A/N: 4 of 4
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Ali stood in silence as the guild’s finest raiders assembled within the Grand Library Arcana, their shuffling amplified by the clanking of their armor as they peered curiously – and somewhat confused – through the open door into the plaza of the mostly restored Dal’mohra beyond.
“So, Aliandra,” Vivian said, keeping her expression well unde...
2026-02-03 15:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: 3 of 4
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A huge thank-you to all of you for your support – it has been a delight and an honor to write for you. A special thanks to everyone who left helpful comments, thoughts, corrections, and all the theory discussions in comments and on discord, or even just shared a quick ‘thanks for the chapter’ – I never imagined how much I would come to value your i...
2026-02-03 15:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: 2 of 4
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Mato roared, taunting the Penumbra Wyrm away from the others and ripping through its shadowy scales with his void claws. It did not bleed like normal monsters, but the black ichor that sprayed out counted, at least according to his Bleed Proliferation enchantment. The bleeds spread to the other Wyrms, making them hiss with anger, and in moment...
2026-02-03 15:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: 1 of 4
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From his vantage point high up on a rocky ridge, Calen surveyed the steaming jungle nestled in the valley below. Three days of slogging through muddy swamps and bubbling hot springs spewing sulfurous gas into the untamed verdant growth had left him drenched and eager to be done with his search, if for no other reason than he badly needed a bat...
2026-02-03 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: 3 of 3
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Vivian stepped up to the crenel and stared out over the blasted plains lying below and to the south of Myrin’s Keep’s severely battered battlements. The endless sea of the dead was finally beginning to visibly thin out, the sun blazing brightly down on their dark bobbing heads as if supremely indifferent to the struggles of those be...
2026-02-02 15:10:02 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: 2 of 3
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When the time comes, no matter what you feel, you must release the arrow.
- Lyeneru Silverleaf
To Ali’s intense shock and surprise, she woke up. This was not the first time she had been surprised to be alive, but hopefully it would be the last. She lay curled up, with someone’s arms gently cradling her body...
2026-02-02 15:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: 1 of 3
Sorry for the cliff yesterday >.>
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Malika groaned, spitting the moss and dirt from her mouth. Slowly, she raised her head. She found her throat was dry and raw from screaming, and somehow it wouldn’t heal or resolve even with her healing magic still trickling through her body.
Ugh, I feel like I crawled out of my own cryp...
2026-02-02 15:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: 2 of 2
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Mato roared at the Elder Red Dragon taunting him from behind the transparent black shield and stamped his paws in frustration. He swiped his claws across it, but they screeched ineffectually along the surface, skittering and scraping as they had every time so far. He growled. This was the first thing he had ever encountered that he could not ...
2026-02-01 15:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: 1 of 2
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Gaze upon her, all ye wicked, and despair, for you have driven her to wrath.
- Book of Future Echoes, Part 8, Section 17 by Tol’zerath, The Seer of Divergent Paths (New Elorthian Edition).
Lirasia smiled softly to herself as she slipped out of the heartwood of the World Tree and into the forest, shedding her tr...
2026-02-01 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: 2 of 2
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The immense noise of the gong reverberated through Ali’s frozen body as energy surged up from within Malika. Her eyes would have shot wide if they could. What is that?
[Realm] Malika Yu [Savior of Aman Rak] has used The Ninefold Way: Gaze of the Shattered Soul.
What? Malika – just, what? <...
2026-01-31 15:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: 1 of 2
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Malika’s body vibrated with thrumming power as she strained against the will of the Blind Lich, but it was useless. She had broken through to the third tier, and since then she’d been fighting against the Lich and his implacable minions for long enough that Second Wind’s Abiding Perseverance was blazing within her heart, driving her to ...
2026-01-31 15:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: 3 of 3
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Ali’s awareness wobbled precariously, returning in a vibrating swirl of black and gray that slowly faded as the glow of her protective barrier and the dimly lit forest returned to view. She took a tentative breath.
I just died. Again. While her body seemed whole, her awareness must have dimmed, but this time, she hadn’t ...
2026-01-30 15:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: 2 of 3
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Mato let his roar thunder forth, not just to keep Bragni Doomhammer’s attention – he had that well-secured – but to refresh the strength debuff. The heavy hammer shimmered with power and blurred, becoming three hammers attached to three mithril-clad, undead arms. The triple strike landed with the force of successive descending meteors. He bl...
2026-01-30 15:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: A three-parter today. 1 of 3
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Naia wobbled happily as she slowly made her way through the Forest. She hadn’t felt Ali-friend’s word vibrations in far too long, and she had so many new things to share. Ali will love the Shadow Slime, she decided. Or maybe the Wobbling Wormhole I got from those two unsplit brothers.
Ali’s ...
2026-01-30 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: DoK is officially 2 years old today!
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Nothing is absolute. Find the counter strike.
- Kamari Ren, Ahn Khen Elder, legendary master and inheritor of the Ninefold Way: Fists of Coherent Integrity.
Ali grimaced at the grievous damage the Blind Lich’s mere presence was wreaking upon the beautiful grove of Lirasian Oaks s...
