"Are the coordinates locked in yet?"
Hearing Jaakobah's question, the Celestial operative controlling a magitech tool that looked like an unholy crossbreed between a cello, a harp, and a vuvu...
2023-04-18 15:26:47 +0000 UTC
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Always follow the money
Pak. Pak. Pak.
The rhythmic sound of axe meeting firewood continued to echo in the woods. The hill in the clearing, upon which stood a lonely cottage, was espe...
2023-04-16 17:11:22 +0000 UTC
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I knew it! I god-bloody-damn knew that the shifty old bastard was going to betray me! I knew it, and yet somehow I still didn't not trust him enough! How is that even possible!?
"This is stup...
2023-04-13 15:21:06 +0000 UTC
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Angie often complained about Sundays. According to her, it was the most bittersweet day of the week; you already had a day off on Saturday, so you felt refreshed, but at the same time Monday was al...
2023-04-10 15:10:37 +0000 UTC
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The group date at Lake Leucippe was… well, calling it a 'resounding success' was probably stretching it a bit, but it was fine. In retrospect, there was very little of the promised 'teaching a ne...
2023-04-09 10:52:19 +0000 UTC
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Hello, Dear Readers. It's been a while, but since I got reminded by a comment on Royal Road, I decided to delve into the dark recesses of NovelAI's stable diffusion image generator and dig up...
2023-04-08 22:09:22 +0000 UTC
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Lake Leucippe was situated on a plateau on the southern side of the island of Critias. Its surface, currently completely frozen over and covered in a thin layer of fresh snow, glittered brightly in...
2023-04-07 16:36:59 +0000 UTC
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The Economics of Resurrection
Raol's footsteps felt heavy as he gazed upon the distant walls of New Reedcourt. Back when he was alive, walls like those were reserved only for fortified bord...
2023-04-04 17:51:58 +0000 UTC
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"Why do you keep attending high school?"
The question made me raise a brow and glance over at Sir Percival, currently sitting on the couch in my living room in a fluffy blue bathrobe, playing...
2023-04-03 13:13:44 +0000 UTC
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"O-ho-ho? So this is the 'secret base' Friedrich had told me so much about? Very impressive!" a certain portly nurse exclaimed as we stepped out of the designated 'teleport closet'. His reaction wa...
2023-03-31 19:54:08 +0000 UTC
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A world of gold, loot, and high adventure
"I actually have a story like that," Raol noted while gently pinching his chin. "As a matter of fact, I had experienced it in my own skin."
"...
2023-03-29 19:43:55 +0000 UTC
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"It was eight AM. The skyscrapers of the city, giant nails aimed at the eyes of god, painted long, parallel shadows across the landscape. The dark stripes alternating with the rays of the morning s...
2023-03-27 14:57:58 +0000 UTC
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I didn't mean that to be so dramatic, but it was made so by the uneasy silence that settled onto the room shortly after. My guest stared at me quite inquisitively for a while, and then snorted, whi...
2023-03-25 15:23:15 +0000 UTC
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"Yowza! I know that they say a man's home is his castle, but this place is fortified like the Maginot line!"
Ignoring Percival's spirited exclamation, I tried my best to hold my temper under ...
2023-03-20 19:39:24 +0000 UTC
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It took until the third break for the misunderstanding to get cleared up, which was coincidentally around the same time Ichiko was moved over to Judy's shadow. By lobbying with my girlfriends, Penn...
2023-03-17 19:45:31 +0000 UTC
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A quiet evening in a peculiar hermitage
"We're close. My house is right over there."
"I can't seem to find it."
"It's because I hid it!" the young lady declared with a proud smi...
2023-03-15 23:41:57 +0000 UTC
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I think I might've already said this before, but it bore reiterating: after going through all kinds of supernatural shenanigans, going to school on a slow Monday morning felt much weirder than it w...
2023-03-13 16:10:49 +0000 UTC
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Once I came out of the shower and sat down in my room, with Cal laid across my thighs, I was hit by a tsunami of fatigue, to the point I wished I could just sleep it all off. Sadly, we still couldn...
2023-03-09 17:05:30 +0000 UTC
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"{I will not, young knight!}" the sword in my hand protested, but I ignored their voice in my head and assumed a defensive posture.
Based on the blowing, swirling magical lights around the st...
2023-03-06 17:49:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 3 – Making a friend is sometimes as easy as saying hello
"Farking courts, that thing's nimble!" the axeman bellowed even as he jumped over a fallen tree trunk. "Don't lose it!"
2023-03-04 14:31:53 +0000 UTC
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Even though it was a Saturday, Lord Grandpa was still holed up in his office inside the underground School complex, so while I could certainly just Phase in on top of him and call it a day, the who...
2023-03-03 21:14:20 +0000 UTC
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In the end, Ammy didn't stay for too long, and after I shared a few anecdotes about what happened at the resort (and after she made me swear I would talk to Lord Grandpa about four more times), she...
2023-03-01 12:00:29 +0000 UTC
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Merchant carriages and monster attacks go hand in hand
"Seriously, where am I?"
It was a question that slipped through the wandering skeleton's mouth on more than one occasion during ...
2023-03-01 08:47:49 +0000 UTC
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Life is fleeting, contracts are forever
The morning sun already peeked past the horizon by the time the newly reborn skeleton finished organizing the tools and resources he had at his dispo...
2023-02-27 23:02:15 +0000 UTC
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Was it normal to feel completely tuckered out after coming home from a vacation?
I mean, I had a relatively good time, didn't have to use my special abilities at all, and while the girls cert...
2023-02-27 15:11:31 +0000 UTC
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Volume I - The Economics of Resurrection
Prologue – The Worst Way to Wake Up
The Great Lowlands. In history books, it was either considered the invaluable breadbasket of the empir...
2023-02-25 14:34:14 +0000 UTC
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Even after the incident with the 'mysterious' peeper, the hangout in our room didn't run out of steam for a while. It was almost ten in the night when the last stragglers left the place (or, to be ...
2023-02-23 14:26:12 +0000 UTC
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"Why did our room become the dedicated hang-out spot in the resort?"
My dearest assistant's question sounded entirely rhetorical at first, but when I didn't answer, she looked over her should...
2023-02-20 16:35:24 +0000 UTC
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The invisible ninja maids were unceasingly dutiful, as usual, and despite all the zaniness our suite experienced thanks to the previous night's truth-or-dare game going for a few too many rounds, a...
2023-02-17 15:32:08 +0000 UTC
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On this day, I learned something new once again. Before I had the opportunity to try one, I thought hot springs were nothing special, but then I was pleasantly surprised by them. Conversely, after ...
2023-02-14 19:00:43 +0000 UTC
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