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Chapter 739: Dying Screams
🕑 Added 2023-12-15 00:11:33 +0000 UTCAlex Roth was screaming.
The energies of Kelda's machine were boiling through him, piercing his very soul with sensations unlike any he’d ever felt before. He’d known pain and pleasure, endured hunger, anger and despair.
He’d borne the shock of a bane knife carving away bits of his soul.
But, what he was now experiencing was something else entirely.
There was no word, emotion or sensation he could think of, in any language he’d learned, to describe what was passing through his body; his soul felt as if it was on the brink of combusting, smouldering, disintegrating. The sensation was beyond excruciating, deeper than anguish; like his entire being was on the verge of shattering.
He felt little pain, yet, there was a deeper suffering coursing through him that went beyond the physical.
He reached for every meditation technique he’d ever learned, acknowledged that his soul felt like it was shattering. He was determined to let the sensation pass over him. It wasn’t easy, but the stakes had never been higher; through a mix of will and utter calm, the Fool of Thameland pushed through.
Slowly—over what felt like hours, but couldn't have been more than a few seconds—Alex grew accustomed to the feeling. He began to relax, allowing himself to be taken by the energies.
The incandescent light around him shifted, concentrating above his head. The light shimmered, taking on the beginnings of a male form…
…that suddenly came into clear focus.
Alex had thought he was seeing a reflection of his body, but soon realised that wasn’t the case.
‘That's not my reflection,’ he thought. ‘It's my own soul. There’s…something else there too…oh, by the Traveller…’
The young wizard recognised the image looking back as the most enduring gift and curse he’d been granted by Uldar on his eighteenth birthday; the Mark of the Fool.
It had appeared on his right shoulder on the night he’d turned eighteen: a glowing, mocking jester's face. But his soul looked far different.
The Mark had completely permeated and enveloped it, surrounding it like a shirt fitted too tightly. He could barely make out his own face in the soul-image, as it was mostly obscured beneath the grinning jester’s face. Something else stood out, intermingled with the jester.
Something older.
Indistinct.
A chill went through him as he now better understood why Kelda had failed.
‘The Mark’s completely integrated with my soul.’ he realised. ‘It'd be impossible to free it without damaging my essence. The patch…there's no way to tell what’s patch, what's original Mark, or what's actually my soul! If I start cutting blindly, I’ll destroy myself like she did…’
He gripped the controls.
The scalpels twitched above him.
Alex set his jaw, carefully examining what he was seeing high above. ‘But I have an advantage, I know how Uldar’s designs work and because of that… I can see it! I’m seeing parts that are necessary for the Mark’s design and parts that are redundant! Those extra parts have got to be the patch! I can do this!’
Drawing on every bit of determination he could muster, he poured his power into the scalpels, slowly lowering the arms toward his body, watching as the blades broke his skin. All the while, he observed illusionary versions of the scalpels touching his soul in the image above the operating table. Another wave of suffering ripped through him, but months of carving his soul with Val’Rok’s bane knife steadied him, keeping him from making a slip that would destroy his soul. He neither faltered nor stopped, the desire to be free of Uldar’s Mark driving him.
Fear could have taken over, stopping him, but he knew the church would never stop, no matter how much he ran…until they finally caught him.
So, he pushed on, carefully feeling around his soul, focusing on the image above him, watching as Birger’s tonic and energies of the Cage altered the colours of his spiritual essence and the Mark’s.
His soul now glowed bright silver, while the Mark shone like gold, yet he still could not differentiate between the patch, and the original Mark.
At least, not by sight alone.
But, from studying Uldar’s notes and harvesting bits of his soul…
‘There,’ he thought excitedly. ‘That's the first place I should cut.’
Several scalpels entered his soul through his left leg, reaching deep, weaving through threads of what should have been the patch. He felt the Mark’s fibres grow taut against the charged bane knives.
The Fool took a deep, steadying breath, then slowly snipped the fibres, sending a sudden wave of shock through his body. For an awful moment—he thought he was dead.
Jarring, discordant waves pounded him.
