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200 - The Ripping Spear in the Corridor of Gehenna [Cherno]

Chaos usurped the reins and any semblance of the enemy’s team cohesion shattered. They all started acting according to their own plans, following whatever plan they had agreed to in only the vaguest sense.

Wooden arms exploded from the walls, grabbing at a silhouette that was not the gree...

NOTICE: Removal of $1 and $3 tiers.

Basically nobody uses them and it's an enormous pain in the ass to keep up with unlocking chapters for these lower tiers due to Patreon's DOGSHIT interface changes. I'm also fairly sure what few members are still in them have just forgotten they're even subbed. For this reason, I am deleting thes...

199 - Two-pronged Attack [Cherno]

Yazata very nearly raised her eyebrows at the man’s temerity, but she let it go. It was not her problem. She led the Red Hoods into the Mirzaii Subdistrict, quickly approaching the mansion. They encountered no great resistance on the approach, easily subduing enemy patrols before they could use...

346 - Dragonslayer Baptism [Sturmblitz]

As if having predicted exactly how she would feel upon reading the notes, the very next page noted the reason for her unannounced use of this procedure. Zelsys described herself as feeling like she was inside a too-tight glove, like her own skin was too small, as if every iota of her body itched ...

345 - Seclusion [Sturmblitz]

“I want to say this is a formation, but… It does not follow common formation-building rules. You said the spire contains countless formations, and as far as I can tell that is the truth, but the flow of power inside the walls has not been significantly altered. How is this ‘formati...

198 - Re: Yazata Heptaxia [Cherno] [+Artwork]

Initially, Yazata wasn’t particularly fond of these “Red Hoods”. Battle-automata that they were, they mimicked human behavior far too closely without the cognitive capacity to be held accountable. They lacked the token animalism of graft-beasts, and bore no esoteric spark to imply the prese...

197 - They Just Vanished [Cherno]

By the time the ritual was over, the boy had come out, just in time to witness the shrine guardian lurch upward. Its mouth creaked open, and it drew in every iota of incense smoke in the vicinity. The guardian thumped its staff against its altar, and a seven-spoked wheel of golden flame blazed al...

196 - Tarnished Silberblut [Cherno]

Over and over again, Krahe shamelessly threw filthy, Isotope-laced smoke grenades, skimmed through walls, and simply rendered herself untouchable when the enemy’s numbers and knowledge of their home turf proved superior to her tactical planning.

The slaughter went on like this for several...

344 - Manifestation [Sturmblitz]

And so, many of those disciples who had gathered here did leave. Many others remained, observing from beyond the boundary. A small handful walked into the boundary, and disappeared. Two were expelled immediately, one covered in deep wounds and the other seemingly having gone feral.

“Fools...

195 - Sewer Wars Pt. 4 [Cherno]

As she looked down at the two, Krahe decided that she didn’t care to kill them. They barely looked like adults, their eyes lacked any sort of hardened shine. They didn’t belong here… And they reminded her of stupid kids back in Megacity Gamma. Stupid kids that joined gangs, thinking it was ...

343 - Eberheim Aftermath [Sturmblitz]

As for the Hellhounds, they were split. Some were too wounded to partake in “active rest”, while others were not of a cultivator-like inclination, treating their work as just that. Nonetheless, elite soldiers that they were, they had plentiful resources to help them deal with their wounds and...

194 - Sewer Wars Pt. 3 [Cherno]

As the cloud of dust and mist started to clear, Achmed saw it. Utterly unharmed, in fact it looked like the shape had completely bypassed the killzone before the charges had even gone off. An unearthly aura of pitch-black smoke rose from the invader’s armour, as if it was some cursed g...

193 - Sewer Wars Pt. 2 [Cherno]

The Stillborn, 82, surged forward, sprinting past the corner, its buzzing rising to a scream-like fever pitch as it raised its left arm and began firing. With a repeating sequence of whirring charge-up and thumping release, its weapon’s focused shockwaves tore up the water surface with their me...

192 - Sewer Wars Pt. 1 [Cherno]

With her exhalation, Viridaimon’s crow-like gas mask released long threads of smoke. Krahe raised her left arm, holding it straight to get a feel for the suit’s stabilization. Then, she dived, just to dial-in any impact Viridaimon might have had upon the Liminal Coil’s functions. The relati...

