"You can't, brother! Father will get mad!" a young boy cried out, trying desperately to stop the older one from sneaking out.
Past the window was a dark night, ashen clouds cloaking even the...
2025-08-30 20:33:28 +0000 UTC
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I don't know how much impact my 'spirited' little monologue had, but even if it was just barely enough to plant a seed of doubt... I'd consider it a success. Though it's gotten much easier to navig...
2025-08-30 20:32:39 +0000 UTC
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Rayce ran through the steep slide and through the thick garden of trees, his forehead glistening with sweat. It was as though there were ghosts chasing him, as he never seemed to slow down until he...
2025-08-29 21:36:18 +0000 UTC
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So, what's the plan?
Ah, silly me, like I have someone to ask this question.
Well, I did ask it--to Long Tao--but he simply shrugged and left it off with, 'I trust you, Master'...
2025-08-29 21:35:20 +0000 UTC
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Light returned about an hour after she left, except this time she had some random horn in her arms.
... what?
Anyway, she never bothered to explain it, walking over to Long Tao who brie...
2025-08-28 20:34:57 +0000 UTC
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There was a rather pretty flower coming out of the ground, surrounded by snow. It was strange, how red it was against the white around it, making it stand out even more.
She crouched and tilt...
2025-08-28 20:34:20 +0000 UTC
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They paused for a moment at my suggestion, though it was a bit of a stretch. If he was as paranoid as these two made him out to be, he wasn't coming out even if we burned down the entire c...
2025-08-27 21:18:36 +0000 UTC
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"His name is--was--A'tun Elkath," yeah, sure, whatever you say. "He was born with a rather rare Essence Core, though it wasn't spectacular by any means. Of his generation, he always lagged behind t...
2025-08-26 21:15:49 +0000 UTC
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Long Tao came back in a rather good mood.
I'm guessing.
I can't really tell, to be honest. I'm just sort of assuming since I kind of saw how he looked when he came back from someplace i...
2025-08-26 21:15:21 +0000 UTC
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Long Tao stepped out and blended into the castle's drab gray colors, vanishing as though he were never there.
The sky above couldn't even really be seen as there was still about two thousand...
2025-08-25 20:50:40 +0000 UTC
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Who was Lilia?
Honestly, even after mingling around for about half an hour, I still got no clue. All I can say is that she's very liked, and that she was thought of as dead.
...
2025-08-25 20:50:12 +0000 UTC
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Was I going to give Xi Zhao the art?
Probably.
Will I any time soon?
Hell no.
Not because of him, actually. I decided to take Long Tao's words to heart and accept that I jus...
2025-08-24 21:52:33 +0000 UTC
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[Congratulations, Host, on creating 'Single Severance' Sword Art]
... dammit. Do I have to surrender and admit that the system has a better naming sense than me?
No. Never
Nev...
2025-08-23 21:46:10 +0000 UTC
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Rather than spending the night restlessly wrecking my mind with potential solution to our little 'is-it-a-vampire-problem', I chose to fiddle with the system a bit and create Xi Zhao's unique littl...
2025-08-23 21:45:42 +0000 UTC
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The inside of the barracks was actually much better than the somewhat rundown exterior--the central hall housed six wooden tables, each with long benches at the sides with some kind of fur as cushi...
2025-08-22 18:20:31 +0000 UTC
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I can see it!
The first sign of human civilization in almost a month! There it is, just about a hundred yards up, pressed into the side of a mountain and built atop a rather wide and broad pl...
2025-08-22 18:20:00 +0000 UTC
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Rayce ran back inside the cave, his breathing ragged and quick, heart all but leaping out his chest. Snapping his fingers, the massive boulder at the entrance shook and trembled for a moment before...
2025-08-21 22:00:33 +0000 UTC
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Ignoring Light's odd (but expected, I suppose) reaction, my attention was drawn to the figure that just landed--not only because of the spectacular entrance, but also because of the clothe...
2025-08-21 22:00:06 +0000 UTC
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We reached the base of the mountain at around 3, per my estimates. There wasn't a 'clock', as it were, in this world, but there was timekeeping, just that it wasn't particularly precise. T...
2025-08-20 20:37:40 +0000 UTC
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It could also be that I'm thinking out my ass and that it's just 'system magic'. No, really. My understanding of kinetic energies and whatnot is not good. I might even be misremembering ho...
2025-08-19 20:35:41 +0000 UTC
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We left the inn right after a rather dull and dry breakfast which consisted of a lukewarm porridge with rice and a glass of water that I did not dare drink since it looked like something c...
2025-08-19 20:35:14 +0000 UTC
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Huh.
That was...
Well, the lamest way to put it is: it was unexpected. So, so unexpected that I nearly just dismissed the window because I thought there'd be no extra rewards. But, inst...
2025-08-18 21:18:59 +0000 UTC
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Before the night was over, I promised myself I'd make a rather specific art.
Okay, I need to back up a bit.
In my one year in this world, I learned many, many things, but one s...
2025-08-18 21:18:23 +0000 UTC
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It was about ten days after Xi Zhao broke through, and once we finally dislodged ourself of a rather hilly terrain that I saw them--the mountains.
Honestly, they looked more like a wall since...
2025-08-17 18:27:13 +0000 UTC
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Xi Zhao took about as long as Dai Xiu did to break through, and caused a relatively same phenomenon.
Swirls of Qi coalesced into a visible spectrum of misty-like colors, and they all slowly d...
2025-08-17 18:26:50 +0000 UTC
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Long Tao paused, his brows furrowing into a point.
Something felt... off.
He was extremely familiar with every aspect of his own cultivation--down to the last tiny mote of Qi h...
2025-08-16 21:05:12 +0000 UTC
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It's now been almost a year since I've come to this world.
No, seriously.
A freakin' year.
I can't believe it. Not in the slightest. Not just that I've come here, that's for sure,...
2025-08-15 20:10:07 +0000 UTC
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I woke up rather well rested.
In fact, it was kind of surprising how well rested I was. Usually, I never really got a full night's rest; I don't like to brag but this stupid brain of...
2025-08-14 21:44:32 +0000 UTC
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Long Tao dragged the man's unconscious body away from the village and to the nearby hill. Just as he tossed him on the ground, the man awoke, coughing and trying to free himself of restraints to no...
2025-08-14 21:44:07 +0000 UTC
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The poor thing conked out within a minute of crying so loudly that my eardrums burst. Before long, she was happily snoring as I picked her up.
The 'world', if you could even call it that, aro...
2025-08-13 20:54:30 +0000 UTC
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