The first one brought feelings of relief, then triumph, then freedom, the next brought desperation, agony, and rage; another soon followed, sweeping over Alex, smothering him with swirling images; the foolish grinning face of the Fool snarled down at him, bearing undisguised hatred, announcing its wrath.
Uldar’s wrath.
A litany of failures hit like a tidal wave; every error he’d ever made, crowded his consciousness with a fury the Mark had never unleashed before.
Dizzying.
Crushing images.
Whirling through his mind.
Turning his stomach.
‘It's defending itself…!’ The thought screamed in Alex’s mind. ‘Maybe cutting that fibre triggered it? But how? The Mark’s only supposed to activate from spellcraft, combat, and…oh no.’
Divinity.
He was interfering with a god's work, encroaching directly on the divine while bathed in the machine’s multitude of energies, including mana and divinity.
‘That must've been enough to provoke it!’ he realised. ‘And…oh shit!’
More images struck. More failures. More horrors. But something was different now.
‘Those places…those things! I’ve never seen them before! Never experienced any of that! How—Oh no,’ another realisation. ‘The evening of my eighteenth birthday, when I first got the Mark, I had all these images of places and things I’d never seen before pour into my head. By cutting that thread, I probably reactivated whatever that was!’
He saw himself in tears, standing on battlefields…but, it wasn’t actually him, not Alex Roth…but, it was still the Fool of Thameland. Thousands of years of ridicule crashed down on him in a deluge. Fleeing from monsters. Shaming from other Heroes, whether Sage, Chosen, Saint or Champion, it didn’t matter, most never hesitated in mocking the Fool.
He saw himself—the Fool—trying to guide his companions on a ship.
He saw himself—the Fool—leading an army of Ravener-spawn, wielding two dungeon cores…only to be destroyed by the Heroes, the church and the army of Thameland.
He saw himself—the Fool—start a successful business after the war had ended, only to be stabbed to death by a rival’s hired thugs in an alleyway, unable to defend himself…but, that time, it had been herself.
The sense of repeated deaths enveloped him.
The Fool had died starving in gutters. The Fool had died freezing in caves. In dungeons, ripped apart, then eaten by Ravener-spawn. Alex could feel every blade, every pang of hunger, every Ravener-spawn fang.
His mind began to break.
He could barely form a coherent thought; his meditation techniques were all that stopped his sanity from bursting. He clung to consciousness, forcing his eyes back to the image above him.
Distantly, he heard Hannah and Carey’s voices calling.
The Fool was either going to die, or his soul would collapse.
He should stop, but he couldn't, not now. He’d already damaged the patch; it would bombard him with his own failures, and the failures of every other Fool that it had ever insinuated itself on, right up until he came apart.
All he could do was just keep going.
‘Keep going…it'll work…must work…’ Thoughts were barely forming. ‘Have to…try to…think…adapt…think…adapt…’
He focused on the image, gripping the Cage’s controls, pushing the bane scalpels toward the next section of the patch.
‘There…’ he thought, just managing to hook the cutting edges into the Fool’s fibres.
He made another incision.
More waves of discordance.
Relief.
Triumph.
Complete hatred and pain.
And—for a brief time—the Mark’s tide of images ceased.
Alex Roth, the Fool of Thameland, regained his bearings, looking for the next place to cut. ‘Not there…or there…that part’s redundant too! There!’
He hooked the scalpels into the fibres—
The jester’s face screamed silently, rage twisting it.
A new tide of memories slammed into him, these even worse than the last. In the space of one single heartbeat, Alex was gutted, blinded, crushed, broken and dissected repeatedly, dozens upon dozens of times.
He turned his head to the side and threw up.
His brain screamed.
But the scalpels were already hooked onto the fibres, they incised another one.
Another shock ran through him, this one the most intense yet; his entire body locked up, spasming, gagging.
New waves fell over him.
Feelings of freedom and relief.
Triumph and power.
Desperate rage, hatred, disdain.
But he could take no notice of them.
