Yao walked downstairs, with Krahe following.
“This seal will have the secondary benefit of further compressing the voidkey’s energies,” Yao said on the way down. She proceeded to collapse onto a sofa, and, in a manner strangely similar to Razem, any sense of transcendence vanished fro...
2024-01-02 04:57:03 +0000 UTC View PostKrahe continued:
“Capacitor charge at 80% projected capacity. 90%. 100%. 110%. 120%. Capacitor charge stable at 124% of projected capacity. Preparing laser pump array for connection. Connection successful. Initiating ignition. Capacitor discharge… Successful.”
The revolutions in...
2023-12-31 13:48:20 +0000 UTC View PostYao proceeded to carry out a feverish series of hand-signs and gestures that incorporated her whole body, taking a few methodical steps, each ringing out with a loud CLACK. With each sign, the rotational speed of the talisman rings grew, each at a different rate, as did the intensity of their glo...
2023-12-29 22:58:46 +0000 UTC View Post"You have been visibly improving week over week, so you cannot be called a failure in general terms. If you feel you are stuck in your specific cultivation method, given how unorthodox it is, we would first need to determine if it is a problem with you or the method," Makhus proposed.
"He's...
2023-12-26 19:45:24 +0000 UTC View PostKrahe’s brief bout of reminiscence was broken by Yao’s voice.
“This is… Not ‘anthrocite’,” the talisman mistress said without looking away from the hand for so much as a second. The tone of her voice and the expression on her face spoke of a mixture of surprise, mild confusion...
2023-12-23 07:43:53 +0000 UTC View PostAs quickly as it had begun, it ceased. With a sound somewhere between a wheezing inhalation, the scraping of glass, and the creak of a bone being slowly bent to breaking, the unlight was drawn back into Yao’s left eye socket, once more sealed away.
“It certainly matches your description...
2023-12-23 07:40:37 +0000 UTC View PostOverpowering the creature was easier said than done - they were monstrously strong for their small size, and belched flame at every opportunity. Their scales raised from their bodies to make them seem larger, and to make them spiky, thus unpleasant to eat. However, this scale-raising behavior als...
2023-12-20 18:02:45 +0000 UTC View Post"Alright, fine, enough games," Krahe sighed, and decided to just spill everything about the Hexkey. As it was, both it and the anthrocite hand were utterly useless to her. "To start with, I know the superior counterpart to human charcoal under the name 'anthrocite'. Secondly, I found what I belie...
2023-12-19 06:46:19 +0000 UTC View PostReaching out with her left hand, several papers split off from Yao's arm and wrapped around the chunk, bringing it closer to her. She silently inspected it for a few moments, subjecting it to four separate talisman-based tests. Twice, the paper's patterns changed colour, and twice more, it burned...
2023-12-14 06:59:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe only thing left to do was to write a message and send Yao's communication talisman back to its owner. It was a relatively simple process, if laborious due to the talisman's ravenous appetite for thauma. The message was simple, informing the talisman mistress of Krahe's intent to visit and req...
2023-12-13 23:27:25 +0000 UTC View PostThere, in the depths of struggle and pain, he found an abiding and invincible will to move forward. For the briefest moment, he could swear someone was pulling him back to his feet and speaking encouragement in his ear. He couldn't make out most of the words, only an immense sense of pride, as we...
2023-12-12 03:44:31 +0000 UTC View PostWhen he finally walked out into the courtyard, Lucian realized he hadn't even been told the most basic information in the rush. One moment he had been asleep, the next he was awake; Elder Makhus had waved some kind of smelling salts under his nose. Hell, he had barely been able to wash himself, a...
2023-12-10 23:26:57 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: This one's a bit shorter. Next one will be a bit longer. Dialogue flow reasons.
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"What's the point of demanding us to register separately? The Slayer's Guild and the Newman Sect might as well be the same entity. Same pe...
"Beef," the raven demanded in a large black man's voice.
"I'll give you some if you give me that quote."
"Beef, twelve ounces," he reiterated.
"We have tortoise. You liked it better than beef."
The whole time, Casus watched on, his stoic visage admirably masking his mild b...
2023-12-09 02:28:15 +0000 UTC View PostAmbrosius simply led Casus into the basement, where a miniature urban landscape of astonishing detail stretched across a table. In the span of a few minutes, he brought out boxes of miniatures and re-set the battle state as it was nearly a year ago when they had last spoken like this. The saint d...
