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Arc looked ready to collapse from exhaustion by the time they dropped her off.
Yuan half-expected her old valley’s landscape to return to normal after her temporary departure, but Arc’s qi had partly rubbed off on it. Though it showed nothing obviously supernatural like rifle trees or gunpowder rivers, the valley’s ground was ...
2024-08-07 07:00:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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The spirit-train departed Fleshmarket by nightfall.
It was hideously overcrowded. Its wagons were meant to house a few dozen passengers at most, not five times that number of people with all the belongings that they could bring with them. Orient had to set aside space in the luggage, panoramic, and restaurant cars to host ev...
2024-08-06 08:04:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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Yuan buried Gayak and Polio in the city of the dead.
Telling which pieces of meat belonged to them and which ones belonged to the thousands of victims that the Gun claimed today was a difficult task, even with his qi sight. The bombardment shredded them to pieces alongside Gatling Man’s remains and countless others. Throwing...
2024-08-05 08:06:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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I brushed a scroll with fingers that weren’t mine.
The vellum felt so soft beneath my nails, even as the words I read carried little more than empty platitudes. I focused on the hidden patterns within the text, catching the first signs of each sentence and rearranging them in a sequence that revealed the hidden truth.
It...
2024-08-03 08:56:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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The world became a roof, a set of walls, and a skull-faced table.
The ruins of Fleshmarket transformed into an empty saloon smelling of cigarettes and cheap alcohol. There were no doors or windows, with only a single flickering lamp above the central table for a light source.
Yuan found himself sitting in a chair, ...
2024-08-02 08:34:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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Calamity beckoned.
An overwhelming flood of malevolent qi engulfed Fleshmarket. A tidal wave of phantom gunpowder and searing hot air suffocated Yuan, causing what remained of his iron lungs to burn within his chest.
The same oppressive sensation of danger he experienced in Manhattan’s presence overcame him ...
2024-08-01 08:49:40 +0000 UTC View Post
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Elder Polio gazed upon his apprentice’s remains without sparing Yuan a glance.
Why should he? There was no way Yuan could have taken him in a fight at his best, let alone in his current state; and they both knew it. Still, he wondered why the man hadn’t killed him yet.
It would have been so easy. 2024-07-31 09:22:21 +0000 UTC View Post
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Gayak swung his whip-arms at lightning speeds.
Having witnessed Yuan killing Gatling Man by removing his bullet-core, he immediately aimed for his own with lethal precision. Yuan quickly shot them both before they could reach him.
Fire bullets are incendiary projectiles, Yuan recalled. Earth created ...
2024-07-30 09:17:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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Yuan’s body surged with strength, and then with pain.
His muscles rippled with newfound power, doubling in size and constraining his bones. His bullet-core’s metal roots pulsed with boiling qi that burned away his body fat and reshaped his human organs. The sheer amount of energy coursing through him erupted out fr...
2024-07-29 08:52:29 +0000 UTC View Post
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A/N: as you may guess from the chapter's name, this one includes two sex scenes (one much shorter than the other); put brackets/indications as usual if you wish to ignore them.
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I woke up from a long nightmare with Nenetl by my side.
The bed was warm, and her feet pressed against mine even more ...
2024-07-27 07:07:30 +0000 UTC View Post
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A/N: as forewarned before, if you're reading this with the legacy Commerce Hero tier, don't forget to switch to the new Gunsoul tier meant to support this story exclusively; new chapters will be published under the Gunsoul tier exclusively (plus Dracolich and Dragon once the latter catches up) while the Commerce Hero tier will cover ...
2024-07-26 09:30:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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Yuan turned the chase on his pursuers once they reached the Bullet Church.
Having led his enemies to where he wanted, Yuan abruptly pivoted in midair and then used a Recoil Kick to throw himself backward. He immediately followed through by opening fire at Gayak with the Kalash Angel.
The Flesh Mansion Sect cultivator’s method of ...
2024-07-25 08:51:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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Some appropriate battle song to pump you up during the chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdRrrW55YIE
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The tension in the air was thicker than gunsmoke.
On his left stood Gatling Man, his namesake loaded and ready to fir...
2024-07-24 09:15:55 +0000 UTC View Post
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Yuan and the Gun cultists stood atop the spirit-train as it closed in on Fleshmarket.
Distant booms and the echoes of gunfire grew stronger the more they approached the city, as did the smell of blood and death. The corroded metal wall protecting eastern Fleshmarket trembled under the searing crimson sky. Its strategically placed gun turrets h...
2024-07-23 09:14:25 +0000 UTC View Post
A/N: I'm going for a five chapters week for Gunsoul's launch on Royal Road! Wish me luck!
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“Are you sure, Orient?” Yuan asked as he readied the Kalash Angel. “It might blow a hole in your walls for all we know.”
The front wagon was empty save for the two of them, and of course the captive centidead Orient ca...
2024-07-22 09:24:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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I was used to being scared.
