End Arcanimus Novels & Stories

"My lord?" Nyxar turned his gaze toward the bleeding face of the Blood Moon. "That exact pathetic emotion is why Arcturus managed to defeat me all those centuries ago." His crimson eyes narrowed into lethal slits. "And that is precisely why I will personally erase every single trace of it from this world." He stretched out a massive, clawed hand into the air. The surrounding shadows violently swirled together, rapidly condensing into the shape of a colossal, monstrous wolf made entirely of living darkness. Its massive eyes burned brighter than a raging inferno.

Jack pursued, the gauntlets burning on his hands, the compass guiding him through corridors that the mimic was subtly warping as it fled, stretching hallways and rotating junctions in an attempt to confuse his navigation. But you cannot confuse a compass. Jack caught the mimic at the terminal entrance. He tackled it, driving both gauntlets into its chest simultaneously. The combined creation energy, twelve seconds of asymptotic power output, overwhelmed the construct's composition. But in its death throes, the Marcus-mimic whispered something that made Jack's blood ice over. "Two more sections. The network will be complete by dawn." Then it dissolved into grey dust. Jack stood in the corrido

Arkael had assumed deeper infiltration required it. He had not, in his arrogance, considered evolution. Because the most recent conversation had not arrived as a routine report, it had arrived as an emergency, sharp and uncontrolled, Caelum forcing the conduit open from within a scar-channel of stone as though time itself had begun to run out. Arkael had appeared in the flame with terrifying clarity, and Caelum had met him without ceremony, panic threading the edges of his control. His pupils had been too wide, his breath fractionally off-rhythm, and Arkael had heard the faint rasp of restraint in his voice, as if Caelum had bitten down on a scream and dared it to stay inside.

Days had passed since the forming of our little crew of abnormals. Witches, vampires, wolves, and a human attendant… I wasn’t sure what else to call us. After the day Oceanus spontaneously combusted right in front of me, I’d been working on my magic with Aziria, Azrael and Aries. Those three, serious and in the training ring, were something else. They’d pushed me further than I thought imaginable, far beyond my limits.

Hunter said and continued. "You know we had one more member in our gang. Her name was Sarah. She was like our family. The girl was in love with Rasmus. When she turns 18 she found out Rasmus was her mate but then everything stopped during the rogue attack, and she was killed. She was like a sister to me. I loved her as much as I loved Aurora and Angela. But she left us. It broke us apart but Moon Goddess sent Catherine and she named her baby Sarah," Hunter rasped. His eyes were misty.

Or at least she had a hand in it. “Nyctimus will show you the way. He knows where it can be found. Only he who holds courage and strength from within can wield the dagger. You are justice you are the voice of reason; seek truth and you shall win.” Ashe croaks. She drops my hand and then looks at Mathias. “Arcas,” she calls to his beast and Mathias’ eyes light up, his silver orbs shining cosmically. “Arcas. I tried I promise I tried. She can and will come back. Both of them.”

Arkyn’s using his Alpha Sight, forcing his way into my memories, digging through every dark secret, every painful moment I’ve tried to bury. I can’t move. I can barely breathe as Arkyn sifts through my mind, unearthing everything—the deal I made with the witches, the years I spent running from them, the fights, the betrayals. He’s seeing it all. Even the things I never told Orion. My chest tightens, and I want to scream, to push him out, but I can’t. The only thing I can do is wait for him to be done. And when he finally pulls his claws out, I collapse forward, gasping for air, my body trembling.

Someone, or something, had deliberately corrupted the core's code, sowing chaos within the civilization. The team, faced with a limited window of opportunity, scrambled for a solution. Lyra, her six nimble limbs flitting across the complex machinery, diagnosed the source of the corruption – a deeply embedded code fragment, laced with negativity and despair, mirroring the code plaguing the Twilight Expanse anomaly. The Arcturian codebreaker, her six compound eyes gleaming with concentration, theorized a connection. Perhaps understanding the origin of the corrupt code in the Twilight Expanse could hold the key to purging it from the newly discovered civilization's core.

she said, finding my confused gaze again. "Aaron? But their nests are impossible to find. Not unless... light have mercy," I said, feeling like I'd been punched in the chest. "We're gonna go," Lills mumbled, getting to her feet. I nodded, too lost for words to find the one's that would make her stay. Scorchers were dangerous, a militia that stood outside the rules and laws the rest of us lived by. They were those who'd committed their lives to the destruction of every non human creature beyond the borders of the Diarna, the furthest mining town in the south. They married their work and bred for numbers. They were smart, strong and loyal to a fault and would rather see our entire world blaze

I saw how Michelle stretched her neck while waiting for my next words. "She said, you are cast out from that beautiful place because of your envy to us mortals. And that is the very reason why you use us because you have no power outside an entity. That means you are nothing without us, just a monster lurking for weak mortals." A smirk formed on my lips as I say those words.