“The goal of this trial,” Hunter says, “is to reach that mountain over there,” he points at a mountain in the middle of the island, surrounded by thick foliage, “and climb to the top!”
Even though the walls of the classroom literally collapsed, a hand still flies up. Hunter, being a man of honor, points to it. “Um… Is that all?”
Hunter isn’t fazed. “Yep, that’s all...
2024-08-08 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostWe’re in a classroom. I don’t know which of the gods it is that designs these floors, but whoever it is, they should get fired into the sun. There’s a blackboard, seats for everyone, a striking lack of windows, and anything else you might need to make people like me have an anxiety attack. Luckily enough, I’m sitting next to Gecko—unfortunately, though, we’re at the very front.
Before anyone else in the room—I count twenty-eight in total—has time to fr...
2024-08-07 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“I do have one question, though,” I say, rubbing my chin. “What the heck is a geckomancer?”
“Honestly?” Her smile widens, ear-to-ear. “I have no clue!”
“Do you summon lizards?”
“Seldom.”
I gasp. “But you do?!”
She hums cheekily. “As I said—sometimes. Summoning stuff takes a lot of divinity, so you need to be allied with a god who’s willing to suppl...
2024-08-06 10:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostMost likely, they didn’t spot me, and just went over here to get away from everyone else. But why would they do that? What kind of person escapes a warm fire and hot food? For what reason?
Curiosity claws at me. With the way the lake is shaped, considering the place they sat down, I should be able to see them just by looking up from my sewing.
But… why? Why would I do that? It’s just a person. I don’t need to talk to them, or make m...
2024-08-05 10:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostFish in hand, I begin wading towards the other side of the lake along the edge.
I can do this. This’ll work out fine. I’ll just step up to them, say ‘Hi, I’m Kitty! I look forward to working with you all!’ and then I’ll eat my fish, make a stupid joke, excuse myself, and spend the next seventeen hours hyperventilating. Sounds good! Perfect plan. There is no way this can go wrong.
The fish twitches in my hand. I try...
2024-08-04 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostI hear them first, because all of a sudden they splash down into the water a few paces away from me and Hunter.
“Oh my God, holy shit, I’m—”
“Calm down, we’re fine, the water is shallow!”
“Shallow, and… warm… aaaaaaahhh…”
“WHOOOOOOOOOOOO WE BEAT COCYTUS FUCK YEAHHHHH!!”
I glance over at them. Four people, two girls, two guys, with a typical party build...
2024-08-03 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOkay so I got caught up in a second honeymoon phase with this story and now have half of book 5 written but basically none of it proofread, so to Survive, I'll be posting a chapter daily until my proofreading catches up with what I'm actually writing. Aside from the three I just posted I got over thirty chapters left to go (assuming I don't write a gazzillion words while doing all of this hahvsahgvsa) so uhhh yeah! Daily chapters for the coming weeks or so. Yippie !
That's all I ...
2024-08-02 13:53:56 +0000 UTC View Post<Success!
Hell Challenger Lo Fennrick
is now assembled into
Divine Network.>
<Attempting to grant
Administrative Rights…>
{::w::}
<Attempt failed.
Hell Challenger Lo Fennrick
does not fulfill requirements to grant
Administrative Rights.>
{::o::}
{::m::}
<Angel ...
2024-08-02 10:05:20 +0000 UTC View Post<The God of Cowardice
nervously checks His cue-cards.>
<The Goddess of Want
punches
the God of Cowardice
in the gut.>
<The God of Cowardice
has fallen.>
I glance away from my fishing. What in the heck is this all about? Can’t you see I’m busy? You’ll...
2024-08-02 10:01:54 +0000 UTC View PostMy feet plunge into ankle-deep, glittering water. The sudden brightness blinds me, and I stumble back, falling into the water.
It’s… warm. Beneath the glistening, bright water is a layer of smooth, sleek sand. I press my fingers into it. Soft. When I drag my hand through it, a lower layer of darker, muddier sand is exposed. It’s colder than the topmost layer.
I grab a handful and hold it up, watching as the watery sand drips from between my fi...
2024-08-02 09:58:58 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo! BOOK 4 IS FINISHED WHOOOOOOOOOO
Hope y'all enjoyed it! I'm very happy with how the ending turned out, and especially glad that I decided to move the cocytus section from book 5 to book 4. Good stuff!
