Re: Butterfly 3-67. The Cave
The world came back into focus, a slow shift from complete black oblivion to a mere gray obscurity.
Adon only knew when he was aware of himself again.
I was knocked out, he tho...
2025-06-10 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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Re: Butterfly 3-66. Those Left Behind
Goldie clung to the nameless knight’s shoulder, her deepening fear and desperation manifest in the frantic grip of her body.
She felt the man wince. He was already on edge, standing near th...
2025-06-06 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-65. Golden Parachute
As Adon flew after Rosslyn, only half-aware of all that he was doing, his body transformed almost by itself.
On some level, he knew that his flimsy butterfly form was not strong enough to do ...
2025-06-06 02:46:02 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5-Interlude-Possession
Zora let out a sigh and rested her back against a tree.
“Time for a rest?” Alice asked.
“I think so,” Zora said. “Since the System, sometimes I feel like I could walk forever....
2025-06-05 21:59:19 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5-Interlude-In the Frosty Air
Cara sat with her head clutched in her hands, waiting for her neck to finish reattaching.
After the fall—it was impossible to know how far it had been, because mountains were taller than th...
2025-05-31 04:09:23 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-64. The Price of Gold
As Adon drew closer to the wall where he had left his friends, he noticed that ants were everywhere on the walls of the level. They had abandoned their underground bases and tunnels completely, and...
2025-05-26 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-63. End of the Rainbow
Adon’s mind struggled to process what he was seeing as a new world unfolded itself before him.
The real world, his hard-working brain reminded him. Mental magic was still active, a...
2025-05-22 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-62. The Spider That Laid the Golden Egg
Adon reformed his radar version of Telepathy again, this time taking care to make it as far-reaching and unobtrusive as possible.
And he held the field in check for a few seconds, thinking. 2025-05-21 21:29:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Re: Butterfly 3-61. The Golden Egg
What’s that? Adon sent.
He transmitted the words without shifting his body to see what Samson saw.
He would not yet take his limbs away from Goldie. He was still pouring heal...
2025-05-20 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-60. The Golden Rule
How is that possible? the butterfly wondered for a wild, mad moment.
But of course it wasn’t possible. Adon knew he had not actually killed two knights—or any knights. H...
2025-05-19 03:44:35 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch56-One-Man Army
With the words that left the Panther Queen’s mouth, much was resolved in a single sentence.
Much was also gained.
[Required conditions met…. Sublime achievement accomplished...
2025-05-17 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch55-The Panther Queen Resolution
The Panther Queen’s aura spiked, and James’s body threw itself backward instinctively.
A moment later, a long claw stabbed through the space where he had been. The Queen was not truly att...
2025-05-15 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch54-The Panther Queen Fight Part 2
Inside James’s body, strange and titanic shifts occurred.
Bones fractured and reformed, sharp and thick fragments of them migrating through dense and tough flesh or swam through his bloodst...
2025-05-13 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-59. A Mask of Gold
As Adon zipped through the air, the spiders’ telepathic voices only seemed to draw further away.
I don’t know what’s doing this, Samson sent in a frenzied tone. Something h...
2025-05-11 03:55:23 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch53-The Panther Queen Fight Part 1
James descended, his movements slow and stately at first, and then sudden and violent.
He really did not think the Panther Queen should be a challenge to defeat, considering how simple her ab...
2025-05-11 00:27:04 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch52-The Panther Queen Awakens
Mina was floating in the air, considering her next target, when she saw and felt something in the distance, and her heart skipped a beat.
Something was moving. Mina could feel it, moving into...
2025-05-06 14:25:20 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch51-Oblivion
The Panther Queen sat at a long table in her tent, a banquet set before her.
Noise drifted to her ears that seemed to come from outside the tent. From somewhere else entirely, perhaps.
...
2025-05-06 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch50-Eye in the Sky
Far above, invisible to all those struggling in the mingled blood and soil below, Mina bore witness as the Panther Army slaughtered itself under the darkness of the new moon.
She was grateful...
2025-05-05 13:25:47 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-58. Go for the Gold
“Adon, I appreciate your detective work, and I have no doubt that it is fine deduction,” Rosslyn said. “Believe me, I recall your resourcefulness well.” She gave him a thin smile, and Adon ...
2025-05-05 01:55:56 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-57. Brainstorm
While half the knights, Rosslyn, and the young lords slept, Adon diligently searched his memory banks.
This time was not like other memory searches he had performed in the past. Then, he had ...
2025-05-05 01:53:04 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-56. Worth His Weight in Gold
If Adon had teeth, he would have been grinding them at the sudden and—in his mind—probably unjustified interruption.
But he would have been the only one, it seemed.
“Well, I am al...
2025-05-05 01:37:37 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch49-Battle in Blackest Night
Hours passed while Thane was in his silent but unpleasant sleep.
The sun had time to set, and its dying light had time to fade, until the sky turned almost completely black.
That night,...
2025-05-04 15:02:41 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch48-The Wait
At the same time that James was flying toward the battleground, the Panther Army was marching there, double time.
Panther Warrior Thane Crowstrike was one of the unfortunate many who were par...
2025-05-02 18:14:59 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-55. Gold Star
The group planned out watches for that sleep time.
No one knew whether it was day or night beyond the confines of the dungeon anymore, and the artificial sun outside was probably still shinin...
2025-05-01 13:34:29 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-54. The Golden Gate
Adon shot forward impossibly quickly, faster than was physically possible, in theory, even with his mana-enhanced wings. He could sense the surprise in the spiders behind him at the speed with whic...
2025-05-01 13:32:51 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-53. As Good as Gold
Nice, was the first thought that came to mind as Adon reviewed his Status screen.
It exceeded his expectations, especially in the all-important area of mana.
User: Adon, Mystic...
2025-04-29 13:26:18 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-52. The Rescue
After only another second or two of hesitation, the spiders began moving, skittering away from William’s body at a pace that would have impressed a professional sprinter.
Adon felt their sl...
2025-04-29 13:19:19 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch47-Before the Battle
“Three days,” James said definitively.
The Council was gathered around James’s living room in person for their final meeting before the battle would take place.
It was the second ...
2025-04-26 02:43:55 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch46-Collision Course
How goes the mission? James sent upon accepting telepathic contact.
I greet the Progenitor, Doppelganger sent telepathically. The mission… proceeds. The Soul Eater Orb...
2025-04-25 02:26:29 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-51. Explosive Consequences
Adon managed to react quickly, having already begun charging mana when he noticed that William was doing the same. Specifically, the butterfly reinforced himself with mana spread throughout his bod...
2025-04-22 00:19:46 +0000 UTC View Post