“Hard Entropy? How is it different from normal Entropy?” she thought, but no answer came even when she queried [Chernobog’s Mystic Wisdom]. Leaving the tent, she investigated the rest of the great chamber, and finding no entrances b...
2023-01-28 05:14:12 +0000 UTC
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Zel gave a faux-pained grin back. The fact she’d fallen for Red’s deception back during the extermination mission could entirely be explained by the fact that Red wasn’t actually the one speaking, but Zefaris still wouldn’t let her live it...
2023-01-27 19:07:38 +0000 UTC
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Krahe found that her entropy dissipated normally, but there was still a tentative sense of something off. Her body felt weirdly achy… And it clicked. She queried [Chernobog’s Mystic Wisdom] about the feeling, and lo and behold, her theory was ...
2023-01-27 02:57:34 +0000 UTC
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The druids weren’t even people as far as he was concerned. Soon they would meet their reckoning, if even one-third of his and Kristina’s plans came to term. Neither the Ramdalls, the Buhaugs, nor the Eisens possessed the means to oppose the dr...
2023-01-26 20:26:55 +0000 UTC
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“Yes! She has expended all of her power, she must be barely able to move! Now, get back up and finish the job!” Asgeir cheered on inside his own head, deluding himself into the idea that victory was still within grasp. He was right th...
2023-01-25 18:40:54 +0000 UTC
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[Deathsmoke Spray]
[Tags:]
First-order
Burst Beam
Cinder Element
Lacerative Damage
Energetic Damage
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2023-01-25 03:15:01 +0000 UTC
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The Thundergod skulls’ chrome-like gleam brought to mind a Knights of Rebellion song, and an untoward chuckle escaped her, and she reached up, taking the skull from between her antlers and seating it around her right hand, melding it onto her me...
2023-01-24 19:13:41 +0000 UTC
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With open palms and her arms tilted either sideways or down, Zel met all three spikes from Rikke’s right arm, using Siphoning Pulse on her hands. Two, she stopped dead. One had been timed weirdly or perhaps had a lower velocity… And went right...
2023-01-23 19:33:33 +0000 UTC
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I've had to disable to discord link I had included in the post-chapter plugs. I've put the new one in the fic synopsis on both RR and SH, but here is the link if you haven't noticed.
2023-01-22 17:22:31 +0000 UTC
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Yet again they met in the middle, but this time, Zelsys had prepared. She allowed Rikke to strike her with her left hand just to ensure this landed, grappling her serpent arm with her own left for the moment. Zelsys gave no clear indication. One m...
2023-01-22 16:56:33 +0000 UTC
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“Probably further along in… Digestion?” she thought, hoping that they were indeed just digesting their prey.
Krahe took her gun and pressed it to a spot she thought to be the parasite’s head… Then reconsidered. Would a gun...
2023-01-22 00:22:56 +0000 UTC
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Then, there was that White Snake. Zel saw it as a vastly more mobile and melee-capable Alkasnail, although one lacking that beast’s slime armor and sheer mass, instead possessing surface-level scale armor and regeneration only possible for a con...
2023-01-21 21:23:24 +0000 UTC
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Rikke’s right arm by this point had turned into a fully-fledged giant serpent which somehow split off from her and left behind a scale-covered arm with hollow fangs instead of the index and ring fingers’ nails. The left arm mercifully did not ...
2023-01-20 20:34:05 +0000 UTC
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Eventually, the time came for the final preparation. To comply with the agreement to do battle unarmed and unarmored, Zel took off her boots, the Impelling Arm, and even removed the blades from her braids, tying them instead with string. She share...
2023-01-19 18:30:50 +0000 UTC
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[LEFT ARM OF CHERNOBOG]
[Tags:]
Inseparable
Self-evolving Graft
Channeling Catalyst
Anathema Container
Outer God’s Touch
2023-01-17 21:07:13 +0000 UTC
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Hours passed.
Grandfather Runar shared with Jorfr many a tale, none of which were recorded in tomes or scrolls that he could conceivably get his hand on; some hidden away in Fryg’s private possession, others lost altogether to all besides ...
2023-01-17 20:11:16 +0000 UTC
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There wasn’t just one internal monologue, but two. Not just one train of thought, or point of focus. It was as if he had the mental faculties of two people at once, as if… As if his mind’s metaphorical spindle could spin two threads at once....
2023-01-16 20:30:55 +0000 UTC
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Rather than merely becoming conjoined or one devouring the other, Victor’s and Koschei’s souls were forge-welded in the enantiomorph’s crucible, folded in on one another, reforged again and again, until a damascened, unified entity emerged. ...
2023-01-15 17:54:36 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Got an absolutely horrid hay fever flareup. Next chapter on Sunday, Jan. 15th.
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“That… Construct-armor, of ours. It will not work. Not yet. To ...
2023-01-13 21:08:17 +0000 UTC
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“This place, this body is my demesne. There is nothing you can do to usurp me; my being is my empire, and not a single soldier goes unaccounted for,” Victor proclaimed.
A great tsunami of bone swelled up and crashed down behind him, form...
2023-01-12 20:21:58 +0000 UTC
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Her first thought was light, and indeed, burning a smattering of Thauma and funneling it through her arm with the intent to produce light caused a reddish-orange glow to spill from its many crevices, illuminating the entire hallway with scattered ...
2023-01-12 20:20:32 +0000 UTC
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Vol. 2 of Retribution Engine is now available in Kindle and Paperback on Amazon. As before, this is mainly for those who want a paperback copy.
https://www.amazon.com/d...
2023-01-11 22:17:33 +0000 UTC
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Zelsys proceeded to recount her mindscape conversation with the Second King as well as the fact Victor had passed the initial Despot of Self breakthrough… As well as the facts that the titan Teutobochus was guarding a Fallen Star and that it cou...
2023-01-11 20:09:37 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Sorry for the delay. I just outright forgot to click publish.
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Ingvald looked at the cleaver in his hand as one might look at their own newborn chi...
2023-01-10 16:52:00 +0000 UTC
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“When we were fleeing, a man leapt from the sled and confronted the dragon. His body is not here,” Gunnar stated grimly.
“Hm? Oh. That one. I saw him get swallowed whole, unfortunately. If it is any consolation, he fought well.”
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2023-01-08 21:04:01 +0000 UTC
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They followed her to a particular spot at the crater’s edge, where she snapped her fingers and caused an opening to form, a doorway to a spatially impossible place. Within the crater, which could be no more than fifty meters across, there was an...
2023-01-07 20:55:06 +0000 UTC
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By the time the rod was done, she struggled to stand and Red was clutching her head in pain as her horns resonated… But done, it was, the rod floating menacingly in the air as its eldritch glyphs pulsed with magenta light. Zefaris pulled Pentacl...
2023-01-06 19:04:44 +0000 UTC
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They approached within stone’s throw of the tree-wall, there being a small clearing with several distinct paths deeper into the jungle.
“Now, answer me - where is Zelsys?” Karmesin demanded.
“In the city.”
“Then tell ...
2023-01-05 19:20:47 +0000 UTC
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The Crescent Jungle.
Vaster than Oasis City by an order of magnitude, a self-contained evolving ecosystem that also served as one half as the Boiling Lake’s regulatory mechanisms. Kilometer-tall trees reached into the sky, few in number an...
2023-01-04 16:44:25 +0000 UTC
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“So? How do you feel?” Zelsys asked.
“Like I should be overwhelmed,” he answered.
“It won’t hit all at once. The physical changes to your brain will take a little while. Try breathing with one lung at a time.”
Victo...
2023-01-03 18:06:28 +0000 UTC
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