Cass followed the Priest of Fortitude deeper into the temple. Inside was made of the same glass bricks, most the opaque blue that had dominated the outside, though certain hallways leading off the main one took other colors. The colors of the othe...
2025-01-22 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostCass heard little in the tavern that she didn’t already know. All the gossip was about the Festival, which, in retrospect, wasn’t surprising.
The expectation among the populous was Alyx, as Major Blessing Holder, and Fioreya, as Al...
2025-01-20 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostAlyx pushed her way through the streets of the lower city. It was already busy despite the sun barely rising over the horizon. Already, Festival goers were celebrating. Or perhaps, still celebrating from the previous night? The smell of alcohol wa...
2025-01-18 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostNight had long and truly fallen before Cass stepped into the tiny closet of a bedroom. The smell of must and alcohol battled for dominion of the space. The only furniture was a single bed and a chest at the foot. The room was only wide enough for ...
2025-01-15 23:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostCass followed Alyx out of the city. They’d sent Marco and Telis ahead with made-up tasks. It hadn’t fooled either of them, but they also hadn’t argued or pried into why Cass and Alyx were… at odds.
Early evening descended over ...
2025-01-13 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAlyx led them to a simple two-story building with an enclosed front yard.
“Tabith, I hope you're—” she stopped mid-sentence as they entered.
Inside was a homey shop, made of warm-toned stone, proudly displaying numero...
2025-01-11 23:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostCass lay on the bed staring at the ceiling and her stats window.
Stamina: 138/138
Focus: 549/549
Health: 101/133
The value had increased in the last 3 d...
2025-01-08 23:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostCass groaned as a beam of sunlight peaked between the curtains of her window and shone into her face. She rolled over, curling into a ball and dragging the comforter over her head.
“Salos,” she mumbled, “Is there any chance I can convi...
2025-01-06 23:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAlyx didn’t really remember the rest of her conversation with Cass. It was all a blur after Cass had confirmed Salos was a demon.
She walked down the halls of her house, the passageways passing in a blur.
That cat was a d...
2025-01-04 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, that went well,” Alyx said as she fell back onto Cass’s sitting room couch.
Cass raised an eyebrow. Had it? “Really?”
Alyx nodded.
“You call that well?” Cass repeated.
“Sure, Kohen didn’...
2025-01-01 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe Warden
(lvl 41)
[Keeper of the secrets of the Vaisom duchy and its past. Few know as much as he of the inner workings of Vaisom. His combat skills are considerable despite his lack of dragon.]
<... 2024-12-30 23:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThat evening, the banquet was held in the family manor rather than the palace. Cass came down dressed in the borrowed robes Telis had provided. They were a gorgeous sapphire blue, with voluminous sleeves and embroidered with silver stitching and g...
2024-12-28 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostStill, she wasn’t entirely without leads. For one, there was the Keeper’s Core they’d collected in the Catacombs.
Cass pulled it from her Bag. The orb glistened in the firelight, a sea of misty stars within.
Salos sat...
2024-12-25 23:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostTelis, Alyx’s butler, awaited them when they exited the coliseum. She stood at easy attention, her hands folded in front of her, her suit neat and pressed.
Cass wasn’t even surprised. While she might have raced over at the commotio...
2024-12-23 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostA roar of excitement met Cass and company as they stepped out of the Velillia Catacombs and into the stadium. The crowds were packed and cheering from the stands, their voices a physical force over the arena.
An announcer yelled over t...
2024-12-21 23:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe trip back was slow but uneventful. The monsters were notably fewer now than they had been going down, a side effect of so many other teams of divers clearing the path as they searched for treasure in side rooms.
If Cass’s Health ...
2024-12-07 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostPellen’s heart pounded as she walked away from Lady Alyx’s party. The danger should be minimal at this stage. Lady Alyx and company had just fought their way through those floors. It should be safe.
And, she was with the dependable...
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2024-12-04 21:37:25 +0000 UTC View PostPellen accepted her blessing without fanfare. It happened instantaneously. Apparently, Cass’s blessing had been just as quick from Alyx’s perspective.
They climbed back up the stairs, Pellen humming happily to herself.
...
2024-12-02 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
We’re getting very near to the end of Book 2! I can hardly believe we’re already here. Thank you all for accompanying me and Cass on this journey. There are just 3 more chapters (not including today’s).
The last ...
2024-11-30 23:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostOver a day later, they finally left the closet they’d camped in. Cass’s health was only up to 16, and she felt it. There was a hollowness to her. Like something integral had been scooped out of her. Like she was a ghost among the living. ...
2024-11-30 23:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostCass came to on the floor with a pounding headache and a deep-seated exhaustion.
Oh, she’d passed out again.
She sat up and immediately regretted it. The whole world spun around her. Her body was heavy, and there was a soreness...
2024-11-27 23:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSalos did not wait for Alyx to finish her business with Alacrity. He’d done as Cass wanted, kept her safe up to the altar, and now it was time to do as he wanted, which was to hurry back to Cass’s side.
He Stealthed across the chasm, not...
2024-11-25 23:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAlyx ran from beam to beam, leaping with all her Strength and Dexterity over the gapping chasm below her.
They were in a long room.
Far behind her was the door leading back up the stairs to Cass and Fioreya. Marco waited there wi...
2024-11-23 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostShe just didn’t have enough resources left to stop Fioreya.
If she just had more Focus, she could throw down a Confounding Mists. It needed about 100 to activate and then more to further redirect her opponents within. What was that? ...
2024-11-20 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThere was just one problem with her plan: it required coordination with Pellen. Coordination Cass did not have the freedom to arrange.
If she could just pull away from the swordswoman long enough, maybe she could. But Fioreya’s sword...
2024-11-18 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostFioreya’s swordswoman was a head taller than Cass, if not more. Frozen in shock below the woman’s arrested sword, it felt like much more.
She wore crimson plate armor. A serpent was etched into the plates, winding up her body. It w...
2024-11-16 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostAlyx and Fioreya stared at one another, neither moving. Behind the other noblewoman, her team gathered, all as ichor stained but none particularly winded.
Vaisom Fang (Lvl 32)
Vaisom Swordsman (lvl 3...
2024-11-13 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThey ran down the halls. The lights flickered on and then off again as they ran past under the effects of Salos’s Abyssal Aura.
Cass, who had begun at the back of the group, had quickly caught up with Alyx at the front. Marco brought...
2024-11-11 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostCass struck down spirit after spirit, every sweep of her staff destroying two or three or more. Yet they kept coming.
Above her, she could feel the first golem shaking, pressing free from the bindings Pellen held it in.
Mar...
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