– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Rising Moon, Day 62 –
Terry heaved heavy breaths and wiped the sweat from his brow. He stood up straight and slowly walked to the corpse of the brightblaze tiger. The corpse of the last monster he had chosen to face that night.
<... 2025-06-27 23:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Rising Moon, Day 51 –
The bundle of energy in Terry’s arms started to wiggle and puff a variety of scents, which caused him to halt.
“Too fast?” Terry reflexively looked at the two beady eyes.
I thought they li...
2025-06-20 23:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Rising Moon, Day 49 –
“There aren’t that many records to compare to, but I’d say, by now, we’re overprepared,” said Mercedes.
Terry had known the elven researcher from the introduction to mana cursed course,...
2025-06-13 23:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Rising Moon, Day 1 –
“Fascinating…” Samuel’s pen rushed over the paper in a speed that any martialist would yearn to emulate with their own movement techniques.
The small orange blob that was the target of his research...
2025-06-06 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 86 –
“Terry, what the effing Wastes?” Derek stared at the three mountains of transfixed items that locked into place around the mighty Demonpalm.
“Okay who had the instructor getting trapped at the end i...
2025-05-30 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 84 –
Terry walked through a small dimensional gate to reach a narrow street in Arcana City’s merchant district. He glanced back before it could close behind him.
“Impressive,” muttered Terry honestly. Th...
2025-05-24 03:20:00 +0000 UTC View Post– Beginning of Arc 9, Blessed Curse –
– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 82 –
Antelias.
The rescinded name of Terry’s birth family hung in the air like a dark cloud waiting to transform into a storm.
Isille scowled an...
2025-05-16 23:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 53 –
“This ‘trip’ is taking forever,” complained a bald man.
“Derek, your complaining isn’t helping.” A slender woman with auburn hair in a side ponytail pointed out. “This is worse for me ...
2025-05-09 23:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 45 –
Loud cheering could be heard all throughout the Freedom Cooperative.
Random strangers in the streets were hugging each other and buying each other drinks.
Jubilation everywhere.
“We won!...
2025-05-02 23:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 42 –
Terry fought on with a single-minded purpose. His eyes never left the monster to be slain. He expressed his desperate rage in the words of unrestrained violence. He translated his hatred into perpetual pain...
– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 41 –
Terry’s mind raced while considering their options. There might be only a single Hound present, but they were facing a prince of the Lich Kingdoms. They couldn’t lock the space against Anand, which mean...
– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 41 –
“What’s going on, Terry?!” demanded Ying with confused anger in his voice.
“Whatever you do, don’t hand over the lynchpin core to that man!” ordered Terry while spreading his mana bubble.<...
2025-04-11 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 41 –
Bjorln looked over the destruction they had brought to one of the many platoons moving to reinforce the Twisted Duchess. His snow-white hair and frizzy beard moved with the wind while his eyes moved across ...
– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 41 –
Terry had to be careful while navigating the streets within the city of the Lich Kingdoms for many reasons. Avoiding detection was the obvious one, but their concealment also made it difficult for hi...
2025-03-29 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 40 –
“Okay, then try this one,” said Samuel, and he handed over a monster core.
Terry nodded. Under the dumbstruck gazes of his friends, family, and allies, his mana combined with the core to summon a crea...
2025-03-22 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 40 –
They had not shared the full plan with everyone, but it was enough to summon people that held reservations about Terry and Ying going alone to infiltrate and scout the Lich Kingdoms.
“Brother, this ...
2025-03-15 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 38 –
“Don’t you worry, Siling.” Calam placed his hand on Siling’s shoulder. “We’ll get your sister out. When the Valkyrie gets here, we’ll crush the Lich Kingdoms!” He clenched a fist with his ot...
– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 33 –
“You know what?” Elena stood up and patted the dirt from her pants. “Screw this. I’m skipping this round of sparring.”
“Why?” Tiana was watching the ongoing spar of their mutual friends....
2025-03-01 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 27 –
“What’s your business with the Spirit Tower Master?” Siling glanced at Terry, who was walking next to her.
“Asking about what’s going on with my soul or the former lack of one,” replied Te...
2025-02-22 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 27 –
“That’s… great,” said Terry half-heartedly. He took a sip of his favorite mana-imbued cold tea from Arcana.
On the one hand, they now had entire armies coming from the Union to support their strug...
2025-02-15 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 26 –
[Believe it or not, but that group comes from a powerful martial sect,] said Terry while signing for Dargones.
Terry had to furrow his brow when seeing their miserable and frankly frantic state, espec...
2025-02-08 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 26 –
The Bloody Duchess was rushing through the air in her bat form. That battle had been an unmitigated disaster. How had this damnable backwater city state gained the full support of a dimensional mage capable...
– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 18 –
Ying, Daiyu, and Siling were led by Matteo through a hallway in the Crafting Tower. It was still some way to the meeting room, but they could already hear a ruckus.
“You shouldn’t move your mana y...
2025-01-25 00:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 18 –
“Ying, she got away!” shouted Terry. “Stop!”
They had done their best to hold the powerful vampiress, but the Bloody Duchess had eventually blasted her way free with powerful artifacts ...
2025-01-18 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 18 –
Not long ago, the mid-sized town had celebrated their liberation from the Lich Kingdoms’ occupation, but now the screams were echoing through the streets and they were thrown into the depths of hell again...
– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 18 –
“You know, when Terry informed you about your parents arriving…” Tiana glanced at her elven friend with narrowed eyes. “I don’t think he had in mind that you would use that information to flee the...
– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 18 –
“Damn it, Apex! What are you doing?!” hissed Matteo and walked in front of Apex.
Apex ignored him and continued fixing her stare at the tower’s martialists spilling out into the training grounds...
2024-12-28 00:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 13 –
“We’re going to the Cooperative first,” insisted Daiyu.
Ying sighed.
“She has a point,” added a death knight from the side.
Ying moved to glare at Logan. He almost wished that Am...
2024-12-21 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 10 –
Terry ignored most of the heated discussions between the different local leaders and his family during the meeting. His mind was already set.
From the looks on the faces of his friends, it wasn’t ju...
2024-12-14 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 219, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 9 –
Terry was sitting alone in his room in the Lands’ Crafting Tower. He was channeling all his mana into the bottle artifact while stretching his mana perception to follow how the bottle achieved the condensa...