A spark of will. Water and bone gathered from all around, rising up and freezing into a perfect bone-backed mirror before him. He already saw ways to improve, myriad changes that would need to be made to make such an armor function in reality, but… It didn’t matter. This world was his own, an...
2023-01-02 20:46:55 +0000 UTC View PostAnd lo, the vile monster arose from the boneyard and set upon the both of them, a silver comet trailing a tail of purple flame and spraying venom that set ablaze and burned like CP-T, sticking to everything it touched. The Thinking and Primordial Selves did great battle with the thoughtform; innu...
2023-01-01 18:28:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe expedition departed covertly before sunrise from a hidden depot using lightweight sleds. They were pulled by tamed Razorflayers and devoid of the clan’s markings, the sleds’ rails shod with special, short-lasting covers that would cause them to leave no trail. The expedition members wore ...
2022-12-31 18:34:00 +0000 UTC View PostTo illustrate her point, Zel willed a trigonal tower of blackstone to rise from the sands behind her, its unimpeachable form covered in eldritch evershifting glyphs pulsing with magenta light. She truly played up the glyphs’ unreadability to compensate for the fact she herself didn’t know a s...
2022-12-29 18:27:18 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: This chapter is 100% SFW, but it does have a lightly NSFW artwork associated with it. The art is by Kuromoro.
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Variant 2 - 2022-12-28 18:26:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Krahe wondered what the hell terms like Anathema or Thauma Fusion meant, or even just Thauma on its own, thinking of the supposed feature of her first boon. It didn’t go off. She tried focusing on the idea of Thauma Fusion as it related to the boon, and this time, it worked.
Knowledge tha...
2022-12-28 07:05:05 +0000 UTC View Post“You, who have never been told no. You, who have been born into riches. You, who have been given freely the means by which to extricate yourself from the limits of nature. If you would have the gall to look down upon me and mine, I would meet you in holmgang. Refuse if you will, but if you do s...
2022-12-27 19:37:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe one Bjorn Clan member she got to fight was the most challenging, a large woman who put up a truly impressive defense against her strikes by using her own fat as a medium to absorb kinetic energy. Combined with sonic attacks in the form of bear roars and the woman’s bear-based, incredibly st...
2022-12-26 22:26:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Come on, I’ll carry you the rest of the way if your legs give out,” she added. It wasn’t as if she needed to convince him - Zel knew that there were very few things on which Victor wouldn’t defer to her when it came to his training, short of the blatantly unreasonable and harmful. No, ...
2022-12-24 23:55:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt had taken two days and some spare change for Victor to go through his Azoth Stone Dissolution, and the symptoms he suffered were markedly similar to Zef’s. His symptoms were understandably a fair bit milder, since he hadn’t spent the better part of his life as a professional soldier.
Working off of decades of tactical instinct, she ran into the center of the square, towards the fountain, intending to use its height for cover while she cleared out some of the beasts and made her way to a better tactical position. At worst, she could scale the fountain itself and play king of t...
2022-12-23 18:01:17 +0000 UTC View Post“You still haven’t answered my question,” Zel grinned at him. The smith’s answer hadn’t surprised her in the slightest, and thus hadn’t dampened her spirits either. She viewed Eisengeist as a one-in-a-million shot for the moment, as well as something to plan for in the future. Seventy...
2022-12-22 18:09:56 +0000 UTC View PostIn the corner of her vision, no more than a few hundred meters up this revolution of the city’s spiral layout, she spotted a towering structure reaching all the way to the surface - an elevator, obviously put here by whoever had hauled all that lab equipment into an ancient temple. She continue...
2022-12-22 14:59:44 +0000 UTC View PostHours passed. Meanwhile, in another bath, Victor had consumed a small, white pill, and was currently coughing up black sludge, which not only didn’t foul the water, it dissolved in seconds, so potent was the water - or perhaps so weak was his impurity, or perhaps both. Jorfr basked in the water...
2022-12-21 19:10:54 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Next chapter on Wednesday, 21st of December.
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“Do you?” Rikke asked.
A part of Zelsys wanted to say yes; to change her victory condition to Rikke leaving her clan and joinin...
