Ashtoreth stood on an invisible floor in a void of perfect darkness. She could use her flight to move, but there was nowhere to move to. She could use her abilities, spend her [Bloodfire] 2025-03-08 06:10:00 +0000 UTC View Post
“Pluto!” Ashtoreth called out. “Let’s talk about this!”
“Talk we will, dearest sister!” Pluto said, removing her top hat and pulling her real baton out of it to twirl in the air...
2025-03-08 06:09:01 +0000 UTC View PostBoth Frost and Kylie made bitter, dejected sounds.
“This was your plan all along?” Frost asked.
“Uh-huh,” she said quietly.
“And you said nothing!” he said. ...
2025-03-08 06:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re right,” Ashtoreth said, assessing the red wall of wavering energy before them. “This isn’t good.”
It was a barrier spell, one made by runes that ran along ev...
2025-03-07 18:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post“[Hellfire], please!”
“Not your racial?” Dazel asked.
“I know what two of my racial advancements are,” she said. “And I don’t either right now. I’d be...
2025-03-07 06:08:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe guardian was below her at a distance of fewer than twenty meters: she lowered her cannon to aim down toward it and took the shot almost as soon as she saw it.
The air around her shook wit...
2025-03-06 06:08:00 +0000 UTC View PostI'm going to be filling the third tier with some of the promised chapters soon!
Tonight I'll be finishing writing up to chapter 58 (it's half-done now). I just need to edit what I've written ...
2025-03-05 06:08:01 +0000 UTC View Post“We need to kill another boss, asap,” Dazel said. “For Hunter’s sake.”
“So I can maybe get a shadowflame resistant shirt?” he asked.
“No? What? No,” Dazel sai...
2025-03-05 06:08:01 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ll take [Vampiric Archfiend], please,” she told the system.
She’d replaced an option last time she leveled, and so was eager to see which two options there would b...
2025-03-04 06:08:03 +0000 UTC View PostAshtoreth grinned as she saw the new arrival, giving the smile a sinister caste. “Have we met before, archdevil?” she asked.
Gethernel wore a tightly-fitted white robe t...
2025-03-03 17:52:50 +0000 UTC View PostDazel lay on Ashtoreth’s back, nestled between the powerful spans of muscle and bone where her wings met her shoulderblades. He braced himself, sure that even if the sound of her ridiculous canno...
2025-03-03 06:06:07 +0000 UTC View PostWhile her allies absorbed the violet flames that burned around them, Ashtoreth tended to her progression:
“Armament, if you please!” she told the system.
{Advance Armament}<...
2025-03-02 17:40:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe skygorger demon clawed its way toward her across the forest floor, moving with the lurching grace of a crawling insect.
Ashtoreth pushed against the force that held her immobile, ready to...
2025-03-02 06:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Everyone spread out,” Ashtoreth said. “Those skygorgers probably have AOE. And Kylie, don’t be alarmed, but I’m going to cover you in hellfire now.”
“What?”
She held ou...
2025-03-01 06:08:01 +0000 UTC View PostDazel stepped out of the rift, flaring his wings and then arching his back in a stretch. “Hey, boss. So did you kill the necro—wha?!”
His sentence was cut off as Ashto...
2025-02-28 06:08:01 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re level 23?” Ashtoreth asked incredulously. “That’s… fantastic! Kylie, you’re amazing!”
“I’m also not five years old,” she said. “So you don’t have to...
2025-02-27 17:08:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe air around one of the woman’s hands seemed to fracture and darken, as if it were being seen through broken, tinted glass. She raised this hand, pointing it toward Ashtoreth with a quick, deci...
2025-02-27 00:28:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe devil screamed. She dropped her bow as Ashtoreth leapt the distance between them, raising her hands in futile attempt to stop the [Mighty Blow]. Her armor and body seemed to cr...
2025-02-27 00:25:51 +0000 UTC View PostAshtoreth laughed as she looked down on the blaze of hellfire burning before her, devils and demons still fleeing out from its center. Then she ate a heart, began conjuring another round, and pulle...
2025-02-27 00:24:39 +0000 UTC View Post{Advance [Armament]}
{Choose an upgrade to gain, then choose to retain or replace all other options}
Upgrade [Conjure Luftschloss 2025-02-27 00:23:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Inside the chest was a folded piece of clothing. Ashtoreth took it and held it out, examining it. It was a robe and a pair of breeches that seemed to be made of a strange, silvery form of silk.
... 2025-02-27 00:21:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe construct began to move toward her with long, powerful strides. She could see why it would: its gigantic obliterating beam had been its least effective weapon so far. Its close-range, anti-pers...
2025-02-27 00:20:41 +0000 UTC View PostAshtoreth fell, flesh seared all over her body, her muscles spasming instead of obeying her.
Before she hit the soil, she reached out and pushed against her sword. She didn’t know where it ...
2025-02-27 00:19:34 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ll work on keeping that thing from turning the battle against the humans!” Ashtoreth said. “You two work your way around the battlefield and get to the base of that tower, then kill any ...
2025-02-27 00:18:40 +0000 UTC View Post“I don’t know where the second army came from, but it looked like it was also demons,” Ashtoreth said.
They were jogging through the forest, making a lot of noise as they ...
2025-02-27 00:17:30 +0000 UTC View Post“Okay,” Ashtoreth said as they plodded on through the forest, searching for more humans and more enemies to kill. “Crash course on understanding Hell. You’ve got three different types of in...
2025-02-27 00:16:23 +0000 UTC View PostFrost stepped forward, levelled his shotgun at the enemies, and began to open fire. His weapon loosed plumes of blue flame both from the end of its barrel and where it struck the demons. His aim wa...
2025-02-27 00:15:17 +0000 UTC View Post“No one move,” Ashtoreth hissed, her eyes on the sky. She formed one hand into a claw because the points of her fingers allowed for finer, more precise manipulation of glamour, then be...
2025-02-27 00:14:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Ding!” Ashtoreth said. “You know the nice thing about getting [Hellfire Aura] is that it might also make it more likely for me to get good auras.”
“—So,” Ashtoreth was saying. “Once I get the [Hellfire Aura], it’ll be fine! You won’t have to worry about interfering with my fire. There’s no explosive blast when I...
2025-02-27 00:10:46 +0000 UTC View Post