‘Where to cut next…’ he thought. ‘I have to get the scalpels in before the Mark reacts again. Its attacks are getting worse! Where? Where? There!’
The scalpels pierced his left arm, right through the scar that Burn-Saw had given him. He was hooking the scalpels into the fibres…
—the Mark struck.
Despair gripped him.
Streams of death and dying returned, bringing him to the depths of anguish. Failures, both large and small: imprisonment, despair, betrayal…all woven together in a perfect blending of torment designed to break his mind.
He couldn't take anymore…he couldn’t…
‘I can’t do this…’ his thoughts slowed. ‘But, I… something’s…different. It’s changed! Something’s changed!’
The Mark’s attack came on, more brutal than before; the images increased, becoming more personal. Yet, not as vivid, not as overwhelming as minutes before, they felt more distant, not nearly as fresh, like memories fading with time. He understood what was changing.
‘It's getting weaker!’ he thought. ‘I cut enough fibres to weaken it!’
He immediately cut the next section.
The waves came again.
Freedom, ease and relief.
Triumph, pride and power.
Desperate rage, hatred, disdain, contempt…and now, fear.
In that moment, Alex realised what the waves signified.
The feelings of freedom came from his soul, relieved as its bonds were slowly cut away. The feelings of triumph…were coming from the original Mark, finally reawakening after all these millennia.
And all of that desperate rage and fear?
That was the patch. That was the Mark of the Fool. That was Uldar’s will, fighting to keep itself from being destroyed.
‘I'm damaging it!’ he thought. ‘If I'm hurting it, that means I'm doing the right thing! That means I can kill it!’
He found the next section well before the Mark’s next attack came, and was already cutting it when a new wave of painful memories hit. This time, the Mark tried to bury his mind in a hundred lifetimes of failures at once, all playing out at the same time. It was determined to stop him, overloading his mind with failure and shame, forcing his brain to comprehend millennia of memories in the space of an instant.
Had the Mark attacked with these images when he’d made his first cut, his mind would've broken…but those centuries of memories were foggy now. Indistinct. They were present, but not as insistent upon his attention; they could be ignored, he could guide his mind past them.
And he did, cutting the next thread.
A familiar shock raged through him.
Yet, his soul felt free.
Uldar’s original Mark roared like a beast almost free from its chains.
The Mark of the Fool looked down upon the Fool of Thameland, the hate-filled grin no longer twisting its face, replaced by an expression of sheer terror. The jester’s image was unravelling, dissipating, splitting apart at the seams.
‘This is it,’ he thought. ‘The patch’s outline, I can see the difference between it, and the original Mark now! I can cut the last of the fibres all at once!’
Bane scalpels slid into his body, hooking fibres on his soul. He felt them growing taut just before they were severed.
Above the operating table, the jester’s face screamed.
A memory struck the young Fool of Thameland.
In the image he…no, she…was in this very machine. It was the final memory of Kelda of Clan McCallum, a former Fool of Thameland. She was filled with anger and confusion as she tried to choose where to cut. Her assistants were watching through the bars surrounding her, they were all shouting.
Her soul’s energies were collapsing, rupturing.
She felt a mind sensing hers in her agony. It was Hannah, connecting through their power.
She felt Hannah reaching across space.
The Fool felt her friend and could see her coming from her cave.
She knew Hannah could see her too as the Saint of Alric was teleporting to her sanctum. She knew her friend would not make it. Kelda looked up, feeling their connection, seeing Hannah.
Their eyes locked across the gulf between space.
The Fool’s face twisted. Elation died, replaced by anguish.
There was nothing she could do.
Rage, horror and despair filled the dying Fool of Thameland…and beyond that?
The deepest, clearest desire for vengeance.
Vengeance on the Mark, Uldar and his designs.
And like Kelda, Alex was something of a vengeance enthusiast.
For a moment he thought of saying…of uttering a final, cold pronouncement as he killed the Mark. Instead, he was silent, watching the thing that had killed so many young people just like him, scream.
He solidified the image of the original Mark in his mind, naming it: ‘The Mark of the General.’
