2nd post today, don't skip ch 87
Triss kept calm, even when everything else fell into chaos. Again. Earlier that day, she had left with the rest of her makeshift squad, a mixture of surviving Verdant Grove Guards and some of the original Guard of Orken. She understood the idea behind the mixing of the squads; the cities had been different, and the Guards were different in turn. The two groups needed to be brought together, melded into one cohesive unit, so that th...
2021-06-22 04:17:46 +0000 UTC
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Working on a second chapter, but it might not be posted till late tonight.
Triss flexed her fingers, slick with sweat and grime, causing the wooden shaft of her spear to creak. The darkwood rod was well-worn by time and training, any roughness long since smoothed away by the oils of her palms. From her position just outside the great darkwood doors of the Nature Core’s sanctuary, she almost felt as if she could overlook all of Verdant Grove.
She cou...
2021-06-21 21:37:42 +0000 UTC
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Second chapter posted today, don't skip chapter 85.
I had become extremely popular over the week that followed, something that was satisfying to experience. It meant that my efforts to convert the Coreless had not gone to waste. The younger members of the many-nest’s Coreless, especially, had proven eager to meet me.
Beyond the obvious similarity that was their size, the smaller Coreless shared many common features - the most notable of which were the darkwood c...
2021-06-21 03:08:49 +0000 UTC
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I'm almost done with a second chapter, but the writing has been going pretty slow today. Should be up sometime before I go to bed.
The flickering of the thought-light greeted me as I came to, its welcoming glow thrusting me into full awareness at last.
Gained Minor Title.
Minor Title: [Little Guardian]
Description: You have been marked by the beginnings of a Legend: the snake that guards t...
2021-06-21 01:47:34 +0000 UTC
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DO NOT SKIP CHAPTER 83, THIS WAS A DOUBLE POST TODAY - I'M LOOKING AT YOU MATTHIAS
Valera stood, stretching her arms overhead until she felt the relaxing series of pops that she was waiting for. Her jaws forced themselves open into a heavy yawn, and she rubbed her bleary eyes. She looked back towards her small bed, checking on the bundled mass of clothes gathered at one of its corners. A tiny snake lay motionless at its center, all but dead to the world.
Still...
2021-06-19 22:00:40 +0000 UTC
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1/2 for the day
From the moment that I had been created, I had known what I was. I was Paradox. I was the sole creation of the Great Core. I was special.
This...thing had tried to strip that away from me. It had tried to make me forget who I was. It had tried to take the place of my Creator.
That could not - could never - be forgiven.
[SUBMIT]
Another powerful thought-hiss smashed into me, and my resolv...
2021-06-19 21:56:48 +0000 UTC
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DOUBLE POST, DO NOT SKIP CHAPTER 81.
The next four Blood of Tiamat - an odd name for the revolting monsters, I couldn’t help but think - proved to be an exercise in willpower to consume. More than anything else, it was my pride that stopped me from giving up. They were disgusting, sure, but I had earned them. It was their deaths that had served as an example of my worth as the Great Core’s Champion, both to myself and to the numerous Coreless that had cower...
2021-06-18 21:48:45 +0000 UTC
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I wrote a second chapter as well today, which will likely be posted within the next 30mins-1hr. Just a heads up.
Name: Paradox
Species: Snake, Ouroboros
Major Title: [The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail]
Minor Titles: [Minor Mana Core] [Touched By Fire]
Innate Traits: [Venomous II]
Blooded Traits: [Paralyzing Venom IV] [P...
2021-06-18 21:32:06 +0000 UTC
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Quick double post, make sure you didn't skip ch 79
I hissed in delight as [Chrono Fire] finally disappeared with an intense clap of noise, burying my own sounds underneath it. The revolting bad-things were clumped around me in a great pile, riddled with self-inflicted wounds and bloody injuries. Only a single enemy remained, bloodied and stumbling, the final bad-thing to survive. Barely, at that.
Four of its six arms hung limp from their joints, h...
2021-06-17 21:09:43 +0000 UTC
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Uploading a second chapter in a minute or so.
Valera grinned widely, eyeing Rowan’s shocked expression. The man looked exhausted, worn to the bone in a way that she had never seen him before. Still, it was good to see him alive. Valera had been worried; as competent as Rowan and the rest of his party were, they wouldn’t be the first group of Seekers to disappear on a mission gone wrong.
Far from it, in fact.
It had been a relief to see all of them among ...
