“Hope it’s good though,” Echidna said as they watched the Astartes grapple down into the ravine before them. “The cost of making it was obscene.”
“I would hope so,” Selene murmured. If she understood it right, she had the skeletal and muscle structure of a Custodes and the nervous system of a Primarch with a bit of Eldar mixed in to let her psychic powers flow unobstructed.
If Echidna could have an army of so...
2024-05-04 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostOf course, before going down to duke it out with another horror that crawled out of the asscrack of this nonsensical galaxy, we had to spend two hours in mind-numbing strategising.
I regretted not taking Selene with me, if at least so she could suffer this torture together with me and alleviate some of my own with her presence. Alas, I was alone and promised to only teleport her here when there was going to be some immediate fighting.
Valenith would probably ...
2024-05-01 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostThere was something strangely unnerving making eye contact with myself, especially when I was consciously controlling both instances of ‘myself’.
Well, at least I know that I need some further work on my eyes. The glimmering emerald look is nice, but its a bit chaotic and unrefined, as if I had found a chunk of the gem and amateurishly crushed it into an orb shape before shoving it into my eyes.
Hmmm. Thoughts for later.
“Are you ...
2024-04-27 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Unfortunately, this one seems to be a replica from around the early twenty thousands.” Trazyn lamented, staring up at a convincing remake of Michelangelo’s David.
“I suspected as much,” I said. “Humans bombed themselves back into the bronze age during the Age of Technology.”
“Such is the nature of those constrained to the present.”
“I suppose it is,” I said with a shrug. I wasn’t going to tell the space skeleton that ...
2024-04-24 16:05:15 +0000 UTC View PostI didn’t expect the prehistoric space robot to gasp in surprise or stumble at me having known who he was, but I couldn’t help but be disappointed when he just continued staring at me with those lifeless green eyes of his.
“Curious,” he murmured, speaking in low gothic. He tapped a floating screen in front of him. Annoying tin bucket, you kidnap me then act like I’m just a fancy piece of furniture.
I decided to see how strong his fancy containment fi...
2024-04-20 16:02:43 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I just want to say a quick thank you to all you guys who had been supporting me up until now!
This winter had been ... complicated from a personal and IRL perspective for me and I was barely managing to force myself to write through it, but all the nice comments you've left helped me a bunch.
I'm mostly out of that lethargic hole I fell into and am trying to consciously put more effort into writing this story. I found I'd been dragging my feet in this arc and fluffing it up m...
2024-04-17 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe following couple of days turned out to be surprisingly calm. OR boring, depending on who you asked.
I spent the large majority of it attempting to beat Valenith black and blue while limiting my power output to the same level he was at. Emphasis on the attempting.
The newly ‘ascended’ Eldar might have some of his screws a bit looser than before, but he was by no means worse for it. Maybe a bit of madness was what pushed him to even greater heights.
... 2024-04-13 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostI easily hid ourselves from most prying eyes, to be honest, only Mephiston would have been able to notice me, or maybe if Guilliman’s ultra-instincts somehow activated and alerted him of my presence.
None of the above mentioned happened. There was no sign of Mephiston and Guilliman showed no sign of knowing that we were looking at the proceedings down below as he disembarked from his Thunderhawk.
His was about the tenth of the things, nine previous ones hav...
2024-04-10 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostRobute Guilliman
He watched as the body, not unlike that of a young woman, flaked away into a cloud of ash that slowly gathered into a pile on the floor. Nobody spoke, though he assumed their thoughts were just as loud as his own.
There were many things in the darker reaches of this galaxy no human could ever understand, not even one enhanced to such a degree as himself. Whatever just happened was far from the strangest thing that happened in his life, it wasn’t even ...
2024-04-06 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“I am still at the place where I have a bunch of information that would be invaluable to you but am not willing to part with without compensation.”
“Telling me how the rest of my brothers died would hardly be invaluable. It would only take reading up on old reports.”
I shrugged. “You would find that those reports are spotty at best. One disappeared and left only a hand behind on a battlefield. Another is slumbering like a corpse somewhere...
