Finding time to spend with Lydia was often difficult. Differences in time zones and duties made it difficult to coordinate things. The teleportation options John had given her, both the pad and the relatively new Perk that let her teleport over to the Palace and then back to where she had originally come from, alleviated much of these issues. They did, however, remain issues.
Sometimes, the only way to make things work was to visit her.
Sometimes, she wanted th...
2024-10-21 07:14:36 +0000 UTC
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John knocked twice on the door.
“Come in,” the voice from within greeted him.
Handle pushed down, the Gamer pushed open the entrance, then closed it again behind himself. The room he then stood in was of grey and beige stone. Besides some furniture in the middle of them, all of it circled around a laptop and a beanbag, there was nothing of note around. The walls and floor were barren, with the exception of where the inhabitant of the chamber sat.
“Y...
2024-10-19 07:27:48 +0000 UTC
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“Yes, Master!” The seer shot up from her seat, her wavy hair fluttering in the breeze of her motion, and barely managed to keep herself from running towards him. She was immediately flushed all over. Her nipples were hard, her breasts trembled with every quick breath, and her thighs jiggled from the constant shifting of her weight.
Despite all of that, she managed to keep her hands folded in front of her. Lorelei was the woman with the highest Libido in his harem...
2024-10-18 08:09:01 +0000 UTC
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Lydia sucked on his cock until the very last second of contact. A singular strand connected the tip of his cock to her red lips. Her mouth hung slightly open, letting panting breaths escape. The queen was enraptured by the bliss that sucking him off had brought her. She was yet another one to possess a sensitive throat and, even without that, the filling of white her stomach had just received left any woman with sticky thighs.
“My turn.” Nathalia’s decision was...
2024-10-17 08:36:00 +0000 UTC
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They took a few hours off after that, spending time to recuperate. Korith and Reysha needed good sleep and Apexus needed to regenerate his whole body.
The door of the Mobile Estate stood open. Past their morning activities, they were willing to sacrifice the feeling of privacy to catch other adventurers approach. It would be an awkward moment if another group found the Healing Fountain while they were inside and then they stepped out of the previously invisible door....
2024-10-16 19:58:03 +0000 UTC
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“Final point where you need to talk, promise,” John said and shifted his field of view so he would see both the empress and Lydia. “Obviously I owe you two some special time. Everyone else at least had me in some capacity. I want to acknowledge that. If you have something special in mind, let me know and I’ll do the best I can.”
“We can talk about that later!” Lulu declared and crawled back between his legs. It appeared the imperial tomboy had enough of the delays a...
2024-10-15 15:35:08 +0000 UTC
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John made his request the joking echo of how he would direct a cabinet meeting, “Ehtra, please announce our order of business.”
Rolling her eyes, the secretary angel rose from her seat. “In no particular order, we have to talk about: Nahua, the Aztec survivors, the Twilight Twins, time for Lydia and Lu Zhi, John’s safety, Fusion’s political situation, Class Levels, and the Small Lake Tournament.”
“We should definitely start... with… Nahua….”...
2024-10-14 18:55:03 +0000 UTC
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John was crunching numbers.
‘So, with the Extension and Creator Puppet both fully off and all 5 of my elemental girls set to 50% upkeep cost, I come out at a deficit of… 48,28 per second. Since my Max MP is also down 99%, I only got 4130 in store and that means, even if I put everything into Wisdom, I can only have everyone summoned for 85 seconds.’ He sighed. “No matter how I slice it, I can’t get the elementals in here.”
Rave let out a deep and di...
2024-10-12 03:30:43 +0000 UTC
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“What if I say no?”
John’s challenge made the blushing redhead press her lips together. Her shoulders pulled up in defence of something. Her hand went up as an impromptu shield against the indecency in front of her.
Pulled out of her blissed-out state by the interruption of their lovemaking, Eliana tilted her head back until she could see the Couch upside down. “It’s just me getting my fucking brain liquified by having my womb inflated. We all know yo...
2024-10-11 07:16:00 +0000 UTC
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Aclysia yawned.
Fundamentally, an Artificial Spirit should not be yawning. Their bodies were incapable of the kind of biological processes that created the need for a yawn. Natural Spirits would sometimes do it anyway, either because they had spent hours in the sleep-like state of ‘low energy usage’ or because someone else in the room had yawned and human instinct kicked in. Aclysia, being entirely artificial, did not have the latter ‘kink’ in her system.
...