Then the Fool of Thameland severed the last fibres.
Another shock coursed through his body.
Followed by a wave of extraordinary relief.
Then a roar of exaltant triumph.
And a single, forlorn, dying scream.
With an expression of pure joy on his face, Alex watched the jester’s face shatter as the patch frayed, beginning to drift apart. It collapsed, gradually revealing more of his true soul, until—only the jester’s face—covered his own.
It was disintegrating, passing away like rain before the blazing sun, becoming an indistinct mass. He reached into himself, touching the Traveller’s power, focusing on the ruined patch then teleporting it away, never to touch his soul again.
A mass of energy appeared, twitching, covering the image above him.
A heartbeat later, it was gone.
Alex could finally see himself, joined with the original Mark.
A crown burned atop his soul. In one hand, it gripped a sword. In the other, a scroll. The young wizard turned his head toward his right shoulder.
The grinning jester's face was gone, no longer there to plague him.
Instead a glowing, golden Mark of a sword atop an unfurled scroll, with the blade’s pommel split like the peaks of a crown, had replaced it.
He couldn't believe it. He didn’t dare to hope.
Swallowing, he raised his hand, and touching the mana within himself, Alex spoke an incantation.
It was short, but familiar.
As familiar as his own name.
The words of power meant to conjure forceball poured from his lips.
He waited.
Yet, no resistance came.
For the first time since he'd been branded by the god of Thameland, Alex uttered a spell without meeting interference, no failures clouded his mind, no resistance fought his will.
Nothing.
Just himself, and the oldest spell he knew.
His voice broke as he uttered the last syllable and raised his hand high, conjuring a forceball with a free and easy mind. It winked into being, appearing in a fraction of the time it would have taken with the Fool’s Mark hindering him.
It glowed crimson and bright, perhaps the most beautiful magical sight he'd ever seen.
Alex Roth wept with joy.
And the Fool of Thameland—
No.
There was no more Fool of Thameland.
Alexander Roth of Alric, the General of Thameland, had returned.
He set his jaw.
“You couldn't kill me when I could barely defend myself,” he whispered, mind on the hidden church. “Now, I’m free, unshackled. Let's see what I can do to you. It’s time for the General to learn some spells.”
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In its lair, the Ravener screamed.
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Author's Note
Hello thirty-seven cool fools, almighty chosen, wise sages, and mighty champions! Thank you for your support!
HEEEERE WEEEE AAAAARE! BOOOORN TO BE KIIIINGS, WE'RE THE PRINCES OF THE UNIVEEEEERSE!
HEEERE WE BEEEELOOONG!!!
OH MAN I AM SO EXCITED! 700 CHAPTERS AND HE DEFEATS IT! I'M SO PUMPED THAT WE'RE FINALLY HERE!
WE'RE HERE!!!!
Alright, as you can tell I'm a little excited :)
Cya tomorrow!
Comments
MasBoss
🎊🎉🎉🎉whooooooo
lenkite
FINAAAALLLYYY! Its CLOBBERING TIME! (after studying some T9 spells)
Arexio R.
slow clap
Catherine
AWESOME!!!
Linkneo5
So happy! Cant wait for the reckoning for the fae and secret church
Josh
Lol his teleportation power is like a Giant Pac Man now.
Josh
Personally I actually think the general might not give actual boost like the other 4 heros. Rather I think it's simply the fools ability to learn with no restrictions, at. All. I think the Sword, Scroll, and Crown mean Knowlege is His Sword, and with His Knowledge He Rules
Fleetpanda
Not related to the chapter, but is there a discord for this? I noticed it in the membership but it’s not connecting me
Dehlan Sage
HYPE HYPE HYPE
PennilessPotato
So we are pretty sure that the Ravener is the corrupted lifeblood of Uldar that gained malevolent sentience right? “We” being me.
