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A war ended not with victory, but with a clean-up.
“This is the last Unity base left on the way to Sofia,” Simeon said as the troops approached the facility. “Once we take it, the capital will soon be back in our hands.”
With Blackcinders dead, their superweapon destroyed, and Benjamin’s virus wrecking th...
2023-01-28 09:21:41 +0000 UTC View PostPrevious Chapter
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It felt so good to be rescued for once.
Simeon’s [Paladin Halo III] empowered you with a [Regen] effect, buffed all your stats, and granted you Resistance to all Ailments for five minutes! [All for One] spread the effect to ... 2023-01-26 09:12:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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For a normal society, a successful cyberattack was usually damaging, but never fatal.
For an automated nightmare like the Unity, it was a disaster.
The scent of ozone saturated the air as Basil’s team pursued Steve through the ruins of metal corridors, trampled workshops, and broken cylinders. Rosemarine herself shattered more walls as...
2023-01-24 09:09:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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Vasi returned with an army from Hell.
Basil couldn’t describe the soldiers that walked out of the portal any other way. The creatures were a motley crew of fork-wielding bug monsters, demonic beastmen awfully similar to the ones his party had fought in Hungary, knights whose armor burned like furnaces, and many other warbeast...
2023-01-21 09:10:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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They buried Shesha and Garud in a mass grave next to a thousand others.
There were simply too many corpses and not enough space for funerals. The entire region stank of murder, blood, and charred flesh. The fires raged over Shumen hours after the battle, torching whatever building had survived the orbital bombardment. Only the dunge...
2023-01-19 09:23:01 +0000 UTC View PostPrevious Chapter
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Once upon a time, the fairy lords of the Fomors waged war on the gods of Outremonde and their servants.
They lost it, of course. Even powerful mortal creatures are no match for deities. But though both sides eventually made peace, mighty weapons were developed over the course of the conflict. Of the countless cruelties the Fomo...
2023-01-17 09:03:29 +0000 UTC View PostPrevious Chapter
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The Gearsman Titan trampled tanks underfoot and fired lasers from its eye.
From afar, the steel colossus appeared similar to a Cyclops of legends. It was almost as tall as the Eiffel Tower and a true giant of rust-tainted steel. Its armor looked vaguely Roman in design, like a centurion of gears and bolts. A cannon burned with energy on its che...
2023-01-14 09:35:35 +0000 UTC View PostPrevious Chapter
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In slightly more than a second, a beam of light hotter than the sun’s surface travels across the void of space. Nearly four hundred thousand kilometers separate the barrel of the gun from its target.
So many elements are taken into account. The rotation of the Earth. Gravitational interactions. The risk of deadly blowback as powe...
2023-01-12 09:07:45 +0000 UTC View PostPrevious Chapter
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“So, my dear,” Aleksandra asked Vasi the moment she and Basil returned home. “Did you enjoy meeting your father?”
Basil and his girlfriend exchanged a long, knowing glance as the portal closed behind them. “There is a margin for improvement,” the witch said with an embarrassed smile, “but we’re still on speaking terms.”
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2023-01-10 09:29:24 +0000 UTC View PostPrevious Chapter
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After an awkward start and terrible middle, Vasi’s family gathering ended somewhat calmly. Basil and his girlfriend’s kin sat down around a table like reasonable adults under the looming shadow of their dragon patron. All listened as he told them exactly how his planet had been turned into a hellscape.
Funny times.
<... 2023-01-07 09:27:00 +0000 UTC View PostHi guys, time to kickstart the year 2023 with a new Metamorphosis poll! The time has come for Vasi to make a choice about her ancestry!
The winning option will receive its own art and bestiary entry. This is likely Vasi's final form, so choose wisely!
1) Archdevil Princess (Demon/Fairy)
The result of a half-fairy demon embracing her devilish heritage, this fabulou...
2023-01-06 12:20:52 +0000 UTC View PostPrevious Chapter
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Basil had never seen a true god in the flesh before.
An Orthodox Christian through and through, he only respected one deity above all others. The existence of the Trimurti had made him doubt his place in the universe, but not even the discovery that Earth was held within Shiva’s palm had shaken his faith. Kalki was as vulnerable as any human, and ...
2023-01-05 09:14:52 +0000 UTC View PostPrevious Chapter
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Instead of a shotgun, Braniño welcomed his future son-in-law with a torrent of red lightning.
Basil fearlessly charged straight into the attack with his halberd raised. The surge of electricity slided over his enchanted armor like water on a swan’s feathers without inflicting damage. Stray bolts hit the buffet behind him, setting...
2023-01-03 09:02:08 +0000 UTC View PostHappy New Year everyone!
As I write these lines, 2022 should have come to a close all around the world, and we now enter a whole new year. I hope 2022 treated you kindly even in its final days; it has been a tumultuous time around the globe, but I pray you found happiness with your friends and families all the same.
