Malcolm Tent

A Novel Approach chapter 123

Wish upon the Stars chapter 959

Once we emerged from Callie’s soul space, I explained everything to my friends and family. Inner circle only, of course, under Murmur. Of course, everyone wanted to see Gossamer, and my wife was all too pleased to show off her new soul weapon. Even my mom was jealous. My dad, apparently, had his own ( the cane he tapped to ...

Secret Ending chapter 94

Wish upon the Stars chapter 958

We came back to reality dazed. The first thing I did was check on Callie. “Cal? Sweetie? You with me? How’s your head?” I surged Zagan, flooding her body with life energy before she could answer, and she giggled and smacked at my hand.

“Wait til I respond, idiot,” she said fondly. “And I’m…good.” She s...

Secret Ending chapter 93

Wish upon the Stars chapter 957

I stared at the kindly man in shock. Or rather, I tried to. I couldn’t see him, really. My eyes were inexorably drawn to his, falling into the blue black abyss. He had the same eyes as my wife, but…more. An order of magnitude more. They were magnetic, hypnotic, whatever term you wanted to use, I couldn’t look away. Like...

A Novel Approach chapter 122

Wish upon the Stars chapter 956

Over the next eight or nine hours, we caught three more B-rank Void infiltrators. Not all of them were Vessels, sadly. In fact, only the first one, Faustryche, had been a vessel. Personally, I didn’t think it was so bad, we’d still taken down some Void worshippers, and even if they didn’t happen to be big bosses, they w...

Secret Ending chapter 92

Wish upon the Stars chapter 955

Reaching the tenth level wasn’t too tough. I wanted to go deeper, honestly, but Faustryche had been recently seen down here and we had a day or two before the next shift. In fact, we couldn’t have gone lower as a group anyway. The majority of our people didn’t have a Chronicle, even among the top percentage of our comba...

A Novel Approach chapter 121

Wish upon the Stars chapter 954

I stared down into the very large hole with trepidation. “Look,” I said slowly. “I feel like no one will take this seriously, and it might not even matter since we have to go down there. But I feel like it needs to be said. Literally NOTHING good has ever happened to any of us in a hole in the ground.”

Callie ro...

Secret Ending chapter 91

Wish upon the Stars chapter 953

When we reached the house my parents had been staying at, I admit I froze. “I…was expecting something bigger.” We were standing in a small grass yard between two huge buildings. Packed into the intervening space was a small cottage, thatched roof and all. It was a warm brown color, with a blue painted door sporting a sh...

Secret Ending chapter 90

Wish upon the Stars chapter 952

There was a brief lull before everyone lost it. Not a long one, mind. It seemed like everyone was so shocked they didn’t know how to react. On our side we were staring down twenty A-rankers, and on theirs a small massacre had played out among their charges. The first person to react was a particularly large figure on the le...

A Novel Approach chapter 120

Wish upon the Stars chapter 951

The trip up the glacier was tense. I’d expected that, with all of us stuck together in a very small area (relatively speaking) and unable to leave. Given the rank of the planet, the distance to the ground, and the makeup of the rock at the bottom, for anyone who DIDN’T have wings, falling off this platform was going to be...

Secret Ending chapter 89

Wish upon the Stars chapter 950

“So, I have a plan,” I said as we stared up at the platforms to Arcadia. They nearest one to us was apparently the West gate. It was about a hundred miles outside of Veltheim. It had been a week since my duel with Benny (fifty six more scrolls put me at two hundred thirty two), and I had gathered most of my main combat fo...

A Novel Approach chapter 119

Wish upon the Stars chapter 949

“That armor is badass,” Benny said enthusiastically as he studied my new suit. “I mean, obviously, but like…the craftsmanship is insane. In fact, it’s ALMOST as good as my new piece of gear. Well…pieces. I just finished my most recent project. Want to see it in action?” I’d called everyone together to tell the...

Secret Ending chapter 88

nsfw warning mind the tags

Wish upon the Stars chapter 948

The Seal was…impressive. Slipping into it was deceptively easy, for one thing. It looked bulky and imposing, and it was, but it was also fluid and surprisingly mobile. I was able to open it up and slip inside with no trouble. More than that, my wings slid free of the metal like there was a custom made slot for them, and onc...

Secret Ending chapter 87

Wish upon the Stars chapter 947

The interior of the metal temple was surprisingly cramped. Most buildings I’d seen were spatially expanded, and this one might have been as well, but if it was, it was expanded and THEN filled with an absurd number of walls and hallways, making every step I took feel like I was walking through a maze.

Normally, that w...

A Novel Approach chapter 118

Wish upon the Stars chapter 946

The rest of the raids went smoothly. We dropped in to help with two others, and to my complete and utter shock, we netted a cool hundred points for our efforts, two thirds of my entire haul up to this point. I was sitting at two hundred and fifty points total, and while I had no clue exactly how useful those would be, I knew ...

Secret Ending chapter 86

Wish upon the Stars chapter 945

The ghosts fell on me like a pack of rabid hyenas. Probably. I wasn’t sure if hyenas retained the necessary presence of mind to form a pack after contracting rabies, but in a general sense, they were a group of very angry barely lucid monsters who definitely wanted to do me harm, so it was close enough.

They weren’t...