Code Reed
That would be consistent with how it works for everything else. Though at this point I doubt he needs the boosts. Remember, he's gonna add an artificial mana pool soon, and presumably more has time goes on. His body is already been altered by blood magic and now that he has no limit on Divinity usage he should be able to get just as good and strong as Cedric within a relatively short time. Balin(forget how to spell it) speculated at one point that once the shackles come off, his spell learning speed is going to be tremendous because of how he's had to learn magic up to this point. So I speculate in a couple of weeks he's going to be a fucking badass. More so than he already is.
Code Reed
So with his Mark changed, he should be able to work with divinity now right? I hope he does some life enforcement. There shouldn't be any reason he can't get as strong as Cedric was after he did his blood magic on him. That would help him tremendously in many ways. One of which is a highly increased reaction speed. I imagine the higher but speed will make it be able to do spells much much quicker as well. Not to mention the Mark should also not be assisting him with those spells.
Abithy
Loved the Highlander !!!
Julien Fellegara
So now the mark should help him casting spell, instead of impede him? How will it show?
JKincaid
I’m not going to hold my breath for it, but I’d also like to see Alex get back into force magic
mag28
Fun theory. Small note, stalker doesn't know uldars dead. Its his lord/king, im pretty sure, is the one that knows uldars dead, but if you swap them in the theory it still works.
Brian
Theory - The Ravener was the last person with the mark of the general. Uldar used an interdiction to trap him in Thameland and creates the patch to make sure he doesn’t make another one. Ravener teams up with Stalker to locate and kill Uldar. Raevener modifies his soul so that his original consciousness returns to him when the heroes are summoned, him being the 6th hero. Alex just ended the cycle and now the Ravener can’t respawn every 100 years.
crabby
i keep thinking about the actual implications that the ravener damned the hero it feared the most to be the cultural butt of every joke and every person who embodied their personal traits to be damned to incompetency call me a sadist but i really wanna see that fucker suffer for the crimes uldar couldnt suffer for
Flames
So…any chance of adding a new tier really quick with ya know just a few hundred advanced chapters? lol
Iskrylon
I think all the Mark of the General does is make it a lot easier to learn things. I doubt it increases his mana pool, and/or whatever pool divinities use, or his strength.
Kyle Nelson
The real question is: does this mess with a certain stalkers hunting abilities since he is no longer the fool?
Uroš
He's still Alex Roth, is he not?
Decide
I am beyond pumped. Our madman of an author, instead of dragging this out, gave it to us in one go. This is great. Now, on his new mark it must be that the sword is for combat, the scroll is for magic, and the crown is for divinity. 📜 👑 I wonder if there were other, less obvious limits placed on the mark. I hope he's still able to learn everything. It would suck if the General can just do everything without restraint. It would also be terrible of the Fools ability to learn was a Fool ability, and not the Generals ability forced limited to certain things.
ZCochraine!%
Lets hope.
Thomas Ricks
Yesssssss I can’t believe how amazing the series is. I literally did a fist pump while reading this.
Fizbandu
Alex should be absolutely broken now. It's established he can teleport off limbs from first apostle. Every fight should start with him disarming and disfooting his opponent. Edit: "Coming tomorrow! A Patreon - Exclusive grimdark rampage chapter where Alex collects eyes and appendages from all who wronged him"
Clark Price
This is awesome. Honestly, I can't wait to see what Bailan has to say as well all the benefits the mark will give
Jessica
Dude, the absolute carnage that’s about to go down 💥
Bread
WOOOOOOO
Goodie
Do you mean the Russian dude in the Antarctic? Just read that story, and wow!
Andrew Powers
Finally! Looking forward to our boy here diving into that bag of spells and leveling up to the heights of the universe and eager to see what comes next
Michael A. Rush
So the mark of the general, being a combo of sage, saint, and champion, with the better parts of the mark of the fool thrown in...will it confer the advantages the three heroes get from their marks, such as increased mana capacity, increased strength, etc?
mag28
I don't think we know yet. My guess is it's super learning buff. Something like it'll increase Alex's learning ability/speed by something 10 times.
