"Every living creature has Quintessence. We use it for everyday activities. You regain it from eating and sleeping. All animals - and even - plants have Quintessence," Cobalt explained as the two traversed the Scorch Wood. He was hovering slightly above the ground alongside Liadrin, the occasional puff of dirt rising up when he passed over a les...
2024-11-02 03:04:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe blue-haired beast-cursed collapsed in front of Liadrin. She was still shocked and slightly scared; everyone who had been chasing her - which she knew included several guards from Ghelard - was gone in an instant.
She was holding the scant-clad man up in her grip. What are the odds I'd run into a mage? she wondered as she ...
2024-11-02 03:04:21 +0000 UTC View PostWind rushed past Cobalt's face as he screamed, plummeting from the highest point of the whole world. His breath gave out after the first few moments and he could see the ground below getting larger and more defined - green blobs became clusters of trees. The blue lines became rushing rivers.
"Come on!" he shouted out, "Do something!" He fl...
2024-11-02 03:03:50 +0000 UTC View Post"Girl, clean that up right now - get to it!" The portly woman shouted as she threw the rag into the soapy bucket.
Liadrin - already on the ground and bruised from the fist that had slammed into her face - shuffled over to her own blood stain on the floor. She reached into the bucket and glimpsed her reflection in the soapy water for but an...
2024-11-02 03:03:04 +0000 UTC View PostBlurb:
To be cursed is to be an outcast. To be a mage is to be feared. To be both is really bad luck.
Cobalt has been studying under The Magister for years. As a last resort to try and awaken his magic, the aspiring mage is subjected to a horrific fate…which fails. But a mysterious entity intervenes, and ...
2024-11-02 03:01:33 +0000 UTC View PostPriam could feel Jace’s ragged breath next to his chest. Jace was pushing himself on the verge of exhaustion – and still kicking up a spray of dirt and clods of grass as he jogged across the plains tile.
The man had saved Priam from being consumed by a singularity. A black hole that threatened to completely devour the rabbit-man. In th...
2024-11-02 01:45:06 +0000 UTC View PostJace kept sprinting at top speed as the terrain began to shift gradually between the plateau and lake region he started to enter. The hard, cracked ground under his feet gave way to softer soil and pools of water. Thanks to his eyes and his enhanced perception, he was able to dodge the deeper pools with ease.
Ollie was tucked inside his ho...
2024-11-02 01:28:19 +0000 UTC View PostJace looked around for the source of the noise but saw nothing save for the empty dunes of the desert.
“There are 58 dungeon cores left, and a duo in the far Southwest desert tile have 42. The next closest is at 23. If you want to win, you need to kill those two. One is mostly prosthetics, with a strange Cosmic Power symbol not even ...
2024-11-01 13:56:20 +0000 UTC View PostJace crouched, “I’m guessing someone you knew?”
“…My brother…” Priam whispered. He kept the hat over his face and Jace could barely hear the voice despite his obscenely enhanced senses. “…Why did you save me? You should’ve…run away…just let me-”
Jace put a hand on his shoulder and very, very ge...
2024-10-31 13:54:20 +0000 UTC View PostYholl Tristrus, the Archmage Ascendant, colloquially known as Double-A, was pacing his throne room as he watched the various screens that showed visuals from all his sensors across Nihilethelea. He let out a chortle as he sat behind a desk.
As he traced a pattern on a sheet of parchment, preparing the Legendary rarity Boon th...
2024-10-30 13:46:25 +0000 UTC View PostJace touched down and released the Ghostlight Grapnel as Priam clambered off him. “Wow, this place is old,” Priam said aloud as he spun around. “The structure remains perfectly intact despite falling over.” He began walking towards a gap in the ‘wall’ – really the next floor…up or down, Jace wasn’t sure.<...
2024-10-29 13:55:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe duo kept trudging onward. Jace had tasked Priam with watching the desert horizon as he kept an eye out for that magic-face thing that was sometimes watching them. As soon as he spotted it, he tapped Priam, “Dark Matter Cloak (Rank 3) [Group].” The duo was surrounded by the spectral, purple aura as they vanished from sight, became untrace...
2024-10-29 01:24:37 +0000 UTC View PostWhy did the other half of this phylactery thing have to be in a desert? Jace was panting from the effort it took to walk along the desert surface. Not having something solid to grip is claws into was making traversal of the terrain very labor intensive. The weight of his prosthetics was not helping either, as each step caused him t...
2024-10-28 13:46:44 +0000 UTC View PostPriam was sprinting at full speed, hearing the steady ‘clank’ of the booted, armored people following him. Bloopa reappeared with a pop. I notified Ollie – why are you running?
Priam hiked his thumb over his shoulder as he took a turn and scrambled up a rock face – fueling his ascent with large, bunny-hops that launched hi...
2024-10-27 16:14:52 +0000 UTC View PostQuinn got home with Greg shadowing her, “What do you think? A day of rest and then back out there?”
Greg nodded and cracked his usual grin, “This last one got us a hefty reward.”
Yeah, 8,000 Stardust apiece, Quinn thought. Plus, I got an additional 4,000 from Broker’s Fee (Rank 16). Once more, she int...