2024-10-09 22:37:03 +0000 UTC
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Apexus threw himself in the Healing Fountain. He caught Korith by the horn and dragged her back up from under the water. Eyelids fluttered while he moved her back to the adjacent stone floor. “Huh…?” she muttered. That was all she pushed out. Her eyes were glassy.
Aclysia threw the book at Reysha, who caught it hastily. “Which page?!” the redhead asked, already scanning the book at random.
The angel did not answer immediately, instead focusing her imm...
2024-10-09 20:20:27 +0000 UTC
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Apexus viewed the area below them.
Two massive monsters guarded a wall of translucent, blue crystal. Their overall shape was arachnoid, but the fatness of their bodies compared to their stubby legs was more resemblant of a tic than the typical spider. Smooth and fleshy, their bodies did not look particularly durable. It was not their durability that Apexus was primarily concerned with.
Within the large abdomens of the twin creatures, glowing liquid sloshed. For...
2024-10-03 01:22:57 +0000 UTC
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Reysha slowly reached for her utility belt. The cold metal of one of her True Silver throwing daggers felt forever pleasing in her grasp. Swiftly, she turned on her heels, drawing the weapon out of its holster and then hurling it. The force of her turn translated into the straight trajectory of the weapon.
Drawing his weapon quickly, the Rogue behind them only realized that the weapon was going to miss him anyway when he had already dropped out of Stealth. The satisf...
2024-09-25 11:23:17 +0000 UTC
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This arc is 240k words… WHEN?!
Y’ello!
I’ll just come straight out of the gate with the admission: yes, this arc entirely exists because I wanted an axolotl woman. Deal with it.
Continuing from there, I actually think that, as a focused story, this is among the best arcs this season. Much like the ‘Another Kingdom’ arc, this one existed less to drive the overall narrative forwards and more as a specific campaign that Jo...
2024-09-24 10:08:37 +0000 UTC
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Cleaning up the aftermath took three days.
Nahua managed to address her people, her voice still flat and lifeless. She explained the situation and left the rest of the cleanup to John. After that, she retreated to a singular room. John only made sure she remained there and that she had company when she wanted it. She never wanted it.
Of the more than 200’000 people that had lived in the inner realm, 70% had died during or directly after the fight and half of ...
2024-09-24 08:54:12 +0000 UTC
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“AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” The god of gluttony screamed. His body on the floor contorted in pain. “IT’S NOT FAIR! IT’S NOT FAIR! I WORKED SO HARD TO GET THIS! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
John would have delivered the final blow to Macuil himself, had he had a point of mana left in the tank. With both Overclock Drawbacks kicking him 109% down on the rate, John was steadily bleeding mana. The remaining elementals were automatically dismi...
2024-09-23 08:18:29 +0000 UTC
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The Creator Puppet slowly sank against the wall.
John’s third body was half-disassembled. Materials had been ripped out of it as War needed them. Most of them served a temporary purpose in the forging at best. The rider was forging a dagger, that much was clear. The spine of Huitzlipochtli served as the handle. An incandescent mixture had been attached to it, fusing further with the red bone with every strike.
Impurities shattered off the surface and were lef...
2024-09-21 12:33:20 +0000 UTC
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The smallest movement of the titan displaced enough air to cause gusts of wind. Necrotic energy pulsed through the plague that had buried itself deep in Atlas’ corpse. Hands that could have held up the world rose with undead slowness. Titanic thighs rose from the muck, gaps in the remarkably well-preserved flesh filled by the very same disease that had caused them. A skyscraper-sized rupture in the stomach was all of the titan that remained utterly destroyed.
On hi...
2024-09-20 08:16:57 +0000 UTC
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John first heard it while they ascended the steps.
It was an unmistakable sound, one that he had scarcely heard live before. The few times he had, he could count on his fingers. All of them had been during his youth, when his mother had decided to try and get him in touch with traditional spirituality. John had never liked churches, but he certainly had a lot of love for the soundtracks this instrument was often used in.
“Is that an organ?” Rave asked.
<...
2024-09-19 06:35:50 +0000 UTC
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The day of the Expedition had come.
Apexus, Reysha and Aclysia looked at a force of roughly 150 adventurers – Korith was looking at their knees. To the combined confusion of the Inevitable Party, the Expedition had separated itself into three very clear camps. One was very large, the other two comparatively small, and all three were glaring daggers at the other.
“Where do we go?” Korith asked, moving her eyes between the three camps.
Apexus did not ...