Jordan Jones
This was well, WELL worth the wait. Alex couldn’t have been more prepared, both in-story and in terms of story structure. He well and truly earned this triumph, and an unshackled soul for a prize is something of immeasurable value. The potential benefits are almost the least of my considerations in this. Freedom and victory. Gave me chills.
ZhougKnight
So do we know what the mark of the general does?
RAHUL VENUGOPAL
Yeeeaaah. Now to learn all those 8th and 9th floor spells and while he is in the machine get enough soul stuff cut for Mana pool enhancement. And also go to Prof RAM afterwards for some extra force magic lessons. Aaaaans then wreak absolute havoc on the hidden church followed by the Ravener
Bunny Waffles
I believe the end of the series is coming up? Soon ish? After the Ravener is dealt with for good, then that would be a perfect spot for the series to end, with Alex and Co. having dealt with his big arc and leaving the series to end on a hopeful note where we get to imagine what he'll do next, with the vast universe just there for him to take his first true steps out there to the final Frontier.
mmarkgraf212
This chapter reminds me of that story where the guy in Alaska was forced to do emergency surgery on himself for a ruptured appendix because nobody else was qualified to do it.
Thomas Keller
So, we've achieved the "Soul Surgery Uninterrupted" Route. Now, was that bought due to a delaying action on behalf of our Giant Friends who held the portal against all comers, or did Alex get away from it scott free? And if he *did* get away scott free, did the Fae Bastard's Tracking ability finally break, or was it "merely" disrupted? The next sections are going to play out like 2 minute blitz in a chess game I feel like, because FB is digging into more mundane information sources and identified Warder as a valid target, and Warder knows about Teresa, including her Name I think. From there, the Villa becomes a target to flush out Alex. The question becomes then, how long will it take for FB and the Houndettes to chase down their leads compared to Alex doing one last training montage and potential soul surgery (he *does* have all that spare soul stuff and a soul laboratory and operating table now)? Will Alex hunt them before they reach the Villa? Will it end up being a pincer with Alex's family and friends on one side and Alex on the other with their prey in between? Or will it be much more hair raising and close to the wire, with a last minute save by Alex?
Randall Jones
Thank you! Thank you! THANK YOU! For not keeping us in suspense! Truly the best climax ever!!! GO ALEX!
TheRaptorOfHermes
Had we are the champions and we will rock you while re reading this ch lol
Thomas Keller
You'll note that Alex practically had to *perfect* each and every spell he's learned to be able to cast it through the Mark of the Fool. That the General has no guidance for him yet means *his fundamentals are flawless*. Just like the Big B-Money said, the habits of thorough learning the Fool's Mark forced on Alex have turned him into a *monstrous* Wizard.
Reed M
WOOOHOOOO
Michelle Ray
Yes! Alex is going to kick ass! (LOL the queen song fits this chapter perfectly)
Justin Barnett
Will the stalker be able to track him now that he has changed his title?
David Tawater
This is AMAZING!!!!
Reds
YESSSSSSS
AstralScientist
Now into re-reading the whole fucking series :)
AstralScientist
Finally. Let the Reaping begin.
George R
Wonderful build to an amazing plot thread finally revealed
Philipp Battenberg
Nice chapter! I don't know if this is a stupid question, but shouldn't the Mark of the General not only "not hinder" his spellcasting but actually actively helping with it, as the Mark of the Fool did for "normal" skills?
JYonder
FINALLY!!!! That was so satisfying.
Loexik
Ngl, you almost had me worried. The title was foreboding much, but thankfully, it was not subject to Alex. Awesome!
SherbertSheep
YESSS I CANT BELIEVE IT AAAAA THIS IS SERIOUSLY AMAZING
Undead PettinZoo
Death to the fool mark. RISE AND TAKE HIS PLACE GENERAL OF ALL. BRING BLADE AND SPELL FOR WE SPAWN TO SEND TO THE HELLS!
FeyOne
I'm wondering this as well. I sort of wonder if the Ravener was supposed to be a tool to help and support Uldar's people, but that it turned on Uldar and decided to twist everything to some purpose of its own. I wonder if, perhaps, the Ravener is the one who killed Uldar and then created the Fool; and if it did both as part of some plan it had to free itself and elevate itself in some way.
