Valens sprang forward, Light Feet carrying him toward the whistling tendrils, onward through the broken ground, breath rasping in his chest. Nearly ten Wards were wriggling at the back of the Necromancer, stretched in a row like a score of highly disciplined soldiers.
Except these creatures had dozens of spear-like limbs, and this close to...
2025-03-09 15:16:27 +0000 UTC View Post“Maggots and worms,” the Necromancer hissed with a voice like snakes slithering over the wet, muddy ground. “Skittering through the wilds, too blind to see the path, insisting still on the old ways, flailing deep in the mud. This world needs not men like you anymore. Your false Gods lived too long in their forged peace, but the end i...
2025-03-09 12:42:47 +0000 UTC View PostRain started pouring in thick, slimy droplets from the ceiling, full of Necromancer’s filthy magic, hissing against the touch of any living thing, seeping through the skeletons’ bones like a lifeline tailored to reinvigorate the fallen.
Mountains of lifeless bones stirred and shifted before Valens’s eyes. They were being made whole y...
2025-03-09 12:40:32 +0000 UTC View PostBurning flames, and the scorching heat. Down in his back. Hot against his face. Bright, blooming light of the Lightmaster in his veins couldn’t stop him from feeling it as tongues of it lashed at the Necromancer’s horde. Leaving the Skeletons rotless and senseless in the din. Forcing the giant beasts back and back again.
In the t...
2025-03-09 12:35:56 +0000 UTC View PostBodies clashed and bodies fell. Wavering lines pressed into each other and muddled into a sprawling mess. Everywhere at once men died bleeding, the Skeletons screaming, the Undead reeling back. Bones were coming out of the ground, hands reaching out to catch the alliance unaware, to give the hulking beasts of the Necromancer’s horde a ch...
2025-03-09 12:32:14 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Celme got around to Nomad’s back, Valens finally placed his hand on Nomad’s skull, then paused at the warmth around his bones. It was different from how cold and lifeless a Skeleton’s bones felt. A Lifeward painted the Resonance of his anatomy in his mind. Mana was coursing underneath the solid bones, sprawling from the Heartstone lik...
2025-03-09 12:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostValens watched as hundreds of men filed into the opening, the undead ranks closing in and stretching in a line like a true army preparing for a battle. Scores of them choked the space around Oarfang, the air reeking of blood, sweat, and piss.
Meanwhile Nomad gazed deep somewhere toward the undead lines. Celme was busy staring at her ...
2025-03-09 12:28:17 +0000 UTC View PostLord Zahul’s fog was an intoxicating drug, and its voice was like the song of a siren. It pulled at his Heartstone. It promised to take the pain away, the thoughts, the memories, and forge him into something hard beyond anything human could breach. Acceptance would bring relief to his churning mind. Off with anything that had ever bothered him...
2025-03-09 12:25:40 +0000 UTC View PostBlasting flames scorched the bones, ate away whatever rotten flesh was left dangling from the skeletons, and sent a foul reek across the cave. Valens’s nose was full of the smell of his terrible deed. Walls groaned behind him. Men yelped and fell back, wide eyes staring up at the rising waves.
The world faded, and he was left alone stand...
2025-03-09 12:24:10 +0000 UTC View PostValens stumbled back, mind reeling, fingers of his right hand prickling, dust and gravel choking him down. He made for a sweep of his hand to clear some air, blinked round at the chaos, the dust, the fog, breath catching in his throat. He pulled at Nomad and Celme with both hands, dragging them forcefully away from the tip that had cleaved halfw...
2025-03-09 11:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe path led to a tight lane that slithered from beside the chaotic mess, seperated from the thick of the battle by a long wall that stretched across the cave. It created a corridor of its own where dozens of Skeleton Soldiers clad in broken plates and wielding weapons of rust and worn metal pressed into the men in shining armors.
From wha...
2025-03-09 11:56:28 +0000 UTC View PostName: Valens Kosthal
Age: 22
Race: Human (Ancient)
Class: Arcane Healer (Ancient)
Level: 54
Experience: 38%
Trait: Resonance(Ancient) 2025-03-09 11:53:13 +0000 UTC View Post
“What does the Bloodsong say?” Master Eldras asked, one hand over his chest and the other tapping an expectant finger on the tip of his nose. He seemed not all too bothered that the patient who was lying over the stretcher was about to drown in his own blood.
A bullet had caught the man below the chin, car...
2025-03-09 11:49:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe two forces clashed as Valens tried to keep his hold from slipping away. Blood was precious for a reason, and he was too deep in the Ward’s body to manage a Lifesurge to tend his wounds. The delicate balance was hanging over a thin rope, and losing it meant certain death.
He felt a stubborn insistence rose within him. He would keep at...
2025-03-09 11:47:35 +0000 UTC View PostValens scrambled away as he let go of the Fireball, pulled his palms up and used Light Feet to throw himself back. He banged the side of his head to the wall, tasted metal in his mouth, sucked at his gums and swallowed the slimy spit in his throat. That proved to be one of the best bargains in his lifetime when the black streak flashed past him ...
