Eric took a deep breath of air smelling of cattle manure, fresh green grass and a thousand blossoming flowers. He couldn’t help grinning with an unexpected surge of contentment, his eyes taking in a modest farm with rows of young chestnut trees growing between long narrow fields of barley and wheat, along with...
2025-01-27 04:24:53 +0000 UTC View Post“Eric?”
Eric flinched against the blinding headache, the roiling nausea demanding he heave… before blinking open his eyes as a cool compress was pressed against his brow.
He took a gasp of herb-scented air and was surprised to find that after a few wakeful moments relaxing his clenched abdomen… that...
2025-01-24 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostEric’s eyes bolted wide in agonized surprise. He gasped, horrified to find himself feeling such raw AWFUL pain! His eyes stung with salt and glaring light and he could hardly see. Panicked alarm took on the raw bite of terror for a single awful second before he blinked a second time… and was breathless with confusi...
2025-01-20 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
“Command, I’ve reached the target sight. No trace of the wolves or their master is to be found anywhere!”
“Scout 7, please confirm. Did you say Mord has fled the area?”
“I… shit, Command, all I see are perforated corpses… both human and lupine. I see no survivors… belay that. ...
2025-01-17 04:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post“You did good, Eric. Where to now?”
Eric grinned as their loping stride turned into a ground eating sprint, Eric shifting inertia, mass, and gravity as suited him best, finding perfect traction along a path only he could see as he ascended invisible steps only his feet could take until he and his familiar wer...
2025-01-13 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
One step at a time, Eric finished crossing the pathway between realms, stepping free of the alleyway and leaving behind predator-filled woodlands for equally perilous city ruins. The scents of loam, rotting leaves, clean winter air, spruce and pine was now completely replaced by the foul taint of smoke-fil...
2025-01-10 03:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post“So, what do you think, Bun?” Eric quietly asked as they headed back the way they had come, no matter the dozens of household servants and guards gazing their way with newfound respect, even reverence, bowing or curtsying in his wake as his quick walk became a run… and then a ground-eating sprint as he headed bac...
2025-01-06 03:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Eric glared thoughtfully at the whimpering wolf in his arms, just seconds away from the portal, the creature only now shaking out of its gaze to glare and snap deadly teeth at Eric, seemingly unfazed by its dangling legs, lowered core body temperature, and perforated organs.
It’s furious howl made ...
2025-01-03 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Eric’s heart pounded as he raced through the ruins of a city filled with fog, flashes of blaster fire, and the howl of monsters. His guts roiled with desperate anxiety as he dashed toward the final fallen soldier whose piteous groans were broadcast for anyone with the reception or hearing to triangulate....
2024-12-30 04:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe sound of buildings collapsing in on themselves was a terrifying cacophony to the ears of desperately fleeing soldiers relying on the crackling reception of damaged augs.
“Sergeant Crisp! We’re hot! Artillery fire in the warehouse district! It’s a coordinated assault! The bait has fled the coup! Repeat, ...
2024-12-27 04:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“So, how long are we going to wait for this asshole to show?”
Cool eyes regarded the young woman cracking her neck, sensual features at odds with the feral gleam in her eye as her hands flashed with the glint of sickles before she was hidden in gloom, until only her mercury irises remained.
The powerfully buil...
2024-12-23 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostEric glared at the sobbing contender holding on to life by a thread and Eric's mastery over blood.
“Alright, quit crying! Just tell me where my friends are!”
“The cluster of half ruined warehouses by the pier. I’ll ping it on your interface map.”
Eric blanched, horrified to find that this other man...
2024-12-20 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N - Intimate moments in the early part of the chapter.
By the time Eric came back to himself, his arms were filled with sweetness. He was humbled by just how strikingly beautiful the fey, sensual beauty wrapped up in his arms truly was. Natasha’s features were flawless, exquisite. She looked as innocent as ...
2024-12-16 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostA/N - A nice long chapter today! - Heads up, there IS a romance scene at chapter's end. Separated by ***. As always, I try to keep the descriptors tasteful, but 'wrestling' is definitely involved. Even if you skip, you still get to enjoy 7000+ words :) - Enjoy your weekend!
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2024-12-13 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostEric took a deep breath of crisp autumn air complemented by the rustling oak trees along the boulevard as he stepped out of the Grand, noting that the theater crowds had lessened just a bit, though there were still carriages aplenty, and in direct contrast to the actual New York he had read up on, it hardly smelled like horse...
