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I felt the outer armor incinerate as we gained more and more velocity, with the two joining in I could cut back on my supply of soul energy and we were still going a bit faster than required to escape orbit. My focus went into keeping the outer layer healthy as fixing tears was much less energy intensive than remaking the armor if parts of it flaked off.
It was supposed to pro...
2023-10-19 19:42:59 +0000 UTC
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Her life had been rather hard as of late, the snowy peaks weren't the most abundant in game to hunt and even less so in natural bounties to subsist off but she still made do.
She was the big sister after all and her little brother was her responsibility ever since mother left them, even if he was a rash and annoying little rut.
This day started just like all others, she awoke before her brother and went out for a hunt with the intention of waking her little brother wit...
2023-10-17 23:05:47 +0000 UTC
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Despite me saying that we were late I did take a minute to think this through. I know, what the fuck are you talking about Echidna? Think it through, when have you ever done that before?
And unfortunately, my only answer to that question would be 'never'.
Not a good look for someone who is arguably one of the mentally strongest people in the galaxy, if you don't count eldritch fuckers like Tzeentch. The problem is that 'mental strength' like what I have with me being able to think...
2023-10-17 14:25:51 +0000 UTC
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An annoyed groan left my mouth as I stirred, sleep was easy but now as wakefulness decided to annoy me I had to deal with bothersome things such as my aching side from sleeping on rough stone and the feeling of dread as the fact that I'm in a cell, under a keep and inside a dungeon all slammed into me.
I wish I at least knew who I am.
I thought wistfully, information didn't intrude on my mind this time but something else seemed to brush against it at my questio...
2023-10-16 09:38:34 +0000 UTC
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"Hey Thrall," I hear a voice, gruff and deep it still sounded like a child trying to mimic the Orc's own voice, "How's your side?"
None of my muscles dared to as much as twitch even though the man sounded genial as he asked his question.
"Better," said Thrall with a surprising subservience clear in his voice.
"Good," the man said, "we will continue your training from today...and you will have another bunch of books to read too."
I tried to make sense of the conversatio...
2023-10-16 09:37:46 +0000 UTC
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"Are you alright kid?" the gruff voice reached my ears, Thrall's voice.
"Y-yeah," I nodded despite him being unable to see it.
"Blackmoore's more disgusting than I knew," Thrall sighed, "how old are you, kid?"
'Aedelas Blackmoore was the master of Durnholde Keep and head of the orcish internment camp system shortly after the Second War, and the man who found Thrall lost in the wilds. He was a subject of King Terenas Menethil. His crest was a black falcon, which ...
2023-10-16 09:37:03 +0000 UTC
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The rhythmic sound of dripping water echoing annoyingly in the room roused my groggy mind into wakefulness. I groaned at being awoken, who left the damned tap open and why do I hear it from my bed?
I turned around, thinking that with me facing away from the sound I could maybe fall back into the comfortable embrace of sleep.
That was a mistake, with my first movement I felt pain wrack my body. I squealed, an unfamiliar high-pitched sound that I somehow couldn't recognize as my own...
2023-10-16 09:36:28 +0000 UTC
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Stone cracked beneath my feet as I launched myself forward, a barrage of flesh-eating worms was already heading in my direction but with a slight TK wave, all of the ones that could have struck me were diverted just enough for me to dash through the slight gap. I had no armor on and had my hair tied together in a ponytail so it wouldn't be too annoying while I held an unpowered bio-sword in my hand.
Unpowered so Selene would feel when she got struck but not lose limbs in the process wit...
2023-10-11 15:57:13 +0000 UTC
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"Whooooh," I shuddered as my feet touched the floor, the change was self-evident as soon as I stepped through the gate. Air pressure reasserted itself, the scents of stone and nature changed to something new and distinct but what held the most gravity was how the Warp felt.
For a few weeks, I was blessedly disconnected from it, either by the Tyranid's shadow or by being in the Webway but it was once again clear and as disgusting as ever. The Navigator Eye turned around inside my chest a...
2023-10-11 11:07:40 +0000 UTC
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"Listen," Virendel said harshly as Kali scrunched her eyes shut as she did her best to listen, "your hearing is leagues beyond my own so the only thing stopping you is your own mind."
"But I am," Kali grumbled, "I can hear the heartbeat of every single animal within half a kilometer and every single leaf brushing against the other."
"This is not a question of how much you hear," Virendel shook his head, "one can see the whole forest but be blind to the animals hiding bene...
