To his credit, Sam said nothing when Eric returned, perhaps far earlier than expected, and immediately settled in his corner of the room to meditate, then sleep.
But the boy was certainly no fool.
“Do you want to talk about it?” Sam tentatively asked when Eric woke up exactly 4 hours later, feeling ...
2022-08-17 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post"How are you feeling, buddy?” Eric asked Samuel after presenting him with a plate full of grilled pork cutlets, a recipe Eric was getting an awful lot of practice at perfecting.
His friend smiled, digging into the meat. “Much better now, thanks.” He pointed at the cultivation tome. “Just going over it...
2022-08-16 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostEric glared in the direction of the boar that fled before claiming both javelin and fallen tusker, quickly squelching the impulse to give chase as he raced to a still dazed Samuel’s side.
He shook his head as his guts twisted with anxiety. Because unlike himself, a classer with inherent regeneration, sure t...
2022-08-15 04:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostSamuel gave Eric the strangest look when he came back, equal parts relief and worry.
“What’s up, Sam?” Eric said, painting on his friendliest smile.
The young man flinched and stepped back.
Eric blinked. "Sam, what's wrong?"
Sam gave an awkward chuckle. “Sorry, Eric. It’s just that...
2022-08-12 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostSamuel chuckled. “Okay, enough of this moping about bullshit. Let’s focus on what we already know you’re damned good at!”
Eric smirked. “Which would be...”
“Necromancy, duh! Now hold out your arm. Time for us to work on storage tattoos.”
Eric’s brows rose at this, soon coming to ...
2022-08-11 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Eric woke up completely refreshed four hours later, ears still ringing from the scream he had felt clawing the back of his throat… before firmly calming his racing heart, wiping free his sweaty palms, and slamming the terror and fury seeping through his subconscious firmly behind the door of ‘past shit tha...
2022-08-10 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Sam?”
The boy winced, flashing an apologetic grimace. “Yeah, I shouldn’t have tossed it. It’s just that the bloody thing pisses me off!” The boy’s fists clenched with frustration. “I can’t tell you the number of hours I spent trying to get a handle on mastering my breathing, meditating, sit...
2022-08-09 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostSam took Eric’s silent smile as an invitation to continue, so he did just that. “Of course, most people still have to start as Conscripts, just to rank up their stats and skills to whatever they plan on graduating into. And if you have anyone in your immediate family who survived the pods, you’re more than 50...
2022-08-08 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostSam perked up at Eric’s question, his eyes lighting up as he spoke about what was clearly a favorite topic. “Great question, Eric. Forging zombies involve runes and enchantments placed on a subject to both preserve it, infuse it with netherworld energies, and control it once it's inhabited by a fresh spirit und...
2022-08-05 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostEric wasted no time, quickly clearing clearing the now absolutely clogged cavern entrance, surprised to find he had no problem at all storing what was rapidly approaching fifty massive boars, including a greater crocodilian spirit beast. Was it because of how much essence was infused in the spirit beasts’ flesh? ...
2022-08-04 04:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostHaving paused only long enough to claim the beast’s remains and what he sensed was a core radiating fearsomely potent spiritual energy, Eric was hit with a fresh wave of anxiety with each furious squeal he heard in the distance as he raced back to the shelter for all he was worth.
He could only hope that th...
2022-08-03 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostEric winced with sympathy for the desperate urgency he heard in the kid’s voice as he approached the cavern entrance. “I’d be happy to,” Eric said. “But you’ve got a giant skeletalized tusker out here, not to mention a blood-warded fence, and I’d rather avoid tearing up your defenses if I can help it....
2022-08-02 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostEric closed his eyes, using his Infravision to try to detect any human shaped form that might, by some miracle, be successfully hiding in some tree house shelter, successfully surviving stampedes of warthogs without dying of hunger or thirst.
But all he sensed was the entire forest ablaze with what he knew to...
2022-08-01 04:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostEric opened his eyes with a gasp, heart pounding as he found himself balanced upon the bow of the most magnificent peach tree he could imagine, a cathedral of branches bowing over his head to provide verdant shade against the fiercely blazing sun, and upon each branch were countless globes of essence and flame and ...
