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Chapter 32. The Unclaimed Throne

“Your attacks are telegraphed,” Liam complained.

“No, they are not. You just have perpetual precognition.”

“That might be true, but still… You fight like a graceless bull, charging blindly half the time. You're impatient. You get frustrated too quickly. All these are little flaws that will someday come...

Chapter 31. An All Encompassing Ability

“There are a few rules to this little training session of ours,” Liam said, leveling Rafe such a serious look he knew there’d be no time for banter.

“Training session? I was under the impression we got six months?” Rafe still tried, smiling hopefully.

Liam only nodded, his countenance now morphing to gra...

Chapter 30. Skills And Cracks

“Too late? What do you mean too late?”

“Well, take flesh wounds for example. If they are not treated early enough, things go wrong. If they are not disinfected they may become septic. If they are too deep they scar, although only if you have very low vitality. Like you did when your head was sheared in half. Well,...

Chapter 29. The Lost Weapon

When Ah-Riam Akh’Braiden was but a child, he became the first member of his family in generations to fail to bind a legacy weapon to his soul. He did not know why then. They did not why. They froze him out, threw him out of the running to take over Arrabion.

He was staying in his aunt's house when he had the dream. Th...

Chapter 28. The First Skill

He slammed back into his own body. It was akin to waking from a nightmare of falling off a cliff. Rafe yelped and threw his arms out to…what? Stop the fall, catch himself. As his breathing calmed, Rafe smiled sardonically.

“I believe this belongs to you,” a voice said from in front of him, startling him into jumpi...

Chapter 27. About Classes and Skills

“Am I going to die?” Rafe couldn't help but ask.

“What? Of course not. You're just a mental construct after all. We can probably bring you back to life.”

“I am going back to my body soon though, aren't I?”

“Maybe.”

“Noiiiidd,” Rafe growled, trying for menace

“Hey, don...

Chapter 26. Rafael Kingsley Wilde

They found him there, bleeding and broken, a step away from death. Jonathan did not bar the girls from him. He would have in any other situation.

“I must look like shit, huh,” Rafe said with forced levity.

He tried to smile, but it only came off as a grimace. Maria grabbed at his guts, trying to force them bac...

Chapter 25. A Dance In The Shadows

“Why are you grinning, idiot? Don't you know you are doomed?”

“I'm not grinning, you are,” Rafe fired back, rather maturely, he thought.

The queen tilted her head, her shadow throne visibly pulsating like a living thing.

“Try again,” she said in a low voice.

“Oh…” Rafe scratched the b...

Chapter 24. The End Approaches For All

“Mr Wilde,” an official-looking man at the front started, “you are expected in the arena. If you would be so kind as to unarm yourself—”

Rafe concluded the man was an idiot there and then. Despite his gold-encrusted armour, he believed the man would be no threat. Instead he let his aura se...

Chapter 23. The Shadows Have Eyes

Rafe had not seen Celene in a long time, at least on his end. It turned out something weird had happened, but he stopped questioning it the moment he had confirmation.

“How long's it been since I killed all those people that one night?” he asked Cynthia.

She frowned, and Celene did as well. He had called out h...

Chapter 22. A Tale of Two Roads

Rafe sat at a table with Su’Arian, watching the adventurers rouse their fellows and inform them of his instructions. He wouldn't leave these ruffians in Su’Arian’s tavern. He would at least make sure she didn't lose that.

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Chapter 21. Trial Conclusion Eminent

Rafe thought the guys he was fighting were dangerous if a little bit underwhelming compared to the experts he'd fought over his journey. Still, there were thousands of ways to win a fight and a million to lose one you thought you would win without any doubt. He would know. He couldn't remember the last time he'd won a fight a...

Chapter 20. An Inciting Event

Noid became more transparent with each passing moment. Still, he happily sacrificed his ability to test anyone for the next million years or so. What he had not expected was for the others to help power his trial as well. There was a belief among them, that maybe, just maybe, after thousands of years, the...

Chapter 19. A Warrior's Retreat (2)

Thea's face started to morph into a slimy melting green thing. She had been packing her things when he saw her this time, looking to his room to ensure he was still asleep.

He imagined this was how they must have left. Like thieves in the night running from what he had assumed was their home. Now the scene was intersper...

Chapter 18. A Warrior's Retreat (1)

“How long did you last this time?” Noid asked Rafe.

“No more than five seconds,” he said, still pumping the bellows to stock the fires of the forge.

“You'll have to keep trying it out during your journey. You cannot depend on that skill, especially after you leave the trial. You do n...

