Stuffed with insect meat Ethan walked through the forest until he heard the telltale noise of a river. When he finally stood before it he not only cleaned himself but also quenched his now rediscovered thirst. During the time he didn’t need to eat, which was at this point a couple of weeks, he was now once again relying on simple nutrition to fuel his body. When compared to magic it felt so i...
2025-05-29 20:22:01 +0000 UTC View PostAfter walking at a leisurely place for around two hours Ethan couldn’t shake the feeling that something was missing or rather someone. The familiar weight on his shoulders or around his staff, the soothing connection between them that shared not only their thoughts but also their feelings, their personalities. It was like a constant dance between two equal partners. It was built on companions...
2025-05-27 20:22:00 +0000 UTC View PostHe totally did that and seconds before he actually did it felt like the right thing to do. When his sister was still alive he constantly annoyed her with such things, even when she was older. It worked wonders when she was in a bad mood or hated his guts for some unknown reasons, like all siblings do sometimes.
Well the elf wasn’t his sister, she didn’t even look like her but somethi...
The moment Nora gave the green light he jumped from the tree, his magic working already to create clouds under him. So for the first few meters he just accelerated only to land on a magical hardened snow cloud that carried him downwards. Suppressing a grunt he managed to stay silent for now. Once he stood firmly he accelerated his descent.
Nora stayed silent during the whole time but he...
With the enemy approaching Ethan had only one possible way, a decisive victory to scare them off forever. He would crush their spirit, break their bones and send them away with a bloody nose and a lesson for life. At Least that was what he wanted to do but he knew how unprepared he was for a fight.
With his staff in hand he summoned a cloud of snow under his feet and floated up to the ne...
Sleeping the night in some burrow was actually one of the best nights Ethan had in the entire tutorial, his need to sleep was decreasing with each level up but he still required rest, that lately came in the form of unconsciousness and shouldn’t be something he wanted to introduce as a permanent solution.
Ethan chuckled and stretched his sore muscles, when he took his hat he notic...
2025-05-17 20:22:02 +0000 UTC View PostBoth of them decided to take a more stealthy approach this time, they walked a few hundred meters away from their last entry point and this time Ethan crawled over the ground. The moment he laid down he could feel the water soak into his robe, the ground was muddy and wet, grass constantly took his vision away and the bushes and shrubs that covered the forest floor ripped his clothes open. He e...
2025-05-15 20:22:01 +0000 UTC View PostEthan stopped in front of the massive jungle. Looking up the trunks of the trees he could barely see the top of them. Vines as thick as his wrist stretched between the trees and formed a complex net high up in the air.
Taking a deep breath he rammed his staff into the ground and stretched his sore body, a smile tugged on the corner of his mouth, he did complain the whole time when he was...
He couldn't remember when he fell asleep, but the shock he had when waking up nearly made his heart jump from his chest. Nora sat next to him, coiled up and her eyes staring into his face, it seems she watched over him the entire time.
Ethan managed to sit properly and let his pounding heart calm down, his eyes closed as he only focused on breathing evenly. With a sigh he opened his eyes ...
2025-05-10 20:22:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t the first time Ethan stood in a magic circle, but the first time he was involved with blood magic. While he said magic wasn’t good or bad and he actually believed it but feeling the energies of the dead wash over his skin made him feel dirty, tainted. Maybe he would pay for it at some point but that wasn’t important today.
He saw the other mages approaching, keeping their...
Ethan spat out some more blood and wiped his mouth, his black robe covered in so much red dust and pale blue blood that the black underneath wasn’t visible anymore. Using Nora’s offered tail as support he pushed himself to his feet and took his hat off. The long black hair on his head was messy and wet with sweat, his arms burned from using too much mana, pain stabbing into them as he tried...
2025-05-06 20:22:01 +0000 UTC View PostLike skeletal fingers frost started to cover the ground, arrows made from ice shot into all directions at once, rushing over and freezing the world at an incredible pace. Icy chains erupted from already frozen patches of sand and dragged everyone to the ground, which Ethan considered an enemy in this conflict. While the ground was quickly covered Ethan’s body got covered in more and more ice,...
2025-05-03 20:22:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe darkness, the utter lack of any form of light, so all encompassing that you doubt your own existence.
The cold, there was no warmth, like the concept of heat didn’t exist in this world.
The Fear, it was depressing, cruel and paralyzing and had the ability to break every feeling creature in existence, something no weapon or magic could achieve.
He could only perceive those thr...
When you think about war in a fantasy scenario as a normal person you might envision speeches before battle, generals at the front raising a sword while a young man holding the flag of their nation behind him. The men challenge their enemies with cries of war that make the earth shake. Swords were brandished, shields got raised while the soldiers grit their teeth in anger, their eyes filled wit...
2025-05-02 13:49:56 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the commanders gathered he didn’t waste any time. While he had no actual knowledge of tactics and strategy he knew some things that were important for any kind of battle. For the rest he would rely on the commanders of his army to carry them out for him, this was after all their duty and passion. Standing in the middle of them he told them his plan, his words coming fast but he never stu...