2024-12-09 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
2927 Effective Strength MODIFIED by Rank II Wrath (Burst of Strength)
You have successfully RUPTURED 2000 Strength-equivalent City Ward Infused by 1 Rank of Pristine Permanence!
Congratulations! You have SUCCESSFULLY Breached a Silver-Tier Ward!
Primal Locus...
2024-12-06 04:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Reason for visiting New York?”
“Trading beast hides!” The guttural voice of an actual ogre resonated through the long line of both tired and excited looking travelers who had walked what remained of the I-95 up from Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other locations safely in the White-Tier arterial zones that...
2024-12-02 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostCaliban froze amidst the sharp clatter of crystalline keyboards and hurried conversations, the sense of panicked urgency in the Blue Corp command center having only heightened when wonders following unexpected peril were replaced by yet more unexpected developments.
“Caliban?”
Caliban blinked, collectin...
2024-11-29 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Piercing Strike. That’s all it was.” Ron crossed his arms and snorted. “He took out the eye. Just like our Sammy did with the ankylosaurus that will net us a good haul… especially if it’s the last one anyone’s allowed to hunt here without paying whatever fee that asshole below is going to require, since ...
2024-11-25 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note - Showing a new POV - Eric does make an appearance, and we get to see him from an outsider's perspective. - Also, we're just a hair under 10,000 words today! So please enjoy :D.
Sammy couldn’t wipe the smile of her freckled face as she and her companions crept through the wai...
2024-11-22 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostEric groaned and shook his head as he rested in the waist high grass while a small pod of triceratops munched on giant ferns a half mile away. Knowing they posed no real threat to him, he reviewed his character sheet one final time, lost between wonder and dismay.
He had done it, achieving breakthroughs that were...
2024-11-18 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostNikita hissed is surprise.
Caliban glanced up from the three monitors he was studying, typing frantically on his keyboard, doing his best to put out a dozen metaphoric fires while both assuring multiple administrative factions of Blue Corp’s continued neutral status and the many mutually beneficial economic opp...
2024-11-15 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostLilly’s howl was equal parts fury, agony, and bitter triumph.
Her body, and she feared her very soul, were blazing with a shocking degree of Hyperion radiation, or had been in the instant she had forced herself through the portal between worlds, anchored and warded so heavily against the one clan Malice truly f...
2024-11-11 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostEric jolted to his feet with a wheezing gasp. “Bunz!? Elly!?”
He toppled, momentarily dizzy, before stabilizing himself on feet more stable and sturdy than he could possibly have dreamed, less than a year ago.
For all that he could now sense the faintest tingle of plaque. Just a hairsbreadth away from t...
2024-11-08 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe pale-eyed Hunter so at home with the shadows coolly regarded the portal before him. Bright with scenes of a panicked half-elf spurting his lifeblood upon the killing fields of an ascending territory, just as his tools struck his prey.
The air had been alive with alien ululating cries, desperate curses, panic,...
2024-11-04 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt was only minutes after Eric had darted out the cloud castle as fast as he could sprint, still filled with the sweet sense of satisfaction that came from a successfully pulled heist... in this case claiming countless confectionery treasures before anyone could say no, that Eric realized what should have been obvious ...
2024-11-01 04:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostA/N - I'm releasing a longer chapter today, around 7K. Please enjoy :)
A bemused Eric easily kept pace with the sinuously flowing drakes who seemed to swim through the clouds more like sea serpents or dolphins than birds of prey drifting upon air currents. If anything, the trio looked impressed that Eric...
2024-10-28 04:04:39 +0000 UTC View PostCaliban rubbed his temples, leaning back in his seat with a sigh.
“What news?” asked the tense woman beside him, presently typing furiously away at a virtual keyboard as she gazed upon the monitor before her, one of a handful now being used by anxious-looking elves wearing Blue Corp uniforms in the Alutopaze ...
2024-10-25 03:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostEric crashed to his knees with a sob, trembling with horror and exhaustion and the sheer shock of having survived the most perilous battle he had ever endured while receiving absolutely nothing for his efforts, only losing. Losing his innocence, forced to accept that he damn well knew who his father was… or had been....
2024-10-21 04:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostElonia’s eyes were haunted as she gazed to the south, where titanic flashes of light interspersed with awful fares of glooming darkness. The entire band of students desperately huddled within the floating force dome visibly shuddered when the air rang with screams that penetrated their skulls, no matter how desperate...
2024-10-18 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
