Lykanthropy

Trash: Chapter 82 The Discarded

Chapter 82

The Discarded

(Luna Paraisthisi)

One thing that they never teach you in history class, is what happens to the displaced people after a city, or region of land falls.

Everyone knows that there are dead zones, lands that were once habitable, but have now become vacant lots. While everyone knows that those zones exist, no one ever teaches the fact that those zones once contained cities, places where people lived and dreamed of better futures.

Luna and Luc...

Augmented Aspects: Chapter 384 Slander of the Highest Order

Chapter 384

Slander of the Highest Order

(Two Weeks Later)

(Maltese)

It felt odd being back home.

Not my true noted home, not the place I carved for myself out of the middle of a desert, in the middle of a wasteland so vile that no one in their right minds would ever choose to settle down there. But my first true home of this world, a place that took me in unconditionally and let me settle down, find myself and ultimately set me up to become the best version of m...

Trash: Chapter 81 Piercing the Veil

Chapter 81

Piercing The Veil

Sadly, it wasn’t until my third night while being dressed up as an embodiment of death that I truly saw past the glitz and glam of the stage.

Being my third day in a row, I began looking beyond just the competitors who were all hoping and vying for a chance at fame and fortune, when I was finally able to take in the venue itself. The venue was old, as dust seemed to coat every high surface. While the floors and walls were mostly clear, the ligh...

Trash: Chapter 80 Advanced Bartering

Chapter 80

Advanced Bartering

Isn’t it weird how you always feel more tired after a nap, than you did before the nap? That is my current state of being.  After my Skill upgrades, I was shoved off to bed, so that I could rest for a few hours before I would be called back into action for healing duties later tonight, which was now.

Unfortunately, after the excitement of the morning, and thrill of having not one but two Skills enhanced to be able to utilize Divine energy...

Trash: Chapter 79 Demons Among Us

Chapter 79

Demons Among Us

“EEP!” The powerful expressive eep, and definitely not the panicked shriek of someone who just witnessed the impossible. Of someone who just witnessed the fact that their mentor’s face was coated by an illusion. That the illusion of a powerful and proud warrior had dark sclera filled eyes that were only illuminated by slits of gold for the iris, and impossible purple veins rippling along his face.

Then he spoke, and as he did, I felt...

Augmented Aspects: Interlude XXXI (Larry Yo-Boy's BiPrism News + Magical Supplies)

Interlude XXXI

(Larry Yo-Boy’s BiPrism News + Magical Supplies)

“Regionals? Am I right?” Larry asked, a semi-defeated tone filling his voice, only made more pathetic by the cast he was now sporting on stage. While he was at the center of the screen a number of servers with various odds and probabilities of winning spots flashed over his head. Most showing red arrows pointing down, while a few green arrows pointed up. If you looked closely you could see the names of key reven...

Trash: Chapter 78 Yaoguai Qūmóshī For Me

Chapter 78

Yaoguai Qūmóshī For Me

There was an issue with my training to advance my Skills. Well, looking back there were multiple issues, that ultimately got me to the wrong correct ending.

What do I mean? What is my main problem?

“You managed to alter those Skills?” Mr. Yi asked in confusion as my glowing golden eyes and now glowing greenish golden blade extended out in front of me. There was more, a lot more as I now felt a slight fear while looking at Mr. Yi...

Trash: Interlude V Crime Scene Reconstruction

Interlude V

Crime Scene Reconstruction

(Anastasia Bloom)

If Anastasia had to use two words to describe the process that the Minister of Intelligence’s approach to investigating an active breach, the terms would have to be Slow and Methodical.

The entire process took hours. Anastasia watched as the Minister Goffard first started at the rift then using his own version of Holy detection, he followed the Death Eater’s trail with amazing clarity. Follo...

Augmented Aspects: Chapter 383 A Sim-Ocracy

Chapter 383

A Sim-Ocracy

I could already tell whatever was going to happen would be trouble.  

How did I know? Did any of my mystical powers related to danger flash to life? No, but I still knew it was trouble when seven of my eight Simulacrums all converged together for one massive meeting out of the blue. A meeting where they cheated and decided to go with Penelope as their spokeswoman, as if I would want to argue in front of her.

While I am wondering why my Sim...

Trash: Chapter 77 To Stay, or Continue

Chapter 77

To Stay, or Continue

“Choices are always best made when made on a full stomach, let us eat lunch before you decide your future,” the ominous words of Mr. Yi. Words that haunted me from the moment we got to the Bloom Estate and were effectively given free time to do what we wanted to do. Especially after Markan realized the most important part of our operation had been missed.

