Demonic Devourer ch. 135
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Demonic Devourer ch. 134
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2024-01-08 14:37:59 +0000 UTC View PostBrainpunch - CHAPTER TWENTY: The Dead
We all die the day we receive our powers. Some of us just take longer to realize it.
- The last words of Atomic, S-rank Kinetic and founder of the Cataclysm Rapid Response Team; at the time, it was estimated that he was directly responsible for over 1,500,000 deaths
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Vivian didn’t have the time or desire to think twice about her decision. Apparently, neither did the rest of the Echelon team.
With the suicide supers dead, Amazon, Shockwave, and Lycoris rushe...
2024-01-04 01:03:30 +0000 UTC View PostDemonic Devourer ch. 131
[Author's note: I'm not fully recovered. Just had a plane ride back home that is really exacerbating my concussion symptoms. Going to a doctor soon, likely. Hope you enjoy. Brainpunch coming soon, hopefully.]
In this nothingness is all of existence—yet again, a paradox. Though I am well acquainted with those, it takes me longer than I’d like to understand this emptiness we exist within, kept alive by our Tautology and our weapon and nothing else.
The ...
2023-12-15 08:25:24 +0000 UTC View Postquick update: i am concussed
I have a concussion as of Wednesday. Also a ton of massive projects for school. Also finals. Going to keep this short because it hurts to look at words on a screen for too long. Brainpunch/Demonic Devourer both delayed because of this. Sorry everyone. Hoping to recover quickly.
2023-12-03 02:52:46 +0000 UTC View PostDemonic Devourer ch. 130
If I thought the hells were in a bad state, the anchored reality is a thousand times worse.
Even in the final moments of a hell’s destruction, the sheer scale of the devastation never even approached the size of this world.
Unlike the dying hells, there is actually something that stabilizes reality, but that doesn’t make it any better.
While Marie’s angel nuke was designed to invert the nature of the angels—to destabilize instead of restore and protect—the last ang...
2023-11-28 08:08:32 +0000 UTC View PostBrainpunch - CHAPTER NINETEEN: The Storm
Humans are less durable than we’d like to think. A bullet, a fall, an accident, a power—it only takes one wrong move for our hearts to give out, or our brains, or something equally important.
We’re all so goddamn fragile in the end.
- Leaked recording of Iron Legion debriefing the newest additions to the Los Angeles Guardians roughly 1 month after a battle against an A-rank Kinetic resulted in 871 civilian casualties
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This was building up to be...
2023-11-24 01:08:24 +0000 UTC View PostDemonic Devourer ch. 129
Shit. I assumed that Sapphire would attack as soon as we finished assembling and fueling our half of the godkilling weapon, but this still feels too early.
We don’t even know how the weapon is activated, but I suppose that she knew that.
Sapphire, the one who announced the existence of this miniature moon to me in the first place, is definitely capable of using it.
I have to admit, we've been in better positions before.
Right now, with angels approaching from the hel...
2023-11-22 09:52:49 +0000 UTC View PostDemonic Devourer ch. 128
We may not be the most powerful beings in this reality yet, but the other Titans can't match us after so short a time awakened. With time, they'll be able to. Not that we’ll give them any.
The world is ending around us. Lya, the Titan of the Living Moon, is dead, but it isn't the only enemy in our way. I can sense the other Titans activating, awakening, destroying. I wonder how many of these others are like Sierra and me; Titans that were experiments once. Beings that were coerced, ma...
2023-11-21 09:06:41 +0000 UTC View PostDemonic Devourer ch. 127
“Take cover” was a ridiculous statement to make, I realize. How can any of them do so when the landscape around us are either Titans or about to be ruined by them?
I suppose “survive” is a better command. Not that I expect them all to do so anyway.
Given the fact that Adrian is with fae—Sapphire’s self-proclaimed enemy—and neither he nor the fae are at each other’s throats, Sierra and I have missed out on a lot.
As long as Adrian survives, I don’t need the ...
2023-11-12 09:01:37 +0000 UTC View PostBrainpunch - CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: The Calm
Most new heroes never seem to fully comprehend that heroing is more than putting a costume on and going out to fight crime. Like most new heroes, I found the media side of superhuman life boring and useless at first. And like most new heroes, I decided to keep my head down and just do what I do best. Move. How did that go for me, you ask?
Well, I’m here, aren’t I?
- Excerpt of a recording of A-rank Mover Skyrider’s promotional tour for her memoir, Behin...
2023-11-10 06:54:29 +0000 UTC View PostDemonic Devourer ch. 126
Reality, collapsing
The world, Adrian knows, is a very large place.
At least, it was. He’s visited more countries than he can count, including four of the five major continents. Though many places are uninhabitable, the planet is so large and civilization so plentiful that he could have never hoped to visit the entirety of the world within the span of a natural human life.
He wonders how much of it is still intact now.
They don’t spend muc...
2023-11-09 02:44:03 +0000 UTC View PostDemonic Devourer ch. 125
A Fae Realm, somewhere
Sapphire has not been this angry in decades. Centuries, perhaps.
She should have foreseen it. It is not in her nature to be sloppy, but perhaps it is to be arrogant.
Her plan hinged on her and the other Titans being the only ones to remember the existence of the weapon.
Yet someone else evidently has.
Angel 1 strikes at Sapphire as she works through her chain of logic, and she bats it aside.
The angels are powerful, y...
