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Bk 2 Ch. 58

58.

Santi sat in his old room in Homebase. The small closet still had the stench of old sweat and cleaning chemicals. Santi sat with his back against the wall and tried to get to clear his mind before he went through the long list of System alerts that was waiting for him. He had gotten Bianca, Yessenia, and Mom home just fine and Cam had stayed with them while Santi said he had to do some stuff. This was just the first of the things he needed to do before he...

Bk 2 Ch. 57 Goodbye

57.

A/N: Warning this is another emotional one. Little short but I was getting choked up writing it.

They buried Vicente the next day. Under a hot sun they laid him and the others killed in the rampage atop of pyres. Wood and other flammable items had been stacked up and now everyone was waiting. Santiago stood off to the side, shoulder to shoulder with his family as those who had lost someone walked up and spoke a few words. 

Dale had been a funny...

Bk 2 Ch. 56 Reunions

56.

A/N: Planning on releasing Mon-Friday for RoWM for now until we're 25 chapters ahead of RR. Book 2 coming to a close in the next few chapters too.

Downtown had turned into a burning warzone. Corpses lay strewn everywhere with thick knots of the ape’s surrounding singular or some case knots of dead humans. While they had been taken by surprise, the Apostate’s forces had held their own. Regardless, it had been a devastating day for them. With the...

Symbiote Knight Ch. 6

Chapter Six: Different Menu 

“Aberration? Fuck!” Hull spat as her long fingers dug into Cassian’s shoulder, dragging him upright. Cassian couldn’t breathe, the gnawing pain in his stomach was so intense. All around him the others were lying panting in exhaustion, the tendrils of metal having receded down their throats. There was a flush to their faces, sweat beading along their brows as they struggled to recover from their first feeding.  2024-09-07 22:34:33 +0000 UTC View Post

Bk 2 Ch. 55 The Spoils

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The kill notification dinged in his head as the woman died. Santi kept limping toward the VIP box, blood trailing behind him. The arena was deserted but the sounds of fighting outside were drifting in towards him. The primate screams and shouts mingling with the chaos of skills and spells going off in thunderous detonations. Santi kept a hang clenched around the dagger in his gut, trying to staunch the flow of blood. 

The pain was starting to c...

Bk 2 Ch. 54 To the Victor

54. 

[Gust] swept the primus down and towards Santi, causing the great ape to slam into the beam with its chest. The entire beam rocked from the weight, but as its thick fingers scrambled to pull itself up, Santi attacked. 

The morph lengthened into a long lance and he stabbed down, impaling the alpha through its thick trapezius as it jerked at the last minute to avoid the lethal head wound. Its right arm was a mangled mess and now Santi sever...

Symbiote Knight Ch. 5

Chapter Five: The Rift

Cassian stared down at the rift as the airship sank lower and lower. A rippling vortex of greens, blues, and whites, steam rose in a column out of it. Soldiers clustered to the side rails of the ship, looking down at the rift now and then. None of them seemed concerned about the nature of the rift as they sank toward it. 

Hull and her squad were clustered around them like a wall of steel, bristling with hostile intent when th...

Symbiote Knight Ch. 4

Chapter Four: New World 

Water crashed over Cassian, jerking him awake with a splutter and a curse. He reached for the boot knife he kept and cursed again as his fingers scrambled over the empty sheath. Something hard hit his stomach and he doubled over gagging as a pitiless laugh rang out above him. 

“Boy’s got spunk, give ‘em that.” It was a gravely woman’s voice and as Cassian pried his eyes open, squinting through the bright ligh...

Bk 2 Ch. 53 The Duel

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Santi made it three steps before the alarm went off. A general hue and cry of shouts as guards all turned and looked away from him. People began to clatter and run, racing toward the open entryway and leaving Santi practically alone courtside. He caught snippets of the conversations, but the primary driver of the new alarm was that invaders were entering the downtown. 

It could only be his team. Santi raced upward, not caring if what few guards...

Possible new cover. Any thoughts?

Bk 2 Ch. 52 Bar fight

52.

The maintenance halls were just as labyrinth as the sewers. Santi quickly grew lost, threading his way from one hall to another. A half a dozen wrong turns finally got him moving in a more productive direction. The faint voices of people could be heard and Santi followed their whispers like a bloodhound. 

The halls carried sound better than he thought, as the distance was greater than expected. It took nearly three minutes of moving at a quiet ...

