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III-44 Monstrosity

Shape of Monstrosity

Noun

This is a Master-Tier Skill Evolution exclusive to a specific kind of monster: A Cursed Tarrasque. No other being in Integration ...

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III-43 Army

I prefer fighting an orc rather than talking to them. At least, the worst thing that happens when you fight an orc is that they overcome you. They kill you. They maybe torture you. But the...

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II-134 Claustrophobia

Greatest. The once Prince of Pride. I cannot call him an ally, but I will not declare him an enemy either. Ultimately, it is hard to say what is right and what is wrong after all I experienced ...

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37-8 This Gift Called Choice (GODCLADS)

+Hey, hey there people. Cala Marlowe coming at you from New Vultun. If you're hearing me now, this is not a live broadcast, no. This is a special spirit contagion, spreading through you...

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III-42 Ritual (II)

Despite the chaotic nature and requirements of most rituals, they are not, in fact, randomized actions performed to amuse the predilections of certain gods. Rather, they influence the ambient m...

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III-41 Ritual (I)

Every form of attuned magic gives off its own frequency. Every spell is an adjustment, a manipulation of that frequency, but also the structure of the field itself. To understand it simply, it ...

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III-40 Breach

"What is the matter, Lord Scorn? I can hear you raging across four different dimensions. What has you so angered, dear boy?"

"Fuck off, Challenger. I don't have time to hear you ...

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III-39 Animated (II)

Reviewing the last few chapters: we know there are two kinds of mana cores, artificial and natural. Most mana cores fall into the natural category. These cores usually serve as the foundations ...

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III-38 Animated (I)

The core function of Animancy is the restructuring of one's soul. It is the only skill, aside from when one is allowed to delve into their Legendary-Tier Skills, that allows you to shape your o...

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II-133 Engineered Bloodshed (INFERNAL ASCENSION TTF)

There's gonna be a war at some point between us and the fictionals. 

I don't like it. I don't want much want to fight it. I don't want to be here in the fathoms, but there's...

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III-37 Infusion

As Pathbearers we constantly evolve. Our skills are engines of metamorphoses. With every experience, every feat, every trial we survive, they grow watered by the stories of our lives, shaped by...

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Apologies for series of delays these two days

The next chapter III-37 is in editing, but I'm having a bit a post-storm fever now, so it might experience a bit of a delay.

I apologize for not delivering consistent 10ks these two days. Wri...

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III-36 Competition

"I'm not sorry, father! He deserved it! He deserved every second of the pain I gave him! I should have hurt him more! More!’

"I'm not asking you to be sorry. I'm telling you to...

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III-35 Commis (II)

“What the hell is this? 

“My apron, my knife. I understand that what I did today-”

“Shiv, fuck off. What are you doing? Get that thing, get that out o...

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37-7 What Follows The End of Histories

“We welcome you, Jaus Avandaer. Know that you are the first Kosgan in many years to descend this place, to stand before us and be spared immediate death.”

“I am honored, O ...

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II-132 Submarine (II)

“Leonid, Captain Leonid, wake up.”

“What is this? What's happened?”

“Well, technically what happened is, on your world, you're dead.”

...

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III-34 Commis (I)

"Alright, Chef. You're officially a commis now. You know what that means?"

"Are you going to start paying me to peel these potatoes?"

"You're being a felling smart...

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III-33 Minions (III)

Orcs call their army an orchestra for a reason. They make music with each other. They're not cooperating, they're just filling in the gaps.

Orcs call their army an orchestra for a reason....

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37-6 Forbidden Blood

To be Sang is to be caged in a cycle, to be bound to the fates of our mothers, our forebears before us, to taste the sting of ever reaching to the masculine, and to know that our fathers, our b...

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II-132 Submarine (I) (INFERNAL ASCENSION STUFF)

Earth-based technology doesn't work very well with Essence. There are a lot of theories as to why, but in simplicity, it's because we have hard laws. We're not narrative-based. There's nothing ...

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III-32 Minions (II)

An average Pathbearer assault team numbers four. Four to magnify each other's strengths and make up for each other's weaknesses. Four so tha

An average Pathbearer assault team numbers fou...

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Weekly Feedback Post and Scheduling Update

Greetings:

Most of you are new here, while some of you have been here for a while. To newcomers, welcome. I hope you're enjoying Deathless. I hope the same for older readers, but this updat...

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III-31 Minions (I)

No two armies in integration can be led the same way. Despite fighting as a collective whole, every army is made up of individual Pathbearer

No two armies in integration can be led the sa...

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III-30 Offer (II)

Strife had always been here. Before I was, Strife waited for me, the ultimate discipline, awaiting its ultimate disciple. You look upon me l

Strife had always been here. Before I ...

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III-29 Offer (I)

I don't know how to stop the works. Let's start there. I have no idea. This war has been going on for generations. Longer than my grandmothe

I don't know how to stop the works. Let's star...

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III-28 Vitality

"What is death?"  If you ask a Biomancer, it is simply a state of being. It is when all functions of the body stop and the organism begins t

"What is death?" 

If ...

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III-27 Vitaemancer

Because Unique Skills fall beyond the bounds of anything the system has seen before, it is hard to judge exactly when they will evolve and w

Because Unique Skills fall beyond the bounds o...

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II-131 Ass Labyrinth (II) (TTF)

"Hello? Hello? Is anyone there? I've been trapped here. Trapped. Trapped for years. Is anyone there?

I... I made Greatest angry. The Prince of Pride. I didn't know he was the Pri...

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III-26 Vicar

Adept gives you a taste of becoming more than mortal, of evolving beyond the constraints of an ordinary body. Master lets you experience the

Adept gives you a taste of becoming more than ...

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III-25 Adamantine

There is one skill an orc retains between all their reincarnations, just one. Their soul is refreshed as they pass through the Challenger, a

There is one skill an orc retains between all ...

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