Lester Yong & Rosa Fontelera-Yong

CoESC Book 10-19.3: Eli'Theria

A gash appeared on the sludge creature’s face, turning into a grotesque smirk. Yuriko’s sunblade streaked towards its neck, and it bent backwards out of the way. At the same time, one of its lo...

CoESC Book 10-19.2: Eli’Theria

The Furnace creature roared in pain, the first time it did in the battle. A moment later it carved out the piece of torso that had the mandala stuck on it, and flung it away. A chunk a few inches t...

Catch up time!

We'll be having a posting break from July 24-28 (next week!) and will resume regular posting on July 31. It sucks to have to take all these breaks but for sanity, it's necessary, too.

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CoESC Book 10-19.1: Eli’Theria

The feel of the dreamscape was unmistakable, even if she wasn’t lingering in the uppermost layers. Yuriko’s Anima spread, but of course, there was nothing to see. Other than the threads connect...

CoESC Book 10-18.3: Crucible

‘Eli can’t stay awake.’ Fri’Avgi said sadly when the Colossus’ glowing eyes faded back to mundane metal.

Yuriko shook off her surprise. The name had just come to her as tho...

CoESC Book 10-18.2: Crucible

The Colossus’ eyes, which were probably as large as her head, seemed to focus on Yuriko’s eyes. She could almost see the gleam of interest coming from it, but a moment later, whatever it was di...

CoESC Book 10-18.1: Crucible

“Whoa! Ancestors, boy! You got big!” There was a desperate edge to Balliol’s laugh, but his embrace would have been hard enough to make Heron squeak if he hadn’t grown much stronger. His ta...

CoESC Book 10-17.3: Arrival

“I see something. A structure,” Selene Nimdahl said when she reported back. The entire group was moving at a steady pace west, following the movement of the Radiant Sun’s reflection on the ce...

CoESC Book 10-17.2: Arrival

The journey through the portal felt nearly the same as when they first went through the portal back in Synkrasia. It was the same feeling of time passing by, while they were stuck in a daze, well, ...

CoESC Book 10-17.1: Arrival

Machine gun fire and anti-air flak wasn’t a problem for Yuriko, but this was the first time many of her companions flew, and definitely the first time they came under fire. Edison, for one, had s...

CoESC Book 10-16.3: Return

Crossing the Norrinth Empire, from the northwest part of it where they made landfall, down to its border to the Sanctus Kingdom, where they were to meet with an intelligence agent, took about ten d...

CoESC Book 10-16.2: Return

It was snowing throughout the next week. Harbourtown, which was just east of Lindorn, and set within the narrow bay the river flowed out into, was practically covered in white powder. Yuriko ponder...

CoESC Book 10-16.1: Return

Yuriko didn’t know how much time she spent meditating. She had focused her efforts on trying to figure out how to convert Radiant energy back into Animus, or even ambient Chaos. Most of the Radia...

CoESC Book 10-15.3: A Promise Kept

The grey-furred blood ape sat on his haunches, with his hands raised up, palms facing them. Gwendith exchanged looks with the twins, and the soldier driving the car. The young man had a twisted exp...

CoESC Book 10-15.2: A Promise Kept

Gwendith’s aid mission quickly ran into trouble. Not two longstrides from the base, just as they were headed into the mountains, they were ambushed by the crimson apes. Sitting next to the driver...

CoESC Book 10-15.1: A Promise Kept

A loud boom shook the air as a plume of dust shot up high into the skies. It was thick, brown, and billowing, obscuring nearly everything within its ambit. Spurts of golden Radiance flared near the...

CoESC Book 10-14.3: The Living Monument

For the past several days, Gwendith had felt disquiet every time Yuriko set off on her patrols. She and the others were stationed in one of the forward outposts and with them were a couple of compa...

CoESC Book 10-14.2: The Living Monument

A few more days passed since the prototype weapons were put to use. In response, the daemons raided in bigger groups, but that also made them far more visible.

Yuriko intercepted dozens of ra...

CoESC Book 10-14.1: The Living Monument

Yuriko sighed as she reviewed the carnage. The crimson apes managed to make it into the outpost, and she hadn’t noticed until it was already well underway. She was only here to join her friends, ...

CoESC Book 10-13.3: Highlands

Harris Carron pulled the trigger of his bolt-action rifle, half wishing that he had been issued one of the new assault rifles instead of his buddy, Morton Cole. That worthy had sprayed all of his b...

CoESC Book 10-13.2: Highlands

“Where have you been?” Yuriko’s sharp tone took Casper Nichols aback, and he answered instinctively.

“Across the ocean and inspecting the…wait! Why are you asking me that?” His ey...

CoESC Book 10-13.1: Highlands

By the time a huffing Gwendith managed to arrive on the hilltop where the army had set up, the battle was already concluding. She stifled her irritation as she surveyed the utter devastation her be...

CoESC Book 10-12.3: Daemon Hunt

A couple of hours after dawn found Yuriko and her team in the town hall along with several of her students. Douglas Hart had an expression that was between excitement and trepidation, and it looked...

Health Break!

We've needed a lot of these with all the things that have been going on offline.

We'll be having a posting break next week from June 19-23, 2023. Regular posting will resume on June 26, 2023....

CoESC Book 10-12.2: The Daemon Hunt

The eastern coast was several leagues away from Fordja, more than twenty, actually. But Yuriko felt there was little need to hurry there. The aircraft penetrated deeper into Karcellian airspace and...

CoESC Book 10-12.1: The Daemon Hunt

“Where have you two been?” Gwendith asked sternly with her fists on her hips. She stood just outside the cottage’s front door. Yuriko and Heron only reached Fordja a couple of hours after daw...

CoESC Book 10-11.3: Shards

Heron would have wanted to meditate too, but looking at Yuriko sitting with her back against the oak tree, her Anima boiling around her frame, and completely oblivious to everything around her, he ...

CoESC Book 10-11.2: Shards

A strange sensation filled Yuriko’s mind. It was pulling at her, down into dreams. She knew that if she succumbed, she’d fall asleep. Then who knew when she’d awaken?

Not yet. Not yet.<...

CoESC Book 10-11.1: Shards

“Five thousand years...” the rabbit/bunny/hare man growled. He was still in his seated meditation pose, but floating a good pace above the ground. “So much time spent Shaping this forsaken fr...

CoESC Book 10-10.3: Nexus Point

A big portion of Northern Lindorn was burnt to the ground. After that first night attack, several more followed. At least, that’s what Yuriko later learned. At the moment, she had travelled to th...