In the end, it took them a few days to finish off about a dozen Bloodtails. After the first battle, the time was less about actually killing them than finding the remaining ones. Technically they m...
2025-07-22 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostBy sheer bad luck, Omilaena was in the worst position, with two Bloodtails immediately menacing her and the third blocking off a direct escape. As their tails lashed out, Kai didn't think about it,...
2025-07-21 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostFlying over Krysal to hunt monsters, with only Zae Zin Nim and Omilaena along with him, gave Kai a jumbled sense of nostalgia. Every element of it felt so familiar - the hunt, his wives, the shores...
2025-07-18 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostEven though they were in the middle of a hive of information, when Kai sat down opposite Krainuun, the meeting felt surprisingly intimate. The desk was small and simple - it might even have been on...
2025-07-17 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostFor the most part, returning to Deadwaste had not been engaging for Zae Zin Nim. The only ones who really interested her were the elites, and there were internal sect politics getting in the way of...
2025-07-15 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostFortunately, Zae Zin Nim's vehicle took them across Yulthens without any further attention, because they easily slipped in among all the other crystal ships. From the air, Kai got another opportuni...
2025-07-14 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostSince the group was moving at normal speeds, Kai had plenty of time to examine them. They were all native Krysali, former miners based on the visible scars, yet they didn't look as welcoming as the...
2025-07-11 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostOn the other side of the portal, Kai found himself... back at the coast of Krysal. He hesitated, not wanting to revealing his disorientation, then decided that there was no reason to try to act coo...
2025-07-10 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAfter all the intense negotiations, Kai wanted some time to decompress, which meant training, spending time with his wives, or talking to someone who wasn't a Frontier elite. Unfortunately, beside ...
2025-07-08 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post"Despite occasional squabbling, we all want the same thing: for Deadwaste to survive the incursion." Sheiri spoke evenly, clearly prepared, and though the information was familiar Kai sensed that s...
2025-07-07 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostNow that Kai was finally here, he felt almost unprepared. From the perspective of raw strength, he had wildly over-prepared, bringing a huge amount of firepower to the table. But when it came to mi...
2025-07-04 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostTechnically she should have been concerned about the upcoming trial, but Zae Zin Nim was more focused on the elite who had attacked her husband so aggressively. That was not an appropriate level of...
2025-07-03 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostKai hadn't heard about "mortal" phase testing before, but since the other elites treated the proposal as a normal one, he decided to act the same. He didn't object as they stepped through a new por...
2025-07-01 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostDespite everything he had been through, Kai was still nervous to meet the Frontier elites as they walked through the portal. These people were everything he wanted to be, actually giving their live...
2025-06-30 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThey could have immediately gotten enmeshed in Krysali politics, but Kai agreed to hold back. For one, his wives were correct that he had a bad track record of getting heavily involved there, and h...
2025-06-27 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTechnically Omilaena was watching the fight, but she was also thinking over her past. Unusually contemplative for her, basically just flicking the bean while other people were fighting for their li...
2025-06-26 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostCognosticon here, coming on your break day for a quick announcement. I expected a drop in support after the Cloudspire arc finished, but it was larger than expected. I've been doing this for a long...
2025-06-25 17:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostYears ago, going to Deadwaste had been a horrible decision tantamount to throwing herself off the edge of the world. Now, as she returned yet again, Zae Zin Nim reflected that it was becoming commo...
2025-06-24 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostOther than the one fight, their trip back to Deadwaste proceeded smoothly. The trainees really did seem to interact as Kai had hoped: they had forged strong bonds through their common struggles, th...
2025-06-23 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostEven though Kai still thought it was bizarre that sex could be training, somehow, he wasn't going to complain about everything he'd learned in dual cultivation. It was a wonderful fusion of two dif...
2025-06-20 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostIn the end, they didn't spend much time at all on Darkmist Island. Kai spent two days training the Deadwaste volunteers, or rather evaluating each and then helping them gather the materials they wo...
2025-06-19 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostKai hadn't realized how much he was accustomed to traveling with just his wives until he had to deal with other people. It wasn't just that the others didn't have spatial items to make packing easy...
2025-06-17 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostNothing on Darkmist Island felt real. Honestly, the sense of unreality had started when Kai took them all away on his strange new ship, but Juray had been completely adrift ever since they landed i...
2025-06-16 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostOmilaena sat with her arms folded, glaring at her materials through her goggles, willing them to cooperate.
Now that she had extra-spatial storage space, she could accumulate all kinds of jun...
2025-06-13 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAs he blinked awake, Kai realized first that he was in the main cabin of the Clanless, then that they were still passing over the ocean. He'd taken multiple trips over the ocean at this point, from...
2025-06-12 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe courtiers of the Brightwind Sect had been on high alert ever since they heard the news, spiking ever higher when the errant daughter returned. Had she been Zae Clen Ban, half of them would no d...
2025-06-10 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post(Cognosticon here. For the first time ever, Patreon is withholding all funds. For now I'm going to assume it's a random hang-up, but I hope it doesn't persist another week.)
As they delved in...
2025-06-09 17:00:28 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Kai got the grand vault open, he'd of course intended to contact Zae Zin Nim to learn more, but he'd expected to enter quickly. Just standing near the opened door he could feel the intense qi ...
2025-06-06 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostOf course Omilaena actually did the things she was supposed to do, but at soon as she had done what she judged to be the optimal minimum, she went off to track down Zin Nim.
Not out of any se...
2025-06-05 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostKai realized in the middle of the fight that he'd gotten another rival, even though he wasn't sure exactly how. The scion of the Redstorm Sect seemed to have it out for him, treating their fight as...
2025-06-03 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post