The shadowy shape of Eisenretter, blackened by the radiance of his own light, passed unimpeded through Tsetse. His passage and radiant blade cleft a vertical split through the monstrous flyman three-quarters of the way up his chest. Miraculously, ...
2024-06-11 21:13:19 +0000 UTC View PostMaking her way into the grove, Zel noticed a wide array of bone statues all around, many placed particularly to let certain herbs climb up them or to support other trees. Outside the shrine’s pillar boundary, two distinctly different pi...
2024-06-07 09:48:44 +0000 UTC View PostWith Silberblut’s focus entirely directed towards Tsetse, he was caught off-guard even by this attack that originated in plain sight — under different circumstances, he could have dodged in advance based on Semzar’s body tells. Moreover, eve...
2024-06-04 05:02:46 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Small edit, the Right Hand and Left Hand got mixed up. It's the Right Hand of Courage and Left Hand of Anger.
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Tsetse emitted a grunt of pain and frus...
2024-06-01 05:21:52 +0000 UTC View PostSigmund, as on many occasions before sunrise, was to be found atop the central spire, producing the enthralling appearance of a lighthouse at a distance. Despite emitting great tongues of blue-white fire as he floated a meter off the floor, the ai...
2024-05-29 03:26:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe blackwall shook in the night as its mechanisms worked. This was nothing new. The great wall had been set to gradually loosen its net, and it had been doing just that. Indeed, none were the wiser to the fact this shudder was different to the ot...
2024-05-29 02:57:18 +0000 UTC View PostZelsys would’ve loved to spar with those more her equal, of course — unfortunately, Makhus was utterly consumed in work on the True Dragonheart Bolus, and Jorfr was working with the owners of Scarlet Hill Farm to bolster their security in exch...
2024-05-25 21:07:41 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I'm not dead. I just got sick. I'm better now. Not fully okay, but better.
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After giving it a few moments of thought, Zelsys nodded and held out her hand. Fulguris twi...
2024-05-19 10:41:58 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I'm not dead. I just got sick. I'm better now. Not fully okay, but better.
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“Om, Zavyarana sowaka, behold the heretics and set their stolen flesh against them...
2024-05-19 10:38:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe witch spent an hour detailing the plan, but it was, fundamentally, simple and straightforward. It entailed some deception, but even this was expected to be seen through, and whether or not it was seen through, the desired outcome...
2024-05-02 00:54:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe mansion was enormous — too large to get from one end to the ballroom in a single Astro Dive. Krahe surfaced intermittently to recover, continuing her advance as she did.
Just from a few tentative tests between dives, it instantly becam...
2024-04-26 12:32:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe Sanger and Black Horse elders continued their argument even as they brought out a series of artifacts in sequence, some unfolding to form miniature landscape features while others created similarly miniature landscapes on the table, including ...
2024-04-22 03:19:14 +0000 UTC View PostSpotlights narrowed down to laser-like pinpoints, and at once began a wild dance, carving an eye-crossingly complex pattern in the span of seconds before ending at their starting point, where they carved out six hexagonal empty spaces.
The A...
2024-04-21 05:05:22 +0000 UTC View Post“Do you mean to tell me you cannot handle him? Did I pay you for nothing?!” Semzar hissed, trying to project the mask of an indignant, angered employer. It was a poor mask, all but see-through. His eyes trembled, his tendrils bulged u...
2024-04-18 04:23:59 +0000 UTC View PostZel came crashing down onto the beast’s back, grasping Carnifex with both hands as she buried its sawtoothed back into a particular spot. Instantly, she was engulfed in fire as the dragon focused the full weight of its aura onto her exclusively,...
2024-04-18 03:13:54 +0000 UTC View Post“Stronger. Not strong enough,” Tsetse remarked, a faint disappointment in his deadpan tone.
“You speak the truth,” Silberblut agreed. “I must thank you, for reminding me that mere imitation of my predecessor would only doom me on m...
2024-04-08 14:40:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe small comfort of using a crowd for cover didn’t last long — Krahe’s aura still pushed people away, and they readily scattered from her even without its encouragement. The stillborns were hot on her trail. She just needed to drag the abom...
2024-04-08 13:18:14 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: The first 3/5 or so are smut. After that it's right to the dragon hunt.
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It was at this moment that Zefaris learned just how far her cultivator physique could str...
A/N: Mild smut at the end
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Despite not saying it aloud, Zelsys felt that she knew the real reason for Strake’s acquiescence to Zero’s newfound chivalric virtue — he wa...
A dozen men aimed their guns and thaumaturgies at the black-armored banisher. At least three unique iterations of Mohawk’s “bladed chains” motif sprung up among them. Pandemonium unfolded — but the gulf between Silberblut and his foes was ...
2024-03-29 04:36:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe trio continued discussing the plan of the hunt, working out the details. The main problem was that the second Wildfire Kite could not be found out in the open, and only exited its cavern nest once every two weeks to check on its counterpart an...
2024-03-25 03:53:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Are… Are you alright?” Casus asked.
Krahe gave a nod, raising her right hand. The Atomica floated in her grasp.
“Pre-implantation attunement, can’t use thaumaturgy properly until it’s done. One-third of the way there.” 2024-03-25 01:16:26 +0000 UTC View Post
The slightly viscous fluid with which Zel filled the vial was not human saliva. The alchemist turned it over inside the flask, sniffed it, poured out some onto a flat alchemical spoon, and set it over a burner. It took some time to boil, yet seemi...
2024-03-20 19:58:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe Atomica was preparing her Soul Furnace for the reshaping it would undergo during actual implantation. She was stuck like this for now. As she wondered how long it would take, a new HUD element manifested, a simple percentage bar. It readily fa...
2024-03-20 19:51:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe sizable man stared down at Casus, grey force coalescing around his fists and continuing further up his arms. The telltale tendrils of a baneworm twitched under his skin, concealed somewhat under a generous layer of fat.
A grey fist came ...
2024-03-15 04:55:07 +0000 UTC View PostSmoke, ash and cinders began pouring out of every crevice of the Viridaimon suit, enveloping her in a swirling maelstrom. It resembled a swarm of insects more than anything else. Her casting medium, meanwhile, formed a small bead of sputtering, fl...
2024-03-15 04:52:23 +0000 UTC View PostIndeed, the mansion shook and a wave of discordant magic washed through the floor, blackened lines showing through the carpet as the stench of burning fabric filled the room. Through Barzai’s eyes, Krahe saw similar backlash taking place in the ...
2024-03-11 07:51:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe colour of both her hair and the Thundergod manifestations had also changed; in most cases, the beastly heads of her Thundergods manifested in a pale greyish-blue, blending Fulgur, Metallum, and Predator Aura into a stable form that was simply ...
2024-03-09 06:12:29 +0000 UTC View PostWith a sound like a sword being unsheathed, the inscribed shells that made up the scripture’s case slid apart. Inside was a scroll of large metal slips and animal bones. Zel partly unraveled the mass of metal and bone, then took a particular sli...
2024-03-08 04:08:46 +0000 UTC View Post