The Academy ceremony was in full swing. Sera watched intently as participants, who had spent the entire year preparing for this moment, poured everything they had into the power test.
To the onlookers in the stands, it was little more than an exhilarating spectacle, a grand colosseum where the younger generation showcased their talents. Pass or fail, it was all entertainment—an opportunity to witness budding mages and warriors wield their abilities and magic in a bid to secure a passi...
2025-02-02 10:08:55 +0000 UTC
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Dropping this here as some people have had troubles accessing book 2 chapters on patreon.
2025-02-02 10:00:24 +0000 UTC
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He turned to Frank and said, “You and Elian stay close.”
Frank nodded, his face grim but determined. Elian gave a hesitant thumbs up, his hand shaking slightly. Owen could tell he wasn’t as confident as the others, but there was no time to comfort him.
Justin took a step forward, his expression hardening into a determined scowl. “Stay low and keep moving. I’ll take care of the golems.”
Without another word, Justin darted ahead, slipping into the shadows once more...
2024-11-26 18:24:31 +0000 UTC
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At some point, Owen had placed Frank down onto the shelf. He used the fire in his palms to cauterize the devastating wound at his front and back. For any normal man, the injury would have killed him in minutes, if not seconds. But Frank was no ordinary man. He must be from a Lineage family.
It had taken them well over forty minutes of careful walking and shimmying to descend the cliff. They were left with just one more flight of stairs, and they would reach the bottom. But Justin ...
2024-11-25 17:54:38 +0000 UTC
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They pressed onward. Five minutes stretched into twenty, yet the passageways showed no variation. Beige rock walls formed an endless, oppressive monotony, devoid of features. Owen kept his focus on Justin, their only hope of finding the correct path through the labyrinth. He trusted him—implicitly.
But the same could not be said for the others. Doubt crept into their expressions, building with every step. The survivors exchanged uneasy glances, their nervous energy palpable...
2024-11-20 19:32:27 +0000 UTC
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Chunks of rock rained down from above, fracturing into jagged shards as they struck the ground. Owen shielded himself with his bare arms, the fragments bouncing harmlessly off his hardened frame. Around him, the others scrambled to defend themselves. Shields were raised, abilities flared to life, and energy blasts cut through the falling debris. They survived, each in their own way, but not with the ease Owen did.
Justin, as always, was untouched. He danced through the chaos,...
2024-11-18 21:26:55 +0000 UTC
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“Hi Elian, it’s nice to meet you,” Owen said, letting go of the man’s hand.
“You must be a Lineage given those fancy Fragments,” Justin said over Owen’s shoulder. “Strange. I’ve never heard of you.”
So he’s a human from Justin’s Earth? Or rather, the novel’s Earth…
Elian chuckled. “I’m just from a recent Lineage family. I would be surprised if you knew me. But you should know my father? Aaron Ash. He...
2024-11-14 17:45:19 +0000 UTC
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The week was over faster than he expected. He spent most of his time finalising everything from the farm, to the buildings, to the mines, to the defences. He left no stone unturned.
On the last day, they had an enormous pyre near nightfal. Clark the Cook had spent the entire day whipping up an enormous feast. Along with fresh cheese from Coo, and glistening fruits from Bimpnottin’s garden, it was a spread worthy of kings.
Everyone feasted until they c...
2024-11-14 17:44:53 +0000 UTC
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Upon returning, Owen was met with a cacophony of jubilation and celebration. The air buzzed with cheers, the weary sighs of relief, and the warm embrace of his people's gratitude. But beneath it all, Owen didn’t feel like a victor. The weight of loss clung to him, pressing down with an unforgiving force.
The first thing he did was pay his respects to the fallen—those brave souls who had laid down their lives defending the fledgling kingdom he had carved from the unforgiving sands. T...
2024-11-11 15:10:42 +0000 UTC
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Owen ignored it for now. What he was doing was risky; risking his life for a few extra credits. But there was something inside that couldn’t be obtained with just raw currency.
Coming to the protected stone door, Owen paused. It was protected by various traps and enchantments. If he was to brute force it down now, he didn’t want to imagine what would happen to him. Maybe his current Vitality would resist the magic… but that wasn’t something he was willing to risk. He ...
2024-11-11 15:10:10 +0000 UTC
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Lord Emblem — Strategic Command Network: Establishes a telepathic link with all Units within a 50-mile radius, allowing instantaneous communication of orders and updates.
Passive Bonus: Increases reaction speed of Units by 15% when executing commands sent through the link.
