Chapter 206
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
City of Rebirth
"Well, that was a good first sortie." Said Allya as she looked at the map spread on the council room table, covered in figurines and tokens representing the ever increasing number of armies and fleets in play. One of those, the Republic's main army, was getting dangerously close to Rebirth. "Hopefully it will slow them down enough."
"It should do far more than that. With their supply lines...
2023-11-14 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 205
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
In Flight
"ALERT! Magical anomalies!" Called out the golem, as the cannonballs hit the tesla field.
Clearly, the Republic had taken her first broadside as a sign that it was time to play cash or go home.
And play cash they had. Every. Single. Cannonball from the frigate was covered in enchantments
Some were obliterat...
2023-11-13 17:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Note : Made an edit, since there was some confusion about the holograms.
Chapter 204
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
In Flight
"Well." Alexandra lowered the binoculars. Well, they weren't 'truly' binoculars, more like a camera that was jacked directly into her golem's visual processors thanks to a handy wire, but they looked roughly the same. "That didn't take long at all."
"It's an army with, what? A hundred to three hundred thous...
2023-11-12 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 203
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Dungeon Factory, Workshop
Alexandra hummed as she checked the progress reports, her hands going through the motion of assembling the prototype before her. One of the definite perks of working with high technology is that much of it was almost muscle memory by that point. Especially for, say, railguns. Her development speed was just sk...
2023-11-11 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 202
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
In Flight above the city of Rebirth
"Impressive ship, Crystal." Said Allya as she strode onto the deck, trying to look as if she hadn't already seen every nook and cranny of the vessel already.
"Thank you baroness." Said the golem onboard. Had the thing been able to show facial expression, Allya would have been sure it...
2023-11-10 17:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Note : Chapters 204 and 205 have been written and added to the queue !
They were actually one chapter at the beginning, but I got so carried away writing 204 I got over 4.3k words and decided to split it into two. So yeah, added a final part, and now it's a pair of chapters, over 2.5 and 2.2k words long respectively. Hopefully I chose my cutting off point wisely and it will flow nicely.
Chapter 201
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Dungeon Factory, S...
2023-11-09 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 200
Red Sands Desert, Barony of Darthar
Alesian Fortress Line
Falmagar, duke of Lorenz and by the grace of the true Queen of the Asarian Kingdom, leader of the Southern Army of Restoration on behalf of the duchy of Sunrise, sighed as he leaned back from the table, rubbing his eyes.
He had spent so much time looking at estimates and intelligence reports he swo...
2023-11-08 17:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 199
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Dungeon Factory, Command Center
"And you're sure?" Said Alexandra as she looked at the hologram hovering in the center of the room, before giving the baroness an apologetic look. "I don't mean to cast doubt on your conclusions, mind you, this is just…"
"Insane? Believe me I know." Said Allya as she shook her head. "But yes, I am."
"Shit. Just how far does that conspiracy reach?"
"I don't kno...
2023-11-04 17:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 198
Elturian Coast, Duchy of Sunrise
City of Sunrise, Ducal Palace
"So, they have failed." Said the duchess, calmly, and the spy master nodded. "Unfortunate. But then again, I am not complaining."
The spy master looked at her oddly, and she chuckled.
"Of course not! Soon our armies will have Darthar encircled. Rebirth's supply of golems will stop anyway. And we both know we cannot trust the Republic. They are our allies only to acquire the dung...
2023-11-03 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 197
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
City of Rebirth
"Ah. My lady. We meet at last." Called out the enemy's leader, as Allya stepped out of the manor. He looked out of place, geared up like a warrior, not a soldier. The same could be said for his 'army', a rag tag assortment of prisoners using borrowed armor, and professional killers and sellswords, who seemed to have been the ones to break them out. The smoke was starting to dissipate, wreathing ...
2023-11-02 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Note : Chapters 197, 198 and 199 have been written and added to the queue !