2022-12-19 20:25:16 +0000 UTC View PostSomething unfamiliar, however, followed; after downing the elixir he retrieved a small jar from amidst the mess, smearing some of its greasy contents on each of his wounds in turn. They each closed in turn.
“Where’d you get that? The cream,” she asked, curiously. Zel had meant to proc...
2022-12-18 20:31:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Y’know… Couldn’t you just use Arcline as a scaffold to build the snake construct around?” Zefaris suggested, seemingly out of nowhere, after they had already returned to their chambers. Her face was still somewhat flushed, but as far as Zel could tell, she wasn’t outright drunk anymo...
2022-12-17 19:04:23 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: This chapter has sexual content. There are also two artworks associated with it, each of them with two variants.
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2022-12-16 21:33:23 +0000 UTC View PostAs the feast petered off, most of the surviving hunters retreated to rest and recover - as did Zef, dragging an unconscious Victor off to his chambers. All but Gunnar and Yvonne had some degree of injury; as Zel learned, Gunnar had in fact sustained many injuries, but they had been dealt to his b...
2022-12-15 20:26:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Reidar, Katarine, Sinne, and Morten… They’ve been badly injured. We had to inter Reidar and Sinne in ice. Merete and Torhild are tending to the other two.”
There was something under those words; a dark implication, Zelsys could tell. She just couldn’t discern what it was. A grave...
2022-12-14 18:34:20 +0000 UTC View Post“Would it not be a waste?” Fryg argued, having just risen from her seat at the head of the table to walk over. “Splitting such a large tusk will slash its value when we could sell it and buy a pre-formed chunk of ivory with a fraction of the proceeds.”
“This is not about money,”...
2022-12-13 20:32:26 +0000 UTC View PostThere were, indeed, more rags in one of the drawers - two of them. Better than nothing, she supposed. Wiping off the most egregious muck quickly fouled them, and seeing this, Krahe looked around in the hopes that the lab would have a source of water. It did. One of the wheeled cabinets had a smal...
2022-12-13 03:59:08 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Edited the end of the chapter after they enter the longhouse.
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“Newman. Why go this far? You could always reforge your blade again, when you are tougher and have the resources to make it easier f...
“This feels too convenient,” he said. The smith’s suspicion of just how much Zelsys knew was near tangible. She herself couldn’t tell how much he thought she knew, so she left that conversational thread alone.
“You underestimate my compulsion to hoard anything that I think could b...
2022-12-11 21:45:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe thought that this suffocating encasement might be some sort of hellish afterlife came into her mind, only for a few seconds of struggle to prove otherwise. Whatever was trapping her came apart like some sort of rotten, waxy polymer. Chunks of the stuff plummeted into nothingness below.
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2022-12-10 19:02:52 +0000 UTC View Post“...I have two suggestions. First, you may be able to temporarily modify your sleeve to be more conducive for your needs; it is an artifact of protection, so the concepts which drive its magic are adjacent to what you need it to do. By creating specialized talismans and affixin...
2022-12-10 18:54:41 +0000 UTC View Post“Make each segment like a tooth,” the Primordial Self stated plainly, forming a floating mockup of its suggestion out of sand. It then made a copy of the mockup, forming a skull with the two butchers as its lower jaws; a visualized mental tangent based solely on the ...
2022-12-09 21:57:47 +0000 UTC View Post“You will hear no objections from me,” Zel said.
“Good! So just to ensure we are all on the same page: You have a dying spirit weapon, and young Jorfr requested that I consider aiding you in saving its life. I shall expect appropriate payment, of course. You have idea...
2022-12-08 23:00:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the tour paled by comparison, and seemingly having predicted as much, Jorfr had made it quite short. It mostly consisted of running down the list of several monuments which they hadn’t already seen earlier, including a statue of Wide-wuth of the Unbroken Shield, which stood strangel...
2022-12-08 01:58:59 +0000 UTC View Post“Damn baneworm venom…” he cursed, instead pointing the iron at the cut-open parasite. A single shot ripped it in half, a wrathful thunderclap echoing through these ancient halls. Such thoughts elicited only fury within Audun, knowing that they were not his own.
In his state o...
2022-12-07 17:21:24 +0000 UTC View Post