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Hey. I fucked up last chapter. Luine was supposed to lose her hand, not her entire arm. And I knew that in my head, but my mind just immediately jumped to the most dramatic thing I could say in the text, hence she lost her ...
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—??? POV—
Hungry. Want to become stronger. Search prey.
Found. Many creatures. Weak creature. Smart creatu...
2024-06-05 12:32:43 +0000 UTC View PostDocs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18_-1SLv1AYob_US2RudYcXuUS-GKse39kINjNbjGvUw/edit?usp=drive_link
Thank you for your continued support!
I don't really have anything else to say today past that. So enjoy the chapter!
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I finally have a working PC again! I actually ran this chapter through grammarly, tell me if you notice a difference. Also, I think I'll just keep using the gdocs links. It's more conveni...
2024-06-01 05:13:58 +0000 UTC View PostDocs link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rxayeFZ9R2s1SNH1p4oDEu3RjQ_D0O-s7MI2LOJxdfY/edit?usp=drivesdk
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I almost titled this chapter “I’m amazing” again. But thankfully, I came up with a different very original chapter name. Haell is just that great.
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2024-05-29 14:01:45 +0000 UTC View PostAN:
Hey there! I’m back! I’m here!
I’ve done all I could for my release on RoyalRoad. The marketing is out there, both SH and RR are synced. Now all that’s left to do is to write. And write I shall. Well… later. I actually still have a small backlog despite the hefty one I already have posted, but they still need to be edited, and I foresee entire chapters being scrapped. But great things are coming, just you wa...
2024-05-28 12:30:56 +0000 UTC View PostWe went back home after the battle with the skarid and the bestfiend attached to it. Those were the species names of the squid and the biting parasite respectively, as discovered by myself and Moonwash. I participated in the identification ritual just because I felt like it. I wasn’t the worst at the casting process because wind as an element did agree with me. I just never had the time to focus on it, but I was certain it’d have a mean combination with fire. I told Moonwash of the idea, ...
2024-05-18 16:06:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Gazelug,” Moonwash said. A name pronounced as Ga-Zel-Lug.
She and Elfrafim did the identification ritual for my kill, before cutting off the eyes for my later use.
“Its slime must be so valuable, but so much of it is ruined.” Elfrafim prodded at the corpse, making a disgusted face at the gunk that stuck to her palms.
She wiped it on me.
“Hey!” I snapped, still coming down from the high of my most recent fight. The infuriating elf woman had already ju...
2024-05-18 16:05:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Is that it!?” I yelled as Baston reeled in whatever creature was caught in his fishing rod that was made only from materials that were level 40 or above. The hook was large and strange, able to somehow latch onto prey as if alive through some mechanisms, and it was supremely sticky, even producing its own disgusting slime!
I looked at the surface of the lake in anticipation, for we were at the heart of The Endless Dive, in search of a specific monster that would be very good for my...
2024-05-18 16:04:08 +0000 UTC View PostI finally broke the kiss after a few seconds, staring at Moonwash who stared back.
I worked my jaw a little and looked around, trying to find the thing I was going to say. All that came out was, “W-what?”
“That was a kiss.”
“I know what a kiss is!” I shouted, a little more forcefully than I intended. I definitely knew a lot more about it than her. “I just… I was surprised. I wasn’t expecting that.”
“Oh.” Her expression remained a neutr...
“Haell! Are you alright! What happened!” The melodious chime of Elfrafim’s voice rang in my ears, forcing me out of my sleep.
“W-what…?” I opened my eyes blearily, but my attempts to get up bore no fruit, for everything was pain. “What the fuck?”
And then I remembered what happened.
I reiterated, “What. The. Fuck?”
“That’s what I’m saying!” Elfrafim complained. She poured more magic into healing, and I could feel the effects as the fractures...
2024-05-18 16:01:55 +0000 UTC View Post"It's alive! IT'S ALIVE!"
I shouted in the middle of a bloodstained clearing. It was a large circular space, artificially widened and flattened, and now painted upon with a bloody and sinister ritual. Moonwash had actually gotten Luine to go out and somehow obtain cursetacean parts to add to the recipe, mixing its powdered form with my blood among other things. The Angelore empire hated cursetaceans, and officially, even their remains were all disposed of in a big fuck you pile instead ...
