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Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness novel. A total of 162 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : Chronicles of Ancient Darkness.Mich.e.l.le Paver.Chronicles of Ancient Darkness.Wolf Bro
Chronicles of Ancient Darkness.Mich.e.l.le Paver.Chronicles of Ancient Darkness.Wolf Brother.Spirit Walker.Soul Eater.Outcast.Oath Breaker.Ghost Hunter.Wolf Brother.ONE.Torak woke with a jolt from a sleep he'd never meant to have.The fire had burned low.
- 101 Wolf sprang at them and they lifted into the Up, then swooped low, but just out of reach, taunting him.He waited till they came again he leapt snapped a tail feather, tore it to pieces. With furious caws the ravens soared into the Up. Down they came in a
- 102 The cubs appeared at the jaws of the Den, whining, but they didn't come out. They were waiting to see what would happen.The hackles of the lead wolf went down, and he rubbed his flank against Tall Tailless' leg. Then he ran to greet the cubs.Pro
- 103 To work off her frustration, Renn went hunting.Maybe it was the offerings she'd made to the Lake, or maybe it was the pair of ravens she saw overhead, but her luck was good. Another duck, this time a goosander. She cooked it the way her father had ta
- 104 Seshru sensed the change in him, and her features turned colder than wind-carved ice. 'Do not imagine you can hide from me.'Torak met her stare and held it.With the speed of a striking snake, she brought her face close to his. 'You cannot d
- 105 It was a hot dawn, and with the wind at their backs they made good speed. Their islet turned out to have been much further west than they'd thought, and by mid-afternoon the Island of the Hidden People came into view.As they bobbed in the shallows, R
- 106 'They've gone,' he said in disbelief. 'The pack is gone.'Renn stood with her hands on her hips, looking about her. 'Where would they take the cubs?'Torak thought for a moment. 'When they get big enough, the pack tak
- 107 The other wolves had heard it too, but to his dismay, they'd hardly stirred. The cubs lay in an exhausted heap, and the full-growns tired from the journey sprawled, whiffling, in their sleeps. Tall Tailless was their friend, but he wasn't of the
- 108 Cowering at the bottom of the Lake, she felt its pain soughing through her, its unimaginable age.Now she was hovering above the healing spring, watching the hands of the Viper Mage clawing the sacred clay.Now she was bobbing on the water at the edge of th
- 109 'n.o.body's safe!' She clutched his arm. 'Listen to me! The flood is coming!'They stared at her.'The ice river,' she panted. 'All spring it's been keeping back the melt.w.a.ter! That's why the ice wall was
- 110 'No!' Aki pushed forwards. 'You can't do this! He saved my life!'The Boar Clan Leader turned on his son, and Aki quailed but stood his ground. 'He could have saved himself, but instead he helped me! Father, you can't kil
- 111 Renn broke off a fern frond and tore it to bits.Why can't you just say it, she thought. Torak, I'm sorry I never told you. But it doesn't change anything, does it? Not really?But Torak mumbled something about helping Bale look for the wreck
- 112 'Something Renn said, a while back. She said the Seal Mage had a fragment of the fire-opal, and it went down with him in the Sea.' He shook his head. 'I don't think it did. He always kept what he needed for spells in a seal-hide pouch.
- 113 Oath Breaker.ONE.Sometimes there's no warning. Nothing at all.Your skinboat is flying like a cormorant over the waves, your paddle sending silver capelin darting through the kelp, and everything's just right: the choppy Sea, the sun in your eyes
- 114 Death Marks. Yes. The souls must be kept together, or Bale might become a demon or a ghost.At least I can do this for you, thought Torak.With clumsy fingers, he untied his medicine pouch and shook it. Out fell the medicine horn which had been his mother&#
- 115 When they were out of sight of land, Bale's father would take his spear and gash the funeral boat, sending his son down to the Sea Mother. The fishes would eat Bale's flesh, as in life he had eaten theirs; and when his shelter was ashes and the
- 116 'One thing more the bones revealed, and this is certain. Fin-Kedinn, you will not reach the Deep Forest.'Renn's heart clenched. 'Then we'll go without him. Just Torak and me.'But her uncle wore the expression she dreaded: the
- 117 He opened his mouth, and for a moment she thought he would. Then his eyes widened and he grabbed her hood, yanking her down so hard that she bashed her temple on the rim of the canoe.'Ow!' she yelled. 'What are you ''Fin-Kedinn, g
- 118 'Don't talk,' warned Renn.'Hurts less than breathing,' said her uncle. 'Where are we?'Torak told him.He groaned. 'Ah, not here! Not the hill!''We can't move you, not tonight,' said Renn.'Thi
- 119 Out loud, Torak said, 'When you were in the Deep Forest, did you see a man in a dugout? A big man, very strong.''What do I care about that?' snapped Gaup. 'I was looking for my child! Four summers old, and they took her!'Tora
- 120 Food steadied her a bit. She made a stew of chickweed, bittercress and bramble shoots, with meaty spring mushrooms, and woodpigeon eggs and snails baked in the embers. The snails were particularly delicious, as they'd been feeding on crow garlic.Whil
- 121 'What is it?''Not sure. Don't move.'That twig could not have speared the leaf by chance. It pierced the leaf blade like a needle, straight down its length, to the right of the midrib. It had to be a signal.To the right of the midr
- 122 'Well it wasn't.'He grabbed her hand. 'Yours is cold, the other was hot.''Of course I'm cold, I'm soaking wet! Where did you go?'From the Auroch camp came shouts, a scream of pain.'Tell you later,' sa
- 123 Bison.He watched the creature lean against the yew's trunk and give itself a luxuriant scratching that made the whole tree s.h.i.+ver. Then, with a deep, satisfied grunt, it ambled off.Soon afterwards, Torak caught the familiar tail-swish of horses.
