Tall fields of corn and wheat were divided by an unwelcoming road.
Groups of hardened men and women alike worked the fields as part of a repayment system. Debt was paid off with manual labor ...
2024-02-17 06:53:51 +0000 UTC View PostAquadale Solitude.
A city that once housed criminals of the Kingdom of Puritas. Deplorable souls ...
2024-02-16 05:00:37 +0000 UTC View PostDesolation plagued the coastlines of Southern Grandis.
The contrast of the beauty of the world afar and the devastation nearby reminded Frost of a memory from both Earth and the old world. Si...
2024-02-15 03:26:05 +0000 UTC View Post*Drip*
Something dripped beyond Red’s darkness.
*Drip*
*Splash*
It was not the kind of kind of sound that lava ...
2024-02-14 01:33:35 +0000 UTC View PostShe could feel it. Something forming… no, burning inside of her now. The brambles that wrapped her heart were not there to constrict her heart. They were preparing for this moment this e...
2024-02-13 19:49:40 +0000 UTC View Post“So this is how it is… this is the wall I have to overcome… Bullshit…”
Red’s hated festered.
The blade twisted into a reverse grip as she watched the Still Unloving murder c...
2024-02-13 19:47:05 +0000 UTC View PostFrom the depths of its nonexistent lungs came a guttural cry.
< “It begins with hunger.” >
“They are already dead. Stop wasting our time or the others will declare us the same!”
A fist struck the trunk of a great tree. A deep imprint was left behind where hot vapor violently st...
2024-02-12 02:40:47 +0000 UTC View PostFrontier, the Capital City of the Bellum Empire. The name was less extravagant as Paradise and the Capital of the Northern Diavola Kingdom: Primus Ramus. The status of the North was not currently k...
2024-02-11 04:07:26 +0000 UTC View PostFrost moved into the flames, walking past the corpses of the Anids as went to retrieve her bullet. A giant ball made from the curling of ten spider-like fingers was half-buried into the soul. The p...
2024-02-10 04:57:24 +0000 UTC View PostEmbers replaced the disappearing mist. The thick redwood trees of the forest were highly flame resistant, yet they melted from the base like wet clay. Breathing the smoldering air should have scorc...
2024-02-10 04:55:51 +0000 UTC View Post“Follow the bloody trail.”
The red lines that guided Hatchling’s Red blade was the manifestation of pure instinct. They were red strings that dictated where the tip of her blade was ins...
2024-02-09 00:12:51 +0000 UTC View PostGrandis.
A Region famous for the calamity that befell the city of Paradise and infamous for its long, depraved lists of atrocities that plagued its otherwise beautiful lands. There was a sayi...
2024-02-08 04:29:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Brightest Star! Answer me!” Nilhim cried.
Iscario didn’t speak a word to him, walking past Nilhim seemingly without a care or thought in the world.
His footsteps were heavy. So i...
2024-02-06 03:16:31 +0000 UTC View PostA disturbance deep in the underground recesses of the Derma Layer caused the red-lined walls to violently tremble. And then as though in pain, the collective wails of millions cried out.
“_...
2024-02-06 03:11:22 +0000 UTC View PostAfter months of staying in the place she had so desperately struggled to return to, it was finally time to leave it yet again. And what better place than the same Region where it all went downhill ...
2024-02-05 05:19:04 +0000 UTC View PostAn Arbiter’s Council was held on the 3rd day of 351 PA.
Frost had gotten used to the formalities and the attention she received during the Councils. By now one had to wonder if the Stars an...
2024-02-04 03:09:33 +0000 UTC View PostBang.
The clash of steel hitting steel reverberated throughout the cavern. Red’s blade connected with one of the creature’s legs and yet to her shock –
“Tch… That’s not rock...
2024-02-03 06:49:12 +0000 UTC View PostFrost reached a hand towards where the water terminated.
Beneath was a pit that fell until it reached a singular point of darkness.
A thin, invisible fabric brushed against her fingerti...
2024-02-01 21:15:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe Arbiter wore a different kind of face today. It was not the usual one that exuded the untouchable splendor of an Angel. Neither was she accompanied by an overbearing aura.
She stood behin...
2024-02-01 21:14:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe object sat on a cushioned bed made solely for it. It was a long object shaped like a Justica Arm, only that it was thicker to allow the user to wield it with both hands.
“Believe me, Be...
2024-01-31 01:44:49 +0000 UTC View Post“Did you hear? Something strange was delivered into the Nexus.”
“People are calling it a casket, but don’t you think it’s strange for them to let us see it?”
...
“How are the returning Exalted doing?”
Frost still hadn’t finished her duties as the leader of the Head. She was listening to Weave handover an update regarding the status of the level ...
2024-01-30 08:16:11 +0000 UTC View PostSite Expansion.
When a Facility arrived at a pivotal moment – which was usually when the Site Core’s demand for Liquid Nex grew past an uncertain threshold – the Site would expand accor...
2024-01-29 20:57:20 +0000 UTC View PostFrost was listening to the report with a content smile.
Her chin rested on a bed of intertwined fingers as firsthand accounts of the Black Wings’s success was announced by a Lunar Haruspex....
2024-01-28 06:15:55 +0000 UTC View Post“Shoot until nothing’s left!”
“Sustain fire! Bullets to where everything moves!”
Unending roars left the mouths of the Black Wings.
They moved into Syndicate hideouts wi...
2024-01-27 02:01:44 +0000 UTC View Post[Fire Spear] was a powerful magic used by Gold Ranking Adventurers and above, capable of taking Trickle and low-ranking Hailstorm Corrupted with enough tenacity and skill.
Following it was [R...
2024-01-25 20:53:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe 1st of the 1st, 351 PA marked the first official operation led solely by the Head.
The Red Grin’s Headquarters were not their only asset that was struck. Various backwater hideouts invo...
2024-01-25 20:52:59 +0000 UTC View PostSorrow.
The Attribute spelled the nature of the being. It did not attack, nor did it scream. The Still Unborn huddled around her knees, their cries of anguish subsiding in the presence of the...
2024-01-24 23:58:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe heart of the Red Grin Syndicate was another brick in the wall casino of the City of Diamonds. Nothing substantial separated it apart from the norm. That was until one dug past the surface.
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