WALKING TRIBULATION

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342 - Slay the Dragon Pt. 2/The Governor Gets a Call [Sturmblitz]

Plates all across the armor slid out of the way, revealing a mixture of vents, heatsinks, and thrusters on the back and legs, inspired by Zero’s G-3 refit. A deluge of bloody Fog erupted from the suit, trailing behind it as Makhus shattered the ground and went soaring skyward.

The taste o...

341 - Slay the Dragon Pt. 1 [Sturmblitz]

Lucian couldn’t use the Bearstopper Guard here; the force of the Wildfire Kite’s tail was something altogether different from the mere membrane of its wing. Out of desperate resolve, he took up a stance and harnessed a technique his master had gone to great lengths to hammer into him. Knifeto...

191 - Guilt Repaid in Cold Blood [Cherno]

Originally, she had planned to immobilize and interrogate the woman, then maybe give her a chance at survival by turning her over to the church. It would have depended on how she came across during the interrogation, whether she was just a broken person in a bad situation and so on. Ther...

190 - Trafficker [Cherno]

“Do we get Red Hood support, or are they all needed for the frontal assault?” she asked as she locked the gun-like catalyst to her left arm’s bracer.

“Unfortunately, we shall be on our own in the subterrain,” Casus said.

And so, they were off, riding through the city until t...

189 - Trinity Composite (Also Frustration) [Cherno]

As Krahe made her way from Garvesh’s place and turned the corner, she heard a man’s footsteps nearby, just entering the same alleyway from the other end. Rapid, but decisive, not agitated. They were accompanied by a whistled melody. Though she never once glimpsed that stranger, she felt an un...

340 - Petals of Spring [Sturmblitz]

And so, when he glimpsed the writhing mass of pink lightning that was Senior Lydia’s sword, Lucian ripped both his sword and fingers free, pushing off of the Kite’s wing with his feet. The dragon instinctively tried to toss him off at the sensation of pain, and in so doing, sent him flying ri...

339 - Flesh Becomes a Blade [Sturmblitz]

As Lucian hopped back out of the way of the Wildfire Kite’s tail, an opportunistic Kiteling leapt down at him from a tree branch. Lucian had been aware of its presence, but his conscious focus at that moment was squarely on not getting turned into a leaky sack of charred mincemeat by the Kite�...

188 - Shardkey of Heshmad Abbasi [Cherno]

The malformed corpse of Imraal’s cart was still out front, now joined by a trail of dried blood going inside the building. Krahe half-jokingly muttered a prayer to the deceased machine, then went inside, following the blood trail up the stairs to Garvesh’s apartment. From the direction, it wa...

187 - Plan of Attack Pt. 2 [Cherno]

”I expected you to outright object to the plan. I even prepared two alternatives,” Casus admitted.

“I am an Inquisitor, even if my direct combat capabilities are on the lower end. If I could not stand against odds like these, I would not qualify for my title. I must admit tha...

186 - Plan of Attack [Cherno]

“Just a moment,” Yazata said into the mouthpiece before hanging it up and once more turning the window to a one-way mirror.

“Was that enough information for you to decide on a plan of attack, Aristedes?” she asked, an undercurrent of annoyance in her voice. He couldn’t blame her. ...

338 - Flowering Fulgarrow [Sturmblitz]

While Makhus was approaching the dragon, so was she, but rather than charging straight at it, she merely closed the distance while telekinetically drawing Vysaga out of its sheath. As the sword rose out of its sheath on Lydia’s back, its golden dragon-wing crossguard unfurled, previously wrappe...

337 - Dharmapala [Sturmblitz]

A/N: I'll catch back up to 20 advance chaps on this, don't worry

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Makhus instinctively rested the Fragment Sabre on his shoulder, striding towards the Wildfire Kite alongside his companions as they plugged their ears. ...

185 - Miniature Sarcophagus/Yazata Heptaxia [Cherno]

And so, Krahe set off for that place; the ship was not nestled quietly in the corner, but was in fact the largest one. Garvesh’s debtor plied his trade from deep within its bowels, and given the fact none of the crew stopped her as she walked into areas obviously not meant for normal passengers...

184 - Calling in a Favour [Cherno]

A/N: Expanded the sequence before cutting to the next scene

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Another staccato of thought-flashes followed, far more rapid, showing similar scenes of growth, but no corruption this time. Saints arrived all the same, but p...

183 - Six-eyed Dream Serpent [Cherno]

The snake, after all, was right inside the terrarium behind the bar; it was just hiding, and slithered into view when Krahe expressed her interest in its venom. Its head shape was similar to a horned desert viper, but it had six blue-glowing eyes with hairpin pupils, including three pairs of horn...