Chapter 167: Lifeline
[Hall of Mirrors has reached (Great)!]
[Unyielding Metal has reached (Great)!]
[Parallel World Manipulation has reached (Intermediate)!]
[Beat of War [New!] (Basic) (Your ...
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Chapter 269: Stronger
Chapter 269: Stronger
The night passed quietly. Starlight glittered on puddles of blood. The moon hung in the window, casting ghostly sheens of white. Mercury looked like a co...
2025-10-06 01:34:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 268: Sometimes we Suffer
Chapter 268: Sometimes we Suffer
[Evolutionary Fusion confirmed. Engaging. Please pick an option to evolve the Skill into. The price will be the same (1100 Skill points), no matter whi...
2025-10-03 03:06:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 166: To Break a God
Ru came at me like a missile.
It was a brutal, violent motion, the rock shattering beneath him as he launched himself forward. He was wrapped in scarlet fire, cascading down him like ri...
2025-09-27 16:57:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 165: Divine Descent
Now, I think there are very few words for describing how novel an experience it is to get struck by divine lightning. It is nothing like getting zapped by any lightning cultivator. I’d k...
2025-09-26 05:06:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 267: Shifting, Cracking, Breaking
Chapter 267: Shifting, Cracking, Breaking
Mercury stood in front of the statue of gold, and he demanded an answer. His Skill triggered, and it pulled at the thing that was an avatar of...
2025-09-23 03:04:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 164: Symphony
Where there was nothing, there started a song.
It echoed across strings of glass, mirror-diodes and hearts. Across a shared connection, both intimate and distant. A promise to look into the f...
2025-09-19 02:45:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 266: Workaholic Recovery Center :)
Chapter 266: Workaholic Recovery Center :)
When Mercury woke up, he found himself sitting in a hot springs, with a towel gently draped across his cloak, like a soft, warm, heavy blanke...
2025-09-18 03:02:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 163: Metamorphosis - Uncaged
Saph sat with me, in the frozen mountains, and there’s a strange half-calm that lingered between us.
It was bizarre to think that we’d been trying to kill each other just a little w...
2025-09-10 05:51:26 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 265: Respite
Chapter 265: Respite
The portal to Sloth was different from the others. They had all been invasions - violent attempts to take from this world and bring to theirs. To feed and gorge th...
2025-09-10 05:50:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 162: Better Choice
There was something that I appreciated about violence.
This wasn’t exactly a new development. I’d beaten up bullies before. I’d gotten into a fair share of scrapes with my brothers, too...
2025-09-02 19:42:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 264: Futureproof
Chapter 264: Futureproof
Ihn’ar was understanding. It was vision beyond vision, comprehension of things not meant to be understood. It was breaking the veils and looking past them. 2025-08-30 22:51:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 161: Loathing
The hospital was sterile and white, and I felt horribly mundane as I walked in. My memories are blurred, but I know I talked to a receptionist at some point, who pointed me at a nurse, who pointed ...
2025-08-28 02:19:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 263: Reshaped Dream
Turns out, putting magic into metals was hard.
The simple reason was that controlling anything on a molecular level was usually a delicate thing, and often reserved for sterile processe...
2025-08-26 03:36:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 160: Crashing the Party
“Hi Lyra, this is Matt speaking,” the swordsman spoke into his phone. “Yeah, I’m going to break into a building. Yes, it’s a good reason. We’re suspecting Echo research.”
The ch...
2025-08-20 02:30:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 262: Threats and Cats
Chapter 262: Threats and Cats
Pride. Greed. Lust. Sloth.
Those were the remaining sins. Realms of excess and debauchery, of want and desire, of self-embodied perfection and ...
2025-08-16 17:00:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 159: Puppets
Richard Terril, son of Jonathan Henney, had a lot of things to clean up.
His father had been a brilliant man. No one, no matter how much they hated him, would deny that. Mr. He...
2025-08-14 03:17:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 261: Surrounded
Chapter 261: Surrounded
[Main Quest: “Rends in Reality” advanced!
Partial Reward granted by entity: <Dream Manifestation> mastery.]
[<Dream Manifestation> h...
2025-08-09 16:38:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 158: How to Repent
I woke up, eventually, and I was rather warm.
We were still in the north. The mountains were still covered in ice. But there was a blanket draped across me. A blanket that… looked str...
2025-08-07 04:47:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 260: Incandescence
Chapter 260: Incandescence
Breeze did not enjoy the feeling of the wind.
There was something about it that felt so unnaturally freeing, so easily cruel. It made it easy to forget...
2025-08-05 00:01:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 157: To Drown a Demon
There is a simple way to fight fire, and that is with water. Drowning the giant seemed like an easy choice, given that we were fighting on a frozen over lake and that Chris’ human shell used wate...
2025-08-02 17:34:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 259: Ash and Redemption
Chapter 259: Ash and Redemption
/Crowns.
These things have a reputation among any sufficiently large people, don’t they? Crowns. They’re a symbol of status, of superior...
2025-08-02 01:18:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 156: Upon an Icy Lake
Black fire crested the horizon.
I looked out at that flame, and felt what it caused in me. I felt the rage that spilled, the throbbing ache that was still there. The horror of loss and ...
2025-07-26 16:00:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 258: Sprawling Spiral
Chapter 258: Sprawling Spiral
There was something both haunting and meditative about unmaking a person.
Sitting among an endless nest of threads, Mercury felt a little bit like a...
2025-07-25 02:22:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 155: To find Closure
This new version of myself looked around the world with curiosity. Her mouth was open with wonder, and her eyebrows raised in surprise. It made her look a little silly. Did I look like that, too? I...
2025-07-17 00:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 257: Personhood
Chapter 257: Personhood
Otto was not a bad person. Mercury felt the need to remind himself of that fact.
The man was gentle, almost all the time. Sometimes, he was unaware ...
2025-07-15 14:08:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 154: Herald of the golden Tide
Hive-Mother had found a wonderful place to thrive in.
When it was young, it was always weak. Lonely. It felt cold and small, and only thrived by eating scraps from the floor. Slithering, craw...
2025-07-09 01:19:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 256: Cleansed with Blood
Chapter 256: Cleansed with Blood
And so, a little over a year passed.
Mercury collected another 100 Skill points from <Skill Point Generation>, and the Skill levelled up on...
2025-07-08 22:38:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 153: Hope
While Eden was safer now that the eclipse had passed, that by no means erased all the impact it had. Multiple cities laid in ruins, and the usurpers had claimed far, far more land for themselves. T...
2025-07-04 15:36:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 255: People
Chapter 255: People
CW: Grief, Brief mention of suicidal thoughts (2nd section of the chapter)
Humans are vain creatures.
Bael sat in her room, thinking. It was a...
2025-07-03 03:49:22 +0000 UTC View Post