Recommended Listening Hope Hiro, the Second Wordsmith, and one of only two living Heroes walking the mortal plane… brutally murders his mentor and supposed friend, King Solomon. The reaction from the other Heroic Souls inside his Mind Realm is swift and immediate. [You monster!] Hammurabi cries. [How could you?! My pupil! SOLOMON!!] [Evil child.] Arthur…
Recommended Listening Since the beginning of their battle, Jason has established a decisive power advantage over his clone. Time and time again, he reveals tricks and powers Hope never thought possible, showing the truth of his mastery over Wordsmithing. But that pales in comparison to the true power he hasn’t shown. Jason is the True…
Recommended Listening Jason and Hope don’t hesitate. The moment Jason summons his imposing golden Wordsmithium armor, he lunges at Hope, his supposed ‘replica’ of Excalibur slashing at Hope’s neck. Hope lifts Excalibur and parries Jason’s attack. But when their blades collide, the metaphorical weight of a mountain crashes into Hope and sends him flying away….
Recommended Listening Unarin stands inside his Sanctum, alongside Dosena. The glint of many ancient pieces of art on the walls do not draw Unarin’s attention as they usually would. Instead, his thoughts dwell on the rather sudden and unexpected battle between the two Wordsmiths, a battle he did not see coming but which also isn’t…
Six Dronesmiths surrounded Hope. At first, the Second Wordsmith began to feel a sense of foreboding mixed with extreme alarm. He knew Jason was able to control multiple Dronesmiths, but it was only after facing one of them in combat that he realized just how formidable these machines truly were. But then the actual battle…
Recommended Listening Hope continues attacking Jason, wearing down the Dronesmith more and more every minute. Eventually, as the fourth minute arrives, the Drone’s movements change. It starts fighting more defensively, using its sword to block attacks instead of slashing and stabbing at Hope’s openings. It stops speaking, and Hope’s eyes flare with excitement. The time…
Recommended Listening The two Wordsmiths look at each other for only a single second. Then Hope attacks. The Second Wordsmith snaps first, revealing the rage he no longer feels he has to conceal. Instantly, he pounces at Jason, swinging Excalibur with the fury of a hurricane. The blade swishes at Jason’s left and right, while…
Jason sat in front of the monitors inside the Spynet Sphere. For several long minutes, he stared at the images of Neil falling to the Plague, replaying them in his head, even as the Plague’s latent Chaos Energy distorted the vision of the probing magic he had placed inside Mount Adams. By the time the…
If humanity’s first loss to the Kolvaxians was a wake-up call, their second loss was beyond the realm of a nightmare. 300,000 men, women and children, dead. Humans and their monster allies alike, particularly among the civilian populace. Families destroyed. Lives ruined. Bonds broken. Inside the Labyrinth Core, which is no longer a safe space…
Across all of the four battlefields, the humans continue to fight with all their hearts. The Eastern battlefield suffers terrible losses as a result of the Executor’s battle in the skies, and the remaining humans rapidly crumble under the pressure of the remnant Cosmic shockwaves slamming into their bodies and psychic attacks that jar their…
