Rider

Death and Destruction

Dream was keeping Thanatos’ power under control when he felt a presence approaching and raised his eyes toward the ceiling. A moment later, destruction energy slipped into his mountain, taking Seth’s form right before him.

“You’ve recovered your crown.” said Dream indifferently.

Seth nodded and didn’t reply right away, walking first toward Thanatos and placing a hand on ...

A fight between gods

Destruction energy gathered around Seth’s body, his dark red eyes fixed on Krum.

“Are you ready?” asked Krum, appearing quite eager to battle himself.

Seth nodded, the energy fed by the Tower getting absorbed inside his divinity as his eyes returned to their normal hazel color. He appeared completely normal, a simple and average human, but a torrent of destruction raged deep i...

Birth of a true god

Seth continued facing trial after trial, managing to defeat all the challenges the Tower threw at him, while between each test being shown a piece of what he believed to be the Tower’s memories, traces of records sealed deep inside the Tower and to which not even his system had access.

Whispers of a place called The Outside and the World Sovereign’s goal to return to that place also a...

Memory

Despite the dense forest blocking Seth from discerning anything about the Tower’s second floor, the smell of blood assaulting his nostrils and the battle cries echoing through the tree trunks did enough to paint a clear picture.

Seth proceeded forward, carefully hiding behind each tree to avoid getting spotted until he reached the end of the forest. Hiding behind the large trunk of a ta...

Asura village

Seth kept his calm, carefully observing the men surrounding him. The six arms were there, proving their relationship with Krum, but their eyes failed to instill the same feeling of strength Krum did.

“Who are you, human?”

“How did you get here?”

Two men spoke to him, their faces showing apparent confusion at his presence there.

From his previous experience climbi...

A familiar but different path. Trials of the Tower

Two destruction blades materialized in Seth’s hands, his steps carrying him past the safety of the staircase and onto the first floor’s open plateau.

The nearby beasts all appeared to feel the presence of an intruder, stopping their roaming and turning their heads simultaneously toward Seth.

With the beasts, both near and far, beginning to charge towards him, Seth did the same, ...

Tower of God

Time seemed to stop for everyone participating in the war, with the energies revolving around the battlefield coming to a sudden stop. Everyone was unable to move anymore, everyone besides Seth.

Not long after the time stopped, an illusionary tower appeared right in front of Seth, its doors wide open as if inviting him inside.

Seth looked around the battlegrounds before glancing dow...

Backed into a corner

The armies trying to block Endora’s troops from reaching the capital of Life were now gone, either massacred by the successive attacks of Pearl and Elise or having retreated to the capital.

The grand wall surrounding the capital was filled to the brim with ascended, all looking up and towards the east, awaiting their enemy’s arrival.

High King Soren was at the lead of the defend...

A deathly plan

The turn of events left Endora’s ascended speechless and made Life’s still-standing armies fall in despair.

What was once the second-largest Kingdom in the whole northern half of the continent became nothing more than a blood sacrifice to increase the Blood Sun’s power.

The once proud cities, previously filled with life, were now dead silent and covered in the blood of their r...

Human legacy

The two orbs hovering above Pearl’s hands began spinning under the influence of her creation energy as soon as Seth finished his words.

Pearl extended her hands forward, and her energy carried the orbs through the two portals. Even before they disappeared into the portals, the two space ascended canceled their energy, ensuring their portals closed the moment both orbs passed through. 2023-02-04 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

A miserable march

There was a tangible tension amongst the troops of Endora as the air ascended carried everyone high above the forces of Life.

The humans beneath had no way of reaching the ascended above, not even using their bows, so all they could do was look up and hurl insults at Endora’s army.

They knew Soren brought them there as sacrifices, with only the purpose of sapping the energy of the...

Sacrificial army

“The whole world might forget its existence, but a few will not.” Said Seth.

“You mean the singularities… Will I still keep my memories?”

Seth nodded and turned around, gently caressing Elise’s cold and pale cheek while staring into her blood-red eyes.

“As long as it is not destroyed, a singularity will always keep its time and memories. They are similar to time ...

Army of death

After spending almost an entire day in the company of Razim, Seth returned to the Kingdom of Loss, walking out of a portal right at the corner of the Plains of Famine.

The previously deserted area was now filled with ascended, and a strong blood smell permeated the air.

Seth’s arrival didn’t go unnoticed, and it wasn’t long before Elise flew down from high in the air, landing ...

Goddess of the Deep

Seth didn’t answer the owl’s words immediately, flicking the worm off his shoulder and sitting on the empty chair in front of him.

After he was seated, all the others animals and plants except the owl took human forms, looking towards him with different emotions.

Some had greed in their eyes, some hostility, others fear, and only a few people appeared happy with his presence the...

A senseful slaughter

Seth was walking side by side with Elise, traveling down a long flight of stairs under the Kingdom of Loss. A few steps behind them, Pearl, Meg, and Lisa followed.

The three girls in the back were trying to contain their repulsion at the bloody atmosphere that prevailed on the long flight of stairs. The stairs and the walls were made out of pure blood, wriggling continuously like they wer...

