With the First Arm she dragged him out through the half-open door, pulling him by the foot straight onto Emberthorn’s blazing edge. Her blade left all of its quills inside the man when she ripped...
2021-10-14 17:42:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe rocketball ripped through the air, trailing blue sparks long after its smoke exhaust faded. It splattered upon the reinforced glass, but the surfeit of fiery wrath it carried still managed to p...
2021-10-13 17:49:03 +0000 UTC View Post...But then again, she wouldn’t need to walk all the way over there to carry out her judgment, even if she knew it would be an all-too-easy death for human detritus of this sort. The just-waking ...
2021-10-12 17:06:26 +0000 UTC View PostBefore anyone could call out, before the first hammerblow could be struck, the executioner’s upper body turned into a fine mist and a projectile smashed into a building behind him. The thunderous...
2021-10-11 17:41:56 +0000 UTC View PostNot so much as slowing down, Strake met one of the golem’s punches with a right-handed one of his own, grabbing it by the edges of the plate on its chest before firing a pilebunker into it at max...
2021-10-10 17:21:11 +0000 UTC View PostFourth gear. It was not a matter of speed, but overall output. An ultracompact tank could achieve these speeds even in second gear, but it was left without the extra output to fight. Strake knew th...
2021-10-09 18:10:11 +0000 UTC View PostV3 was developed, but never built, as far as he was aware. Numerous small iterations on the V3 design later - well after the the production First-models were already stomping off the assembly line ...
2021-10-08 16:53:38 +0000 UTC View PostA eunuch entered his throne room at precisely the moment he was expected, kowtowed as was expected, and calmly looked up at the Emperor.
“Your Divinity, I come bearing grim news…” ...
2021-10-07 17:31:39 +0000 UTC View PostMore vomiting.
It seemed an endless deluge of hemolymph, a yellow trail dripping from her mouth and down her chest, streaked by the sporadic rivulet of red, mixing in with chunks of necrosing...
2021-10-06 17:50:55 +0000 UTC View PostIts fetters burst and dissolved under the strain of Red’s soul swelling from the surfeit of Azoth-Aether compound, until the Queen’s maddening influence had faded altogether. It was through thi...
2021-10-06 17:49:05 +0000 UTC View PostMaintaining his calm demeanor, Tian looked to the soldier and nodded, “I did as I said I would. General Cao Hu is presently not able to attend to his duties, so Ms. Red will step in for him. You ...
2021-10-06 17:46:00 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I'm expanding advance chapters to 10.
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It momentarily chattered as mandibles, and where they met i...
2021-10-06 17:31:36 +0000 UTC View Post“...The new occupation was initially none other than Cao Hu and his goons swooping in right after the attack, using it as an excuse to raid the homes of several known pro-Ikesian activists, after...
2021-10-05 17:28:55 +0000 UTC View PostSodan approached the suit, looking it over, tracing his fingers over its plating, looking in what few seams it had, even sniffing it. Without so much as getting a peek inside, he looked up at the m...
2021-10-04 17:28:58 +0000 UTC View PostPortions of the walls and ceiling were stone, but larger portions still were scrap metal. Despite the workshop’s spacious entryway, the amount of various machining tools and parts made it feel cr...
2021-10-03 16:49:23 +0000 UTC View PostThere came an explosion that shook the ground and sent shrapnel flying skyward. Alcerys wondered how exactly Strake had made the suit move without a person inside, but she both wished not to risk a...
2021-10-02 17:27:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe noise from the other room stopped, and without a word, the Recluse began drawing lines and directions on the outstretched map whilst Sodan derided the Brass-eye Drunkard without cease.
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2021-10-01 17:18:20 +0000 UTC View PostTrinkets were scattered all over the place, with a frankensteined-together aetherwave terminal taking up much of what she presumed to be the Recluse’s room, the door sitting wide open. Her nostri...
2021-09-30 17:33:21 +0000 UTC View Post...And yet, he waited for them in one of the tunnel’s side alcoves wearing a battered, old-model Ikesian chest plate and carrying a gun, the idiot. The weaselly-looking young man double-took at t...
2021-09-29 17:47:12 +0000 UTC View PostHidden within one of Rigport’s many tidal caves, illuminated from above by the light of the moon, and using a small Ignis burner to cook food without fire, Alcerys and Strake hid.
Alcerys n...
2021-09-28 17:44:52 +0000 UTC View PostA short while later, Zelsys was the new owner of a monstrous bike and the tools to keep it running - paid for in three thousand gelt and several pieces of dungeon jewelry.
“Now I’ve just ...
2021-09-27 17:30:23 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Having another flareup, so unfortunately no chapter tomorrow.
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Zelsys dug deep into the rece...
2021-09-25 18:29:54 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a short while he settled into flipping between some half-dozen entries, then frowned and looked up.
“I- Hm… Do you mind providing specifics? If you can tell me exactly what you want...
2021-09-24 17:58:39 +0000 UTC View PostSoon, similar vendors gave way to weapons again, though as they plunged deeper into this “nice” part of town, so did the vendors become oriented towards clientele of greater means. Instead of a...
2021-09-23 18:04:02 +0000 UTC View PostDespite his reluctance to leave his post due to the difficulty of traversing even a short stretch of the Living Storm’s territory, he had no choice now.
The mud was shifting, trenches colla...
2021-09-22 17:57:10 +0000 UTC View PostIt was the ground under, shuddering in a decisively unnatural way. Before she could focus to hone in on the source of it, the Moneychanger rose from her seat and performed a series of quick gesture...
2021-09-21 17:23:34 +0000 UTC View Post“Right, the matter of what I am, as you doubtlessly wish to know - I am what Kargarians call an Immortal Beast. Their folk myths - and, as I’ve found, those of many other cultures - state that ...
2021-09-20 16:22:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe shape of its head was somewhere between a lizard and a human, four horns poking from its skull and two pairs of disparate eyes staring ‘twixt the bars. The lower pair was where one would expe...
2021-09-19 15:44:53 +0000 UTC View PostA laugh rang out from him, “Because I am! I thoroughly appraise each and every item you see upon these shelves, and sometimes, something with a will of its own comes through. They don't like bein...
2021-09-18 18:39:53 +0000 UTC View Post