< Elysia – The Nex Megalopolis >
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Tick… Tock… Tick… Tock…
“Mn…?”
Rinnnnng
A hand slammed the stop button of an alarm clock. A figure squirmed beneath a mound of pillowy fluff as they groaned: “Already…?”.
Thin rays of the morning sun peered through parted blinds, painting the messy room with warm light. The room was decorated with various trinkets and post...
2025-04-02 08:15:29 +0000 UTC View Post< PROFESSION: Blood Tailor >
< Cloth is flesh >
The first time Red saw this she thought that maybe she had gained Blood Manipulation abilities.
Or better yet, became a vampire since Snow bit her.
“You don’t just turn into a vampire when you’re bitten. It’s a wicked, long-winded process. You’re better off just making a vampire offspring. But then you run the issue of lowerin...
2025-04-01 07:39:00 +0000 UTC View PostBeing friendly with wildlife didn’t come naturally to Red, unless that wildlife couldn’t be killed. Case and point – the Rock Bugs. Without carapace shell Rockie Grey wouldn’t have existed.
She splashed her feet in the water, her knee-high socks left on that same Rockie who nestled amongst a pile of rocks. They lapped at the rock with a rugged, metal-toothed tongue like how a dog would at a bone. This was to scrape any valuable minerals from the rock.
After all, o...
2025-03-31 07:46:51 +0000 UTC View PostHeavy was the crown atop Frost’s head. The Crowned brought vile memories of the last two times she had brought it out from her Collection.
She strode around the flattened battlefield, kicking away scraps of steel to unearth survivors. She gave them a mournful look before her face morphed into a warm smile.
Not one person was left behind, and she would occasionally smile over her shoulder. Few instinctively reached towards her back, to which she’d assure them with a wave.
“…”
The child watched the big figure with long hair and a giant dangling mass with wide eyes.
They had never seen that kind of monster before.
He wondered what it was – that thing that was draped in black cloth and spiky feather.
Explosions reverberated around him. They shook his bones and tore inches of metal from the ground. Shrapnel was flung at him, but he didn’t move or attempt to shield his body.
All he did was stand there, as if expecting it to p...
2025-03-29 08:36:32 +0000 UTC View Post“Mother.”
“Mother?”
“Mother…”
“Motheeeeer.”
“Bzzzt. “… ther…” Bweeep.”
What was the ‘Mother’? The Wholeness Reborn mentioned this being. The Unite Us, Everlasting outright confirmed that they were born from a ‘Mother’.
‘A’, because Frost believed there had to be more than one Mother, like the Memory Bistros and Queens of the Crimson Hunger, or the Aspiring Stars of the Maestros of Flesh.
Red came to realize something important that night. As they sat around the open flame, munching on freshly caught fish by the calm riverside, there was a whole world she had yet to open her eyes to.
She looked at the bear which ate alongside them, sitting on a log and sharing the same brilliant meal of fish cooked three ways; smoked, over a flame, and another that used a technology Red could only call ingenious.
“The grill. Trapping your prey into a cage and using that cag...
2025-03-25 07:32:28 +0000 UTC View PostAnnihilation
< The augmented power of Qliphoth. Highly effective against constructs of P-Factor. Neutral against constructs of Light >
“If we cannot reach what remains still so far away, then we only need to bring them here. Accumulate… until we become everlasting!”
“The sin of Envy… You crave what you don’t have but don’t put in an ounce of effort to achieve it! All you can do is wallow in self-lo...
2025-03-24 04:16:40 +0000 UTC View Post“You were never born naturally. The image of human beginnings is the egg surrounded by flagellates! The Soul is unattainable. But the image of human perfection will always be within reach!”
Its limbs jackhammered into the ground and launched it forward in an attempt to break free from Frost. However, Frost’s one hundred arms latched onto it before it could completely disappear.
She crashed through countless metal sheets, her heels scraping the ground as she surfed the uneven...
2025-03-24 04:14:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe resulting Corruption brought forth an existence that would require a squadron of highly skilled Moons to take down.
The HP of Eternal Night Corrupted rarely went over 200,000. The highest ever recorded by a Moon belonged to the Re-Entry Cube which sat just shy of an estimated 600,000 HP. Once it reached the millions, it would take days to a week of constant combat.
Such was the nightmarish existence of Frost’s version of the Corruption – Ego Corruption.
Of course, it...
