“How are you doing that?”
Cal grunted at hearing the unwanted noise. He had a job to do. And he didn’t want to open his eyes to deal with another intruder.
“Cal!”
He opened his eyes to see Tavia leaning over him with an...
2024-11-06 22:16:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe massive chamber rumbled before he could make a move. The falcons screeched, just as alarmed as he was at the changes.
Large pillars with ridged sections grew out of the walls, spaced only ten feet apart at most. Kade quickly realized wha...
2024-11-05 06:40:36 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh, he looks like he’s about to rip us apart,” the man kicked Kaelor’s body. “Will you use a hammer like you did on this idiot?”
Cal didn’t try to hide his confusion. He had been under the impression that Kaelor was related to...
2024-11-04 16:23:08 +0000 UTC View Post“⏁⏃☍⟒ ⊬⍜⎍⍀ ⍀⟒⍙⏃⍀⎅ ⏃⋏⎅ ⟒⌖⟟⏁.”
Kade ignored the voice and stared suspiciously at the belt beyond the hidden door. He reluctantly put aside the belt for the moment and reviewed his interface. He cou...
2024-11-04 13:06:55 +0000 UTC View PostHe heard the statue slide down behind him and close off the exit.
“⎅⟒⎎⟒⏃⏁ ⏁⊑⟒ ⏚⍜⏃⍀ ⏁⍜ ⏚⟒ ⏃⌰⌰⍜⍙⟒⎅ ⏁⍜ ⟒⌖⟟⏁.”
Kade’s eyes darted about the room to see if there was any hint...
2024-11-03 06:41:22 +0000 UTC View PostKade once again considered thinking things through before literally jumping into it.
He flailed as he tried to stay afloat before using his [Soulrend] to anchor himself to the ledge. He thanked his exponentially increased [Strength] for enab...
2024-11-03 06:40:23 +0000 UTC View PostCal sometimes felt this genius was hidden far too well. He knew the stone paths would come in handy, but this was practically like he saw a future issue and made a solution before he ever knew he would need it.
The stone paths separated his ...
2024-11-02 07:00:50 +0000 UTC View PostPurple blood dripped off the blade of his [Soulrend]. All the karnathis were dead, and the small piles of white powder were the only evidence of their existence.
Kade initially found some thrill in getting back into the fray. Still, it quick...
2024-11-02 00:57:37 +0000 UTC View PostKade changed his mind. He had assumed this Rift Zone would be more than the Class F Rift Zone, but the grasslands here were incredibly dull.
At the very least, the Class F Rift Zone had blades of grass that were as tall as tree...
2024-11-01 07:41:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey, Orrin?”
Orrin grunted, not taking his eyes off the strange plow he was making. It always felt to Seris that Cal wanted some weird stuff made.
She had no idea what he intended to do with a seven-bladed plow.
“Do you&nb...
2024-11-01 02:16:51 +0000 UTC View PostAN: For those not on Discord to see my announcement, I scratched my eye pretty badly a week ago and had to wait for it to recover. The plus side is that I did nothing but think of the plot, so I'm itching to write more chapters. There will...
2024-11-01 02:16:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt was pitch black. There must be an absolute absence of light to see nothing with his improved vision.
Kade summoned his [Soulrend], not just for protection, but also to act as a feeling stick. He poked around and found that there was quite...
2024-10-31 05:46:23 +0000 UTC View Post“Where did you find a second bike?” Kade asked as they rode over the rough, uneven ground. Some faint signs of the paved road still existed, but the wild nature did its best to erase all evidence.
They were on what should have been an ov...
2024-10-30 06:16:21 +0000 UTC View PostHe had almost forgotten what it felt like to be without pain. It felt… interesting.
Am I becoming a masochist? It can’t be.
“Good job, everyone,” Kade offered when nobody vacated the room. They stared at him as if he o...
2024-10-29 06:46:49 +0000 UTC View PostAfter exiting the hotel, Kade immediately saw why he had noticed nothing from the window. His focus had been on the safe zone’s border. He should have been looking the other way.