2023-11-04 23:15:12 +0000 UTC View PostDemonic Devourer ch. 124
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2023-10-30 08:08:16 +0000 UTC View PostBrainpunch - CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The Past
Secret identities are a tricky thing. Once the cat comes out of the bag, there’s no putting it back in. For the Guardians and corporates, that’s not a terrible issue, thanks in large part due to their comprehensive protection programs.
For indies and villains, though, your identity being out there means you’re boned. Sure, they might not act on it first, but the moment you got a little too far, or the Guardians want you a little too much, it’s midnight raid...
2023-10-29 21:37:08 +0000 UTC View PostDungeon Tour Guide ch. 179 - THE END
The next few days—hell, the next few weeks—went by in a blur.
There was a lot to do, and too many people to help.
Even with my incredible power, I couldn’t have managed it alone.
It was Iris who set up the plans, and it was all of us survivors who carried it out.
There were a plethora of immediate concerns, of course, but those were relatively easy to quash.
When my dungeon spanned an entire continent—the only continent, as far as I could tell, w...
2023-10-28 07:36:04 +0000 UTC View PostDemonic Devourer 2 now available on KU!
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2023-10-27 15:17:15 +0000 UTC View PostDungeon Tour Guide ch. 178
In the last few weeks, I had grown all too familiar with the goddess’ touch. She’d sent me gloating comments, luxuriating in our misery, and she’d even come to talk to me alone once.
I wasn’t alone. Kevin had died saving the Pallbearers and Starfall, sending a final message right after he’d had a meeting with her. Rose had talked about her unique relationship with her. Carly’s ascension had been ruined by her.
And given the timing of when she had betrayed us and the co...
2023-10-27 08:09:55 +0000 UTC View PostDungeon Tour Guide ch. 177
My senses were all broken, my body gripped by a sensation unlike any other. When I’d gained a class evolution via a direct meeting with the goddess—hell, even when I’d been stranded on an empty plane for the crime of trying to save people with Carly Iru’s knowledge—I had at least retained my human senses.
Now, my sight fractured into a trillion fragments. Sound meant less than nothing; I perceived light, and I perceived darkness, and none of it made any sense.
T...
2023-10-27 00:54:38 +0000 UTC View PostDungeon Tour Guide ch. 176
Lucas
The king’s towers looked like they weren’t budging. [Truesight] didn’t cover enough distance for me to tell whether the army of monsters I sent hurtling at them were having an actual effect on the influence-cancelling structures.
They were preventing the monsters they produced from venturing further into my territory, at least. The king’s forces were an order of magnitude more numerous than the Omen’s had been, but dealing with a physical threat to...
2023-10-26 06:24:41 +0000 UTC View PostDemonic Devourer ch. 123
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2023-10-25 07:34:56 +0000 UTC View PostDungeon Tour Guide ch. 175
The King
The dungeon was attempting a ritual.
The king knew not what it would achieve, but it would be futile.
He would not give them time to execute their plans.
[The time is now.]
The goddess had not failed him yet, and so the king began his final step when she bid him. She remained ignorant of the king’s true ambition, so well had he hidden it. In time, she would learn to regret tha...
2023-10-25 04:54:54 +0000 UTC View PostDungeon Tour Guide ch. 174
Lucas
The next ten hours were some of the most tense I’d ever spent.
We had planned on using the ARI to communicate with each other, but that didn’t entirely work out. Iris had accounted for the possibility of the hundreds of towers also blocking our ability to communicate with each other, but that left me without any way to tell if the people I’d sent out were doing well or even surviving.
I had a load of preparation to do myself. There wasn’t an ea...
2023-10-24 06:16:13 +0000 UTC View PostBrainpunch - CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Villain
Superheroing is the second most lethal job on the planet, second only to villainy. On average, three in ten superheroes die before their third year. That number is closer to four in ten for villains.
Want a tip? Here’s mine: know when to run. This goes for heroes and villains alike—yes, yes, I know, calm down. Believe it or not, I would rather less people die, not more.
Leaving a fight inherently deescalates it. You reduce the chance of your own ...
2023-10-23 23:12:35 +0000 UTC View PostDungeon Tour Guide ch. 173
Lucas
It took some time for me to think up something that was worth announcing to the ex-Kingsguard.
There were around twelve thousand of them. I didn’t know what the total population of the Omen’s kingdom had been, but I hoped it wasn’t far off that. I didn’t want to think about what had certainly happened to the remaining people there after the Cataclysm.
Twelve thousand civilians was less useful than it initially seemed, which was why I had mostly...
2023-10-23 07:04:27 +0000 UTC View PostDungeon Tour Guide ch. 172
Iris
The king’s efforts were increasing.
That much was transparently clear to her. Thanks to her class, which was perfectly suited to handling large-scale combat like every engagement was, her army had not been entirely whiped out.
That didn’t meant they were doing well, though. Since the first tower-rise incident three days ago, she’d lost just under fifty percent of her otherworlders, alongside ten of her remaining employees.
An unacce...
2023-10-22 21:36:16 +0000 UTC View PostDemonic Devourer ch. 122
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2023-10-22 07:01:50 +0000 UTC View PostDungeon Tour Guide ch. 171
Centerpoint Dungeon was a mess. I had been gone for two minutes, at most, but the amount of time that had passed here had definitely been more than that.
Had the goddess kept me in suspended animation for a full two weeks? No, that couldn’t be right—I checked on the farms I’d helped start, and they definitely hadn’t seen two weeks of growth.
Nothing was where I remembered it, though. Some adventurers had made it down past the tenth floor of the dungeon, which was where I...
2023-10-21 05:18:27 +0000 UTC View Post