I've also tried working on a halloween special, but despite having a plan for it I'm just hitting a wall of writer's block.
Chapter 196
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
City of Rebirth
"That's it. I'm making it official. I hate mazes." Said Raika as she flopped onto her bunk like a puppet with its strings cut.
"Well, it wasn't so bad." Raika raised her...
2023-11-01 17:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Note : Apologies for the late upload, I was at the funeral and patreon's scheduling feature failed. Again.
Chapter 195
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Dungeon Factory, Electronics Laboratory
"So?" Said Alexandra as she stood in front of the corpse and the accompanying power armor.
"I have run analysis on the soldier and any identification he might have had." Said Seraph, before gesturing, causing the holographic projector embedded ...
2023-10-19 20:31:23 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 194
Alexandra's Core
Simulation 1
"Any news?" Said Alexandra as she sat into the meeting room of the apparition's ever evolving 'house'. There was now a lot more furniture, and she could faintly discern moving aircrafts in the skies beyond the windows.
"A few. I've kept working on various projects, as you've no doubt summarised, but the primary one was this." The apparition gestured, and a hologram appeared above the table they were sitting around. "...
2023-10-18 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 193
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Dungeon Factory, Fourth Floor
Alexandra nestled her face in her hands, while the maids did their best not to laugh, and failed miserably.
Emilia, on the other hand, was looking as mortified as she was.
"Honey, I know you like the concept, but isn't this a bit…much?" Said the vampire, picking her words with exquisite care.
"What do you mean?" Said CQ, tilting her head, before looking back at ...
2023-10-17 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 192
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Dungeon Factory, Testing Room
Allya looked around in wonder at the 'testing' room, where team Crystalline had gotten its ass kicked. That seemed like a lifetime ago now.
Clearly Alexandra had expanded it significantly. The place was much larger, although by how much she couldn't exactly tell.
Of course, she didn't really care. What was truly taking her attention was the airship hovering in mid air.<...
2023-10-16 16:01:06 +0000 UTC
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Note : Chapters 192, 193, 194 and 195 have been written and added to the queue !
I also wanted to thank all you guys for your kind words yesterday. It helped a ton. Thank you.
Chapter 191
Red Sands Desert, Province of Erakis
Republic Expeditionary Force Camp
"I don't like any of this." Said the general as he gazed at the mass of intelligence. Most of it was from that colonel, Orzal Vek, but a fair bit was from his own contacts and sources. A...
2023-10-15 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone. I'll keep this brief, since I'm not necessarily doing that great right now, as my grandmother died yesterday.
Recently I got some comments from readers saying they'd like to see more of CQ, which caused me to write a few passages about her in the more recently written chapters. It also made me wonder if you guys would like to see more of certain characters. So here, a 'poll', if you will. Post in the comments any character which you'd like seen, or like a comment with that...
2023-10-14 18:33:32 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 190
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Dungeon Factory, Command Center
"Bingo." Muttered Alexandra as she gazed at the footage.
Looked like the baroness had been right on the money about the pirate captain being in bed with the local insurgency.
Then she saw the second part tagged absolute emergency, and let go of her mug, letting it crash onto the floor as she saw the spider golem try to follow them into a building…and its camouflage ...
2023-10-06 16:06:52 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 189
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Dungeon Factory, Electronics Laboratory
"-and that is without mentioning the encryption." Finished Seraph.
Emilia opened her mouth, then closed it, and opened it again.
"Uh…In plain english?"
"In short, the datacores haven't only been encrypted, they've been seeded with defensive programs that are tearing the ever living crap ...
2023-10-05 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 188
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
City of Rebirth
"Oww, my head…" Said Allya as she lifted herself from the bed. Damn it, she could hold her liquor, but this was bad. She hadn't gotten this drunk since she'd slept with Pyn…
Speaking of the devil, she felt her girlfriend hug her from behind, as the elf's bare chest pressed against her back.
