Eve waited patiently as the butler Ralph flowed into his first strike. She was in no hurry to demonstrate her full capabilities in anything, for now. Casually deflecting blows with the flat of her blade caused the older man to raise one eyebrow.
Assured by her demonstrated skill, Eve’s opponent began to flow into combination strikes at a faster pace. The spry elderly butler was attempti...
2022-06-26 05:53:31 +0000 UTC View PostYou asked!
So I have attempted to answer!
The only plot point I care about is the capsule where the apprentice silver witch and the others are. I guess we're gonna wait quite a bit before it happens, but still. Can't wait.
The people left behind in Tal ...
2022-06-24 23:54:54 +0000 UTC View PostThey moved through the College courtyard towards the walled gate that exited the school. Eve spun together a Ritual burying it in a tiny orb the size of a large ball bearing. The silver sheen was worked with tiny runes scribbled in haste. Witch’s Dust was restrained to only the normal shielding of her body to minimize the drain. She’d left the passive monitoring dust in the...
2022-06-21 06:31:39 +0000 UTC View Post“There is no Board of Directors for the College.” Charlotte said slowly her eyes glinting sharply. “If there was, my father would be on it. Is he in this group you can see, Eve?”
Eve realized she had applied her own understanding to a situation she didn’t fully grasp yet. Pulling the images from memory, she gave a short description of them as they sat in the room. It only took m...
2022-06-19 02:29:59 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a half-hour discussion conducted in the empty rooms of this section of the College, a consensus was reached. Eve didn’t bother paying attention because Nota would scribe everything into Eternal Memory. She did however take the time to shift her appearance into a younger version decked in exotic leather armor with two swords. Charlotte had explained that a bodyguard was ...
2022-06-12 06:16:45 +0000 UTC View PostEve turned to face the guards and their minders. The crash of blades, the slam of shields, and the crunch of heavy armor never occurred. Barely a foot from Eve the guards stopped in place before the sound of croaking frogs replaced the crunching racket of steel.
“Since I’m not sure I can kill, here,” Eve said with a grin. “Best they learn their place in the food chain, beneath my ...
2022-06-05 06:36:23 +0000 UTC View PostEve deliberately allowed her face to have a strict expression. She had sent Bennie over first both to check for safety, and to allow time to deal with Red. The conversation with the other dungeon core had been short and to the point. Red had quickly realized that Eve wasn’t another contender, and that pushing the boundaries of their agreement allowed the witch to push back, too. Brin...
2022-05-29 05:42:15 +0000 UTC View PostJustin Mickleton’s leather boots whispered across the flagstones of the kingdom’s premier College of Warlocks. It was deep in the witching hour and not a soul could be found in the College’s time-worn passages. The kingdom of Othuven where the school had been founded was one of the most ancient, but over the years their power had waxed and waned like the ocean tides. Now the kingdom was k...
2022-05-22 04:58:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Praise be to the stars; this Forest has an end!” Mishka said her expression ecstatic. Eve rolled her eyes as her clothing shifted from a bathing suit into the typical witch set of pointy hats, robes, and pouches. A long staff capped with Felix completed the look of a traveling caster accompanying a set of rich wealthy patrons.
Looking over the elf’s living area was a lesson in what...
2022-05-15 06:33:48 +0000 UTC View Post“Why are we following the suspicious yet hot elves deeper into the forest depths, oh benevolent shining silver flame of the darkness?” Bennie said in a stage whisper to Eve before waiting on a response.
Waving casually Eve motioned aimlessly at the soft light from the false sun filtered down through the canopy painting a picture of peace. The arching canopy of green bathed the Forest ...
2022-05-08 06:17:49 +0000 UTC View PostẂ̸̧͓̖͠h̴̉ͅa̸̛̝͚͍͋t̸̺̀̇ ̷̼̳̄w̷̮̹̃a̵̙͗͝s̷̺̾̏͠ ̷͓̰͛̈́s̷͔̺̽ͅṱ̴̰̞̐͝ȯ̴̫̬ḽ̶̡̐e̸̡̍͜n̷͙̓̅̕ ̴̲͎͈͆́w̸͉̿͑̈́i̴̯̊̉l̷̛̬͗̎l̸̡̬̹͝ ̶̨̣͚̅̏̕
So, if anyone knows how I can get this font, because all the font matching internet things don't seem to work on it...
I will, add, a SINGLE mention ...
“A dungeon doesn’t need to use monsters to kill you,” Eve said looking down at the currently bedraggled group of starship ex-leaders. Out of all of them, only the teleporter hadn’t been sucked into the trap.
“Traps.” Meyun spat in disgust as his nose wrinkled at the stench.
“Traps,” Eve said nodding. Her sense of smell filtered the stench out by reflex.
“File...
2022-05-01 06:24:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe terror of the Collapse wasn’t planned by mortal minds.
-Librarian Moran of the Sun Tribe
The big boss of the Cat Tribe, Lion, stared at his current guest’s bright glowing green eyes before he said, “Ready to talk business, shorty?”
It was good the kid nodded affirmatively. While he wouldn’t ever admit it, keeping the kitten here was d...
2022-04-27 02:34:32 +0000 UTC View PostI've switched to the pay upfront option. For those that are already subscribed this should have no impact to my understanding. It will only ensure the slight increase in people joining, then leaving after reading all current chapters, and then cancelling stops.
Sorry for the alteration, but it started to become an epidemic so I took pre-emptive action.