2024-04-03 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe silence stretched for a few seconds as the giant of a man that was Guilliman loomed over the slightly less gigantic Custodes. He was really good at looming, his eyes cold and judging as his presence washed over the room like a tidal wave.
Tech-priests, mortals and a few Astartes stumbled, a few of the latter falling to their knees as their Primarch’s aura brushed against their souls.
Unfortunately for him, I barely felt the pressure. Maybe ...
2024-03-30 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostOctavian had no trouble keeping both his facial expression and posture stoic. He was a Custodes after all, if he didn’t have perfect control of his body, he would have retired already.
Still, he had to make sure he wasn’t glancing overly much into the corner of his vision where a small interface shoved the countdown till they could launch landing-craft onto the planet.
Fear was as an alien concept to a Custode as it...
2024-03-27 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostI’ve plundered minds one after the other, jumping from ship to ship without being noticed, at least as far as I knew. I’ve been shot at a few times, but I reasoned that those were more paranoid super soldiers jumping at shadows — shadows that hid my invisible form, to be fair — and not because I was discovered.
Quick memory wipes promptly dissuaded them from raising the alarm and I didn’t think my touch would be noticed on them anytime soon. Space Marine mind...
2024-03-23 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe first line of defence for any voidship would have been the long-range sensors, which I seemingly managed to slip past by. Next would be the point defence turrets, though even those needed to somehow detect incoming projectiles, and seeing as nothing tried to fry my hide just yet, that layer proved ineffective too.
Third was the void shield. I had no idea how exactly these worked — something that would have to be rectified later, my lack of technological knowledge...
2024-03-20 17:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostI needed that. I sighed, taking care not to wake the little beauty snoring with her cheek on my shoulder and legs intertwined with mine. She thoroughly exhausted herself, and while some bio-energy would have given her a second wind, I decided that some sleep would do her good.
I only now realised she might not have taken being beaten, kidnapped, and drugged as well as she’d shown. Some peaceful rest was more than deserved. Not that I disliked her soft skin, almos...
2024-03-16 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostCommander Dante was in an understandably stormy mood, even with the looming relief of an incoming crusade fleet.
“The recon squad is dead,” said one of his officers.
“From what?”
“We do not know. They couldn’t report back before they were killed.”
Dante, try as he might, couldn’t ignore the Chief Librarian’s judging glare forever. It was like an icy pinprick burning into his flesh even through his mask.
...
2024-03-13 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostWith the last nearby Astartes dead with a final echoing scream, and Selene healed up to tip-top shape with a new armour — tendril included — covering her, I could breathe a sigh of relief.
No other living human or transhuman was within range of my senses, but I had no doubt they would be swarming this cavern in no time. Or maybe not. There were still Tyranids at their gates and without … oh right, I had two other companions.
‘Valenith?’ I s...
2024-03-09 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe rift closed behind him, and he collapsed onto the dirty ground. Twisting over, he managed to rest his back against the cavern’s walls and breathe a sigh.
The battle stimulants slowly drained out of him and his strengths faded further. He could barely lift his arms.
He failed. It was shameful, but failure was not the end. As he said to the thing, she was but one of many.
A compartment on his armour snapped open, and he pulled a...
2024-03-06 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostBoth of my hands transformed, morphing into a Tyranid spike bolter. I wasn’t sure of its exact name, but the thing shot out armour-piercing spikes laced in neurotoxin and acid so vicious that it melted right through any carapace I could currently replicate.
It was a nasty weapon, though not as nasty as some of the other Tyranid projectile weapons. I also loaded condensed bio-energy into the launched spikes for good measure, that was something I had ample amounts of thanks...
2024-03-02 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostWe continued our dance. He went at full power from the start, striking with the intent to cleave me in half clear in each of his swings as I slowly dialled up my own power. Or well, what I was dialling up was my toolkit and versatility.
A simple sword vs spear quickly became something much more fantastical as I started incorporating anything from illusions, bursts of speed, extra limbs clad in jagged claws, gusts of matter-consuming flames, and blasts of pure energy.
