In minutes, we had reached the shore of Goryuen, traveling in the wake of the two Solstice ships. There wasn’t a real dock constructed on the beach just yet, despite all the construction underway...
2024-10-04 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“The hell are they doin’ here?” Azarus asked aloud.
I shared a look with the rest of my companions before shaking my head and raising the far-eye again. After a moment of study, I frown...
2024-10-02 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostI found the entire voyage aboard the Kaminari Maru to be…honestly kind of annoying. Most of the sailing that I had done in the past had been under the sails of the Thorny Reef 2024-09-30 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hours later, the two of us relaxed together under the sheets of her futon, exhausted after our…exertions.
Turns out, the same enhanced stamina that aided an Awakened in battle had benefits ...
2024-09-27 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostCoughing, I sat up from the dirt as quickly as I could, if only to fix Venix with a gobsmacked look. “Excuse me?” I asked in complete disbelief.
The Antium man finished shrugging...
2024-09-25 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThis wasn’t going well. The duel had only been underway for two minutes, so far, and I was already on the back foot.
After his little declaration, Venix had stopped playing with me...
2024-09-23 17:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostI found Venix waiting for me exactly where he said he would. The inn had a small practice yard behind it. I’d even used it a few times for some basic practice, with or without my companions.
<... 2024-09-20 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Excuse me?” I asked in disbelief.
And in growing annoyance.
“I forbid you or any of the others,” Venix continued, to the confusion of said others. “From traveling to Goryuen....
2024-09-18 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostAs I descended into the valley that held the temple, I was enveloped in a sense of peace. The entire area, from the carefully tended forest to the multiple ponds, exuded an atmosphere of harmony th...
2024-09-16 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostI took the offered materials, of course.
What other choice did I have? It’s not like I was going to turn down the path to what I had actually been fine with visiting Kawamara for. ...
2024-09-13 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“This,” Masayuki said, drawing a circle around one area on a map he had pulled out from underneath the table. The tea tray had been set aside to make room for the large strip of parchment. “I...
2024-09-11 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAccording to the servant, Lord Ashiwara was only willing to give me the information that I wanted face-to-face. And only if I could present the sword that he had commissioned at the same t...
2024-09-09 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“What, Alaric actually surrendered?” Renauld said, startled. After a moment, he smirked with a mouth full of sharp teeth. “Didn’t think the bastard would actually cave, with the way the sie...
2024-09-06 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostI couldn’t dawdle in the dining room forever, however. As much as I might have wished to, I had plans for the rest of the day. And while they didn’t involve any of my new hobbies, commercial or...
2024-09-04 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostIt was only by the flickering light of the lamp in my room that I could see at all.
But…that was fine, these days. Ever since my transformation at the tail end of the Elderwyck campaign, my...
2024-09-02 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe rats were arguing again.
They bickered back and forth uselessly from around the table set up in the throne room, mindless in their panic. Raised voices and screamed insults were abound in...
2024-08-30 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“From the top, then,” Grey said solemnly, picking up the sack Honoka had given him earlier. Carefully, he withdrew seven items from within it, and set them on a small table next to the ritual a...
2024-08-28 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI simply stared into Sylvia’s gemborn sapphire blue eyes for a moment, doing my best to hide my unease. I may have a maxed-out Acting Talent, but I couldn’t be sure I was able ...
2024-08-26 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Venix?” I breathed in pure shock. “What are you…how are you…?”
Venix.
I…hadn’t seen him up and about in months. The last I had seen of the An...
2024-08-23 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostI nearly choked on my glass of water. “Excuse me?”
Bella didn’t raise her head from the lowered position she had it in. “I said I’m sorry, okay? I’m sorry I wasn...
2024-08-21 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostGrey and I broke up for the day not long after that, since my mentor was still busy with everything involving the Elderwyck occupation. I got the impression that he really didn’t even have the ti...
2024-08-19 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAN:
I think I've made a decision. Like most of you can probably guess, this book is winding to a close. It'll probably finish next week. Technically, it's still Book 4. As in, the one that di...
2024-08-16 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostA frown crossed my lips, as I began to feel a sense of impending dread.
Meanwhile, Jason started ranting drunkenly at me. “I trusted you!” He screamed, swaying from his own inebr...
2024-08-14 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostEventually, I outright fled from the clinic, unwilling to be anywhere near where the apparently amnesiac Sylvia was. I didn’t know where I was going frankly. All I wanted was to be gone.
I ...
2024-08-12 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAfter our emotional reunion in the middle of the Healer’s clinic, the meeting had adjourned. Woodrick and Leopold had left, leaving Grey, Honoka, and I alone with the comatose form of Sylvia, cit...
2024-08-09 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostI clambered up the old, ancient tree I had picked out for my purpose with ease. Once I had reached the apex, shrouded in my Thorn Cloak, I took out the far-eye I had received from ...
2024-08-07 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“YOU CAN’T DO THIS TO ME!” The plantation owner screamed at me from his bound position in the dirt. He was an older man, strangely overweight in comparison to most of the Veredenese I had met...
2024-08-05 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t hard for me to sneak away from the guard headquarters. Not with my experience, and with my now…former position within the Nocturne Division. All the guards and soldiers were too busy ...
2024-08-02 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostAs corrosive murk started to thread its way through the entirety of my being, I began to feel something else. Something much more immediate, and much more distressing in the moment.
My body b...
2024-07-31 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostI instinctually froze, pinned from the almost physical force of Honoka’s fury. I felt like a small animal trapped beneath the gaze of an angry tiger, keeping still to try and escape their attenti...
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