The tunnels of stone ended as the group exited from the cave connecting them to the desolate badlands of the next layer. The appearance of a massive mud plain baked by a fake sun above seemed to shock most of the party. The wind filled with the scent of blood flowed past the cave entrance bringing the feeling of butchery at work somewhere.
“When you said Dungeons were minor w...
2022-04-24 07:59:18 +0000 UTC View PostAs the tunnels they had been farming gave way to a large cavern Eve’s expression grew flinty. The cavern was large enough that the goblin tribe they had been fighting had established a village. Mud-covered wooden huts with fences that couldn’t keep a lizard out spread out like mushrooms after a heavy rain. Eve’s dust told her exactly what was happening in some of the huts causing her expr...
2022-04-17 07:20:08 +0000 UTC View PostI've bitten the bullet and purchased an Editor from Fiverr to look the earlier chapters over.
If everything goes well, you might see a smoother word flow and change in my writing style as I absorb the lessons imparted from their edits.
Probably.
“Why do we start by killing goblins?” Meyun asked as two custom made floating drones took down another goblin patrol in the Dungeon tunnels. Currently, the entire party was being shepherded by Eve to ensure positive teambuilding camaraderie. Meyun continued, “They seem like a knock-off version of ugly human children. Evil ones.”
“Because it is easier to kill something that isn...
2022-04-11 05:34:52 +0000 UTC View PostFinally finished moving from my house to the new place today, and I literally cannot move enough muscles to do more than force the voice program to type this.
Three flights of stairs are murder.
A pure metal desk from the 50s is not evil incarnate, it is a hell dimension of its own. And yet, you cannot get rid of it because it's 'sentimental value' is greater t...
2022-04-10 06:25:43 +0000 UTC View PostEve floated around the firetrap of the Daedric Doorway in a circle taking a glance at each of the projects going on while chatting with Iantha. It was a temporary reprieve from the boredom of power-leveling, but that was all. She had never expected gaining the power to be so utterly mind-numbing boring. Perhaps this was why all those crazy cultivator stories had them meditating for centuries at...
2022-04-03 05:10:11 +0000 UTC View PostIantha was in the most dangerous battle of her life against an enemy that knew no mercy. The heinous evil of a complete lack of action was robbing her of coherent thought. Thankfully, she had a ragtag group of starship misfits to alleviate the onslaught of questions about their savior.
“That plate is violating the laws of physics,” Meyun said pointing at the rune engraved hover plate ...
2022-03-29 05:24:27 +0000 UTC View PostEve moved until she was directly under the massive starship falling from the still open breach. Even as she watched, the Primordial Dust was already taking action flowing into the breach as it rapidly ate away at the spatial rift. A casual calculation told her that the starship would finish exiting at around the time the silver dust started closing the hole to another world. She shifted her for...
2022-03-27 07:21:52 +0000 UTC View Post![Status [Full]](https://img5.illustratorsleak.com/storage/2/vy/ae/dbda34-019e8f63-d449-7198-bd7c-3bcf6992659a.gif)
Eve's attempt to compress her Status to something easier!
Did it work?!
2022-03-20 08:29:47 +0000 UTC View PostTime passed without end as Eve pondered how to increase her personal power going forward. The Prison Plane, and even Tal Mor were only temporary stops in her journey. She was currently powerful in the domain run by Wilson, but she didn’t plan on staying here forever.
What if the next place I arrive at has a completely different power structure? Eve thought. One that is run ...
2022-03-20 07:18:34 +0000 UTC View PostTracking someone without magic in a desert is akin to tracking someone swimming underwater.
It just doesn’t work in reality like it does in the movies.
Wind erases tracks, sunlight bakes clues, and any attempt at tracing the passage of a person is a fruitless endeavor of insanity.
Fortunately, there’s magic for that.Eve thought tracing the Cardinal’s mana scent ...
2022-03-13 07:14:54 +0000 UTC View PostFalling isn’t hard. Eve could do it with her eyes closed, in fact. Falling from the ceiling without causing damage to anyone beneath was a smidge more difficult. The solution was to drop just out of range, but close enough to give the jump scare required. Accompanying her fall was the loud screeching wail of a banshee’s death music. In a darkened room, with no light, and a frightening noise...
2022-03-06 07:27:15 +0000 UTC View PostLife isn’t fair, Death is.
-Silver Empire Legion Proverb.
Kyo’s sleep was untroubled by nightmares or dreams although the darkness of pleasant sleep eventually gave way to a small room. A tiny square table separated the chair she was sitting in from that occupied by a floating blue crystal.
Kyo blinked as she realized the crystal was familiar.<...
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2022-03-05 15:34:30 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ll handle them all leaving the corpses for you to eat,” Eve said, her expression in a withered evil old witch’s manic smile of glee. “In exchange, provide a floor for me to use.”
“How?” the floating red crystal asked.
“Recently, I experienced the thrill of a group designed specifically to hunt my Race.” Eve said with a flicker of annoyance, ...
2022-02-27 06:05:44 +0000 UTC View PostEve glanced at her status noting a few changes had occurred.
Mana: (Infinite)
Ritual Runes of Body V
Runes (5/5):
Rune of Shroud
It was irritating that she couldn’t find a way to compress her full Status. The only option not to display everything was to look at bits and pieces for now. Eve put it...
2022-02-20 05:45:59 +0000 UTC View Post