As soon as the Western army took its first step, it was like a signal for everything else to start. The legion and mercenaries also started to advance, but they only did so for about 10 metres until they set up their battle lines and prepared for the ranged attacks.
The western army frontline was the first to come into ...
2023-11-09 19:44:42 +0000 UTC View PostDid I go overboard? Yes, absolutely. Now I have 50 sets of first-floor dungeon rooms. Not only that, but the same went for the second and third, and so on, although later I did lower the number a little bit, but the 10th floor still had 15 versions of it. I blame the adventurer’s guild and that little fucker, Tristan, for m...
2023-11-09 19:40:17 +0000 UTC View PostAs days went by, the Western army got closer and closer. Their progress was measured, but it didn't take long for the first conflicts to start. Both armies' scouts began to run into each other, and small-scale fights started to happen.
Rich got involved almost immediately, but he went alone to help, hoping that some of ...
2023-11-08 19:25:56 +0000 UTC View PostI was incredibly frustrated. There wasn’t much left for me to do that required a lot of concentration, so most of my mind was busy watching and waiting for that stupid adventurer to get on with it. But apparently, the quest wasn't the most important thing to him; it was that stupid language.
What was even more frustra...
2023-11-08 19:21:18 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Goose and Rich were about halfway back to the United Freeholds army, he took a moment to just appreciate that he was currently flying high in the sky on top of a giant eagle. It was a surreal moment for him.
It was something he wished he could continue to experience without the backdrop of a war. Yet, whenever he l...
2023-11-07 18:44:36 +0000 UTC View PostPOV Carl
As soon as I stepped out of the gateway, the noise of civilization hit me, and I cringed a little bit. Not so pleasant memories hit me, but I pushed them down and started to purposely head towards the edge of the gate hub area.
My first target was a food vendor, and it was hard not to drool from the smell...
2023-11-07 18:38:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe eastern army general did not like what he was hearing. Everything had gone to plan at first: they were pushing the cavalry back without having to engage, and they should have been able to retreat back to their defensible position if the Bravenhold main army turned back.
So, early this morning, when he found out that...
2023-11-06 16:06:55 +0000 UTC View PostPOV Carl
A slash of my glaive, and I was finally able to take the bear's head off. "Damn, that was a hard fight," I gathered my breath as much as I could, but a quick look at the time-keeping device on my belt told me that I was only 5 minutes ahead of the best time to beat the 16th floor.
"Shit," I had two more r...
2023-11-06 16:01:25 +0000 UTC View PostYesterday was a shit day and unfortunately when there is shit more seems to appear. Usually, I am good at ignoring shit life can throw at you but not always. After a bit of thinking I realised I was really on the edge and then I realised that I have not had a proper break for over a year of writing. (Over 700,000 words in tha...
2023-10-26 09:25:57 +0000 UTC View PostOn a warm afternoon, when the sun was colouring everything in soft tones, the Bravenhold army finally saw the Eastern army start to appear on the horizon. As people pointed it out, a nervous wave went through the army.
Message books and sticks were used to inform about the change in the situation. It was confirmed that ...
2023-10-24 17:25:00 +0000 UTC View PostPOV Tristan
"I’m nearing the end of the rope; let down some more," I called up to the four adventurers that I had hired for this particular room exploration. Slowly, I was lowered even further, and then I heard the telltale sound of crossbow fire.
Behind me, I heard a bird squawk in pain, and I looked backwards ...
2023-10-24 17:19:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning, everyone who needed to leave using the portals did so and as soon as they got back to their homes, it didn't take long for them to be in front of the soldiers, giving a speech. This was happening in Bravenhold, Frontier's Collective, United Freehold.
The same scene was even happening in Aetherhold, a n...
2023-10-23 17:51:42 +0000 UTC View PostFinishing up the labyrinth the way I wanted was going to take longer than I expected, and I was probably going to finish it during the time between the next breakthrough and the one after that. I didn’t mind as no one should really try to go through the water section of my core floor.
The 16th-floor playroom was also ...
2023-10-23 17:47:52 +0000 UTC View PostIn the capital city of the United Freehold, a lot of people were doing final preparations so they would be ready to march to war. There were a lot of emotions that shone through, but most of all, in everyone's eyes, there was determination.
In the centre of the legions' command, in a large room, there were a lot of peop...
2023-10-20 12:23:09 +0000 UTC View PostGoing through the patterns, I found some excellent choices. One of my top candidates right now was a centipede evolution that was incredibly good at piercing damage. Another choice was a spider evolution that also had an incredibly dangerous poison. Of course, some of the bears were incredibly dangerous, but this wasn’t a s...
