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Jun’s POV (15)

Slamming head first into the bubbling iron cauldron, Jun, in turn, drenched those witches in the nearest vicinity with all its boiling contents. 

Those he didn’t bowl over with his still flailing body outright, that is. With a sharp c...

Jun’s POV (14)

Jun stared at the words for an unknowable amount of time. 

Scouring them. Imprinting them. Burning them into his mind. 

He thought he should feel something. Remorse perhaps? All laid out on paper like this, his actions weren�...

Jun’s POV (13)

It hadn’t taken much to overpower the soul of this body’s previous inhabitant. 

The patriarch’s brat had been weak. Pitifully so. 

Oh, they say he would’ve made for a “great man” some day. I...

Chapter 74

Sand whipped past as they skimmed across the rising black dunes, barely a few meters off the ground, all things told. 

Their speed such that the desert appeared to undulate beneath them, a rippling sea of charcoal granules baking under ...

Chapter 73

Pale faced and trembling, Meredith stared up at the high balcony where the princess, the demon, and the poacher reclined. 

Her drink long forgotten, the familiar weight of a hand on her shoulder had the effect of accomplishing what slow...

Chapter 72

“What do you think?” asked Eleanor, crouching over the glistening pile.

“I think it’s insane you’re even considering this,” R. Jun replied.

“But can’t you feel it? They’re practically overflowing with so...

Jun’s POV (12)

Jun didn’t mind his leisurely pace so much, as he rode past expansive rice fields, humble domiciles, and sun tanned farmers in their conical hats—already hard at work, having risen with the light of dawn.

He found the scenery gorgeous w...

Jun’s POV (11)

“You’re scared,” he said, like it was a fact. “It’s understandable. We all are, to one degree or another. The total annihilation of the Black Sons was a shock to everyone. That it happened over the course of a single night, even more so....

Chapter 71

Eleanor deftly evaded yet another colossal downward strike. 

Like a dancer, she moved with the seismic tremors that followed, sidestepping three other such attempts to smash her flat. Yet even as she stepped, twirled, and slashed with p...

Jun’s POV (10)

The young man froze, slowly turning to scrutinize him far more skeptically than before.

“I… I’m sorry?”

“Ah, no worries lad. All’s forgiven. There was no harm done, really. A bit taxing on these old bones of mine, I suppose...

Jun’s POV (9)

Things were… actually going surprisingly well. 

He found it entirely too suspicious. Still, given the unimaginable harvest he’d reaped, he figured this burst of productivity was well worth whatever calami...

Jun’s POV (8)

For the briefest moment, when he first opened his eyes, only to see the blank void surrounding him on all sides, he worried that he’d somehow wound up right back in the middle of that unreal space between restarts. 

The spike of fear ...

Jun’s POV (7)

Goro tore across the sandy arena like all the gates of hell were at his back. 

Crossing hundreds of meters in the time it took for Jun to fire off a single beam, planting a massive fist into one fancily armored cuirass, and punching—w...

Jun’s POV (6)

Jun rose to his feet and, on instinct, shuffled over to stand next to Goro. 

The bovine man’s massive frame was already upright, his eyes fixed on the approaching contingent of guards. And more specifically, on the lone man at the cen...

Jun’s POV (5)

Floating in the endless void, Jun thought about a lot of things. 

About his friends, about his enemies, about the weeks, going on a month now, he’d spent attempting this trial. The large majority of that time spent opposite a crotchet...

Jun’s POV (4)

“W-well, that was a grand w-w-waste of time.”

“What was that?” hissed the amiable snake man.

“N-nothing,” Jun replied, trying and failing to repress a shiver.

He sneezed. Snorted. Wiped away the warm, dribbling excess...

Jun’s POV (3)

You have been found lacking during the Stage of Gathering.

Thankfully, failure is admissible in those young and uninitiated. In that way, some amount of leniency is not only allowed, but encouraged.

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Jun’s POV (2)

Jun nearly jumped out of his skin when Goro’s rumbling baritone snapped him from his gawping.

“It would be best not to linger. More are sure to arrive soon,” he gestured at the door they’d just entered from. “If you will follow me,...

Jun’s POV (1)

Who knew bending the fundamental stuff of reality to make cool shooty laser eyes would be such a major pain in the ass? 

You’d think if they were called the “building blocks of creation,” they’d be easier to line up in a row. No...

Chapter 69

From the second they stepped foot on the hundredth floor it was apparent that something was off.

If the sickly green flames that flared to life from the many brasiers lining the walls weren’t indication enough, the half-skeletal figure re...

Chapter 63

Ignoring S. Jun’s rather colorful language, as he described, in livid detail, just what he thought of this whole fifteen second swap idea, Jun briefly took a second to catch his bearings.

That was when stinging lines of pain brought to hi...

Chapter 70

Jun deftly veered away from the skull shaped fireball—quick steps and acrobatic contortions winning him the day—careful to give the licking green tongues of necrotic flame a wide birth.

It only took a brief introduction to the wonders o...