It was well past midnight by the time the festivities ended.
Cass found herself on the edge of a Spire, the city of Velillia below her, Alyx’s mother’s workshop behind her. Alyx at her side.
The two of them stared down at the city....
2025-06-09 22:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostKohen led Cass to the banquet hall. Music played loudly. At the head table, the duchess’s dragon overlooked the room. On either side sat the dragonlings and their knights. Or Cass assumed it was the dragonlings and their knights.
On the ma...
2025-06-07 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostKohen’s mouth slammed shut. His body froze in place.
Silence enveloped the courtyard.
Is there any way that was anything else? she asked.
Maybe it’s the scalpel? Salos suggested, his words drowning in unease...
2025-06-04 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Why do you have that?”
His voice jolted Cass out of her internal discussions with Salos.
Her bed was not the only one in the infirmary, and she was not the only occupant.
Kohen sat on the bed beside her. He stared at the sou...
2025-06-02 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostCongratulations on reaching the Gate, by the way, Salos said.
Oh, right. With everything else, she’d just about forgotten. It was a blatant topic change, but Cass ran with it.
Level 27, Cass said as she pulled up he...
2025-05-31 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostCass gasped as she regained consciousness.
CASS! Salos’s relief hit her like a wave, rolling over her and pulling her under. He could barely breathe and neither could she. Are you alright? What happened? You fainted out of now...
2025-05-28 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostCass rubbed her forehead. She sat on a glass floor. The color was simultaneously burnt orange and midnight purple and entirely unfathomable to her tiny mortal mind.
Looking at it made her headache worse.
Unfortunately, the entire room ...
2025-05-26 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostCass and company were held at the scene for entirely too long. All Cass wanted to do was pass out. Her little campfire wasn’t refilling her Focus nearly fast enough to keep track of everything happening around her now that the adrenaline in her ...
2025-05-24 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostCass felt them long before she saw them. The air alerted her first. A large party of people stormed down the corridors of the Hall of Fortitude. Most humanoid, several draconic.
But it was more than just Atmospheric Sense declaring their app...
2025-05-21 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostCass sagged as the fainted Kohen released her. She didn’t have the energy to catch Ahryn, and he fell off his brother’s shoulder to the ground beside him.
Was that it?
Had she stopped him?
Carefully, she retracted Soul Guard,...
2025-05-19 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostCass kicked at him. She didn’t have the Focus or raw electricity left for skills; it was just whatever her Strength could do.
It did nothing to slow the advance of his phantom hand toward her.
It did nothing to stop the phantom hand ...
2025-05-17 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostEnergy surged through Cass. It was different from a level up, which almost felt like energy washing over her from above. This surged out from her chest, rushing out over her arms and legs and coating her in something warm.
She staggered to h...
2025-05-14 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostCass breathed with relief as the paladin captain staggered under Alyx’s blade and slumped to the ground with a crash of metal on glass.
As he collapsed, the air burst, no longer contained within a small subsection of the temple, the pressu...
2025-05-12 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAlyx's conscience surfaced as she was torn off Kelstor’s back by the paladin captain.
Warning: Too many Concepts. One may only possess 3 Concepts. Please fuse Concepts until you possess 3 or fewer. Refusing ...
2025-05-10 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostFor personal reasons, today's chapter is going to be a few hours late. Expect it in the next two.
Sorry for the delay.
2025-05-10 22:08:03 +0000 UTC View PostAlyx found herself in a garden. The sun overhead hung low on the horizon in a sky painted soft pinks. Flowers filled the beds, their petals a riot of color, their scent sweet in the air. Somewhere nearby was the soft music of birds and the calming...
2025-05-07 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostCass watched in horror as Ahryn’s soul exploded.
One moment, it had been obviously damaged, all but turned inside out. The next, its edges surged until there wasn’t so much a singular core in his chest but instead, his entire body glowed...
2025-05-05 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAhryn’s heartbeat was the loudest thing in the room. The paladin captain stood in front of Emenie. His sword was raised.
And he couldn’t do a thing. The very air held him in place. Like it had turned to stone. Like the weight of an entir...
2025-05-03 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe dragon fire pressed against Cass’s control. It bucked and rolled with an indomitable will, rebuking Elemental Manipulation.
Stamina: 56/141
Focus: 38/549
Health: 70/134 2025-04-30 22:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Alyx carried her momentum into the captain, darting around his side and slashing while he blocked another blade of Cass’s lightning. Her sword bit at the plate, breaching the metal with a spray of blood.
She activated Resonating Blade, and...
2025-04-28 22:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostAlyx charged across the cathedral, aura trailing from her blade, her eyes fixed on the paladin captain. He blocked a sword swing of the demon with a thick metal shield.
The demon’s lightning blade snapped back, darting around the other sid...
2025-04-26 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostCass released the breath caught in her throat as she watched Kohen eviscerate the paladin attacking Ahryn. The boy stumbled back as Kohen rammed his sword through the man’s chest again and again, his phantom hand shooting out and crushing the so...
2025-04-23 22:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostAhryn watched the fight, his heart in his stomach.
He had wanted to help. He had thought this was his chance to help.
Kohen was always helping him. Miss Cass’s encouragement had been unexpected, but all the more dear for it. Emenie w...
2025-04-21 22:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostUp close, Cass could see Kohen under the mutations of the demonic energies. The set of his jaw under the pulsing flesh. The sharpness in the eyes, unmitigated even by the hungry madness. The color of his hair, even streaked with white as it was. 2025-04-19 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
The cathedral was chaos. Kohen and the dragon ripped through paladins like tissue paper, the screams of paladins ringing through the air.
Cass had made a promise. Now, the question was, how did she keep it? How did she avoid killing Alyx and...
2025-04-16 22:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostPellen knelt over her spell array in the storeroom. The sound of dragon roars rumbled through the wall in front of her. Sir Marco remained at his post by the room’s one door.
“I’ll have it ready to send you in just a moment,” Pelle...
2025-04-14 22:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAlyx paced the storeroom as Pellen triple-checked the runes of her teleportation array.
They were as close to the seal space as they could go. Cass was in the space on the other side of the back wall.
Marco leaned up against the room...
2025-04-12 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHow did the blade go through that time? Cass asked.
Behind her, she could hear gasping as Salos’s claws dug into the lightning-stunned lvl-29. Abyss if I know. The kid said I should stab him. I stabbed him.
Cass p...
2025-04-09 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostCass Sprinted across the room.
She had a choice here.
1. Fight alongside the dragon to find an opportunity to one-shot the demon.
2. Sneak around behind the paladin lines and attempt an assassination on the captain.
3. R...
2025-04-07 22:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostSalos, Fairy Fire the demon! Cass said.
The purple flames around her went out, reappearing around the demon.
Every eye fell on it.
The fleeing paladins faltered, all turning and hesitantly approaching. The ones th...
2025-04-05 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post