Adon rested.
His body had adapted to the acidic environment in which it rested, and now he was capable of drifting into that sleep-like state that he had periodically entered during his life as a caterpillar.
Even semi-conscious, he co...
2024-06-11 14:30:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe descent brought Mina, Alice and Zora down just a few feet from a massive, run-down mansion.
“I never knew there was anything like this in the area where we had our apartment,” Mina said. “It’s strange—” She giggled as she rea...
2024-06-10 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAs the scouts rose to their feet and faced off against Dave and his vanguard, he forced himself to remain steady and not back down.
Identify.
Amalia Rosario (Possessed), Lv. 8
Damn it, they really ar...
2024-06-09 02:41:33 +0000 UTC View PostDave exhaled.
“All right,” he said. “You, you, and you.” He selected three more people. “That completes our scouting party.”
A few people groaned, but Dave raised his hand for silence. To their credit, they immediately clam...
2024-06-07 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostJames wished Dave luck and then walked away from him and back to Mina, Alice, and his mother.
He was quiet and resolved. He believed this was his best plan, and he allowed himself to mentally detach a bit from the people he was sending into ...
2024-06-05 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Go ahead,” Queen Maud pronounced calmly, gesturing for the messenger to speak.
In the intervening years since the time skip, she seemed to have acquired a calm and steady quality.
She was confident now, not just on the battlefield...
2024-06-05 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostRosslyn dreamt.
She knew she was dreaming and that the visions that presented themselves before her eyes did not represent her reality, nor even, as far as she could tell, her own past lives. She remembered fighting a group of assassins and ...
2024-06-05 14:37:05 +0000 UTC View PostOnce Goldie had thought about it for more than a moment, the choice became obvious.
You have to start with the Brown Recluse Spiders, she thought. If you leave your eggs alone to fight them, at least you know that they are occup...
2024-06-05 03:02:44 +0000 UTC View Post“Where is that spider?”
Goldie heard the voice from behind her, but with most of the wall in between her and the speaker, she could not tell whose voice it was, only that it was a woman speaking.
She desperately pressed herself mor...
2024-06-03 18:15:44 +0000 UTC View PostGoldie measured twice before spinning her silk once in constructing her web, as she tried to do consistently when she was not in a hurry to build a new home.
Normally, with the practice she had accumulated over her life in the garden, it onl...
2024-06-03 18:13:36 +0000 UTC View PostGoddess damn it! The King again…
If the King saw Goldie again, he would surely throw her back outside at the least, if not decide that she was better off killed. It seemed unlikely that the human would understand the bond that con...
2024-06-03 18:09:18 +0000 UTC View PostGoldie fumed helplessly.
How dare he? What gives him the right to just pluck Adon away like that?
But of course, she knew what gave him the right. This was his garden.
In the week that had passed since Adon...
2024-06-03 18:07:08 +0000 UTC View PostKing Alistair stalked out of the palace, his body tense as a compressed spring.
Scurrying behind him came the figure of Lord Callum, quiet determination running through his posture.
“Your Majesty—”
The King abruptly turned ...
2024-06-03 18:02:24 +0000 UTC View PostAdon lost sight of the sunlight and the outside world in an instant as the Evolution process finally kicked into gear.
He shed another layer of skin and realized that suddenly, what had been his insides felt wet and exposed. And outside<...
2024-06-03 17:50:51 +0000 UTC View Post“All right, I’ve gathered all of the volunteers,” Dave said. “We’re ready to invade the forest.”
The sun was already below the horizon as he spoke, and the whole Fisher Kingdom glowed under a brilliant, quickly fading orange halo...
2024-06-03 17:34:14 +0000 UTC View PostAs Adon stepped foot into the thick tissue of discarded skin, the fabric of it moved, and he instinctively jerked back as if scalded.
He was a little nervous, he realized. Even though he knew Goldie was his friend, her species was a...
2024-05-30 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Haunted?” Mina repeated. “I don’t really know. I think it’s something like that. People seeing the dead. James told me about seeing—” She cut herself off.
“My dead husband,” Zora finished for her.
“Yes,” Mina sai...
2024-05-29 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAdon felt the tension in his body suddenly relax.
There’s something left, he thought but did not transmit.
I’m so glad you saved some, he sent after a moment.
I was just lucky, Goldie thought. W...
2024-05-28 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostJames allowed himself to bask in the glory of the crowd’s approbation for a long few seconds.
He smiled, wiped some gore away from his mouth, and then waited for the cheering to die down.
“Thank you to all the brave fighters who ac...
2024-05-28 01:38:35 +0000 UTC View PostAdon, Goldie thought.
Her inner voice sounded tired and muddled to him. As she formulated the thought, she was still wiggling her legs as if she could turn right side up by dog paddling through the air.
I’m here, Goldie<...
2024-05-26 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostAdon tried to run, though his body was still worn down from the fight with the Queen and the bulk of the Red Slayer Spider Wasp colony, and the burden of the silk-wrapped wasps slowed him down.
He quickly used his silk cutters to cut the roy...
2024-05-24 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“I can’t believe I agreed to fight naked,” James grumbled as he placed the last piece of his equipment into his magic satchel. He now stood in the dense, humid air with no protection from the elements but his boxer briefs.
“Lord Anan...
2024-05-24 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Ambush!” Rosslyn shouted.
Thinking quickly, she mentally calculated the distance that she and her party had traveled.
We are closer to the fortress than to the city, right? She shook her head. Either way, we need...
2024-05-23 15:15:41 +0000 UTC View PostRosslyn tucked her head and rolled as she landed on the ground outside Stalenton.
Her body was only lightly reinforced with Mana. Some intuition told her that they might not get away as easily as the lack of glaring obstacles suggested. She ...
2024-05-22 15:21:44 +0000 UTC View PostA knock came at the front door, and Mina sighed to herself.
“Sweet, could you please get that?”
Just when the baby is almost done eating and just about ready to sleep, someone is knocking…
And Mina felt like a nap ...
2024-05-22 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostNow that the Black Bloodsucking Bat Queen was speaking with him, James was no longer on a hair trigger, waiting to learn whether he would have to order an attack or not. He found it possible to retake control of the situation.
“Lower your ...
2024-05-20 15:22:20 +0000 UTC View PostJames and his war party reached another tree that he sensed was occupied. This time, there were more than two dozen creatures huddled together.
We’re probably going to have to abandon stealth, he assessed.
“Another volley ...
2024-05-17 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe caterpillar and the wasp spiraled down together, away from the rooftop, falling toward the soil. Adon’s home terrain.
As if the battle had not already more or less ended in his favor, he added a bit of insult to injury by pulling his m...
2024-05-16 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostJames looked on in near awe as a half-dozen bats fell from the sky, shot through with bullet holes that, in several cases, had visibly shredded their thin wing membranes. As they fell, fireballs and small bolts of lightning struck them. Even a few...
2024-05-16 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostAdon heard and felt, rather than saw, as the wasps attacked him.
Their stingers stabbed and jabbed and careened off of his armor like so many bullets striking a thick steel plate. Some of them whizzed by, but most of them struck home without...
2024-05-15 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post