A/N: No chapters on 24th, 25th, and 26th Dec, for Christmas reasons.
“Dunno. He’s been spending a third of his time running errands, a third trying to make that Iron Rider belt function, and a third obsessively training one slash,” Zel shrugged, answering plainly and without smugness ...
2021-12-20 19:02:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe altar turned out to be quite a bit larger than it had seemed, the grass having concealed its sizable base alongside an array of nine shorter pedestals around it. Walking right past, Ozmir led them to another door, beyond it a similar chamber to the one they’d entered through, merely possess...
2021-12-19 18:12:34 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Probably no chapter tomorrow. Mainly doing editing today.
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“That’d be ‘cause I used a scroll written by some nameless desert swordsman that I got out of the sect’s vault,” smugged the self...
2021-12-17 18:40:33 +0000 UTC View PostAnd indeed, upon her approach bearing that intention in mind, Zel found a door-shaped section of the wall flickering and growing increasingly uncertain, until its fake matter dissolved into Fog and faded away. On the other side was a short, narrow hallway, leading to a… Tiny, circular room? No,...
2021-12-16 19:06:39 +0000 UTC View Post“The arts of my people are rooted in connection to the land and its spirits,” Jorfr answered. “Since our bout, I have traveled to places where nature still rules in this land. I communed with the spirits of this land, gathered herbs, and sought out the hide of a great predator that I might ...
2021-12-15 19:11:58 +0000 UTC View PostAnd so, she had gotten her sparring partners, and in so doing also promising candidates for induction into the sect proper… Or rather, accelerated induction. She didn’t plan on arbitrarily rejecting people based on lack of pre-existing ability, but whilst some would be only given basic guidan...
2021-12-14 18:38:40 +0000 UTC View PostOne moment Makhus saw her standing there, and the next she had already stepped forward, her cleaver embedded in the dummy, and a forceful gust of wind blew back his hair. There was not a thunderclap, but the forceful reverberation of cold iron, the growl of a beast as it bit into its target.
<... 2021-12-13 18:51:48 +0000 UTC View PostMakhus scarcely knew what he himself had just done until he witnessed its aftermath.
The bright-red veins bulging all over the swordsman-alchemist’s body faded as he stood stunned at the sight of a halved log dummy, into each half embedded one half of a bullet.
Self-satisfied grin s...
2021-12-12 17:36:18 +0000 UTC View PostZelsys stood there in stunned silence, having expected a shotgun blast of miniature lightning-beads.
“You uh, do anything with the striker?” she asked with a nervous laugh.
“Whuh?” Sarz blinked a few times, dumbfounded.
Taking a deep breath, Zel began burning off one-thi...
2021-12-11 18:10:57 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Gen shrunk where he stood at the admonishment of his senior, Sarz nodded towards Zelsys.
“Go ahead, try it on. I’d like to see it worn as intended at least once,” he nodded towards the arm-harness. “Just don’t be surprised at the initial sting, y’know how these things are....
2021-12-10 18:50:04 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: As I already noted on an earlier chapter, I'm taking a week off to play Endwalker starting tomorrow.
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Going by the new and much flashier sale sign, he was marketing them as civilian goods made to mi...
2021-12-02 18:44:11 +0000 UTC View Post...And with that final blow, the Forgemother’s manifestation lost cohesion, dissolving into wisps of blue fire that blew away into the night sky upon the winds, whilst her true essence returned to little more than an everburning blue coal within the forge reactor.
Many of those still out ...
2021-12-01 18:30:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe Smithy stood far in the fields, far from prying eyes or would-be interference, the G-Kaisers having had it walk itself down the side road they had initially parked it by. In addition to this, they’d asked several Iron Brotherhood tankmen to barricade the road, the mercenaries fully aware of...
2021-11-30 17:49:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe right boot’s frontal plates also bore an etched lightning pattern akin to that upon her cleaver’s flat, belying the difference in internal construction between it and its twin. Zel didn’t have the eye to distinguish what exactly the differences were or what they meant, only that there w...
