/// Just a minor thing everyone. I won't be updating Hera's Status for this episode. It should be clear why when you read the chapter =P
Hera's Status
As soon as Hera exited the dungeon, the people who were betting gathered around to see who would've won. However, when they saw her current state, most of them gave up asking about it. A couple of them just wanted to make sure that Hera ...
Hera's Status
"I got it!" Hera gasped. She was already heading back to Bonpei. She spent about 1-hour resting and recovering while a few of the members of her court continuously cast the Luminous Light Litany to lessen her injuries. During that time, she realized that having all my blades use that spell was very effective but also extremely mana hungry. However, if just one of them was chanti...
Hera was currently in the middle of the woods by the volcano. She walked a few meters inside the forest, hoping to be hidden from any prying eyes. Before actually stopping to rest, she asked Daskka to spread out a thin layer of mist on the ground so that if anyone got close, they would sense it. The snake did just that, creating a sheet of thin mist that would be impos...
2022-07-09 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment the volcano tribe warriors start attacking, Hera and her court try to get close to each other. They were already doing that while Releon was talking, and thanks to that, the Empress was surrounded by her protectors before the first strike hit. That came from her side. One of the volcano tribesmen had shut out an arrow towards her. Beam was the one who managed to stop t...
2022-07-08 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostHera's Status
Hera was with a group of about 90 people going around the mountain towards what was once the farm. Now that area was completely covered in igneous rock, lava that had cooled down during the past weeks. She glanced back and saw the people who were following her. After talking with Elrich, he assembled this group that would be competent enough to perform the task that she wanted. ...
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Hera was in front of the dungeon again, and, as it became a regular occurrence, a lot of people were greeting her and asking if she had a party for the day. She wasn't sure when it started, but at some point during the last few months, people came to respect her. Even some of the veterans here would look up to her and ask about different strategies or ways to complete the dungeo...
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Alex was in the bathroom struggling with a headache. It wasn't something completely new, but she was still figuring out how to handle them. Every time she had one of those, it would feel like something was trying to pull out her eyeballs. She tried going to the doctor, but no one found anything wrong with her. She even talked to a few healers who are experts on curses and other ...
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"Before anything, explain to me why my emotions are affecting the court," Hera asked while sitting on the bed with all her weapons in front of her.
"They always have. The court is part of you, so anything you feel, they feel. The thing is, when the difference between the stats that you have in the stats that the blades inherited from you is too great, then your emotions ca...
2022-07-01 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostHera's Status
Hera killed about 40 invaders before things started to slow down. It didn't seem like they understood the difference in strength between the volcano tribe and themselves, but it was as if they had forgotten their objective, and now everybody was confused about what they should be doing. This allowed the volcano tribe to overpower most enemies and kill or restrain them. Hera was ...
Alex was moving slowly between the houses. Her objective was to find the leaders of Bonpei and take them out. She hoped that by doing that, she could end the war without having to fight the entire army. It might be just a baseless idea, but being this deep into enemy lines wasn't a pleasant experience. Any noise would make her worried that something was getting closer and force h...
2022-06-27 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
##### Author's Note #####
Hey everyone! I said this on discord and realized that never mentioned anything here. Earlier this week, I got sick and went to the doctor. It wasn't anything serious, but the meds were kicking my ass. That's why we didn't have a chapter on Monday and I'm sorry about that.
This chapter came late as a bit of a side effect of that. Since I wasn't able to write early this week, I ended up getting behind with the rest of the chapters, and yesterday as I was...
Hera's Status
Hera was talking to her friends, discussing things about this fight and how they could reel the volcano army back so they wouldn't just die out before even reaching the city. Suddenly, her blades almost screamed inside her mind.
'Watch out!'
'Behind you!'
'Empress!'
She also received information regarding the position and trajectory of whatever was going ...
2022-06-24 13:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostAs they walked through the burning outpost, Hera was glad all the people here had dissolved, and she wouldn't have to see the bodies. This wasn't the best option since the whole point was for her to lose the fear of killing people or at least lessen it. Yet, a large part of her was happy with the situation. The time she had to be happy was short-lived. When all the ice popped out...
2022-06-22 13:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostHera's Status
Alex was with the long-range battalion of the army. In front of her, Blue was leading the charge with the other two groups that would be forming the vanguard. So far, everything was working out great. They had figured out a better way to fight their battles and Hera was able to find one of the traps and trigger it preventively. She even used her spells to cover up the pit so the...
Hera's Status
The army was marching towards Bonpei. Following the main force with Blue and Alex as commanders of the army. Hera had left with the scouts to check for traps on the way. She was about a quarter of the way to the first checkpoint when Ooze noticed something on the ground. There seemed to be a patch of dirt on the road that had a slight discoloration compared to the surrounding ar...
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"Let's recap. The people of Bonpei have around 2000 troops plus the civilians who should not participate in a fight. Adding everything that should total 5000 people, but they are at the foot of the mountain. They should have swords, bows, arrows, and those types of weapons, but nothing made for a siege. The city is surrounded by a wooden wall, and some checkpoints are going up t...
