assigned to watch over Lake Michigan, where nothing ever happened.
She joined the Chicago Collective the moment she reached the city. Her only thought back then was the phrase ‘safety in numbers.’
S...
2025-06-09 18:03:48 +0000 UTC View PostEliza was partially undressed, and even though she was paler than usual because of her weakness and recent blood loss, her attractiveness hadn’t disappeared.
Her looks were unimportant while they were fighting for their lives in the rift z...
2025-06-09 18:02:37 +0000 UTC View Post