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CH 154: Teach

Hugo winced, wrists twisting sideways as his face contorted with marks of concentration. Veins bulged on his body - and one near his forehead looked ready to pop.

He let out a small grunt, and Reid felt his attempt falter and fade in an instant. Reid breathed a bit deeper with the slight pressure around his body gone. Hugo had improved aga...

CH 153: Circle

Reid was frozen. His palms were clammy. His pulse thrummed in his ears as he hyperventilated, and he started to summon his knife.

Hugo was a good person.

Hugo could crush souls.

He could attack them directly, and that meant he had Reid in the palm of his hand. Reid's mind went through every worst-case scenario, and ca...

CH 152: Seen

+ Reid +

One month.

It had taken a solid four weeks, twenty-nine days, if his math was right, before Reid was properly recovered. He knew from the start that he'd lived through the battle - there was no way he would have been in that much pain if he were dead. Recovery felt far slower than it was. His days consisted ...

CH 151: Zoom In

)+\( Hugo )/+(

Vidita looked between different sets of footprints in the dirt, and frowned.

"I'm still not good at this, you know. We could be chasing people that left months ago."

Hugo shook his head. "I have seen the glimmer of a group of souls on the horizon. Be not dismayed. We are not in a fruitless chase....

CH 150: Zoom Out

<//| Fozz |\\>

Old oak with ornate carvings covered the room. It was present in the multiple benches and tables for the involved parties, it made up the rather uncomfortable chair he found himself sitting in, and it was the looming wall that the central judiciary perched upon.

The central judge leaned back and ...

CH 149: Monstrous

A moment stretched where neither side moved.

The trio, armorless but armed, were a few feet inside the stone structure. The doorway was only wide enough for a single person, but Reid could make out other sets of burgundy armor behind the one that had ripped off the door. The one in front had dark red, stippled skin and a wide, flat nose th...

CH 148: Glow

Every step was a war. Every movement was pain. Magma found gaps in his armor and Reid's nostrils filled with the smell of his melting flesh. He roared and pushed forward through it all, one eye trained on his destination. Agonizing seconds passed by as Reid neared the crescent pool of magma.

It bubbled, disturbed by the activity the Duke h...

CH 147: Duke

The crab-like Duke stood nearly motionless on the surface of the volcano. It didn't shift or move, even when Reid had taken a misstep down the interior slope and caused a small series of rocks to clack into one another. Now that he thought about it, he hadn't seen any ears on the thing - maybe it didn't have them.

Air was too hot and too d...

CH 146: Full Kit

With every step, the heat and the smell intensified. Reid stopped near the summit, but he found himself still sweating after an hour of rest and recovery. No environment so far had caused him this much trouble - aside from not being able to breathe inside the turtle's pond. The air only became more choked as he reached the lip of the volcano. 2025-06-20 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

CH 145: Number 9

Seeing Norton excel as soon as he held the right tools had shifted something within Reid's realm of understanding. He heavily relied on his power, dexterity, and skill resistances. That was true in fights themselves, but also in everyday actions. The way he'd connected his threadspace and library was directly tied to how those spaces interacted ...

CH 144: Outlet

Reid's scream carried a knot of frustrated emotions with it, and his mace whipped hard into the hooked claw of a deep red insect. The dog-sized creature just made more ominous clicks with its mandibles and tried to strike him with a different arm.

This hadn't been a good fight.

Each of the Queen's 'honor guard' were large, r...

CH 143: Taste

Reid awoke to a stick poking his shin.

"...has to be. So he's not right. He still hasn't reacted."

"He said he might scream, though, and then he did. So maybe this is normal?"

"Oh yeah, flat normal for wounded men to scream for hours and then not wake up for three days. Come on, Brinkha, use your head. No one screams like that ...

CH 142: Icebox

-/-)) Travis ((-\-

There had been a crack there, and a evidence of a bloody gash underneath. He was sure of it.

But the blood was gone - or hidden behind armor that didn't look as fractured and broken as it had when he'd first seen the man. His eyes scanned over the downed form, and widened.

Damage he ...

CH 141: Pests

+ Reid +

Reid batted a green hornet away with his bare Palm. The impact sent bits of bug guts spraying over him and his surroundings.

He was getting so many kill notifications now, he had to ignore them entirely. He let his swinging hand whip forward, and was rewarded with a few more kills and a handful of injured in...

CH 140: Swarm

The 'beast lord' this time around wasn't a single creature, but a colony. A tree towered twice as high as any other near it, and an absolutely massive hornet's nest hung from an unnaturally thick and straight branch.

Smoke clung heavy to the air, but did little to deter the keyboard-sized insects that flew down to intercept the hive's atta...

CH 139: Competition

-/-)) Travis ((-\-

He slammed a palm onto the table in excitement. The force of his strike left an indent in the weaker metal, compete with the outline of his good fingers.

Travis needed this. His people needed this.

Weeks of fighting beasts had taken a number of combatants from his forces, and weakened morale....

CH 138: Range

Reid spat out another few grains of sand, then went back to work with the carving knife. The naturally mottled pale blue skin separated and peeled back as Reid sliced through to the relatively thin layer of meat. Most of the thing's insides were organs, but he had committed himself to preserving as much of the creature's edible contents as h...

CH 137: Hunters

)+\( Hugo )/+(

Waiting before he went back to camp would've been the smart thing. Coming up with something to tell them all instead of trying to explain himself on the spot would have been wise. Eliminating the other patrolling spies would've been his best choice.

Instead, he'd woken, groggy - and powerful - and foll...

CH 136: Tunnel Vision

+ Reid +

Connection.

Reid didn't know how he was going to do it, but he could sense possibility.

He pulled the spring down in a diagonal from the paver. There was something there that felt... correct was the wrong word. It was truth, and confidence. Reid knew what he wanted to keep ou...

CH 135: Elastic

Reid dove into himself, eager and ready for a new challenge - a puzzle to solve. He put himself into his threadspace, and took a few moments to survey the winding tangles that stretched farther than he could perceive. Reid doubted that he would be able to catalogue everything in there even if he had thousands of years to do so. Sufficiently remi...

CH 134: Looks Like Rain

-/-)) Travis ((-\-

They'd been close.

Close enough that one of the carcasses hadn't quite yet decayed. Close enough that rain hadn't fully washed away the remains of a campfire. The barbarian had spent time in that place, likely taking time to whittle down the massive number of beasts that were found in the ...

CH 133: Progress Point

Reid's pulse thrummed in his ears. He scanned the text twice, then did it again.

You have defeated Beast Lord, Branching Terror [Elder Drus] - lvl 43. Experience Awarded (+400,000 xp) (+120,000 xp)

Questline Stage Completed: The Beast Lords - (Stage 5 of 10)
Secret Challenge Completed: Took No Losses in St...