Red set her sights on the Queen’s shell.
Now that it was undefended, and now that the light of tree was accessible, she had free reign to take them down.
“You yearn to be human, and yet, you carry a weapon capable of –!”
“Ever heard of a knife, you thorny shit!? Stop with the mental gymnastics of this and that! Hell… you had bigger blades than me!”
The Hunt Must Go On
ATT : 750<...
2025-03-07 21:27:00 +0000 UTC View Post“BRRR!”
“Rockie!” Red shouted, her eyes wracked with fury.
The Steel Bug, which easily weighed over a hundred kilograms – perhaps hundreds – was thrown like a ragdoll across the field of flesh. It skidding along helplessly, tumbling into stray Bitter Dregs until finally grinding to a halt.
“Brrrr! Br! BRRRR!” It trembled.
Pieces of its shell littered the ground as parts of its innards spilled.
And yet, against all odds, and despite facing an insur...
2025-03-07 21:24:51 +0000 UTC View PostA single shot from the Fairytale’s Bane was bound obliterate the Queen of Sweet and Bitter Thorns.
It was a fated inevitability.
“Even if your HP can’t drop to zero, I’ll have to make sure that you’re erased from this world!”
Red carved the air with her blade before reaching into a tear in space. She grabbed the heavy slab of steel she called a sniper rifle and brandished it.
“ROCKIE! BIPOD! NOW!”
The sheer weight of the rifle caused her to swing ...
2025-03-07 21:23:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe colorful red and blue scheme appeared far too childish for a place where death was commonplace. She had expected the Fifth Level to be a singular, analogous mass of steel.
But contrary to the trend of the upper Levels, there was a severe lack of metal on this floor.
Indeed. The Fifth Level was far less of a fortress compared to the Third Level and boasted an incredible assortment of untouched furnishings compared to the Administrative Level.
Ornate paintings and banners ...
2025-03-06 20:02:59 +0000 UTC View PostHow was an inanimate object that lacked intelligence supposed to understand the meaning of humanity? Retrieving nutrients in nature was a physical action. Why would a newborn machine believe otherwise?
In a way, it was almost natural to take what wasn’t theirs, because that was all they knew.
Their lives were tragic, but Frost did not pity them.
“The ones on the lower end have no choice. But those higher up…”
Blood coagulated in her palms again. It then scatter...
2025-03-04 13:11:06 +0000 UTC View PostImprint of You
Life Within The Shell…? Must be… Stuffed full…!
< Imitation >
Soul Rank: Nil | Impuritas: Infecta Rot
LEVEL : 95 ORIGIN : Impuritas HP : 132,000 ATT : 850 MAG ATT : 850 2025-03-04 13:09:24 +0000 UTC View Post
“Infecta Rot were culled in the upper Levels? Color me surprised.” Horus was rather impressed by the Repenters, enough to verbally applaud them.
However, her voice was lined with sarcasm. In truth, the reason why Frost had received the Tribulation-end message was because they had cleared them from this Level.
The possibility of facing Gheists in the lower Levels was high, but they figured they’d be culled by the much more powerful Corrupted down there.
There were Corru...
2025-03-02 19:58:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe Queen lunged forward, snipping the air as she took this opportunity to strike down the unmoving Red.
“The agony of the lashes must be causing your mind to reel, no!? That is one of the downsides of the flesh! I’ve heard that suffering is integral to human experiences!”
As expected, Red did not attempt to block this attack. The scissors snapped around her neck, but it did not decapitate her.
“Your DEF was this high!?”
Indeed. [Snip Off The Unwanted Fruits]...
2025-03-01 21:35:56 +0000 UTC View PostA spectacle of red and black filled the summit of corpses. Punctuating the air were the sounds of clashing steel. Yet only one of the combatants had a weapon made of metal. The other – an oversized scissor – was made of hardened brambles.
Its DEF stat exceeded that of the brambles that protected the Bitter Thorns, which was why her blade could just barely bite into it. It wasn’t much, but Red’s ATT stats were at least higher than her weapon’s DEF, which meant that every clash ...
2025-03-01 21:32:04 +0000 UTC View PostGheist.
