Vowron Prime

287: Of Rebels and Kings (Part Two) (Maiya)

NOTE: I've been working on an isekai litrpg for the past several months, and will be putting it up on RR mid-march. I will be adding it to patreon before that, and my current plan(not finalized) is to simply offer the extra story as part of my existing tiers. Which means that all patrons will be getting a new story for free! As such, I may be renaming some of the tiers. Nothing functional would change, just the name. Thought I'd give everyone a heads-up.

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The Kin'jal pilo...

286: Of Rebels and Kings (Part One) (Maiya)

EDIT NOTE: I've made some changes to the Silent One's conversations with Maiya. The largest salient changes are in chapter 275 where the Silent One talks to Maiya after her raid ( the last third of the chapter). If you'd like to reread that, the link to that chapter is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/96754434

The summary is that he no longer wishes for Maiya to kill him, but rather swears the...

285: Unseen Battles and Unsung Heroes

As it turned out, marshaling the prisoners towards the mountains proved exceedingly difficult, though not for the reasons Vir expected. While the prisoners seemed happy to obey his commands, their obedience lasted only until a horde of Ash Beasts broke through the Boundary, scrambling down the jagged mountains on a collision course.

It had taken the combined efforts of Vir, Balagra, and Malik to keep them from routing. Vir and Balagra to drive off the enemies, and Malik to ...

284: Journey to the Lost City (Part Two)

The Overseer’s body split not at his waist, but rather vertically, down the very center of his body.

Vir stared in stunned disbelief as the wreckage of the kothi’s body tumbled to the ground. He continued staring a long moment after, as did all who’d gathered around.

Fearing this exact situation, Vir had reduced the prana in his katar. Rather, he feared the opposite—that his attack would be trivially brushed away. He’d expected the Overseer to at least block...

283: Journey to the Lost City (Part One)

“Form up! Huddle together—as close as you can!” Vir roared at the top of his lungs. Lacking the armored Ash’va mounts the Chitran guards rode, Vir was forced to Micro Leap if he had any hope of having his orders heard. Hearing, however, was only half the battle. To his immense frustration, Vir was learning that hearing and obeying were two very different things.

Don’t they understand I’m trying to save their lives?

Vir focused on the posi...

282: Scales of Life

“And for the tenth time, I’m saying you’re being irrational,” Balagra muttered to Vir, careful to keep himself from being overheard by the two hundred demons who marched behind them. It’d struck Vir as odd that the Overseer had put them in charge of so many, though it was a perfect tactic to ensure maximum chaos.

‘March’ may have been a generous word for the prisoners’ disorganized movements. The untrained, ragtag mob of would-be soldiers b...

281: The Burden of Success

“Listen up, ya sorry sods,” the Overseer shouted, hands clasped behind his back in perfect military form. His monkey tail swished rhythmically in coordination with his swagger as he walked the length of a raised wooden podium.

A day had passed since Vir’s Guardian Ranking evaluations, and the prisoners from Vir’s batch had all been gathered at the center of Garrison Atnu, raising the spirits of all present. While the garrison’s walls may not offer any protection f...

280: Brick by Brick

“Sit down,” the Overseer said in a voice that was both soft, yet commanded absolute obedience.

Vir slowly lowered himself into a basic wooden chair. It wouldn’t do to comply immediately—prisoners like him would resist the Overseer in every petty way they could, and so Vir had to play the part.

The room itself was a small, dingy affair, feeling more like an afterthought that was squeezed into an open space well after the others had been built.

“I’m go...

279: Guardian Ranking

After standing in line for an hour for a ration of stale slop, Vir and the others were shepherded outside the walls.

Ash rained from the sky, and distant rumbling of thunder kept the landscape from ever becoming truly quiet. Dark clouds replaced the perpetual sunset of the demon realm, making for a depressing twilight.

“Now, I’m sure you’re wondering why I’ve brought you all the way out here,” the Chitran Overseer barked, his raspy voice amplified by a magical tablet. Th...

278: Physical Evaluations

Just hours after being led to their accommodations—little more than shallow rectangular pits that offered the barest protection from the wind, and none at all from the rain—they were once again herded back to the Garrison.

