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Chapter 124 - Hung in Desires
Chapter 124Hung in DesiresSilence reigned between two silhouettes who cast long shadows that warped into the thin and branching trees. Roaring flame shone as brightly as it could yet still struggled to alight the drowning darkness of nature that surrounded it as well as the heavy clouds of muddied truth that pressed from above.Sylas remained silent as he tried to recollect and recall as much as he...
Update
Hello everyone! Apologies for going AWOL for a while.Had a close death in the family so I was fairly busy taking care of the arrangements and decided to take a couple of extra days to gather myself. I hope you understand. I'll try to write a few extra chapters over the remainder of the month to make up for it, but I honestly can't make any promises at the moment.Hope you enjoyed today'...
Chapter 123 - Breath Held
Chapter 123Breath HeldShe appeared like a ghost, with no signs or foretelling noises. Appeared like a phantom and stood silent amidst the ghastly corpses. Sylas forced a grin, realizing once and for all just how far away from her he was. She didn’t actively embody energy, yet his own seemed to wither and die whenever he thought of using it to attack her. There seemed to be a wall that transcende...
Chapter 122 - The Dead May Die
Chapter 122The Dead May Die“It’s here,” Sylas came to a halt and warned, pointing at the invisible membrane between the snowed-on trees. Agnes paused next to him, her eyes veering toward the direction and alighting.“It’s fascinating,” she mumbled.“You can see it?”“Hmm, ‘see it’ is... not quite the right way to describe it,” she said. “For example, each time I was about to...
Chapter 121 - Chasms Form and Chasms Close
Chapter 121Chasms Form and Chasms CloseSylas found himself back in the forest, Agnes walking by his side, still on the half-speaking terms with him since he refused to tell her what happened, as they made their way toward the north. He continued to observe her carefully, just in case; after a brief thought, he realized that he missed the most important factor the last time around--that her Halo ac...
Chapter 120 - Halo of Divinity
Chapter 120Halo of Divinity“W-what are you looking at?” Agnes asked awkwardly, finally having had enough. Sylas had been intently staring at her for almost an hour now, the look in his eyes extremely strange. “O-oh, I know! You have finally been entranced with my beauty? H-hah! It was about time!”“... yeah, that must be it,” Sylas smiled languidly as he spoke, taking a spoonful of stew...
Chapter 119 - Grown, Though Still Heart-Driven
Chapter 119Grown, Though Still Heart-DrivenThe trees seemed to split into a path, Sylas mused. It was different from his memory, though, admittedly, it had been a while since he last trekked beyond the wall into the northern hellscape. The night, however, was still as viscerally dark as was in his memories--it made the empty woods full of ghosts, as every howling of the wind became a wail of an ap...
Chapter 118 - To Slay the Unkillable
Chapter 118To Slay the UnkillableStrange silence permeated the dining table, one that Sylas and Agnes seemed entirely impervious to as they continued to gobble up the food. On the other hand, Valen, Derrek, and even Ryne only nibbled, spending most of their time exchanging glances or looking at the strange woman that appeared out of nowhere. Sylas didn’t introduce her, she didn’t introduce her...
Chapter 117 - Undue Wrongs
Chapter 117Undue WrongsSylas and Agnes sat side by side, their heads deep in the tomes of history, sighs of exasperation echoing out more frequently with each passing minute. They had been at it for weeks now but to no avail. Nothing new or of note was uncovered and discovered, and despite everything, Sylas was unable to connect any of the dots he had been fed.Through no tome did he hear a mention...
it all rains ('Agnes' WIP)
one of my own year's resolutions is to get better at drawing and paintingso, here we go, the first piece of 2022
Chapter 116 - Pillar Begets the Weeping Spirits
Chapter 116Pillar Begets the Weeping SpiritsShe blew into her hands despite not needing to. She was never cold, not once in her life. In fact, she was never anything except normal--being burnt or chilled escaped her, the sensations as distant as that of love. There was something to be said, she knew, about living life never experiencing any highs or lows, existing in a perpetual state of content. ...
Chapter 115 - Legacy of an Immortal
Chapter 115Legacy of an ImmortalThe two were back on the road once more, their footsteps quickly erased by the falling snow, leaving no trace they ever walked through. Nonetheless, the winds carried their voices forth into the reaches beyond their sight, adrift.Sylas was confident, if not in winning, at least in dragging the battle much longer than before. He had the complete intention of sacrific...
Chapter 114 - Heart Puncture
Chapter 114Heart PunctureCongratulations on completing the second quest of the Heartseeker Mantra!Your reward: Heart Puncture.Heart Puncture: superimpose ten strikes into a singularity, unleashing a strike that cannot be blocked, dodged, parried, neglected, or dispelled. The strike’s strength is dependent on the sacrifice made.New task: take 10 lives using Heart Puncture.Rewards: Heart’s Touch...
Happy holidays everyone :)
Hohohoho, hope you guys enjoyed today's chapter!Holiday season's upon us, and I want to take a moment to express my deepest gratitude to you all for being the fuel to my fire. I wish you all the best of the best, to spend the last of this year happily, and to come into the next fresh and new and stronger than ever!Again, thank you all, 'tis been wonderful and see you soon :)
Chapter 113 - A Stroke of Death
Chapter 113A Stroke of DeathSylas held his breath, his expression a grimace of pain. His muscles were flexed taut, veins pulsating like worms, his skin steaming as though there was a fire roaring beneath it. Agnes stood to the side, biting her lower lip, eyes full of worry. He’d been in such a state for nearly an hour now, and yet what lay beneath the surface was even more horrifying. Even she f...
