332: Travelling
‘Tell me about your sister, Thryss.’
‘Tell you what?’
‘Everything. And Sythera. Why are there only two Daughters? What is their relationship? Was it norm...
2026-01-05 17:03:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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331: Leverage
‘Can I see the Knife she gave you?’ Serrin asked. The Hornet had come closer as they travelled through the jungle. Now he deactivated his invisibility, flickering into view.
Nico...
2026-01-02 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post330: Scoundrels
Observing the footage—playing on a flexible console pad—from where they’d first summoned the Blood Hunters, Max saw a figure appear. Edging into the clearing where he and the others had sat a...
2025-12-31 17:03:04 +0000 UTC View Post329: Soul Scouting
He wasn’t used to speaking this language of ripples, that’s what he’d say. Of course he couldn’t tell Serrin about the Dark, so a story had to be created. But the Mask was grabbing at him, ...
2025-12-29 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post328: Tadpole Killer
[Author Note: Hope you all had a merry christmas ^_^]
The world blurred and he was there, picking his way over bug corpses as he stepped through the security doors.
327: Trouble Abounds
‘Serrin,’ spat the Highspawn, adding, ‘The mutant,’ in a hiss of loathing.
Serrin didn’t answer, but the set of his body grew tense with anger. He raised the point...
2025-12-24 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post326: Ambush
[Author Note: Sorry this is late! >_< I thought today was sunday, getting confused in the holidays...]
The pair of Highspawn buzzed out from the tunnel, wrapped in shields and ar...
2025-12-22 17:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post325: Home at Last
Nicolai sped through the tunnels. On the way he found a chamber—packed with bugs—which the Hornets would have to go through to follow him, and opted to leave the majority of his drones there. T...
2025-12-19 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post324: Solid Soul
‘Going somewhere, human?’ rippled one, wings barely moving as it hovered between him and the way out.
They had him boxed in the centre, where there was a cluster of jagged rises ...
2025-12-17 17:06:31 +0000 UTC View Post323: Blitzkrieg
‘Stealth,’ rippled the Queen, and a wave of assent moved through the Hornets. They vanished from sight, and Nicolai flew alone. From the pure number of them all around him, he and Thre...
2025-12-15 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post322: Networking
‘One more thing,’ said Vexira. ‘I want to make this clear so there can be no chance of misunderstanding. In spite of your fight with Serrin, and in spite of anything I might have...
2025-12-12 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post321: Checkmate
‘—to kill,’ the Queen was saying. Nicolai scrolled back through his skinsuit’s recording to hear the beginning. She’d been saying it didn’t matter to her if he stole the Symbio...
2025-12-10 17:03:03 +0000 UTC View Post320: Quiet Knife
‘You strike me as intelligent. That is partly why I chose to spare you, take you under my wing.’
Chose to spare you. Took you under my wing. Beneath his helmet, one of h...
2025-12-08 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post319: Family Dynamics
Vexira observed the fight below with intense, rising interest. She had had no idea how this would unfold, only that a truly dangerous enemy, one genuinely trying to kill Serrin, might be just what ...
2025-12-05 17:03:03 +0000 UTC View Post318: Technique
Nicolai followed his words with a vicious lunge that started low, then arrowed up, aiming for the narrow join between the Hornet’s upper and lower body. Serrin parried easily and flowed into a st...
2025-12-03 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post317: Job Interview
The Hornets stared at him, and he felt their combined shock. This led the Queen, concerned, to intensify her spiritual grip on him. She crushed his Soul Sense back into him, restricted him tightly....
2025-12-01 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post316: Always a Way
The one with his Blade kept on running, though its direction turned. Fleeing now not from Nicolai, but the army of Hornets.
A figure emerged from that army, glinting. A Hornet wearing radiant...
2025-11-28 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post315: Struggler
Nicolai glared up at the sky.
Dark, angry clouds, pissing down their watery disregard onto him. The pouring rain, howling wind, the odd flashes of lightning and rumbling of thunder were a clo...
2025-11-26 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post314: Borrowed Wings
The Highspawn came to a stop, gazing over at Xyrrith with that same faintly sneering air as always. The fact of his presence spoke volumes.
‘You don’t look glad to see me, nephew! I a...
2025-11-24 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post313: Watching, Waiting
Nicolai dangled from rope, swaying in the wind rushing past. His captors had tied some silk-like rope around his chest and under his shoulders. The two Hornets flying to the sides and above of him ...
2025-11-21 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post312: Treacherous
[ Author Note: in the bit where we first saw the Queen and Hornets, they referred to a Hornet called Khorath. Just fyi, I opted to change his name to Khoren, because Khorath was too similar to Vora...
2025-11-19 17:03:04 +0000 UTC View Post311: Cold Eyes
Through cameras in the back of his helmet he saw the crystals beginning to move toward him. Not fast, about a walking pace, but there were a lot of them.
He drew his pistol and shot one, wond...
2025-11-17 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post310: Stormclouds
Back in the Duel Arena he squeezed through the crowd, shoving and pressing as much as the Restriction would allow. He found a desk manned by a member of House Morvain, and felt Legal rise with exci...
2025-11-14 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post309: Last Stand
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2025-11-12 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post308: Happy
[Author note: I noticed someone in the last chapter said they were excited to see audience reactions, which I... didn't really put in this chapter >_<. But I figure it would be cool to have s...
2025-11-10 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post307: Untouchable
The hope of victory had burned away to bare embers.
He was stuffing her into a corner, one made of the endless, dizzying movement of that rapier. She was still in that state of perfect flow, ...
2025-11-07 17:03:02 +0000 UTC View Post306: My... Fight...!
The arena was open and circular. Pale sand underfoot. The same one where he’d fought Jian. Maybe the Duel Arena preferred this one for the finals. Maybe it was just luck. Maybe it was by decision...
2025-11-05 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post305: Rules and Regulations
‘No Serrin, today?’ spoke Vorath, head turning lazily to take them all in as he stepped around Sythera, Soul Sense avoiding hers like one might avoid a bad smell.
‘He is re...
2025-11-03 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post304: Hornets
Queen Vexira paced through her grand chambers, wings buzzing spasmodically, a messenger bug held in one hand. On the verge of arising from the Foundation Realm—the very peak of Tier Three—her f...
2025-10-31 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post303: Gunplay
[Author note: due to splitting an extra long chapter into two for RR, I've had to go and update all the chapter numbers to fit - so this would have been 302 but is now 303 cuz one of the earlier ch...
2025-10-29 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post