2021-06-17 21:08:25 +0000 UTC
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I still remembered the time before; the time when I had just been a helpless little snake, with only my own faith in the Great Core keeping me sane as I witnessed the dangers of the World Dungeon and its many bad-things. How could I not remember that time?
It wasn’t so long ago - not even if I counted the time spent within the countless false-lives of the Flame Dungeon, the times where I had tried and tried again, only to fail and fail again. That, more th...
2021-06-16 22:23:34 +0000 UTC
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Experience Gained! Reduced Due To Assistance Received.
Experience Gained! Reduced Due To Assistance Received.
Experience Gained! Reduced Due To Assistance Received.
The thought-light washed over me as the few flesh-twisted bad-things that had pushed their way past [Chrono Fire] were quickly defeated, cut off from the rest. A few of the Coreless let out audible s...
2021-06-15 05:17:42 +0000 UTC
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I am the WORST, sorry about the delay. On the bright side, I've managed to hammer out a bunch of details about where the story is heading so that's cool. Heading out for dinner right now, but I'm about halfway through another chapter which should come out later tonight. Going to aim for increased releases for the next while now that I know where the story is going. Managed to think about some ideas that I think are pretty cool.
I hissed again, shaping the sound into a w...
2021-06-14 23:33:23 +0000 UTC
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Rowan huffed with exertion, moving his legs more through sheer force of will than via his actual muscles. The last week had been a series of long-running battles, with only brief moments of respite between each of them - and even those had been full of tension, with the possibility of being attacked by a new set of monsters at any moment. His team had been caught unprepared for what they had found; though they had left Orken with the mission to discover why the traders that had lef...
2021-06-04 21:13:17 +0000 UTC
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Blood trickled down my throat, spilling from the tears in my throat-flesh; I swallowed it down carefully, clamping down on my tail before my [Poisonous Blood] could drip down on the-female-who-was-not-Needle’s shoulder. The glowing skin of ore-flesh that she had covered herself with would be able to mostly protect her from the effects of my blood, but she had not covered herself fully; here and there, bits of flesh were exposed, spots that would have bee...
2021-06-02 21:48:24 +0000 UTC
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My throat warped and shifted, becoming something new. My flesh ripped and knit itself anew under the Great Core’s power, becoming something better. Somewhere else, something formed in my body that I couldn’t identify, sculpting itself in time with the reshaping of my throat-flesh.
I hissed, and the sound slipped strangely from my tongue - and then, somehow, I made it move. I couldn’t see it, but I knew that it had moved from the way that the hiss shifted and ap...
2021-05-26 22:58:41 +0000 UTC
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I hissed in rage as another Coreless fell. My scale-flesh quivered with the strength of it, and a drip of venom spilled from my fangs as my control loosened. I pulled back against it, holding the rest of it tight. My venom wanted to flow free with my rage, to run in rivers from my fangs as the bad-thing ripped through the Coreless around me, but I managed to keep it back - if only barely.
The lonely drop of venom that I had released glowed slightly as it spilled its way down ...
2021-05-24 17:15:49 +0000 UTC
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What felt like a long time passed as the Coreless and I traveled swiftly through the dim caverns and tunnels. Glow-caps and more lit our way, casting shadows that walked alongside us throughout the journey. I could see signs of past bad-things lining the walls; a scratch here, a gouge there. Despite that, none came to meet us. It might have been the silence of their steps, the way that they traveled softly across the stone. It might have been the speed of their wandering, leaving l...
2021-05-24 01:41:28 +0000 UTC
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Just a heads up, I‘ve been feeling weird for the past couple of days and have been having a hard time breathing - I’m almost positive I caught COVID. That’s what I get for procrastinating on my vaccinations, I suppose. Fortunately, I don’t yet feel completely awful beyond being tired/having a headache/difficulty breathing/lightheadness due to aforementioned breathing. I’m heading into Urgent Care atm to see if anything can be done about it. Depending on how long it takes, I’ll sti...
2021-05-20 00:06:48 +0000 UTC
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The ringing meant something to the Coreless; it sent them into a flurry of motion that led us to the edge of the many-nest in hardly any time at all. Only the-female-who-was-not-Needle was left behind - or, rather, she had left all of us behind, running off in a different direction after making a few noises at the others.
Something about the edge of the Coreless’ many-nest made me deeply uncomfortable; an instinctual part of me wanted to shy away from the pitch bla...