2024-09-18 10:28:06 +0000 UTC
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Slow clapping greeted the advancing force. The sound echoed over the field of arenas, swiftly followed by a multi-threaded voice. “You killed Xipe. Cannot say I am particularly amused by that fact. It is so difficult to find good friends, you know? The kind that are just cruel and loyal enough to make for good company. Capable too. Most people that are as selfish as I am tend to be remarkably incompetent.”
‘I have found him – one of him,’ Ehtra reported.
2024-09-17 05:12:33 +0000 UTC
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“What do I do now…?”
The choked question almost broke John’s heart. It was not his to answer. In fact, the only thing he could do in this situation was watch through Gnome’s eyes as a daughter and father shared their final moments.
Huitzilopochtli had paid the price for denying Xipe-Totec what was his. The already greatly diminished body of the god of sacrifice was now nothing more than a gelatinous head barely rising above a running mound of flesh. T...
2024-09-16 05:42:04 +0000 UTC
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Xipe-Totec scarcely found an end to his amusement. Not since discovering that place had he seen any despair so thorough. The three Horsemen, previously so haughty, were now just miserable piles in the sand. “No more glory for you, huh?” asked the Aztec chimera. His body of fused gods ached around the seams.
Keeping these divinities together was not an easy task. He succeeded. Since Macuil had made him undead, this was all his path had led towards. From the days o...
2024-09-14 00:43:04 +0000 UTC
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The divine battle raged on in the distance still.
White formations of bones clashed with the sweeping clouds of plague. A similar battle occurred within Lorelei’s bloodstream, her white cells attempting to push out the disease. Symmetry was a steady companion in the Lady’s creation. One of the many patterns to be recognized and cherished for the beauty it offered.
“Rel…” Moira mumbled.
The seer forced herself to stand fully straight. She did not...
2024-09-13 03:00:09 +0000 UTC
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The obscene humanoid trampled towards the glorious host of the Grim Reaper’s generals. Distasteful laughter filled the air, the ‘god-warrior’ leading two reluctant and one broken follower. “You are unworthy of eternal existence, fiend!” Glory declared and thrust his halberd at the Flayer Lord.
The highest of all Mummy Lords, as these necromantic amateurs called them, dodged the strike narrowly. No matter, the grand-marshal of death had his comrades behind h...
2024-09-12 06:27:28 +0000 UTC
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Apexus sat at the edge of the bed.
Aclysia’s head was in his lap. However, the position was not one that was usually expected from such an arrangement. The white-haired woman laid with her back on the mattress. Heated, she gazed up at her man, whose fingers were combing through her silky, straight hair.
The gentle touch of her scalp was complimented by the sensuous brushing of his other hand over her slender body. From her white shoulders, down the tail of her collarbone,...
2024-09-12 00:26:49 +0000 UTC
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Nahua sat on a shore of fine sand.
Behind her was a pleasure island, a private retreat of Macuil or a trap for fools like her that were tossed into this plague-ridden segment of the Eternal Sanctum. ‘It was always all around us,’ she thought and gazed out at the ocean. The city hanging above, she scarcely registered. Its origin was just another unanswered question she did not wish to contend with.
A purple trail stained the sands, connecting where she sat t...
2024-09-10 06:47:15 +0000 UTC
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“I have never met a human capable of influencing a god-lock.” The Grim Reaper’s raised hand grasped one of the many intersections of mana and tore it down.
A random gesture to naked eyes. Lorelei could see it well, the many places where the Grim Reaper’s influence clashed with the strands of control by their opponent. It was a mesh of skeletal structures rubbing against vast stretches of viscous fluid and the half-digested remains of other gods’ essences wi...
2024-09-09 00:15:18 +0000 UTC
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I am eroding.
A new nervous system is digging its mycelial roots through my arcane body. It hurts, yet it is soothing, like cold salt water on fresh cuts. ‘I could just dissolve into this pain,’ I catch myself thinking.
I struggle to the surface, suddenly realizing the volume of noise around me. Earth scatters as explosions of my making rip apart the soil. Ancient trees rot under the greedy, gnawing eyes and maws of the first foe. Mother chaos and her new l...
2024-09-07 18:01:41 +0000 UTC
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“Prepare!” John shouted and strained whatever he could. Even a god’s control in their own Sanctum had limits. The Gamer knew that, he had seen Nightingale train that mental muscle and the troubles even a brilliant woman like her had.
Most importantly, they weren’t inside the domain of the god of gluttony quite yet. If that pool was the heart of Huitzilopochtli’s power, then that meant that the clap wasn’t a gesture to execute his own powers. Rather, it wa...
2024-09-06 15:51:37 +0000 UTC
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