《Dungeon Instinct》Volume 2: Teaser...
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POV: Alma
“High priestess…”
I turned and looked at the monk. He knelt as was proper in the inner sanctum of the high temple, and his white and gold robes concealed his entire body from view. The only reason I could even tell the monk was a man was from the timber of his voice.
“Yes? You have my attention.”
The monk shifted slightly, a sort of nervous shuffling that told me I wouldn’t like what I was about to hear.
“High priestess, it would seem that there is a new devil pit…”
I surprised my urge to turn away in disgust. Devil pits, or dungeons as the uninformed call them, were bastions of evil. They spawned monsters, feed on the souls of the righteous, and grew more powerful by taking the life of mortals. It was the duty of all the righteous servants of the true god to destroy this evil, but the appearance of a new devil pit shouldn’t cause a monk to be this nervous.
“So we must simply send a pilgrimage out to destroy the devil pit, this is no cause for alarm.”
The monk shifted nervously again.
“Unfortunately high priestess, I do not believe it will be so simple to destroy this devil pit…”
I cocked my head in curiosity at that.
“Oh, and why is that?”
The monk looked up and I saw his face for the first time, he was a man of middling years with sun tanned skin and a salt and pepper beard. His green eyes were colored with worry and something that made my stomach sink. There was doubt in his eyes.
“The devil pit has reached out to the kingdom of Metia…”
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POV: Kalsaia
It was hard to contain my rage.
Everything, the plaything of voids had ruined everything.
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I had carefully planned out how I could gain a foothold on Quellios, I had even created a scion I could use to infiltrate the mortal realm, and then the damn Ascendant Angel came along. When the pulse of divine might ripped through the abyss I had thought that I was going to perish, but I survived. Unfortunately the scion I had been training used the pulse to escape to the mortal realm.
Kelic, I had named him Kelic. He was to be my gateway, a stepping stone that would open the way to the global conquest of a fertile world.
My fist was clenched, my talons digging deeply into my palms. This had been more than a mere set back, it had been a total disaster that my rivals hopped to use to dethrone me. Quellios was lost to us, the world was now protected by both divines and voids, and worse yet it appears as if I have lost an “heir”.
No matter Kelic was a mere tool that I planned to dispose of whenever he proved to be a liability, and no matter the noble houses were well aware of my intentions when I gave birth to the child. All the common demon sees is that I have lost my child, and now that the noble houses smell blood in the water they are more than content to simply let that misunderstanding spread.
I hated the so called “angel” Altorus, but he was beyond my power to punish.
I hated my child Kelic, but he was also beyond my reach…
Unless… He isn’t…
I sat a little straighter in my throne and felt a smile creep across my face as I contemplated what this could mean.
His soul never returned to the abyss… A void would never accept a soul that was so tainted, especially not after they learned of his parentage… But then, I am positive he died. I felt the moment his life ended, so that leaves the question…
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My small smile grew to a twisted grin.
“Where is my precious scion now…”
I closed my eyes and concentrated as I cast out feelers, tethers of power that would seek out even the smallest hint of Kelic’s soul. They would find him wherever he might be in the multiverse, it was only a matter of time.
As my power drained at a slow but constant rate I opened my eyes, my mood had just had a drastic shift for the better.
“Oh, my dear precious son… Mommy’s coming, and she has so much left to teach you…”
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Hero Soul: Jetriser
Erin was only weeks away from finishing college and starting her life in earnest, so dying was inconvenient, to say the least. Thrust into a new life in the magical world of Jetriser, she must scramble to survive a botched reincarnation in a less than newb-friendly region. Hiatus: I'm in the process of moving and changing jobs, all of which is happening rather unexpectedly, so I'm sorry to say the story will be on hiatus until I get settled.
8 141Slave 53: The Phoenix
Azgarth is a violent Warlord from a planet where everyone feared him, a man that never lost a battle whether it be from his enemies surrendering or dying. After entering a wormhole, this once infamous man had his memory completely wiped. He was enslaved under the name 53. The great comet arrived one day and gave 53 an extremely rare animal aspect, the Phoenix. Having a rare animal aspect puts people on the fast track to power in this world. Will 53 show the same brutality as his former self? Author: So there will probably be a lot of changes when I start hashing out the whole classes and what not. I'm not planning on this to have statuses or anything like that, but when people 'lvl up' is probably going to be something like ascending 1, 2, 3, etc. With each ascension they are many times stronger, for example, someone who hasn't ascend at all would be at 0, but someone with a 1 would be about 5x stronger than someone who is 0 and so on. It would take a long time to reach each one. With the red colored marks which represents fire, I have a couple ideas with what I want to do, in a way a battle royale, as this continent they are on isn't very large, but all four elements are on it (or more, I might add light, dark, and some others) but all the humans have red, while a different alien race has blue (water), brown (earth), and grey (Air). The color of the mark they have influences how they feel about each other, a example of that would be if a red saw a brown, then they would naturally feel a disgust about each other, and if they killed someone from a different color they would gain way more life essence which is needed to ascend than they would killing someone from their same color. The last thing, I'm not too sure about the main character yet, as I like the whole idea of a memory wipe, I almost think it'd be more entertaining to have the guy slowly regain all his memory, then just becoming his normal self again. If that's the case I'll have to change the title of book. The original idea was this guy would keep the name 53, and his prior self named Azgarth is sharing his body, as in he can talk to him and give him advice on things since he doesn't want him to die since he is sorta like a split personality sharing the same body. Looking at it now, idk if I want this guy to be named 53 forever. Warning: A lot of dark content in the book, especially in the flashbacks.
8 77The Zephyrus
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8 132Kaul'n: Wielder of Time
Thousands of years has passed since the end of the racial war between Mortals/humans, Demonaics, Elturs, and Luk'Ag-uerans which shifted the barbaric world to a "peaceful" world. An orphan of a small village wakes up from a nightmare that prophesied their village would be raided by a Mortal army from an enemy kingdom. The child and his caretaker barely flees from the village and a few days later stumbles upon a "bandit camp" as the leader took pity in them and takes them inside their camp. Five years has passed as the orphan child and his caretaker went through hardships as apprentices of the leader, and as the orphan child about to rest another revelation comes into his mind that the camp will be raided by the same Mortal army that wreaked havoc onto his old previous home. However, five years of training was not enough to fend off against them and forced the orphan and his caretaker to leave the camp by the leader while they stayed and fought against the army until his last breath. From then on more revelations entered the mind of the orphan causing his body to weaken as if the revelations continuously consume his insides. How will he continue to live while the visions/revelations consume his vitality? And how will he be able to control these visions along the road? The first purist in Kaul'n will have to face many challenges ahead.
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8 210Smile, Hero
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