Micah frowned at the map stretched out across the table he’d set up in his shack. Since the battle in Crypt of Rot, Trevor and him had curtailed their movements. Micah still hunted monsters, preferably the larger and more dangerous c...
2020-11-06 01:43:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe cocoons of light dissolved within thirty seconds of each other, drawing a sigh of relief from Micah as Telivern’s majestic and snowy white form unfolded itself, almost glowing in the dim cavern.
He didn’t want to admit to himself how...
2020-11-03 00:45:24 +0000 UTC View PostMicah rolled his eyes. Killing the son of a baron wasn’t the best idea he’d ever had, but if these two men insisted on dying there wasn’t much he could do but oblige them. He opened his mouth to shout for the Luoca, but the axe w...
2020-10-29 23:52:40 +0000 UTC View PostTrevor walked up to where Micah was sitting next to the two balls of light and energy, itching at the straps of his new armor. Micah closed the Folio as his brother approached, shifting his back slightly to try and find a more comfortable po...
2020-10-26 23:51:22 +0000 UTC View PostTrevor crouched Next to Micah just inside the door to the boss room. The chamber was almost unnaturally large given the cave they’d journeyed through. Micah could barely make out the ceiling, but the far end was flat out too far to s...
2020-10-22 23:44:50 +0000 UTC View Post“This is supposed to be a level twenty five dungeon,” Trevor shook his head as the Luoca’s wing slashed through a large bear zombie, shearing off a massive chunk of rotting flesh. “Micah, you could at least pretend that this is some ...
2020-10-19 23:08:48 +0000 UTC View PostWords of terrible power fell from Micah’s tongue. A wave of his palm distributed a spray of green fire from the gash he’d made with a sacrificial dagger. The burning drops of blood landed on the various reagents spread around the c...
2020-10-15 23:27:58 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you sure about this Micah,” Trevor licked his lips as he glanced nervously at his brother from inside the half constructed ritual circle. “I know I asked for you to hurry the ritual up, but uh, you seem to be checking that book of...
2020-10-13 00:18:35 +0000 UTC View PostMicah’s spear passed through the dryad as the tiny humanoid lunged toward him, letting the wood of the haft slip through its body like it was a mirage. He winced under the wet rag draped across his mouth as the monster giggled, letting out...
2020-10-09 01:09:56 +0000 UTC View Post
“Have another slice of ham Trevor,” Micah’s mother slid the slab of pink meat onto his brother’s plate. “We haven’t had a chance to all get together and celebrate your achievements with the Lancers yet.”
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Micah dove, pushing the maneuverability of the flight enchantment inscribed in the gold and electrum necklace pressed tight around his neck. It burned hot, struggling to accommodate the mana keeping him aloft.
A c...
2020-10-02 00:23:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Micah sat just inside the entrance to the cave, enjoying the afternoon light as it
poured into the opening. He flipped another page in the Ageless Folio, frowning slightly. He’d never bothered with using a ri...
2020-09-29 02:44:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Micah’s eyes never left the goat. With Trevor’s help he’d led the animal out into the deep deep forest, where the trees began to give way to foothills. Right now, it was tired to a tree, eating grass casually while M...
2020-09-24 15:45:59 +0000 UTC View Post
“I think I love her Micah,” Trevor’s eyes were misty as Micah’s spear knocked his aside with a clatter of wood on wood.
The stag snorted, expressing Micah’s sentiments perfectly.
Micah noticed the distracted man ...
2020-09-22 00:45:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Micah whirled under the rubbery brown tentacle that whipped over his head, narrowly avoiding the serrated spikes of bone embedded in its tip. In a previous life, Will had found out the hard way that those spikes were actually te...
2020-09-17 23:54:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Micah made a note of the sun’s position, scratching the data hastily into the Folio. Whispering under his breath, he flipped to a page detailing his observations from a previous timeline on the current astrological conditions....
2020-09-15 02:03:42 +0000 UTC View Post
“Why are we shoe shopping?” Trevor grumbled. He was trying his best to look inconspicuous in the upscale armor boutique, but despite his efforts, Trevor looked nervous and out of place.
“I need something that ...
2020-09-11 00:36:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Micah tried not to fixate on the six nightwasps whirring toward him. His spear was planted, butt first, in the soft forest soil. It comforted him to have the weapon within arms reach, but against six enemies it was little ...
2020-09-07 23:29:01 +0000 UTC View Post
“Micah, Micah!” Esther’s voice pulled him from the book he was reading. Sighing, Micah closed the Ageless Folio. His parents insisted that Trevor and him spend their nights at home. He still slept four to five ...
2020-09-04 03:02:44 +0000 UTC View Post
“No,” Micah shook his head looking at the slate covered in crude chalk drawings in his brother’s hands. “The mana transference is all wrong. You need to focus the diagram on gathering and releasing a burst of w...
2020-09-01 03:38:08 +0000 UTC View Post
“Maybe she’d be more interested if you actually applied yourself,” their mother snapped. Her eyes flicking from Micah to Trevor and back. “If you paid any attention, you’d know she’s sweet on Warrick.”
...
2020-08-28 03:20:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Micah opened his eyes the taste of jasmine tea with a hint of lemon still on the tip of his tongue. He lifted a hand up above his head, his skinny and childish wrist clearly visible in the early dawn light streaming through his ...
2020-08-25 02:44:36 +0000 UTC View Post
“Oh sit down,” her voice was pleasant and disarming, but with an undertone of command as it halted Micah’s half-rise from the chair.
A woman in her early thirties entered his vision from the side. The first thing...
2020-08-21 03:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Micah returned to the window, casting flight as he walked. At the precipice, he simply stepped out onto empty air and continued at his former pace, mimicking an ordinary stroll while he scowled down at the crowd of adve...
2020-08-18 02:04:49 +0000 UTC View Post
“Come down and be judged for your crimes, heretic,” the priest, a severe and skinny man, freshly shorn skull gleaming in the sunlight, shouted up at Micah, the man’s voice carried to him by the ears of a Brensen flying overhead....
2020-08-14 02:10:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The Brensen lifted another rock to the top of the formation that housed Micah’s cave. Above him, the three Onkert that he’d summoned after his return from the Great Depths chipped the boulders into rough bricks and piled the...
2020-08-11 01:44:14 +0000 UTC View Post
The next morning, Micah got out of bed early to work in the shop. It was a stretch to say that he woke, given that he barely slept an hour a night, but even so, he found it refreshing to spend at least a couple hours in bed with...
2020-08-07 00:53:20 +0000 UTC View Post
The bell jangled on the door to Micah’s shop, causing him to look up from the Folio. He’d spent most of the afternoon working on the design for a pendant that would increase its bearer’s strength. An interesting comb...
2020-08-04 01:59:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Micah opened his eyes in the cave, his body covered in mostly healed bruises and cuts that he barely remembered. Telivern lay curled against him, its fur warming and cushioning him through the long night.
“Congratulation...
2020-07-30 23:27:43 +0000 UTC View Post
As they charged, Micah cast wind shield and flight. The last battle had showed that even if his minions were more powerful than their opponents, it wasn’t impossible for the weight of numbers to overwhelm the...
2020-07-28 00:20:52 +0000 UTC View Post