Before I go into everything, I just wanted to say that I'll be taking a small break now, just to let book 4 settle in. This is also to let me get some more writing in. When will releases resume? Eh, probably within a week or two. We'll see! All I can say is that book 5 is geari...
2024-07-19 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post<Tutorial stage,
Hell Difficulty Thirty-Fourth Floor:
Cocytus, step four: Judecca.>
<[Clear Condition]
Move on.>
I continue moving. As the temperature drops and the air becomes colder and colder, the fog begins to fade. I can’t see anything in the ice anymore. There’s nothing but darkness, ranging on for what seems like miles.
It’s gotten cold to the point where even though my body bare...
2024-07-19 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostI stand up again, wiping the perspiration from my nose.
A status message pops up to greet the next part of the stage.
<Tutorial stage,
Hell Difficulty Thirty-Third Floor:
Cocytus, step three: Ptolomaea.>
<[Clear Condition]
Move on.>
It’s colder now. My nose feels crunchy, and my fingers are getting stiff. As I walk, the people in the ice shift. Now, they have sunken down so far...
2024-07-19 10:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe black ice stretches on. Further and further. I move slowly, robotically, across the endless expanse.
<Tutorial stage,
Hell Difficulty Thirty-Second Floor:
Cocytus, step two: Antenora.>
<[Clear Condition]
Move on.>
Now, the people in the ice are frozen up to their chins. They can’t move, but they still follow me with their eyes. It’s still mostly goblins. But, as I walk…
The sensation of moving straight from the cold, barbed cave to somewhere somehow even colder is disorienting, to say the least. Not appearing in the lobby feels strange. Downright alien. Not that I’ll miss it, of course. However, the sight before me is well worthy of reconsidering my choice of wish.
…What the heck is this place?
<Tutorial stage,
Hell Difficulty Thirty-Second Floor:
Cocytus, step one: Caina.>
... 2024-07-18 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Well in the lobby, I sit down. The floor beneath me is WHITE. My shadow is BLACK.
Purely by routine, I slit a line across my palm. RED drops of blood drip down between my legs.
RED, WHITE, and BLACK.
RED, WHITE, BLACK.
RED… WHITE… BLACK…
I blink, slowly.
Red, white, and black.
I put my finger into the blood, drawing a red line through the white floor and my ...
2024-07-18 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostEmil watched the dawn that wasn’t a dawn and knew that soon, the shadow would come for him, too.
Is this how Simel had felt all those years ago?
What a fool he’d been, to try to argue with him. To try to take the shadow’s side and justify his slaughter. Did a tiger need an excuse to eat flesh? Even less did the shadow need Emil’s reasoning.
It simply did things. Whether it be by instinct, emotion masquerading as reas...
2024-07-17 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey, Moleman, there you are,” I say, entering his room. Or maybe it’s an office. We never did decide on that. Either way, it’s piled with stacks of paper and letters—most of them unread. It’s not like he had to sign off on too many, anyways. Funnily enough, now that I’m looking, there are no books in here. Ursula got plenty of books, and she read a fair few of them before she croaked. But Moleman hasn’t even asked for any. Too busy with work, I suppose. “I brought you somet...
2024-07-17 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey there, Rat,” I say, stepping inside. “Today’s the day. I brought a few sweets, thought you might like it.”
“Unh. Unh. Unnhhh,” he says, rocking back and forth with each sound. It’s a little impressive.
“I’m sure he will,” Mitt says, accepting them. I look down at her. Yeah, there’s definitely something off about her. Ever since she became the apostle of cruelty, she’s been weirdly calm. Like she’s got everything figured out. ...
2024-07-17 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostSure, it’s not like Moleman made it look easy or anything, but running a city is absolutely not something I’m fit for. Trying to keep everyone on the same page and up to date is a logistical nightmare, and combined with the fact that I’m simply not good at talking to people, it makes things all the worse.
At least the weather is nice. Yes, in fitting with it finally becoming May, the rain and cold have actually let up! It’s now sunny, mild weather, and the sky i...
2024-07-17 10:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post“We’ve run out of rations, but I’ve been going into dead houses and eating all the corpses and transforming them into rats, so I was thinking I could distribute those? Would that be fine?”
