I leaned to get a better view of the chamber, and there they were, wriggling like maggots in a pool of blood and ash—the jailors that survived the chain explosions. The floor near them looked like a work of modern art, shit. Just a bunch of colorful splashes surrounding broken objects. The objects referring to their broken bodies and pieces of...
2025-08-04 17:49:59 +0000 UTC View Post“Wait! No, no, no!” I tried to stop what I had set in motion, but the runes were already forming to name my repaired wand anew.
Jackpot
Rank: Unique
Type: Remembrance
Description: Once the favoured weapon of a soldier whose wail of doom still echoes in the depths of its core, now the first step fo...
2025-08-01 11:19:00 +0000 UTC View PostI swallowed, hard, and let my fingers brush against the ominously crimson threads of the weave. They flashed in response to my touch and I almost fell off the stool as I recoiled back, shielding my face with my arms. The threads didn’t explode like I feared. The flash was more like a warning than anything. A warning that they could blow me up ...
2025-07-31 17:17:14 +0000 UTC View PostI stood up and dusted off my pants. My clothes had held up remarkably well despite me exploding myself multiple times. Well, my pants and armor had in any case. One of my shirt’s arms had ripped clean off, revealing the entirety of my charred hand.
The more I got used to it, the less naked I felt when it was out in the open. I’m ...
2025-07-28 15:07:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Come out you fucking thing!” I hissed. “I’m in no mood for games.”
The statue was quiet, no rustling could be heard, no cracking, no sounds, no nothing.
Why can't anything in this place leave me alone?
I crept forward, once more climbing atop the statue’s shoulders and looking inside the broken face....
2025-07-25 21:06:10 +0000 UTC View PostHey ya'll. Just a quick update. I've got a wisdom tooth coming and it's gotten inflamed to hell so I've been struggling with keeping focus. Hopefully some antibiotics and painkillers will get me writing again from tomorrow onwards! Looking forward to picking up the pace again.
As always, thank you for the support and patience.
P.S. I...
2025-07-23 21:04:19 +0000 UTC View PostI growled, pushing against the strain on my breast. “What do you mean?!”
No answer, again.
I weighed my options. Nine jailors, four seconds. That meant in the best case scenario I’d be locked against one in a close quarter fight. And I didn’t like my chances should that happen. I clenched my jaw and coated my arm ...
2025-07-20 14:18:17 +0000 UTC View Post“There’s no time for heroics!” Nea barked. We zoomed past my old cell. The others weren’t more than ten meters ahead of me, the jailors about twenty behind.
“There’s no other choice!” Samuel retorted.
Something had to be done. But without a way to safely detonate my dynamite threads I was shit out of luck. A...
2025-07-15 14:47:03 +0000 UTC View PostIn hollow halls where silence weeps,
The Jailors tread, their vigil deep.
Chains of old and tongues of lies,
They bound the storm that scorched the skies.
The Wayward Daughter, flame unbound,
Walked alone, beneath no shroud.
Her voice was thunder, her wrath the sea,
But truth, it seems, breeds heresy.
2025-07-11 13:38:42 +0000 UTC
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“What the hell!” Samuel yelped and staggered into the kneeling John. John moved like a whirlwind, turning to catch the teen before they both fell onto the corpse. He was the first person I’d ever seen with a speed blessing, and watching it made me feel… things. I had cool explosive strings, but John moved like the characters in a video t...
2025-07-11 13:30:27 +0000 UTC View PostI glanced down at the others, Samuel and John clutched at their weapons like their lives depended on it.
“There’s no telling what we’ll see from here, be ready for everything,” I said.
The two nodded seriously while Nea feigned indifference. Her eyes darted around, the flush on her cheeks paled, her hands shook. S...
2025-07-10 21:28:23 +0000 UTC View PostI blinked to make sure I wasn’t seeing things. The description had grown, and by a lot. There was a lot to unpack. Firstly, the weaver seemed to be a lot more powerful than I had thought. Secondly, I still controlled the threads despite my blessing being changed to another thing altogether.
Shaper? What the fuck is shaper? I rea...
2025-07-10 19:40:32 +0000 UTC View PostAs usual, Hugo was silent. He smiled and nodded at the passer-bys, but didn’t offer many words to them either. When we walked past Samuel, he stopped for a beat, and shared one of those handshakes by the wrist. Then Hugo pulled him close and said something only Sam could hear. He gave Sam a pat on the back and chuckled as we left him behind.&n...
2025-07-08 17:41:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe doctor did not die.
That much was sure as soon as I woke up. My surroundings were kind of similar to the ones I had blacked out in, but at the same time, vastly different. For starters, there were no windows in this damn room, nor was I stuck to a bed in one of the cubicles. No. This was a cell. I knew it from just the smell of d...
2025-07-07 22:53:51 +0000 UTC View PostThey had been killing people here. Our people.
I had no idea what kind of use the hospital served for them. All I knew for a fact was that these corpses were people from earth. They were blessed.
My grip around the weapons tightened. This was wrong, so very wrong. There was no rhyme or reason to the madness. Did ...