2021-05-15 04:43:35 +0000 UTC
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The bell continued to toll, filling Valera’s ears with its brassy tones.
Her legs pumped as she ran through the streets, leaving the Seeker Barracks behind. Soon enough, each step began to cause the ground below her to bounce slightly as she left one of the many islands of stone that served to anchor Orken, moving onto a giant stretch of darkwood planks that spanned the distance between it and the next. While some cities were forced to form themselves as floating cities ent...
2021-05-12 06:02:12 +0000 UTC
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Ore-flesh rang against ore-flesh, fang against fang, as the Coreless fought against one another.
To one side, Needle used her needle-spitter to send needle-fang after needle-fang into a circular target. They thunked against it in a relaxing rhythm of repeated beats, only broken by the occasional clatter of splitting wood when one needle-fang cut directly through another.
In the center of a ring of raised stone, Will and the Unrepentant One battled, pitting solid defense...
2021-05-11 00:49:41 +0000 UTC
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“Sounds like a story, there. You’ll have to tell it to me. But still, you want something made for the snake? I have to say Valera, that would be a first for me,” the shaper of ore-flesh responded, his brows furrowing in what I thought to be confusion. Though the Coreless’ interactions were still mainly a mystery to me, I thought that I was beginning to get a greater feel for their body language.
A few of them were easy, shared among many of the bad-things that I had s...
2021-05-08 05:58:20 +0000 UTC
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I tried to hiss, my tongue pressing firmly against my sealed-shut lips, and glared balefully at my betrayer. She-who-was-not-Needle, the lowest of the low, stared back. I could see it in her eyes; she knew what she had done. She knew that she had earned my ire.
As well she should.
I pulled against my bindings again, trying to pull apart the sticky threads that sealed my mouth shut. They held firm, just as they had ever since they had been wound around my snout. I huffed...
2021-05-06 04:57:24 +0000 UTC
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“That thing almost killed us all!”
The voice, impassioned and filled with an irate fervor, ripped across the room with its overwhelming volume. Murmurs of agreement followed behind it, some reaching even further to become outright shouts. The large hall, lit by an abundance of Light Orbs and festooned with finery that nearly made her eyes roll, was filled to the brim. As much as it ever was, at least. Twenty councilmen - every single one of them, a rare occurrenc...
2021-05-04 03:54:01 +0000 UTC
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The Coreless made noises at each other for a long time.
A very long time.
Even the helpful haze of the feel-good-water wasn’t enough to vanquish my boredom. I had already defeated the staring one, and there was little left to do. Eventually, I slithered down from the back of the fake-pedestal, choosing to ignore the jabbering Coreless and explore the small room instead. Despite that, I could still feel the staring one’s eyes on me every so often, though the...
2021-04-28 05:34:39 +0000 UTC
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One down. Gonna start to work on a 2nd now. Barring any major issues, I should be able to get it done. Wish me luck.
The new Coreless was odd.
It wasn’t just in the way that the other Coreless looked at him, as if hanging on his every unintelligible word. It wasn’t just in the way that he felt far more dangerous than the others, his every muscle tensed as if ready to burst into motion at a moment’s notice.
It ...
2021-04-28 02:14:56 +0000 UTC
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Ended up only being able to write one chapter today. For some reason, I really struggled with this one. It took about 5 times as long as one normally does for me to write a chapter and I'm still not happy with it. Turns out, I underestimated how difficult it would be to describe certain things with such a limited vocabulary and knowledge base. Ideally, the next ones will become easier so that I can write more chapters in a single day.
2021-04-27 04:18:22 +0000 UTC
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Managed to catch some sort of stomach bug that laid me out for the past few days. I'm done puking my guts out now though, so we'll resume normally. Just one today while I get back into the swing of things, but I'm planning to do some double chapters during the next couple of days to make up for lost time.
Orken looked much as it always did; a floating town nestled in the center of a lake of null-water. Light Orbs, imported from nearby cities at great expense, filled the...
2021-04-26 04:08:33 +0000 UTC
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The thought-light flickered in response to my decision.
Traveler: You have flowed through time, and it has flowed through you. You gain the ability to more freely flow through time distortions, and are able to greatly reduce their effects on your form at will. (Provided by: Ouroboros, [Chrono Fire])
For once, I didn’t feel my body change. I didn’t feel my scale-flesh warp, or a new organ form, or anything like that. Instead, I just knew...
2021-04-22 03:22:17 +0000 UTC
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