This time, he placed the objects he conjured from his sleeve upon the table with his own hand.
Shen choked on his baijiu. His pupils constricted, his face went white. He knew that scroll.
... 2023-04-23 08:15:47 +0000 UTC View PostOnce more, the saurian looked to Krahe.
“Alright, I get it, I get it, let’s go sit down and you can explain.”
“We don’t have the time. What we need are your services as a pawn...
2023-04-22 07:18:17 +0000 UTC View PostThere was no living soul in this world which Xiān Dì would allow to speak to him like this. Indeed, were it not for that soul-bond, Xiān Dì was certain that he would have slain Shen long ago, w...
2023-04-22 02:01:41 +0000 UTC View PostI figured it might be interesting to let readers influence the course of the story in a direct way. If you have any ideas for cultivation methods or artifacts (can be weapons or any other magical i...
2023-04-21 22:41:57 +0000 UTC View Post“Tell me, Lady Blackhand."
Krahe groaned at him, but he continued.
"What is it that you seek? Besides the obvious answers of accruing riches and power, of striking down evildoers, tho...
2023-04-21 04:17:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Seven hundred years to get that Dragonstone back,” he sneered disdainfully, drinking his dish of baijiu. Shen laughed softly at his response, refilling the dish before emptying his own and doi...
2023-04-20 18:47:46 +0000 UTC View PostShe returned to the other room and found a small, round box waiting at her side of the table, the medicine box gone. Before she could sit back down, Casus pointed it out: “For your sleep deprivat...
2023-04-20 06:59:15 +0000 UTC View PostXiān Dì took a jaunt upon a flying sword to one of his many secondary palaces all across the empire, this time to the south-central City of Glittering Petals, a center of gambling and crime. The ...
2023-04-20 00:09:15 +0000 UTC View Post“The Twin Churches are that old plus five-hundred years or so; it is because AB stands for After Banishment, when the Banishment Wheel was completed and set into motion, when the influence of the...
2023-04-19 04:12:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe dossier had been hastily-written mere hours ago when the aftermath of that gruesome incident had been discovered. “Black hair with a white patch, anathema-burned left arm, fully functional de...
2023-04-17 19:29:53 +0000 UTC View Post[WIREBOUND WARDED SOULDREG VESSEL]
[Status:]
Good
[Details:]
Anti-scrying E3
Contents Concealm...
2023-04-14 22:18:55 +0000 UTC View PostCasus’ claim proved itself true when, as the two of them were on the way to leave, Krahe went over all the other bodies, looting them for easy things like money and small trinkets before harvesti...
2023-04-13 22:21:14 +0000 UTC View PostThere wasn’t an interrogation to speak of; the man spilled everything the moment he had a question to latch onto, and more, considering the stain forming on his trousers.
Soon enough they h...
2023-04-12 20:07:22 +0000 UTC View PostDespite everything else, his eyes were what grabbed her attention the most, being bright burningly orange with streaks of yellow. His pupils, cross-shaped at first, had now expanded into four-point...
2023-04-12 02:18:58 +0000 UTC View PostKrahe pushed as hard as she could whilst also falling to the side in the hope that the man in silver would be unable to adjust his own trajectory, but his velocity far surpassed any that Krahe coul...
2023-04-10 23:20:27 +0000 UTC View PostVital intel revealed itself when she reached the next floor up and glanced down the hall. Hushed voices accompanied tense and scared faces peering out from cracked-open apartment doors. She wouldn...
2023-04-07 23:15:41 +0000 UTC View PostThat wasn’t a person, staring at Valza from across the butcher’s kitchen, wearing her sister’s boots. Those boots, which Shiva had inherited from their late father; she would’ve sooner died...
2023-04-06 20:38:34 +0000 UTC View PostTaking the knife in her left hand, she moulded a mass of compressed pyroclast around its handle and down the flat of its blade, with vents facing the edge and point and channels leading to them fro...
2023-04-05 23:18:29 +0000 UTC View Post[HEADKICKERS, HEIRLOOM COMBAT BOOTS]
[Status:]
Exceptional
[Details:]
These boots will adjust to perfectly fi...
2023-04-04 21:53:01 +0000 UTC View PostSix shots. That was how many a typical Pattner had in one clip, and Shiva didn’t see the tumorous hump or widened magwell to suggest a lengthened or double-stack system. She was familiar with suc...
2023-04-03 19:44:03 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I'm taking a 1-2 week break to do prepwork for the next arc, as I've done several times in the past.
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2023-04-03 07:19:20 +0000 UTC View PostTracing the surface of her back in the spot which had burned, she felt a raised area of skin and simultaneously saw, in her mind’s eye, the appearance of a sigil. It was a seven-segmented, abstra...
2023-04-01 19:32:02 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Shorter chap this go round. Didn't want to add filler or continue to the start of the next scene for this.
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“Krahe. Yours?” she asked, taking a long drag. The thought that ran through her head was a consideration of whether this was just her foe trying to buy time, or some gangster equivalent to a fe...
2023-03-31 19:48:46 +0000 UTC View PostFloating in cold nothingness.
Bound by bands of starborne steel, at once restrained and kept from falling apart by them.
Unthinking, unfeeling.
Time itself seemingly at a standsti...
2023-03-30 19:00:26 +0000 UTC View PostA bright-red torpedo of screaming magic sailed right into the wall behind her as she slipped beneath and to the right of its trajectory. Its fulgent detonation, which roused memories of plasma warh...
2023-03-30 18:15:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe woman raised her split eyebrow to him, and he let out a frustrated sigh, clarifying: “Number sixteen. Same holding place as Silberblut.”
At that, the lanky woman nodded, turning on a ...
2023-03-29 19:57:07 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I retitled 208 and 209 to The Butcher Reborn Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 respectively.
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It was not the dragonsteel whi...
Liquid metal flowed out from the belt over the man’s skin, enveloping him before it solidified into a full-body suit with compound, insectile eyes. It was made up of sleek, case-hardened armor al...
2023-03-28 23:19:28 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Next chapter on Wednesday, March 29th. I'm giving an important scene some extra time in the oven.
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2023-03-26 07:28:00 +0000 UTC View Post