Malcolm Tent

Wish upon the Stars chapter 632

Callie and the others headed over to meet up with my mom and Chelsea now that they were here, but I stayed back, wanting talk to Zeke about something important.

“Well that guy was a dick.” I said as we wandered away from the group. “Who is he exactly?” I could see the tension in Zeke as we headed for a small alcove without any people in it. He seemed angrier than I’d seen him in a long time, excepting maybe during his fight with the Duke.

When I spo...

Greed God chapter 398

Nsfw warning, mind the tags.

Wish upon the Stars chapter 631

The banquet was being held in a central location. Or rather, THE Central Location, since that was what the people of Tricorn called the building in the absolute middle of the three districts. It was a weird building. Specifically, it was more like three buildings smashed together into some weird chimeric vision. Despite being fairly standardized in the Church district, there was a lot of diversity in the architecture elsewhere, and it was somehow all reflected in that building.

Shout at the Devil chapter 137

Christmas Interruptus

Wish upon the Stars chapter 630

The rest of that day went by in a blur. I had so much to think about, so much to do. Training with my mom was an intimidating thought. A powerful A-ranker with two abilities, one of which was similar to some of my own powers. It would be interesting to see exactly how far I could go with Mephistopheles.

Hopefully I managed to apply the lessons to my other forms. Zagan wasn’t combat based, so I couldn’t really see how that one would work, but the others…well I’d have t...

Greed God chapter 397

Couldn't resist a little back to basics. This one was a nod to early Nicky lol.

Wish upon the Stars chapter 629

The next week flew by. As usual, I made sure to grind out my wishes with the help of whoever I had handy. I’d have liked to help my friends, but honestly I was starting to worry about falling behind. I got four hundred ninety points from the wishes, and a trickle in from my renown of two hundred and ten, for a grand total of seven hundred points (four hundred in Focus and three hundred in Perception).

Despite that, none of it seemed like enough. I felt…small. Slow. For my...

Shout at the Devil chapter 136

A visit from G' oD

Greed God chapter 396

People have been asking for a vacation arc for a while, so we got one, Nicky style.

Wish upon the Stars chapter 628

State of Grace made me graceful as I slipped through the hole I’d made in the ceiling. Stealth made me silent. The second I got through, I closed the hole back up. I landed on a platform made from Ripple Running, which was still active from my ascent to the roof, and casually reached up to grab an outlying piece of metal to hang from.

A slight effort of will saw me swallowed in darkness, cloaked by Callie’s power as well as her stealth, as I waited for things to play out....

Shout at the Devil chapter 135

Shopping for enchanting mats

Wish upon the Stars chapter 627

“This is the place?” I asked Pret as we stopped outside a large building. I looked around, and I couldn’t see any sign of this place being particularly important. No groups of people, no defenses. If I had set up a distribution center for a giant intergalactic drug trade I’d have left guards or something.

Pret nodded easily. “The pups say yes.” He said laconically, patting the smoke grey mastiff. “We need a sitrep. Any of you have a scouting Skill?”

...

Greed God chapter 395

By popular demand, there'll be a downtime arc before we wind things up. Hope everyone is excited for the final arc, it's going to be pretty big.

Wish upon the Stars chapter 626

The first thing I did when I got back to the inn was wake up Callie. She was less than thrilled, but once I explained what happened, she agreed it was for the best. I’d filled Zeke in on the way back so he didn’t see a need to interfere. Still, with the extra info, he decided to approach Harrison and request help from the WCP. This seemed like that kind of matter.

One thing Callie and I couldn’t decide on was how much my grandfather actually knew. He’d led me to a dea...

Shout at the Devil chapter 134

Big fight scene.

Wish upon the Stars chapter 625

I left the inn on my own after talking to Benny. I needed to think, and I wanted to be alone with my thoughts. I wore my mask and armor though, so none of the Horned Lords drama would affect me. I was just a relative nobody walking the streets in the dark.

It struck me as I walked how long it had been since I’d done this, wandered off on my own to just be by myself. I knew Zeke would be keeping an eye on me, but other than that…there was no one. I’d spent so long consta...

Greed God chapter 394

NSFW warning mind the tags

Wish upon the Stars chapter 624

Returning to the bar was anticlimactic. We weren’t pressed for time, so we didn’t need to worry too much about safety, which meant we were mostly just sitting around trying to guess what the crates were full of for twenty minutes. We shut up as we arrived, bringing them into the bar and stacking them up next to Griff’s table.

He checked a watch (a surprisingly stately pocket watch with nice internal gearwork visible) then flipped Abel another coin. “Alright, you’re ...

Shout at the Devil chapter 133

I had a lot of fun with this one.

Greed God 393

End of a tough fight.

Wish upon the Stars chapter 623

Seven wishes. Two of the same type as last time, luck entering and getting out, and five serving a variety of purposes from information gathering to defense. Without any overarching info, they had to go with vague language like ‘best possible position to overhear important information’ and ‘luckiest position for witnessing nefarious actions’.

Mom and Zeke must have coached them, because there were quite a few wishes that seemed worded to get around the weakness my pow...

Shout at the Devil chapter 132

Bringing some family members in on the secret.

Wish upon the Stars chapter 622

The next day, we all had to get ready for whatever the hell Griff was having us do. We hadn’t headed back to the bar yet, but we’d all gathered up to go over some of the details before we had to leave, and all of us were more than a tad worried about the direction things had been going in that meeting before Barrow had derailed it.

“So, anyone else worried that whatever he wants us to do will blow our cover to hell?” I asked grimly. We were all sitting around a big ta...

Greed God chapter 392

The fight begins!

Wish upon the Stars chapter 621

The biggest problem that I ran into with Zagan was that I wasn’t sure how the hell I was supposed to use it. Not the mechanics, I could just shove healing energy into people, but the actual staff form. Each of my forms possessed a physical moveset, a series of staff arts that anchored them to Goetia and made them a holistic part of my combat style.

Mephistopheles was a lot of sharp brutal thrusting attacks, Mornax was a defensive stance that involved rooting my staff to the...

Shout at the Devil chapter 131

"And then he set canon Harry Potter on fire and scattered the ashes across the seven seas" lol but seriously, I was building to this, and I don't think anyone saw it coming this early.

Wish upon the Stars chapter 620

We managed to get out of the meeting without any bloodshed. Zeke vanished again soon after, and Callen reappeared only to take off to talk to my mom about all this. Griff and the others all headed home (thankfully they didn’t live at the bars) and he told us to meet him back at there the next night because Patience had a job for us.

When we got back to the inn, the first thing I did was head to talk to Jessie. I’d been putting something off for far too long, and I needed ...

Greed God chapter 391

Nicky back to his old sneaky tricks.

Wish upon the Stars chapter 619

We wandered around for a bit listening in, but we didn’t have context for anything we heard so we didn’t learn much. We hadn’t expected to, really, we were here for the meeting to get a good idea of who our enemies were. It didn’t take long for things to start though, and after a few minutes, someone walked up onto the stage and everyone went quiet.

It was odd, the first thing I heard, even over the muttering before it died down, was footsteps. The clack of heels on h...

Shout at the Devil chapter 130

I'll be home for Christmas.