Thump
An array of footsteps clopped with a hideous squelch. Obsidian-black boots took Frost down a bloody path. The red veins along her apparel pulsated with the frequency of the heartbeat deeper within the bowels of the Leviathan.
Following Frost was Alcina. She introduced h...
2025-06-10 12:25:24 +0000 UTC View PostAire.
It was a town situated at the crossroads of the Justicia Highways. Long stretches of clearings divided the forest into seven major regions; the Central Forest, the Northern Forest, the Eastern Forest, the Southern Forest, the Western Forest, the Justicia Reserve (far west), and finall...
2025-06-08 11:04:37 +0000 UTC View Post“My Executors would prefer you to drown. Liken to the olden trials of Stars, Moons and Beholders– it shall be performed by a Beholder and a Star.”
Galia retrieved the Justitia Scale from her Dimensional Storage and weighed it against his sins. The object functioned purely on Qliphoth ...
2025-06-07 12:32:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe grand welcome was unexpected. Nav could have given her a head’s up, but her library-bound companion did not give a reason as to why she kept her mouth shut.
A surprise, Frost figured. Not entirely unwelcome since she had her apparel with her. Besides, it did not change that she had on...
2025-06-07 12:31:25 +0000 UTC View Post//////// < WARNING > ////////
< Leaving H9 | 2 minutes >
The Leviathan rattled. The unsettling murmurs of mechanical organs pulsed through the soft bedding. It stirred Frost awake from her short thirty-minute...
2025-06-04 09:04:05 +0000 UTC View PostAiming, healing, communication, combat – Frost excelled in games revolving around these. But when it came to games of chance, and when she shut her eyes and used her invisible eyes to view the world, then she’d find herself losing these games.
The fishing game, a cup game where one had ...
2025-06-02 10:00:56 +0000 UTC View PostNow that dawn had faded, and Joy was tucked into bed by Cer, the married duo could now enjoy the night of H9 to their heart’s content.
Their dresses were different this time around.
Frost put on a black robe reminiscent of a short-cut kimono. She had black tights on, wooden slippers...
2025-06-02 09:25:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Repenters took their leave alongside with Horus.
The woman had every intention of taking her sweet time in H9. She fanned out a stack of coupons for massage parlors and certain services on the way out, hellbent on using them all tonight.
“Hehehe~ Here I come, my lovely Elves~ Ce...
2025-05-31 10:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe crop fields of H5 shrunk in the distance.
The wild plains of H6 came to pass. The giant hill where Cer had first opened her heart to Frost flashed by.
Then came the forests of H7, and the beautiful scenic lakes of H8.
Territories of prestigious families emerged as they passe...
2025-05-31 09:59:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Have you ever seen a red tide?”
Acedia asked this question from out of the blue.
Nothing prompted her to speak.
It had been an hour since anyone had spoken on the Leviathan, and yet, after sitting at her desk without moving an inch, she asked this inconspicuous question. 2025-05-28 09:19:02 +0000 UTC View Post
< See their stats. The blue box doesn’t lie >
It was enough to calm Red down, but not enough to keep a blade held close to her chest.
“Easy, Adventurer. We’re only here for them.”
“And not the Scarlet Log...
2025-05-26 17:24:48 +0000 UTC View PostRounding the bandits up was the easy part.
Keeping them alive was an entirely different story. If someone told Red that humans were prone to throwing their lives away, then she’d laugh and say: “Humans aren’t that dumb!”
But looking at how these Syndicate bandits, which were c...
2025-05-26 17:23:19 +0000 UTC View PostA body fell into a pit far too deep to tell where it ended.
Their blood-curdling cry came to an abrupt stop just seconds into the descent.
Replacing it was an absolute silence that did not dare hint at the body’s fate.
Trembling, Insectic beings wearing green coattails and car...
2025-05-25 10:45:06 +0000 UTC View PostSilence befell the Upper Sanctums of the Nexus for exactly thirty minutes following Frost’s ascent from G-Y0.
But this silence was not universal.
It only pervaded the Floor of Ego where a long-haired Lailah sat resting atop her fractured throne, her head resting atop a curled fist.<...
2025-05-23 18:23:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Where are they?”
An impatient woman clicked her tongue as she stalked the streets. She lurked in the shadows, hid behind shrubs and walked alongside guards as she noticed blue-suited personnel arrive in town.
“Those Witches need to move. Now. Time Reverberation is here. Tsk.”...