***

(Ten minutes earlier)

“Dang it,” Markan exclaimed.

“What ...

Trash: Chapter 76 We Need to Talk

Chapter 76

We Need to Talk

“Vivienne?” Third Prince Theo Fiammata asked, a note of surprise and infatuation filling his gaze.

I was not the only one who saw the Third Prince’s lustful gaze upon Madame Voyou, as Mr. Karl had already stood to his full intimidating seven foot plus tall stature. Letting his massive frame rise up and block the vision of the obsessively staring princeling.

There was a staticky discharging from behind me, one that instantly drew the att...

Trash: Chapter 75 B.O.S.S.

<<<<Author's Note: Thank you all and hope you had a wonderful Christmas. I know I did, and now I'm back to work. >>>>

Chapter 75

B.O.S.S.

“Bestiary Originated System Suppression, at least that is what everyone refers to the markings that appear,” Markan began as he spoke, I realized something. There was a slight tingling in my mind that let me realize that the status screen that had been blocked off from me was n...

Trash: Chapter 74 Evaluating the Rookie

Chapter 74

Evaluating the Rookie

(Vivienne Voyou)

(Ten Minutes Ago)

Vivienne Voyou knew that fighting was a young person’s game. That many people spent time going to the wastelands first, before even daring to tackle a rift. Even for well maintained teams, there were issues that could always come into play.

Take for instance, Mr. Yi recklessly charging in to strike at a beast before they delivered an initial strike. Worse, that strike was enough to send Mr. Yi ...

Holiday Fun Song "Seasonal Fears"

Hello everyone,

I hope you are all having a great holiday season.

This started off as a joke at my son's words, "I can't put my pants on." But with the power of AI the song turned out quite amazing. The song is titled "Seasonal Fears" which many of us might be able to relate to.

Hope you enjoy and hope you are having a great holiday season!

Very Best Wishes

-Lykanthropy

Trash: Chapter 73 ABCs: Actions Before Consequences

Chapter 73

ABCs: Actions Before Consequences

My feet slid on the ice. As I held my glowing blade straight in front of me.

Had the beast been slightly more aware, or slightly less engaged with whatever it was doing to Mr. Karl, it might have heard the dry scratching sound that my shoes were making against the ice. It might have felt the slight vibration of another body charging full speed forward.

Looking ahead, I had a lot of open and exposed joints and scales to aim f...

Trash: Chapter 72 Murphy's Law, and the Odds of Fighting Alone

Chapter 72

Murphy’s Law, and the Odds of Fighting Alone

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Shots echoed, as smoke and dust rose up from the pistols that Markan was firing his enhanced earth infused bullets from. Bullets that I know for a fact can pack a punch and penetrate the hardest of materials with wedging effects.  That was why I was so confused by the fact that he now used these same pistols to fire towards Mr. Karl and Mr. Yi.

However there was a...

Trash: Chapter 71 A Chorus of Synergy

<<<Author's Note: I don't mean to end this on such a cliffhanger, and I apologize. I will try to finish this up later tonight, but it might have to wait a bit. Going to celebrate my Mom's birthday today! Time just got away from me. See you soon.>>>

Chapter 71

A Chorus of Synergy

Screeching violin.

With a flurry of motion, Madame Voyou’s fingers and bow began dashing across the strings of her modified...

Trash: Chapter 70 Eagle Eyed

Chapter 70

Eagle Eyed

Exploration.

Exploration and mud, those are the two words that I would use to describe the final process of clearing a rift. Or at least the final processes of clearing a marsh rift.

Apparently, the process for clearing each type of rift, for yes there are types, is different. Mr. Yi our scout was the one who took us through the final stages of finding the apparent anchor point of the rift, and the guardian monster that overlooked that anchor poin...

Trash: Chapter 69 Red Versus Yellow Versus Blue

Chapter 69

Red Versus Yellow Versus Blue

Size does matter.

Or at least the size of a monster does play a large part in whether we stop and harvest the core from a monster’s corpse or not. That is what I have learned thus far.

“All the creatures of the rifts do in fact have cores, but the smaller ones will have cores that are fundamentally too small to be of any real use.” Is what I was told. Basically, unless the monster is big enough to try to devour my sword fr...

Trash: Chapter 68 Harvesting

Chapter 68

Harvesting

What happened next was a nightmare class in why healers should avoid rifts.

Moving in a diamond formation, we began to explore the rift. Meaning I was in the exact center and theoretically one or two members of the team were there to protect me at all times.

However, people being in the way to protect you doesn’t mean much, when the monsters we encounter seem to see the formation, look past it, find me, and then charge forward with reckless aban...