I would like to thank you all, my dear patrons, for your support across 2022; some of you have been here for half a decade now, others joined on the last month o...
2023-01-01 11:59:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Merry Christmas everyone!
I hope you are enjoying your winter holidays! I'm currently suffering from a flu but having a good time with my family; after being abroad for so long, moments like these remind me how important it is to return home from time to time.
While there won't be a chapter today, here are some art gifts for Christmas! A Patron-sponsored Bestiary Entry (the wendigos seen in the Christmas Event), the stat information of a System Class as per fan request (the Mercha...
2022-12-25 11:44:15 +0000 UTC View Post22/12/2022: this is the last chapter of the year; tune in on January 3rd for the chapter 100 milestone.
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The Bohens were greeted on arrival by demon hookers and undead butlers.
“Welcome to the Annual Dalton Dynasty Get-Together!” A busty succubus welcomed Basil and Vasi with a platter full of caviar, shrimp, w...
2022-12-22 09:03:11 +0000 UTC View PostPrevious Chapter
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20/12/2022: hi guys, a reminder that next chapter on Thursday will be the year's last before the winter break!
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When Basil woke up after a good night’s sleep, 2023 was less than twenty-four hours away.
He still remembered the end of 2019. He had been sitting on his so...
2022-12-20 09:19:34 +0000 UTC View PostPrevious Chapter
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By the time they reached the tales of Budapest, night had long fallen and his mother couldn’t stop smiling.
“And then, I kid you not, I threw a piano at him!” Shellgirl laughed so hard that milk came out of her nose. “A whole piano! The Purity Rings stopped working afterward!”
“The harshest divorce I had ever seen,...
2022-12-17 08:54:59 +0000 UTC View PostPrevious Chapter
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A door stood between Basil and his mother.
It was small as far as doors were concerned, and made with old wood partially rotten in some places. The rest of the house didn’t look any better from the outside. The wall paint peeled in some places and cracks marred one of the windows. The small garden that surrounded it was the best-maintained par...
2022-12-15 07:47:38 +0000 UTC View PostPrevious Chapter
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No one attacked them on the way to Shumen.
Steve drove through broken roads, bombed pastoral fields, and sinister forests without encountering any gearsman or Unity patrols. Considering news of Ruse’s liberation must have already spread, this was deeply concerning.
Not that the Bohens weren’t under observation. Kalki h...
2022-12-13 09:23:16 +0000 UTC View PostHi guys!
As you well know, the winter celebrations will soon be upon us. Long-time patrons will know that this is the busiest time of the year for me in many ways. I'll be returning to my family in France for Christmas and the New Year, which will drastically reduce my free-time for writing, well, anything.
Henceforth, I'm giving you an early warning: I'm almost certain that I'll take a break between Christmas (Saturday 24th) and the New Year's Eve (Saturda...
2022-12-13 09:23:01 +0000 UTC View PostPrevious Chapter
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The battle was won, the dragons were dead, the slaves were safe. All in all, Basil called it a good day.
“You know, the last dragon we encountered took my second life,” Plato said as Rosemarine dragged a beheaded white wyrm’s corpse outside the factory. The creature had been called Scalefrost from what Basil gathered, a...
2022-12-10 09:27:23 +0000 UTC View PostPrevious Chapter
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As far as dragonlords went, Scalefrost had it easy.
Born on a cold world with pristine white scales, he had lived a privileged childhood among a wealthy, minion-owning brood. For years he had grown stronger on the work of others, as was his birthright, until it was his turn to serve. He enrolled in the Unity’s army, where he le...
2022-12-08 09:18:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hi guys,
I'm proud to announce the release of the second and final volume of my dark fantasy-horror duology, Underland, on Kindle and Audible! I would be thankful to anyone sharing word of it.
As for the second half of the promise...
2022-12-06 09:26:39 +0000 UTC View PostPrevious Chapter
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After many years of wandering, home was in sight.
“It is said that at the dawn of history, when God created the world, He gave each piece of the world to the tribes of men,” Basil addressed his flock of believers. They had stopped on the Danube River’s shore half an hour away from the bridge that would lead them into Bulga...
2022-12-06 09:26:37 +0000 UTC View PostPrevious Chapter
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They found Bucharest turned to stone.
Basil was almost used to the sight of petrified men and women. Every city invaded by the Unity ended up with a new statue park to artificially keep worldwide levels as low as possible.
But it was the first time Basil encountered petrified buildings.
The Bohens had reached Bucharest a...
2022-12-03 08:51:41 +0000 UTC View PostPrevious Chapter
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In the end, Basil enjoyed a Merry Christmas.
The battle had ended without casualties, the food was good—though wendigos tasted a bit too much like pork for his taste though—the gifts were mostly pleasant, and the Party played Monopoly late into the night. Basil was almost sad to leave the Vampire Castle behind a...
2022-12-01 09:21:43 +0000 UTC View Post