The term referred to supernatural forces, such as spirits or ghosts. On Earth, Poltergeists for example were spirits that could possess objects and were responsible for the mysterious movement of household items.
In Elysia however, ghosts existed in a severely limited manner. They typically served as living memories of the past.
For instance, the ghosts that walked within the Rewound of Paradise could be considered ghosts. Furthermore, the more supernatural forces we...
2025-02-28 10:06:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe Site groaned with a malevolent churning of gears. Machinery invaded the corridors of the Site through meaty holes that resembled a birth canal.
The very same Stuffed and Unstuffed variants of Infecta Rot crawled from those passages like a swarm of roaches.
They were the Born? Hello… World! (Unstuffed) and the tool-wielding To Find It? Can We…? (Stuffed), which were standard enemies that came from lowly Dungeon Hearts.
Their shambling vessels filled the side closest t...
2025-02-26 09:25:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe Fourth Level was significantly different from the Levels above.
The rivets that nailed metal panels together along the walls and ceiling were nowhere to be found. A singular mass of steel made up the walls, the floors, the ceiling – and even the furniture.
It was all connected, as though the Site itself had molded a singular chunk of steel as though it were clay.
If Frost did not know about the Site’s ill-understood methods of constructing space, then she would have ...
2025-02-24 16:39:33 +0000 UTC View PostBut the moment they were close to eliminating the apple, corpses rose from the ground, each covered in brambles.
Bitter Thorns had emerged to stop them.
“Rockie – Please protect Three Paw and I!”
“Brrr!”
Thankfully, these versions of the Bitter Thorns were far weaker than the ones they had been fighting till now. Dozens fell in the blink of an eye. Rockie could not be stopped. Each of its six limbs were like six different sets of blades.
They easily bis...
2025-02-23 16:10:33 +0000 UTC View PostRed looked at the full rundown of her Stats before the finale.
LEVEL : 65 < CORRUPTED >
Hatchling Red
AFFINITY : Amalgamation ATTRIBUTE : Identity
NAME : Red HP : 19,120 ^3/min MP : 15,210 ^3/min ...
2025-02-23 16:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post< “What the…? Magical shards just pierced through the floors.” >
“Is there a Corrupted down there…? Tch –!”
Frost eventually reached the elevator.
Now that she was close enough, she was able to erect a [Light Barrier] to defend its underside.
But it could not protect everything. More and more magical shards came flying upwards, riddling the underside of the elevator. She ripped the ceiling open, expecting t...
2025-02-22 01:29:44 +0000 UTC View PostFrost had experienced what it’s like to freefall before. Given her absurdly high stats, she’d come out unscathed from no matter what height she fell from.
This was because of a physical phenomenon called terminal velocity.
In short, she would fall at a set speed due to the resistance in the air. The same should have applied here. Of course, an object with more mass would fall faster, but it would also reach its set limit.
However, the same could not be said when a gravit...
2025-02-22 01:28:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe end was within reach.
They followed an animal path leading towards the light. It bent at odd angles and looped around trees nonsensically as though they were haphazardly drawn into the ground.
The trees gradually became thinner, as though their exposure to the incandescent light robbed them of their nutrients. Shrubbery, vegetation – any semblance of greenery was keeled over and withered, like coral that had been left exposed to a toxin.
Indeed. The scenery leading tow...
2025-02-21 04:37:46 +0000 UTC View Post“O-Orange Disruptor! Are you… also afraid of the Head.”
“I’d rather not get myself involved in another troublesome war~” Horus laughed. “Keep in mind the Acedia Special Division is open to acquiring new kinds of Ex-Corrupted, and Ex-Impuritas. A wish granted by that incandescent light is hardly reliable.”
She knocked on the head of Hayte, who was proof of this.
“But, somehow, that Corrupted… Looks the most normal of them all. Or rather–”
Horus t...
2025-02-19 05:42:04 +0000 UTC View PostFrost and Jury returned with the child through an entirely different avenue.
It was an effort to reduce as many questions as possible.
However, that did not change the fact that they returned with a child.
