"Wallet? Check," I said, patting my ass to find my wallet in my back pocket. "Phone? Check," I continued, patting my left front pocket. "Car keys? Check," I continued, parting my right front pocket...
2023-04-21 14:52:24 +0000 UTC
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Strength surged in my limbs, the edge of exhaustion I had felt fading away to be replaced with power. The injuries that I had suffered seemed to close, or at the very least, they stopped bleeding. ...
2023-04-19 14:57:39 +0000 UTC
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The first day of the battle, I didn't fight. I sat on top of the hill with the reserves, my men seated on horseback as we waited for movement from the Paladins. However, on the first day, they didn...
2023-04-19 14:57:35 +0000 UTC
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I had never seen so many people in one place before, I thought, seated on top of a horse at the crest of the hill that would serve as the final battlefield of the war. It looked exactly as King Wid...
2023-04-19 14:57:33 +0000 UTC
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Jarl Aldmund hadn't quite managed to get everything into position within the time that we gave him, but it didn't matter. With such obvious bait before the Frank's eyes, even if they suspected a tr...
2023-04-19 14:57:32 +0000 UTC
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Things were progressing well. Almost too well, I thought as I looked out at T-7 and Kaiden, both of whom were currently basking in the sun. They both had optics, so there was no real danger of hurt...
2023-04-17 14:56:28 +0000 UTC
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"The outside world smells," M decided, looking around at Night City with a sense of wonder. Wonder that I had felt once, but now I was looking into every single shadow for an enemy. We were on our ...
2023-04-17 14:56:27 +0000 UTC
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"Your nose is bleeding," Jack remarked as we headed to our destination, flying in one of the air cars that I had commandeered. The others were following behind us, the mission already underway. I h...
2023-04-17 14:56:25 +0000 UTC
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"I see," I heard myself say, feeling like I had been punched in the gut by the news that Lucy had just delivered to me. She had just come out of the deep dive, spending a good fifteen minutes down ...
2023-04-17 14:56:23 +0000 UTC
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I opened my eyes, and it felt like I had been blind for my entire life and now the settings were kicked up to HD. I winced as Peter finished taking off the bandages while I sat on the machine that ...
2023-04-15 15:03:25 +0000 UTC
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"Well, that was particularly humiliating," Natasha Romanoff remarked, a frown in her voice as she looked at the massive pillar that had ripped through the asphalt, preventing them from giving chase...
2023-04-15 15:03:23 +0000 UTC
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"Damn. It'd really help if I could speak or read Italian," I remarked, flipping through the instruction manual, seeing it all in a weird made up looking language. Though, I suppose all languages we...
2023-04-15 15:03:21 +0000 UTC
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As far as plans went, it was a solid one. Shield didn't know about the Ring of Nine Dragons, and I doubt that me being able to produce clones would be their first assumption. Instead, I imagined th...
2023-04-15 15:03:20 +0000 UTC
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Cinder cycled through her social media pages, smirking to herself all the while. Across her feed were reposts of the video that the Vought team edited together -- and she had to admit, it was nicel...
2023-04-14 14:56:55 +0000 UTC
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This world had very little in common with her own, Nico Robin was forced to conclude, and not for the first time as she took a sip of tea, gazing out to the aptly named City That Never Sleeps -- Ne...
2023-04-14 14:56:52 +0000 UTC
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"Wallet? Check," I said, patting my ass to find my wallet in my back pocket. "Phone? Check," I continued, patting my left front pocket. "Car keys? Check," I continued, parting my right front pocket...
2023-04-14 14:56:50 +0000 UTC
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Sorry, should have made it clear in my last update -- after this chapter, there will be one more chapter of From the Ashes before it takes a step back.
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The aftermat...
2023-04-14 14:56:48 +0000 UTC
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The first day of the battle, I didn't fight. I sat on top of the hill with the reserves, my men seated on horseback as we waited for movement from the Paladins. However, on the first day, they didn...
2023-04-12 14:56:29 +0000 UTC
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I had never seen so many people in one place before, I thought, seated on top of a horse at the crest of the hill that would serve as the final battlefield of the war. It looked exactly as King Wid...
2023-04-12 14:56:27 +0000 UTC
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Jarl Aldmund hadn't quite managed to get everything into position within the time that we gave him, but it didn't matter. With such obvious bait before the Frank's eyes, even if they suspected a tr...
2023-04-12 14:56:25 +0000 UTC
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"The boy isn't King," Jarl Aldmund voiced as soon as we left the city, a deep frown in his voice. "He couldn't be more of a puppet if he had strings attached to him and a hand up his arse." I nodde...
2023-04-12 14:56:23 +0000 UTC
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"The outside world smells," M decided, looking around at Night City with a sense of wonder. Wonder that I had felt once, but now I was looking into every single shadow for an enemy. We were on our ...
2023-04-10 14:48:48 +0000 UTC
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"Your nose is bleeding," Jack remarked as we headed to our destination, flying in one of the air cars that I had commandeered. The others were following behind us, the mission already underway. I h...
2023-04-10 14:48:45 +0000 UTC
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"I see," I heard myself say, feeling like I had been punched in the gut by the news that Lucy had just delivered to me. She had just come out of the deep dive, spending a good fifteen minutes down ...
2023-04-10 14:48:43 +0000 UTC
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Predictably, the Tyger Claws were pretty pissed about their leadership getting zeroed like a bunch of chumps. They swarmed the building, flooded the streets, tearing through Night City in search of...
2023-04-10 14:48:41 +0000 UTC
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"Well, that was particularly humiliating," Natasha Romanoff remarked, a frown in her voice as she looked at the massive pillar that had ripped through the asphalt, preventing them from giving chase...
2023-04-08 15:02:57 +0000 UTC
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"Damn. It'd really help if I could speak or read Italian," I remarked, flipping through the instruction manual, seeing it all in a weird made up looking language. Though, I suppose all languages we...
2023-04-08 15:02:55 +0000 UTC
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As far as plans went, it was a solid one. Shield didn't know about the Ring of Nine Dragons, and I doubt that me being able to produce clones would be their first assumption. Instead, I imagined th...
2023-04-08 15:02:53 +0000 UTC
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Grenades were pretty handy, I decided, jury-rigging a daisy chain of grenades along the walls of my apartment. Everything of value was already inside of the Cave of Wonders, though Past Me didn’t...
2023-04-08 15:02:51 +0000 UTC
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This world had very little in common with her own, Nico Robin was forced to conclude, and not for the first time as she took a sip of tea, gazing out to the aptly named City That Never Sleeps -- Ne...
2023-04-07 14:51:05 +0000 UTC
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