Chapter 60
Ancient Enemies
(Ravena)
The entire scenario was a setup.
Just as Prentip, the wiseman of the tribe, had made himself vulnerable and everyone from the tribe had their attention set squarely on the anomaly before them. That was when disaster struck, in the form of the ancient evil.
A teratornis shifter, the largest of the great air-shifters and the natural enemy of the wolf packs had somehow settled in...
2024-09-03 03:36:32 +0000 UTC View PostGood morning everyone,
Hopefully you all noticed the banner that payments will be stopped for this month as well. That is my way of saying thank you all for your constant support. Also, I don't like charging full price when I will only be putting in 3/4ths the work this month. As such, you all get another free month as my way of saying thank you for being here and providing feedback.
A few house keeping notes, due to health concerns I will be cutting back a bit on th...
2024-09-01 11:49:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 269
Option Number Two.
“Can you help me unlock Killing Intent?” Falkynion asks.
I pause waiting for the punchline, only to realize that the man is serious about this request.
“Seriously? You want me to teach you how to unlock Killing Intent as your primary evolution point for your Legendary Bloodline?” I ask, making sure I have the request correct. 2024-08-31 16:23:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Interlude XVIII
Seraphyn Legrand
The engines were all thrumming to life of the Quadro-Zeppelins, four engines that were designed to each independently allow a giant helium filled balloon to be able to float and soar amongst the star. The design was nearly perfect, as the helium inside the main hull was in its own isolated space that could not be tampered with, unless severe actions were taken.
“I’m surprised that the saboteurs didn...
2024-08-29 10:09:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 70
Remembrance
(Misha Tulley)
Sometimes irony strikes when you least expect it, that or may it is just the ever evolving sphere of coincidence that seems to stalk life as karma’s little shadow. The way no one can outright claim karma exists, but then is reminded over and over of the overbearing and heavy-handed reach of coincidences.
Which if anyone watches for long enough, they will often tell you that there are no such...
2024-08-27 16:29:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 268
Technical Oversight
“I literally just saw you bathe in the blood of your enemies,” Penelope chides.
“They weren’t my enemies, they were just little snacklets for the Kujos, that I then processed and bathed in.” I reply somewhat defensively.
“That is the same thing,” Penelope demanded.
“The same thing as eating a ballpark frank or something similar maybe,” I respond.
... 2024-08-26 01:31:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 267
The Pool
Food.
Apparently the first thing I was going to take care of was food. Well not food for me, I fed nearly constantly on my own stream of mana in the form of Spirit Sustenance. Which seems odd considering I now know that more goes into my body than just mana, as I have both Qi and ephemeral energy, but for some reason mana is enough to stave off my hunger.
That is somethin...
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Chapter 58
Ghost Rings
(Ravena)
The prey was odd, sickly.
At least the prey should have been sick. He was clearly one that was not fully corrupted, but had more than enoug...
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Chapter 59
Rooting Out Evil
Even from outside the range of the pillar that Frank still found himself immersed in, he could feel the movements of monsters around him.
Monsters that as they came ...
2024-08-23 12:23:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 266
A New Day, Another Chance to Get In My Own Way
Poof.
One second the world was a chaotic swirl of colors and objects coming to life, only to be quickly settled back into place just the way it was before. The next, Penelope and I burst through time and space, aided by my fourth Simulacrum, who took off three Confidential minutes to help Penelope and me come up with a new game plan.
2024-08-21 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Epilogue I
“You sure this is the only thing you wish to claim for saving my idiot brother’s life?” Rydel asked, his gaze filled with a smoldering intensity that was almost too much for me to handle.
Yet, despite this, I was adamant that this was the best reward possible.
“Yes, unless you would like to throw yourself as an additional reward?” I ask.
Rydel for his part just stared at me, and then ...
2024-08-20 02:47:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 265
Unique Problem Solving
(Mallory)
“You know, thrusting Penelope onto mom like that, will only make her resent Penelope, which is not what I think you were going for there.” Gwendolyn Spiritlight said, her tone denoting the honest candor that Mallory had come to expect and love from her partner.
Someone who was unafraid to tell her the truth, someone who would unquestioningly answer questions that were posed to her. And as in thi...
2024-08-18 18:46:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 69
Loose Threads
(Hasty)
“It has been three weeks and you are telling me that no one can find anything on the girl, Misha, and her entourage?” Hasty exclaimed, as even she had a hard time remembering the name of the girl that won her sweepstakes.
Though to be fair, this was not really her fault as all references to the girl, her compatriots, or even the contest winner were slowly eroding and disappearing. Almost as if ...
2024-08-17 14:20:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 264
The Price of Dignity
I was teaching my class, when I realized something was off about my uniform.
There were the obvious stares given by Mallory and Gwen both during my fitting for my new Deolarian Court Magician Doctor Uniform, but seeing my students staring at me was something else entirely.
“Okay, so it is clearly the uniform?” I ask, while noting my new threads which are really the...
2024-08-16 02:18:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 57
Balancing the Scales
Thump-da-ump.
Frank was being herded.
It took him a while to understand what exactly was happening, but slowly over time he felt the constant shifting of minor vibrations on the ground. Vibrations that let him know that he no longer had to worry about the pack of zealot hunters.
Instead, now Frank had to deal with the fact that he was being directed, or maybe...
