Tsaimath

Chapter 663

As I walked down the stairs to the platform on which my visitors had been fighting for my entertainment, the air started to stir and shift. It wasn’t just the air of intimidation I tried to project with my calm, unhurried approach, it was also a...

Chapter 662

Observing the Travellers as they cautiously made their way up the stairs, only to realise that they were in full view of my Throne, without any cover nearby and freeze was quite amusing. To be fair, they were in a pretty rough spot, climbing the t...

Interlude: Challenging the Tower

“What on earth is he talking about?” Clavran asked one of his fellow Korbal, as Howardlight finished his challenge to the dark-cloaked guardian that had stepped forward to meet their attack. From the sound of it, it was Morgana but it was diff...

Chapter 661

I was somewhat amused when I realised that I actually recognised the leader of this motley band of adventurers. Or rather, of Travellers, for I was now completely convinced that they all were from beyond, just like me.

Controlling the simula...

Chapter 660

A cloying, almost overpowering presence seeped out of the Soul Prison, wrapping itself around Lenore and me, the two of us separate once more. The presence was faintly familiar and I intellectually knew it was the Nidhögg, free of its prison than...

Chapter 639

• AN: Gah, I'm an idiot...
• This chapter should have been the one right after Sigmir fell in battle. And I derped, not uploading it. 

Tears were still streaming down my face, as I was shunted into my ...

Interlude: Assault on the Citadel

Looking up, into the massive mountains surrounding them, Clavran could only shake his head. Just a week ago, he had been fighting in the Arena of the White Tower, fighting to entertain the masses and nobility. And then, all of a sudden, things had...

Chapter 659

Gently touching the Soul Prison, I felt the power pulsing within. The difference was incredible, from the faint, almost extinguished presence it had when I first got it, to the palpable sense of power it now emanated, there was just no comparison....

Chapter 658

• AN: This should have gone up yesterday but somehow, Patreon ate the scheduling. No idea. Anyway, enjoy :D

Slowly shaking my head, I blinked a few times, trying to get rid of the spots shimmering in my eyes. Th...

Interlude: White Friday

At the edge of the Elven Forest, where the dryad-bound giant trees of their home have to give way to the smaller, ordinary trees that grow near the slopes of the Mountains of Ice, a small army is marching out of an emerald-green opening within one...

Chapter 657

A frown creased my forehead, as I was looking down at the elvish army. I couldn’t believe that they would be this reckless and predictable, simply marching up the valley without taking any additional precautions. Sure, they had deployed a compan...

Chapter 656

Observing by myself, the images were even clearer than seen in the memory of the Nevermore. It truly was an army that made its way up the mountains and, almost certainly, towards my valley. Seen from above, it was a disciplined group of elves, tho...

Chapter 655

After five days of hard work, the valley had completely changed once again. Not only were there creatures roaming around the valley, but there were even multiple walls protecting the perimeter and the individual pillars. That, together with the gl...

Chapter 654

After knowing that I might, eventually, get a veritable host of spirit-infused Ice constructs, I had a wide smile on my face. Maybe, for once, we wouldn’t be hopelessly outnumbered. But before I could begin working on those constructs, I had som...

Chapter 653

It took me a few seconds to recover after seeing those two boxes. I could easily accept the title, and it even tickled me that I had gained it, though I had no idea what it would actually do. It wasn’t as if the glacial valley I had just claimed...

Chapter 652

After a good rest, the world had changed quite a bit. Looking from above, we could see that the surging levels of Wild Magic had stabilised, effectively turning the valley below into a quite lethal area that would tear apart pretty much anything e...

Chapter 651

As the giant Yeti died, power surged through the glacier, flooding the entire valley. It was a wild mix of Astral Power, enough to turn visible to the naked eye, to say nothing of our special sight. Reaching out, we tried to take control of the po...

Chapter 650

Given that the small Yeti, for a given value of small, were again charging in our direction, Ylva and I started to retreat. Without the cover of the mist, we couldn’t conceal ourselves any longer, making us sitting ducks for these physically pow...

Chapter 649

Moments after the first Yeti died, it started to dissipate into Astral Power, a disgusting mix of tainted power that made me nauseous to my core. I could easily identify the base types of it, Ice, Wind and Darkness, all bound up in a strange way t...

Chapter 648

The glacier housing the Nexus was eerily silent. Dense fog turned the visibility to nearly zero and a cold wind swept through it at all times. How the fog could linger, despite the wind, I had no clue but maybe, the sensation of the cold wind, or ...

Chapter 647

It was quite amusing, travelling through the Mountains of Ice was just as dangerous as travelling through the elven realm, maybe even more so. The elven forest had required us to conceal ourselves constantly and as long as we managed to stay hidde...

Chapter 646

Looking at our chosen mountain from the air, I felt even better than before. Lenore was carrying me in my Hallow, as the sun was still shining and thus there were no shadows for me to step into at altitude so I couldn’t glide. We approached from...

Chapter 645

It almost felt odd, putting my feet back on the ground after five days of constant flight. After we had destroyed the dryad and the forest around her burrow, the three of us had decided that landing might allow the elves to trace us, something we ...

Chapter 644

With a step into the shadows, I disappeared from the area devastated by the Nidhögg’s flames. Everything I had planned to accomplish was done and I had even gained a point in Darkness-magic from messing around with the immense amount of power l...

Trailer: Call of the Crusade

Everyone walks their own Road to Purgatory

But sometimes, a Call is made and all Roads must bend to follow the same direction…

In a dark forest, a lonely, black-clad figure is slowly walking, until t...

Chapter 643

Letting the Darkness around me dissipate a little, I let myself sink down to the ground. While the aftermath of the Nidhögg’s devastation wasn’t as welcoming and homely as the frozen wastes left after the ice storm we had conjured had faded, ...

WO, Ch. 138 - The Northern Forest

As we travelled north, the days quickly became noticeably colder. In just the week we had moved out of the Coronal Mountains and into the northern forests, I had gone from casually wearing a t-shirt and not feeling overly cold to either wearing th...

Chapter 642

“There seems to be nothing around here,” Lenore mused, her mental voice filled with disbelief. I could empathize with her, seeing the massive tree and the empty meadow around it didn’t invoke images of an incredibly important sanctuary and y...

Chapter 641

“How exhausted are you?” I asked Ylva, knowing that she had to be running on fumes by now. She had fought just as hard as Lenore and I had and now she was even carrying me to safety.

“And how are you flying in the first place?” I add...

Chapter 640

After about two hours, the siren’s call of the capsule proved too strong for me to resist. Those lingering traces, those memories and even the sharp, immediate pain I had been feeling while on Mundus, all those things proving and reminding me of...