David Martinez
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A dozen spectres phased through the stone walls, floor and ceiling. Their translucent limbs were extended out towards him, their mouths stretched into feral snarls of agony and fury. Leif jerked back in surprise, raising his arms, both real and conjured to defend himself. Something cold touched his ankle, an icy chill shooting up his leg. Leif fell to a knee as the limb gave out, he glanced down and saw a ghostly hand wrapped around his lower shin. He struck out at the offending touch with one of his…
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It took Leif seven hours to reach the temple he had once used to escape the very place he was trying to reenter. This was because, to put it nicely, he took the scenic route. Due to this, a good quarter of Pherin’s streets were now free of undead. Bones and dust littered promenades that had once hosted hordes of skeletal monsters as they roamed aimlessly through the city. All things considered, it was quite the leisurely stroll through the ruins of civilization, he was only impaled three times total.…
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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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