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Chapter 206 - There Was Once a Man Who Could Not Die (VI)
Chapter 206
There Was Once a Man Who Could Not Die (VI)
There was a world once upon a time where now only desolate wilderness stood. It was dark and bleak and lifeless, with a thick layer of black soot covering everything in sight. All the trees were dead, and were still the solitary reminder that there once was life her...
2023-03-11 22:18:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 205 - There Was Once a Man Who Could Not Die (V)
Chapter 205
There Was Once a Man Who Could Not Die (V)
Sylas drew out his sword and slashed forward, moving at the speed inconceivable to an ordinary eye. And yet, the King followed–blinking backward and summoning golden lightning that turned into a shape of a spear and thrusting it forward. The clash resulted in ...
2023-02-27 20:57:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 204 - There Was Once a Man Who Could Not Die (IV)
Chapter 204
There Was Once a Man Who Could Not Die (IV)
There was once a man who could not die, his wings of infinity unfurled before the cosmos. And the man dreaded life as he dreaded sleep, for eternity of time was a blend of elysian nothing. Death was but a passenger in his journey, a handheld child in awe of wha...
2023-02-16 21:58:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 203 - There Was Once a Man Who Could Not Die (III)
Chapter 203
There Was Once a Man Who Could Not Die (III)
There was once a man who could not die. His songs were unsung, his words unspoken, his actions forgotten within the realms of time. The tiny, spirit motes would whisper ‘ere and there, and their whispers winds would bury, for it was heresy to speak of that w...
2023-02-08 21:57:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 202 - There Was Once a Man Who Could Not Die (II)
Chapter 202
There Was Once a Man Who Could Not Die (II)
There was a peculiarity to living, Wyvenul had learned many years ago. Young were fearless, undaunted, willing to set themselves on fire in pursuit of whatever highs they were chasing. They feared neither death nor pain, accepting it as a byproduct of living. B...
2023-01-30 20:18:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 201 - There Was Once a Man Who Could Not Die (I)
Chapter 201
There Was Once A Man Who Could Not Die (I)
There it is… Sylas stood on the precipice of a gentle mountain overlooking a vast span of the fields of yellow grass. Somewhere at its heart, there were tall walls of stone framing a city of dreams. Even nearly fifteen miles out, he could still see th...
2023-01-17 18:46:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 200 - The Banner of Tomorrow
Chapter 200
The Banner of Tomorrow
The capital city of Ethernia had been growing rather distressed in the past several weeks. What started as distant rumours and fancy tales that seemed entirely divorced from their reality were now very stern and deadly stories that were being passed around every day. Those we...
2023-01-11 21:08:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 199 - In Flash of Thunder and Death
Chapter 199
In Flash of Thunder and Death
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!” Ryne’s scream jolted him from the numbness that he had succumbed to in order to die. He’d hung himself upside down, slit his throat from one end to another as it was no longer physically possible to actually cut his head off in a...
2023-01-06 21:51:55 +0000 UTC View PostAsha
A result of me playing around with prompts in Stable Diffusion AI to try and get some visual representation of characters. There are quite a few other good ones that I manage to wrangle out that I'll probably post.
2022-12-30 20:21:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 198 - Infinite Infancy
Chapter 198
Infinite Infancy
How long has it been? Sylas couldn’t say. Hundreds upon hundreds of years, now, had passed at least. But to him, it all became a blend of a singularity, a trip that he re-lived so many times that he could recite it, word for word, event for event, from heart, just aroused from his slee...
2022-12-30 20:13:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 197 - Kingdom Come
Chapter 197
Kingdom Come
Their march slowed down considerably, Valen noted as he silently observed the open stretch of land currently being occupied by tents and campfires roaring smoke into the sky. It was in part because their army grew bulkier, tripling in size effectively, meaning that they could no longer maneu...
2022-12-22 22:29:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 196 - A Proper Army
Chapter 196
A Proper Army
A week had passed since the induction of General Staun in the army, as well as nearly ninety thousand of his men. The rest left, alongside two constables who looked just about ready to explode. Even after Sylas declared his loss, the two were unable to persuade most of the young men to retu...
2022-12-16 22:41:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 195 - Chthonian Beyond
Chapter 195
Chthonian Beyond
Sylas did something that he didn’t do often recently--he went to sleep. Most nights he’d learned to meditate himself into a state of nothingness as it was the only way he found to battle the decrepit hands of time, and as he hardly needed sleep to function, it seemed a good choice. B...