What scared Vir the most wasn’t the proficiency examination itself, not even the ever-present Ash Beast threat, but rather the physical inspection all prisoners were required to undergo. As Vir stood in line, stripped down to his underwea...

277: Garrison at the Edge of the World

Vir was no stranger to hardship. Having endured years in the Ashen Realm, having fought day in, day out against hordes of beasts, each powerful enough to decimate a city, his mental limits had soared beyond most mortals. Yet even he eagerly awaited the caravan’s arrival at the Ash Boundary two days later.

To say the conditions within their cage were squalid would be a disservice to the truth, and while Vir required far less food and sleep than most demons thanks to the pr...

276: Ashfire Providence

Vir stumbled into the clearing, screaming through his mouth gag. His wrists were bound together, making it difficult to run. His feet caught on a vine, and he fell over, his face scraping against a root.

He desperately regained his footing… and ran headlong into a barrel-chested brute of a demon.

Vir looked up at the tall red demon and paled.

“Well, well,” the demon said, cracking a toothy grin. More than a handful were missing. “What do we have here?”...

275: Kartara Nights (Part Three) (Maiya)

To Maiya, the flight back took no time at all. She hardly noticed when they crossed the border to Hiranya, and then finally to Kin’jal, barely even registering the Acira transfers in between.

Her thoughts roiled within her head, entirely consumed with the image of the man she’d seen. A man whose face had been shorn off and shoddily healed.

He’s… still alive.

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274: Kartara Nights (Part Two) (Maiya)

“This could be a problem,” Maiya muttered, monitoring the carnage that devoured the city from her perch atop a temple spire. The rioters, while clearly trying to minimize civilian casualties, had no qualms at all about butchering the guards. And if innocents got in the way, well, they didn’t seem to mind that, either.

Maiya had incapacitated more than one rioter to save people. They weren’t her people, but well, they were still human, and Maiya couldn’t j...

273: (Arc 7) Kartara Nights (Part One) (Maiya)

NOTE: Welcome to the start of Arc 7!

Maiya bid her attendants goodnight, locking the door to her bedchambers behind her. She lost no time, stripping off her unholy garb, and dumping it unceremoniously in a pile on the floor. Rushing to her mirror, she began the arduous task of applying her makeup, starting with a moisturizer, before moving through primers, foundations, bronzers, and blush, finishing with her highlighters and eyeliner.

It was quite the involved process. One that ...

272: To Distant Shores

NOTE: Starting March 1, Mejai of Realms and higher will be getting chapters of Soulweaver, my new Isekai LitRPG. Very excited about this project, and I'm hoping it'll do well on RR. I plan to launch it on RR on March 11, so any feedback would be appreciated!

Lower tiers will get start getting chapters a few days later.  To start, the $10 tier and up will get 12 chapters ahead of RR. The $5 tier will get 6, and the $3 tier will get 3. I plan to serialize that 3x a week, after one...

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271: A New Calling

“‘Tis simple,” A Chitran general said, slamming his palms down on a centuries old wooden conference table. “We deny the legitimacy of this Vaak’s claim.”

“If only it were that simple,” governor Asuman said. “I’m afraid the existence of the tablet I signed complicates matters significantly.”

The general scoffed. “Bah, so what if he has a tablet! Who will he complain to? Raja Matiman himself?”

His words earned him chuckles and mu...

270: The Terrible Cost of Victory

Vir tore through the streets of Samar Patag, searching desperately for prana signatures that matched the kids’. Their prana was meager, but it was all he had.

News was getting around that the horde had been defeated, and the streets were far less empty than they had been just an hour ago, complicating the search. Every minute that passed served to tighten the knot in his chest.

Vir hadn’t felt anywhere near this much anxiety even while fighting off hundreds of Ash...

269: Ray in the Dark (Part Four)

With each beast slain, Vir’s sense of dread deepened. Yes, he was faster than before. Yes, any normal demon would gawk at his performance—and many of the rampart observers, including Janani and Greesha, did. Vir didn’t know why they’d congregated on the walls when he’d told them to stay put inside, but he didn’t have the time to worry about that right now.

He’d won every battle, but he was losing the war.

