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Mage Steel Ch. 62

Sixty-Two

 Heat suffused the room as red light blinded Kon. He blinked his eyes quickly as he tried to recover, looking back toward the console. The shuttle cannons, meant to fire at other spacecraft or heavily fortified positions, had just vaporized a channel into the forest.

Small bushfires were starting on the edge and the ground glowed with the heat, steam rising as rain fell to hit the burning ground. Kon could watch as the Knights led the charge, rushin...

Mage Steel Ch. 61

Sixty-One

“The cannon is on a rotating platform that is currently being powered by batteries. We can use this console to target and fire the cannon for now,” Bosch said as she led him up the stairs. The interior of the tower was just a series of ladders, catwalks, and equipment. The entire thing had been built to support the shuttle cannon rather than the cannon being used to support the tower. 

Bosch had led him to a small electronic console and showed h...

Mage Steel Ch. 60

Sixty

The sun was setting as Kon got close to Alpha. A thick lather of sweat covered his body as he ran, his chest heaving like a bellows as he closed in. It was the hardest he’d pushed himself since the plateau and he could feel the fire in his limbs. His nodes were burning, drawing strength from the energy reserves inside of his body to heal the microtears in his muscle.

A cold wind began to pick up, a drizzle began to fall in a mist that did little to cool hi...

Mage Steel Ch. 59

Fifty-Nine

“I’m telling you, this is where we’re supposed to be going,” Kon said as he held up the roughly drawn map. Diur leaned over his shoulder, the heat of her body pressing against him as she peered at it.

“I believe we’ve run too far. It would make no sense for a radio relay to be on the forest floor. We should head toward that hill,” Diur said, pointing back the way they had come. Kon craned his head back the way they came and realized she wa...

Mage Steel Ch. 58

Fifty-Eight

Mathis had found proper armor for Kon, but had been only slightly perturbed when Diur had turned him down. She wore a basic ballistic vest that had a cheap energy absorption weave in it, designed to slow projectiles and distribute an energy based attack. From the way Mathis had sneered at the bulky black vest, he didn’t have a high opinion of its protection ability.

Kon didn’t have the training to properly utilize Squire armor, but they had a more ...

Mage Steel Ch. 57

Fifty-Seven

“Sit,” Bosch commanded as they entered the small room. Kon looked around himself as they stood in the doorway looking at an unarmored Evelyn Bosch. Without her armor the Knight was still tall, broad, and muscular. But no longer did she resemble some metallic god of war dredged from the history books of old earth.

She was a younger woman, though older than Kon, likely somewhere in her late twenties. She stood as they entered, waving a hand at the ch...

Mage Steel Ch. 56

Fifty-Six

“Wow. That looks like a shithole,” Kon muttered to Diur as they came upon Camp Alpha. Thick streaks of black smoke rose above the tightly packed camp. A low wooden wall ran along the perimeter of the camp, with slightly elevated towers on each corner of the square fortifications. A much larger tower was in the center of camp, this one made of repurposed scrap.

The shuttle gun was on it on a spinning pedestal. Even from here Kon could see the big, cru...

Mage Steel Ch. 55

Fifty-Five

“What’s a pseudo C-Grade?” Kon asked as they slowly gathered up to leave the sight of the fierce fight. Diur was pale, a slick of sweat on her face as she looked around with wide eyes, her nostrils flared as she took everything in. 

“A failed ascension. It straddles the realm between C and D, but it will likely begin a regression into D-Grade if not dying outright in a few days. But, for those few days it will have the strength of a lower C...

Mage Steel Ch. 54

Fifty-Four

Bosch returned silently with a chunk of rock in her hand that radiated power. Her Squire squad broke from their positions around the edge of the rift and formed up on the woman. She tucked the double fist sized rock in a pack one of them offered her. The Squire shouldered the pack when she finished and everyone turned to look towards the Knight.

“Rift cleared. Any communications from Willis or McGuire?” Bosch asked towards Mathis. The big Squire str...

Incursion Empire Ch. 25

Twenty-Five

Dane lay stretched out across the ground, breathing heavily as steam rose off of his burning arm. Thick piles of ash lay around him, consumed by the hellfire he’d unleashed as the last wave of monsters had pushed toward the top of the hill. Tolic floated over him with all four of his arms crossed, frowning at him.

“What are you doing down there?” the damned spirit asked.

“Catching my breath.”

“Stop being dramatic, it wasn’t th...

Mage Steel Ch. 53

Fifty-Three

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“Halt,” one of the still blurry Squires whispered. Their muffled voice w...

Mage Steel ch. 52

Fifty-Two

“What was what?” Kon asked. His mind was trying to figure out what was going on. He looked past Knight Bosch and to the forest around them, seeing no other signs of humanity or monsters. 

“Cadet Kon. Your records indicate no establishments of nodes nor any type of energy enrichment program. So, how is it that you have nearly as much energy inside of yourself as a Knight?” Knight Bosch blinked slowly, her dark eyes stern as her furrowed brow ...