"Yes, well, it's your fa...
2023-10-04 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 187
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Dungeon Factory, Conference room
Allya did her best to appear calm.
She knew she was failing miserably.
"I assume there's no point denying everything? Or trying to make a run for it?" Alexandra shook her head, and Allya sighed. "Yes, I know who you are, Alexandra."
"How you know it is what really interests me."
"Dominique....
2023-10-03 16:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 186
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Dungeon Factory, Command Center
Alexandra was halfway to taking a sip of her iced tea -the damned thing was growing on her- when she received a ping.
Low power from a stealth golem? Why-
Oh. Oh. She'd muted the golem when she'd had her talk with Seraph, and forgot to turn the non-emergency notifications back on.
She sighed, and ordered the golem back. It was the one spying on All...
2023-10-02 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 185
[REDACTED]
Order Stronghold 'Sovereign', Arkan Continental HQ
"You have a visitor my lord." Said Corson, Joachim's secretary. The Order commander's eyebrow rose at the odd tone of his aide, but he nodded.
"Show him in."
"Yes my lord. At once."
Joachim whistled softly as he organized his files, before waiting patiently for his mysterious visitor…and froze like a deer in the headlights as a graying man stepped through the doors.
2023-10-01 18:23:52 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 184
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
City of Rebirth
"So…we have a potential psychotic artificial dungeon core from Earth with ample knowledge of tech beyond our wildest dreams, seemingly on a crusade for revenge? Or just going on a conquest spree?" Said Trira.
"In short? Yes." Allya smiled wanly. "And don't forget that she seemingly has more industrial capability ...
2023-09-30 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 183
Red Sands Desert, Elkis Republic.
Trade City of Erakis.
Colonel Orzal Vek was grimly silent as he watched the last sections of the army marching out into the distance.
"Quite a sight, eh?" Said Marie Azulin, as she slapped him on the back. "They'll take them out in no time. Then we can get the hell off this post and back to somewhere civilized."
The colonel had to...
2023-09-29 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 182
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
City of Rebirth
"Come in!" Said Allya as someone knocked on the door to her ward, deeply grateful for the distraction.
The door swung open, and Dominique clearly did a double take as she stepped in.
The baroness couldn't blame her. Not only did Allya look definitely the worse for wear, but her staff -and Trira- had insisted to transform one of the unused offices in the mansion into her personal hosp...
2023-09-28 16:20:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 181
Fallen Province of Irakia, Sagitarius Empire.
Hammer of Eternity, Command Center
The core hummed softly as the archon stepped into the room.
It wasn't looking at him per se…but both were clearly staring at each other.
"Why have you come?" Spoke the archon, an abnormally short human. If human could still be applied to an archon of course. "Something sent...
2023-09-27 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 180
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Outskirts of the City of Rebirth
Golems rushed towards the reactor core, Alexandra pushing her capabilities to the limit as she coordinated them.
She didn't know that particular type of reactor, but not only did the Sagitarius Empire's almost fetishistic attachment to the Federation seemed to hold true in terms of designs and standards, bu...
2023-09-26 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Note : Chapters 180, 181 and 182 have been written and added to the queue, wrapping up book 5 !
Chapter 179
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Outskirts of the City of Rebirth
Alexandra wasn't a specialist of boarding actions. Her skillset related to building and commanding the ships that would cripple the vessel to be boarded. But even though she no longer had her marine combat programs, lost alongside her implants, she still remembered he...
2023-09-25 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 178
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
City of Rebirth, Outskirts
Even after all Alexandra had seen today, if someone had told her Starvak had this much power, she wouldn't have believed them.
Five landships brought their guns to bear on the dwarf, firing all they had in an effort to protect their flagship.
Missiles, point defense lasers, railguns. Not just guns mounted on tanks, but starship grade artillery. Weapons meant to rip apart s...
2023-09-19 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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