2025-03-09 11:41:59 +0000 UTC View PostValens had once seen a group of old grannies soak all their clothes in a giant basin, flush them with water and soup, let them rest for a good fifteen minutes, then hang them together over a rope stretched between two houses to dry.
This strange creature looked just like those, except it was bigger in size, and had limbs instead of sleeves...
2025-03-09 11:39:14 +0000 UTC View PostValens clawed clumsily at the woman’s hand and tried to jerk himself away, panting for air, cold sweat trickling down his back. Air tightened round his windpipe, breath wheezing weakly through his lips.
"You mad lass!” Nomad cursed and grabbed at the woman, wrapping an armored hand around her arm and wrenching her fin...
2025-03-09 11:37:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe cave seemed to hum with crushing echoes around them. Rocks rolled and crashed down the ground, walls shaking as if they were about to come off. They weaved through the throng while Nomad refused to utter a word and kept sneaking glances from the ceiling.
Valens let Nomad drag him onward. The air had a different quality about it here. T...
2025-03-09 11:35:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment Valens let the pair of Fireballs sail across the cave he was instantly struck by a sudden jolt round his hands. Something was different. Mana roared within his chest, the furious river sending a gurgling wave of magical source through his fingers to feed the spells.
Such intensity that the Fireballs grew twice in size, bloating ...
2025-03-09 11:32:54 +0000 UTC View PostTwo hours passed, and it was still dark in the cave. Dark with a graveyard of a stink coming from all around him. Water dripped from somewhere over the ceiling. That was the only sound. A tap and then another tap. The rhythm of it scarcely changed.
Valens picked himself up off the ground when he felt his mana source. He was ready, now, as ...
2025-03-09 11:31:08 +0000 UTC View PostGrey walls, cold wind on his back, and Valens kept tailing Nomad, chest aching still. Their steps squelched in the puddle coating over the mossy ground. The sounds bounced back and back again. Nothing, it seemed, lived here deep in the ground. Nothing but bones and the poor moss, that is.
Nomad wasn’t certainly helping with that. Valens ...
2025-03-09 11:28:21 +0000 UTC View PostTongues of fire sprawled down through the cave in heated momentum, threads of fiery mana merging into a giant maw that made for the crowd of skeletons. It swallowed half of the flood and coughed out piles of burnt bones all across the opening. Furious flames roared in the Skeleton ranks. They leapt from one bone to another, set them aflame and s...
2025-03-09 11:25:39 +0000 UTC View PostAccording to modern magical theory, which conflicted in many points with the way of the Magi of old, though mana was a natural resource born with the dawn of the universe, it existed in a different wavelength that was decisively difficult to perceive, which gave it a quality fundamentally distinct from that of the air. So while each breath a per...
2025-03-09 11:22:25 +0000 UTC View PostName: Valens Kosthal
Age: 22
Race: Human (Ancient)
Class: Arcane Healer (Ancient)
Level: 13
Experience: 11%
Trait: Resonance(Ancient)
Skills (7/10):
Done with the first book, hurraah! That was a long ass book, and honestly I’m quite proud of how it all turned out. Now its time for me to take a step back, and give myself 3-4 days to cool off. We will start the second book next week on Monday.
Now that we established the general setting for the series, we will focus more on the cooking...
2024-11-27 17:48:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 74
Lei’s mace opened a wide path through the guards, Fatty Lou and Zhu Luli supporting him from the sides as they closed in on the broken part of the Library. Sun Hu joined them not long after, his chains flying and sending most of the guards sprawling about in a shambling mess.
The man had some skill, Lei had to admit, bu...
2024-11-25 18:02:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 73
Jaded tiles were scattered across the ground. A wavering, coiling wave of dust coated every bit of the palace. It was hard to see what was happening, but Lei could feel through his Spiritual Sensitivity skill the rotten fog losing some of its quality.
It was almost enough to let the ambient spiritual energy wash it away. ...
2024-11-25 18:01:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 3
The next day, I was relieved to learn that after a day of heavy labor, our group was tasked with the simple duty of lunch service. We were given white aprons to wear over our uniforms, which I folded in my hand and carried over my right arm as we climbed toward the Western Gate of the Heavenly Demon Sect.
The same...
Hello everyone, after a week of bloody needles, I'm once again up for work and feeling quite well. Dao of Cooking's next chapter will be out tomorrow, and the others will follow shortly. Thanks for bearing with me, cheers!
2024-10-11 15:00:28 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
So I was trying to fix my Patreon, which for some reason was labeled as +18 Adult Content creation, and thus couldn't post anything for the last few days. It'll be fixed today or tomorrow, and I'll start posting the chapters. Just wanted to give you a heads-up, cheers!
2024-07-25 07:03:48 +0000 UTC View Post