With the mist-knights or whatever they were gone, Anna could take a moment to assess her situation. This place was taking her on a linear route that stopped at a sheer wall with no openings. The only other rooms had nothing of interest in them, all of the items were junk. Anna looked up at the wall that lay ahead of her, carved stone made to look like yet another building but with a smooth shee...
2025-04-26 12:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostA few minutes ago…
It was more than a little overwhelming with so many light-touched in one place. Not just light-touched, trained heroes. Some were from the very first generation who hadn’t signed on as heroes right away. Others were from the first wave of camps, while others were from the second. There were still more that had signed on at some point in between, cat...
2025-04-25 16:00:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe wind blew over the street. A silent breeze that kicked up a few loose slips of paper. A monster ran by and ducked into an alley before vanishing from sight. She snapped her hand out, catching one of the papers and looking down at it with a frown. Another flyer from the Divine Voice of Reason. No picture was on the page, and even her own imaginings couldn’t summon up his face. It was like ...
2025-04-24 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe notification window fizzled out of existence before she could even have a chance to really take it all in. The only thing that stuck with her was the clear condition. Leave. Well that’s not ominous at all, she grumbled and took in her surroundings. She was standing in the middle of a sheer valley of black stone rising up on either side and parted by about a hundred feet. The crag...
2025-04-24 12:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostWith the introduction of the judges, the participating heroes split up to talk strategy with one another ahead of the event. Sonya, for her part, had a few more matters to take care of before she could properly enjoy the fruits of her labor. The first was meeting with a particularly prestigious individual who was waiting for her in the main observation fort just outside of the walls. The room w...
2025-04-23 16:00:48 +0000 UTC View Post:| C'mon Patreon... Sorry bout that. Here ya go!
Five thousand heroes gathered in Dharan, a far cry from the two thousand that had participated in Australia. An army of light-touched, from the Rare to the Mythic. Dharan was the only sort of place where this many could gather with the intent of using their abilities. According to reports, the Nepalese government was clearing dungeons, but Sonya wouldn’t be satisfied until she was sure the ci...
2025-04-22 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostAnna woke with a start. Her head spinning and every inch of her body feeling like it had been beaten with a stick. Her first vague thought was appreciating the kind of damage she’d delivered to those assholes on her last day before the world turned on its head. Her second thought was far more pressing; Where the fuck is the boss?
She blinked a few times to get the blurrin...
2025-04-22 12:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostSurprise! Bonus Side-Story! Still looking for exactly where I want to put it in the actual final stream of product but here you go!
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“Hey Amos, I have a favor to ask of you,” a bad imitation of Sonya said.
“What’s that, Sonya? Anything you need, I’m your guy!” Amos said delightedly.
“I need you to go through this magic portal into what I assume is some...
2025-04-21 16:48:57 +0000 UTC View PostI wonder when my teeth stopped chattering.
It was a stray thought. An absent musing that skittered across her mind like a piece of ice on a hot skillet, dancing away before she could even grasp on to it. The cold was bone-deep. The emptiness in her chest was a cavern that could never, ever be filled. Some days were better than others. Some days she barely felt it, barely se...
2025-04-21 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostA pair of golden eyes opened in the dark as a cloud of smoke swirled around the solitary figure sitting in an armchair. He looked down at the smoldering embers in the fireplace, his hand resting on a sphere of polished crystal. His thumb drifted down the smooth surface before his hand slipped away, stopping atop a flask with a name engraved on it: ‘Ironsides.’ He tapped a finger against the...
2025-04-19 22:34:28 +0000 UTC View PostThank you guys for your patience, I've sat down and really put some thought into giving you a chapter 290 that still gives the feeling of Mimir stepping up while also allowing it to serve as proper build up for future events. This should be an all around improvement, I hope!
I've made adjustments to chapter 289 as well to make things consitent and as an aside I tweaked a bit of chapter 28...
2025-04-19 22:34:20 +0000 UTC View PostAnna was on her feet and still grumbling about the new skill in her repertoire when she made her way back to the first intersection in the hallway. Her stealth skill had just popped up almost immediately back in the precinct. It was weeks later and she was just now getting Athletics. At first it had irritated her, it would have come in handy back during her trial in the Forest of Blood. After g...
2025-04-19 12:00:30 +0000 UTC View PostI've heard you guys and your feelings on 290. I am working on a new variation of the chapter. I will get it to y'all as soon as I can! If you have any constructive suggestions for a better direction for the events of the chapter, I would very much appreciate any input and opinions I can get. I love you guys and I want to craft the best story I can for you.
With love, DerelictPresence. 2025-04-19 05:48:20 +0000 UTC View Post
A pair of golden eyes opened in the dark, a cloud of smoke swirled around the solitary figure sitting in an armchair. He looked down at the smoldering embers in the fireplace, his hand resting on a sphere of polished crystal. His thumb drifted down the smooth surface before his hand slipped away, stopping atop a flask with a name engraved on it: ‘Ironsides.’ He tapped a finger against the n...
2025-04-18 16:00:29 +0000 UTC View PostTo say Sonya was annoyed with what had happened with the representatives was more than an understatement. Their legal action had hurt her plans. She didn’t say it out loud during the encounter, but she knew that another reason at least two of them had participated was self-preservation. The world knew that Sowards had died as a consequence of a deal with Ishtar. They, on the other hand likely...
2025-04-17 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe brief walk back to the split where she’d spotted the first choker was quiet and she was pleased to see that it was one of the critters that had attacked her back in the hall with the pool. She stopped right at the spot where the path split back towards the way she’d come-and the entrance-and deeper inside. Her glowstone was back out and she could easily see a turn almost immediately up ...
2025-04-17 12:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe outer containment walls of Dharan were thirty feet thick and built nearly one hundred feet high. It was a feat of modern engineering to encapsulate the entirety of the city that had fallen in the dawn of this new era. Spotlights placed at intervals around the walls shone down on the earth below and gave a clear view of any monster that dared inch close in an attempt to escape its boundary. ...
2025-04-16 16:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostAnother swing, another exertion of muscle, another strain on his body. Temptation dangled in front of his face like a savory treat, instincts built into his own ability urging him to give in and use them. He took another step forward and swung again, grinding his teeth through the motion as the images played through his mind over and over. Rage. The man he had been when the flash had taken plac...
2025-04-15 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostWith the light of the glowstone in her palm, the dark hall around Anna didn’t seem nearly as foreboding as it had with the flickering torchlight from before. Though she had to admit to herself that the main reason was that she hadn’t even had a level to her name when she entered the first time. Now, though, things were looking up. She knew better than for it to stay that way but at the very...
2025-04-15 12:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe portal archway rose out of the helipad and opened with a rushing of air. Sonya stood off to the side, watching as a powerfully built young man at least a head taller than Nietz stepped out. He had a shaved head and a bit of a baby face. What was most interesting about him, though, was the distinct way mana seemed to move around his body. It was constantly drawing inwards towards him at a ve...
2025-04-14 16:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe instant Anna stepped through the door back into the lobby another notification appeared in front of her. She stopped and let the door close behind her as she read it, enjoying the slightly soothing sound of the boiling water around her. It was better than the eerie quiet of the forest. It was also nice having something man made beneath her feet.
Quest Complete!
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