2025-03-24 02:39:32 +0000 UTC View Post“Don’t stop to gander at my capabilities, rabbit. We have executive authority to complete the mission by any means necessary.”
“Usari… Understands.” The look of bewilderment in Usari’s eyes said it all.
It was the first time she had seen Horus fight with a weapon.
“U-Usari didn’t know you were a weapon specialist – I-ICY!?”
Usari’s face turned to that of shock as a loud thud resounded beside her. Icara was suddenly snatched by the tendril-like l...
2025-03-21 17:39:01 +0000 UTC View PostUnnaturally thick blood dripped from the elongated arms of the Wholeness Reborn. Their thin fingers scraped at the floor like rakes, dragging along brittle shards of crystals at their feet.
Their blood fused with the crystal environment. No. More accurately, their blood was converted into a silicon-based form, hence why it crystalized into a transparent, grey crystal. These hazardous mounds were designed to puncture flesh however possible.
That way, even the smallest wound would b...
2025-03-21 17:34:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe immense time dilation of the Corrupted Zone meant that three months had passed in the real world. That was one hundred and fifty days that had passed in the blink of an eye.
It was impossible to tell what had happened to the villagers of Hearth, or what the world beyond the forest was like. All that they knew was that they were in the middle of the Last Solstice – a period of the year where the sun was furthest from Elysia.
That meant they were either in the middle of Spring...
2025-03-19 22:49:27 +0000 UTC View PostIt had been three days since the fall of the Queen of Sweet and Bitter Thorns.
Life went on as normal. Birds sang. Animals grazed. Rivers flowed. The clouds soared overhead.
It was like they had just woken up from a bad dream.
The immense size of the Central Forests of Justicia meant that it would be nearly a week (10 days) before they’d reach the highways. Hundreds of kilometers worth of forests made up the middle portion of the Central Forests which was where Hearth Vill...
2025-03-19 22:48:06 +0000 UTC View PostFlashing light flickered through the holes of the Central Elevator. They had reached a point where the elevator shaft was illuminated with pale strips of light.
Four of these ran along each cardinal direction of the shaft. Between them were panes of glass revealing a sea of pale-blue Liquid Nex. Frost poked at the glass with a monstrously long blood-crystalized spear. Tapping on the glass caused bubbles to form and spread within the sea like a virus.
She sat on the edge of a broke...
2025-03-18 19:11:09 +0000 UTC View PostImgur Link: https://imgur.com/a/Vz0TaWf
2025-03-17 13:09:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Mathematical equations were the Starchild’s way of finding a method to bring peace to Lailah.”
Nav solemnly spoke, biting into a cookie.
It had been freshly baked by the Healers on the Floor of Amalgamation. They weren’t the stored batches that were tens of days old. The sweet treats were contained in a small plate beside a steaming cup of tea.
Their shapes and cuts were crude, like they were made by inexperienced hands.
They were tasteless.
Anna was sta...
2025-03-17 01:29:16 +0000 UTC View PostLailah
< Can you begin imagine what it must feel to live in a Garden of Paradise, but remain barred from smelling its flowers? To touch a rose but never feel its thorns? To embrace a child but to never sense their temperature outside of a number reading between thirty-six point five and thirty-seven point five? >
Frost approached the Corrupted. Cracks formed around the golden core, indicating that it was nearing death...
2025-03-15 02:56:35 +0000 UTC View PostThere was only one possible attack left.
It was no secret that Corrupted gained two additional attacks with each increasing Trumpet.
For example, the One Thousand Eyed Bird and the Greed Counter possessed six Skills in total, whereas the Heart of Ours contained eight. Then, there was the Crowned containing a total of ten (not including the Stability and Instability Skill variants).
By this logic, a Monsoon Level Corrupted should only possess four Corrupted Skills. This was a...
2025-03-15 02:53:27 +0000 UTC View PostA Monsoon Level Corrupted posed zero risk against the likes of Frost and Jury.
Extrapolate this to Colors, and you had a fairly straightforward fight. Of course, it wouldn’t be easy even for a Color to take down a Monsoon Corrupted, but the success rate would still be at around 90%.
That success rate plummeted to zero once normal people were involved.
There were approximately two hundred and fifty Adventurers registered with the Guild who could take on a Monsoon-Leveled th...
2025-03-13 21:55:45 +0000 UTC View Post“RABBITS!?”
“THE BUNNIES!? THEY’RE HERE!?”
“WHY ARE RABBITS IN THESE FORESTS!?”