2025-05-02 13:48:14 +0000 UTC View PostMagical boots, convenient, stylish and with an amount of class you couldn’t achieve with a little bit of enchantment. Well fuck them because nobody included a stupid manual how useful they really were, sometimes an item description isn’t enough to explain it properly. Because “you will always find solid ground” should have been expanded to: “Always find solid ground even without a stu...
2025-05-02 13:46:56 +0000 UTC View PostRushed, that was the first thing Ethan came to mind when thinking about this part of the tutorial, from becoming a literal leader of an entire race he met only a day before to now commanding what was the entire living population of the third circle. He was pretty sure the so called capitals didn’t even exist and were just there for flavor to fill out the world. Because he wouldn’t visit the...
2025-05-02 13:45:45 +0000 UTC View PostReaching the Brammgestir was, to Ethan’s surprise, uneventful. No ambush, no open attacks, no hordes of the undead. Instead more of his troops joined the growing army and even some Brammgestir scout parties merged with the delegation and formed a rather impressive shock force. While it didn’t have the order of the Crocodiarii they made up for it with their fierce style of battle. At this po...
2025-05-02 13:44:50 +0000 UTC View PostOuroboros stopped in the throne room and turned around to his allies, while he could attack the enemy forces and siege their castle there was simply no reason for that. This war couldn’t be won, only lost and the loser would be the side that tried to force victory.. The war on earth would bring the final decision, his side or rather Ethan’s side needed to win there to make the decision of t...
2025-05-02 13:43:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe ground rumbled and cracks formed on both sides of the massive valley as something started to break through the rocky ground. The mountains surrounding the valley shook violently, snow and ice drifted from their peaks and left only hard gray rock in their wake.
Dirt and rocks got thrown in the air when the top of a tower broke through the earth on both sides of the valley, perfe...
- you better believe me Ethan, the next time you pull something like that I’m gonna bite you enough to make even my venom work on you. You promised no more near death experiences for my sake, but especially for yours! Even when you die by my hand I will just ask your benevolent patron to revive you…so that I can kill you again! Do you even know how worried I was about you?! You wi-...
2025-05-02 13:40:47 +0000 UTC View PostSo it finally happened, Ethan fighting his first proper duel. While he had challenging fights before, even against single opponents he wouldn’t consider them…sentient. The monster Marie became wasn’t even it's own being but more a guided flesh puppet and while the ghoul king and the fire giant could be considered intelligent they were cunning creatures but nothing more.
In the seco...
There were many things humanity could be proud of, their successes since the beginning of human history were truly marvelous. Like the discovery of electricity, the fact they could build a car, extract resources from the earth or use the sun to generate energy. There were also the negative things like guns, atomic bombs and more ways to kill each other than you can count.
But one thing in...
2025-05-02 13:29:18 +0000 UTC View PostEthan raised his hand and the general knew instinctively what he wanted. The group of behemoth lizards stopped and prepared for battle, after climbing down from the lizards they streamed to the front and positioned themselves in orderly rows. Ethan, still holding the sphere of ice in his hand, stood up and looked over the head of his mount.
Then he saw them, an army of undead, multipl...
2025-05-02 13:27:58 +0000 UTC View PostDuring his journey with the Crocodiarii Ethan learned a bit more about them, but the general wasn't someone interested in culture and arts, he listed the abilities of his people. Their strong scales and mighty jaws, their fearless nature and their pride. Which weapons they could use and how many troops he could expect. When the general fell silent he watched his improved stats while riding on t...
2025-05-02 13:27:19 +0000 UTC View Post“Stop that Lily!” Liliane swatted the roots away that her murder plant tried to wrap around the Brammgestir laying in front of her, the beast was barely breathing but with some healing spores she managed to keep him alive a bit longer. After all she wanted to test her new creation and what better flower bed than a juicy body filled with nutrients?
Grinning and giggling she pressed a ...
When Ethan woke up again he felt surprisingly good. Someone carried him into the barracks while he was unconscious and stuffed a blanket under his head. Nora raised her head when she noticed Ethan’s mind becoming more active, her unblinking eyes looked at him inquiringly.
Are you feeling better? That last skill knocked you out for a few hours, I could feel it, you were close to deat...
2025-05-02 13:23:52 +0000 UTC View PostOuroboros opened his eyes as a swirling vortex opened in front of him. It glowed in an ominous red, the color of blood. Through it stepped a man, his skin had the color of charcoal, eight eyes dominated his face. The white hair on his hair looked stiff, more like bristles than actual hair. He looked tired and while his posture was perfect everybody could see the exhaustion.
“You did it...
Ethan walked behind the Crocodiarii, a few steps brought him up the berm the guards had built so it was possible to look over the palisade wall. What he saw drained the remaining blood from his already pale face. Hundreds of undead moved towards the guard post. He saw Crocodiarii but also the hulking Brammgestir.
Their bodies broken, he saw missing jaws and broken horns. Some crawled, the...
2025-05-02 13:21:37 +0000 UTC View PostSophie looked down from her throne, it was a crude thing made from bones and animal hides but it was hers. In front of her, kneeling like the dirt they are, were the other tutorial attendees. She took control of them a week ago once the goblins served their purpose. Those dark green fucks, she thought while looking down at her newest toys. While they tried to survive she gathered her own streng...
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