A myriad of expressions appeared on the faces of the Acedia Special Division. Flabbergasted looks replaced those expressions, conveying the countless thoughts that came to mind.
How did a child end up here? Were they one of the missing people?
Or, more...
2025-02-19 05:36:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Ama. Ama. Amal… gam.”
An adorable voice tried to pronounce Frost’s formal name without stuttering.
“Mal. Maglama.”
“Now that’s just ‘Amalgam’ in reverse.”
Standing in the middle of the abandoned room was the freshly hatched Realized Corrupted; The Enforcer of the Sovereign Star. The Sovereign Star was Frost of course, but the enforcer part was a stretch considering it did not have particularly powerful stats.
Furthermore, Frost hadn’t dec...
2025-02-17 10:25:45 +0000 UTC View PostScarlet Logic were treated no differently from the Bitter Thorns. As soon as their red visages appeared, a red knife would cut them down. What were once hundreds were reduced to what Red estimated to be no more than a hundred.
Red had been counting the number of Scarlet Logic Fodder she had eliminated.
“One hundred and thirty-eight. They’ve got to hate my guts, huh~ Enough to want to spill them. Heh. Let them try.”
“More like they’re going to want you even more.”...
2025-02-16 02:09:24 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you talking about Caldera Industries? Their Eyes in the sky? Or, do you mean their personnel on the ground?” Frost interrogated it, but she did it with a lighter, airier voice. “If that’s an Eye, then you were probably bound to Caldera Industries’ surveillance.”
Frost was aware of how brutal they were. In the Nex Megalopolis for example, using flight would result in death ray smiting down the unfortunate soul.
With them now gone, Atelier Personnel such as Justica ...
2025-02-14 00:59:39 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey. Don’t move.”
Usari’s ears trembled as Frost’s hand reached out towards her.
“Hold still. Hey, Horus. I think they’ll be able to fight. No point in bringing Repenters if they’re just going to stand around.”
A faint, golden light surrounded Usari the moment Frost tapped her head. The same happened to the rest of the Repenters after single tap.
“What did you do to us…?” Usari asked.
A split second later, a fairy dove towards Usari. Its ...
2025-02-14 00:56:02 +0000 UTC View PostNothing could enter an already Corrupted’s State of Mind.
However –
“Horus. Throw up a CognitO Filter for a second.”
“You heard her ladies.” Horus sighed. “What’s about to go down is classified information.”
“As in, mandated by the higher ups?” Hayte asked.
The Blood Angel grinned. She yearned to utter: “Beyond that.” but held her tongue.
Once the CognitO Filter was activated, Frost pricked her finger and held it to the mouth of th...
2025-02-13 22:26:41 +0000 UTC View Post< Entering G-Y0 – Second Level For The First Time >
< Welcome to G-Y0 >
The Central Elevator was spacious enough to hold hundreds of people at once. In the event of a mass outbreak, this elevator would be filled with many armed Workers across multiple Floors.
It was also the only elevator where one could explore it from the outside. The elevator ran through a massive h...
2025-02-13 22:25:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-02-11 00:02:37 +0000 UTC View Post//////// < ALERT > ////////
< TRIBULATION ENDING >
INFECTA ROT
< Dungeon >
< The futility drove us mad. If creators create their creations in their image, then why are they born incapable of experiencing the fruits of life? >
The Tribulation ...
2025-02-10 23:53:12 +0000 UTC View PostInfecta Rot was a peculiar Impuritas Group.
Far too little was known about them. Caldera Industries – who had years-worth of accumulated grudges – knew them as nothing more than machines that tainted everything they touched.
Silicon Rot spread through the living, turning the biological into inanimate crystals. Entire swaths of land in the northeast of Elysia were contaminated with the disease, rendering a major stretch of earth inhospitable.
It was not known how or where...
2025-02-10 23:52:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe metallic rods belonged to an entity that could barely fit through the five-meter wide and tall doors that segregated the corridors of the facility. What laid on the other side was a hermit crab-like entity, with metal rods squirming out from gaping opening beneath its shell.
The Marching Cage
< Freedom comes in a metal prison for all >
AFFINITY: A...
2025-02-09 00:22:13 +0000 UTC View Post