He had to def...
2024-02-28 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostI gave Selene a quick rundown of what I knew of Psychic Blanks. Fuckers with negative souls that repelled warp energy, reinforced realspace, and made anything with even a fragment of psychic power in them loathe their very existence.
I could understand why, even if to a lesser extent, even if it affected me in an entirely different way than it did human psykers.
If a powerful Blank walked up to my face, I’d probably just be cut off from my drones or even my Avatar a...
2024-02-24 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostI invested almost all of my brain power into controlling the Drone, only leaving a fragment of my consciousness behind in my Avatar through which I could feel Selene’s hold tighten around my hand.
The Drone became me, even if my soul-thread remained in the avatar. Its instincts, senses, and movements went directly into my mind without any buffer as I twisted its body out of the spear's way and sent a clawed strike at his chest.
He was maybe the slightest bit slower th...
2024-02-21 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“You are making that face,” Selene said.
“What face?” I asked, putting on an innocent expression.
She squinted at me, I just smiled and blinked at her. I was the epitome of level-headedness and pragmatism, there was no way I was thinking about jumping a Shadowkeeper just because I wanted to throw fists with it. Nope, not this girl.
I’m still going to do it though.
Selene poked me in the rib.
“You are thinking about something stup...
2024-02-17 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Brother Octavian.”
Octavian snapped out of his thought in a moment, gaze focusing on the usually silent and forever stoic Flavius of the Aquilian Shield-host. Octavian heard the man speak only a handful of times, and all of those instances were of utmost importance.
The man didn’t even make a sound when the Lord Regent ordered the in-system Warp-Jump, despite the large probability of mankind's largest fleet since the Emperor walked the st...
2024-02-14 17:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Patreon's enshitification has been reverted just a bit for the time being so I will go back to posting in normal text posts like this one.
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After our little talk, I was feeling unusually shy, yeah, me, shy. I know. That doesn’t really go well with narcissism, but it is what I had to deal with. It didn’t help that Selene went from treating me like some goddess, to a puppy she just rescued from the shelter.
It was embarrass...
2024-02-10 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: This things seems to be working for now, but I'll still post a link to my drive at the end of the chapter in case anything goes wrong.
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“How is it?” I asked eagerly as Selene finally placed a tiny bit of food I made for her into her mouth after what felt like an hour of poking and prodding like it’d jump up and crawl off of her plate if she did it enough.
“It’s,” she coughed, her f...
2024-02-07 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostPatreon editor is still a pile of steaming garbage, so let's see how well this works out.
The Link below should let you guys view Chapter 89 of the story in my Drive and nothing else. For starters, I only gave you 'Viewer' privileges since I don' t really trust the drive to not give up on life if a bunch of people start commenting on it.
Sorry for the shit quality link, I can't even manage to make it an Embed so this will have to do. I also added a PDF version of the chapter in the ...
A/N: Fucking Patreon broke an I can't paste formatting. I tried to go over it all again and edit stuff manually, but some enters or sg could have slipped by. Sorry about that.
If this keeps up, I might have to consider posting chapters by sharing a link to my Google docs, would you guys be fine with that? Reading in google docs instead of on patreon?
Back to the chapter!
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Telekinesis, and mos...
2024-01-31 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostHuh, okay. That was … fun? My part of the deal was done and Dante already gave me most of what I wanted, whether he would actually hold up his part when the big blue man arrived would be another thing entirely though. Let’s hope I scared them just enough to respect me, but not enough to drop a cyclone torpedo on the planet to kill me.
It wouldn’t work, but it would be a pain. Plus, l...
2024-01-27 17:12:21 +0000 UTC View PostHer sword raked through carapace flesh and bone alike. The blade needing only a bit of extra push to slash through the tough bones of the alien menace.
A Carnifex. Selene observed, pulling her sword out and lashing out again in a piercing strike aimed right at the beast’s head. It tried to dodge, and despite its large body and immense weight, the Xeno moved quicker than any human she’d ever seen before. Well, aside from herself.
The Ca...
2024-01-24 17:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post