Mohammed Sheekh
hopefully you line up some new villains after the church and ravener is beaten, you did introduce multiple dimensions and worlds out there, also immortality, if you play your cards right, you can introduce some nice villains
Ioannis Panagiotidis
Let's Frikkin Goooooooo
crabby
TEN OUT OF TEN WORTH THE WAIT
Goodie
Yeh but he could use the patch on the first apostle
David Deden
Great Chapter! I’ve been waiting all day and it was worth it. Let’s have some fun tomorrow and see what the general can do!
ItWasIDIO!!
So what we thinking 2 maybe 3 books left in the series
ItWasIDIO!!
Here we belong, fighting to survive in a world with the darkest powers HEH there can ONLY be one
Voror
I'm leaning to the latter. Like you said this is clearly a system so it seems very aware of what is happening with the others. There were indications that the original cycles where the General was present were a lot tougher and that they eased up once the Fool was introduced. As if the Ravener adjusted the difficulty or perhaps Uldar did.
Enif
I am pleasantly surprised! We get the reveal without a bunch of perspective shifts!
Obi-Wan-Sage
That Queen song is a must if this goes into an anime or a series.
Voror
That was satisfying But the idea that it also contains memories of all the others is sort of horrifying given it's failures specifically. Like a programmed last resort to hammer at a Fool if they get out of line. Those glimpses into other lives was very sad too especially the ones who managed to live through the Ravener only to die some other way. And the Ravener knows. I wonder if it will reach out to the First Apostle in a panic. But now we get to see Alex start really flexing. I can't wait to see what comes.
Obi-Wan-Sage
BATTLE MAGE ALEX!!!!
Lenora
Hell fucking yes
Lola
Is the Ravener able to tell what happened because Alex is a usurper or because it is deeply connected to the marks? I think it is the latter because just like the Ravener comes back again and again, so do the Heroes. There is some system in place continuing the cycle despite Uldar’s death. I think the Ravener helps support that system. The fact that it can connect with the first Apostle makes me think it has more than just the role of the enemy in whatever plan Uldar had.
Matt w Lichens
AHHHHHHH!!!!!
Aj jain-perkins
Thank you! I’ve been refreshing my email waiting for this and you delivered and then some. So excited to see Alex with the gloves off…
Sam
Awesome! This has been a long time coming. Really want to know what the mark can do now, I have speculated quite a lot, so it will be nice to finally get some answers. Also, It is interesting, that the Ravener is aware of what has happened. At least those fuckers from the secret church will be in for a nasty surprise when Alex rains hell upon them
Tyler King
I CAN NOT WAIT FOR HIM TO MEET UP WITH THE SECRET CHURCH AGAIN.
Code Reed
Awesome. Though, I'm not sure simply teleporting it away was smart. Best to destroy something like that outright. No chance of it coming back to bite you that way.
Steven Lamb
The general mark helps him cast but the fool mark is what hindered it
Joel Magnuson
Well now you have to change the name of thr story
Lachezar
lookin awesome
BoltingSounds .
Finally!!! please let the next chapter just be Alex tearing through the old chosen!
Al
Lets. Go.
Morcant
LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOO
Bru-
Nice
Steven Lamb
Loved it, thank you for not dragging it out over 3-4 chapters it was perfect 👍 xx
Noah
did the mark not help him cast? did he lose that power of assistance with the change
Dominic Pernicone
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! FUCK YEAH, TIME TO KNOCK THE ASSHOLES DOWN A PEG.
mhaj58
If the Ravener is screaming perhaps he created the Fools patch.
GuyWhoReadsALot
I'm a little excited, too.
Justin Barnett
Who else was refreshing every five minutes?
IntrinsicallySynest
Fuck me, that gave me chills. Beautiful, beautiful chapter!
Alec Loases
ABSOLUTELY FUCKING BEAUTIFUL
Zachary LaCount
YES