2024-10-27 16:13:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe Archmage Ascendant, Double-A to some, Yholl Tristrus as he once was known – sat on the balcony of his enormous castle in the once-capital city of Nihil’s Hold. Now his personal, luxurious estate, he looked out over the floating map in front of him. The past few days had been very excellent, and day 4 was coming to a close. With the r...
2024-10-26 15:21:53 +0000 UTC View PostJace was struck with a slight bit of concern, soul energy? He thought. What the hell is that?
Priam nodded as they began shimmying out of the tight lava tube alongside the rivulet of simmering magma. “The less of ‘you’ there is for your body, the weaker your soul energy is. It’s how you connect to the gods. D...
2024-10-26 04:39:30 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as he had passed the threshold, Jace saw a small line of text floating in front of him. Not a System message, but a magical message in the air.
[4:55]
And the timer was slowly ticking down.
Ollie was tucked inside his hood and point to the left, “Tripwire!”
Jace slid under it. Thanks, but I already spotted...
2024-10-25 13:53:29 +0000 UTC View PostI didn’t mean to let slip that Verve comment, Jace thought as he traveled with the zero-gravity launch towards the next Complex. Priam is just…so like him. Naïve, trusting, willing to help. Jace chided himself. Don’t get attached. I don’t even know if I’m going to keep him around.
He heard the exh...
2024-10-24 13:58:25 +0000 UTC View Post“Make sure you hang on tight,” Jace told Priam.
“You got it, Flicker!” The Nebula Priest clutched tightly to Jace’s back, arms wrapped around his torso and legs wrapped around Jace’s hips. They had extended the straps on Jace’s backpack so that the bunny-boy could be pinned between the bag and Jace as a way to secure him.
... 2024-10-24 03:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostPriam’s head pulsed with pain, and his jaw was sore. He smelled the scent of slightly charred fur, and his sharp hearing picked up the sound of movement. Sitting upright, he looked around and saw the sides of a tent, gently billowing. He was not burning up, but he felt extremely warm. Pulsar Ward (Rank 1), he thought. The familia...
2024-10-23 14:02:49 +0000 UTC View PostWhat the hell? Jace felt the air blast around him, and it was so mighty, so forceful, that it would have pushed him off of his feet if not for the claws on them. The winds curled in and formed a sphere around him. It was not harming him – but the air around him vanished and was even sucked from his lungs.
Ollie floated up a...
2024-10-23 04:40:27 +0000 UTC View PostJace crept into another lava tunnel with the slight stream of the superheated rock and metal flowing past him. His Dark Matter Shield (Rank 2) and Dark Matter Blade (Rank 5) [Rending] were both active, and he scanned the environment as he crept forward. “No sign of movement,” he muttered.
Ollie – who had curled around his neck and wa...
2024-10-22 13:58:22 +0000 UTC View PostJace felt his breath coming in shorter and shorter gasps. Ollie flew in front of him and filled his vision. “Hey. Come on. You’re better than this.”
“I…I-I can’t…” Jace whispered as the memory of being shot replayed over and over in his mind. The excruciating pain. The blood. Almost dying. He gripped the sides...
2024-10-21 13:53:01 +0000 UTC View PostThere’s 9 more Complexes on this volcano tile, and I’m at 39. That would put me at 48 if I cleared them all, Jace thought. Way more than the prior record of 22. “Why so few?” Jace asked Ollie as he crept through another lava-tube; the stream of liquid passing by him just like the last one he had entered. He had dea...
2024-10-20 15:35:51 +0000 UTC View PostRenlas crested the largest cliff thus far and was huffing in deep breaths of air. Reaching down, he helped Bellor up the last bit of the way. “Thanks,” Bellor grumbled. The two laid down and sucked in air. A message popped up in Renlas’ vision.
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[Your inquiry has resulted in the fol...
2024-10-19 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostJace landed on the side of a mountain with a gentle ‘thud’, locking his feet-claws into place before letting the Dark Energy Mine effect fade. “And we have arrived!” Ollie shouted as he left the area around Jace’s collar and instead began to float around the air in excited, starlit strokes.
Jace took stock of his surroundings. Th...
2024-10-18 13:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostJace moved quicker than he had ever before. On the plains tiles he was going around 13 miles per hour comfortably, without any exertion. Now? He estimated easily 20 miles per hour. And it was almost effortless.
The joy of speed made him giddy with excitement, and he got to the next Complex in no time. Drawing his sword, he activated Dark M...
2024-10-17 13:59:31 +0000 UTC View Post“Hurry up!” Bellor shouted to Renlas.
The stockier, shorter, red-haired man clambered up the mountain. The two had neglected dungeons in favor of reaching the ones that appeared to have higher rarity. The air began to grow warm, but thankfully they had both come equipped with clothing for all manner of temperature extremes. Once they g...
2024-10-16 13:30:03 +0000 UTC View Post<<<<<>>>>>
[Warning! You are about to enter a Complex!]
[This location has been marked by The Cosmic System as Tier 2.]
[Number of foes to clear out: 8.]
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[Quest: Slay the Razorfrost Elementals.]
[Time Limit: N/A.]
[Reward:...
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