Finn’s group was staring down around twenty people who wer...
2024-10-29 06:45:40 +0000 UTC View PostKade snapped his eyes open and looked at the door. It had been several hours since he closed his eyes.
He had found himself in a strange half-asleep, half-alert state, but it worked well enough. It was pitch black in a way he had never exper...
2024-10-28 09:50:00 +0000 UTC View PostKade hid behind the cover of some trees just outside the safe zone. He was having second thoughts about entering Chicago.
He had been on the edge of change in his decision multiple times on the way here. The more he thought about it, the mor...
2024-10-28 09:49:14 +0000 UTC View PostKade came to and promptly sucked in a mouthful of water. He sputtered and coughed before immediately wheezing in pain at making a sound.
His vision was so blurry that he could barely see anything more than a few feet away and his ears didn...
2024-10-26 21:26:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe creature’s decision to back away towards the magma pool shocked Kade. He thought about making a run for it and try to reach one of the obsidian islands, but he quickly crossed that out.
Even if there was something worthwhile on them, a...
2024-10-26 05:28:32 +0000 UTC View PostMagma felt like water to Kade—hot water, but still, just water. That’s where the good news stopped.
The magma wave still had all the properties of a wave. It trucked into Kade with all the force the dense magma possessed. It threw him of...
2024-10-26 05:27:43 +0000 UTC View PostKade bit into another glowfruit. This was his third in the last minute, and it worked as intended.
Although his body still had his own blood caked on it, he no longer had razor-thin cuts all over. He considered that a massive win.
He l...
2024-10-25 13:53:25 +0000 UTC View PostYou have destroyed a Shadow Arachnid (Arcana Level 24)!
Kill 100 Monsters (80/100)—>(81/100)
Spear Thrust (Level 9)—>(Level 10)
Level-up!
“Fina...
2024-10-24 14:54:30 +0000 UTC View PostHe had to stamp down his instinct to activate [Inferno Burst]. Burning the spider to a crisp sounded like a great idea, but it would likely take out the glowfruit tree and its fruits along with it.
If finding ripe fruits was easy, Kade ...
2024-10-24 01:14:44 +0000 UTC View PostHe regained his senses to the sound of pebbles falling. Some landed on his face. He frowned and tried to wipe them away. He immediately felt the intense pain from the hand he tried to use.
Kade snapped his eyes open and saw a dead Icehowler ...
2024-10-24 01:12:50 +0000 UTC View PostIt didn’t take long for him to reach the place where the Icehowlers retreated. And that was a great thing, since a fresh layer of snow quickly covered their tracks.
The discovery of an opening to a cave surprised Kade.
He heard a fai...
2024-10-24 01:11:57 +0000 UTC View PostKade had climbed over a hundred feet up the cliff wall. It wasn’t even halfway up. Not even close.
The entire time he had been climbing, he heard an exponential increase in the number of buildings collapsing behind him. It had barely been ...
2024-10-20 05:29:49 +0000 UTC View PostTo Kade’s disappointment, there was no ambush. He stood near the cliff wall on full alert for no reason.
There weren’t even any chunks of ice that he had to watch out for. His impatience flared up. He figured waiting eight minutes was mo...
2024-10-20 05:29:06 +0000 UTC View Post“This sucks,” Kade hissed as he shivered. He had been trudging along in the snow for what felt like hours.
Even with his increased capabilities, the cold was seeping into his bones. It felt like he would freeze to death if something didn...
2024-10-20 05:28:19 +0000 UTC View PostHe shifted his feet. Whatever the beast was before him, it was biding its time. Waiting for him to make a mistake.
It’s too bad Kade didn’t intend to make a mistake. It would be embarrassing if he died from stumbling because of the packe...
2024-10-20 05:27:42 +0000 UTC View PostHe was stuck on the third line. Around two hundred thousand failed.
“The ones who failed to destroy a Rift Zone… what happened to them?”
They are dead.
Kade knew the answer, but it still hit him hard. It wa...
2024-10-20 05:27:02 +0000 UTC View Post