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Chapter 384: From the Brink (Part 1)
A/N: Bous two-parter today. 1 of 2.----------AliandraAli groaned, rolling over sluggishly, her confused mind struggling to grapple with the pain that dogged her relentlessly. Her ribs ground against a protruding rock, and the sudden sharpness of new pain told her addled mind she was not in bed, nor ...
Chapter 383: Fleeing Through an Angry Forest
A/N: Bonus chapter today. 2 of 2-----------MalikaMalika landed lightly in the forest beside Mato and Calen and immediately pulsed her healing magic through all of them at the throbbing palpable weight of the aura of despair that flooded the air and seeped in through every pore.You have gained Clarit...
Chapter 382: He Rides Upon a Pale Horse
A/N: Bonus chapter today. 1 of 2--------------AliandraAli stumbled on the polished marble of the Novaspark Academy of Magic teleportation locus, her nerves still jangling and her body trembling from the aftereffects of the Blind Lich’s debilitating fear. How am I still so helpless? I have an evolv...
Chapter 381: When Death Comes Knocking
CalenCalen teleported, switching places with one of his motes, and launched a continuous stream of glowing arrows down into the crawling creep spores, his magic detonating in powerful explosions of fire and light.All across the blighted creep, the battle raged. Ali circled the giant Mana Eater, carp...
Chapter 380: The Mana Eater
Mato“Going,” Mato said. He twisted his body back into his denser, much bulkier form, and stepped into the misty rotting jungle. He could already smell the Mana Eater from the entrance of the chamber, a strange, faintly pungent odor like ozone that mingled in between the assault of putrid rotting...
Chapter 379: Assault on the Blooming Rot
MatoMato waded through the rotting Fungal Creep, ruing his enhanced senses as the stench pressed in on him from everywhere like a sticky blanket. His Dire Bear Form was heavy enough that he couldn’t walk along the creep without sinking in like the others, meaning his fur from his shoulders down wa...
Chapter 378: A Tattoo for Naia
Aliandra“Thanks, Aliandra,” Vivian said as they both emerged from the quiet meeting room and into the bustling chaos of the guild hall. People were chatting loudly about half a dozen different subjects, sitting in the lounge or the bar, or clustered up around the jobs board. Even the guild store...
Chapter 377: Crafting Resources
MierielMieriel stared openly at Vivian across the table, her brain suddenly glitching to a screeching halt. Vivian’s mouth carried on moving but Mieriel didn’t register anything further.“Wait… how many?” she stammered.“How many what?” Vivian asked, surprised by her interruption.“How ...
Chapter 376: All Gold Raid (Part 2)
Giddy ClicksprocketGiddy adjusted the jewel carefully in the clamp and reached back to press on a knot that was forming in her shoulder muscles, but the protective gloves she had forgotten she was wearing scratched her skin. Again.Argh. How long have I been going at this? She sighed, tilting her nec...
Chapter 375: All Gold Raid (Part 1)
AliandraAli didn’t have time to even think. Dimly, she heard shouts of alarm, but her focus was locked on the pulsing shrine. Desperate to beat the incoming spell, she did the only thing she could: she teleported, trading places with her stricken kobold. The instant she arrived, she threw up her s...
Chapter 374: An Urgent Switch
Mato“Mato, help!”He already knew she needed help; Survival Instinct had made it abundantly clear that Malika would have died if that last attack hit. The great weeping wounds on his trunk bore testament to the deadliness of the Bone Avatar’s strikes.Malika was enormously powerful right now, th...
Chapter 373: An Abomination of Bone
“Get out of the fucking fire! Idiot!” - Anonymous raid healer.AliandraAli went all out the instant the mana shield dropped. She summoned her Winter’s Desolate Celerity wand and emptied it on all the highest-damage casters – two of which were her own evolved Mages of Piercing Frost.“Bloodlu...
Chapter 372: The Battle for Lyton Ruins (Part 4)
AliandraThe area fear formation flickered within the Ghoul, but the only people in range were already under the protection of Malika’s Touch of Clarity, so Ali didn’t call it, choosing instead to eviscerate a Mass Summoning spell with her Disruption. Then, she turned her focus on trying to get t...
Chapter 371: The Battle for Lyton Ruins (Part 3)
AliandraAli sat on a small barrier disk, floating a safe distance above the ruined logging town and the skeletons and zombies bogged down in Mato’s vast field of grasping roots, vines, and consecration. Two dozen smaller barrier disks circled her, periodically zipping back and forth to intercept f...
Chapter 370: The Battle for Lyton Ruins (Part 2)
MatoMato charged down the hillside, reveling in the power of his Dire Bear Form, but for once, he was not the person in front. That honor belonged to Malika, this time.“This is the stupidest plan ever,” Malika muttered under her breath, glancing back at him as they sprinted down across the ruine...