2025-07-07 13:43:37 +0000 UTC View PostWhile I am focusing on Blessed wholeheartedly I often work on new ideas as well. Would you like me to post the "pilot" chapters of these future stories here?
2025-07-07 12:31:03 +0000 UTC View PostHis breath fogged up against the window as he leaned in close to peer through the rain of soot. The uppermost part of it ajar, so as to let him shoot without obstruction.
I pressed my cheek against the wand and magnified my vision. His patchwork grin came into view, most of his figure was obscured by the blowing curtain, but I immedi...
2025-07-07 11:53:57 +0000 UTC View PostJohn did a good job in diverting their attention away from the amphitheater, the horde followed him like a cohesive tail, trailing throughout the streets. He made sure to skirt the library and the plaza, so as to not draw any unwanted ire.
Even from where I stood, hundreds of meters away, I could see the flames burning in their eye s...
2025-07-04 22:19:44 +0000 UTC View PostJoanna, Samara, and a man I hadn’t yet met sat opposite of each other at a round table, they all had a cup of something in front of them. I inched closer and had a peek inside Joanna’s. She studied my careful approach with a hushed giggle. “It’s just water.”
I scratched my neck and smiled sheepishly. “This is Hugo,” Joanna sa...
2025-07-04 13:44:04 +0000 UTC View PostMy heart raced, I glanced at the door left ajar. “Eh, are you sure?”
“I swear to God I’ll slap you.”
That meant a lot coming from a preachers daughters. I gulped and began the arduous process of climbing out of the armour, then unsummoned it. “Sorry.”
The veil around me shuddered and swirled. It ...
2025-07-04 00:24:10 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s right!” I exclaimed.
“Uh, Cal?” he said nervously.
“What?”
“You look like a hobo.”
***
“Oh, and did you know that penguins in a nesting colony keep their neighbours at a very precise distance? Not close enough that the neighbour’s can flirt with their mate, but a...
2025-07-02 23:08:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe armour embraced me snugly, it was quite comfortable. I wasn’t sure about the look though. It made me look like I had just escaped a mental asylum, so walking around town with it on probably wasn’t going to happen.
Not that the day of my return felt like it was getting any closer.
I still bled from the stab wounds ...
2025-07-01 23:45:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe hag’s body fell to the floor like a lifeless heap. Her head skittered across the floor, leaving bloody stains wherever it bounced, only to end up at my feet. It turned, slowly, to stop with its face turned to me. Her eyes had been closed at the moment of death, otherwise I feared I’d have to live with seeing her face every time I closed ...
2025-06-30 23:27:50 +0000 UTC View PostMy lovely patrons,
I'm just writing this post to tell you that I'm making some changes to the early chapters on royalroad. I was made aware of a gaping plot hole that I didn't want to let rest. I literally let Cal sleep for a night when in the middle of a jail break.
The updates will be live in an hour or so. It will mostly impact ...
2025-06-30 09:04:59 +0000 UTC View PostMy knife was stuck neatly in the hags chest, lodged between the fingers of a hand fastened to her body. She was covered in them. They stuck to her like an armour of flesh. Her unnaturally long arms dragged across the floor as she staggered backward. Her luminously blonde hair slumped to the side, a pink hue peeking forward from underneath. ...
2025-06-29 22:37:32 +0000 UTC View PostIt hadn’t been so apparent before; now the stench of iron stung at my nose. “Keep looking,” I urged Yusuf as much as myself. “There has to be something we missed.”
He kept dry heaving as he prodded around behind the dolls. I wouldn’t have fared better if I weren’t already fuelled by a life long hatred against the damn t...
2025-06-29 00:21:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Why?!” I exclaimed and stared at my feet. Piles of bones filled the room like eerie stone altars, the ones that vikings left. One side of the room had shelves with dolls. Bald ones. The other had wigs for said bald dolls. The wigs rested on white pillows with wine red embroidery.
I shivered and averted my eyes, staring at my feet.
... 2025-06-28 20:49:34 +0000 UTC View PostFor the first time in forever I dreamt—not about hugs, kisses and roses, but of the damned jailor and his lagging footsteps chasing me through the streets of the abandoned city. I dreamt of faces staring lifelessly at me through windows lining the never-ending alleys, never helping despite my pleas. I dreamt of the first stumbler I killed, of ...
2025-06-27 16:36:02 +0000 UTC View PostI coughed. “What do you mean?”
How the fuck did she know? Sera was supposed to be hidden, right? She never explicitly said that was the case, I just assumed.
This can’t be happening.
My throat dried up like a grape left in the sun. Then it hit me. Maybe my nervousness was her doing. She could have for...
2025-06-24 13:21:19 +0000 UTC View Post“What… what did you call her?” John asked. His expression softened with confusion.
I cleared my throat. “Eh, Mirror girl?”
“My name is Nea!” she growled. Colour streamed back to her face as his grip loosened.
“Great, well, I didn’t know that. I just damn well got here, and you’re not the mo...
2025-06-23 15:23:43 +0000 UTC View Post