Cold Daylight

Building An Empire - Chapter 10 - Cracking The Doors

Building An Empire - Chapter 10 - Cracking The Doors

Team-

Ashford - Arcanine

Bastille - Tyranitar

Damascus - Machamp

Abrams - Slowbro

Melusine - Dragonite

Hrunting - Scizor

LB

Bastille, of course, was my first option.

It was the obvious choice. Outside of Abrams, he was my tankiest ...

Building An Empire - Chapter 9 - Forward As One

Building An Empire - Chapter 9

Team-

Ashford - Arcanine

Bastille - Tyranitar

Damascus - Machamp

Abrams - Slowbro

Melusine - Dragonite

Hrunting - Scizor

Alex POV

Lance stared blankly into the fire, a hollow expression in his eyes.

Our talk had been long, stretching across hours. The w...

The Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 9

The Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 9

It was surprisingly easy to end the Maelstrom.

Not from a physical standpoint, no, the Bladekisser suit was the pinnacle of enhancement technology taken from Metal Gear, taken up a hundred notches by the exotic space-age materials I’d made it out of. 

No, it was surprisingly easy on a mental level. Sure, I was a country boy. I’d sat in deer stands all morning to shoot deer before, but this was somehow easier than...

The Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 8

The Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 8

There was an inherent issue with cybernetics. 

Mechanics were all based around motors, servos, hydraulics, each with a specific amount of power per piece. Clamping force, horsepower, thrust, all limited quantities. A flat increase. Doubly so for power armor. 

Power armor was as good an augment as the person inside it was weak. It was the equivalent of adding a flat damage number to a low-level RPG character, Gre...

Walk A Demonic Path - Chapter 3 - Reintroductions

Chapter 3 - Reintroductions

“All magic is logic, conversely, all logic is compatible with mana.”

I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes as I walked past the gates of the Bael School For Young Devils. The institution that had been so familiar to me for so long now felt like a stranger. Roads I once used to travel daily to get to school now felt foreign.

I hadn’t ever stopped to think about how much the war had changed me. Now, I was being slowly for...

Walk A Demonic Path - Chapter 2 - Infiltrating Home

Chapter 2 - Infiltrating Home

“How did I let you talk me into this?”

I whispered under my breath, the noise being drowned by the sheer amount of people shuffling into the museum. I’d hoped that because it was a weekday, the Bael museum of devil history would have been empty. I’d been dead fucking wrong.

Who even went to museums these days? We had the devil net.

“You don’t need to speak to talk to me, Ash.” 

It was a le...

Walk A Demonic Path - Chapter 1 - Death and the Tower

Chapter 1 - Death and the Tower

A shaky hand struggled to keep the cigarette steady as I watched the smoke drift and form myriad shapes before me. Taking a quick drag offered only slight relief, momentarily easing the trembling. Wisps of smoke still danced in the light cast by the magical flame of the camp.

The night watch was a nightmare, but as the only middle-class demon in a corps exclusively composed of high-class and above, I couldn't exactly refuse. I was t...

Happy New Year + Update

Hey y'alls!

So, we're in 2026 now. Honestly I never thought I'd have a patreon, or that people would want to pay to read what I write around this same time last year. Holy shit, sometimes it's still hard to believe.

So, I gotta thank you all for seeing enough worth in my writing to want to pay to read it. it means a lot, and I can't thank you guys enough.

I know resolutions are cliche, but my resolution for this year is to slowly transition to being a full-time writer. Mor...

Poll Result + Merry Christmas!

So, the results for the poll are out, and a decision has been made.

The plan now will be for me to post a 10K word pilot chapter for the new fix, as well as up to three chapters for it on Patreon. These will be posted post the 25th, for very obvious reasons.

Merry Christmas, all. Have fun with your families, and I'll make sure there's something fun for y'all to read by the time you ...

Empyrean 22 - Home Away From Home

Empyrean 22 - Home Away From Home

Ozpin POV

Of all the things that the newest iteration of humanity had invented in their brief time existing on this accursed world, soundproofing was by far his favorite.

Ozpin was one of the few people who could claim to have existed before the first jet engine was made. He could claim to be one of the first handful of people who got to travel on the first jet-powered aviation solution. He could also attest...

Empyrean 21 - Life On The Other Side

Empyrean 21 - Life On The Other Side

Cardin POV

“Not that I’m not glad to see you, but what the hell are you doing here, Jaune?”

Jaune had fallen into step with them after devouring his breakfast faster than Cardin had ever seen anyone eat anything. He wasn’t saying a word, just following them, always maintaining a three step gap, just… trailing behind them with a satisfied smirk on his face.

“Well, I was on my way to Vale ...

NEW STORY POLL

So, due to the discontinuation of Quixotic, we have one story slot currently open which I have to fill with a new story. As people who have subscribed to the Remembrance tier or higher, you have the power to decide which one of these will become my next story.

In the interest of fairness, I will only provide a one-line explanation of each story. The story that will end up being serialized will be the one with the clear cut majority of votes.