Bk 2 Ch. 51 Plots

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The familiar taste of a healing potion washed down Santi’s throat and he leaned back to rest for a moment as the potion took effect. It was weak, but enough to start having his wounds begin to knit back together and stop the bleeding. Between this and his now increased vitality, he could keep pushing a bit more. 

The faint sound of splashing reached his ears after only a moment or two of rest and Santi got to his feet in a hurry. He couldn’...

Bk 2 Ch. 50

50.

A/N: I need a name for the Morph Weapon. Any suggestions?

Santi watched the assassin carefully as the man weaved through his allies. They all bent away from him, nervous in his presence. A feverish light was lit in the man’s eyes as he began to speak of his Patron. 

“You know nothing of our Lord’s power. It transcends the layers of the Universe to bathe us in his holy light. It is our honor and duty to bow before his will and receive his b...

Bk 2 Ch. 49

49.

The dilapidated building was a clone of everything else he had seen so far. Strewn about with the debris of the old world. Here and there signs of habitation, the nesting habits of the mutated apes evident to see. Santi looked at the gnawed bones and some of the panic faded away to be replaced by grim determination. 

He wasn’t going to get out of here while the alpha was running about and the Apostate hid in the shadows. Abraham and his crew ...

Bk 2 Ch. 48

48.

A thin steel door was all that was between him and Abraham. Santi stared at it for a moment before opening the door and walking in. The room had been stripped down to the bare concrete floors. Floor to ceiling windows had been broken away and a wind ripped through the floor in a constant howl. Abraham stood in the center of the room with his people spread out all around him, weapons pulled out. 

Santi looked them over and let his grimace of dis...

Ch 3 Candidate

Chapter Three: Candidate

Henri looked at Commander Bishop with wide eyes as she walked toward him and the Captain. Each step was slow and ponderous as every eye watched her with bated breath. There was a hunger in the lordlings gaze to see her fail in front of them, a new object for their ridicule and derision. Cassian had to hold back the rising heat in his chest as Henri stood before the taller woman. 

The Captain pulled a metal rod from behind h...

Ch. 2 Lord Mayor

Chapter Two: The Lord Mayor

The tram ride was remarkably silent as Cassian continued to blankly stare over at the rest of the lordlings clustered on the padded seats. They studiously ignored him and Henri while talking quietly to themselves. The city around them was simply a dreary blur of slate gray buildings and the shimmering silver of falling rain. 

The mix of their colognes and perfumes in the enclosed space was enough that Cassian had to figh...

Bk 2 Ch. 47 Tower Climb

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Santi stalked by the severed heads, ignoring the sloughing skin that drooped off their skulls. Ground glass, as fine as sand, crunched under his boots as he walked into the bottom floor of the tower. The ground floor was a mess of broken furniture and scattered personal belongings. 

The smell of excrement filled the lobby causing Santi to scrunch his nose in distaste. He bent his spell around himself to keep the smells away. Nothing stirred ins...

Bk 2 Ch. 46 Bloody Streets

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A wide hand grabbed at the edge of the railing, bare knuckles white with strain with wiry black hair covering the back of its hands and arms. Hateful brown eyes came next as the beast glared at Santi as it rose up and over the concrete barrier to land in a crouch. It was as big as the Alpha was, but it lacked an edge that the Alpha had. There was no aura of danger to the creature. 

Primus lvl. 32 

Bk 2 Ch. 45 Loss

45.

A/N: Chapter's a bit short. No lie it was hard for me to write this, was getting choked up. It'll get cleaned up in the editing room.

Something was wrong. Santi could feel it in the air as they walked back towards base. A tense feeling of electricity that filled the air, the way the gateguards looked away and refused to meet his eyes. There was a tenseness to them, a fear in their eyes and Santi could feel his heart beginning to beat faster as a tendril of...

Bk 2 Ch. 44 A Father's Love

44.

A/N: I'm sorry

Vicente woke up instantly, the predawn light softening the darkness in their room. Gabriella was a soft, warm, presence against his chest, her hair bundled up under his nose with strands somehow stuck in his mouth. 

She had never been one for cuddling at night before all of this. Said he was too hot, that she couldn’t sleep like that. She had slept every night with his arms around her since that awful night when the System came....

Bk 2 Ch. 43 Deal making

43.

Congratulations, you are an Air Mage lvl. 34 

Santiago V. Silva 

Strength: 35 (60)

Durability: 35 (60)

Stamina: 33 (58) 

Dexterity: 32 (57) 

Vitality: 35 (60)

Perception: 32 (57)

Intelligence: 72 (97)

Mana: 85 (11...