Greedy fools, all of them!
Vainqueur could smell their treachery. They all lusted for his hard-worn gold. “Minions, get out!” the dragon called from outside the pyramid, crushing the statue of the vile Furibon underfoot. “Minions! Minions!”
He had activated the Blinkblink ring, turning invisible to catch them in the act of stealing. For the dragon knew, deep in his heart, that they were busy pilfering his treasure.
Why, they even dared not to acknowled...
2020-04-02 16:18:36 +0000 UTC
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Time to choose April's Vainqueur interlude! Also, as some of you may already know from the discord, I will soon start publishing a patron-commissioned story, "Never Die Twice," here on Patreon (planned schedule two chapters a week). The story will be fully accessible to all patrons, regardless of pledge.
And now time to vote:
1) Repticop and Slime Buddy
He is a cheery reptilian assassin turned cop. He is a patriotic slime astronaut who wants to s...
2020-04-01 12:57:21 +0000 UTC
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Beautiful.
Simply beautiful.
Vainqueur had never seen such an exquisite city. Everything, from the pavement to the walls, was made of gold. The builders had even painstakingly recreated an entire park, replacing the flowers, trees, and grass with superior golden duplicates.
“Look at these,” Allison said, pointing at gold statues standing all over the streets. While most represented lizardkin and other reptiles, they also included a great variety o...
2020-03-30 17:30:09 +0000 UTC
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The sun was high in the sky, yet darkness had taken over the earth.
Vainqueur could sense it all. The grim nightmares that awaited them behind the trees. The malevolence lurking at the heart of the jungle, the disgusting stench of paupers grasping for the gold of the well-to-do. The same, wordless evil that he had faced on the planet Moon, had returned to lay waste to Outremonde.
The curse of lead poisoning, and the evil lich that spread it.
“FURIBON!”
...
2020-03-27 21:21:57 +0000 UTC
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Victor’s hands had transformed into snakes, and his legs into tentacles, but otherwise, everything was fine.
The world had turned orange, and the stars into red eyes looking down on him. The pyramid now looked like a Freudian representation of pent-up sexual energies, and the spirit of slaughtered cows danced around it.
“Viiiiiiiiiccccc!” Chocolatine said, walking and talking in slow motion. “Aaaaarrrrrrrrreeee yyyooooouuuu aaaaalllllrrrrrriiiiiggggghhhhhttttt?”
2020-03-25 16:17:35 +0000 UTC
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Congratulations! For helping your master defeat King Wotan and trapped his right-hand woman’s soul in your scythe, you have earned a level in [Weathermaker] and a level in [Reaper]!
+30 HP, +10 SP, +2 VIT, +2 SKI, +2 AGI, +3 INT, +2 CHA, +2 <...
2020-03-24 16:04:52 +0000 UTC
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- Defenders of the Niece, Volume III, chapter four, “The First Princess.”
Disaster! The worshipers of Sablar, worm god of destruction, have made their way to the New World! The vile Frank the Anark has captured Oriane, princess of the wood elves tribes! Everywhere, evil triumphs!
But a hero has come! The beautiful dragon Jolie, eager to rescue princesses everywhere (so she can keep them for safekeeping), tracked down the villain...
2020-03-21 16:35:14 +0000 UTC
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Fire and ashes.
That was what Vainqueur’s world had been reduced to, as he kept battling that fomor who just wouldn’t die!
Warning! You have lost half your health!
The dragon ignored the pain, as Wotan’s spear gored through the scales on his chest, shedding golden blood. The spear still embedded in his body, the dragon grabbed the fairy lord’s neck and lifted him above the fiery mountain, through clouds of pyroclastic flows. ...
2020-03-19 12:15:01 +0000 UTC
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“I suggest we run,” Manling Victor pleaded to his master.
The dragon glanced down at his minion. The two had gathered, alongside Sweet Chocolatine—why a disaster happened whenever his lackey prepared to breed, Vainqueur would never understand—in the tropical forest to make their stand, before Wotan’s arrival. The gate to his hoard, created by [Golden Path], remained open next to them; the dragon had tossed his full princess bag atop his mountains of gold.
“We wil...
2020-03-17 14:09:51 +0000 UTC
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Vainqueur had to give it to Grandrake. Nobody would try to steal a hoard hidden here.
Springing from both the waters and the air, a huge tornado formed an impenetrable barrier of swirling winds in the middle of the ocean. Unlike other similar phenomenons, this particular twister did not move from its particular spot, far south of Port Vainqueur.
“The island is in the eye of the twister,” Jajambe said, swimming in the water while Vainqueur and his chief of staff fle...
