Malaklein

Chapter 108

Cai stared out at the village from the hillsides. He did that a lot now. 

Less in wonder and more in contemplation, looking out into the world to try and see more within himself. 

And again, he found nothing. 

The village itself was only a few miles wide. But still, it stood shining a ways away. It would be hard for a mortal to make out anything but he could make things out as if he were right there. At least if he was channeling qi into his eyes he could.&nbs...

AIR 134-135

Chapter 134

Chin and I sat beneath a tree, each of us holding a small cup of tea. The tea had come from Hidden Viper’s region, it was a dried variant of a spirit herb. It had lost most of its potency but had aged itself in flavor. 

It was a delicacy. To take something so inherently valuable to most people and to kill it and let it wither, that was an extreme expression of wealth. 

I thought it was okay. Nothing too great but if you had a bunch of...

Chapter 133

Medin was a tenacious woman. That was what people said about her. 

She’d have to be tenacious to be with a man like Chin. She had to be strong and hardy and able to tie him down when he wanted to get back up. 

The truth was, Medin was indulgent. She was just as bad as Chin in her own way. He was the stubborn farmer and she was the stubborn cook. 

She punched into the dough with rolled-up sleeves. It felt like a thin fabric, but it was twice the size of the l...

Chapter 132 Time

Do you know the beauty of war? It is not in its glory or strength but in its very act. To kill, to devour, to take, it is at the roots of life itself. Even the peace between the primordials is nothing but a breath between clashes. To live is to kill. Mortal, immortal, god, or Imperium, we are life built on death.

-The First King of War, Name Unknown. Deceased Imperium.

The Old God of Time stood in his halls and watched. 

Clocks were how...

AIR Volume 2 Chapter 131

You cannot scream to the skies and to earth for fairness. You cannot find the soul of man within an empty world. The Heavens are the Heavens because we make them so, and the Hells are the Hells because we make them so. That is the greatness of humanity, that is our depravity. 

-Nei Lo, The Judicar.

Somewhere outside of the region was a man facing tribulation. 

The skies roared and lightning rained down upon him as a holy t...

NOT AIR something I worked on breaks from AIR.

Something I worked on breaks from AIR. This story is heavily inspired by Superminion, DC, and Marvel.

I really like superhero stories, but I hate their inconsistencies. Why do the bad guys never get killed? The Joker is literally a domestic terrorist, if not Batman, some poor Gotham citizen should have offed him with a Glock. Or the US government should have gotten involved. How do secret identities work when you're bleeding out everywhere? Also, Iron Man has a suit that can fight god...

AIR 128-130 VOLUME ONE END

Chapter 128

Nei Lo, The Judicar, Justice Herself.

The low Heavens were located above Lynoria and the numerous other realms beyond it. Among the central realms, the realms between Lynoria and the low Heavens were considered one of the safest to join. Avalon, Camalot, Atlantis, and many other celestial realms could be found here. They were known as the Golden Lands by some, and that was due to the amount of freedom they offered relative to the amount of protection t...

AIR 125-127

Chapter 125

The old man sat by the river bank, his hand holding the rod and his arms still with patience. He was old, far too old for a God-Imperium. His skin sagged slightly and he was short with his back hunched over in age. 

On his head was an old bamboo hat. It was weathered and brown, having lost its yellow shine and distinctive circular shape a long ways back. His clothes were the same. His green pants were held together by a frayed string and his shoes...

AIR 122-124

Chapter 122

The forest was dark in the most literal sense.

Darkness at its core was the loss of information. It was the corrosion of senses, physical or spiritual. At the edge of the forest was an absolute blackness that threatened to consume all there was. 

“Do you have a way of seeing through it?” Forn asked me.

“Not yet, but I will in a second.”

I stuck a finger in the darkness and went to work.

The darkness here wasn’t co...

AIR 121

Chapter 121

I felt the alchemical compound trying to kick in immediately. It was weak, and because it was weak it meant that my body, spirit, and soul would resist it. 

I slowly lowered my resistance, keeping watch on Forn as I did so. I didn’t think she’d attack me, but wild meant many things and I didn’t know what it exactly meant for her. 

Now healing was a strange process. To heal was to fix and to fix was to know what was broken in the f...

AIR 119-120

Chapter 119

“Nowhere around her,” Forn quickly replied. 

“The Hills of Life are our territory. You can hunt a good distance away, just a little ways off of where we met, but anything closer than that is our land.”

Again, space and time didn’t exist here. What existed was the facsimile of both. The concept of the forest held and connected things together. It lets them interact in a way similar to space-time. 

If I were to make a map ...

AIR 116-118

Chapter 116

There were no shores. 

Not in the land of the dead. 

“HEAVE!!!” 

They all held fast in their small realm sailor. They were God-Kings, all of them. But here they were nothing but men floating atop a careless sea. 

The Sea of Death roiled as the God-Imperiums clashed. Thankfully, the ship was at the edges. The impact was all held within the Sea and they merely floated on it. 

But still, the two beings ...

AIR 113-115

Chapter 113

Running was a weird term. It was more like bringing their getting ever closer to me at incomprehensible speed.

And considering they would blip out of my perception if they were headed to anything else but me since existence was relative. With each step, they appeared closer and closer to me. 

“Uh-oh,” I muttered. 

The woman was wild, her hand aged with nature and her soul filled with life. She was a druid, one with wild growth...

AIR 109-112

Chapter 109

I finished the book. It was a lot. I had to play with time a bit just to get through it all and for the first time in a long long long time, I was tired. My limits had been tested and pushed. 

I was drained. 

I laid down flat on the ground and the book laid blank next to me. 

Done already?

It was back, and it was mocking me. 

“I finished reading it.”

The book floated above my head an...

AIR 105-108

I'm back, well I never really left. I have about 25 chapters to dump on here before getting prepared to write volume 2! That's right volume 2. Now that patreon is finally, finally going to be full up to the ten-dollar tier, expect regular updates. I will now be posting chapters as I write them.

Chapter 105

I have sat beneath this bodhi tree, and I have seen the path to Nirvana. I stare at Buhdha’s back and think in his shadow, and though my path i...