Three daggers, controlled and propelled by telekinesis, flashed forward. The sharp metal glinting under the sun. To Leif’s sight they were trailed by a thin line of gold.
Leif slapped aside the first, sidestepped the second and let the third impact his shoulder. It did little to stop him, though the dagger penetrated deep in...
2023-08-30 05:14:28 +0000 UTC View PostHera saw. Her perception, honed from her high level archery class, and further enhanced from light magic let her see much further than most of her level. She stood on one foot at the tip of a spear-like pine as she looked over the landscape that had once been the Kingdom of Pherin.
It was a bleak, disturbing reminder ...
2023-08-28 05:11:48 +0000 UTC View PostLeif’s fist rushed through the crisp morning air. He stepped forward, and moved into the next part of the training form. His every strike sent a small rush of wind blowing across the small flat plateau.
He was using [Grand Action] to empower his [Might] attribute. Having spent his nineteen free points on [Charisma] the effec...
2023-08-27 05:04:33 +0000 UTC View PostTwo new classes. Both were very similar in description. Leif was at a loss, which should he pick? [Attuned: Life] or [Adept]?
Both?
Neither?
He knew from pestering both Marcus and Sieg that one of the strongest arguments against filling up all your class slots was that low level classes granted a whole lot of skill...
2023-08-25 05:08:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe night air brushed against the bark that Leif possessed in place of skin. He felt no discomfort, no pain. It took him a moment to adjust to the completion of the trial, his mind soaking in memories of what had transpired.
He just stopped, remaining perfectly still. For over an hour he sat, emotions from within roiled while ...
2023-08-23 05:09:25 +0000 UTC View PostEverything faded away into darkness. One by one the stars winked out and the evening wind stopped blowing. Leif found himself floating in an empty void, it was absent of all defining features or characteristics. As the spriggan tried to concentrate on his new surroundings they once again began to shift.
His mind felt like it w...
2023-08-21 04:58:23 +0000 UTC View Post“Kossia?” Leif asked.
Hera raised an eyebrow and tilted her head. “Oh, you got something to say?”
Leif hesitated. “I know, or rather, I think I knew that name.”
“You?” She asked with heavy scepticism. “Knew me?”
“No. Maybe? I don’t know. I don’t remember who I was.”
She squin...
2023-08-20 05:04:11 +0000 UTC View Post“I normally do the cooking.” The old lady said as she casually walked into the camp. “But it’s Academy policy to teach those on expeditions basic survival skills. You see?”
That makes sense. Leif thought as one by one every pair of eyes around the cooking fire turned to him. Suddenly he was very conscious of the fact he ...
2023-08-18 04:52:03 +0000 UTC View PostLeif didn’t know what to do. Should he do his advancement trial right now? He was currently at the skill threshold and Marcus and Sieg could be gone for a few hours to a few days.
To advance beyond this point you must overcome an advancement trial!
Warning! Advancement trials difficulty is based ...
2023-08-16 05:01:07 +0000 UTC View PostMarcus was dead. Or rather, he felt like he was dead. He drifted in and out of consciousness over the course of several hours. When the memory of what had happened to him bubbled to the surface a soothing presence would chase it away.
Two voices slowly filtered down through the haze. It took him several minutes to focus enough to make out ...
2023-08-14 05:08:31 +0000 UTC View PostIt was three days later and Marcus still hadn’t awoken. According to Sieg, falling into a coma-like state after being extensively healed was common. Leif held his mostly regrown arm up to the sun, the warming rays had been far more comfortable ever since being trapped underground.
He lay in what had once been a wheat field under a blanke...
2023-08-13 04:54:36 +0000 UTC View PostLeif was halfway through constructing a hog pyramid when Sieg emerged from the partially wrecked house. The spriggan had periodically checked on both sleeping humans every other hour.
Both men should be in peak physical condition from what he could tell from their lack of wounds and restored lifeforce. But there was m...
2023-08-12 04:57:56 +0000 UTC View PostAs the sun began to set two humans, a spriggan and two deer walked into a destroyed bar. There was no punch line, or an actual bar for that matter. The building had been split down the middle from a blast of condensed energy.
Fires lit up the night sky, weaving trails of smoke were blown away by the crisp evening wind. If Leif never went u...
2023-08-11 04:45:21 +0000 UTC View PostA clone of shadow scaled the exterior of the devastated temple as Szesis watched through the copy. Both human and spriggan were in rough shape, clearly injured from a life and death battle.