2020-03-14 15:14:21 +0000 UTC
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Shopping for princesses was morally right!
It was true that Vainqueur hadn’t eaten a minion in a long while… and that he had come to realize that they had feelings beyond serving dragons… but catching princesses was a dragon’s duty! He also ate manlings on occasion, just not his minions!
He wasn’t a cattletarian!
“... Grandrake, you said?” Jajambe the shark asked Manling Victor, the two having been glued together for the entire voyage out of the triangle....
2020-03-12 18:38:52 +0000 UTC
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Vote for Vainqueur's march interlude!
1) Jolie Dragon vs the World
On a quest to discover new lands with her minions (and her favorite friend, Kia), Jolie Dragon has finally the princess of her dreams! One problem: to catch the wild beast, she must fight the evil cult wishing to sacrifice her! Can Jolie rescue the princess and add her to her shiny hoard?
2) Croissant and the Moon of Madness!
'Croissant's Journal, Day VII: the fir...
2020-03-11 17:50:20 +0000 UTC
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“My crown…” Vainqueur mourned, as he rested on the ship’s deck. “My imperial crown…”
“I know, Your Majesty,” Manling Victor reassured him, while his undead dwarf lackeys oversaw the pirates. After salvaging whatever they could from the shipwreck and raising their dead minions with the power of Victor's cup, the adventurers had spent hours in that Devil’s Triangle, with no shore in sight. “We will get you another!”
“You better, minion!” Vainqueur had tak...
2020-03-10 15:58:10 +0000 UTC
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When Victor started regaining consciousness, it was with a mouth full of sand, and his armor drenched in saltwater.
His entire body was in pain, his nerves scrambled by the dragonslaying lightning. His head hurt, and his ears struggled to distinguish sound from his newfound tinnitus.
[Final Problem] activated! You survived with 1 HP, and your body will look dead thanks to a powerful [Illusion
2020-03-07 09:43:01 +0000 UTC
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After so long, the fateful day had come.
The Piggybank ship, after a long time being repaired, was now ready to cross the ocean and reach the New World. The golden aircraft shone brightly under the sun, Vainqueur marveling at his own perfect reflection on its surface. His elite lackeys, from Charlene to Malfy and his Pocket Minions, observed him with awe, fear, and hope.
For the road to El Dorado would soon open!
Congratulations! For successfully ...
2020-03-05 21:37:05 +0000 UTC
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Like a savior, Vainqueur’s friend rode through the portal, riding on his dark horse’s back.
He looked exactly the same as the day he left, covered by his armor and swinging his scythe. Yet his posture had changed. He seemed more confident, with his back straight and his shoulders high. Vainqueur knew his friend had become the apex of a chief of staff, second only to his dragon master. Two skeletal servants followed after him, carrying bags and a black cup.
The crow...
2020-03-03 11:05:32 +0000 UTC
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- Year Two: “Victor Dalton and the Archdevil’s Chambers.”
“This is an excellent idea for an artifact,” Isabelle Maure said. “But without Hell’s Prime Contract to which all souls are bound, it will never work. You will need to summon and convince all demons of the Ars Goetia.”
“Can you teach me?” Victor asked, waiting for the foul price she would certainly ask.
“Yes,” she sensually crossed her legs. “But not for free...
2020-02-28 16:47:00 +0000 UTC
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- One very long week after Manling Victor’s departure...
“Vainqueur! Vainqueur! Vainqueur!”
Carried by the voices and adoration of his fans, Vainqueur descended upon his Golden Colosseum while the roof opened on its own. The sun shone on the glittering golden walls of the majestuous building, the citizens on the stands blinded by the light.
“Yes! I am your emperor! Love me!” Vainqueur unleashed a stream of flames on the sandy ground of the arena,...
2020-02-26 19:26:09 +0000 UTC
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Veran, goddess of war and fire, knew how to set the stage.
“To graduate from this academy, each of you must craft a personal artifact, according to our guidelines,” she declared, the ceiling flickering with phantom flames. Hiding her whole body behind a thick shell, she looked more like an infernal, fire-powered golem than a dwarf. “The [Solomonari’s Grimoire] is the classic, but I would prefer more imaginative proposals for this session. Like a gun! Or a sword, with a ...
2020-02-23 09:33:39 +0000 UTC
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“... you are asking me which school my minions must go to?” Vainqueur asked the ‘interim council’ from atop his hoard, more irked with each passing second.
“No, Your Majesty,” Tasty Miel replied. “We ask you if you would kindly ban vile satanic schools, and to enforce the divine covenant drafted by your saintly Vizier.”