Chapter 17. A Few Truths

It had all been real. This time when Rafe slept, he dreamt about it all. Not just his last few hours on earth, but his whole life, his family, his friends, and his old basketball team.

In his dreams, Rafael Kingsley thought about his two lives.

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When he woke a second time, there was no banging in his hea...

Chapter 16. Everything Was Real

Guy pushed his exhausted legs, feeling the energy drain from his body. He didn't care, he was fast, and he was going to kill Noid Ellan. Their swords clashed again, and again Noid was pushed back amid a rain of sparks. Only, the boy was just grinning.

“Are you almost done?” he asked again, cool ...

Chapter 15. Murder In The City

Cynthia cursed again as she tried to keep up with the man ahead of them. Jasmine and Rhea had followed them too. The guild master burst through the door to a high-class-looking inn, almost more than half the size of the hotels in the noble district, a famous hangout among high-level adventurers who wanted a taste of noble lif...

Chapter 14. A Step Towards The Shadows

On a hill not even fifty kilometers away from Hossford city, Guy Wilde saw his closest friend, his brother, his rival, die to insurmountable odds. He went down swinging. There was a whole party of jade-rank adventurers, including the assassin who'd surprised Guy.

She was surprised herself when he didn't go down just fro...

Chapter 12. A Party's Dynamic

The goblins did not want to give up. They got easier to pick off the further they got from their increasingly ashen nest though.

It was a running battle for some time, Guy making sure to keep to the rear in case any more special goblins showed up.

He dropped back when the other's speed had fal...

Chapter 13. It Has To End Somehow

An older, bitterer version of Noid stood and watched the world he'd created.

“So it's almost over, heh?” the thief asked from beside him.

“It has to end somehow. It's kind of hard, never having gotten this far before. Could that skill be this strong? What is the essence thinking? It's almost unpre—"

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Chapter 11. A Monster Society

Guy hid amongst the highest trees and watched the most horrifying village he ever saw. They almost looked peaceful. Civilized, even. They had houses, the monsters.

He killed five hobgoblins, but that barely put a dent in their numbers. They had yet to even notice. As for goblin mages, that was a whole other ball game he...

Chapter 10. A Beckoning Hunt

Everyone openly glared at Guy the next few hours of travel, even their formerly neutral supervisor. When they took a lunch break, his cohorts approached him for a talk.

“You do realise we're doing poorly, don't you,” the half-elf spoke first.

“I can't decide whether to praise your daring or applaud your stup...

Chapter 9. A New Adventure

Guy hadn't had the easiest week thus far, and this whole situation wasn't helping. At least meeting the guild master - a master-level spear wielder - was a decent few hours.

The guild master was big and scarred. And he had a boisterous way about him. He was good people, in Guy's opinion. Jonathan introduced him as his o...

Chapter 8. Destined For Greatness

Guy was courting Celene. In a village this small, everyone knew everything about everyone.

Guy - as he'd recently been named - couldn't court any of the other girls. It would be bad form for the other girls to touch Celene's man, as far as Guy understood it. Too bad Celene would never give him the time of day, or night....

Chapter 7. Settling Down (For a While)

Rafe sat and watched a pink-haired girl on the big screen. His father was probably somewhere backstage. He hadn't seen them in months, and now he was finding out what they'd been up to. He slumped his shoulders.

First, his mother had gone, and now they too had left. She sounded good though. And maybe this would help his...

Chapter 6. Immortality of A Sort

His fourth or so troop was much more experienced than all his others, and he stayed with them a lot longer. They were together longer than the two-month threshold all his former platoons couldn't quite reach.

They were very organised and had a rotating system where a group would start in the vanguard, rotate to the midd...

Chapter 5. A Soldier With No Name

He'd lost consciousness from all the pain. What pain though? He couldn't remember. And why was it so loud, so stuffy, so constricting?

He opened his eyes, but the light was too bright. And somehow he was in the middle of a press of bodies. It was anything but comfortable.

And the smells. He was in a press of bodie...

Chapter 4. Millennia-old Virgins

As he watched these visions play out, he bled out, his brain eroded. His life force flickered.

He also healed, but death came faster than health. He had forgotten what he was supposed to be doing here, but he'd chosen.

It was his whole thing. Reliability. If his life were a path, Rafael Kingsley only really wanted...

Chapter 3. A Legacy of Gods(2)

The fourth Skyholm did not have magic. At least not in the traditional sense. To Rafe, he seemed positively divine. He was a warrior. A pure warrior and nothing more.

A warrior who could crash a small hill with an upward lunge and downward slash was rather overpowered though.

Still, the battle scene ...