2025-05-21 00:20:51 +0000 UTC View PostG-Y0 imploded into itself two hours later. The confirmation came straight from Nav, who had heard this through her telepathic connection with all Moons possessing the Blessing of the Amalgam.
Unite Us, Everlasting – recovered; three hundred and twenty-five Corrupted – retrieved; Samples...
2025-05-21 00:19:57 +0000 UTC View PostIndeed.
Frost had lost a single Light. It had been taken by Cer to crystalize new Skills.
I see. So the Nexus is the enabler. Or rather, a powerful Light is. Sort of like how say, Elysia or I can manipulate those with lesser Light, only that this takes the shape of a person’s so...
2025-05-17 05:58:15 +0000 UTC View PostFour hundred Homunculi shuffled behind Frost.
They froze when she paused and closed their eyes when she turned. When she raised a hand, their necks would tug forward as though she were pulling on an invisible leash.
The Rogue Moons didn’t fare better.
No matter how many promis...
2025-05-17 05:13:20 +0000 UTC View PostJury had seen the shell that Elysia was trapped in. It was a part of her vision when she realized herself as Jury and as a separate entity from Elysia during the Nex Megalopolis’ Atelier War.
It was a black sphere, reminiscent of what contained the Captured Star.
And with what Cer h...
2025-05-14 10:13:56 +0000 UTC View PostThere was more to the Eye of Elysia than its name.
But at the same time, it was precisely that.
Frost was stranded halfway across the world. She would not have been able to travel over thousands of kilometers within minutes.
She had the vial of Infusion S and the Angelic Warped ...
2025-05-14 10:12:42 +0000 UTC View Post“Wipe the scowl.” Alisa commanded Lammy. “If one failed harvest spelt the end, then the plan was flawed from the beginning. We would not have lost. Keep a tighter leash on your Atoners. They have found a well of light to flock to. Insects.”
“… Yes.” Lammy reluctantly obeyed. ...
2025-05-12 05:17:17 +0000 UTC View PostA rift large enough to swallow a mountain opened behind Lammy.
It was meant to retrieve the Avatar of Kratt, but it had met an unfortunate death.
The Orbis Impuritas made the mistake of underestimating Cer’s durability.
The ‘Do Not Eat’ protocol surrounding Cer wasn’t an...
2025-05-12 05:16:05 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! It's Syringe!
I rarely do announcements, but I thought that it would be appropriate since we're about to hit quadruple digits on Nexus Awakened!
First of all, I want to thank everyone who's been with us during this wild journey! I still remember those of you who join...
Rhyme stood no chance against a Beholder.
That much was certain from the very start.
Had she known that a true Beholder would be arriving to challenge her claim over the Genesis Stone, then she would not have agreed to join Alisa and Lammy’s assault on Site G-Y0.
Jury...
2025-05-10 08:30:19 +0000 UTC View PostJustica’s Crossing ran further than the Languid Fault. More than twenty times, or even more from what Red understood.
Yet despite alllll that space, Scarlet Logic happened to be precisely where they were.
Suspicious.
Red believed that either it was one big coincidence, or the ...
2025-05-08 08:25:49 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t enough.
The presence of her claws could be felt. Though they were tiny, the world sensed that an invisible extension hovered just above them.
< (A) A Lamenter’s Hand [OO] >
< The reformed hand h...
2025-05-06 05:30:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe Fragment’s ignorance caused Cer to reach the Second State. [Feast For the Eyes] became active as she fully manifested Craving Electric Wolf. It didn’t seem much at first. There was no way its effect of painting a target on her back would work against enemies with such high RESIST.
<...
2025-05-06 05:29:02 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ve never seen two of the same hatchlings from an egg.”
“There is always that same voice that dictates the happenings of the Sites.”
“I used to believe the hatchlings were the source of the voice.”
...
2025-05-06 05:25:45 +0000 UTC View Post“Why do birds fly?”
These were the first words Cer heard Lailah’s voice utter to the Fragment.
Cer watched memories unfold like she was flipping through a sketchbook drawn by a child. Only that these drawings were real.
How much did they know about Frost?
She knew a ...
2025-05-04 01:51:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe darkness was both infinite and limiting.
Cer’s tail brushed against the dark wall, assessing the space as she studied the figure in the center of the room. It was a sphere just large enough for a fully sized adult to stand inside. Not enough for Cer clearly, as the tip of her ears bru...
2025-05-04 01:49:39 +0000 UTC View Post