“Sure.”
“A lot of people have connected me to the nobles disappearing, is it okay if I take care of those, too? But like, in a more public fashion, so people know not to mess with the government.”
“Of course.”
... 2024-07-16 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostSo, another room had been converted. It looked pretty good.
“I’ll take care of things in your stead. And Mitt will ensure that you’re kept up to date. As far as I can tell, you aren’t sick with what Rat has, so that’s, you know… good.”
The room used to contain others, but they had been moved. It didn’t matter. It had been scrubbed and cleaned and fresh bedsheets and curtains had been brought in. The curtains waved at him from the window. T...
2024-07-16 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostAt seven, he ate breakfast with his last friend.
At nine, he spoke with the Judgess of Krizia regarding her house’s rations and the possibility of increasing manpower through her funding.
At eleven, he had a lunch meeting with the leaders of the departments of justice.
At twelve-thirty, he attended the day’s execution. Four nobles of house Saad had been arrested trying to organize a riot in order to break through the southern gates....
2024-07-16 10:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“You aren’t immune,” I say, deliberately.
“Nonsense. I haven’t—”
“You aren’t immune,” I say again, a little louder this time, “because you have been sick. But… But when Plus donated his heart, it got healed. You were safe, and good.”
“That’s nice,” Moleman says, but his voice is strangely absent. “Lovely for Plus to do that. Helping me out and all.”
Damn it. What is wrong w...
2024-07-15 13:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostI saw the light fade from his eyes. His mouth slacked open, and his arm went a little limp. But he wasn’t dead, and he wasn’t brain-dead.
“Uh… uhh…” Rat muttered. A little bit of drool went down his chin. “Muh… Mommy? Mommy. Hello. Uhh… Muhh… Help. Hello?”
There we go. That’s proper. That’s how it should be.
I go down on one knee. His face slowly adjusts to keep looking at me, but his expression is like that of...
2024-07-15 10:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostHe woke up to the sound of something snapping. A little twig or something, he was sure. And still, he decided to open his eyes, just in case.
Everything was dark. The fire had burned out, but a few cinders were still glowing in its heart. Unfortunately, this singular light source only served to make the darkness around him so much darker. The foliage between the trees, the bushes and even the stream, everything was pitch black. The only other light came from above, though e...
2024-07-14 18:39:44 +0000 UTC View PostShe died only five days later.
After the first visit, Jarne hadn’t been able to muster the strength to see her again. For some reason, he always felt assured that she’d live a while longer. Dragon plague was a slow and cruel disease. Depending on the way it was treated, a person could live with it for upwards of two months following their initial infection.
But not her. She was sick in a flash, and gone just as quickly. He hadn’t even gotten t...
2024-07-14 18:32:41 +0000 UTC View PostIt didn’t even take a week.
“I can’t recommend visiting her. She’s completely delirious. Kitty tried to visit her, but she screamed and shouted at him, even throwing things. Horrible! It’s nothing new, unfortunately. Plenty of other patients have the plague reach the brain, start to hallucinate, become delusional… Some even lose their memories. Almost like a form of dementia.” He smiled sympathetically. A gash across his face. “You’re welcome to visit ...
2024-07-14 18:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostTLDR: DAILY CHAPTER POSTING TO FINISH BOOK 4 AS HYPE FOR BOOK 1 RELEASE WHOOOOOO
Heyo all!!
As you might have noticed, I'm posting a lot! This is because I'm WRITING a lot! Like, a lot-lot. And that's because I'm excited twofold! For one, I've finally finished writing book 4 and am allowed to move onto book 5!!! YAPPIE!!!!! and also... IN TWO DAYS BOOK 1 RELEASES!!!!!!!!!! HOORAY!!!!!
So, to celebrate the oncoming publication, I'll be posting chapters, on the daily, all th...
2024-07-14 07:55:55 +0000 UTC View Post“No. No, that doesn’t… How the fuck does that make any sense? You can’t seriously think that simply because her divinity resistance rose, that means that this literal plague was caused by magic. And even if it was, who’s to say Mole did it? There are plenty of magic people in the city! Hell, we even have an apostle, just sitting around! If your argument is that only someone with exceptional magical abilities could have done it, then the literal apostl...
2024-07-13 17:22:41 +0000 UTC View Post