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Chapter 191
Sonya stepped out of the elevator and into a hall made entirely out of metal. It was not unlike the fortified interior of the Marianas Trench base. A fact that made her frown more than amuse her. The likeness was uncanny. She glanced towards Shuta who walked in stoic silence next to her as they pushed into the hall and through a series of heavy blast doors. A lot of money had gone into securing this part of the building while the structure upstairs seemed to have been designed with image and ...
2024-11-26 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostASTA Employee Discount (Until Dec. 5)
Hello lovelies, your gorgeous and ever so wonderful CEO Sonya Chernovna here!
I have made some arrangements to extend the ASTA Employee discount to everyone! For just a little while anyway~ Colin insists doing otherwise is a no-no. Anyway! Got a special thing going right now until December 5th. The 'Supervillain' package is 20% off for the first month or year with the code: AF2DD. Cheers! And enjoy the holidays or whatever the hell you do during the winter.
Also, whoevers been rai...
2024-11-26 06:53:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 190
The four of them met back up as agreed a short while after their fun and made their way to the hotel, dropping off their purchases. Sonya and Marta had left a note stating that they’d gone back out to see more of the city after getting changed along with a proposed schedule written by Bandit for their upcoming outing into the local dungeons. Lillian tried not to think too hard about going back to fighting with the easy atmosphere she’d been enjoying throughout the day.
After a brief...
2024-11-25 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 189
Tokyo was an urban jungle, a sprawling cityscape of buildings of every conceivable size and shape. A world unto itself. There, amidst the concrete and scattered parks, mana was thick in the air. Most went through their days without even noticing, their only hint being the frequent monster sirens warning people away from one area or another. It came as little surprise that it was home to not just one, but three guilds. Even so, between monsters, villains, and the occasional dungeon, they were ...
2024-11-22 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostSide-Story: Vigilantes 3
Hellion caught his breath, hands on his knees. His entire body felt like it was burning. Ever since awakening his abilities he hadn’t experienced heat like this. Running through a burning building had been no different to a casual walk down a sunny path. This was a different kind of heat, though, a heat beneath his skin that spread like an infection. His lips curled down a bit at the thought and how accurate it was. He dropped to a knee and pulled up his pants leg, examining the spot where ...
2024-11-21 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 188
Lillian sat on the couch in the hotel room that had been arranged for them. It was less a hotel room and more a large apartment. There were several rooms branching out from the common area and a mezzanine level with more rooms attached. It was a little unsettling that a place like this even existed, in her mind. She knew how much it cost just to get a simple hotel room. A place this lavish must cost many times that amount. She wasn’t sure how to feel about it.
She let out a sigh and s...
2024-11-21 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 187
Sonya settled into the seat at the table. It was an elegant room, not pointlessly overindulgent in its design but rather more modern. Something that fit her sensibilities quite nicely. Personally she would have preferred a cafe or something more casual but who was she to deny these guys a chance to set the tone. She smiled as Lillian sat down next to her, giving her a sidelong look. She winked at the girl who frowned at her.
“Bandit told us we’re doing dungeons,” she said a little...
2024-11-20 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 186
Takehara Aoto was an old man with sensibilities that came from a lifetime of experience. He found the aging population in other nations to be strange. While they grew more set in their ways and rigid in their thinking, he found less meaning in ideology. There were few positions he considered to be hills that he would willingly die on. Not out of a sense of cowardice but instead a sense of practicality and openness. If he was wrong about something, he was wrong. It was not difficult to pivot w...
2024-11-19 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostVillains 161, Henchmen 144
Table of Contents is almost done! Lots of progress :D 2024-11-18 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 185
The private jet soared through the air, heading westward. The improvements to the vehicle Amos had made during what he called ‘hobby time’ had extended its range by a considerable amount and rendered it impervious to attacks from anything up to an uncommon-tier force. Besides that, the interior was much of what Sonya remembered from her trip to and from Las Vegas. She hadn’t used the jet in a while, discretely using portals when she could and taking advantage of other forms of transport...
