Almost a dozen hours later, Ashtoreth hovered down to rest on a featureless metal ledge of the inner ring. Icon, the archival spirit, had claimed they’d killed the last of the outsider presence.<...
2026-01-24 00:41:20 +0000 UTC View PostAshtoreth formed her sword-scythe, then swept it through the air to spend an entire base [Bloodfire] pool on a new [Bloodfire Boon]—one that gave a bonus exclusi...
2026-01-24 00:28:49 +0000 UTC View Post“I can assure you, Hunter Wolfhard, the wave of charged motes of compressed mana was an unintended, if spectacular, side-effect of destroying the asymptotic spindle! Nice jump!”
For the m...
2026-01-24 00:17:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe doors opened.
Hunter rushed into the air beyond, quickly taking in a dozen or so outsiders that occupied the air around him at a glance and then naturally adjusting his trajectory to avoi...
2026-01-19 20:23:23 +0000 UTC View PostIcon eyed him, crossing her arms.
“All right, Sir Hunter Wolfhard—let’s suppose for a moment that I go along with your plan to… bring one other level 650 here. Naturally, hav...
2026-01-17 20:56:33 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re the archival spirit?” Hunter asked.
“Yes, my liege!” she said, still beaming at him. “And I must say, it is an honor and privilege to meet you!” A shadow seemed...
2026-01-15 23:51:33 +0000 UTC View PostIt was only a few days later that Ashtoreth warped back into Nexus 001 with a newly-stocked bag of beast hearts. Her locket was full, of course, but these were set to start expiring in less than a ...
2026-01-15 23:49:11 +0000 UTC View PostTired from another day of farming, Ashtoreth lay on the couch in Nexus 001 and prodded the Five Realms sub-system for information on the warp network.
It was an incredibly thing, their warp n...
2026-01-15 23:46:50 +0000 UTC View PostEven if she was only a system-appointed, and not a humanity-appointed monarch, Ashtoreth still had to make her first official announcement while looking like a queen.
She wore ceremonial robe...
2026-01-09 21:33:36 +0000 UTC View Post“Mass access to Orchard?” Frost asked once Ashtoreth had finished explaining. “Let everyone farm up in the zones?”
“Yup!” she said. “It doesn’t work the way that the Monarchy ...
2026-01-07 20:17:42 +0000 UTC View Post“You know,” Ashtoreth said to the rest of the teams once she was back in Nexus 001, “If I assume that this whole system was set in place under the assumption that nobody just spontaneously be...
2026-01-06 19:09:32 +0000 UTC View PostAshtoreth thrust her weapon forward in the air, and light flickered across the edges of the foe in front of her—a three-dimensional rhombus.
{Adversarial Geometry — Level 855} 2026-01-06 19:08:05 +0000 UTC View Post
{Advance [Drain]}
{Choose an advancement to gain, then choose to retain or replace all other options}
Upgrade [Aura] with [Aura: Thirst]...
2026-01-06 19:06:20 +0000 UTC View Post{Ding! You level up! You are now level 525.}
{You gain 15 DEX, 15 STR, 19 VIT, 15 MAG, 8 PSY, 10 DEF}
{Reaching level 525 has granted advanceme...
2025-12-24 04:02:41 +0000 UTC View PostI need to talk to you. It was Matthews.
Ashtoreth shouldered Rammschloss and sighed. “All right, guys,” she told Hunter and Sadie. “Maybe move to a lower level range f...
2025-12-24 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostTwo shots rang out in rapid succession, and a set of shockwaves rippled out from the muzzle of her cannon as she lifted her eye away from the scope and peered into the distance.
Her targets, ...
2025-12-24 03:59:33 +0000 UTC View Post{You have been routed to Orchard Nexus 001.}
The flare of Ashtoreth’s warp spell faded, and she put her hands on her hips as she looked around the dimly lit circular chambe...
2025-12-24 03:57:47 +0000 UTC View PostSadly, these five chapters are all I've got to show for the last nine days. I had another one, 185, but I scrapped it because I didn't like it, and will rewrite tomorrow.
On the upside, I'm p...
2025-12-17 03:34:09 +0000 UTC View PostFive million? Frost asked. That’s a completely insane amount of teleportation rods. At the close of their war, they somehow had the resources to make all that?
Hunter was ...
2025-12-17 03:28:50 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, Ashtoreth said through the telepathy. I know you wanted me to be quiet, but… I can’t be the only one who thinks the name “Orchard,” is pretty danged auspicious?
<... 2025-12-17 03:11:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe sun looks just ours, he said. All of this looks like it could just be on Earth. He frowned, then. I’m not just… on Earth, am I?
He began diving toward the g...
2025-12-17 03:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostWell would you look at that! Ashtoreth said once he’d sent her the details. If it isn’t… exactly what we expected it would be.
If I request permission, th...
2025-12-17 02:47:17 +0000 UTC View PostYou’re right, Hunter said. The [Warp] emanations in this place feel… intense. And strange.
He hovered several thousand meters in the a...
2025-12-17 02:36:54 +0000 UTC View PostAshtoreth.
Ashtoreth groaned as her wings twitched. She ground her face against the pillow. She’d been having a strange dream… she’d done something awkward in a supermarket, bu...
2025-12-08 02:34:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Ashtoreth has a request,” Frost said.
He stood in Matthews’ office at headquarters, having come alone. At that moment, Ashtoreth was in a lab somewhere.
“All right.”
...
2025-12-08 02:23:05 +0000 UTC View Post“I can’t believe it,” Ashtoreth said weeks later. “I just… I can’t believe it! They’re still cutting me out!”
She raised Wanderstein, sighting through the sc...
2025-12-08 01:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post{You lose ability [Summon Demonic Familiar]}
“Well,” she said. “There it goes. I suppose I should call up the labcoats and tell them he’s gone.”
She’d spent...
2025-12-08 01:49:30 +0000 UTC View Post“Perhaps unsurprisingly,” Ashtoreth began, “I’m an astonishingly perfect specimen of archfiend.”
Matthews looked unamused. “Meaning?”
She shrugged. “Dunno, exactly—oth...
2025-12-08 01:40:23 +0000 UTC View PostGood news, everyone!
It turns out that I have been, and still am, suffering from an unfortunate issue with my physical health.
This has almost certainly exacerbated the pre-existing com...
2025-12-02 03:52:51 +0000 UTC View Post“This is a lot to take in,” said General Matthews.
They were sitting in a conference room back at headquarters. It had taken a great deal of explaining, re-explaining, and correcting each...
2025-12-02 03:37:06 +0000 UTC View Post