2021-11-29 17:44:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Just on time,” he smiled, nodding towards the two boxes. “I got done putting the finishing touches on them just this morning. I trust that you will be satisfied.”
“I trust I will,” Zel grinned, pulling out her promissory ticket alongside a small bag of money she’d prepared ah...
2021-11-28 17:12:13 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Starting with next Friday (3rd December), I'm taking a week off to play Endwalker.
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On one hand, she couldn’t just name things what they were. It would put people off using her new method, it woul...
2021-11-27 19:02:06 +0000 UTC View PostWatching that woman was as mesmerizing as it was unnerving, doubly so to anyone with actual martial arts experience.
One could discern the seeds of a unique fighting style quickening within hours and days whence it should reasonably take weeks and months at the very least, even with near-co...
2021-11-26 19:34:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe idea of a means to more directly manage pain also struck her, though she left it for whenever she would next commune with the Primordial Self, therefore Zelsys decided it would be best to dedicate her time to polishing what she already had and trying to create a real version of Thunde...
2021-11-25 19:08:14 +0000 UTC View PostIt didn’t even have a proper title, and only held cryptic poems. The text had grown famous for allegedly being stolen from the Sanger Family’s elder prior to its proliferation, being known as the Sword-Soul Manuscript.
It was also utterly useless, as far as Zefaris was concerned.
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2021-11-24 18:11:01 +0000 UTC View PostIn preparation for Zef’s decision to go through with taking the pill, they once more drew upon Makhus’s know-how. Despite his still far-from-ideal state, he gladly drew up two full sheets of the same talismans he had used to seal what Zel had regurgitated when she drank the Necrobeast Elixir ...
2021-11-23 17:57:47 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Some RL bullshit going on today, probably won't get much done so probably no chapter tomorrow.
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The chef, upon seeing them, beamed with a welcoming aura that reminded them of Quincy, sparking the th...
2021-11-21 17:47:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe Mind was willing, but the Body wasn’t there to do the deed…
...Until it was.
Indeed, just as the Composite Titan recovered from the loss of a right arm, the Primordial Self had finished carving out the back of the Emperor-effigy’s neck and severing the spinal cord, causing i...
2021-11-20 18:59:04 +0000 UTC View PostZelsys backed off and summoned up a storm of fireflies, spreading out her arms and with a stomp bringing uncountable sand-grains into the air. Each and every one she transformed into ball lightning, conjuring forth ten, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand fireflies.
Unleashing them upon the...
2021-11-19 18:30:32 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the Thundersaw Beast turned into a distorted cleaver, and then returned with metal screeching to a vague approximation of its true form, the Primordial Self was left there, laying in a crater of glass, half-enveloped in a brittle cocoon, bleeding and struggling for breath, its left arm sever...
2021-11-18 18:10:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm making sure the small details that are off get corrected (like the wall going to the top and the cleaver handle looking more like it's melted on), but yea. Also it's color flats so it obviously looks flat, I'm pretty sure the muscle will come out in rendering (but i'm still reminding the arti...
2021-11-18 15:06:01 +0000 UTC View PostShe had already arrived at the conclusion that she would need to exploit every advantage afforded by her sapience, for she had felt the dream-realm’s bizarrity already. Where she would’ve expected her instincts was now a foggy approximation, the feelings of drive, of fight or flight, everythi...
2021-11-17 17:46:10 +0000 UTC View PostSome argued to give him a proper burial, to spite him by being better than him, whilst others wished to butcher him and display his head atop the lighthouse. Many, however, wished to burn him - to turn his own pleasure-ship into a floating funeral pyre, believing that this manner of destroying th...
2021-11-16 15:14:30 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Zel finally asked if she, too, intended to build and teach her own martial art, the blonde answered that she hadn’t planned on teaching it, but now that she thought about it, revolvers and similar repeating guns becoming popular was an inevitability.
Zel posed a second question, one ...
2021-11-15 19:35:43 +0000 UTC View Post