2022-07-29 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs much as it served a bittersweet balm to his pain, sensing more than a few combat skills finally ready to rank up, Eric knew better than to waste time, just barely holding back from instinctively flipping his kills into an ES Space he knew needed more time to recover. Much more, if he wanted it to bounce back str...
2022-07-28 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostCrimson light flaring so brightly highlighted both Eric’s desperate peril, and the possibility of his own salvation.
“Morlekai! Do you spot three reds!?”
“Yes! My murder is ready to strike!”
“Don’t!” Eric urged, jolted by a sudden panicked certainty that if Morlekai dared that… h...
2022-07-27 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Eric, we’re here.”
Eric flashed a hard smile when the crow pointed his beak at the entrance to the closest rift open to the adventuring public, though not surprisingly, the crackling portal was free of spectators, adventurers or any other sort of personnel, since it was 3 in the morning. And as much as...
2022-07-26 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostMuch to his relief, he found a handful of crimson crows waiting for him on the other side of the final gate, one furtively looking all around before dropping a tiny silver key Eric made quick use of, finding himself in a rickety shed on a tiny farm a short distance from Freetown.
…. cawed the crow now perch...
2022-07-25 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostEric felt the cold chill of ice and snow as he continued down the endless tunnel of stone burrowed right through the bedrock. Much to his relief, he sensed no trace of beasts, sentinels, or any sense that he was in any sort of pocket realm or dungeon at all.
It seemed to be a perfectly normal escape tunnel th...
2022-07-22 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostLord Grim peered curiously at Caliban. “What, pray tell, is the real reason we share whispered council out here, free of all eyes and ears?”
The elf peered intently at a now flushing Eric. “Are you sure you wish to continue? Your accomplishments permit me to offer you penalty free egress from the board....
2022-07-21 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you fucking kidding me? Boyscout actually managed to clear out the whole goddamned vault?”
An exhausted Eric couldn’t help but crack a smile at Alice’s outraged squeak. Because at least it meant that his friends were safe. That the absurdly corrupt Goblinoid Senior Administer had lacked the means...
2022-07-20 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe meeting hall was suddenly filled with the goblins’ gasps, hisses, and screeches, Morlekai and the rest of his friends giving Eric very odd looks as Caliban smacked his hands together, the air cracking with such force that all conversation was brought to a screetching halt, for all that his voice was still a p...
2022-07-19 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostSquiglepuse froze, gazing at the Agent, or perhaps it was Administrator Caliban, for long seconds.
“Odd to see Blue involving themselves in goblin affairs,” Squiglepuse said at last.
Caliban shrugged, before speaking in perfect Goblinoid. “We owe the humans here a favor. So long as a quick perusal...
2022-07-18 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post“You okay there, good buddy?” Drake asked, showing a bit of concern through his smile.
Eric nodded. “Never better. I actually got a quest!”
“Good,” Morlekai said. “I take it you also got a sense of the rift location?”
Eric took a long look at his friend before slowly nodding. “Yo...
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His friend gazed at him thoughtfully. “Blood magic let’s me sense your potency better than the bullshit interface skill our… associate was using to get a read on you. Are you truly still 9th level? Or is our master’s left-hand man being thrown off by an obfuscation spell of some sort?”
Eric’s smil...
2022-07-14 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Thanks Drake. Sorry I zoned out for a minute there,” Eric said before flashing a grin. “And who are you calling little?”
His friend stopped, giving Eric a bemused once-over. For all that he was still almost half a foot taller, and definitely broader, Eric’s Strength was almost an aura at this point...
2022-07-12 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostEric barely heard Lord Grim’s parting words, merely felt the almost fatherly pat of skeletal digits upon his shoulder, the cold chill penetrating right through his soul-linked armor. “By all means, browse it to your heart’s content, lad. My man Jeeves will be here to see to your every convenience, and take yo...
2022-07-10 02:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostEric found himself smiling at the décor as they made their way through a grand foyer decorated with numerous portraits of serious looking men dressed in old fashioned suits, scholar’s robes, or the armaments of a renaissance noble, all of them with a thick black tome either on a stand before them or in their han...
2022-07-08 02:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostEric waved back at the young adventurers, his spirit elevated by the goodwill he had been shown, a far cry from his experiences earlier that day. At least as far as his own ridiculously manipulative clan was concerned.
Most especially his mother, and her fucking lawyers, who he felt the sudden desperate need ...
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