Vir regarded the burning capital of the Kin’jal with awe. Even in flames, the city was incomprehensibly vast. Many times the size of any demon city, and every inch of it was constructed like a fo...
2025-01-28 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe blackness gave way to a deep blue that became brighter and brighter as we ascended. To reduce the strain on our beleaguered sub, Aerion had us ascending at about half the max rate, so ...
2025-01-27 20:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostWith each painful step, Maiya grew increasingly desperate. Not because she’d been marched out of the cell with Ira, or because their path had been lined with thorns and tiny metal pins, al...
2025-01-25 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“So let’s go over what we know,” I said, once Aerion had maneuvered the sub away from the tentacles, turning it right side up in the process. We were currently floating somewhere ins...
2025-01-24 19:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostVir fumed. To think Fate had chosen this moment to stymie his efforts… Worse—communication orbs didn’t function in the Ash. He couldn’t even know how Maiya was doing. Was she hurt? Was she ...
2025-01-24 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostAlone and on the run, trapped within a castle designed by lunatics, and hunted by the strongest Talent wielder in the realm… Maiya had to admit—this was not one of her finest moments.<...
2025-01-23 18:28:52 +0000 UTC View PostOur sub lacked any external arms we could use to pull Aerion’s sub, and pushing it was out of the question. Philip was right… This was the only way.
I groaned. The subs had somet...
2025-01-22 19:10:11 +0000 UTC View PostVir’s Gate attack—he’d really have to come up with a better name for that—worked better than he could have hoped. Not only was the main audience chamber ridded of Chitran soldiers… Vir fo...
2025-01-21 18:05:14 +0000 UTC View PostAshani neither activated her white lightning rod, nor did she move to attack any nearby demon.
Instead… She simply created a Gate. One that led to the deepest part of Mahādi that Ashani ha...
2025-01-18 18:22:49 +0000 UTC View PostOur journey began well at first, like most things did. An uneventful ascent through the inky black, with Aerion’s sub’s interior lights being the only source of illumination. Even that started ...
2025-01-17 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostSeveral options were available to Vir—a luxury most others in his position would have lacked. The frontal approach was the most obvious recourse, yet the one likely to cause the most casualties. ...
2025-01-16 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe whale killing process was as gruesome as it was tedious, taking another several hours. Like last time, they took a while to show up once we turned the beacon on, swimming through the tube from ...
2025-01-15 19:44:45 +0000 UTC View PostIt was perhaps a good thing that the Bairan Ultimate Art was so difficult to master. Or that the Bairans restricted its bestowal so heavily. For weight was a mighty thing, and while the Chitran
The lethality of the original Siege Bolts hadn’t faded one bit from my mind, and given that these had the same explosives, just packaged in a slightly different form factor, I was backpedaling th...
2025-01-13 20:18:34 +0000 UTC View PostSneaking down hallways, avoiding patrols… This was what made Maiya’s heart pump. How long had it been since she’d been alone, unsupported, in the thick of things? These days...
2025-01-11 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostGetting back ended up being a hell of a lot harder than I thought it would. Despite doing my best to look back and memorize our origin cell on our way out, we had a hell of a time locating...
2025-01-10 19:54:38 +0000 UTC View PostMaiya found the prince on the rooftop of a tall building. The flat roofs of Hiranyan architecture were a nostalgic sight. One that Maiya had always missed in the other countries. It amazed...
2025-01-09 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostPrincess Ira Kin’jal sipped her tea, looking as disinterested as she could. Her eyes wandered around the royal garden’s immaculately manicured shrubs and its exquisite arbors before landing on ...
2025-01-09 04:02:13 +0000 UTC View PostI blurred into motion and drew Light of the Fearless in one smooth move, ready to lay the pain on the sorry monster that dared fuck with us. I’d just about had it with sudden appearances...
2025-01-08 19:53:08 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, hope you all had a restful and enjoyable end to 2024. With the new year, we've got some new updates!
First off, as several of you may already know, I am an avid mountaineer, and ...
2025-01-06 19:01:48 +0000 UTC View PostNOTE: Welcome back, everyone! See my announcement post in a few minutes for an important update!
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I didn’t wait for the bear to make the first move. All my mobility meant squat when I...
Scouting the Panav healers’ locations within Samar Patag was simple enough when one had a dozen Iksana elites at their disposal. Extracting them, however, was another matter entirely.
Thank...
2024-12-21 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostNayan was at his wits’ end fighting the blaze. Blazing the forest was something the Akh Nara and Cirayus had expected the Chits to do, so the action had not come as sa surpise. Rather, Nayan wond...
2024-12-19 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostRogar and Aerion did, in fact, ‘make it happen’. Quite easily, too. Using nothing more than the portable furnace, my molten lava as starting heat and coals for fuel, and a little help from the ...
2024-12-18 19:01:33 +0000 UTC View PostMaiya might have allowed the royal family to escape, but that didn’t mean her work was done here. Not by a longshot.
The best that Sai had were dug in at the castle—the most defensible po...
2024-12-17 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostFighting our way to the sub pen was about as anticlimactic as Aerion and I expected. Even the hobgoblins—monsters that had nearly ended us the first time around—barely slowed us down, ...
2024-12-16 19:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostVir watched Raoul from the shadows. The demon paced around his tent—the Garga Lavani were still camped in the tents they’d brought along, at Raoul’s insistence. Perhaps he felt a nee...
2024-12-14 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostBeing there for Aerion ended up meaning sitting beside her for a long while. I don’t think she even noticed my presence at first, but she did eventually. Maybe I just imagined it, but it felt lik...
2024-12-13 19:40:22 +0000 UTC View Post--
Maiya...
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