2024-05-18 16:00:56 +0000 UTC View Post[Mana-infused Blood has reached Level 14]
[Regen Heart has reached Level 13]
“You know I’m not good at this, right?” Luine lightly joked as she healed me with nature magic. I was lying down on the grass, fully immobile.
For once, I did not rise to the bait. “Yeah. Yet you still do it. Thank you, Luine.”
She raised a brow. “You getting sentimental on me, Haell? Your decades too young for that!”
I’m older than y...
2024-05-18 15:59:46 +0000 UTC View PostI watched from atop my throne as the secret base was thrown into a frenzy of activity. Moonwash was now doing my nails after having made the rest of me presentable for my big day. My face, my dress, and everything else were made fit for a demon queen, with half the materials used having come from our own hunts and foraging. I also wore my favorite ‘Freedom’ and ‘Victory’ necklaces too, they somehow went well with any outfit. I could only grin evilly at the effect my full ensemble crea...
2024-05-18 15:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostBreak my arms. Enhance my swings. But don’t go too far, never leave it unrepairable.
Destroy, kill, and devour as I please, but do not make the ultimate sacrifice, for I can never again do any more damage if I die.
Violent. Pragmatic. Violent. Pragmatic. Violent! Pragmatic!
I repeated the same mantra in my head as I caused my blood to evaporate inside me to enhance my next slash. The result left a wide cut more than halfway into the tree an...
2024-05-18 15:57:28 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up with a gasp and a start. My body groaned from a thousand pains all battling inside me as the flower meadow I laid on exerted work to heal all of the damage that I’d done to myself
“What the fuck happened!? I didn’t know you were this injured–I certainly didn’t do it!” Elfrafim screamed, her voice remained ethereal. The memories of the past couple of minutes came back to me in a crashing wave and I realized what I’d done at the end.
“Mutual destr...
2024-05-18 15:56:15 +0000 UTC View PostAll of us were crowded around Elfrafim like schoolchildren as she began her lesson. She summoned a bucket of water except without the bucket, and then dumped it all on herself.
“Are you okay?” I joked.
“Peachy,” her beautiful voice answered.
She demonstrated the washing process for a bit, which basically consisted of just surrounding herself with a bubble of water and soap, and then spinning it. Rinsing was pretty much the same process, and only required her to chang...
2024-05-18 15:55:13 +0000 UTC View Post“I am in awe.” Elfrafim’s smooth yet strong voice rang through the cavern the moment she descended the flight of stairs toward our base.
I looked at the same space which I had lived in for the past few years, a wide cave that we’d widened even further and made our own. It was one continuous space with only restrooms and beds given the courtesy of separate rooms for privacy.
“Yeah. This is the life.” I heaved a satisfied sigh and stepped into the washing ...
2024-05-18 15:54:13 +0000 UTC View Post"Can you keep a promise?" I grabbed Elfrafim's shoulder and squeezed hard. She was very interested in what I was, so decided to just extend out an olive branch of trust. She could already kill me so easily if she so wished, and if my revelations here ever became a problem in the future, then I should hopefully be strong enough to destroy all comers.
"Yes. My lips are sealed as tight as the deathgrip of a deathgripper." She answered. I stared into her gem-like eyes with my goat-like own,...
2024-05-18 15:51:48 +0000 UTC View PostI was tossed to the ground along with my sword. I rolled on the dirt and through the grass.
My world was a blur and it took an eternity to focus once more. I stood back up once I could, and my arms hung limp and broken.
My regen heart was still pumping rapidly from the energy of the prior fight, and it was already working on mending my many wounds. I decided to leave the organ to its work and take in my surroundings once more.
The eagle was lying on the ground, spent and res...
2024-05-18 15:50:17 +0000 UTC View Post_________________
Name: Haell Zharignan
Species: Imp
—Mutations—
Menace Heart: Level 18
Demon Brain: Level 18
Demon Skin: Level 16
Demon Eyes: Level 15
Demon Flesh / Demon Bones / Demonic Musculature(synced) : (All) Level 10
Demonic Hands: Level 17
Demoni...