Trash: Chapter 67 Adaptive Crystallization

Chapter 67

Adaptive Crystallization

Like a demonically possessed Christmas ornament, the dimly glowing core that Mr. Karl was holding began to flash to life and then glow excitedly as it absorbed the ambient healing energy from my Trash Skill.

“Eeep!” Mr. Karl cried out, in the most non-manly way possible, as he dropped the core to the ground as he backed up, arms wide as he pulled Markan and Mr. Yi with him to apparent safety.

Even Madame Voyou stumbled b...

Trash: Chapter 66 Three Main Types of Crystals

Chapter 66

Three Main Types of Crystals

Thick slime.

That is the first thing I felt once I crawled out of the giant serpent’s maw. A sensation that seemed to be heightened by the minor breeze in the air. Ironically, the breeze was slightly warm, which only exacerbated the problem of my body being coated in slime, for once the warm breeze passed, I was left with even colder drying snake mucus on my body.

This was not how I thought the aftermath of my first ba...

Trash: Chapter 65 Skald-ing Cold Water

Chapter 65

Skald-ing Cold Water

“Hiss!”

An annoyed angry cry of an enraged serpent cried out, as a giant lumbering form rose from the thick ground fog that had momentarily been pushed back to only encircle us.

The beast was so large and imposing that it only needed to coil itself once to stand over the waist high fog that coated a depressingly dead and dying marsh land.

As the beast rose, we could see two dimly glowing green eyes burning within the b...

Trash: Chapter 64 Entering a Rift

Chapter 64

Entering A Rift

Fresh air.

The scent of ozone, and morning dew will forever be my first impression upon entering the rift. Particularly as my vision was momentarily darkened upon entering, leaving my mind to go wild as I instantly used my other senses to help take over.

That was how my second clear sensation was of a long slender hand grabbing my arm and pulling me from the entry way. For a moment I want to resist, but that’s when my vision is filled with ...

Augmented Aspects: Chapter 382 A SIM-Tervention

Chapter 382

A SIM-Tervention

(Penelope)

“There you go, how does that feel?” Penelope asked Ship and Pirate-Ulacrums, the Guinea pigs for her prototype soul bound space suits. These suits had the same pattern layout that Cass’s would have, but are made in different colors, to help others differentiate the Simulacrums from the original.

It should be noted that each of Cass’s Simulacrums are all unique, despite mostly looking alike and having similar quirks, they ...

Trash: Prelude II

Prelude II

(Third Prince Theo Fiammata)]

(The Royal Estate)

The third prince sat in his office, reading the report that Minister of Intelligence Goffard just handed him.

After reading the short report twice, Theo Fiammata paused and looked up, locking gazes with Goffard, and spoke.

“Is this accurate?” Theo asked. Hearing the tone and seeing the importance of answering honestly Goffard paused before answering.

“As far as we can tell, it is. We have alr...

Trash: Epilogue (Johny DiVoratore)

Epilogue

(Johny DiVoratore)

John paced the unseasonably cold marble hallways. Today was one of those days where his old bones awoke with a chill, something that he had not been affected by ever since his Skills first began to truly manifest as a necromancer. Ever since that day, the cold never held any power over him, which only made today’s chill even more sinister.

He found himself pacing the halls, looking for leaks, an open window, a broken wall, anything that could ex...

Trash: Chapter 63 The Five Percent Expectancy

<<<Author's Note: This is the end for book 1, but don't worry the chapters will continue as I think we are just getting started. Thank you all for reading until this point and Book 2 will begin shortly>>>

Chapter 63

The Five Percent Expectancy

“The guaranteed way to increase your Class Age Modifier by at least 5% is simple, join a team. Enter a rift, and then close the rift from the inside,” Madame Bloom state...

Trash: Chapter 62 Class Revelations

<<<<Author's Note: Changed the average life expectancy from ~50 years to ~70 years as detailed below. This changes it so that Common Class owners can only expect to live to approximately 45 years old (50 years with a class reduced by 50% for a loss of 25 years added to the base age of 20). Then those with a Rare class can expect to live to approximately 95 years old (20 base years, plus 50 Class years increased by an additional 50% or 25 years). Thank you all for ...

Trash: Chapter 61 A Slight Miscalculation

Chapter 61

A Slight Miscalculation

A cocoon of unending darkness surrounded me.

For a moment, my mind flashed back to my vision from last night, one where I was swallowed whole by an apparent Death Eater. Yet unlike that time, this time there was hope. The sun was up, causing multiple rays of light to come in and slowly wither the outside of the giant shadow creature that I found myself fighting.

The advent of so much sunlight being able to penetrate this deeply into B...