2024-11-18 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostImperious Revisions
Hey guys. I'm going back through Imperious to do an overhaul and some revisions. There are portions of the story that I'm not happy with and want to clean up as well as factors about the system itself I want to adjust. I'll be taking some more time to work on it and release the revised chapters in chunks.
That does mean no Imperious today. Sorry U_U.
Broker is coming back on monday, no delays there though! :D
Thank you guys for being so patient especially duri...
2024-11-16 07:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostQuick update for Henchmen
Seems like my permissions changes didn't take for some reason for the Henchmen. It should be fixed now. Let me know if you guys have any trouble accessing the chapters I released for y'all in the previous announcement.
2024-11-10 10:35:34 +0000 UTC View PostMajor Patreon Update! Break Reminder and Henchmen Releases
Hey gang! I've got a few announcements.
The tiers have been updated!
The new Schemer Tier is now $1 / Month and is a general donation tier for supporters.
The old Schemer Tier has been changed to the Henchmen tier and is still $3/Month but now includes two weeks of advance chapters as well as being the entry point to my side-projects.
Villain Tier is now $7/Month and has been set as 5 weeks of advance chapters. We're a bit ahead, I don't think...
2024-11-09 08:51:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 184
In just a few hours, Sonya would go to Japan.
It was something that she had been anticipating for quite some time. Not only because she had a vested interest in going there as the CEO of ASTA Corporation and the head of her growing network of supporters in Ishtar’s ‘Club’, there was a far more important reason. There was a cult active in Japan, one that worshiped her alter ego as some manner of savior. She had been keeping track of their rhetoric and protests, cataloging their sig...
2024-11-08 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostSide-Story: Vigilantes 2
Adrien Moreau hadn’t wanted to become a villain. It wasn’t a matter of principles, however, it was more a matter of practicality. The flash had come with the kind of trouble that Adrien believed was better left avoided. Monsters were terrifying even if he was acutely aware that he could handle them himself if he wanted to. He was not a man built for combat but one to spend his time relaxing whenever he could. Selling homes was a relaxing business as far as he was concerned, meeting people...
2024-11-07 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 183
Sonya stepped through the portal and out into the snow. She took a deep breath and tasted the crispness of the air. Going from three environmentally disparate places in quick succession was an interesting thing and it allowed her to experience the nuance of the air with more clarity than she expected, even with her enhanced senses. New York had thick and pungent air, heavy and tainted with things that cloyed against her senses. The subaquatic base was sterile and flat with no distinctness to ...
2024-11-07 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 182
Sonya watched out the window of her office as Lillian and Annabelle left to go have dinner and talk more. The woman had immediately seen a bit of her brother in the young hero which wasn’t a surprise. Sonya wondered if a little bit of Nick had actually passed on through the ability that was given to Lillian as part of the merger into Fenghuang. It was an absurd notion, but one that had cropped up a few times in her musings about the nature of instincts. She shook her head and dismissed the ...
2024-11-06 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 181
With the trip to Japan just a few days away, Sonya still had things she needed to do in the interim. She had a company to at least pretend to operate and schemes to progress. She had put a lot of tireless work into what she was building during the year between Vegas and the training camps. She had intended for the camps to be something of a vacation where she could watch the fruits of her labor come into their own. It hadn’t exactly worked out that way initially but the results spoke for th...
2024-11-05 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 180
Time spent with the young heroes and her two closest friends was a balm that went beyond any private time and shopping spree could provide. As Sonya laughed and played games with the others she remembered more and more why she had thrown herself so hard into what she was doing in the first place and who she had done it for. She wondered if that exhausted dream from the previous night had been more honest with her than she’d ever been with herself.
Ever since the death of Firesto...
2024-11-04 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostVillains: 156 and an Announcement
Hey guys! Thank you so much for continuing to support Broker and keep the series going! You guys are the best! We're making a lot of progress on getting the official release of Book 1: Deus Ex Machina out for you guys to enjoy as well as working towards the Audiobook with Podium. I'm super excited.
Here's some art for you all, straight from the source. The cover art for Book 1!
It's tha...
2024-11-04 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post