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Incursion Empire Ch. 24

Twenty-Four

Xeroc panted heavily as he looked over the battlefield. Dead covered the ground, stretching out in every direction to form a carpet of corpses. Most of it was the natives and his own forces, but there were some monsters interspersed amongst the dead. Xeroc took a knee, looking down at Kage’s still form, the squire’s chest split open from a stray blow. 

“Damn shame. Lost four of my own coterie in that last push,” Dalin said as he shoved his...

Mage Steel Ch. 51

Fifty-One

“I’ve never really watched this before,” Diur said as she sat on her heels, only inches away from Kon as he gathered up the stack of bloody F-Grade stones around himself. He offered her a quick grin as the small hill of stones tried to topple over.

“It’s pretty boring most of the time. I just sit here and absorb energy. Nothing to see,” Kon said. 

“Still, the amount of power there is formidable. This planet is so rich with energy...

Mage Steel Ch. 50

Fifty

“Those aren’t better,” Kon said, staring at the vermin crawling over the corpse of something that was nothing more than a series of bones held together by the last remnants of sinew. Stringy rust red bits of meat hung in dribbling strands from each curved rib, as furry black six-legged creatures scuttled about, eating at a voracious rate. Kon had no doubt that in the next few minutes there’d be nothing left of the carcass but nibbled bones. 

“...

Incursion Empire Ch. 23

Twenty-Three 

“I’ve always heard you overgrown lizards were egotistical bastards. It’s good to see that the rumors were true in this case,” Dane taunted, knife held low as they circled each other. Gabe snorted softly from the slits on his muzzle like face, hot air blowing across Dane’s face.

“I will eat your heart and sacrifice your pathetic core to my sponsor. None shall remember you,” Gabe hissed. Claws sliced apart the air in front of him, Da...

Mage Steel Ch. 49

Forty-Nine

“Are you sure about this?” Diur asked as they stared together at the small flower across the glenn. It hadn’t taken Diur long to find the natural treasure, the area was rife with them. Rifts had been depositing energy through the entire planet for who know how long, the treasures were fairly common if one knew what to look for. 

Diur had explained that it was finding the right type of treasure that was the hard part. One that wasn’t going t...

Mage Steel Ch. 48

Forty-Eight

Kon couldn’t tear his eyes off the giant bug as it scuttled down the cliff side. Its legs were machinelike in their rapid movements, propelling itself down with reckless speed. Diur grabbed at his elbow and that seemed to break whatever hold the creature had cast on him. Kon turned and began to run into the forest.

The normal, non metallic forest. The trees were plain wood, leaves soft and not sharp, ready to slice, metal. He breathed a sigh of relie...

Bloodsworn ch. 2.40

40.

“Heavy casualties amongst the regulars. Princess Aloria’s royal guard fared better, but still took losses. Militia detachment had nearly a fifty percent casualty rate, but not as many fatalities. We were able to pull them out and retreat. Most will be able to return to service,” Sammus finished off reading the long list of damaged to Victoria. 

The Queen sat ramrod straight, her face an icy mask as she listened to what had been a catastrophic loss o...

Incursion Empire Ch. 22

Twenty-Two

Heat Resistance 

F-2 

Heat Resistance 

F-3 

The alerts chimed in his interface as Dane felt as the boiling mud slowly cooked him. The thin pipe he had built of long grass strands was poor for the situation, but was allowing him to breathe enough as he crawled through the channel. It was the closest of the recent blasts where Gabe had burned down the...

Mage Steel Ch. 47

Forty-Seven

“It’s weird seeing the sun,” Kon said as they reached the edge of the plateau. For two days they had kept moving, a sense of doom trailing after them. Kon was exhausted, tired in a way that went far beyond just the physical realm. It was a soul deep weariness that he feared he would never alleviate. 

Diur was hardly in any better shape. Her eyes were slits as she leaned against a tree to look at the sheer cliff side. A weak beam of sunlight ...

Mage Steel Ch. 46

Forty-Six

A/N: Last two chapters are a bit short, but it's not going to be the new normal.

“We have to go back. She needs us,” Kon whispered as they stopped under the side, panting as they leaned against trees. Diur stood off to the side with her sword in one hand, the scabbard in the other. Her eyes were wide and wild as they swept back and forth, her nostrils flared as she breathed heavily. 

“We’d die instantly. If she survived the fight, she�...

Mage Steel Ch. 45

Forty-Five

“Quiet.” The whispered command froze both Diur and Kon as they stopped mid step. Alice was taut as a tripwire, her eyes were wide open as she looked back and forth. She inhaled slowly, deeply, through her nose, head cocked to the side. Her axe was in hand as she looked at the forest to the side. 

The moment stretched out as the three of them looked at the empty forest. The sudden adrenaline spike sent his heart hammering as Kon looked over the ...

Incursion Empire Ch. 21

Twenty-One

Dane Rawlings 

Lvl. 7

Race: Human

Stats

Strength: 16

Dexterity: 10

Endurance: 10

Vitality: 16

Intelligence: 14

Mana Core: F-Grade

Body: F-Grade

Bloodline: F-Grade

Class: Warl...