2023-10-09 19:49:40 +0000 UTC
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NOTE: Shorter chapters but you are getting two of them, I might meld this and the 55th into a single one by the time I post them on RR.
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Oh Baal oh Baal, not sure if this is the right play but there is so much to be gained and the alternatives are far too inferior for my liking.
I could nab the genetic template of the Swarmlord, intact Astartes, and maybe even Guil...
2023-10-07 17:00:21 +0000 UTC
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999.M41 undetermined time || Imperial Palace; Holy Terra; Imperium Sanctus ||
Octavian Gaius
Octavian believed the strange feeling coursing through his body would be what humans referred to as excitement or maybe nervousness, none of it was displayed on his facade of perfection of course as he strode in last into the golden glided room. His steps resounded on the marble floor as only his eyes glanced around to take in all the intricate paintings and beautiful tapestries...
2023-10-07 14:42:16 +0000 UTC
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NOTE: No, despite appearances I did not abandon this story.
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Vorgnar Severus
His eyes cracked open, the moonlight making them glow in the dark night as the man-turned-beast glanced up at the elven girl swinging her legs back and forth, to think a child like her would have better senses than him even after his injuries hurt his pride but pride was something he buried deep withi...
2023-10-06 22:23:51 +0000 UTC
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"With your mental palace finished even if it is rather crude for now you can now start the most important part, building up your defenses and surveillance."
I listened to Valenith instruct Selene while I fiddled with a piece of Wraithbone I picked up somewhere along the temple, we'd reached it without any more complication to my surprise and now all we had to do before going through was to make sure Selene could handle demons poking at her soul and tempting her the moment we went throug...
2023-10-01 13:21:54 +0000 UTC
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As I comfortingly ran my hand up and down on Selene's back I felt her try to pull away from me once her aura calmed down. I gave her a final squeeze before I stepped back to let her recollect herself.
"Thanks," said Selene without looking at me, she sighed and shook her head, "Sorry."
"It's alright," I smiled at her, keeping the sigh of relief out of my voice from not feeling like worms were crawling under my skin anymore, Though even if my tendrils are doing just that, it's n...
2023-10-01 11:37:09 +0000 UTC
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NOTE: A shorter one after a long one, felt like a good place to end the Chapter
Anyway, Enjoy~
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My Mind-Cores were spinning in overdrive up until the last second where they flickered out one after the other as the last parts of my body turned to dust. I felt my soul thread start to fade without an anchor to reality and I was only left with my soul floating peacefully in the middle of a tumultuous ocean of energy, the ...
2023-09-28 13:01:24 +0000 UTC
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NOTE: Eheheheh, suffer with the cliff.
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The smell of death permeated the hallway, overpowering the musky scent of overgrown ruins. The smell of death, an interesting term, what I mean by it is a mixture of the coppery tang of blood, the repulsive smell of entrails and gore and the smell of burning flesh that prickled the nose. I breathed in, analyzing this mixture, searching for anything that shouldn't be or something tha...
2023-09-28 10:56:53 +0000 UTC
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NOTE: Tbh I don't know how I feel about this chapter, a lot of it feels like it lacks substance or meaning but since I already wrote it I might as well post it and see how y'all like it.
Came out to be 3200 words so a rather long one, hope you'll enjoy it.
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I sat still as a statue in the middle of this seemingly endless hallway, I knew by then that it was only an illusion and every kilometer or so cam...
2023-09-27 23:01:07 +0000 UTC
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NOTE: I used some AI proofreading for this chapter before posting, tell me if it feels weird or different in any way. Supposedly it only fixed up grammatical errors and didn't change my style of writing in any way but you never know with AI.
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"Say, Valenith, Val, can I call you Val?" I asked as I stepped up next to the Eldar, his amethyst gaze glancing at me sideways as he considered my question carefully.
"I suppose I ...
2023-09-26 09:56:44 +0000 UTC
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Zedev
The last month has been hectic, to say the least, and if he didn't have his emotions chemically suppressed Zedev calculated he'd have had a high chance of dying from a stress-induced heart attack. First comes and Inquisitor right out of the Ordo Xenos who are most likely to cut him down where he stood if they caught the slightest whiffs of what he's been doing in his hidden laboratory but that turned out to be a surprising positive in a series of tragedies.
The Inquisitor ...