Now, these are my three current options...

Building An Empire - Chapter 8 - Your First

Building An Empire - Chapter 8

Team-

Ashford - Arcanine

Bastille - Tyranitar

Damascus - Machamp

Abrams - Slowbro

Melusine - Dragonite

Hrunting - Scizor

Alex POV

This… this was beautiful.

I was sitting in the grandstands, surrounded by a sea of people. The organisers had decided tha...

Building An Empire - Chapter 7 - The Switch

Building An Empire - Chapter 7

Team-

Ashford - Arcanine

Bastille - Tyranitar

Damascus - Machamp

Abrams - Slowbro

Melusine - Dragonite

Hrunting - Scizor

Alex POV

“Easy now, big girl.”

Melusine growled under me as I kneaded the musculature between her wings. I’d always wondered h...

Empyrean 20 - Breathe

Empyrean 20 - Breathe

Jaune POV

He could see the enemy.

The jellyfish Grimm had killed itself, its red dome cracking and releasing an eerie red mist. The creature itself died, its tentacles falling limp under it as it eerily continued to float. Yet the mist had a life of its own, as it coalesced into an image of her.

His first observation was just how… human she looked. No one had ever described Salem to him. In his mind, the image h...

The Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 7

The Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 7

I could taste the air. 

No, that was not a metaphor. The acrid smell of burnt trash, layered with tones of motor oil, was like poison compared to  the crisp, cold autumn air of my town. It felt like I’d traded a warm cup of tea and a blanket for a toxic cloud.

I knew it was toxic. My enhancements were most commonly administered to drop troopers going into intergalactic warzones, and hence included inbuilt filtration systems, m...

Update - Good News!

So the government documentation process that I'd been stuck in is finally over, for better or worse. My flight home is for friday night, so expect new updates this weekend!

Also to make up for the lost updates, I'll be posting more frequently for the rest of this week as well as the first week of December to make up for it.

-Cold Daylight

Delay Notice - IRL blocker

Hey guys,

So, as I mentioned in the last chapter of the dimensional workshop, I mentioned that there may be a delay because i'm away from home.

Basically, due to some paperwork bullshit, I had to travel home, halfway across the country. I'd originally assumed this to be a 2-4 day kind of deal, but here I am, a week later, still making daily trips to the local court and bank in order to get my documents fixed.

Either way, this has heavily impacted my writing schedule, I miss...

Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 6

Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 6

Lacrima was an interesting material.

I’d wanted to get my hands on it from the moment the door to the workshop opened in Earthland, but since the whole situation was kicked off by Natsu, I’d come to the realisation that Earthland was not yet safe for me. 

I wasn’t Kakashi, I was enhanced, sure, but this wasn’t a small fry universe like Cyberpunk. Being enhanced, even having a basic understanding of magic, was not...

Empyrean 19 - Hindsight

Empyrean 19 - Hindsight

Ironwood POV

Jaune could no longer be considered human.

He knew that there was nothing illuminating about that realization. He had a general idea of what Jaune was capable of. He’d seen the video, he’d heard the story of what happened in Phalanx. He had beheld the man himself. To some extent, he liked to believe he understood the man.

Well, that was a fucking lie, wasn’t it?

He could only stand trans...

Empyrean 18 - What Is A God?

Empyrean 18 - What Is A God?

WIllow Schnee POV

They came for her, as she’d predicted. 

She’d known of Jacques’ hidden army as long as it’d existed. She’d helped train them when it was still a grassroots operation, back when a job for Atlas was more desirable than serving the Schnee.

Then, as word of how well they were paid spread, suddenly, trainers became easy to obtain. WIth good trainers came better recruits, and over...

Empyrean 17 - Crumbling Bricks

Empyrean 17 - Crumbling Bricks

Jacques POV

He didn’t like to get blood on his suit.

Even as a Gele, he’d always preferred shades of white. There was a certain purity to the colour he’d always admired. Just being draped in white made people trust him more. After all, how could a man like him be untrustworthy?

It was a silly notion, but humans ran on preconceptions. Even the most jaded of men could be subconsciously influenced ever...

Empyrean 16 - The Plans Of Mice And Men

Empyrean 16 - The Plans Of Mice And Men

Emerald POV

Walking into the den of the beast never felt this safe, nor this easy.

Back when she’d started out with Cinder, before Mercury had joined them, one of the easier ways to make a buck was robbing houses. It was easy. Cast an illusion to make them believe they locked the door when they in fact did not. An open window was just as useful for getting around digital locks. Her semblance had been...

Building an Empire - Chapter 6 - Lorelei and Karen

Someone requested for a glossary of all the pokemon in Alessandro’s possession, so I’ll be posting this before every chapter from now.

Ashford - Arcanine

Bastille - Tyranitar

Damascus - Machamp

Abrams - Slowbro

Melusine - Dragonite

Hrunting - Scizor

Also, this chapter is slightly on the shorter side. I wanted to expand a b...