– 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.
Terry retrieved his keen dagger and cut out the monster core that was now soulless. His gaze lingered on the keen dagger. Even though he had the opt...
2025-06-27 23:00:01 +0000 UTC
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– 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 liked going fast. Did I overdo it?
”Or what are you trying to say, Shroomling?”
As a reply, he only received an unintelligible whir...
2025-06-20 23:00:01 +0000 UTC
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– 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, which he had taken together with Siling and Calam. Only back then, the woman had worn a pantsuit instead of light armor and an enchanted travel cloak...
2025-06-13 23:00:15 +0000 UTC
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– 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 experiments didn’t appear impressed… or care at all.
“Will Goo be okay?” asked Miguel worriedly. He stared at all the different contrap...
2025-06-06 23:00:04 +0000 UTC
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– 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 in the pot?” asked one of Palmer’s disciples.
“No one, and you know it,” grumbled Rosheen.
“Which means I did.” The disciple gr...
2025-05-30 23:00:02 +0000 UTC
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– 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. The dimensional gate in front of his mana sight looked like a stable piece of art, which was immensely impressive given how little time it had taken Ant...
2025-05-24 03:20:00 +0000 UTC
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– 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 and clicked her tongue. As much as she wanted to prioritize saving her son from himself, the appearance of a Council family from Arcana took precedence....
2025-05-16 23:00:01 +0000 UTC
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– 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 than it is for you.”
“If that’s true, then only because you’ve been slacking in your mana cultivation again,” retorted Derek. “Other...
2025-05-09 23:00:01 +0000 UTC
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– 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!”
“It’s over!”
“Long live the Cooperative!”
“Long live Freedom!”
“Long live the Guardian!”
Edmund lo...
2025-05-02 23:00:01 +0000 UTC
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– 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 inflicted on the body of the monster.
Transfixing its teeth before smashing its head around.
Shifting shrapnel into organs.
Grindin...
2025-04-25 23:00:01 +0000 UTC
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– 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 meant their best option would be to continue in their previous endeavor and teleport away.
“Are you sure Siyu’s free?” asked Ying.
A...
2025-04-18 23:00:02 +0000 UTC
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– 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.
“Terry, we don’t have much time, and that’s Syn’s Progenitor,” said Ying. “If anyone can help, it’s—”
“That man is a m...
2025-04-11 23:00:05 +0000 UTC
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– 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 the landscape.
Brynn’s most powerful anti-magic constructs were securing the perimeter, while soldiers selected by Chadwick were securing supp...
2025-04-04 23:00:02 +0000 UTC
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– 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 him and Ying to coordinate.
Terry could always feel where Ying was, but his companion had no such means of piercing their own concealment magic. E...
2025-03-29 00:00:01 +0000 UTC
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– 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 creature he had never seen.
The mana-corrupted tiger roared. Its fur was covered in steely spikes and it was about to lash out before it was disinte...
2025-03-22 00:00:01 +0000 UTC
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– 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 plan is madness!” protested Rafael. “Take me with you!”
If it’s madness, then why do you volunteer for it?
Terry couldn...
2025-03-15 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
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– 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 other hand.
“Maybe…” Siling sighed, and muttered quietly. “I don’t care about crushing the Lich Kingdoms. I just want to get to know my ...
2025-03-08 00:00:01 +0000 UTC
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– 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. “Not like you to back away from a challenge.”
“That…” Elena pointed at Terry’s ridiculous display. “Is not a challenge. ...
2025-03-01 00:00:02 +0000 UTC
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– 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 Terry with a frown.
“I thought we weren’t worried about that anymore?” Siling furrowed her brow.
“A martialist acquaintance with a s...
2025-02-22 00:00:01 +0000 UTC
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– 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 struggle against the Lich Kingdoms.
On the other hand…
“Venerable Senior!” A martialist bowed down until his head hit the floor.
...
2025-02-15 00:00:01 +0000 UTC
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– 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, especially when facing the simultaneous assault from nullification mana, targeted spells, and a powerful disruption domain. He hadn’t even made a proper ...
2025-02-08 00:00:01 +0000 UTC
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– 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 of anchoring gates?
The vampiress had received reports about two dimensional mages before. An elven woman of suspected Guild affiliation, who h...
2025-02-01 00:00:01 +0000 UTC
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– 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 yet! You need to rest—!”
“Shut it! This is tower business! Who even invited all of you?! Why the fuck do you keep pestering me!” Apex’s...
2025-01-25 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
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– 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 that had bought her time to transform into blood and seep into the ground until she had gained enough distance to use other transport abilities and ar...
2025-01-18 00:00:01 +0000 UTC
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– 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.
Half of the city had been reshaped into a massive dome blocking the army’s advance on ground that later collapsed right onto the heads of th...
2025-01-11 00:00:01 +0000 UTC
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– 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 scene.”
“Whatever do you mean?” Siling deadpanned. “When the Spellcrusher asked about being ready for the next raid, I simply replied t...
2025-01-04 00:00:01 +0000 UTC
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– 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 leading up to the entrance.
“Apex!” shouted Matteo. “Don’t make this more difficult than it has to be, just—”
“You’re the...
2024-12-28 00:00:06 +0000 UTC
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– 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 Amelia hadn’t left first. The Spellcrusher had been eager to return to her spirit-bonded partner and since Ying was a dimensional mage himself, she di...
2024-12-21 00:00:01 +0000 UTC
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– 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 just him. They had all seen the damage to the army of constructs guarding the city. The Freedom Cooperative wasn’t able to take many such setbacks.
2024-12-14 00:00:01 +0000 UTC
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– 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 condensation of mana into liquid form.
“Nothing…” grumbled Terry and took a deep breath.
He had tried relying on his mana control to achieve...
2024-12-07 00:00:08 +0000 UTC
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