A spark of will. Water and bone gathered from all around, rising up and freezing into a perfect bone-backed mirror before him. He already saw ways to improve, myriad changes that would need to be made to make such an armor function in reality, but...
2023-01-02 20:46:55 +0000 UTC View PostAnd lo, the vile monster arose from the boneyard and set upon the both of them, a silver comet trailing a tail of purple flame and spraying venom that set ablaze and burned like CP-T, sticking to everything it touched. The Thinking and Primordial ...
2023-01-01 18:28:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe expedition departed covertly before sunrise from a hidden depot using lightweight sleds. They were pulled by tamed Razorflayers and devoid of the clan’s markings, the sleds’ rails shod with special, short-lasting covers that would cause th...
2022-12-31 18:34:00 +0000 UTC View PostTo illustrate her point, Zel willed a trigonal tower of blackstone to rise from the sands behind her, its unimpeachable form covered in eldritch evershifting glyphs pulsing with magenta light. She truly played up the glyphs’ unreadability to com...
2022-12-29 18:27:18 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: This chapter is 100% SFW, but it does have a lightly NSFW artwork associated with it. The art is by Kuromoro.
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Variant 2 - 2022-12-28 18:26:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Krahe wondered what the hell terms like Anathema or Thauma Fusion meant, or even just Thauma on its own, thinking of the supposed feature of her first boon. It didn’t go off. She tried focusing on the idea of Thauma Fusion as it related to the b...
2022-12-28 07:05:05 +0000 UTC View Post“You, who have never been told no. You, who have been born into riches. You, who have been given freely the means by which to extricate yourself from the limits of nature. If you would have the gall to look down upon me and mine, I would meet yo...
2022-12-27 19:37:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe one Bjorn Clan member she got to fight was the most challenging, a large woman who put up a truly impressive defense against her strikes by using her own fat as a medium to absorb kinetic energy. Combined with sonic attacks in the form of bear...
2022-12-26 22:26:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Come on, I’ll carry you the rest of the way if your legs give out,” she added. It wasn’t as if she needed to convince him - Zel knew that there were very few things on which Victor wouldn’t defer to her when it came to his training, sho...
2022-12-24 23:55:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt had taken two days and some spare change for Victor to go through his Azoth Stone Dissolution, and the symptoms he suffered were markedly similar to Zef’s. His symptoms were understandably a fair bit milder, since he hadn’t spent the better...
2022-12-23 20:06:33 +0000 UTC View PostWorking off of decades of tactical instinct, she ran into the center of the square, towards the fountain, intending to use its height for cover while she cleared out some of the beasts and made her way to a better tactical position. At worst, she ...
2022-12-23 18:01:17 +0000 UTC View Post“You still haven’t answered my question,” Zel grinned at him. The smith’s answer hadn’t surprised her in the slightest, and thus hadn’t dampened her spirits either. She viewed Eisengeist as a one-in-a-million shot for the moment, as we...
2022-12-22 18:09:56 +0000 UTC View PostIn the corner of her vision, no more than a few hundred meters up this revolution of the city’s spiral layout, she spotted a towering structure reaching all the way to the surface - an elevator, obviously put here by whoever had hauled all that ...
2022-12-22 14:59:44 +0000 UTC View PostHours passed. Meanwhile, in another bath, Victor had consumed a small, white pill, and was currently coughing up black sludge, which not only didn’t foul the water, it dissolved in seconds, so potent was the water - or perhaps so weak was his im...
2022-12-21 19:10:54 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Next chapter on Wednesday, 21st of December.
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“Do you?” Rikke asked.
A part of Zelsys wanted to say yes; to change her vict...
2022-12-19 20:25:16 +0000 UTC View PostSomething unfamiliar, however, followed; after downing the elixir he retrieved a small jar from amidst the mess, smearing some of its greasy contents on each of his wounds in turn. They each closed in turn.
“Where’d you get that? The cre...
2022-12-18 20:31:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Y’know… Couldn’t you just use Arcline as a scaffold to build the snake construct around?” Zefaris suggested, seemingly out of nowhere, after they had already returned to their chambers. Her face was still somewhat flushed, but as far as...
2022-12-17 19:04:23 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: This chapter has sexual content. There are also two artworks associated with it, each of them with two variants.
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As the feast petered off, most of the surviving hunters retreated to rest and recover - as did Zef, dragging an unconscious Victor off to his chambers. All but Gunnar and Yvonne had some degree of injury; as Zel learned, Gunnar had in fact sustain...
2022-12-15 20:26:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Reidar, Katarine, Sinne, and Morten… They’ve been badly injured. We had to inter Reidar and Sinne in ice. Merete and Torhild are tending to the other two.”
There was something under those words; a dark implication, Zelsys could tell...
2022-12-14 18:34:20 +0000 UTC View Post“Would it not be a waste?” Fryg argued, having just risen from her seat at the head of the table to walk over. “Splitting such a large tusk will slash its value when we could sell it and buy a pre-formed chunk of ivory with a fraction of the...
2022-12-13 20:32:26 +0000 UTC View PostThere were, indeed, more rags in one of the drawers - two of them. Better than nothing, she supposed. Wiping off the most egregious muck quickly fouled them, and seeing this, Krahe looked around in the hopes that the lab would have a source of wat...
2022-12-13 03:59:08 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Edited the end of the chapter after they enter the longhouse.
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“Newman. Why go this far? You could always reforge your blade again, when you are ...
“This feels too convenient,” he said. The smith’s suspicion of just how much Zelsys knew was near tangible. She herself couldn’t tell how much he thought she knew, so she left that conversational thread alone.
“You underestimate my...
2022-12-11 21:45:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe thought that this suffocating encasement might be some sort of hellish afterlife came into her mind, only for a few seconds of struggle to prove otherwise. Whatever was trapping her came apart like some sort of rotten, waxy polymer. Chunks of ...
2022-12-10 19:02:52 +0000 UTC View Post“...I have two suggestions. First, you may be able to temporarily modify your sleeve to be more conducive for your needs; it is an artifact of protection, so the concepts which drive its magic are adjacent to what you need it to...
2022-12-10 18:54:41 +0000 UTC View Post“Make each segment like a tooth,” the Primordial Self stated plainly, forming a floating mockup of its suggestion out of sand. It then made a copy of the mockup, forming a skull with the two butchers as its lower jaws...
2022-12-09 21:57:47 +0000 UTC View Post“You will hear no objections from me,” Zel said.
“Good! So just to ensure we are all on the same page: You have a dying spirit weapon, and young Jorfr requested that I consider aiding you in saving its life. I shall ex...
2022-12-08 23:00:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the tour paled by comparison, and seemingly having predicted as much, Jorfr had made it quite short. It mostly consisted of running down the list of several monuments which they hadn’t already seen earlier, including a statue of Wide...
2022-12-08 01:58:59 +0000 UTC View Post“Damn baneworm venom…” he cursed, instead pointing the iron at the cut-open parasite. A single shot ripped it in half, a wrathful thunderclap echoing through these ancient halls. Such thoughts elicited only fury within Audun, knowin...
2022-12-07 17:21:24 +0000 UTC View Post