Bastard
The time for the entrance tournament had arrived.
The Citadel’s gates only opened once a year: and when they did, the bastards came running. Some chased names. Some begged for recognition. ...
2025-07-06 04:07:01 +0000 UTC View PostJosephine turned toward Isol, one brow raised, violet eyes gleaming.
"My darling, my love... what’s the plan?"
Isol grunted, already stretching out his neck. "Paperwork. I need to go ...
2025-07-05 04:07:00 +0000 UTC View Post“This is not biology. This is target acquisition.”
“You want to kill faster? Learn what parts matter.”
This class teaches cadets the anatomy of ta...
2025-07-04 08:14:12 +0000 UTC View PostYou don’t have friends.
You have assets. Resources. Leverage.
If they die, it’s your fault, because you didn’t make them useful enough to live.
This class teaches...
2025-07-04 08:04:23 +0000 UTC View PostYou are issued one skill: Flash.
A burst of light. Loud, simple, painfully bright.
It won’t kill. But it can end a fight, if you know what you’re doing.
Instructor: Isol Brent
You are not here to learn what happened.
You are here to learn how to use what happened.
Every page in your textbook was ...
2025-07-04 07:16:21 +0000 UTC View PostNo one cares how well you shoot if you can’t survive with your hands.
No weapons. No buffs. No gloves.
Just skin, bone, and the willingness to maim someone to stay alive.
2025-07-04 07:02:25 +0000 UTC
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This is the first class for a reason. Not because it teaches you how to shoot, but because it teaches you not to stop once you start.
The lance is your weapon. Not sacred. No...
2025-07-04 06:56:28 +0000 UTC View PostThey jogged up the hill, an easy, natural pace that felt like a proper jog, not one of Isol’s so-called "light walks," which were actually death runs with haulers chained to their backs. it reall...
2025-07-04 04:07:01 +0000 UTC View PostGastlan didn’t look like a town that should’ve survived the collapse. It was too clean. Too tall. The outer wall rose in sweeping white curves, unmarred by rust or wear. The towers gleamed, sil...
2025-07-03 04:07:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe walls were rusted to shit. Not reinforced. Not even good trade steel. Just sheeted junk, rebar, and old city paneling slotted together over generations of patchwork defense. Parthilion wasn’t...
2025-07-02 04:07:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe sun was shining. The clouds were soft and pillowy, drifting across a perfect blue sky. In a quiet, well-manicured park on the outskirts of the Green Zone, a lone rabbit sat beneath a shady tree...
2025-06-30 08:09:56 +0000 UTC View PostIt didn’t move.
Same corridor. Same posture. Same stillness. The Data Daemon stood at the end of the passage like a tomb that had never been buried. Its body, wrapped in coral-bone armor an...
2025-06-30 08:09:10 +0000 UTC View PostThey stood over the corpse like it might still speak.
Vaeliyan Verdance, the self-proclaimed savior of the Green, lay broken in the center of the chamber. No tricks. Just a body.
Grix s...
2025-06-30 08:07:17 +0000 UTC View PostHe should have killed him when they had the chance.
Not just Warren, though him most of all, but the lot of them. The traitor scholar. The deluded pup. The wild-bloods who mistook fury for fr...
2025-06-30 08:05:36 +0000 UTC View PostFlorence groaned softly, eyelids fluttering as she came to. Her mechanical tendrils twitched once, instinctively, before retreating into their dormant coils. The ceiling of the vault loomed above h...
2025-06-30 08:00:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe rain had stopped, but the air still carried the weight of it. Mara breathed like a beast that had finally lain down to rest. Every rooftop, every sliver of metal and shattered stone, still glis...
2025-06-30 07:58:43 +0000 UTC View PostI don't know what gender the baby is yet.
You can help me by voting.