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Chapter 154 - Truths Forgotten
Chapter 154Truths ForgottenValen could fly, the Prince realized. From Sylas’ back, it was as though he grew wings and they fluttered--and he took to the grand skies, slowly descending toward the sight that took his breath away. The one-eyed man stood rooted in place, the world round him dancing an...
Chapter 153 - The Prince Foretold
Chapter 153The Prince ForetoldThe winds were blowing cold and harsh, their touch akin to a knife’s scrape against the skin. They were relentless, void of emotion, cutting through the world at their own pace. Valen had heard the winds often, but always from the comfort of the castle’s walls--espe...
Chapter 152 - Gifts of Blood
Chapter 152Gifts of BloodThe sky was always starless, Sylas reckoned, misted in thick, gray clouds. The feeling of looking at it from down below was suffocating, as though he was stuck within a framed cage that had no world beyond it. Rather than the sight, however, it was his thoughts that were dro...
Chapter 151 - Of Godly Means and Prophecies
Chapter 151Of Godly Means and PropheciesSylas pulled back the bow and closed one of his eyes, his fingers itching to let loose, aiming toward a thing he couldn’t see. In front of him stood a stone wall, and beyond it a scarecrow-like target, and he wanted to pierce its head. Taking a deep breath, ...
Chapter 150 - Beneath the Armor
Chapter 150Beneath the ArmorSylas sat on a cold, rough rock, snow careening from the high sky and covering the surrounding landscape in thick layers of white. There was a gourd of ale in his hand, half-drank already, and innumerable thoughts swimming in his mind. Stories were weaving, and a myriad o...
Chapter 149 - Exorcising the Demons
Chapter 149Exorcising the DemonsAs soon as the new loop started, well within the first hour of the tragedy, Sylas leftthe castle with hurried steps, deciding to train on the Way along the journey. Though he cleansed a good chunk of his anger, the side-effect of it was that the lid he'd put on it...
Chapter 148 - Day Colored in Red
Chapter 148Day Colored in RedWhat followed Sylas' proclamation was violence. Pure, raw, unadulterated, primal violence that knew neither humanity nor empathy. It was a battle of no civility, no acceptance, no tolerance, no high-strung ideas that tied mankind into a loose group of like-minded sou...
Chapter 147 - Vile, Evil, and Inhumane
Chapter 147Vile, Evil, and InhumaneA shadow moved swiftly and silently, creeping between the simplistic houses unheard and unseen. It was like a knife searing through the pounds of flesh effortlessly, gliding through the many soft throats and ending lives as unsuspectingly. There was something dasta...
Chapter 146 - Hymns of Shadows
Chapter 146Hymns of ShadowSylas hardly fancied a blizzard that nigh buried him alive, but a blizzard that nigh buried him alive was what he got. Halfway through the night on top of the tiny protrusion he was using to rest, he was woken to the sounds of hissing winds that ripped through the mountainw...
Chapter 145 - It Stood Hidden
Chapter 145It Stood HiddenTrek through the snow was fairly easy, but it was the night that made it difficult. Still, Sylas persisted, belting his boots into the snow and imprinting the path from the castle southward. The lonesome moon in the sky reflected his own being, as for the first time in a wh...
Chapter 144 - Anger Unblemished
Chapter 144Anger UnblemishedWhat once was a central chamber that forked into numerous corridors and hallways of the castle was now a makeshift arena with stands framing it circularly. The usually silent walls were alight with cheers, and just outside the stands, in the room over, a massive feast was...
Chapter 143 - Two Stories
Chapter 143Two StoriesThe castle as a whole was afire with excitement, with everyone in a great rush to prepare for the impromptu tournament that the Prince was throwing. Most excited were those keen on participating, especially after learning about the rewards--every participant will get a full gou...
Chapter 142 - King Wyvenul
Chapter 142King Wyvenul“Where to begin?” Valen mumbled, taking a sip of wine and having a hard think for a moment before continuing. “Truth be told, most of what I know of my father before my time are stories--legends and myths, even, that the servants and guards would whisper when they though...
Chapter 141 - Calm Between the Walls
Chapter 141Calm Between the WallsSylas slowly opened his eyes to the sound of the morning barks; it’s been a while, he realized, since he last had a good, uninterrupted night’s rest. Beyond that, he had no worries, no new things he had to do today, no plans for potentially dying to something ins...
Chapter 140 - Chasms of the Mind
Chapter 140Chasms of MindSylas was sitting in the wide-open plain, snow falling relentlessly on him, his legs hung off the ledge of the boulder he'd taken as his 'spot', gourds upon gourds of wine--over half already empty--strewn about. There was a dazed look on his face, his lips faintl...