2024-05-18 15:49:16 +0000 UTC View PostDeep breath in, a peaceful breath out. Luine started talking just as I came down from my menace magic high, still surrounded by the corpses of our fallen enemies.
Maybe she should fall too.
She shouldn't. I was in full control, and I always knew who I was and what I valued. Becoming a betrayer and treating my friends poorly was certainly no part of Haell Zharignan.
“That was a disaster in the making.” Luine stomped on the head of a still-twitching ...
2024-05-18 15:46:47 +0000 UTC View PostLuine found the nest of the goblins, only a small one, all things considered. It was likely a new horde, at its most vulnerable state. With individually weak members, and not fully capable of defending themselves; but big enough to attract the attention of other monsters nearby.
Goblins were very difficult to ever fully eradicate, because there were always individuals of them, scattered every which way, and capable of building a new horde by themselves. They may rise again, even when de...
2024-05-18 15:45:44 +0000 UTC View Post“Mana and magic exist on a spectrum. Typically, they can appear as entirely different shapes and colors to someone’s perception, but it’s technically possible to do anything with any form of mana. Although maybe that’s a feat even dragons can’t do.”
“That’s a theory,” I told Moonwash, “Hell, it’s a mere hypothesis.”
“Yes. You’re right. However, every source of mana already differs just by a minuscule amount, and yet the same focus...
2024-05-18 15:44:39 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you alright?” Baston addressed both me and Moonwash. All four of us, Luine included, were currently at the nearest river, having a picnic after all of yesterday’s craziness. It’s wild really, that it took this long for someone to stumble upon our secret hideout, although there had been people that passed around the periphery. They were fooled by Baston’s preparations.
“I’m perfectly fine,” I answered Baston… and I found that I was telling the truth. ...
2024-05-18 15:43:32 +0000 UTC View PostI stretched myself out languidly on the sofa of our base’s living room. This place had really only grown more homely over the past year. There were more decorations, from stands that housed paintings, to trophies of our battles and exploits. The place felt lived in, comforting, inviting. It had become much brighter, as we were able to afford the mana necessary to keep a variety of enchantments active. Supplies had continued to come from outside, not always delivered by my parents. Fiya and ...
2024-05-18 15:42:24 +0000 UTC View PostMy parents had come and gone. They dropped off plenty of supplies, and left with even more packed into their bags. My time here was netting a whole host of materials from all the monsters that I killed, and I had them sell some of it for me. From tanned hides and cleaned bones, to organs preserved by alchemical compounds. It was a big harvest, and my share of it would net me a lot of gold!
I’d also ordered some more entertainment for our next supply drop, and not just because I wanted...
2024-05-18 15:41:03 +0000 UTC View PostBreak their bones. Cut apart their flesh! They shall know fear, and flee at the mere mention of my name!
HAELL ZHARIGNAN!
I panted as I finished off the last barkbark. I was lucky enough to chance upon a swarm, the lot of them individually weak and susceptible to my eyes and aura of intimidation. It was soo much fun killing them, and it brought me delight like no other when they began to scatter and flee. Hunting them like hide and go seek was sooo much fun!
<... 2024-05-18 15:39:53 +0000 UTC View Post—Luine POV—
“AAAAARRRRRGHHGHHGGHHG!!!”
My breath hitched, and my muscles clamped up for a tenth of a tenth of a moment. I looked at Haell and saw dread incarnate upon the imp’s armored form.
It was brief, it was short, not even enough to make a difference if I was fighting someone, but I was still affected by the roar of someone two evolutions lower.
That was absurd, it should not be, and yet it was.
Angelore does not...
2024-05-18 15:38:33 +0000 UTC View PostFour sleds dragged through the ground, one for each of us. A tiger jumped out of the woodwork, but Luine swiftly brained it with a tossed knife. I did not even bother to let go of my own burden in preparation for battle.
The treeline broke shortly after, and finally we’d arrived at our destination after months of travel. A long way away from my hometown of Latarus sat an unassuming hill like any other.
“Wait, that’s it?” I asked. “Are we really here? Where even is here?...
2024-05-18 15:37:07 +0000 UTC View Post