- 124 She pointed to the man with the bark-bound head, who was walking in front. 'Why doesn't he like me?'The young man sighed. 'We fostered a Raven once. He helped the Soul-Eater make the demon bear.'Renn bridled. 'That was my bro
- 125 'Yes, Mage,' the woman said humbly.Torak caught Renn's eye. The horses.To give him a chance to tackle the woman, she asked Durrain to explain how the Red Deer went into a trance. The Mage gave her a look, and took her into the shelter.'
- 126 Torak's head reeled. If not even fire could harm him . . . He couldn't do this. He couldn't do it.He watched the Mage raise a fallen spruce tree as if it were a twig, and set it against the trunk of the Great Oak. The spruce was notched to
- 127 Like a fish on a hook, Torak dangled from the tree, while the sky darkened to an angry orange twilight which had nothing to do with the sun. 'You can't leave me here to burn!' he cried.'You are an unbeliever,' said the woman.
- 128 The eyes opened. Bark limbs detached themselves from the trunk. Bark hands reached to grab her.Whimpering, she fled.To her left, another bark creature separated from a trunk. Then another and another. Bark people moved to surround her, reaching for her wi
- 129 'The Soul-Eater didn't,' said Renn. 'Take me to your Mage and I'll give him proof.''Our Mage keeps to his prayer shelter,' said the Auroch Leader, 'he doesn't see outsiders.''If you were really a
- 130 'Many winters ago,' he began, 'the clans turned their backs on the True Way.'People hung their heads. Some of the Aurochs scratched their faces to reopen their wounds.'They were punished,' said the Mage. 'Whole clans die
- 131 'What?' he said impatiently.'We can't go after Thiazzi. Not now.'He stared at her.'If you killed him now,' she whispered, 'you'd be confirming every lie he's told them about the Open Forest.''But
- 132 'How could you know? You're not a Mage!''I know that the spirit walker has escaped,' she said, feeding on his unease. 'I know that your plans have gone awry. What's gone wrong? Who's turned against you?'He thre
- 133 The Blackwater was implacable. His muscles burned. He deserved it.Through the trees, he glimpsed the glow of the Deep Forest camp. But the river was barred. A wovenbark net stretched from bank to bank.Jamming in his paddle, Torak drove the dugout back. Wh
- 134 Wolf didn't know what to do. He is not wolf, he told her.Darkfur's gaze turned stern. You were pack-brothers. A wolf does not abandon his pack-brother.Wolf stood miserably on the trail, listening to the howling in his head, while the Great Brigh
- 135 Sounds from outside were m.u.f.fled and remote. Was that a wolf's yelp? A raven's caw? Through her rasping breath, she caught Thiazzi's mocking tones, but nothing from Torak.She went on sawing at the rope.The ravens wheeled and cawed, and f
- 136 'You did the right thing,' she said.'They don't know that,' he said in disgust. 'They'll let her live because I told them to. Not because it's right.''That won't matter to her.''Well it matt
- 137 That night, as they camped by the Blackwater, Bale came to him for the last time.Torak knows that he is dreaming, but he also knows that what's happening is true. He stands on the pebbly sh.o.r.e of the Bay of Seals, watching Bale carry his skinboat
- 138 The logs had collapsed. The ravens were back in their tree.He hadn't dreamt that voice. He had heard it. It was familiar unbearably so. It was also impossible.Rising to his feet, Torak drew his knife. When he reached the ring of juniper brands that p
- 139 Aki's fingers were bleeding as he clawed the mat. Renn tried to stop him, but he was too strong. She called for help. Aki's father ran in and clasped his son in his arms. A second man, haggard from fever, raised a spiral amulet and made the sign
- 140 If that were true, he couldn't do it without his pack-brother. And yet how could Wolf go with him, when he had to look after the cubs?As Wolf was trying to get his jaws around this, a bad scent hit his nose. He caught the smells of the Stone-Faced On
- 141 'Bad weather on the way,' said one. 'Dangerous to be in the Forest alone.' Out of respect, he didn't ask what the Leader of the Ravens was doing so far from his clan.Fin-Kedinn declined the offer and ignored the unspoken question.