Owen’s brows rose at the Emblem. No wonder Jonah was able to order attacks from so far away. 50 miles… It sounded like a massive amount, and i...
2024-11-07 18:21:40 +0000 UTC
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Four days had passed, and Owen was seated with the rest of his team—and a few extra he had become friends with.
Cruz was one of the newest additions to the castle. He had stumbled upon it with his own team, although they had lost the majority of them to the monsters lurking in the deep sands. He was a tall man, bald, and incredibly strong. Because of his thick muscles, Media might have led others to believe he was a fearsome warrior, but he wasn’t. He was an archer. An ar...
2024-11-06 13:53:00 +0000 UTC
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Warning: Gruesome content.
“Jin,” May said, rushing over. “Stay calm, I’m here. No one can hurt you.” Her voice, just like in the other world, soothed his worries.
Her hand brushed his hair, fingers sifting through his long locks. He felt the tingle on his scalp, his tensed shoulders lowered. “Was it the same nightmare again?”
Jin nodded, face in hands. “It was finally the night to reach the second tier. The tier of the Marionettes Whisper. You s...
2024-11-05 14:37:52 +0000 UTC
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I've been really ill these past few days and haven't been able to write anything. However, I have a chapter one of a story I wrote a while ago. It's not much, but it's something. I'll be resting a couple more days and then I'll be back, hopefully well rested and rejuvenated. Thanks everyone!
Chapter 1:
The City of Eldritch Lights was a nightmare given form, a twisted carnival under a sky forever cloaked in shadow. Lanterns of unnatural hues—violent violets, festering greens, da...
2024-11-04 15:26:34 +0000 UTC
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The moment the sand seeped down into the stone like water through soil, Owen and his team rushed as fast as their legs took them to the mountain. They were too late, the serpents dominated the high ground above—but Owen expected that.
Owen kicked up a storm of sand, sending it tumbling up the hill. Rehan, with his radar ability, guided Draed and Gorath’s long range capabilities to devastating effect. Lightning struck through the sand cloud, reaching its target, electricit...
2024-10-31 17:52:43 +0000 UTC
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They were brought to a large room in the cellar of the castle. Old marks lined the wall that may have been where wine racks had been situated. Whatever had been sitting there, had been longed lot long before. If it were wood, then they’d have used it for fuel for fires.
At least thirty or so beds had now taken their place. Beds was putting it nicely. All they had done was create a rectangle border, then put sand into it, covered it with leaves from a specific cactus, then c...
2024-10-25 19:33:30 +0000 UTC
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Paul would have liked to say that the trek back was an easy one. But it wasn’t. Even with a Hellmarcher lurking, powerful monsters stalked the Rot. So, Paul did what he did best—slathered himself in muck. Thanks to that, he managed to get back to the frontier—the gate that led into the Underpit.
A little distance away, he carefully stashed away the radiation core in amongst a pile of trash. It was too close to the gate for anything here to be scavenged. It was as safe a place as a...
2024-10-24 17:21:43 +0000 UTC
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“I’ll pretend you didn’t say that,” Owen replied.
“Why not?” Larian scanned the people of his kingdom. Many were busy with tasks of their own within the streets; skinning, butchering, or training their swordsmanship.
Owen noticed that indeed, most of them were humans, like Owen. In other words, they were Lord Candidates. Those that had managed to stay alive to now, were no doubt powerful warriors in their own right. They fought day-by-day.&n...
2024-10-24 17:06:37 +0000 UTC
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With the sun transforming the skyline into a gorgeous orange, Owen may have once wanted to sit down and watch it set. But now it signalled something that only raised too many questions, and brought with it the sign of doom. Night.
Owen and his team cautiously made their way up the mountain pass. He knew it was dangerous, knew that if they travelled too far, then lives may be lost. But he also knew that he needed information. That sinking feeling in his stomach only grew...
2024-10-23 19:52:45 +0000 UTC
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Xianxia meets Warhammer 40k meets… Sports?
In the toxic wasteland of the Rot, Rai Jin Paul is an Expendable, fused with a cockroach and sent to die, regenerate, and die again to make a meagre living.
Above, the cultivators reign supreme, led by the unstoppable Hellmarchers in their mechs. But Paul refuses to be crushed. To escape the Rot and enter Sanctuary, the legendary cultivators’ city, he must master radiation qi and fight through a brutal sporting tournament w...
2024-10-22 18:00:05 +0000 UTC
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“Gorath,” Owen shouted above the twanging of bow strings and war cries, “focus your attention on the left, they’re going to break through!”
