Michael Stonereiz, college sophomore on the Battle Ball Varsity team, chugged along as he did his laps around the track oval. He went at a brisk clip, something he could keep up for a couple of hou...
2024-10-21 14:14:00 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko walked behind the crowd, eyes focused on the two brawlers. One had black hair cut in the military style, while the other had golden hair in a style called a mullet. The golden mullet man was...
2024-10-21 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostScarlett’s eyes were just a couple of inches from Yuriko, and the petite girl had her forehead and nose scrunched up.
“You’ve changed,” Scarlett repeated as she drew back, her expres...
2024-10-21 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko stood in front of the mirror with her lips pursed. It was just about dawn, and she was ready to head over to the university campus, though she was early by an hour. In the wardrobe, she foun...
2024-10-21 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostA desperate and possibly in leave of their senses, teenager, is who would be foolish enough to rob a grocery store.
The building wasn’t even that big, and there were only a couple of checko...
2024-10-14 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe experience of being kissed and groped by someone other than her chosen lovers was more than unpleasant. It felt like a violation of her body and mind, so Yuriko reacted with predictable violenc...
2024-10-14 13:45:02 +0000 UTC View PostTo her relief, the warm rays of the Radiant Sun slowly refilled her Radiant energy as she walked down the street. Lilibeth had more clothes than Yuriko expected, with a hanging closet, several draw...
2024-10-14 13:30:05 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko stared at the skyline for a long while, muttering to herself. The buildings weren’t the fat but tall kind that dominated Dragon Fall City, but the thin, graceful needles that were more rem...
2024-10-14 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe experience of having an incarnation had not been all that much different from Yuriko’s normal. At least, at first. When the portal opened and took part of her with it, she had been frightened...
2024-10-14 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostWith the closing of Book 14, we'll be taking a break to gather whatever thoughts and wherewithal we can and, of course, prepare for Book 15!
Posting will resume on October 14.
Any gues...
2024-10-02 13:51:22 +0000 UTC View PostAuthority detected.
Divine Shard absent.
Analysing connection.
Incomplete Authority, missing Divine Shard. Path an...
2024-10-02 13:30:06 +0000 UTC View PostJohann yelped as soon as the tide of Anima spread out from Yuriko. The woman had touched the portal plinth, froze, then spread her Anima. He felt it wash over him at its fullness. Not the shallow t...
2024-09-30 15:08:40 +0000 UTC View PostA layer of frostscales shattered, but thankfully, Gwendith had three layers protecting her body at all times. While each scale was roughly an inch wide, it was barely hair-thin. They still mitigate...
2024-09-30 14:16:50 +0000 UTC View PostJohann led Yuriko into a parlour that was quite out of place within the bowels of the mountain. It was in one of the buildings just a couple of dozen paces from the wall. It was two storeys tall an...
2024-09-30 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostGwendith was somewhat bored. Living off the grid, away from the apartment and the amenities inside the mega buildings, needed a bit of adjustment. She and the others had only been in Dragon Fall Ci...
2024-09-30 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostJohann struggled to close his eyes. The vision of beauty was too much. Many Ancients were gorgeous, especially those who progressed into Actualisation. Even he was better looking than when he was s...
2024-09-27 11:50:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe chain guns fired in a continuous whirl straight down the tunnel and into the swarming antibodies. The bullets left an afterimage—a line of yellow fire across the air—and Johann couldn't hel...
2024-09-26 13:18:58 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko was once again back in the fray. She switched out her longsword for a couple of short swords, each one only had twelve inches of blade. Unlike the longsword, the shortsword was meant to stab...
2024-09-23 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostGwendith’s Anima reach had grown to ten and a half paces, but she could hardly quantify it like that. Her Anima was so flexible that she hardly saw any point to keeping its shape into a perfect s...
2024-09-23 13:15:02 +0000 UTC View PostCut.
What is the essence of cutting? Yuriko pondered as she danced through the blobbies.
A few days had passed since she called Gwendith through the spell, and she wandere...
2024-09-23 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko’s thoughts swirled around her shortcomings. Or rather, her swordsmanship’s shortcomings. Without Radiant energy, her swordplay wouldn’t be as good, she knew. She lived off it back in R...
2024-09-16 15:20:29 +0000 UTC View PostRyoko hummed as she browsed the wet market on the 101st floor.
‘No, it can’t be truly called a wet market. For that, it must actually contain wet things,’ she thought to herself with a ...
2024-09-16 15:06:41 +0000 UTC View PostDannyGhost: I’ve got it.
Michaka: I can’t believe you talked anyone else into this.
DannyGhost: It wasn’t that hard.
Michaka: Really?
DannyGhost: Not everyone’s a pr...
2024-09-16 14:44:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe meeting room was small, barely three paces to a side. The bench was barely wide enough to seat Heron comfortably, and the table in between trapped his legs. He was clad in casual clothes: a t-s...
2024-09-16 14:26:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Dragon Fall City. Dragon Blooded. Scourge bones. A mountain with bones. The blood used to turn and make Scourge…” Yuriko muttered as she walked towards the tunnel. Her mind was a bit dazed a...
2024-09-16 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostOne moment, the pool was simply boiling. Then the next, it seemingly exploded. That was Yuriko’s first impression though, but a second glance countered it. The pool rose, almost like it was boili...
2024-09-11 12:25:50 +0000 UTC View Post‘Mama, help!’
Fluffer’s mental shriek jostled Yuriko out of her daze at the armoured man’s strange, possibly suicidal actions. Her gaze snapped towards her pupper even as she mouthed ...
2024-09-09 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostBy her reckoning, Yuriko and Fluffington had traversed nearly fifty longstrides under the mountains, if it was by a straight line. She couldn’t really be sure since she couldn’t employ her stan...
2024-09-09 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostUsing her Anima to fly, or simply to travel faster down the tunnel, was a fool’s errand, Yuriko decided. Touching the bare walls would hurt or distract her, and probably the only reason the floor...
2024-09-09 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostPart of Ilvara’s job was watching up-and-coming matches in arenas, legal and otherwise, around the city. She’d had her fill of the legitimate kind years ago. It was all the same, she realised e...
2024-09-09 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post