2022-12-12 22:15:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 194 - Skies Bear Witness
Chapter 194
Skies Bear Witness
Two men stood some twenty feet from each other, surrounded by hundreds of curious eyes, both from Sylas’ and Staun’s camp. The atmosphere was heavy, especially for the prisoners as they have learned that should their General win, they would be freed. Such proposition was something ...
2022-12-06 22:14:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 193 - Jubilant
Chapter 193
Jubilant
They once again stood in front of the wall, a massive army far outnumbering theirs spelling doom. But, this time around--as was the case a few times before already--Sylas helped. Not in the ‘going alone and committing a genocide’ help, but more in being the facilitator stabilizing the line. ...
2022-11-30 22:02:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 192 - Numbness
Chapter 192
Numbness
Though Valen’s force broke further and deeper than ever before thanks to Sylas breaking down the wall that was stopping them, their momentum was killed shortly after when they chose a wrong route. The night before they crossed what they thought was a simple patch of forest, it rained heavily, ...
2022-11-22 23:26:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 191 - Amorphous Whispers
Chapter 191
Amorphous Whispers
Some stories never die. Though the wretchedness of time dims and consumes them, as it does all things, they persist beyond its scope, etched in whatever little motes of infinity they could find. One such story was born on a foggy and strangely stormy day. The Kingdom of Ethernia hardly...
2022-11-17 18:43:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 190 - The Red-Dyed Star
Chapter 190
The Red-Dyed Star
It began to rain. Though it hadn’t rained in weeks, the skies above suddenly ashened and the thick rain began to pelt the world beneath. Thunder, too, joined soon after--as though through the will of the world, a desperate attempt to hide what was happening. To mask it. To retire nume...
2022-11-12 21:51:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 189 - The One Who Writes the Story
Chapter 189
The One Who Writes the Story
Sylas watched as a small force of 400 cleaved free of the charging formation, engaging a wide flank toward the vastly-outnumbering enemy. It was a lost cause, he knew, for he had seen this exact scenario six times now. By the time 400 strong force reached the flanking positio...
2022-11-09 19:16:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 188 - The Kingdom in Terror
Chapter 188
The Kingdom in Terror
A tale sprung like the snowstorm in the middle of a Cold Snap--it travelled like thunder from far north deeper and deeper south with each passing day. At first, the tale was told merely in whispers--secrets shared almost silently, begging to be hidden. Then, as days passed, the whis...
2022-10-29 18:35:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 187 - Words Unsaid
Chapter 187
Words Unsaid
Sylas looked inwardly, his energy swirling like whirlpools. There where once upon a time a single heart beat, and more recently two, now three shuddered. They weren’t ‘hearts’ in the literal sense, naturally, but it didn’t matter. He had three lives, now, and though many would rejoic...
2022-10-26 19:26:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 186 - Martyr's Pass
Chapter 186
Martyr’s Pass
Sylas lounged about freely at the walls of a small town called Verrak. It was a town stationed some eighty miles down past the forest beyond the village, and was home largely to farming families and retired conscripts. Their group had arrived two days ago to a rather warm welcome, as the ...
2022-10-21 20:25:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 185 - Then the Years
Chapter 185
Then the Years
The loops began--they were rough and uneven, sometimes lasting a few weeks and sometimes a couple of months. Sylas wasn’t particular about following a route, often diverging on his own, effectively looking for all the variables. He wasn’t in a hurry. If anything, he slowed down the pac...
2022-10-19 21:35:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 184 - Prophets Made of Sand
Chapter 184
Prophets Made of Sand
Strange silence befell the two, with varying degrees of confusion shared between them. If Asha wasn’t part of the Queen’s plan, Sylas realized, then she was just a cosmic coincidence. No, he inwardly shook. Universe isn’t that kind.
“You sure?” he a...
2022-10-06 22:01:34 +0000 UTC View PostBook I available on Amazon (& here)
Hello everyone, hope you're having a grand ol' time. Book I (The Song of Madness) of the 'Master of the Loop' is now available on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BH1R6F14). Kindle version is available immediately while the paperback is still being processed. ...
2022-10-03 18:50:49 +0000 UTC View Post