Gorath listened. He shoved an archer to the side as he summoned his powerful lightning, and fired it into where the serpent troops were the thickest. Although he didn’t use Chain Lightning, and a result of that was only one of the beast’s falling, the latent static still affected those around it, slowing them down.
2024-10-22 17:57:36 +0000 UTC
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“A price?” Hassan asked, sighing. “It won’t be cheap, will it?”
Rehan smiled. “Nah, it won’t.” Rehan laid out the terms. Ten fragments and five Spectres. On all accounts, it was an enormous amount—depending on the grade of them, that was. For the Fragments, at least 5 of them had to be of Apprentice quality, and two had to be of Adept.
Hassan grit his teeth, and so did the others. Hassan said, “That’s not something I can decide on ...
2024-10-21 18:06:00 +0000 UTC
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Hassan appeared confused. “You know me?”
With a thought, Dune’s Crest vanished from his face, revealing himself to the others. Hassan’s eyes widened. “Owen, it’s you?”
Owen grinned. “Who else would it be?”
“I would never have guessed,” Hassan said in surprise, a small smile curling from his lips.
Owen chuckled. “I had an inkling. I knew there was something familiar about you, I just couldn’t put my f...
2024-10-18 19:34:46 +0000 UTC
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Owen admired Pyris’s ability. “What monster are you having problems with?” Owen asked, wanting to pry some information from the man. If what he said was true, that they had been tasked to brave the deserts in hopes of finding anyone to help them… then the situation was truly dire. And only one monster really reared its ghastly visage in his head.
Sandskewers. The monster Ansel would unleash. If it was them, then Owen understood their desperation. There was nowhere to ...
2024-10-17 18:53:52 +0000 UTC
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You have plundered Tess Rontmore
| Skills gained — Divine Resilience: One's body is constantly infused with holy energy, passively increasing his natural health regeneration by a small amount, especially in the presence of sunlight.
| Spectre gained: Tess Rontmore
Owen stood up in a daze. He did it. He clutched at his heart, his soul. He felt a new apparition to his body flare into exi...
2024-10-14 17:16:53 +0000 UTC
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Three days had passed since Rehan and the others had left, and the sun was now high in the afternoon sky. Owen had spent the entire time tirelessly overseeing the transformation of the mountain into a stronghold. With the help of his builders, the once-rough interior had become something of a palace carved into the colossal rock.
At the mountain’s entrance, a newly erected wall stood 25 feet tall, curving in a massive semi-circle with thick battlements crowning the top. High up, large...
2024-10-10 18:11:00 +0000 UTC
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Most of the tickets Owen used ranged from 1-Star to 3-Stars. Only one knight was a 4-Star, a tall woman from the Rok’Ta giant race named Galina Stoneshield. Her face looked like it was carved from stone, with sharp angles and a bluish tint to her skin. Standing nearly 8 feet tall, she was a frightening sight.
She held a longsword that was probably meant for two hands, but she wielded it easily in one. What really caught Owen's attention, though, was the shield she carried—a massive ...
2024-10-10 18:10:35 +0000 UTC
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You have plundered The Grinning Devil x1.
| Claimed materials: Summoning Tickets: 4x Warrior, 5x Hunters, 3x Knights, 1x General.
| Stats gained: 15 Strength, 20 Vitality, 5 Dexterity, Magic 20, Mana 10
| Skills gained —
Symbiotic Surge: Connect to a host and empower them with your Mana and Vitality, making them stronger. When the host dies, depending o...
2024-10-08 18:38:02 +0000 UTC
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You have plundered Claire Amonette x1.
| You have defeated a Lord with land. You have gained all of the Lord’s Units.
| Claimed materials: Summoning Ticket 2x Warrior, Claire Amonette’s Meat and Organs x11 (Normal), Claire Amonette’s Bones x14 (Normal).
| Stats gained: 2 Strength, 4 Vitality, 8 Dexterity.
| Skills gained —
Condensed Muscl...
2024-10-07 16:14:59 +0000 UTC
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Rolling to a stop, Owen brandished his sword, ready for an attack. But he paused, eyes locked onto an old, malnourished man. His head was dipped down, displaying his bald head that had black markings that looked eerily similar to a wide smile. If Owen hadn’t noticed a trace of breath, he would have thought the man dead.
The room was floored with dark grey tiles. Four massive pillars made of the same kind of rock were situated around the room, holding it up.
...
2024-10-07 16:13:38 +0000 UTC
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