Chapter 81
Hopeless.
There was no other word to describe it.
The last of their defensive positions breached, overrun. And was it any wonder? Where they’d been expecting to defend aga...
2024-11-01 14:35:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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Chapter 80
It wasn’t long before the vessel was sufficiently pliable.
Warped and corrupted by her prolonged ministrations, until it personified the sordid depths that would best serve her needs....
2024-11-01 14:32:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 79
The freshwater swamplands to the east of the sheer spine mountain range, are a virulent breeding ground for infection and disease.
A forested wetland whose malformed Cypress’s range b...
2024-11-01 14:18:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 78
Flight Lieutenant Lucile led her windstorm griffin familiar—aptly dubbed “Little Lucy,” for how darn cute she’d been in her infancy—through yet another sweeping circuit.
Bitin...
2024-11-01 14:16:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 77
The ground visibly quaked as, from almost a hundred feet up, the lion king’s prodigious bulk landed on the flat of the grasslands proper.
A low, rumbling growl reverberated from its d...
2024-11-01 14:15:44 +0000 UTC View PostJun’s POV (16)
Whoever claimed crime doesn’t pay should probably take a good long look at the frankly obscene amounts of “pay” I made off with, after only a single well planned heist. And then maybe thi...
2024-11-01 14:11:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 76
The day was unpleasant. That much was obvious.
A dry sort of heat.
Like sticking her head directly into a baker’s oven, then throwing the rest of her body in after, just f...
2024-10-29 21:28:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 75
The drake could sense he was doing something and clearly recognized the threat G. Jun posed.
Something he’d been hoping distance and arrogance would prevent, much like it had with the...
2024-10-29 21:17:49 +0000 UTC View PostJun’s POV (15)
Slamming head first into the bubbling iron cauldron, Jun, in turn, drenched those witches in the nearest vicinity with all its boiling contents.
Those he didn’t bowl over with his sti...
2024-10-29 21:10:25 +0000 UTC View PostJun’s POV (14)
Jun stared at the words for an unknowable amount of time.
Scouring them. Imprinting them. Burning them into his mind.
He thought he should feel something. Remorse perhaps? A...
2024-10-29 21:01:14 +0000 UTC View PostJun’s POV (13)
It hadn’t taken much to overpower the soul of this body’s previous inhabitant.
The patriarch’s brat had been weak. Pitifully so.
Oh, they say he would’ve made for a ...
2024-10-29 20:50:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 74
Sand whipped past as they skimmed across the rising black dunes, barely a few meters off the ground, all things told.
Their speed such that the desert appeared to undulate beneath them,...
2024-10-29 20:48:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 73
Pale faced and trembling, Meredith stared up at the high balcony where the princess, the demon, and the poacher reclined.
Her drink long forgotten, the familiar weight of a hand on her ...
2024-10-29 20:40:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 72
“What do you think?” asked Eleanor, crouching over the glistening pile.
“I think it’s insane you’re even considering this,” R. Jun replied.
“But can’t you feel it? They...
2024-10-29 20:28:27 +0000 UTC View PostJun’s POV (12)
Jun didn’t mind his leisurely pace so much, as he rode past expansive rice fields, humble domiciles, and sun tanned farmers in their conical hats—already hard at work, having risen with the lig...
2024-10-29 20:19:10 +0000 UTC View PostJun’s POV (11)
“You’re scared,” he said, like it was a fact. “It’s understandable. We all are, to one degree or another. The total annihilation of the Black Sons was a shock to everyone. That it happene...
2024-10-29 19:59:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 71
Eleanor deftly evaded yet another colossal downward strike.
Like a dancer, she moved with the seismic tremors that followed, sidestepping three other such attempts to smash her flat. Ye...
2024-10-29 19:54:44 +0000 UTC View PostJun’s POV (10)
The young man froze, slowly turning to scrutinize him far more skeptically than before.
“I… I’m sorry?”
“Ah, no worries lad. All’s forgiven. There was no harm done, really. ...
2024-10-29 02:31:59 +0000 UTC View PostJun’s POV (9)
Things were… actually going surprisingly well.
He found it entirely too suspicious. Still, given the unimaginable harvest he’d reaped, he figured this burst of product...
2024-10-29 02:26:52 +0000 UTC View PostJun’s POV (8)
For the briefest moment, when he first opened his eyes, only to see the blank void surrounding him on all sides, he worried that he’d somehow wound up right back in the middle of that unreal spac...
2024-10-29 02:18:32 +0000 UTC View PostJun’s POV (7)
Goro tore across the sandy arena like all the gates of hell were at his back.
Crossing hundreds of meters in the time it took for Jun to fire off a single beam, planting a massive fist ...
2024-10-29 02:00:26 +0000 UTC View PostJun’s POV (6)
Jun rose to his feet and, on instinct, shuffled over to stand next to Goro.
The bovine man’s massive frame was already upright, his eyes fixed on the approaching contingent of guards....
2024-10-29 01:53:20 +0000 UTC View PostJun’s POV (5)
Floating in the endless void, Jun thought about a lot of things.
About his friends, about his enemies, about the weeks, going on a month now, he’d spent attempting this trial. The lar...
2024-10-29 01:46:47 +0000 UTC View PostJun’s POV (4)
“W-well, that was a grand w-w-waste of time.”
“What was that?” hissed the amiable snake man.
“N-nothing,” Jun replied, trying and failing to repress a shiver.
He sneez...
2024-10-29 01:42:43 +0000 UTC View PostJun’s POV (3)
You have been found lacking during the Stage of Gathering.
Thankfully, failure is admissible in those young and uninitiated. In that way, some amount of leniency is n...
2024-10-29 01:36:34 +0000 UTC View PostJun’s POV (2)
Jun nearly jumped out of his skin when Goro’s rumbling baritone snapped him from his gawping.
“It would be best not to linger. More are sure to arrive soon,” he gestured at the door the...
2024-10-29 01:30:28 +0000 UTC View PostJun’s POV (1)
Who knew bending the fundamental stuff of reality to make cool shooty laser eyes would be such a major pain in the ass?
You’d think if they were called the “building blocks of creat...
2024-10-29 01:26:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 69
From the second they stepped foot on the hundredth floor it was apparent that something was off.
If the sickly green flames that flared to life from the many brasiers lining the walls weren...
2024-10-22 22:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 63
Ignoring S. Jun’s rather colorful language, as he described, in livid detail, just what he thought of this whole fifteen second swap idea, Jun briefly took a second to catch his bearings.
...
2024-10-22 22:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 70
Jun deftly veered away from the skull shaped fireball—quick steps and acrobatic contortions winning him the day—careful to give the licking green tongues of necrotic flame a wide birth.
...
2024-10-22 22:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post