“Oh fuck,” I whispered, struck by the sight of the skull. Though I had spoken as quietly as I dared, my voice still echoed through the enormous hall I’d found myself in. The expletive bounced off the walls and returned to me endlessly, makin...
2024-12-13 18:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostI had no way of knowing just how long I spent, trying to bore my way through the walls of this prison. I couldn’t even count the number of identical cells I slipped my way into, like a questing snake in search of freedom. I had to ...
2024-12-11 18:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostFor one long moment, nothing happened, and I feared the worst. Was the door broken, after who knows how many centuries moldering in the shadow of the Wyrm? Had all of our efforts to reach this hidden door been for nothing? Had I dragged my friends...
2024-12-09 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThankfully, my stamina held out as I helped to row us to the mountain. Probably entirely due to the Energy potion, honestly. Nonetheless, thanks to the powerful winds kicked up by Tatsugan’s storm as the Wyrm raged above us against Shacklock, we...
2024-12-06 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostI was instantly buffeted by the storm raging all about me. Even though my exertions in the control room had felt like hours, it had to have been only minutes. And yet, in that short amount of time that I spent struggling with the door, Ta...
2024-12-04 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe entire dock-like platform I was on shook the instant my hand touched the sapphire. Great rumbling sounds filled the air as long-dormant chains, bound up into massive coils creaked and groaned as they came to life, buried beneath the stone of t...
2024-12-02 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostIMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!
I haven't said anything up to this point, but some months ago, I signed up with a publisher with the intent of taking Sins of the Forefathers to a broader audience. That publisher is called Level Up P...
2024-11-29 18:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostIf it was even possible, I think the rain was coming down even harder today than it had been yesterday.
That struck me as a bad sign.
From the moment Tarus had crested the horizon behind nearly black clouds, we’d been marching along ...
2024-11-27 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning, I took the time to check my Status as we were breaking down our hastily erected camp on the edges of the plateau. While my outer ring was yanking out pegs and folding the canvas, my core was contemplating my gains.
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2024-11-25 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Thank ya kindly for retrievin’ the blade, descendent,” Shacklock said fondly, patting the shoulder of the frozen stiff Kazuma. “I woulda done it meself, but I might have ended up killin’ all those cats if I’d tried. This way,...
2024-11-22 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostI gaped at Shacklock, and I noticed I wasn’t the only one. Similar expressions were on everyone else’s faces as well, from Azarus to Liora, to hell. Even Venix looked surprised at those words.
Shacklock was Grey’s brother?...
2024-11-20 18:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostBefore we left to follow in the wake of the madman who was essentially kidnapping us, we took the time to gather up the Monster Cores littering the now quieted battlefield. The amount of wealth that was being revealed by the dissipating Miasma was...
2024-11-18 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe sight was so startling that all I could do was stare out at the person.
Well, I assumed it was a person. It was hard to see the figure through the fading light and the dark of the storm. But whoever they were, it didn’t look l...
2024-11-15 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThis wasn’t as stupid as it might immediately appear.
During one of our breaks on the climb, we discussed just this possibility as a group. We had always known it was a possibility that we could run face-first into a battle such as this. T...
2024-11-13 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI wanted to grit my teeth in frustration at Kazuma’s ultimatum. Thankfully, I had better control over myself to let a tell like that through, if only thanks to Acting. Honestly though…
I’d been expecting something like...
2024-11-11 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostMy… episode marred our departure from Mt. Umetsuji, and it was far more abrupt than I think any of us had been planning. Shurenga, Sena, and Gin came to see us off, as well as the horde of cubs that had been dogging (catting?) our heels. I was i...
2024-11-08 18:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostSleep came hard that night, wrapped in my sleeping bag in the guest rooms of Mt. Umetsuji. All of us had agreed to spend the night here in the volcano, secure in the hospitality of Shurenga and her Children. After a surprisingly normal dinner host...
2024-11-06 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAh.
That was both…expected and unexpected, honestly. Just before he had left the scene of my duel with Rhazal in the Concord, Tarus had made a cryptic remark about ‘seeing if we can work something out’. I’d wondered what he meant abo...
2024-11-04 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe ‘guest rooms’ turned out to be a small side cave inside of the volcano, with a small, placid pool of lava in the center. The walls were smooth, glassy obsidian, much like the rest of the main cave had been, and honestly?
The air wasn...
2024-11-01 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe feline that had exited the cave to gaze down at us in patient amusement was…gigantic. Next to Rhazal, they had to be the single largest creature I’d ever seen on Vereden, including Taran. The elderly Spirit Wolf had to be at least...
2024-10-30 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostI was no longer enjoying the heat. As we got closer and closer to the looming form of Mt. Umetsuji, I discovered a flaw in the enchantment I’d weaved onto my cloak. During the Meld, I’d misjudged one of the patterns to the extent that the temp...
2024-10-28 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostWell, everyone charged but Renauld, Kazuma, and Bella that is. As the Healer, Renauld stayed behind to watch our backs. Bella, too, because she was part of the team meant to watch him. I knew she would be cranky from missing out on the fight, but ...
2024-10-25 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostI exchanged a quick glance with Venix, and that was all I needed to know.
He was determined to retrieve this sword. Even though the only reason to do that would be so Kazuma could essentially kill himself with it.
I suppressed...
2024-10-23 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostKazuma of Clan Higanashi, de facto Lord of his clan….
Found himself feeling terribly conflicted.
So much was happening all at once that he was having trouble settling on a single emotion.
There was the betrayal, of course. The ...
2024-10-21 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe difference between them was too great for Kazuma’s blow to move Venix even a single inch, of course. The Antium took the punch without blinking straight on the chin, still staring down at the heavily breathing Kawamaran man who had assaulted...
2024-10-18 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostAN:
Alright, the Discord is now dead, and there are now a few chat channels in the new Community tab that Patreon launch. Free Chat for everyone, and Questions and Corrections for paid members. Much simpler than the overly complicated Discor...
2024-10-16 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostWe’d been traveling through this jungle for three days now. Honestly, it seemed almost neverending. At first, I’d found the idea of a trek through a jungle to be novel and exciting. The idea was something that I had only seen in media from bac...
2024-10-14 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostWe were perhaps three hours into our journey when Liora brought us to a halt. The Gnoll woman dropped out of the treetops in front of Venix, landing in a crouch and locking eyes with the point man. “Stop,” She said suddenly, sounding out of br...
2024-10-11 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostAN:
I'm going to be honest. I hate Discord. I hate using it, I hate even having an account. I'm pretty sure I'm going to delete the discord I have, since I don't think I've checked it in months. I only ever made it due to advice from other a...
2024-10-09 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe air on the beach grew quiet and still in the wake of Shacklock’s threat. A feeling began to sweep through the gathered classers and officers of the Order of Solstice’s Flame. Where before they were mistrustful of our group, now there was a...
2024-10-07 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post