John was tempted to consult his passive Observe, at least. It was stealthier than the active variant, but was it stealthy enough for this place? Unlikely. Someone would have the degree of en...
2025-01-31 22:24:56 +0000 UTC View PostJohn had Nightingale deliver an insistently worded message that the Heavenly Jade Empress see him in the guestrooms as swiftly as she could spare an hour. For how much he wanted her to react...
2025-01-30 13:11:59 +0000 UTC View PostKorith waited for her party in the Loot chamber.
It was a room at the end of a short corridor that had opened up. Like so often with these Dungeons, it was directly attached to a resti...
2025-01-29 11:34:41 +0000 UTC View Post
John would have loved to be a fly on the wall during that meeting.
He had that option. He could have Possessed a small drone or sent one of Claire’s familiars to infiltr...
2025-01-28 20:32:47 +0000 UTC View Post
They had breakfast in Lu Zhi’s manour.
It was an unnecessarily large building. Prestigious residences were in some way necessary, especially in the east. In John’s exp...
2025-01-27 17:18:10 +0000 UTC View PostDelicia opened her mouth and fished a small object from the tip of her tongue. It was bright blue and formed like a jelly bean. The consistency matched the candy as well, although alchemical...
2025-01-26 00:35:35 +0000 UTC View PostNathalia pulled on the collar of her dress. One tug and the Victorian fashion that had clung so tightly to the tall woman’s curves loosened. Without the support of the corset and bra, her ...
2025-01-25 00:27:52 +0000 UTC View Post“Isn’t this going to cause problems?” Rave asked.
The question had been on John’s mind as well, but he had not managed to get his eyes off the imperial tomboy’s butt for long...
2025-01-23 21:25:17 +0000 UTC View PostA full month after they had finished the grinding training, the Inevitable Party found the boss room.
By what little available estimates the party had, they considered themselves to be...
2025-01-23 03:30:25 +0000 UTC View Post
John had, for a long time, wondered how it came about that all of the largest Abyssal cities appeared to be located in Europe. Driving through Beijing answered that question.
Gaz...
2025-01-21 21:36:39 +0000 UTC View PostJohn had to honour three factions with how he approached this diplomatic visit. A convenient distribution of interests, as he had three bodies to appease them all. It was the splitting of th...
2025-01-20 21:05:30 +0000 UTC View Post
The remainder of the weeks that Justinian had been meant to govern came and went without any great incident. John managed to get his work done at the proper pace, allowing him t...
2025-01-18 16:37:31 +0000 UTC View Post
“Why am I still fucking flour when she is bread?!”
The scream bounced around in John’s ears before he had even entered his apartment. Lee had taken him and Magnus ba...
2025-01-17 15:04:32 +0000 UTC View Post
The world was a much smaller place when one was rich and powerful. A teleporter across, a private jet taken, and the distance between New York and Vienna was the same as a norma...
2025-01-16 16:14:03 +0000 UTC View Post“You know what I have been wondering?” Reysha carefully peeked her head around the corner. The Aimed Whisper Skill allowed her to talk without alerting the enemies around the corner.
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Moira showed up early.
The redhead had her full battle regalia on her. The wine red tabard, emblazoned with the symbol of the Order of the Golden Rose, covered her plate a...
2025-01-14 21:24:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Note: This is not a chapter with any content, but I am still going to treat it like one because updating all of these sheets is work. For ease of searching, every entry has thei...
2025-01-13 20:57:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The question cascaded. The usually relaxed evening get-together was spontaneously replaced with the haremettes making their way to the I.D. Gate under the cover of Nightingale...
2025-01-11 19:50:34 +0000 UTC View Post
“So… Event Horizon Hypothesis?” John asked.
“You know, from the movie?”
“It’s actually named after the movie?”
“Ye.” Lee grabbed a piece of...
2025-01-10 18:25:56 +0000 UTC View Post
‘I’m mildly surprised you agreed,’ John confessed to the vampire maid. ‘We’ll be out and about a lot today.’
‘You will see why I agreed in a moment, Master,...
2025-01-09 15:19:29 +0000 UTC View Post
The inner halls of the Dungeon were not terribly different from the outer layers. The walls were still chitinous, the tunnels confusing, and the skittering of insects omnipresen...
2025-01-08 10:40:25 +0000 UTC View Post
The rest of Justinian’s first day was an almost sad affair. Most of it was spent by the sanctimonious Latebloomer moping about and taking in what factual information he could. John h...
2025-01-07 17:44:52 +0000 UTC View PostJohn was feeling kind of giddy.
Today felt as if he was about to embark on a school trip, back when he had been young enough to like those. Mixed in with the happy feeling was the nerv...
2025-01-06 16:15:05 +0000 UTC View Post
John was greeted by eight maids. Not seven – eight. Aclysia, Beatrice, Claire, Delicia, Ehtra, Momo, Nahoa and, just for the night, Metra who had been granted the right to wea...
2025-01-04 17:34:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes. I am dumping a bunch of things I realized I hadn't put out yet.
2025-01-04 10:06:25 +0000 UTC View PostGaia still gave John the Loot for the final boss.
The World Disease, to no surprise, provided John with three more of its Shards. Various crafting materials went to Romulus, including ...
2025-01-03 16:31:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hell had manifested.
The first Segment of the Raid, the Marketplace of Corpses, had been desolate before. Pale sands and dark stones, dreary tents shifting in ceaseless wi...
2025-01-02 14:50:45 +0000 UTC View Post