2024-08-15 01:17:04 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone,
First I want to thank you all so much for your continued support.
As part of my thanks I wanted to note that you all will not be charged for this Month. Next payment will not occur until October 2024 (for now, this might be pushed back again).
I also want to note that I am currently sick and thus hesitant to push stories forward that might be somewhat lacking in content. That is part of why I ...
2024-08-13 00:50:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 263
The First Tailor
“You sure there is nothing weird about this?” I ask, looking at my new enhanced doctoral uniform that shows that I am a Doctor not just for the Midnight Hunters, but for the resurrected, or maybe just resurrecting, Deolarian Empire.
“No, it looks great, almost the same exact way your previous doctoral uniform looked.” Gwen, my daughter, replied.
The sad part is she is correct.
<... 2024-08-11 17:47:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Interlude XVII
BiPrism Interactive Control Tower I
“This makes no sense, where did she go?” Prince Lee asked, as he poured over data. He had details and spreadsheets of everything possible related to the incident.
He had of course been monitoring the progress and development of Cassie Cruise changing and altering the basic underlying code of thirty-four different players.
How such a feat was possible, was beyond h...
2024-08-10 15:28:19 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 37
Clean pain.
That was the way to describe what I was now feeling. This wasn’t the typical electrically induced pain that one would feel and get used to from a machine. One where pockets of muscles would be shocked to life in order to mimic true pain.
Rather this was real pain, deep and able to be radiated from within your bones. The type of pain that seemed to cause sympathetic pulses of pain throughout the body, as...
2024-08-10 02:51:37 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude VI
Bakshee Developmental Observation Station T&$5*# - (TASSOH)
The Bakshee TASSOH observers sat in their seats, day in and day out, devoting their entire lives towards watching the development of newly evolving planets and ensuring the moment that each planet was ready for integration to the Bakshee nation, they would be contacted immediately.
This forced contact was important as it provided unity and helped the newly capa...
2024-08-07 09:25:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 262
Cross Pollination
I was busy, for the past few hours I had been deep in the throes of husbandry. Is that the correct word?
“Okay, good,” Zero my nurse and assistant throughout this process was helping me as I was already shewing away perfectly good mouse nesting materials as I helped an entirely new species of life, give birth for the very first time.
Merging power words like poetry fl...
2024-08-06 03:24:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 261
The Rehearsal Fitting
(Mallory)
“It’s quiet,” Mallory said, tension clearly filling her shoulders as she looked around the staging room that was within the bridal staging room of the Deolar Spirit realm.
“Isn’t that a good thing?” Gwendolyn asked, her plump body fully taking up the throne that she would be taking a leadership role on tomorrow.
<...
2024-08-04 23:50:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 36
Crackle.
There was a bursting sound as outer shell that had apparently been containing the true form of High Priestess Palmyra began to rupture and break. Shattering the illusion of the nearly perfect priestess and revealing a charred and scarred monster.
A monster that looked to already be at half health, as if prior quest conditions were met to start off the normally impossible boss battle with a more ...
2024-08-03 19:39:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 56
Ambush the Ambushers
“What the?” Frank cried out in his mind as he mentally felt around searching the area for the third and final pursuer. Only to find nothing.
Almost like a ghost, he had disappeared completely from the surrounding area. For a moment Frank half expected to see the cursed major appearing from behind the tree that he had taken refuge against.
Yet, in the end Frank could only stand and w...
2024-08-03 06:30:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 55
Evasion Techniques
(Martial Sergeant Blue)
Martial Sergeant Blue could only smile to himself as he clearly saw his target trying to hide while in the forest.
The only problem was the kid, their target, had bright glowing hair. Hair that all but burned like a traveling flashlight that detailed where the kid was.
What had originally been a near impossible mission, of tracking down a kid who had more than a mile head...
2024-08-02 03:09:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 68
Business Arrangements
(Misha Tulley)
It was odd watching a professional work.
Misha watched as her new mentor showed her the slow and methodical method for taking down a group of Bakshee. Particularly when this group had gone and made things personal.
Rather than wanting violent bloody revenge as her body all but demanded from an oddly sympathetic biological level. Misha was taught to wait.
The ...
2024-08-01 02:02:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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Chapter 260
Time Out, A Safe Place For Kids…
Danger.
There was an odd tingling sensation going off in my mind. One that told me kids, people that were young, impressionable, and most of all disenfranchised due to war were now here under my care.
I had asked for them to be here, as such, it was now my responsibility to ensure that they were taken care of.
My goal had been to make sure these kids had tr...
2024-07-30 15:18:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 259
A Quick Power Nap
The moment I relaxed my mind and rested, I felt my perspective shift and twist as my consciousness split from one point of input to four. And not just for one moment but for hours, then days, then weeks.
Most of the activities were routine.
First Simulacrum and Second Simulacrum spent most of their time reading whole catacombs of stories and subjects.
During the melding...
2024-07-29 03:46:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 258
Not In Kansas, Most Likely…
Dust.
Rolling winds of dust that caused pain almost immediately upon entering. Not searing pain. Not debilitating pain.
Rather this was the slow gradual pain that you eventually build up an immunity to once all your sensitive parts of skin are covered. The face and mouth with a handy Thieves Guild Mask. The eyes with a handy set of EGGs with multiple lenses that would...
2024-07-27 15:28:22 +0000 UTC View Post