Few managed to speak before they were slain by the superheated, azure tips of blades. Entities wearing identical Scarlet Logic bodysuits and masks with the face of a black rabbit annihilated them before they could even get out a single shot.
Scarlet Logic Dawn members attempted to fight back with their weapons, only to be outmatched in hand-to-hand combat. It typically did not...
2025-03-12 22:40:38 +0000 UTC View Post“The report of a Corrupted outbreak was, in all accounts, underplaying the reality of the situation.”
The march of dozens of footsteps erupted.
Over fifty personnel draped in red body suits and carrying the insignia of Scarlet Logic ventured into the lands that used to be the Forest of Everlasting Envy. Decaying, dark branches hung overhead.
An exclusion zone of approximately twenty kilometers was created to contain all elements of the Corrupted. ...
2025-03-12 22:39:07 +0000 UTC View PostRockie underwent the same transformation as Three Paw the moment they touched down at the muddy shoreline.
What emerged was a version of Rockie that was entirely coated in irresistibly soft, golden fur. It had ten eyes fixed at the front of its head, and several more hidden around its body.
It went from being two meters in length and about Red’s height to being three meters long and now absolutely larger than herself. A giant, lumbering spider was bound to draw attention.
...
2025-03-11 22:33:20 +0000 UTC View PostRed didn’t the remember the air being so cold.
They were still inside the Central Forests of Justicia, floating away on a lake stretching as far as the eye can see.
She expected the air to be a little salty.
Red had heard about the tales of sailors talking about tasting the salt in the air.
Or was that about the ocean?
She imagined that the ocean wasn’t any different from this lake. Replace the horizon with an infinite stretch of water than you had yourself a...
2025-03-11 22:30:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe mounds of flesh began to melt away, creating a sea of blood that swept them all away. Red slashed the lingering parts of the Queen of Sweet and Bitter Thorns, her hands rummaging through the flesh and brambles until she found a still-breathing pup.
Three Paw | HP: 5
“Three Paw… Rockie! Boat mode, NOW!”
“BRRR!”
Despite Rockie’s weight, it was quite buoyant. Rockie scooped up the injured Snow alongside the Fairytale’s Bane...
2025-03-11 10:18:40 +0000 UTC View PostSuddenly, Snow shouted at the top of her lungs as she wiped her tears away:
“You already proved your worth to us! Since the day we met! Three Paw… Do you remember the children?”
< “Yes. I was given love. >
“How despicable. Little Red. From where did you learn how to touch the hearts of the Corrupted!?”
“Touch. Heh. All I did was give Three Paw a reason to antagonize me!...
2025-03-11 10:16:57 +0000 UTC View Post< “I was born a wolf. But I wasn’t recognized as one by mother and father. Siblings who scoffed down more than enough food to fill us all twice over never allowed me to approach. I fed on leftovers, the remains of a messy picnic, hoping to join them one day.” >
All of it reminded her of when she first interacted with Rockie. How the Rock Bug gazed off into the abyss of its own reflection, contemplating what a Rock Bug does. D...
2025-03-11 10:14:27 +0000 UTC View Post60 HP was all Three Paw had. If she happened to even sneeze on him then he’d die. She didn’t have to imagine what would happen to Three Paw if he were caught in the impact zone of her Fairytale’s Bane.
“I only got one bullet left. If I knew Nemesis Stacks could do this, then I would’ve gladly thrown myself into the meatgrinder!”
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< Instability >
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2025-03-11 09:41:37 +0000 UTC View PostVarious weapons in the form of cannons with designs that did not belong to this world emerged from hatches along the walls. Belt fed dual miniguns, darts filled with a green acid, a device that carried a red-tipped arrow with a glow reminiscent of Scarlet Logic’s Unstable Capturers – All several hundreds of these were pointed at her.
Is my mimic asleep? Hey, you’re supposed to be keeping an eye out on these traps!
< Your Mimic does not see...
2025-03-09 18:46:55 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m sorry about this. But it’s too risky to leave an Isolation Sphere in the hands of a Corrupted. I’d hate it if the Conditions were to suddenly change on me. We’re on a tight schedule.”
Frost apologized to the mound of clothes that used to be the Repenters.
Since she was now facing a Main Sequence Corrupted in an open area, she couldn’t avoid the gazes of the Repenters. Additionally, an Isolation Sphere posed the risk of being hijacked by the Corrupted, so she cou...
2025-03-09 18:44:49 +0000 UTC View Post