Already, several Ash Beasts had broken through th...

268: Ray in the Dark (Part Three)

Vir swore in rage as he hacked the head off a Shredder.

I’m too late!

He’d anticipated that the northern wall of Samar Patag wouldn’t hold—that the beasts wouldn’t be daunted by the thick forest to the north, nor the soft, narrow coastline that led to it. But he had expected those terrain features to at least slow them down.

That logic might’ve worked for normal beasts, yet even without their prana, Ash Beasts were in a league of th...

267: Ray in the Dark (Part Two)

Bolin snuck out of the orphanage, eyes darting for any sign of Janani as he ushered the others to follow.

“Quiet!” he hissed, silencing the whispers that had broken out between Hiya and Ekta.

Janani had guided the children to the old storehouse where the rebels always had their talks. It was one of the few buildings in town both large enough and sturdy enough to stand up to an attack. But Bolin knew well that no structure could withstand an Ash Beast. Let alone a ...

266: Ray in the Dark (Part One)

“And I’m telling you, we’ll die if we congregate!” The four-armed rebel slammed his fist on the table. “Our best hope is to disperse. That way, the beasts will waste time hunting us down. Several may survive!”

“You’d feed our own people to those monsters, then? You’re no better than the Chits!”

“How dare you! I am merely—”

The warehouse door slammed, and in strode the masked figure of Vir, his black robe flaring behind...

Happy Holidays & New Year

Hi everyone,

Today's chapter marks the last for this year. We'll resume on January 2nd! Wishing you all a happy and safe holiday season, and warmth-filled New Year! Thank you for all of your support thus far. It is the primary pillar supporting my career as a writer and truly means the world to me.

--Vowron

265: Prelude to a Slaughter

“When?” Greesha asked. “How many?” Her tone was urgent, and the tension in the room was palpable.

“A runner just arrived.” The demon spoke rapidly, on edge. “They broke out some days ago. They’ll be here by the morrow!”

“Blasted Ash,” Greesha cursed.

“Vera have mercy. Why now, of all times?” someone else said in despair.

“We’re done for,” yet another voice mourned.

“I don’t understand,” Vir said. “We’re in a ...

264: The Rebels of Samar Patag (Part Two)

The demon swung at Vir, his fist coming wide and well-announced. Vir didn’t even have to step away to avoid it; a simple shift of his neck, and the punch sailed by harmlessly.

The attacks came in quick succession, from all directions. Often, three or more attacks threatened him simultaneously. All to no avail.

As Vir fluidly dodged the fists and legs, mostly fists and legs, blending Kalari arts with his own fighting style honed by battle Ash Beasts, the frustrated a...

263: The Rebels of Samar Patag (Part One)

Vir’s rebellion summons didn’t arrive quite in the manner he’d expected. Though in hindsight, he should have expected it, with all the glances Janani was throwing his way these days. She must have thought he wouldn’t notice, but he did. Her skills at subterfuge left much to be desired.

Vir had just been thinking of the glacial progress he was making with Ekanai in the mindscape—of the long journey that was Chakra mastery—when Janani finally said somethi...

Map of Samar Patag

262: Mindscape and Matter

NOTE: Starting March 1, Mejai of Realms and higher will be getting chapters of Soulweaver, my new Isekai LitRPG. Very excited about this project, and I'm hoping it'll do well on RR. I plan to launch it on RR on March 11, so any feedback would be appreciated! Lower tiers will get start getting chapters a few days later.

To start, the $10 tier and up will get 12 chapters ahead of RR. The $5 tier will get 6, and the $3 tier will get 3. I plan to serialize that 3x a week, after one month ...

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Map of the Demon Realm

Sorry it took so long to get this out!

261: Home Again (Part Two) (Maiya)

It took every ounce of training, every morsel of Maiya’s acting skills, to maintain her composure. To not burst into laughter at Yamal and the Silent One’s reactions as she led them closer and closer to Sonam’s castle. It was, perhaps the greatest challenge she’d ever faced.

Maiya could vividly imagine what was going on in their minds—or Yamal’s, at least. The Silent One, while his eyes had widened and he took in the surroundings appraisingly, looked otherwise u...