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272 - Rising Thunder

Her curiosity was rewarded with a mnemonic impulse, knowledge of what the pairing entailed flashing through her mind. The two Tablets, through esoteric synchronization beyond her reckoning, would be able to directly communicate and possibly transf...

271 - Calm Before the Storm Pt. 5

A bitter laugh echoed as he pulled out another cigarette, flicking closed a plate on his gun that obstructed the flashhole before he brought the sparklock to his face and pulled the trigger once, cocking it back and repeating the cycle three more ...

Zefaris Design Update Final Version

270 - Calm Before the Storm Pt. 4

A/N: Gonna need to take Sunday off, so no chapter tomorrow.

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Halxian braced to try pulling her off her feet while holding up his spear as an obvious defe...

269 - Calm Before the Storm Pt. 3

Serpents of blue fire streaked down his forearm and enveloped his fist, then continued on to consume the bandages as well - not in fire or lightning, but flat, concentrated dark-blue, speckled with white dots, as if whatsoever the light touched wa...

268 - Calm Before the Storm Pt. 2

“It’s the fuckin’ corpses, he’s defiled the dead, turned ‘em inta clay soldiers! A whole horde of the abominations is sprinting through the forest as we speak,” he said, struggling to catch his breath as serpents of green-tinged Fog sl...

267 - Calm Before the Storm

At last, when she thought this attempt, too, might be a failure as the fur-like Fog coating of Graze Pulse began to manifest, these fog-hairs dissipated. Her skin stiffened and took on a metallic sheen, the Mercenary’s magic mis...

266 - Skin of Bronze

“Your arms can’t-” Zel began a question, but Vaceran interrupted with an answer.

“They’re spiritual constructs. I make them tangible when I do anything with them. Using them to wield a weapon would be a waste of energy and focus co...

265 - Idola Custos Pt. 2

Zefaris had significantly truncated just how much her traits list had changed since she had last checked it, not out of a desire to deceive, but merely to convey the information she had intended to in an expeditious manner. She intended to share h...

264 - Magnetic Choke, Idola Custos

Maintaining eye contact with her right eye, she squinted and looked down at the coins with her left eye, once more a thin, rapidly-moving trail of Fog whipping from it and sweeping across the coins in a motion. She proceeded to take a breath and t...

Zefaris Design Update First Render Pass

263 - The Stones Walk

Such brazenly overt flirtatiousness was, in truth, a mere amusement that neither of them took seriously. When it came down to real tension between them and its release, words and double entendre weren’t exactly necessary.

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262 - Alternate Mysticism

The hard part would be actually developing it, being that her default was “Iron”. While she was already there, she looked further into various cultivation tomes, one in particular catching her eye for the image upon its cover - a striking reim...

261 - The Stones Will Walk Again

Just as Kanbu had predicted, he soon was faced with a plea for aid from the newfangled elder of Willowdale’s resident cultivation sect. The way she asked for said help, however, was not one he had predicted; in the stead of threats or simple dem...

260 - The Reaper's Visage, Panzerpope, Re: Bickering Immortals

The Grekurian Deserter had wisely set up shop right across the street from the only cluster of active worksites in the general area, one of which included a tannery, the stink growing nigh-unbearable despite the aforementioned facility having long...

Zefaris Design Update Color Mockup

Subject to changes for story consistency, i.e skin tone, facial structure, etc.

259 - Visage

“I see, I see, a practical snow devil mask…” he murmured as he flicked through the pages with speed and agility entirely unbefitting his bored-to-death demeanor, setting the fingers of his left hand between pages as he went through the massi...

258 - As Good an Excuse as Any

Zefaris remembered Mogralt ammunition being like this, but not quite like this. The ones she had seen being fired were more of a vaguely directed burst, not… Well, a burrowing spiral. This had to be Collier’s doing - Zef remem...

257 - Ballistics Testing

So it was that the Newman Sect’s Elder and Willowdale’s Provisional Governor spoke on the matters of people who might be able and willing to aid in snuffing out Ubul.

From those she had met in the old church fighting pit such as Berga, t...

256 - Options

“Compensation aside - and well-compensated you will be - it is important that you are well aware of and have a hand in selecting the support you will have. The unique environmental conditions of Ubul’s Tomb render it counterproductive to deplo...

Zefaris Design Update First Sketch

255 - Things to Discuss

“In fact, thanks for pointing that out - I’ll have to draft a tax relief incentive for those who keep arms and lend them out to the militia.”

“But… Surely, there should be some sort of regulation as to what weaponry independent cit...

254 - Re: Tyrant Muncher

She put it down on the counter, reaching underneath again and retrieving a downright tiny version of the gun - its barrel and magazine tube both only half the base model’s length, and its stock only long enough to facilitate the slide-action’s...

253 - Vaceran Pt. 2

“They’ve made themselves easy to spot so far…” he shrugged his shoulders… Or his stumps, she supposed. “And I’m not about to cross the border to start hunting rice farmers for sport. Besides, deserving or not, if they’re actively t...

252 - Vaceran

Closer and closer, she saw the stream - running through a deep gash in the earth, itself just barely not quite a river, and a tree at the other side had been knocked over to form a makeshift bridge, with a good chunk of its upper half having been�...

251 - The Candidates

A/N: There won't be a chapter tomorrow. I have a good bit written but it needs editing.

Also, Zefaris is getting artwork sometime soon.

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First on t...

250 - Incandescing Demon

With mental focus and a deep breath, he brought the rising blaze under control, the flames receding and growing pale until both his beard and right arm smoldered a pale blue rather than outright burning. The beamwand’s wood-like structure sucked...

249 - Tempesta Pt. 2

Cultivation methods built upon a foundational gnosis of “Death” are neither as common nor as macabre as one might expect, but time and again, they arise from similar circumstances of long-term high-mortality. Subject ZF exhibits no extraor...