2023-09-24 09:33:30 +0000 UTC
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My ears perked up as I caught a sound very much like a pained breath escaping someone's lips just before they caught themselves. I smiled widely as my steps accelerated, this awkward silence would end finally, both of my companions were brooding so hard that I was feeling hesitant to interrupt them without reason but thankfully someone was nice enough to do so in my place.
Not that I needed any distraction from having no damned idea how to get out of this sub-dimension, none at all. I w...
2023-09-22 19:49:09 +0000 UTC
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NOTE: Thanks for all the well wishes, I'm feeling much better already and if nothing goes wrong I should be right as rain in two or three days at most.
Enjoy the chapter~
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The smell of things in here felt weird, ethereal in the sense that I couldn't quite decide whether I was actually feeling the scents in my nose or if I was just imagining them. Thankfully sounds still worked just as well and so did my psychic sens...
2023-09-18 22:16:04 +0000 UTC
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Notice: This is probably going to be the only chapter in the next four or five days as I'm going to a uni festival in a few hours that'll only end on Thursday.
Enjoy~
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We were quite a weird group if I was being honest, I walked first in nothing more than my bodyglove and a belt on my waist fearlessly, behind me walked Selene with her fancy pistol held at the ready and last came in the mismatched form of the three ...
2023-09-12 12:32:42 +0000 UTC
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A loud crash resounded through whatever room we found ourselves in as the half-separated top part of the Gate failed to support its own weight. Wraithbone cracked and shattered as the large arcaneotech that stood for many thousands of years fragmented into thousands of tiny shards.
I dismissed my shield and rose to my feet with a groan, my mind felt a bit foggy and I'd describe the sensation as similar to when a human stands up too fast. I blinked, trying to clear it away but it only sl...
2023-09-11 16:31:29 +0000 UTC
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This is going to be the last Chapter of this Arc so it came out a bit longer than usual, around 3k words compared to the usual 1,6k so enjoy.
Not sure about it yet so it might undergo changes in the future until I actually publish it on RR and SH.
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I had a complicated choice to make, the people here already saw me making two 'clones' of myself but they didn't know that those clones each could take out a Tyranid Hiv...
2023-09-10 23:49:44 +0000 UTC
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I was sitting with my palms pressed against the Gateway as one of my Mind-Cores went through the tedious process of breaking through the locks, I couldn't do it with brute force as that might irrecoverably damage the alien contraption so I was left with the slow process of lockpicking it if you could call it that.
I realized a few days in that if I changed my form the gate would reject my energy, even if I knew how I should mold my energy to go through a lock it wouldn't pass if I wasn'...
2023-09-10 20:17:12 +0000 UTC
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My vision wasn't swimming by the time I saw the first Shadows walking through the dark tunnels with headlights and putting a few rounds of lasfire into every little horror that thought they could hide by pretending to be dead. I was still weak in my knees and breathing came hard but somehow I managed to walk in a confident stride with all the grace of an Eldar.
I waved off a Shadow with some stripes on his shoulder-pad signifying that he was either an officer or a squad-leader before he...
2023-09-10 12:29:47 +0000 UTC
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"You are not a monster," Kali said slowly, staring deeply into the girl's eyes, "and neither am I for that matter, we are Elves, Lexy."
"Elves?" Lexy tilted her head, "Really?"
"Yes," Kali reassured her, she still didn't have the faintest idea what the hell was going on but her heart broke into bits when she looked into Lexy's innocent eyes.
"Kalitra," Kali jumped at the deep voice calling her name, "these two come from a village not too far from her and they have agreed for...
2023-09-08 23:47:05 +0000 UTC
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"Armor up," I said as I placed my palm on Selene's shoulder, a single microscopic tendril of white flesh slipped out of my palm and sewed itself into the woman's hair, "and stay here; I'll handle this."
"But," she started, indignant at my dismissal.
I placed a finger at her lips just as she was about to continue, smirking at the gobsmacked expression on her face, "These are demons, big bad demons that are far out of the pay grade of you and your guards."
"Fine," she said as ...
2023-09-08 20:10:22 +0000 UTC
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After a soul-searingly long walk, we'd finally found the end of the maze-like building. The space expanded into a large dome-like hall, which was illuminated by makeshift light-posts in a clear Mechanicus design. It contrasted the softly curving architecture of the ruins, on which they were made to shed light.
I took in the collapsing walls, intricately carved pillars that looked like they grew out of the ground like trees, with crevices in their barks depicting ancient battles long for...
2023-09-07 09:44:21 +0000 UTC
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