2023-12-06 05:32:07 +0000 UTC View PostAfter dealing with the delivery and stashing most of her money away in the vent duct, she made her way to Sorayah's place, for multiple reasons. The main one - breaching her bedroom - turned out to be a bust. The ward-breaker, a Pilgrim Banisher with his horizontal eyes still closed, did his job ...
2023-12-05 18:16:24 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: The gunporn section was unnecessarily long but I wanted to keep it unaltered so slightly longer chapter
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Opening a box full of cash never got old. The paper wraps disintegrated the moment she tore them off, revealing a ...
2023-12-05 16:28:06 +0000 UTC View PostFor three days and three nights, Zelsys watched over the Third Truthseeker as golden lightning hammered down on him.
For three days and three nights, she watched the man thrash against his restraints, screaming, ranting, monologuing.
She sat, only meters from the man, for she was the ...
2023-12-04 06:12:35 +0000 UTC View PostOut of nowhere and unprompted, Bishamonten spoke: "WHAT HAS TRANSPIRED HERE SHALL LEAVE THIS LAND SEVERELY OUT OF BALANCE. THE LEYLINES SWELL WITH UNBIDDEN POWER. THE RESTLESS DEAD WAIT FOR AN OPPORTUNITY TO COALESCE. UNTIL THIS IMBALANCE IS REDRESSED, THE WEATHER SHALL BE RUINOUSLY EXTRE...
2023-12-02 23:31:08 +0000 UTC View Post"What do you plan to do with him?" she gestured to the prisoner.
"I'll turn the body into the church, it should get back to any relatives he might have. The wormy fuck didn't even bother to change the face, and kept the original contractor ID. As for the worm... I'll debeak and swallow him ...
2023-12-01 02:30:29 +0000 UTC View PostDespite her deep and profound sorrow, she mustered the will to enter the building. The old lizard was in his home, and readily opened the door after she banged on it while announcing herself: "Open up, it's me!"
The lock turned and the door swung open, but Garvesh was nowhere near it.
As the flyman performed a simple grafting operation on himself out in the open, he spoke: "I almost pity you. You must think highly of Silberblut. It must be difficult to know you will never live up to what he was. To know you tarnish his legacy with this deluded impersonation. Perhaps I was wron...
2023-11-30 02:47:53 +0000 UTC View PostShe knew why he hadn't moved yet. He couldn't. His body could, but his soul wouldn't let him. The presence of the giant Oculus only meters from him, Bishamonten looming not far off, and Victor, somehow, still chanting. All together, Third couldn't exert his aura in any meaningful way, lest it be ...
2023-11-27 06:59:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe containment formation’s outermost ring finally gave out, but by then, the vast majority of Third's would-be suicide technique was spent. The burst of power that escaped was so small that Bishamonten's avatar drew it in without any apparent effort, leaving only a pitch-black, elongated corps...
2023-11-27 05:52:58 +0000 UTC View Post"I AM THE GUARDIAN OF HEAVENLY TREASURES, THE PATRON OF RIGHTEOUS WARRIORS AND PUNISHER OF THOSE WITHOUT HONOR!" the Avatar continued to speak. It seemed as if, with each utterance, its presence became more real and less ethereal, as if introducing itself in this manner was part ...
2023-11-26 03:54:11 +0000 UTC View PostAs he ripped himself free, he caught a glimpse of the source of that second attack. Just a flash, but it was unmistakable. A damascened membrane in the palm of Tsetse's hand. That was the reason for the weird fist, to cover it up. His thoughts ran rampage; had Tsetse devised that specifically...
2023-11-25 04:31:09 +0000 UTC View PostHe smelled it long before he reached the lab. The sweet smell of rotting meat, but not quite like the real thing, tinged with musky pungency and the sting of pheromones not intended for his nostrils. The stench only led him to rush even more, driving him to transform into Silberblut pre-emptively...
2023-11-25 04:29:14 +0000 UTC View PostThat night, there was a brief light show in the sky just above the city. A swarm of glowing papers chasing after a deep-blue comet, each letting off a shining beam of light before disintegrating.
It ended with a dozen rays of light scattering into the sky all at once, and the body of their ...
2023-11-24 04:35:06 +0000 UTC View PostReload; a new talisman wrapped around his staff. An adjustment of his fingers on the haft, translating to subtle adjustments to the next shot's properties. The air still crackled with remnant energy as Jezail regained sight and recalculated trajectories. Jezail's mind ran far faster than any Norm...
2023-11-23 21:17:01 +0000 UTC View Post