2023-10-20 12:19:06 +0000 UTC View PostPOV Ben
A final look over the document convinced me that nothing was wrong, so I signed my name and reached for the stamp. I once again hesitated, like I always did, to pick it up. That stamp represented the authority of the high general, Rich Dirt.
It was something I had been using much since it was announced tha...
2023-10-19 17:42:03 +0000 UTC View PostAs time passed, I was surprised how peaceful the upper floors remained. Extra space was claimed slowly, but there wasn't even a hint that a large-scale fight would happen, not even on the ant floors.
The Ant nations were surprisingly reasonable, and their new organization that governed war managed to keep everything qui...
2023-10-19 17:36:14 +0000 UTC View PostI was about to end my meditation and thinking session on top of the dam when my eyes caught a heightened level of holy power that permeated this entire location. While I still wasn’t that experienced with it, I was certain that the colour of holy power wasn't mainly luck but something else. So, instead of leaving, I continu...
2023-10-18 16:10:58 +0000 UTC View PostEverything was going perfectly. I had finished with the dungeon rooms, and while there were still some changes to be made that would take a lot of my attention, it was basically done. Now, most of my attention was on expanding the upper floors.
Then something happened that literally made me freeze for a few minutes befo...
2023-10-18 16:06:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe start of the dam project was the hardest. The mages needed to do a lot of ground hardening, and a lot of large wooden stakes needed to be driven into the flowing water so we could pump out one side of the river.
That would give us a section of the river free of water so we could reinforce the bottom and start placin...
2023-10-17 16:56:07 +0000 UTC View PostPov Ace
Finally, I could see the monsters of this room. There were only four deer, but I was now used to not just thinking of these monsters as weak creatures. Instead, I knew them to be deadly if underestimated.
My blood sang as I waited on top of a tree to ambush them. They were walking so slowly, but I needed t...
2023-10-17 16:52:03 +0000 UTC View PostI didn't like what I was contemplating. I had pushed my frozen floor down once before so I could create my ocean floor, but now I was thinking about pushing it down again and turning the 16th floor playroom into a cave-like environment instead.
The idea came to me briefly after I started to look over the book I had gott...
2023-10-13 15:12:41 +0000 UTC View PostWith the dam idea, the strategy for this war started to become more reachable. There were still too many unknowns to finalize anything, but there were certain things that we could all agree upon that needed to be done no matter what would happen.
We needed staging points for all three armies, and they would need to be b...
2023-10-13 15:09:22 +0000 UTC View PostTime continued to pass by, and even though a lot of me was concentrating on working, I couldn’t get the conversation I had with the annoying person out of my head. Most of all, I concentrated on the fact that what would happen if someone actually tried to kill me.
I could summon the creatures I have to defend myself, ...
2023-10-12 16:43:40 +0000 UTC View PostIt took us two days to record down all the information. After a lengthy discussion with the generals and commanders, I left them to come up with battle plans for both sides. I hoped I was wrong, but as they worked on this, I needed to check on something.
There was a chance that the situation might not be as bad. Well, i...
2023-10-12 16:40:19 +0000 UTC View PostAs the weeks went by, I was surprised by the fact that there were so few territory disputes that ended up in violence. The main reason turned out to be overpopulation. None of the waystations were now owned by individual organizations because so many neutral adventurers or different shadow guilds had to occupy the same waysta...
2023-10-11 13:41:56 +0000 UTC View PostToday was a beautiful day; the sun was quite bright and warm, making the snowy landscape wonderful. I was on top of the tallest spot in the capital, one of the apartment buildings that had an observation tower built for some of the mages who requested it.
I was currently running on two hours of sleep, and the last two d...
2023-10-11 13:36:12 +0000 UTC View PostBefore we all heard Mirhit’s report, I took some time to rest, drinking water and eating something. Finally, I had time to open my notifications as things were no longer urgent. What greeted me was something I had hoped for, but I had only seen a similar message once before. It was incredibly satisfying to see it; however, ...
2023-10-10 18:38:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe last three months had been some of my happiest. I still remember when the adventurer Val spoke my name. As soon as I heard it, I knew that I was the eternal training ground. It just felt so right. I was eternal, I offered training to all who wanted, and I was going to have so much ground that an adventurer would die of ol...
2023-10-10 18:34:14 +0000 UTC View PostA man stood on a balcony, looking out on the huge city, the capital of his kingdom. Behind him was an opulent meeting room where many people were currently collecting their papers and things, leaving the chambers.
The king stood there, contemplating the latest reports. Those were mundane problems; he was keeping his min...
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