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An array of footsteps clopped with a hideous squelch. Obsidian-black boots took Frost down a bloody path. The red veins along her apparel pulsated with the frequency of the heartbeat deeper within the bowels of the Leviathan.<...
2025-06-10 12:25:24 +0000 UTC View PostAire.
It was a town situated at the crossroads of the Justicia Highways. Long stretches of clearings divided the forest into seven major regions; the Central Forest, the Northern Forest, the Eastern Forest, the Southern Forest, the Western F...
2025-06-08 11:04:37 +0000 UTC View Post“My Executors would prefer you to drown. Liken to the olden trials of Stars, Moons and Beholders– it shall be performed by a Beholder and a Star.”
Galia retrieved the Justitia Scale from her Dimensional Storage and weighed it against h...
2025-06-07 12:32:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe grand welcome was unexpected. Nav could have given her a head’s up, but her library-bound companion did not give a reason as to why she kept her mouth shut.
A surprise, Frost figured. Not entirely unwelcome since she had her apparel wi...
2025-06-07 12:31:25 +0000 UTC View Post//////// < WARNING > ////////
< Leaving H9 | 2 minutes >
The Leviathan rattled. The unsettling murmurs of mechanical organs pulsed through the soft bedding. I...
2025-06-04 09:04:05 +0000 UTC View PostAiming, healing, communication, combat – Frost excelled in games revolving around these. But when it came to games of chance, and when she shut her eyes and used her invisible eyes to view the world, then she’d find herself losing these games....
2025-06-02 10:00:56 +0000 UTC View PostNow that dawn had faded, and Joy was tucked into bed by Cer, the married duo could now enjoy the night of H9 to their heart’s content.
Their dresses were different this time around.
Frost put on a black robe reminiscent of a short-cu...
2025-06-02 09:25:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Repenters took their leave alongside with Horus.
The woman had every intention of taking her sweet time in H9. She fanned out a stack of coupons for massage parlors and certain services on the way out, hellbent on using them all tonight....
2025-05-31 10:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe crop fields of H5 shrunk in the distance.
The wild plains of H6 came to pass. The giant hill where Cer had first opened her heart to Frost flashed by.
Then came the forests of H7, and the beautiful scenic lakes of H8.
Territo...
2025-05-31 09:59:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Have you ever seen a red tide?”
Acedia asked this question from out of the blue.
Nothing prompted her to speak.
It had been an hour since anyone had spoken on the Leviathan, and yet, after sitting at her desk without moving ...
2025-05-28 09:19:02 +0000 UTC View Post< See their stats. The blue box doesn’t lie >
It was enough to calm Red down, but not enough to keep a blade held close to her chest.
“Easy, Adventurer. We’re only ...
2025-05-26 17:24:48 +0000 UTC View PostRounding the bandits up was the easy part.
Keeping them alive was an entirely different story. If someone told Red that humans were prone to throwing their lives away, then she’d laugh and say: “Humans aren’t that dumb!”
But lo...
2025-05-26 17:23:19 +0000 UTC View PostA body fell into a pit far too deep to tell where it ended.
Their blood-curdling cry came to an abrupt stop just seconds into the descent.
Replacing it was an absolute silence that did not dare hint at the body’s fate.
Tremblin...
2025-05-25 10:45:06 +0000 UTC View PostSilence befell the Upper Sanctums of the Nexus for exactly thirty minutes following Frost’s ascent from G-Y0.
But this silence was not universal.
It only pervaded the Floor of Ego where a long-haired Lailah sat resting atop her fract...
2025-05-23 18:23:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Where are they?”
An impatient woman clicked her tongue as she stalked the streets. She lurked in the shadows, hid behind shrubs and walked alongside guards as she noticed blue-suited personnel arrive in town.
“Those Witches need...
2025-05-21 00:20:51 +0000 UTC View PostG-Y0 imploded into itself two hours later. The confirmation came straight from Nav, who had heard this through her telepathic connection with all Moons possessing the Blessing of the Amalgam.
Unite Us, Everlasting – recovered; three hundre...
2025-05-21 00:19:57 +0000 UTC View PostIndeed.
Frost had lost a single Light. It had been taken by Cer to crystalize new Skills.
I see. So the Nexus is the enabler. Or rather, a powerful Light is. Sort of like how say, Elysia or I can manipulate those with lesser Light,...
2025-05-17 05:58:15 +0000 UTC View PostFour hundred Homunculi shuffled behind Frost.
They froze when she paused and closed their eyes when she turned. When she raised a hand, their necks would tug forward as though she were pulling on an invisible leash.
The Rogue Moons did...
2025-05-17 05:13:20 +0000 UTC View PostJury had seen the shell that Elysia was trapped in. It was a part of her vision when she realized herself as Jury and as a separate entity from Elysia during the Nex Megalopolis’ Atelier War.
It was a black sphere, reminiscent of what cont...
2025-05-14 10:13:56 +0000 UTC View PostThere was more to the Eye of Elysia than its name.
But at the same time, it was precisely that.
Frost was stranded halfway across the world. She would not have been able to travel over thousands of kilometers within minutes.
She ...
2025-05-14 10:12:42 +0000 UTC View Post“Wipe the scowl.” Alisa commanded Lammy. “If one failed harvest spelt the end, then the plan was flawed from the beginning. We would not have lost. Keep a tighter leash on your Atoners. They have found a well of light to flock to. Insects....
2025-05-12 05:17:17 +0000 UTC View PostA rift large enough to swallow a mountain opened behind Lammy.
It was meant to retrieve the Avatar of Kratt, but it had met an unfortunate death.
The Orbis Impuritas made the mistake of underestimating Cer’s durability.
The ‘...
2025-05-12 05:16:05 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! It's Syringe!
I rarely do announcements, but I thought that it would be appropriate since we're about to hit quadruple digits on Nexus Awakened!
First of all, I want to thank everyone who's been with us during this wi...
Rhyme stood no chance against a Beholder.
That much was certain from the very start.
Had she known that a true Beholder would be arriving to challenge her claim over the Genesis Stone, then she would not have agreed to join Al...
2025-05-10 08:30:19 +0000 UTC View PostJustica’s Crossing ran further than the Languid Fault. More than twenty times, or even more from what Red understood.
Yet despite alllll that space, Scarlet Logic happened to be precisely where they were.
Suspicious.
Red believ...
2025-05-08 08:25:49 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t enough.
The presence of her claws could be felt. Though they were tiny, the world sensed that an invisible extension hovered just above them.
< (A) A Lamenter’s Hand [OO] > 2025-05-06 05:30:52 +0000 UTC View Post
The Fragment’s ignorance caused Cer to reach the Second State. [Feast For the Eyes] became active as she fully manifested Craving Electric Wolf. It didn’t seem much at first. There was no way its effect of painting a target on her back would w...
2025-05-06 05:29:02 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ve never seen two of the same hatchlings from an egg.”
“There is always that same voice that dictates the happenings of the Sites.”
“I used to believe the hatchling...
2025-05-06 05:25:45 +0000 UTC View Post“Why do birds fly?”
These were the first words Cer heard Lailah’s voice utter to the Fragment.
Cer watched memories unfold like she was flipping through a sketchbook drawn by a child. Only that these drawings were real.
How...
2025-05-04 01:51:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe darkness was both infinite and limiting.
Cer’s tail brushed against the dark wall, assessing the space as she studied the figure in the center of the room. It was a sphere just large enough for a fully sized adult to stand inside. Not ...
2025-05-04 01:49:39 +0000 UTC View Post