David Martinez
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The landscape north of Far-reach was not what Leif had remembered. Which was only natural, deathly energy seeped into the very land, rotting it from within. It was a sobering, almost melancholic emotion that overcame Leif as he passed valleys blighted by undeath, forests barren of all leaves. Rotting corpses of the beings who had once called this region home shambled around, their bodies unable to find respite even in death. The further north Leif travelled the more desolate his surroundings. Even…
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Lani considered her short life to have been one strange series of coincidences and bizarre happenings. Perhaps the most strange of these being the fact she could consider at all. She remembered the moments leading up to her evolution clearly, the nomads and the animals that followed them finally reached where the land became rocky and the wind had carried the overpowering scent of salt. In a wave that had been absolutely bizarre to witness from an outsider's perspective, many of the hogs had slumped to…
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Leif watched as Ram took a swig from his seemingly endless bottle, then the goatman handed the bottle to him. He took the bottle and eyed it suspiciously, it was normal alcohol, this wasn’t the first time Ram had offered Leif his bottle in the past hour. The spriggan tilted back his head and drained more than enough liquid that the bottle should be almost empty. Even as he was now, Leif doubted he could make it even half way up. His gaze shifted down the valley, watching as large shapes moved through…
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Amber blood pooled from the wound where a metre long jagged spike of ice had punctured Leif’s torso and punched clean out the other side. There was a finger deep gash in the side of his head, both his legs were missing to various degrees of severity and one of his arms was mangled to the point of complete disuse. He was caked in a layer of jagged ice, though most of it lay strewn around him. Leif coughed, gagged, then reached up and yanked the arm length shard of what had once been part of an elemental…
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The elemental loomed above him even though it was still fifty or so metres away. All around the valley the piles of ice that littered the ground were coming to life, whether it was because the reconstituting monsters had detected the being who had almost killed them and were coming alive to defend themselves or because of something else, Leif didn’t know. The icy mist that was ever present within the valley now swirled and rolled across the ground, the mist’s presence making the already frosty…
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“Now how the hells did you awaken before level fifty?” Ram’s question hung in the air, as if by merely being spoken it charged the environment with static electricity. Leif wasn’t overly surprised Ram had figured him out, but he “It’s not exactly a secret, several people already know and with how quickly you figured it out I suppose it doesn’t matter. The truth is I was once human, I died or something very similar and awoke with a new species and class. I was an unevolved tree for a…
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Leif trudged along a hillside, he maintained his focus on a ball of wood that was constantly being reshaped and moulded into different configurations. When the wood began to destabilise and his manipulations became too much for the object to handle, Leif would send a trickle of healing amber energy into the object. wasn’t a skill he could upgrade like or , Leif knew the skill’s biggest constraints were his own expertise and his raw strength. If his was higher he would simply be able to do more. If…
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Leif stared dumbly at where the newcomer lounged next to the fire. The horned man was dressed in what looked like a dozen different animal pelts that had been stitched together, and he was absolutely covered in dirt and grime. Splotches of blood and less identifiable things stained his rags. Despite his ragged appearance the man was strong, his physique muscular and solid, Leif was glad he didn’t appear to be hostile. He didn’t need to activate to know the being before him was a fighter. The…
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The supply crate lay on its side, a faded and weatherworn symbol was painted onto its side though Leif couldn’t make out the details. He sunk clawed fingers into the wooden exterior and lifted the container, carrying it to where he was gathering all the leftover supplies he could find on the smaller bluff. Most containers he found were damaged, destroyed, or had been left open prior to being left behind. Others had sprung leaks or, like the food crates he had thrown overboard, their contents hadn’t…
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Leif had spent three days trudging through the wilderness after having departed from Far-reach. During his exploration he had finally seen the world in daylight. The landscape was withered and desolate. The malevolent presence brought about by deathly energy had corrupted and blighted the land for what seemed like dozens of miles. What animals he saw were diseased and malnourished, many having succumbed to the unfortunate fate of undeath. Leif spotted a pack of mangy, starving wolves as they crested a…
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