So here we are, standing in a dark alley—filthy surroundings, trash everywhere, the black of night, a truly romantic atmosphere. We stare at each other. I’m feverishly thinking, “Okay, what the hell do I do now?” Judging by her expression,...
2025-01-14 19:19:46 +0000 UTC View Post“No Sandevistan, no Kerenzikov,” Smasher announced. “Otherwise, it’s too fucking easy. But no other limits. Feet, elbows, knives, teeth—use it all. Last one standing wins!”
The Maelstrom crowd went wild with hoots and applause. 2025-01-14 19:12:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I am back!
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Tier 1: Chapter 35
“The tradition of magical duels in Britain has largely fallen out of favor during the latter half of the twentieth century, yet it continues to be practiced—unlike in various European countries that have abandoned this custom in favor of settl...
2025-01-13 22:54:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Here we are, kid. Whittington, the Blockbuster store.”
“Thank you,” Kayneth replied tonelessly as he climbed out of the taxi, paying the fare. Since ordinary people were virtually unaware of the “Leaky Cauldron,” he had given th...
2025-01-13 22:53:07 +0000 UTC View Post“For the first time in a year, she actually looks like my Eve again—not her ghost,” Summers said quietly, approaching the magus with his wife in his arms. He moved cautiously—after the lamps had gone out, the room was lit only by the faint...
2025-01-13 22:51:35 +0000 UTC View PostWith all the new knowledge and impressions swirling in his mind, Kayneth made his way back. Not to the orphanage, of course, but to Whittington Hospital, where he convincingly collapsed in a hallway near a familiar ward. The performance bare...
2025-01-13 22:50:05 +0000 UTC View PostNice job, Sasuke-kun. As they say, grab yourself a cookie off the shelf! And since there are no cookies… well, I’m even better: warm, fluffy, soft, and oh-so-dashing.
“Wait, how’d you figure it out? I mean… about the chakra?” Nar...
2025-01-13 22:22:13 +0000 UTC View PostMorning came, as it always does, no matter how late I’d gone to bed. I woke early anyway, unable to shake my restless thoughts—wondering if I’d done the right thing by starting all this... But what was done was done.
Before breakfast, ...
2025-01-13 22:13:35 +0000 UTC View PostWork in the lab with McCoy dragged on until evening, with Jennifer eventually joining us. Once Banner caught up with what we were doing, she suggested adding an air filtration system to my mask. She pointed out that relying solely on holding breat...
2025-01-12 01:49:03 +0000 UTC View PostOf course, it wasn’t that easy. As Kayneth wandered along the street near London’s largest leyline intersection, he immediately sensed the concentrated magic saturating the air. Layered barriers, powerful and complex, surrounded the area. Ther...
2025-01-12 01:46:46 +0000 UTC View PostGwen Stacy.
The cute blonde lay on her bed, glancing at her phone from time to time. Not that she was waiting for a call… but a girl could dream, right? Lately, her life had taken some pretty sharp turns. Her...
2025-01-09 23:52:16 +0000 UTC View PostThat was how the watchman found him the next morning—sitting at the bottom of a pit, filthy from head to toe, frozen stiff, and with his hands scraped raw and bleeding. More adults arrived, shouting something he barely registered. Some even stru...
2025-01-07 19:48:34 +0000 UTC View Post“So now the geas binds you…” leadingly said the paralyzed former magus, sitting in a wheelchair, clutching a wounded girl tightly against his chest.
“Yes, it is sealed. I can no longer kill you or Sola-Ui…” the tall man replied e...
2025-01-07 19:46:23 +0000 UTC View PostReturning to the mansion didn’t exactly feel triumphant—no welcoming committee, no fanfare, no red carpet. We just parked the car. Yuriko dismissed me to catch up on sleep, adding that I was responsible for suit maintenance and would get instr...
2025-01-07 19:43:12 +0000 UTC View PostAs horrifying as it might sound to any self-respecting (and, at times, deeply self-loathing) Soulslike player, farming spots were becoming fewer and farther between.
At some point, almost every player realizes that leveling up further become...
2025-01-05 02:08:11 +0000 UTC View Post"Good evening, Miss Oyama," I said slowly, still half-asleep and trying to shake off the ‘dream’. "Hey, uh, my eyes aren’t red, and my pupils didn’t turn white, right?"
She clearly expected a different kind of question, judging by th...
2025-01-05 02:05:20 +0000 UTC View PostTriple Xtreme Gym looked like a giant red box. The paint was peeling, and the metal beneath had rusted under the brutal California sun and unfriendly acid rain.
"They drag out a stiff from here every month or two," Jackie said as he got off ...
2025-01-05 02:02:11 +0000 UTC View PostTier 1: Chapter 34
Tier 2: Cha...
2025-01-03 20:43:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe conversation with the shaman lingered in my mind for a long time, making me question the choices I’d made.
“What do you mean? I don’t understand you,” I asked, bewildered. “What consequences?”
“Do you know what true w...
2025-01-03 20:42:08 +0000 UTC View PostI found Sasuke sitting by the pond. That classic blank stare. Dark circles under his eyes. His skin looked so pale it was almost translucent. Apparently, he’d been “sick” and skipped that class trip too—though in his case, he stayed home i...
2025-01-03 20:38:24 +0000 UTC View PostTier 1: Chapter 56
Tier 2: Chapter...
2025-01-02 23:20:46 +0000 UTC View PostNo matter how much Ranni longed to rest—she would always awaken. The cautious demigoddess never let her guard down entirely, even now.
More than that, she never stopped her vigilance.
The Three Sisters. A region cloaked in magical wa...
2025-01-02 23:19:15 +0000 UTC View PostAfter coming back, everything was surprisingly… ordinary. Exams, training sessions, experiments with McCoy—now joined by Banner. The latter, however, had completely immersed herself in work, which was… mildly annoying. She’d returned my st...
2025-01-02 23:15:42 +0000 UTC View Post"Good thing we took out that bastard. Mink, you okay? We need to get moving," the Voodoo priestess said in a serious tone.
"I... I feel like I got skullfucked between the hemispheres without lube," the second runner groaned, his virtual avat...
2025-01-02 23:12:36 +0000 UTC View PostTier 1: Chapter 33
Tier 2: Cha...
2025-01-01 22:05:45 +0000 UTC View PostAfter breakfast, the portal transported us to the settlement. I was curious to see how other wizards lived and to meet an actual shaman.
To be honest, I had no idea what to expect. The only time I'd seen anything close to a shaman was in a p...
2025-01-01 22:02:34 +0000 UTC View Post