Chapter 139 - Cairn of Immortality
Chapter 139Cairn of ImmortalitySylas was told to follow--and the 'old man Lukas' as he'd gotten to call the man leading him left the room, took a sharp right, and began descending the stairs. That descent led into the hallway at the end of which another set of stairs leading downstairs e...
Chapter 138 - Winterwoven
Chapter 138WinterwovenStrange silence reigned over a spacious, round, and lavishly decorated room. Gold-woven drapes covered arched, stained glass windows, with the wall spilling into a blend of marble and rug-covered stone. Beautiful, hand-carved chairs with ornamental backs surrounded equally deco...
Chapter 137 - Songs of the Capital
Chapter 137Songs of the CapitalFrayer had lived a long life--this was especially impressive considering he'd been entangled with the wrong side of the law from when he was a little boy thieving away around the Perfumed District. Most boys and men like him die very young or get caught and tossed ...
Chapter 136 - The Wheels Turn
Chapter 136The Wheels TurnAsha and Sylas sat on a small wall gating a tall, thick tree. It resided in a park-like enclosure, surrounded by several fountains and garden-like flowery bushes. Both were still reeling from the shock of where they landed and what they'd discovered, Sylas actually more...
Chapter 135 - Cathia
Chapter 135CathiaWhile Asha smiled excitedly and gestured with her hands and arms toward the sky, Sylas stood silenced, staring at the vortex that appeared out of nowhere. He’d witnessed many-a-strange thing in his life here on this world, and this one might be the strangest one yet. Wiping his ey...
Chapter 134 - Bolts Strike in Twos
Chapter 134Bolts Strike in TwosSylas exhaled a rancid breath and shuddered for a moment as he opened his eyes. He sat topless by the lake, basking in the faintly lukewarm rays of the sun, sweat dripping down off of him. Scooping up a handful of water from the lake, he washed his face before drinking...
Chapter 133 - Ruins of H'vel
Chapter 133Ruins of H’velSylas sat by one of the ruins--one of the better-preserved ones, with one wall even standing almost whole, etched in it a squared hole where a window used to be. He’d cleaned up most of the interior, removing the far-reaching vines and grass that had taken over it, revea...
Chapter 132 - Heaven's Hung in Silver
Chapter 132Heaven’s Hung in SilverThe town, city, settlement, whatever it used to be, circled the lake in a crescent, sticking mostly to the flatland, with only a few shoddy-looking, building-like formations protruding on the steep mountain ‘paths’. Agnes and Sylas did a quick run-through of t...
Chapter 131 - Buried in the Sands of Time
Chapter 131Buried in the Sands of TimeSylas fell out of it for but a moment before coming to. Agnes, however, continued to stare, her jaw slacked, forcing Sylas to grab her by the arm and pull her away and behind one of the jagged spires protruding from the mountain’s summit, hiding behind the cov...
Chapter 130 - Past the Summit Untouched
Chapter 130Past the Summit UntouchedThey moved slowly, their pace strikingly decrepit. For every ten minutes that they walked, they spent hours huddled in a shelter waiting for the weather to get better--namely for the wind to slow down to the ‘barely not blown off the side of the mountain’ spee...
Chapter 129 - Heralding the Unconquerable
Chapter 129Heralding the UnconquerableUnder the cover of a remarkably dark night, one where the moon elected to hide behind the thick clouds and the sky decided to be starless, Agnes and Sylas snuck out of the castle and headed westward. Both knew that leaving during the day would likely elicit the ...
Chapter 128 - Everyone Changed
Chapter 128Everyone ChangedRyne hummed a low beat while slowly going through everything Sylas and Agnes brought forward in the preparation period for the creation of talismans. Even though Sylas wasn’t shabby either, it has been quite some time, years even for him, since he last crafted a talisman...
Chapter 127 - Buried in the Mountains
Chapter 127Buried in the Mountains“Yeah, this was a shit idea,” Sylas mumbled and closed his eyes. Soon after, darkness descended and the boiling burn won.You have died.Save point ‘Death’ has been initialized.“AAAAGGHHHHH!!!”Sylas was looming over a table--specifically, a leather map lai...
Chapter 126 - Hills To Climb, Mountains To Conquer
Chapter 126Hills To Climb, Mountains To ConquerIt was a first, Sylas realized--they were cold. In fact, even hiding in a makeshift cave, as close to the fire as they could get without getting burnt... the chill still lingered. Though it made sense for him since, in the end, he simply had greater res...
Chapter 125 - No Truth To Beckon
Chapter 125No Truth To BeckonSylas slashed his blade horizontally, easily cutting through yet another Ghoul. Within just fifteen minutes that he had been back, he'd already killed over thirty Ghouls, saving nearly a dozen people in the process. Agnes followed behind, strictly when he cleared the...