2026-01-29 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: 2 of 2
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“Malika, he’s coming,” Ali said. Her brow was furrowed with concentration as she drew cascading fountains of runic magic from her glowing Grimoire, and Malika could tell it was not just the challenges she was dealing with here in the dungeon. Ali was fighting a battle on multiple fronts, the strain was showing.
“I’ll buy you s...
2026-01-28 15:05:02 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: 1 of 2
Calen teleported back into the fray as soon as his Lightning Amplification wore off, not relishing the resumption of the painful jolts and prickles from the arcing black lightning aura that crackled about the flying wraith of Thaldorien Stormshaper.
He drew and fired; a full volley of arrows from all his mirror images zipping across the throne room to deton...
2026-01-28 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: 2 of 2
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Without Malika, Ali would have died so many times.
The pretty, gurgling stream that normally flowed through this peaceful clearing just inside the cavern Lira had once inhabited was broken and churned up by the armored boots of the Death Knights and ran dark with ichor that blighted the plants downstream. That was, the parts of the s...
2026-01-27 15:05:02 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: 1 of 2
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“Fourth time is the charm,” Mato said, grinning at Havok and Sabri before turning toward the throne and the three enormously powerful undead guarding it. This dungeon, the Crypt of Kings, had provided some of the best fights he’d ever experienced. First, there had been Haverron, the Devastation Knight general. Then Kryostria, the Frozen Sc...
2026-01-27 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I couldn't figure out a clean way to split this chapter up into manageable chunks, so you get an extra long chapter instead of 2-3 parts. Sorry to those of you who are reading on tiny devices and have to scroll for ages.
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Calen crouched down beside the glittering rift and fished pieces of shattered ceramic out of the slag and rubble that had once been i...
2026-01-26 15:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostA clinking tide of shining, mithril-clad Knights spilled through the still-widening portal into the Forest Cavern, spreading out while their curses and magic crackled through the air and coated the trees with thick layers of ice. Massive abominations clawed their way through, mountains of stitched, zombified flesh forcing their way into the Grove. Howls and wails filled the air...
2026-01-25 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: 2 of 2 (chapter and status sheet)
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Name: Malika Yu
Race: Human
Titles: Street Rat, Rift Warden, [Savior of Aman Rak], God Maker
Active Buffs: Infinite Perception, Perfect Body, Soul Armor, Enlightened Evasion, Well-fed, Warpaint
Class: Soul Seer of the Nine Paths – level 250
- Martial Artist – level 108 (+4)
Require...
A/N: 1 of 2 (chapter and status sheet)
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She’s ok. Thank goodness she’s ok. Malika’s hand found Ali’s shoulder, supporting her grim-faced friend more from the security of physical closeness than any need for healing. Malika met the Fae’s amber eyes for a moment of shared understanding, and she nodded.
The mental haste buff Ali had cast on...
2026-01-24 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostA sudden hush descended upon the Grove as all eyes turned to the dark, robed figure silhouetted by the slow pulsation of the crawling violet light leaking from the portal. Even the titanic struggle between Dekarradon and the growing army of Death Knights and Abominations faded into muted background noise and flickering backlight that kept his features shrouded in darkness.
<... 2026-01-23 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: 3 of 3
Edit: sorry I missed a chapter - post is up now.
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Calen’s heart trembled, and his blood ran cold as everything around him fell apart. One moment, they were all in perfect formation, fully buffed and advancing, and then, in the blink of an eye, half the raid was frozen and dying.
Kryostria roared.
It was a noise so vast that ...
2026-01-22 15:21:00 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: 2 of 3
Edit: sorry I missed a chapter - post is up now.
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The cavern was deathly cold, and despite his thick hide and fur, Mato shivered. Dark too, but his eyes did not struggle to see. At the far end of the cavern, across a cracked and icy landscape, the rift glittered against the black ice of the walls.
The Lair of the Dracolich. T...
2026-01-22 15:20:00 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: sorry - I missed posting this one.
1 of 3
There are 3 chapters today - and I posted this one out of order. I'll fix the order in a bit.
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Malika touched down gently on the battlements above the South Gate, where Commander Gerald Brand himself was studying the seething masses of undead crashing against the town’s defenses with mindless, tir...
2026-01-22 15:17:54 +0000 UTC View PostMato shook his head and stomped his front paws to loosen up the muscles and shed the last jittering tremors of the last fifteen minutes of lightning assault upon his body. According to the scouts, the room was clear, besides the Well and its guardian, but even if they hadn’t said anything, the fact of Calen’s Motes of Light patrolling the entire amphitheater would have told him...
2026-01-21 15:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostA sea of writhing darkness churned below the glittering gold of Myrin’s Keep’s dungeon-reinforced battlements. Without the strength of barrier magic reinforcing the enchanted granite, the walls would have fallen under the onslaught hours ago – Myrin’s Keep was no Southport with its war shields and dwarven enchanted walls, and yet, her adopted hometown had not yet fallen...
2026-01-20 15:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostAli stood out at the front of the raid group beside Mato, and for once, she could level a look to meet his eyes with her feet still on the ground. The Divine Archon she was inhabiting was tall; without his evolution that had packed more muscle, heavy hide, and wiry, ruddy fur, she would have been gazing downward to study the bear.
Mato inclined his massi...
2026-01-19 15:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post