There were too many rumors about the [Envoy of God] with too little confirmations. There were rumors that he was the son of the first [Namer]. There were rumors that he was an Endless who had descended from their higher plane to walk amongst mortals and immortals.
One of the nicer rumors was that he was actually the son of God. Created by the one supreme being that even the Endless could ...
2026-02-01 21:53:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe pain was not going down. It was not reducing. There was no forgetting it.
Melmarc stared down at Balusad’s body. The ring of mana from [Secrecy] was still embedded in his chest. A cold breath left him.
He staggered.
No.
It was like declaration, a demand of himself. He would not fall.
The ring of mana glowed a little brighter. Then it exploded, drowni...
2026-02-01 17:10:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe explosion was loud. Naymond dodged it by ducking into the other room. [World of Insight] was working on overdrive. He was seeing everything all at once. If he failed to pay attention for even a minute, things could end poorly for him.
Finding himself in a lab room filled with tables and pipets and blood from people he and Madness—mostly Madness—had beaten up, he scrambled along th...
2026-02-01 10:17:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe tornado hit with enough force to wipe the light from Melmarc’s eyes.
It knocked him back, even with [Weight of Jupiter] active.
[Skill Knowledge Is Power is in effect.]
[You cannot receive or inflict damage.]
He knew that. By God, he knew that. But it did nothing for the pain. It tore at his skin, friendly fire being nobody’s friend.
Balusa...
2026-01-31 22:11:55 +0000 UTC View PostNinra ran down her school’s hallway. Her footsteps echoed as she ran. Her flip flops slapped against the cold tile floor. She struggled, adjusting her night wear around her, tying it in place with the small rope.
Uncle Dorthna had sent her a simple text.
I’ll be there soon, it read.
But she didn’t want him to be here soon. She’d seen the news on the internet. ...
2026-01-31 17:53:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe glaive cut through the air, roaring with a maddening hunger.
Melmarc could feel its need for blood as he ducked the blow. It cut something, cleaving beyond just air, trailing a path of black ichor.
Balusad twirled the weapon with practiced familiarity and brought it down on Melmarc’s head. He stepped to the side and it cleaved the rocks on the ground.
The Oath’s smile ...
2026-01-31 14:28:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe chamber remained a natural beauty, tainted only by the old man with the glaive and the bird people rushing at him. The bird people glowed their subtle colors, powered by whatever buffs Spakkow was casting on them.
A side glance was given to Melmarc. Spakkow was watching him, waiting. Melmarc understood why. He was a Portal Helper. He was supposed to help. The thing was that he wasn’...
2026-01-31 09:05:04 +0000 UTC View PostFor all his worry at the sight of a child, Melmarc’s eyes zeroed in on the knife and his kick was as swift as it was vicious.
He felt it crack against the boy’s rib, the width of his leg large enough to contain the length of the boy’s torso. He struck through, the boy folded on his side as if seeking to wrap himself around Melmarc’s leg. Then he was gone, shot off into the distanc...
2026-01-20 09:04:37 +0000 UTC View PostForests were always a dreary endeavor. They were often dark and murky and unknown things were always hiding around every corner. Perhaps murky was not necessarily the word, but it didn’t change the fact that the forest always had a dreary tone to it.
Aiden stared up at the sky or at least the canopy of leaves above. He could make out a little bit of the sky, enough to know that it was m...
2026-01-19 22:21:39 +0000 UTC View PostMissing a shot was one of the many things Telma hated in her life. It often drove her to rage.
“Revenge?” Aiden Lacheart asked, looking at her as if he had never seen her before. “I don’t even know you.”
That outweighed her anger towards missing. Telma knocked another arrow, summoned straight from her storage space and let it fly. It was a massive thing, capable of shatter...
2026-01-16 19:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post“B-rank?”
Flekni nodded. She looked embarrassed, which left Melmarc confused because he had no idea what embarrassment was supposed to look like on a bird’s face.
“B-rank,” she said, confirming.
Flekni was the smallest of all the birds. She had dark grey feathers that covered her entire body and her feet, which Melmarc expected to be some level of yellow for reasons ...
2026-01-15 21:32:33 +0000 UTC View PostSitting down on the high boulder where he and the others had stopped to check on what was further ahead, Aiden took one final glance at the dimensional mana crystal he had gotten from the [Life Eater].
How did it use it to cancel Estabel’s teleportation, he thought, slipping the dark crystal back into his storage space.
He cast his glance into the distance once more, frow...
2026-01-12 21:00:39 +0000 UTC View Post“Shit,” Melmarc muttered under his breath.
Whatever teleportation had happened had deposited him right in the middle of what he was beginning to think of as a portal and the world where the portal led to. He was surrounded by clouds of deep blue, intermingling with black. From the edge of his vision he could sense things in the cloud. Hands reached up from beneath him only to...
2026-01-11 23:58:37 +0000 UTC View PostMelmarc’s eyes tried to pick out another black spot on the walls or the ceiling or the ground. That was what was different between today and every other day since his discomfort had started. It had bothered him since coming to the school, but now he was sure of it. The white and black design of the school was something unnatural.
It was not a fashion design.
Something was wrong. 2026-01-11 13:26:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The shirt felt itchy, but he knew it wasn’t the shirt.
“It’s fine.”
Melmarc turned to look at Ark standing at his door. He frowned a little, not truly annoyed. He ignored his shirt for a moment to fold his arms over his chest pointedly.
“Dude,” he said, with as much exasperation as he could muster. “Where’s your shirt?”
Ark stood in front of his room in...