The entrance of the dungeon was surprisingly easy to find. It was close to the doorway in the middle of the lava river splitting the city in half. But instead of being something on the ground dangerously close to the hot magma, it was on the top of an ancient-looking structure a few meters behind the doorway to a different room. When they got close to the building, it became clea...
2022-06-13 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostGoing to the city in the Charring Wastes was a bit of a problem in itself. For starters, they had to walk all the way to the town, which was already a 20-kilometer journey. Occasionally, some people with large-scale transport spells could also help people to cross that distance. But they couldn't find anything about it online, and the information Helena had was outdated since it'...
2022-06-11 13:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post"Your elbows are too high. You should be holding it closer to your waist, not to your chest," Lurize spoke in Hera's mind.
"Crap. I keep doing that. I don't know why," Hera sighed and lowered her stance.
"The weapons you use require wider movements. That's probably why you're having this problem," the blade continued.
"Wider? What are you talking about? The glaive has better range."
"Correct. But your arms are always linked to each other. This reduces your range of mov...
2022-06-10 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostHera's Status
##### Author's Note #####
There is a comment in this chapter about support groups. Those are only Hera's feelings about them at the moment. By no means do I agree with her thoughts and I believe that support groups can help a lot in various situations.
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Hera stopped by the Guild to see if any training rooms were available for her. U...
"Hey Alex, do you know where Hera is? We were supposed to leave today," Blue asked as she looked at her bag. They were about to travel again, and she was trying to see if they weren't missing anything.
"I think she said something about going to the guild. Maybe to train, I don't know. But she should be coming back soon," Alex replied. During the past few weeks, ...
2022-06-06 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostYash was walking towards the interrogation room. He was the one who was selected to talk with the smuggler that helped the centaur to bring monsters to Dzviery. There were a number of reasons why he was the one chosen to do so. Yash was one of the senior members of the Guild's investigation department, and he tended to be the one who got the best results if the person being inter...
2022-06-04 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Yash was in the break room getting yet another cup of coffee. It was only 2 P.M., but he was already on his 8th cup, and it didn't look like he was getting a chance to rest soon.
"Man, paperwork is hell," another man walked inside the break room. He wore a white shirt, black tie, and dark jeans as their uniform. The only difference between the clothes of the two w...
2022-06-03 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hey everyone! This is the character sheet for Hera. Here it will have all her current skills, equipment and spells. (Spells will come a bit later. I realized that my list of her spells is a mess and I have to reread everything to make sure I don't miss anything.) There will be a link to this post at the beginning of every chapter.
Also, this will always be updated to the start of the current chapter, and I'll try to update it by the end of the day when the chapte...
2022-06-02 05:42:04 +0000 UTC View PostHera was in the bathroom of her private room brushing her teeth for the fifth time of the day. After talking to everyone and explaining how she killed the elf, her nerves got the better of her, and she started throwing up. Luckily, she realized it was going to happen fast enough and rushed to the bathroom not to make her private room dirty and smelly for the rest of the time they would have to stay there. Between the moments when she was retching, Hera pulled up her tablet and sent a message ...
2022-06-01 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostHera ran through the open field, heading towards the red tower. She couldn't take the image of the crazy elf being impaled out of her mind, but if she focused too much on that, she would end up dying here. It took less than a minute for her to cover the area between the city and the tower, and as soon as she arrived, she punched one of the people who were trying to attack Alex. The assassin had already incapacitated another two, but Hera worried that others affected by the madness would charg...
2022-05-30 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe inside of the hotel was a mess. Not just counting the rubble and all the smoking and soot littering the floor, but it looked like it had been ransacked, which probably wasn't the case since there are cameras everywhere. What probably had happened was that the moment people knew of the attack, they grabbed everything they could and ran. Another issue was that the elevators weren't working. That was probably for the best since elevators would become a deathtrap if one of the monsters attack...
2022-05-28 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post"What is going on?" Blue asked.
"I don't know. It's the first time I see this type of notification. Can you guys connect to the internet?" Helena asked.
"I can't. It says that the connection doesn't have internet access," Hera was trying to see if she could change networks on her tablet, but only the one controlled by the guild was available. Not that it was a surprise since this is how every room behaved.
"What about our communicators? Are they still working?" Bonnie presse...
2022-05-27 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostAfter leaving the room where she talked to Alex, Hera sent out her blades to look for any other rooms that didn't look particularly complicated. The first three that they found seemed to be a bit too much. All three had very large areas inside, and there was no indication of what the test should be about. Executioner found one that could work. It was a tall cliff with a red flag on top. From the description she received, one could guess that this particular room was going to be a rock-climbin...
2022-05-25 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostWalking out of the door, the first thing that Hera saw was a very wide corridor with a surprisingly small amount of doors on each side. The ceiling of this area was also lower than one would expect. She would even have to dodge or duck under some low-hanging lights to not hurt herself. After walking around for a bit, she could confirm that a couple of rooms here were either open or had a small do not disturb sign with a big bright yellow sticker that read 'vacant room' hanging from the doorkn...
2022-05-23 13:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post