– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Setting Moon, Day 31 –
Early in the morning, Terry had already finished most of his daily routine jobs and was on his way to a more lucrative mission: His goal for the day was to dive the local dungeon two floors deeper...
2024-05-11 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Setting Moon, Day 19 –
“Halt!”
Terry was returning to the inner city districts when a pair of city guards approached him. A dwarven man and a human woman. He raised an eyebrow. “Yes?”
The human guard s...
2024-05-04 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Setting Moon, Day 19 –
Terry stood in front of a pathway leading underneath the earth. He was surprised to find that he wasn’t nervous. A lot had changed since the days he had first stepped into a dungeon. He did not tr...
2024-04-27 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Setting Moon, Day 19 –
Terry finished cleaning himself up and he re-equipped his armor. The world outside his window was still dark while the morning was struggling to push away the night.
He had already finished ...
2024-04-20 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Setting Moon, Day 12 –
Once again, Terry did not sleep as much as he should. Sadly, it was not the result of another half-conscious insight during his dreams.
No, this time it was a lot less pleasant.
Terry rubbed his ey...
2024-04-13 00:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Setting Moon, Day 11 –
Terry had not slept much the night before, even less than normal for him. It was no fault of his room at the inn. The room was fine and no one had bothered him. It was not because of one of the recurring night...
2024-04-06 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Setting Moon, Day 10 –
Terry decided to descend in a secluded location and then walk the remaining distance to the mana distortion on foot. He would attract less attention and it would keep his aerial movement abilities hidden.
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– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Rising Moon, Day 3 –
High up in the sky, Terry opened his eyes. His gaze first rested on the bucket filled with water that served as his trusted alarm clock and...
2024-03-23 01:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Rising Moon, Day 2 –
After the threat of the mana-cursed invasion had been repelled, the folded space unfolded. However, before the remaining challengers had a chance to pinpoint the dungeon’s real location for themse...
2024-03-16 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Rising Moon, Day 1 –
The heavens roared and never ceased following the bloody blade on Terry’s king spear. Like the deadly reaper of the realm itself, he waltzed through the mass of mushroom-sprouting invaders. Whatev...
2024-03-09 00:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Rising Moon, Day 1 –
Lightning roared unceasingly. The never-ending thunder of heaven’s fury had become the new heartbeat of their desperate defense. The raging noise always rang in the death of another group of enemies… but it ...
2024-03-02 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 96 –
“How in all that’s mana is he still going?” Jason was collapsing in one of the areas they had secured and fortified for recuperation. He laid flat on the hard rock, assured by the mana he could...
2024-02-24 00:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 93 –
A four-legged construct with double-jointed arms that ended in rotating spinning blades was cleaving through a large group of mana-corrupted tigers with fungus growing all over them.
A gigant...
2024-02-17 01:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 92 –
“Do you trust the Arcanian?” Chun asked Zhang. The eyes of the tall woman lingered with intense curiosity on the face of her senior brother.
By now, roughly half of all the martialists that...
2024-02-10 01:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 85 –
Some martialists took courage at Guillermo’s frown after Terry’s suggestion and they dared to speak up again.
“So you’re telling us that something oh-so-terrible is going to come from down there a...
2024-02-03 01:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 85 –
“It has a core!” The woman slashed at the construct with gleeful greed.
“It’s mine!” The man next to her tried to push her away.
Core.
Terry was instantly jolted ...
2024-01-27 01:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 84 –
“Why are we going to these vile scoundrels?!” Barnes glared at Zhang.
“The same reason you went last time even though I advised you against it.” Zhang glanced coldly at his junior martial brother....
2024-01-20 01:02:06 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 84 –
Vicious’s fluid-like skin was bubbling from sadistic excitement. “Little muppet, it’s time to greet the Pond!” He strolled forward to the barely conscious martialist that had abruptly failed her cultiva...
2024-01-13 01:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 66 –
Terry was sitting on a transfixed slab of tertium that created an improvised chair. His feet were solidly on the ground. It was hard to imagine how irritating something minor as not being able to l...
2024-01-06 01:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Setting Sun, Day 39 –
As so often, Terry was hanging around alone in the sky. His primary focus was on all the bustling mana signatures down on the ground. Ever since he had stopped looking for Vicious directly and instead followed ...
2023-12-30 01:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Rising Sun, Day 98 –
Terry traced the magic necklace with his left hand. The dungeon reward helped conceal his mana signature while he was waiting at a specific location in a small mountain range. He stared at a concealed...
2023-12-23 01:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Rising Sun, Day 74 –
“What the—? Crap!” Terry sensed a vast movement of mana aimed towards his direction.
Was Rafael trying to buy time? Did I fall for their trap? What is this? An attack? Should I try to ...
2023-12-16 01:02:02 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Rising Sun, Day 40 –
“What are we going to do about Terry?” One of Shen’s friends asked him.
“Nothing,” replied Shen calmly.
“Really?! He killed—”
“Someone that did not heed my warning,” interru...
2023-12-09 01:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Rising Sun, Day 27 –
High up in the sky, Terry performed a few practice thrusts with the king spear. He switched between matching the resizing of the spear to the thrust direction and resizing it in reverse.
Timed right, t...
2023-12-02 01:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Rising Sun, Day 7 –
Terry searched through his dimensional storage and placed all the spears in front of him on the floor.
Hm… Maybe this one?
He picked up one of the spears he had looted from the Hal...
2023-11-25 01:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Rising Sun, Day 4 –
“Huahh!” Terry slammed the glowing keen dagger with both arms into the sphere.
Finally, a crack appeared on the trial’s target and it evaporated.
“Screw…” He was wheezing heavy breaths. ...
2023-11-18 01:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Rising Sun, Day 3 –
“I’ll be sending Matteo over soon enough!”
Vicious’s words were still echoing from the walls and Terry’s blood was boiling from the threat to one of his whaka. His consci...
2023-11-11 01:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 218, Season of the Rising Sun, Day 3 –
Terry had the sense to not interrupt Apex in her monologue about the intricacies of locating treasures and dao chambers in a folded space.
I don’t recall her ever speaking that much without threatenin...
2023-11-04 01:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 217, Season of the Setting Moon, Day 70 –
Terry looked at the mossy wall with narrowed eyes and whispered: “Impressive.”
If he were to trust his eyes, he would still think this was a normal wall. This alone wasn’t that impressive, honestly...
2023-10-28 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post– Era of the Wastes, Cycle 217, Season of the Setting Moon, Day 40 –
As high up in the sky as the secret realm permitted, several tertium items were transfixed.
A folded cube with an open top was sizzling and smoke was rising up. Two U-shaped tertium pieces were holding a...
2023-10-21 00:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post