Chapter 112 - A Little Bit Broken
Chapter 112A Little Bit Broken“AAAAAGGGHHHHHH!!!” Sylas didn’t linger about too much after catching up to the peak of his Way, immediately heading for the library. This time around, he had a clear goal in mind: putting ‘faces’ to the names the ‘Son of Anur’, whatever that may mean, mumbled. It wouldn’t be easy, but at least he had a frame of reference, that being the Kingdom’s no...
Chapter 111 - Son of Anur
Chapter 111Son of AnurThe room went still, with Sylas standing in shock over not being attacked by anyone after he killed both of the women. The man that stood ‘guard’ next to them disappeared in a whisk of smoke, vanishing from their sight as though he was never there. The only ones left in the room were the two Prophets and the boy holding onto his doll. The latter stood up slowly and stille...
Chapter 110 - Shades of Corruption
Chapter 110Shades of CorruptionAmidst the piles of snow that lay adrift the drylands, a tiny patch of fire burned, its smoke filtering out into the gray, open skies. Surrounding the fire was a snowless patch of land, though barren of life still, with two figures sitting in a circle, nibbling away at some meat in silence. Both wore clothes unfitting the skin-peeling cold, looking as though they wer...
Chapter 109 - Oddities Make a Man
Chapter 109Oddities Make a ManA strange atmosphere surrounded a dining table, with only one among the five seated seemed entirely oblivious to it, diving deep into bland-tasting porridge, drinking it down with some beer. The four others, Valen, Ryne, Derrek, and the newly-baptized Agnes merely awkwardly chewed away at some bread, eyeing each other with quizzing looks.The whole ordeal lasted some t...
Chapter 108 - Those Who Sing
Chapter 108Those Who SingThe two identical-looking women stepped forward amidst the surrounding sea of souls, both their expressions exactly the same--ones of indifference and frigidity. Behind them, the tiny boy followed, his expression unchanging as well. There was truly something strange, yet Sylas was unable to pinpoint what. Nonetheless, he hoped that they’d tell him.“We applaud you for s...
Chapter 107 - Uncanny Valley
Chapter 107Uncanny ValleySylas stood at the front of the village, looking at the thatched roofs that were finally coming into light under the shine of the rising, morning sun. The eerily silent village seemed to wake at that moment, with the faintest sounds of the noise beginning to emerge out into the open.He remained alert though not afraid. Above all emotions, curiosity reigned; as far as he co...
Chapter 106 - Where Ill is Born
Chapter 106Where Ill is BornThe story that followed was both ordinary and yet strange, a woven tale of dualities that painted the state of the village beyond perfectly. According to the two women, the village was founded around a hundred years ago or so by a pair of brothers, which was precisely where the feeling of duality began.One of the brothers belonged to Aynerns, the order of the Kingdom...
Chapter 105 - In Light We Trust
Chapter 105In Light We TrustThe boy was silent, his short, rapid footsteps confident despite the fact that they walked through the village directly, down its main roads. The solitary source of light was the one of the moon, occasionally brighter, though mostly dimmed as it had begun to snow once again. Though Sylas didn’t know whether following the strange boy who used Sylas’ own thoughts to c...
Chapter 104 - Hush, Hush
Chapter 104Hush, HushThey’d finally made it, Sylas realized. After a journey that felt a year-long, they stood at the far-edges of an asymmetric village lain gently between two forests, one of the same trees that stuck up far behind them, and another with cradling canopy in the shape of a dome. Further beyond the village, he saw a plain stretch out for miles on end, white snow disappearing in th...
Chapter 103 - Fire Which Doesn't Burn
Chapter 103Fire Which Doesn’t BurnIt snowed still, even what felt like just a few weeks before the beginning of the spring for Sylas. Deep in the forest, surrounded by the countless trees, their green canopy had been replaced by white, building floating igloos where some life seemed to reside. Every so often, he’d see a few different species of birds dig into the bustling roofs of white, hidin...
Chapter 102 - Dazzled by the Winter's Snow
Chapter 102Dazzled by the Winter’s SnowIt was different. Surreal. The way the world bent and bowed infuriated Sylas. It did nothing but stood it his path like a wall without ladders, barring him entry. And yet, for her, it not only bore ladders, but gates and doors all flung open. Wherever she walked, the snow melted on its own. It parted like the sea, creating a path for her to thread.She didn...
Chapter 101 - Stranger Tales Unspoken
Chapter 101Stranger Tales UnspokenThe fire continued to burn while the strange woman nibbled away at some rabbit meat. Sylas, in the meantime, drank some wine, marooning the thoughts of the doe and the crow and trying to clear his head. As for who the strange woman was, what her intentions were, where did she come from, how wasn't she freezing to death... he didn't ask. He wanted to, but h...
Chapter 100 - All is Cold But That Which Burns
Chapter 100All is Cold But That Which Burns“Huh...” Sylas exclaimed softly as he came to a halt, his eyes veering downward from the hill to the vast dip where a frozen river cut through the world. It seemed like a bridge connecting two opposing mountain ranges, and the divider between the frosted, dead plains and the now-leafless forest that lay beyond it.It was a strange sight, to say the lea...
Chapter 99 - Blood for Blood
Chapter 99Blood for BloodSylas spat to the side, drawing out a sword and standing still. Forty feet from him, he saw the armored shadows creeping forward, their daggers shimmering within the shade cast by the massive city of the dead. Focusing on them, he suddenly heaved his sword to the side at a speed nigh incomprehensible; a sensation of the blade cutting through the flesh assailed his fingers,...