- 142 A flash of lightning showed him the wattle door weighted shut with a stone. Thrusting it open, he threw Rip inside and crawled after him.With the door closed behind them, the wind's screams lessened a little, but the ice hammering the walls was deafe
- 143 'His mother was Seal Clan, he always wore it.' He swallowed. 'He left it as a sign. He's been begging me for help. And I turned my back on him to find Wolf.''You had to,' said Renn. 'Wolf needs you.''I turned my back on Fa. That's why he left m
- 144 Torak shut his eyes. That brought the blackness back, so he opened them again. 'Why would she?' he mumbled.'I think,' said Renn, 'she wanted to make you go beyond the earthblood I'd laid down, so that her tokoroth could get you. But why?' she said
- 145 By now, Torak was giddy with hunger. All that awaited him at camp was his share of the hazelnuts. The sky was a deep, cold blue, strewn with stars. The moon was not yet up, but he made out the fanged blackness of the Mountains and above them, faint and fa
- 146 She was right. Forget about people. The only thing that mattered now was meat.And they'd have to get close. Success in a reindeer hunt depends on making a swift kill which fells the prey quietly, without alerting the herd. If you miss, they'll be off, a
- 147 Krukoslik did not speak again, and they went on in silence.The shadows were darkening to violet as they reached camp. From a distance, it looked tiny, nestled beside a grey lake in the immensity of the fells. As they drew closer, Renn saw many shelters ho
- 148 The Masked One never moved, but Renn felt icy fingers on her throat, choking off the spell.'None may hinder Eostra.''You're not real!' gasped Renn. 'I'm not afraid of you!''All fear Eostra.' Slowly, the feathered arms rose, and their shadows too
- 149 After a time, something howled back.It wasn't Wolf.Juksakai ran to him, his pale eyes bulging with fear. 'What was that?''I don't know,' said Torak. He scanned the darkening campsite. 'Juksakai,' he said sharply. 'Where's Renn?'TWENTY-TWO.What
- 150 Something in his manner made her look at him, really look. What she saw in his face made her catch her breath. There would be no need to tell him of Saeunn's prophecy.'You know,' she said.He nodded.'How?''When I saw the Mountain.' He touched his br
- 151 'No it's not,' panted Torak as he and Wolf started to climb. The spur was made of knives. Some malign force had s.h.i.+vered its rocks into thousands of blades standing on edge. Even through his boots, Torak's feet were soon bruised. He hadn't gone f
- 152 The cleft was the height of four tall men, but narrow enough for him to climb by bracing one foot on either side. The fissured granite provided many hand and footholds, and on a summer's day, Torak would have scrambled up it like a squirrel. But the rock
- 153 The pale lashes flickered. 'I'm Dark.'Torak snorted. 'Why'd they call you that?''They didn't. They threw me out before I got a name, so I chose Dark. I thought it might help.'Torak felt a flicker of pity, which
- 154 Its wingbeats faded. Renn hid behind a rock. The wingbeats were coming back. Too noisy for an owl, she thought.Rip lit onto the rock and rattled an excited kek-kek-kek!Renn gave an edgy laugh. Rip hitched himself into the air and flew off. Quork!When Renn
- 155 The thought of leaving Wolf was unbearable; but so was the thought of taking him into the Whispering Cave and seeing him die.With an irritable growl, Wolf wriggled free and shot out of the cave, followed by Ark and Dark. Torak crawled after them into the
- 156 Slipping off his mittens, he drew his knife and followed. The tunnel was cold; he felt his way through a dank cloud of breath. Shadows scuttled. His hand moved over rock as ridged and slimy as guts. In a crack, something scaly withdrew from his touch.Arou
- 157 'I don't know.'Renn jammed her knuckles in her mouth. Somewhere in this terrible Mountain, Torak was facing Eostra alone.A cold hand touched her wrist.'Is that you?' she whispered.'What?' said Dark, some paces away.A chi
- 158 'Feel what?''Down there in the smoke. Something terrible.''I can't see anything.''Neither can I. But I feel them.'Renn felt them too. There was more in the Whispering Cave than Eostra and her minions.'It&#
- 159 Renn had no more arrows. Frantically, she searched for stones.'None left,' panted Dark. Grabbing her axe, he flung it with all his might. It struck short of the rockpile.Torak was on his knees fighting the dog, his hands in its scruff, battling
- 160 Suddenly, he stopped whimpering. In the distance he heard the deep, echoing croaks of ravens. He swivelled his ears. Those were his ravens!He yowled.They didn't come.Well, then, he would go to them.Eagerly, he bounded through the Bright Soft Cold. It
- 161 Fin-Kedinn paused. Then he told the story which Torak's father had told him the night after it happened.'Narik was eight summers old when Narrander joined the Healers. Narrander soon wanted to leave. They wouldn't let him. He was stubborn. To make him
- 162 It was a calm, sunny day in the Willow Grouse Moon, and although spring had not yet come, the Forest was beginning to stir. A woodp.e.c.k.e.r drummed in the distance. A tough little bullfinch perched in an ash tree, cracking seeds in its bill. A white har