Didn’t I throw two humans down into the Mythhold? There should be another… Oh, there it is.
The second human appeared w...
2023-08-09 04:55:51 +0000 UTC View PostEventually the beams stopped, which disappointed the deer. The light-show had been pretty. As mundane, mostly normal animals the two creatures naturally had no idea what was going on. A sphere seemingly made of the night sky hung suspended a mile over the highest point of Pherin.
Dark blue beams flashed out from insid...
2023-08-06 06:58:31 +0000 UTC View PostAll important discoveries are made when someone says; ‘This is a stupid idea, but let's do it anyway’.
Most spectacular failures are also predated by these exact words but don’t let that stop you from trying!
The first ‘this is a stupid idea’ came from Leif. The spriggan had come to the admittedly correct decis...
2023-08-06 05:01:47 +0000 UTC View PostIt charged.
Marcus called his gauntlet and retreated clockwise around the chamber. Sieg flooded the floor with as much ice as possible then went counter clockwise. The enslaver didn’t care, it charged right through the field of ice, ignored both humans and launched its...
2023-08-05 21:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe trio dashed forward, away from the falling stones and towards the terrifying presence. They would have outrun the collapsing tunnel if every step didn’t feel like wading through malevolent molasses.
A chunk of ceiling fell from above, Leif instinctually tugged at his newest skill. [Gold Iron Physique] activated as two arms of etherea...
2023-08-05 21:13:13 +0000 UTC View Post“Two…” Leif said. After neither man replied for several seconds he hissed and elaborated. “Once… like… you. Person…”
In nervousness he checked the progress of his skill fusion. He had consumed several more lesser mana shards over the thirty minutes they had worked.
Fusion of skills [Gilded Body] and [Iron Fist...
2023-08-04 02:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe trembling had finally, blessedly stopped. The lower levels of the Mythhold seemed to be far more intact than what Leif had traveled through to get this far down. After a few minutes of rest Marcus stood up with a groan.
“I’ll be fine. Can’t use any active skills for a little bit so lets avoid combat if we can.”
Leif and S...
2023-08-02 04:58:58 +0000 UTC View PostGoblins came screeching at the trio from all sides, they rushed forwards over a dozen at a time. Purple bolts of power danced through the oncoming tide, goblins fell one by one, fried by Marcus’s skill.
Frost condensed around Sieg and icy winds whipped through the arena. Leif didn’t have time to pay any more attention to his companions...
2023-08-01 06:02:08 +0000 UTC View PostLetlet watched in awe as what he could only assume were gods did battle in and above the ruined streets of the former human city; Pherin. To witness such glorious displays of power was something he had dreamed of ever since he came crawling out of a half destroyed basement.
That was three months ago but to Letlet it felt like a lifetime. W...
2023-07-31 04:55:08 +0000 UTC View Post“I can’t close the maintenance door. It’s like the whole structure is shutting down.” Marcus said as he held up the door key.
“And you can’t use your skill?” Sieg asked.
“[Create Key] only helps me unlock things I understand, not lock them again.” Marcus sighed. “The tunnels will be flooded full of goblins in no t...
2023-07-30 04:52:19 +0000 UTC View PostSzesis was bored. Not in the ‘I have nothing to do’ way that you probably imagined. But bored in the ‘I have nothing of value to do’ kind of way. He had never been good at waiting, it hadn’t helped that the last few interesting events had given him conflict blue balls.
The two humans he had caught snooping around had bee...
2023-07-30 04:51:58 +0000 UTC View PostLeif flowed from one stance to another. The basic forms flew by and the exercise increased in complexity, speed and overall difficulty. He reached the peak of the intermediate training, from experience if he pushed himself the phantom would ramp up the difficulty again but Leif knew he wasn’t ready.
Instead he worked the movements into h...
2023-07-30 04:51:37 +0000 UTC View PostLeif brooded while he waited for his [Gilded Body] skill to recover after overuse.
Imagine for a moment, that if, whenever you wanted to talk, you had to solve a puzzle cube while balancing on a tightrope. Ok, now imagine something more sensible but equally as challenging. What I’m trying to get across is that it wasn’t easy.
Lei...
2023-07-28 04:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostApparently Marcus and Sieg had a campsite set up in one of the previous chambers the two men had explored in the few days they had been exploring the underground complex. They had given Leif directions and told him they would leave the tunnel doorways open.
Sieg grumbled about ‘trusting a monster’ but he didn’t seem to care enough to...
2023-07-26 23:40:06 +0000 UTC View Post