Chapter 369: The Battle for Lyton Ruins (Part 1)
SethThe pitiful remains of Lyton lay sprawled out like a handful of rubble carelessly cast into the valley below. A large raven circled lazily above, descending slowly till it settled on a jutting pile of stone that had once been the mill. It made no cry, perched there with uncanny stillness as if i...
Chapter 368: A Crazy Plan
AliandraWhile Calen went to fetch Vivian and the guild raid groups, Ali busied herself by unleashing an army of Moss Creepers, Floral Menaces, and Spore Spreaders on the ruined Temple of Blood and the surrounding verdant overgrowth of the jungle. She inhaled the spreading floral and leafy scents wit...
Chapter 367: Dungeon Travel
AliandraAs the Fetish-Painted Assassin collapsed and the chimes rang out in her mind, the death mana of the Lyton Ruins domain receded, abruptly retreating to the forest below and taking the ever-present miasma with it.Did he move the domain? Ali thought, staring at the strange phenomenon and then a...
Chapter 366: Sixfold Strike
MalikaChilling pressure caused a ripple of prickling goosebumps to pass over her skin as Malika dove through the veil, chasing the assassin back into the mortal realm like a trainee leaping through the waterfall at Rezan’s favorite meditation spot high in the icy mountains above Kezda.The world ab...
Chapter 365: Headhunter
Aliandra“Help,” Ali croaked. Behind her, the ominous shadows and glinting blade surged through her remaining minions, reaping lives like wheat. Impossibly, her own domain billowed out of the Gate, pouring into the Temple of Blood and colliding with the death domain in a blaze of mutual annihilat...
Chapter 364: Return to Aman Rak
Aliandra“I think I’m ready,” Ali announced. She was fussing unnecessarily, but she was as ready as she would ever be. She glanced at her friends, who were waiting patiently nearby in the darkness of the ruined second level of Dal’mohra, lit only by the soft greenish glow of the restoration c...
Chapter 363: Sparkly Ink
Teharissa Evensong“Ilantha, dear? Would you mind setting a fire? These old bones are feeling the chill tonight,” Teharissa said, clutching the shawl closer about her shoulders. Their living space was far more comfortable now that they had the money to afford some of the essentials, but they woul...
Chapter 362: Jewelry is a Dungeon’s Best Friend
AliandraAli opened the squeaky door and entered the tiny, cramped store. It stank of flux and solder, and a haze of fine dust hung in the air, sparkling in the sunbeams. Wooden floorboards creaked beneath her feet as she picked her way around stacked boxes of supplies and a few workstations with the...
Chapter 361: A Spot of Shade for Ali
CalenAt once, Calen identified the huge, surging shadow.Shadow Dragon – Dragon, Shade – level 109 (Shadow).“Second tier,” he announced. A bowstring twanged from right beside him as Coria beat him to the draw, her arrow shooting unerringly through the dragon’s blurry, shadowed chest.“Immu...
Chapter 360: A Jaunt Through the Shadows
CalenCalen stared out over the mind-bending expanse of the Infinite Maze. White islands of stone floated in the sky connected by all manner of stairways, walkways, floating stepping stones, and bridges of golden magic that twisted in every possible direction and a few more besides. Magic that was th...
Chapter 359: Guild Plans
AliandraAli found a spot near the back of the crowded guild hall and perched on the edge of her barrier, levitating herself high enough that she was about level with Mato’s eyeline. He nodded briefly to her as if to say, ‘I’ve got your back.’ She nodded back. Appreciated. That was too close ...
Chapter 358: Mayor Aiden Turner
Vivian RossVivian nodded to Donella and took her seat at the council table. It was to be a private session this morning with just the council members in session, and the air inside the mostly empty town hall still held the remnants of the night’s chill. An almost imperceptibly tiny pulse of her fi...
Chapter 357: The Spear of Silent Extinction (Part 2)
CalenCalen’s vision tunneled in, highlighting the ghastly crimson spray of his mother’s blood through the expanding cloud of shattered golden barrier shards. The world around him faded to a muted roar as his mother’s body hit the ground like a limp mannequin.“Mom!” someone screamed, using ...
Chapter 356: The Spear of Silent Extinction (Part 1)
Kieran MoriKieran stalked the streets, his blood boiling in his veins. Ever since he had been assigned to Myrin’s Keep, his job had remained the same – operating from the shadows to keep powerful figures like Bastian and Jax in check, and the population pliable and controlled. Keep the region pl...
Chapter 355: Mithril Beetle
AliandraA scorching, dry breeze poured from the Emberforge Mines, but it was still nothing like it had been when the fire dungeon had lurked in the depths. Ali examined her notifications.Subterranean Brood Queen – Rock Beetle – level 81 (Earth)Your reserved mana has increased by +293.“Not bad,...