I’d spent every moment since the Night of the Scarlet Moon looking over my shoulder, hiding behind a mask, lying to everyone, dreading the day this pyramid of deceit would all come crashing down on me. I knew that the feeble balance between rebellion and plausible deniability would inevitably tip the wrong way on...
2024-07-20 08:28:51 +0000 UTC View Post
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Like last time, Yuan found Arc crafting bullets in Headshot Forge’s heart. He couldn’t help but wonder if she did anything else in her spare time.
“You should have accepted her offer,” she told him without turning to face him. “You’ll come to regret your decision.”
Yuan crossed his arms. “How much did you ...
2024-07-19 08:56:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Previous Chapter
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Thankfully, Kaguya took Yuan’s rejection in stride.
“It is a shame that you would deny us,” she said. “I assure you that we are not like most sects and their rigid traditions. We Moonlighters are more of a collective of scholars dedicated to the understanding of ourselves.”
“All sects say that,” Yuan replied with skepticism. He ...
2024-07-17 08:32:47 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone,
It's been a while since I did a general update, but that one is quite the large one. Between Gunsoul soon hitting RR, publishing news for Blood & Fur, and big news on the Perfect Run game, I thought it was best to publish a single post.
Gunsoul to be released this week-end on RR, New "Gunsoul" Tier created
First of all, having reached the 30 chapters milestone on Patreon, I've now built enough backlog chapters th...
2024-07-15 10:43:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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I breathed dust in a tomb of ancient stone.
A grand entrance hall stretched forth ahead of me. An aura of stillness hung in this room, even as my footsteps echoed across the silence. Layers of calcified sand covered walls that hadn’t been touched in thousands of years. Eye symbols flickered with an otherworldly glow on tall pillars. They pr...
2024-07-13 08:37:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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Pain, followed by a sensation of boiling alive, filled Yuan’s chest.
The tip of Slash’s katana stuck out of his back. The rest of the blade sliced through his heart and spread moonburns across his chest. If Yuan still needed organs to survive instead of a bullet-core, then he would have died on the spot.
His agony wo...
2024-07-11 08:34:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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The moon’s radiance crashed on Yuan’s Barrier and shredded it like paper.
A mighty wave of energy coming from the sky blew his poorly built defenses away and struck him in an instant. The moon’s rays were as cold as the sunlight was warm. It was like he was being buffeted by winter’s winds, except their chill ate away at his qi circulator...
2024-07-10 08:23:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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Yuan returned to the spirit-train in the late afternoon to find Holster and the others waiting for him.
Bucket and his fellow cultists played dice with pellets near a rifle whose barrel was planted in the ground like a tree with a helmet over the stock; Yuan guessed they buried their late comrade there. As for Orient, she dili...
2024-07-09 08:16:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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I found Mother waiting for me at the Xibalba crossroad.
She came in person, though the path to her house remained closed to me. That detail alone was unlike her. She warned me that she would not help me confront my trials, nor did she give me the path to her sanctuary when I first entered.
“Welcome back, my son,” Mother sa...
2024-07-06 08:06:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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“Let’s start with the basics,” Arc said as she began their first lesson. “What do you know of the three pillars of cultivation?”
An easy question. Yuan guessed she was checking on his general knowledge. “Techniques, sutras, and feng shui.”
“All of them come into two forms: innate and adaptive. Innate abilitie...
2024-07-04 08:37:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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The longer Arc listened, the deeper her scowl grew.
By the time Yuan finished his tale, she asked him to draw a sketch of Manhattan’s chest symbol. He did so by grabbing a bullet and using it to shape a pile of gunpowder with it.
“That’s the Nuclear Path symbol, all right,” Arc said with a grunt. “Those ...
2024-07-03 08:14:44 +0000 UTC View Post
A/N: this chapter contains a NSFW scene near the end; as usual, I left warning brackets for those who want to skip it.
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The slap failed to lift the smile from my face.
A Nightlord’s palm carried more strength than twenty men behind it, and a hundred times the animosity. She struck quicker than a serpent, her ...
2024-06-29 08:22:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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Yuan hated fog.
Every gunslinger heavily relied on their sharp eyes, and their hearing to a lesser degree. A dense mist reduced both. Thick gunsmoke prevented Yuan from seeing further than his submachine gun’s tip and muffled all noise around him. It was a miracle he could breathe at all. A Scrap would have asphyxiated thrice ov...
2024-06-27 09:16:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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They reached the Ammobog by dawn.
As Bucket promised, the bog grew inside a small, sunken valley west of Fleshmarket. The spirit-train stopped on the buried remnants of a ruined station whose elevated position spared it from the dead white sea’s expansion. Yuan only had to look out the window to take a look at their destinat...
2024-06-26 08:53:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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The spirit-train left Fleshmarket at sunset for its first courier job.
Yuan sealed a pretty good deal with Bucket: the man would board with six Bullet Church cultists and enough crates to house a sizable cargo, then receive a free ride back and forth to the Ammobog for a bullet harvest. Yuan would provide transportation and s...
2024-06-25 07:59:24 +0000 UTC View Post