Elise, the Empress of Endora

Meg appeared outside the Garden of Life grounds, her face beet red. Pearl quickly came to her side and asked angrily: “Did she throw you out again?”

Meg snapped out of her thoughts, breaking sight with the Garden and fixing her eyes on Pearl. Shaking her head, she said softly: “It’s me. He stayed inside.”

“Huh?” asked Pearl in confusion, but after noticing the blush on...

All paths lead to a bed

Seth’s footsteps led him back into the forest, but Meg’s short feet barely carried him past its border, and orbs of life appeared to bar his path once more.

Seth didn’t stop, nor did the look in his eyes flicker for even a moment as he lifted his hand toward the orbs.

“Turn back…” Isabel’s voice resounded as an echo through the tall trees right as Seth’s hand collide...

Queen of Life

‘What is this, big brother?’ asked Meg, her eyes sparkling while staring at the mystical place in front of her.

‘The Garden of Life. A wonderful and lonely prison…’ replied Seth with a small sigh, ‘Walk towards the palace at the center.’

Meg nodded and moved away from Pearl, clearing her throat to attract everyone’s attention. ‘We need to head inside.’

Pear...

Garden of Life

Seth and the others could watch Seth’s splitting of his soul and his quick fight with Kronos with the help of Dream’s power.

A deafening silence fell in the cave as soon as the dream sequence stopped, and everything returned to normal. Everyone’s eyes were on Seth, waiting for his reaction to everything.

Even after seeing everything with his own eyes, Seth still had no idea wh...

Timeline

The journey from the Endora Kingdom to the Dream Kingdom took over four months.

On the way there, Seth spent the entire time teaching Meg destruction theory. When they reached the plains at Dream’s entrance, Seth had already used almost all the energy left in his piece of divinity to create a fifth shell destruction source inside her body.

The source was quite unstable, but he man...

Marks of time

‘It is me. Sorry for only being able to speak like this, but many eyes might be watching us right now. Try not to mention my name, and please explain the current situation of the Empire to my friend here. I’ll be listening from inside her.’

Olivia nodded, and Meg retreated her hand from Olivia’s cheek.

After shaking her head to clear her sudden dizziness, Olivia invited Meg ...

Olivia Noth

Meg appeared on a small hill next to Noth’s capital city. Seth knew it was early spring by the short green grass underneath her body.

While Meg was excitedly looking around, Seth was speaking with the system.

‘We should head inside the city and find out more. There are traces of technological advancement in the city, but only a few. Only a little time must have passed since we l...

Hope of Noth

Right at Endora’s Capital periphery, a light blue crown full of cracks was lying on the ground. Two of the nine spikes growing on it were already broken, and the vortex at its center was barely revolving anymore.

Energy slowly leaked out of the crown, forming Kronos’ body around it. Standing up from the ground, Kronos lifted his hand, making his divinity materialize in his palm.

Broken

As word about their emperor’s deeds was spreading throughout the kingdom and even outside of it from the mouth of his guards, Seth was trying to enjoy a cup of tea in his parents’ company.

Nash was staring at his son with an amazed look while Hilda was doing her best not to say anything about Seth’s deeds.

Their weekly time together was quite awkward, and Seth eventually excus...

Advent of the God of Lust

Seth had begun his cultivation, spending half the first week in his pool.

He was not planning to leave until five days passed, and he had to meet with the women volunteering to provide him with lust energy, but halfway through that, his parasite started protesting again.

‘Can we please take a break? I want to eat something.’

‘This is so boring. Come on. I know you’re a...

Kronos. The God of Time

Kronos frowned, and the cycle of destruction and creation in front of him stopped. The world returned to its normal state as if all that just happened was nothing more than a mirage.

“Guess I’ll have to take a look myself.” Muttered Kronos, his form disappearing from the dark space and quickly appearing inside the world.

“What a cursed place, demigod-level seals after seals ...

Seclusion

Seth and Caitlin both appeared inside the garden of the Imperial Chambers, where everyone was gathered and waiting for them.

As the girls started congratulating Caitlin, Seth pulled Hollie to the side.

“So?” asked Hollie, looking Caitlin up and down from a distance.

“The will appeared normal and… I guess complete, but it was still a little strange. It looked indeed lik...

Demigoddess

Caitlin was sitting on the soft grass with her eyes closed, life and death energy swirling around her nonstop. Across from her, Seth’s eyes were staring at her without moving, working with the system and monitoring every change happening in the energy around them, her source, and her body.

Two days passed seamlessly until Caitlin’s eyes snapped open. The air all around took a ghastly ...

Ava's arrival

Seth brought his hand over Maya’s silky hair, rubbing her head like one with a child’s while looking at Iris’s exaggerated expression.

“Don’t mind Maya’s words. You know how she is. What I - “

“Why not?” interrupted Maya with a pout, releasing Iris and removing Seth’s hand from her hair while turning towards him. “It will allow you to link to her the way you di...

Thorns along the way

Seth kept teleporting north, chasing after Iris with the system’s help.

Luckily for him, she eventually stopped, and he was able to catch up to her, but even so, he was already too far from Endora to feel comfortable. His lust and perception sources had to continuously use the energy inside to keep his link to Leora active.

After finally catching up to Iris, Seth looked straight a...