A/N: This will NOT be a long fight, or even a direct fight at all. It will be resolved in the first half of the next chapter.
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"I'm sure you can guess," Eutropia said with a wry s...
Eutropia was a minor celebrity, a performer in one of the city's lesser-known, yet still reputable establishments. Despite the marginally sleazy name "Hot Legs", everything else about the venue gave the impression of an upstanding establishment. E...
2023-11-19 23:08:57 +0000 UTC View PostZel genuinely wasn't quite sure how to proceed. In terms of pure physical endurance, she could keep going. Red had pushed her much further than this. Her lungs, however, wouldn't hold. She could already feel them breaking down. A swig of Witch's B...
2023-11-14 14:31:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe Third Truthseeker, in his rage, reached out and grasped every shred of aura he could. This was of course the aura that was the closest to him, as he had already begun refining it in preparation to take it into himself. It amounted to a little ...
2023-11-12 05:00:37 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: This one's a bit shorter. Next one will be a bit longer.
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Moments earlier...
With each pylon, Victor had felt a quasi-divine pressure building, but he had though...
2023-11-11 20:07:53 +0000 UTC View PostFirst thing upon returning to the safehouse, Krahe questioned Casus on the matter of Seer.
"I had expected you to ask sooner. We had him checked over, as promised. The grafter found widespread modifications to the ocular module, as well as e...
2023-11-10 04:08:49 +0000 UTC View PostKrahe appraised the drink.
[Decoction of Mind's Dawn]
[Status:]
Exceptional (High Quality, Low Concentration)
[Details:]
Perfect Recall A1
The letter was then folded and sealed with a large, rectangular stamp that burned a complex sigil onto the paper, holding it shut without wax or any other physical glue. She silently nodded, took the letter, and went on her way.
It almost se...
2023-11-08 08:07:11 +0000 UTC View PostMeanwhile, Third stared. He didn't scream, or lash out, or even ask if she dared. He stared down at Zelsys, as she floated lower to the ground so she could spend that energy on replenishing herself for a potential continuation of their fi...
2023-11-07 07:50:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe Third Truthseeker felt many things.
The intoxicating sense of power and growth came first; a perpetually-intensifying ecstasy that only redoubled each time he thought it was at its peak. The wailing and screeching which surrounded him fe...
2023-11-07 02:14:22 +0000 UTC View PostShe was still suspicious of it, of course, and so she closed the book and locked it up again. The lock now obeyed as easily as her glasses. It would be a convenient little trinket in the future, especially once she put it on a more resilient box o...
2023-11-05 07:56:54 +0000 UTC View PostSensory overload. That was the only appropriate description for Victor's current situation that came to his mind. There was the maelstrom, the disruptor pylons, the Dawnwolf armor, his Servitors and Flesh Unions fighting against the Order's grueso...
2023-11-04 03:03:56 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Shorter one. Next chap focus goes back to Zel and co.
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Agents of both the Black Horse and the Sanger sects resided in the city, and had successfully hidden themselves dur...
2023-11-03 03:29:01 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a few seconds of focus and unsettling undulations going down the cable, he disconnected himself and popped the memslates out, handing one over: "The appraisal readings. I would strongly suggest that you report the case to the Grafting Church...
2023-11-03 00:48:00 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Re-edited the second half of the chapter.
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A flaw of the Daemon Core had already become apparent, emergent from its overwhelming firepower: Krahe didn't know how to get souldre...
A/N: Changed the design of Sorayah's voidkey to a more appropriate one for its origins and narrative purpose.
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"You're mad,” said a wide-eyed Sorayah in a hushed to...
A/N: Added more to the first half of the chapter.
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A ghostly tank skidded into Zero's space, perfectly matching its posture and seamlessly merging with the machine. Hi...
2023-10-30 22:27:01 +0000 UTC View PostNow, stirred into action by the prayers of the faithful, the Five Abbots spoke and their voices resounded through the city:
"HARK, RIGHTEOUS ONES. HEAR THEM. HEAR THE SLAUGHTERED CHILDREN OF EBERHEIM CRY OUT FOR VENGEANCE. HEAR THE PRAYERS O...
2023-10-29 03:44:14 +0000 UTC View PostZelsys continued to prepare, pouring the overwhelming majority of her power output into Thundercannon and the assembly of Fang Rippers revolving in front of it. They had been merely spinning before as they normally would, but the more power she po...
2023-10-29 03:35:24 +0000 UTC View PostAs Sorayah carried out the same unlocking and ward-opening procedure as before, Krahe added: "If you've only gotten so far with the resources available to you, it means I caught you early."
She was just blowing smoke, of course, speaking fro...
2023-10-27 22:09:40 +0000 UTC View PostFive seconds passed. Sorayah, wild-eyed, raised the lantern again. The charge-up was even shorter this time, but Krahe reacted based on the tensing of Sorayah's arm and avoided the vast majority of the blast with another dive. Nonetheless, she &nb...
2023-10-27 19:39:19 +0000 UTC View PostAround two-thirds of the way through the first chapter, the front door opened. Krahe continued waiting, listening to Sorayah walk around for a few minutes, watching her through Barzai's eyes. Then, abruptly, her footsteps stopped in the hallway ou...
2023-10-26 20:31:58 +0000 UTC View PostKrahe questioned Casus on Tsetse's combat characteristics for some time afterward, going so far as to draw out a surprisingly accurate diagram. Her rendering of Tsetse's forearm got astonishingly close after a few rounds of edits.
"Still, th...
2023-10-25 03:00:42 +0000 UTC View PostDespite mostly passing through the Revenant unimpeded in the physical plane, the passage of Zero's shots still seemed to impact the Revenant, tearing away pieces of its form as they passed. Though the damage was only around a third of what the Nam...
2023-10-23 23:56:18 +0000 UTC View PostChrome Skull Viper itself took form, its skull gleaming gold and fire exploding from its mouth as it lashed out at the flowing souls in perfect concert with Carnifex. Zel began multiplying Carnifex, forming countless False Fangs only to merge them...
2023-10-23 00:24:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe mindscape shifted. The rolling dunes fell away, becoming a level plain of sand.
A small army rose up behind the twin thoughtforms of Zelsys Newman and her weapon spirits.
Hundreds and hundreds of humanoid thoughtforms, differing wi...
2023-10-21 20:58:57 +0000 UTC View PostSilberblut got halfway up his arm before the giant evoy twisted his arm free and used its blast to propel himself backwards, wings exploding out of his back at the same time. Despite the catastrophic damage to his limb, Tsetse looked fine for the ...
2023-10-21 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostSilberblut took stock of the situation; Seer was feverishly trying to reload his howdah pistol while backing away, while Tsetse calmly approached. A shallow crater had been melted into the flyman's exoskeleton by Seer's attack, with rivulets of ye...
2023-10-20 21:40:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Unlucky,” he said, craning his armored neck towards the duo. His empty, composite eyes shifted, focusing on Seer. “Someone wanted an eye on you, skinbag. Didn’t want you doing something stupid. And you…”
“...Unlucky. Too close...
2023-10-19 00:19:29 +0000 UTC View Post