“Do not listen to her, Your Majesty.” Tasty Malfy glared at his rival. “She is trying to stamp out free enterprise, which has been the ...
2020-02-21 16:51:21 +0000 UTC
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Four.
Four hours.
Victor had only left for four hours, and she already hated, hated, hated her job!
“Minion! Minion!” The dragon repeated the word with a stronger, higher pitched voice each time, as if he thought his victim too deaf to hear him. “MINION!”
“Yes, Your Majesty?” Charlene Ennuie, vampire chief of staff, asked as it took all her willpower to keep a straight face. She could hear her pointed fangs grind together, and her fi...
2020-02-19 14:00:28 +0000 UTC
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Hi there, just informing you Vainqueur's chapter 72 should be up late on Wednesday rather than today.
The reason being that I've moved out (permanently) from France to Tunisia so I'm currently dealing with a few formalities; I just got internet today, I have to open a bank account etc... I've also been commissioned to create a new litRPG story (tentative title "Never Die Twice") and while Vainqueur is my top priority, the chapters are prepaid by the patron and I have to put on the...
2020-02-18 17:35:26 +0000 UTC
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“... and here is the contract between V&V and Heaven to authorize the ‘SP covenant.’” Victor handed the council a pile of documents, “It includes the construction of a new hospital, schools, and angelic public teletransports.”
Since his mansion hadn’t been rebuilt since the Nightblades burned it to the ground, the Vizier had been forced to run his meetings in Vainqueur’s castle. In the dimly lit hall, the council looked like some criminal conspiracy gathering; even w...
2020-02-16 18:25:18 +0000 UTC
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Hi there, I'm upgrading the formula a bit: vote on a location V&V will crash (much to the 'happiness' of the locals) in volume III!
1) Atlantis: Realm of the Mermaids
They say Heaven exists in Outremonde: the mythical island of Atlantis, inhabited by beautiful mermaids and welcoming fishpeople. This is the best place in the world; why else did no one come back from it, after all? Time for a dragon vacation...
2) Dagger C...
2020-02-15 17:12:57 +0000 UTC
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“El Dorado must be conquered!”
So Emperor Vainqueur declared atop his golden hoard, facing the greatest of his minions. From his chief of staff to Necromancer Jules, Tasty Allison, and Marbré the Dwarf. All speechless before the dragon’s bold declaration.
“For its own protection,” Vainqueur added, as the gold would only be safe when added to his own hoard. “Else the wicked Furibon will turn it to lead, as he tried to murder my hoard and poisoned the Moon.”<...
2020-02-13 16:44:00 +0000 UTC
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Noblecoeur hadn’t changed at all.
One of Gardemagne’s greatest cities, located near the eastern mountains and the fallen Harmonian Republic, Noblecoeur had been spared from the horrors of the Century War, making it a refugee center. Those fleeing the advance of the vicious fomors, from beastkin to northern elves, established themselves there, built new districts, brought their culture. To an outsider, Noblecoeur looked like a motley of various architectures cobbled together, f...
2020-02-11 16:08:10 +0000 UTC
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Vainqueur Knightsbane, First of His Name, Great Calamity of the Age, Defender of the Hoard, Greatest Gladiator, Genius Wizard Presidente, and August Emperor of Murmurin, Ishfania, and the Albain Mountains, bravely fought for the invaders with claws and flames.
The great red dragon, his majestuous royal mantle swirling to the tune of the wind, shielded the pens with his very body, his crown shining under the brilliant sun. The broken bodies of the attackers laid at his feet, yet more ref...
2020-02-10 13:56:24 +0000 UTC
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Here is the compiled, free ebook version of Volume II (current title, "The Year of the Rogues"); I will send a copy by mail to Dracolich patrons as well.
Errors have been corrected, some extras added at the end (the map of the world and the stats of the characters at the end of the volume), chapters updated etc...
The document will be also be updated when I receive the professional cover. I can also add a few additional extras if there is demand for them.
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2020-02-05 17:09:48 +0000 UTC
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2020-02-03 09:00:22 +0000 UTC
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Choose the first chapter of volume III!
1) Vainqueur: First Coin
Before it grew into the beautiful golden mountain it is today, Vainqueur's hoard began with one coin. Follow the adventures of Vainqueur the Wyrmling, as he leaves the nest to make a name for himself, recruit his first loving minions, fight cattle to the death, and 'convince' manlings to help him grow his fortune.
2) Beware the Orcs!
Murmurin faces a...
2020-02-02 09:12:01 +0000 UTC
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