2026-01-10 23:21:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the game was tiring. Melmarc did not have a moment of rest. Diret no longer focused on him, but it was as if everyone else on the team was suddenly very good. Every screen was strong, although they rarely worked on him.
Diret tried his illusions on him a few times but didn’t find success again. However, where he failed in his illusions he succeeded in pure skill.
Despi...
2026-01-10 12:21:01 +0000 UTC View PostKing Oyedi was dead.
Telma still couldn’t believe it. It didn’t make much in the way of sense to her. Yes, there had been information of the Immortal approaching the captured city of Dentis when she had been leaving, but while the Immortal was an impossibility to kill, it didn’t mean that he could not be defeated. No one alive that knew half of anything thought that the knight’s f...
2026-01-08 21:03:15 +0000 UTC View PostSword held in both hands, he looked down at Clerent. The [Saint] was spent. He had taken a direct strike from a bolt of lightning generated by a greater enchantment. At his level—which Aiden doubted was more than two hundred—it would be a devastating blow.
“Don’t!”
Aiden recognized Tanor’s voice. It was followed by a moment of deep silence, as if the world wished to gran...
2026-01-01 23:18:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe world was blotted out. Darkness filled it.
Clerent turned as he felt the effect of it. Two of his four greater enchantments were gone. He gritted his teeth at that. His manifesting skill gave him two greater enchantments to work with, but his divinity had granted him two more.
[You have entered an area of high Demonic mana density]
Clerent was not surprised. Still, this wa...
2025-12-27 08:50:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe sound of the basketball bouncing against the wooden floor was loud to Melmarc’s ears even in the loud cheers that came with their victory. They’d played a fifteen minutes game, and his team had ended up winning by more than ten points. It had been an interesting game to play.
They’d locked down their opponents, figuring out how their skills worked early enough. The boy who could...
2025-12-26 07:28:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe air grew heavy with the weight of mana. Aiden ignored it, hands coming out as [Dash] pulled him straight into the approaching [Saint]. Techniques were powerful but they were neither invincible nor perfect. In fact, what made techniques unique was simply the sense of combination. In the simplest explanation of techniques, they were a series of movements perfectly executed in synchronicity. N...
2025-12-22 10:10:13 +0000 UTC View PostWhat is his mission? Where is he going?
Telma let out a low growl of anger as she pieced together everything she knew from hunting the man she had come to know was called Aiden Lacheart down. The man had left the battle field of Dentis and made his way to Trackback.
In Trackback, she had gathered information, along with the gatherer she had taken that he had claimed the [Cr...
2025-12-20 08:36:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe walk from where they had their gym class was awkward. Devin had nothing but a frown plastered on his face but said nothing the entire way. Melmarc kept his mouth shut, too walking with both hands in his pockets. If the boy felt the need to be silent, then he wasn’t going to try and break the silence. It wasn’t as if he was in a hurry to. He had never been a fan of people who couldn’t ...
2025-12-18 22:11:47 +0000 UTC View PostAiden stared at his status. He still had eight unallocated stat points from his last level up. He still had no need for an immediate increase. Right now, he was at a comfortable point where he didn’t need to grow anything. He could afford to grow only when he needed to. He was at that sweet spot where he could invest all eight points into a single stat because it was what he needed to win a b...
2025-12-17 13:33:48 +0000 UTC View PostStanding within a sea of trees, Aiden was left with Tanor who had introduced himself as Alphonset the third, The Mage Radiant Estabel and Clerent the [Saint]. This was a convoluted group by any standard, a group of which he would never had seen himself standing with even in his past life.
When Tanor had introduced himself, there had been some skepticism from Clerent and Estabel. They had ...
2025-12-16 10:25:43 +0000 UTC View Post“Still can’t believe that they have actual co-ed hostels,” Scottie said.
He was currently doing his best version of a sit up. It looked difficult since his stomach was determined to get in his way. He groaned on his next sit up, taking his time lying down to speak.
“Was as shocked as you are,” Deidi said. He was a slender boy with a frame for a swimmer. His salt pepper hai...
2025-12-11 22:27:38 +0000 UTC View Post“This is becoming more than I can chew,” Alfa groaned.
Behind her, looking at her computer from over her shoulder, was Booker. He was a new agent. The thing was that while he worked in the Gifted department, he was not under her command. He existed outside the hierarchy, if she was to quote the commissioner.
Booker was a tall man with a touch of Asian heritage, but he was Americ...
2025-12-07 18:14:51 +0000 UTC View PostMelmarc and Lola turned their heads at the same time.
The owner of the voice left Melmarc a little confused. Patience stood not too far away with a blue plastic cup in her hand. She had a tired look on her face, as if she was tired of doing whatever it was that she was about to do.
Lola’s hold on Melmarc’s shirt loosened a little, but she did not let go of him, not yet. With a s...
2025-12-07 18:12:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe sound of a rap song that Melmarc had never heard before suffused the entire room. There was nothing but noise as he walked into the house. It was louder here than it had been on the outside, not that he was surprised.
Beside him, Ark looked intrigued, rubbing his hands together as if he had very nefarious plans that he could not wait to put together and execute.
His eyes darted ...
2025-12-06 17:11:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe man watched Bayad curiously.
“Smokeless fire,” he repeated, still curious.
That simple information sent chills running up Bayad’s spine. The man in front of him was the first person in Bayad’s life in this world to perceive the smokeless fire. Everyone else saw the wings and the colors and just thought fallen.
The man was not done yet, though. He leaned in closer, ...
2025-12-06 17:10:12 +0000 UTC View Post