eligos

Double-Blind CH80

The words shot adrenaline through me like a spike in the heart. I couldn’t feel the pain from the impact and had no idea how bad my injuries were.

All that mattered was keeping whoever it was from getting my satchel.

Just as that thought flew through my mind, the strap tightened against my chest as someone pul...

Next Chapter 4/19 and General Housekeeping

Couple points of order. Taking Monday off, as there's a holiday and I've been feeling a little under the weather recently. Normal posting will resume on Tuesday. I've already batch uploaded the chapters for this weekend in case you missed those. 

Second, I've heard you guys in terms of chapter length. I think I'm g...

Double-Blind CH79

Sara and I spent the next few minutes sharing information before the rest of her people arrived. Many of them were from the same region, so they were able to get a head start on gathering the Illuminating Lux, with several fragments landing fairly close to the receptacle.

“Were you able to gauge approximately how mu...

Double-Blind CH78

That was unfortunate.

Tyler—and his “Adventurer’s Guild” were the closest thing I’d found to a decent organization. Every other group at the open forum was either disorganized, naive, overly opportunistic, or all three. I didn’t hold any illusions. At this point it was unlikely that any group’s leadershi...

Double-Blind CH77

The address was just a few miles off the historic district. Five minutes away from me, if that. I toyed with the idea of simply leaving it. There wasn’t a lot of Lux in that direction, and even if there was, this wasn’t an interaction I could have as Matt, the NPC. Until I had a viable explanation for my sudd...

Double-Blind CH76

Once flat road now dipped downward at an almost 90-degree angle. I barely caught myself in time, wedging a foot into a newly opened fissure and grabbing onto the edge of a curb with my freehand. The <Illuminating Lux> was transparent and radiated bright gold, barely larger than a cue-ball. ...

Double-Blind CH75

The Overseer stared at the camera. With his mask in place, it was impossible to know for sure, but displeasure seemed to radiate off him at the mere mention of my class. Eventually, he waved a hand. “More on that later. This event will be the first of… many. No two are exactly alike. If you’ll direct your g...

Double-Blind CH74

It took barely more than a glance to realize what they were all staring at. The sun was gone, what should have been a clear blue late-afternoon now appeared to be evening—only the stratosphere was dyed mud red, instead of dark blue. Talia had stopped at the stairway behind me and peered out.

“Store me, the way you...

Double-Blind CH73

That’s the problem with loneliness, isn’t it?

It’s always miserable in the beginning. Then days stretch into weeks, into months, into years. You learn little tricks to cope. Stay busy. Distance yourself from anyone that might crack the surface. Dehumanize anyone who gets close, view them as nothing mo...

Double-Blind CH72

“Wait!” Gray-hair called out to someone behind me.

I looked back, just in time to watch Sae disappear back through the entrance to the trial. I clenched my fist in frustration for just a moment, then released it. How long had it been? Gray-hair held a hand up and snapped his fingers, pointing to the doo...

Double-Blind CH71

Floodlights blinded me. My eyes barely adjusted before I heard Jinny scream. There were twelve figures waiting outside the trial for us, all arranged in a half circle. On the left and right edges were a bow and crossbow User respectively. Buzzcut and Daphne took up the center.

Talia was unconscious on the ground in a ...

Double-Blind CH70

We’d paused at the elevator, leaving the disgusting and decidedly eerie boss chamber behind. No one wanted to wait to level up. Probably for the best, just in case anything happened on our way out.

Unable to help myself, I’d pulled up the boon’s description again.

<Ordinator’s Implements: A bo...