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II-21 Manufactured Enmity

Getting sued or suing someone is the most common way people transfer funds in the Claimed Hells. I’d call it laundering, except that’s the entire point. There are so many Sin transference s...

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II-20 Scion of the Celestial Flame (IV)

How does it feel to fight the Realmbreaker?


I uh… it’s hard to describe… it’s like drowning. But even that’s too gentle. It’s like being trapped in a storm...

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II-19 Scion of the Celestial Flame (III)

 Celestial Vanguards.

What to say about them?

Say they’re enforcers of a long-dead god of purity carved into something that vaguely resembles the body of a ...

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II-18Scion of the Celestial Flame (II)

The greatest gift I ever gave myself was becoming my own master.


-Wei An Wei, The Realmbreaker

II-18
Scion of the Celestial Flame (II)

An arrow the size of ...

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II-17 Scion of the Celestial Flame (I)

Most of you who have been around know what dungeons or towers are. They're connections to other realms, other worlds—System-ruled worlds. Most of the time, you'll find them popping up during ...

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31-7 Shapeshifters (I)

Unable to establish connection. Fail to reach Constituent. 

Retrying… 

Retrying…

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Brief Update

A forecast of what is coming up
1. Book 1 of System Breaker/Though Tribulation Falls will be heading for official release on Amazon by mid/late December. The next book will follow a month after ...

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31-6 Weight to Bear

Oh, Veylis, my dear sweet girl, the best people you will meet in this life are not the ones who seek to control you or the ones who seek to empower you completely.

Both are acts ...

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31-5 Gun’s Growing Dream

Certain spiders eat their mothers upon being born. Do you know this?

I've seen this. I've seen this, and I find it an apt representation of our reality. We are all alone unto our...

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31-4 What We Lack

We were defined before our birth. The shape of our inclinations by genetic encoding—nature a blind craftsman, stumbling toward survival. The shape of our thoughts narrowed by culture, knowled...

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II-16 Tower of Possibilities

Special transmission received.
Decrypting details.
Decryption complete.

Good afternoon, Marksman. 

I represent a set of interests that ...

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31-3 Moths and Flames

Having a trusted comrade is like possessing an entire other life at your fingertips.

Perchance, did you ever take the time to think about what your friends could do, what your lo...

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II-15 Challengers (II)

A lot of us didn't ask to be here. A lot of us died at the wrong place, at the wrong time, where fate just smiled and sneered at us and took us away, spared us from an eternity of oblivion, and...

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II-14 Challengers (I)

The one policy I have for facing someone with a Legendary-Rarity Class Specialization is turning the fuck around and getting my ass out of there. Listen, I know some of you new guys don’t wan...

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II-13 The Contest of Conquest

As always, as we prepare for a brand-new invasion, a time of festivities and celebration is upon us—and a time for Sinners to become Saints Among Monsters. Indeed, I do hereby declare...

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31-2 Those We Lose

Death is a horror. This everyone knows but refuses to face. For the ones we lose mark us as well, deform our minds and actions so severely that, if our present self and past self meet, madness ...

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II-12 Reflection

You know the true thing that makes us Trespassers special? It’s not how we can bond with any Class, any System, any magical or spiritual entity without suffering harm. No. What truly makes us...

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31-1 A Throne Divided

It’s all going to hell.


It’s all going to hell, and I have no idea how to fix it.


Our forces are scattered. Pulled apart in every directi...

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30-18 The Silent Majority

We live in a world that’s built on the impossible. Anyone who tells you something can’t be done is bullshitting you or trying to stop you.


Tell me what’s more li...

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30-17 Imperfect Vessel

Despite his allegiances, despite the war, despite his very past, I will stand testament to these words:


Aedon Chambers is what it means to rise. He is what it means to...

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II-11 Blood Against Blood

You don’t need a powerful Skill to win. Sometimes, you don’t even need a higher level.


Sometimes, the only thing you really need is a little bit of surprise. Somet...

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II-10 Resolve (II)

“Mepheleon. It’s me.”


“Ah. Sara. I have been waiting for this call. How have you been, dearest? And you are most welcome. I enjoyed de...

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II-9 Resolve (I)

William Yu is a piece of shit. He’s a womanizing, amoral, greedy, fool of a motherfucker.


He’s also my best friend. I owe him my life. I owe him more than I can gi...

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II-8 Failures (II)

Say one thing about the Realmbreaker, say he’ll do about everything to hold up the sky for me while he crumbles away on the inside.


What the damn fool didn’t see w...

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II-7 Failures (I)

The perfect enemy one can face is themselves, stripped of all flaws, all weakness…

And so too will such a foe become a perfect teacher as well.

-Wei An Wei, The Realmbreaker

II-...

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II-6 Shell of Masteries (II)

Listen, Antediluvian rarity Skills are a fucking myth, okay? The only people who might get that are System hosts and chances are, that’s not you. And if that’s you, I’m going to give you ...

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30-16 Master of My Own Scars (III)

There comes a point where you must step beyond who you were before, to face all history and shed your scars. To cling to pain is to build your own cage and to seal your own fate.

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30-15 Master of My Own Scars (II)

You know the worst thing I realized about my father?


He was right about me.


I was a piece of shit. I wasn’t worth it. I was pathetic. Every...

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30-14 Master of My Own Scars (I)

You wanna know who kills the legends? Who kills the pros?


The juvs. The pathetic. The ones we don’t notice; choose to ignore. The gutter-trash with a gun that should...

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30-13 The “Me” I’m Not

+Consensus: We have sighted the Pathborn in the tapestry. 21.1233% wish to engage. Bill acknowledged. Internal votes underway. 93.5331% are nervous about our chances. Love has a high risk of in...

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