Joroboros

[KoJ] Chapter 17: Vertigo

We have spent many sleeps within this large cavern. Enough time to know that there aren’t any passages through the walls themselves.

The tall, vertical walls do eventually circle around to ...

[KoJ] Chapter 16: Rejuvenation

When I wake again, the first thing I see is Scia. Her minuscule form rests leisurely on the flat top of my snout, both wings lifting a piece of mushroom to her mouth, where she takes the tiniest of...

[KoJ] Chapter 15: Reticent

Despite going through with swallowing a creature double my weight, I never thought I’d actually be able to eat the Ōmukade. The centipede was at least twice my length. There’s no way it should...

Chapter 224: Ship Graveyard

We don’t stay long in the village. Despite their words of thanks for putting out the fire, it is clear our presence makes them uncomfortable. No words of insult are thrown our way, but they do no...

Kin of Jörmungandr Cover

Another great piece of art from misty (@lil.mistake) This will be the cover for the new story once I figure out what sort of typography i'm using.

After talking with some other authors, I'm g...

[KoJ] Chapter 14: Superiority

The Ōmukade is quick, but I am quicker.

It moves silently, cleaving through the swarm of hovering bugs with vicious intent. If it thought it could catch me off guard twice, it has another th...

Chapter 223: Mrtyuñ Coast

After days of flight, the Floodplains finally break up into larger land formations. To the south, a dozen hills of gradually increasing might stretch to the east, hiding the Mrtyun Coast. They’ll...

[KoJ] Chapter 13: Mortification

A million thoughts spin through my mind in the instant before the fangs tear through my scales. How could I not notice? Did I approach this new area with too much arrogance? Am I going to miss out ...

Chapter 222: Floodplains

The last night in Flehullen passed quickly. I said my goodbyes to my elders, my teacher, and the other grand elders. They all knew I planned to do my own thing for a while, so it wasn’t a surpris...

Chapter 221: Too Good

Leal chokes out something halfway between a squeak and a gasp as she flails in my grasp. She never expected me to turn the tables on her like this. An array of markings light up along her body, and...

[KoJ] Chapter 12: Arrogance

The second Nareau crashes on top of the first, slamming it into the ground and sending tremors through the earth. If ranked stone did not brace the tunnels down below, I’ve no doubt they’d be e...

Chapter 220: Flehullen

We depart the train to far greater fanfare than Fisross. Rowdy crowds surround the train-station of Flehullen, cordoned off by a bunch of serious looking ursu in uniforms. My elders, to my immense ...

Chapter 219: Following Old Paths

Raetamen is nothing like I remember.

The small mining town that was my first introduction to the culture of the of New Vetus sits abandoned. The high-ceiling stone buildings are untouched. No...

[KoJ] Chapter 11: Excitement

I’ve seen plenty of strange creatures in my life. Some of them with strange abilities that make little sense. Some hardly distinguishable from the environment they live. But I don’t think I’v...

Chapter 218: The Envoy

“Elder Cyrus,” I call. “Elder Enya.”

The two turn to watch me dive off the cliff. Instead of crashing into the earth, or spreading wings to slow my descent, I explode into a burst of ...

Chapter 217: Quarry

Our first destination is unfortunately not the ursu homeland. We travel southeast, opposite the moon, heading to what might as well have become the new capital in the past months.

The agglome...

Chapter 216: Buried Agglomerate

Our world is fragile.

It is a difficult idea to conceptualise, but it is true. The world we walk and live is beholden to the overwhelming forces beyond our control. Titans can obliterate clif...

[KoJ] Chapter 10: Amusement

If it were before the loss of my home, I’d be excited at the prospect of a challenging beast, but after that Titan, I find myself hesitating.

Such a reaction isn’t like me. I’ve been wa...

Wasteland Changes.

Wanted to show how much of the wasteland was consumed in the floods.

Mountains in the middle are the Agni Volcanos, and the dot to the bottom left is the Island. I forgot to put in a marker ...

Chapter 215: Answers, Never Enough

The days and weeks following the Island’s destruction and subsequent developments were less eventful than I’d expected.

As much as I want to run off and rejoin Leal and my team now that I...

[KoJ] Chapter 9: Fascination

An entire section of rock wall along the tunnel below collapses with a deafening crash. The little rodent on my back startles at the noise.

Oh? Did that scare you now? Nothing quite like the ...

Chapter 214: Praise the Anatla

With practised strokes, Leal sliced another series of lines through the thick hide of her neck. The numbing agent worked wonders, suppressing the small, involuntary muscle twitches that normally oc...

Chapter 213: Kalma's Pit

The pact nations had undergone more extensive change than Grímr expected. It might have been his cynical mindset regarding the well-known corruption in the upper brass of the Mercenary Order and t...

[KoJ] Chapter 8: Indignant

Without distortions to improve my sight, these tunnels are nothing but a confusing labyrinth. All I can see is what lies directly before me. Even the slight curve disrupts my vision, making it incr...

Chapter 212: Terminus

As much as I should be flying away — what with the turbulent weather, rising waves and Nightfall Shroud still looming — I can’t tear my eyes from the whirlpool in the ocean behind us. Its spi...

Chapter 211: Charybdis

The quiet isn’t absolute, but compared to previously, the difference is significant. The creaks and groans of a structure barely able to hold itself together are still there, but the roar of rush...

[KoJ] Chapter 7: Incredulous

I blink at the small creature, struggling to comprehend why it’s here after I left it behind.

My first thought is that it’s another of the same species. Possibly a direct relative to the ...

Chapter 210: Monolith Anatla

With cube key in hand, I gingerly step out from the long abandoned home into the huge open space. I skip the steps, jumping a few metres down to the path that leads up the main bridge. Now at the b...

Chapter 209: The Ancient Race

I wasn’t so confident in the Anatla’s inability to stop me to fully commit and enter the library-like chamber with the key. My body walks forward with a trail of fire connecting to most of me s...

[KoJ] Chapter 6: Doubt

The spatial hole neither led me beyond the border nor along it, but brought me back to densely woven space. It was hardly unexpected, but it is annoying to have to search for another path.

By...