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System Supervillain, Chapter 121

Chapter 121 – Planning

King William V was a rather unremarkable-looking man. Not in a bad way, but take him out of the fancy formal outfits and all that, and just put him in a suit and tie? He’d look like your typical corporate executive, especially with the security detail around him. If he went somewhere that his face wasn’t literally on the money, he’d stand a good chance of not being recognized. Most people didn’t care about other countries’ monarchs enough to recognize ...

The OP Lich is a Returnee, Chapter 165

Chapter 165 – Mageblade

“Ah, your Majesty! How wonderful to see you again!” Doctor Oesau said as I entered the Phantomline R&D labs. “I hope you’ve had time to test out the devices we sent you?”

“Yes, Doctor, and I must say I am quite impressed. You managed to keep the mana draw to a minimum, while still making it extremely functional. And with it being an elementally-neutral state, it should be equally effective against all mana types.”

“But you have n...

Dark Fate, Book 21 Epilogue

Epilogue – Elsewhere

(Main Bridge, CRN Mercurial, Incux Food Resource System 2)

Captain Griboyedov Ivan Tikhonovich breathed lightly as they passed into the system in full stealth. When he spoke, he made certain his tone was flat, and calm. “Status of the fleet.”

“All ships reporting in via tightbeam comms, Captain. All present and accounted for. Stealth systems working at full efficiency.”

“And the Incux?”

“We are still too far from targ...

Lewd Dungeon, Chapter 369

Chapter 369 – Proper Planning

“There’s the pit, Mistress,” Charity said. “Just like the runaway said.”

“Now, now,” Catalina chuckled. “What that man did was less run away and more sit and watch someone get their just desserts. And he isn’t making it our problem, since he plans to head off-world, so we’ll just learn from his report, and not repeat his team’s mistakes. Ryan, if you would?”

“As you wish, Mistress,” the Hellfire Sorcerer nodded, bef...

Freezing Shadows, Chapter 15

Chapter 15: Final Prep

Later that night, we met up at a warehouse that Babydoll managed to rent out in Redmond. The neighborhood was shitty, and there were signs of recent fighting on full display. According to Babydoll, one of the local gangs was running a ‘protection’ racket, looking to take tolls from some of the people passing through. One of their prospective ‘protectees’ had a grenade launcher, and no qualms about using it. There were pieces of the gangers splattered all o...

Reborn as the First Boss, Chapter 60

Look, you knew it was going to go down something like this.

Chapter 60 – Announcements

The stairs spiraled down into darkness, but that was no problem, as [Radiant Armor] and [Radiant Aura] had everyone shining like a torch. Of course, I also put [Profane Armor] on everyone, as a precaution. I was planning on ending the lich as quickly as possible, but that was no reason not to be prepared. There was no way of knowing where in the fifteenth floor this passage would end up...

System Supervillain, Book 11 Prologue

Prologue – Trade Chat

(Capes & Cowls Forum, General Chat)

Message of the Day: Remember, Capes & Cowls is ‘neutral ground’. Keep it civil, and if you try to track someone through our site, it will not end well for you.

Speedy, AngelEyes, Victory, HotStuff, Jester, Freedom, Aegis, Stars, Emerald, Snowflake, MagicGurl, RedHot, Scholar, CantSeeMe, Turbo, DontYouWantMeBaby, KoolAidMan, SliceNDice, Destroyer, Inquisitor, Narrator, PartyGurl, Chummer, TheWhiteHat, Tri...

The OP Lich is a Returnee, Chapter 164

Chapter 164 – Loremaster

Of course, I couldn’t just go to the research lab that Onedeirth worked at to speak with him, not on this. Sure, going to comment on their advancements in magic technology was fine. But that would be speaking to him in his mortal guise of Akaryu Kiba. What I needed was to speak to the Loremaster of the Dragons of Ouros, and, for that, it was best that we spoke somewhere away from mortal ears.

Fortunately, Yakushima Island was not heavily populated in t...

Dark Fate, Chapter 210

Chapter 210 – Discovery

I had expected that there would be some Rangers, Druids, and Beast Masters in Panama, and that some of them would be focused on aquatic matters, given the canal, and how much of Panama was near the coast. For the same reasons, I also hoped that some of them would have aquatic races. Happily, I was not disappointed.

Ramon Gallo was an Aquatic Elf, meaning that he could breathe underwater, but could only come above the surface for a couple hours at a time. ...

Lewd Dungeon, Chapter 368

Chapter 368 – Rest Stop

Catalina Zorita and her team sighed as they stepped out of the portal to the sixth floor. They’d done well to get through the first five floors in a single day. The Misty Swamp, Goblin Town, and Lizardfolk Swamp were all slogs to get through, but it was difficult to rush through even the swamp on the first floor, with its traps and bosses. No one enjoyed it when Captain Hentai caught a group unawares.

Instead of heading to the platform where the Water T...

Freezing Shadows, Chapter 14

Chapter 14: Stimulating Conversation

Shadowmen joined teams because there was no way that one person could cover every angle. However, sometimes a job needed more hands than even a full team could provide. In those situations, it was not uncommon for a team to subcontract for work. The three most common reasons someone would subcontract on a run were because they needed specialized help, they needed to hit multiple points at once, or for someone to run a distraction.

Specialized h...

Reborn as the First Boss, Chapter 59

Chapter 59 – Realization

“Mistress, are you all right?”

Linette’s voice finally broke through the haze of my transformation. I looked up at the maid standing next to me, and nodded slowly, as I noted the cool blue tone of the soul hiding in her flesh. There was even a pale strand of light connecting her to me, the mark of the [Slave Collar], I assumed. I took a breath, and slid the angel’s softening length out of me as I rose to my feet. “Yes, yes, I’m good. It was j...

System Supervillain, Book 10 Epilogue

Epilogue – Elsewhere

(Thraxl Invasion Deployment Point, Thraxl Prime, Gel-Nak Empire)

He was known by many names and titles. Most were just some means of flattery, given to any who had ascended to the Imperial throne. Some, though, he had earned on his own merit. Throhi the Green, for how he had personally covered himself in the blood of his enemies and rivals when they tried to assassinate him. The Mind Taker, for his advanced use of the psionic talents the Leader caste had. Th...

The OP Lich is a Returnee, Chapter 163

Chapter 163 – Special Orders

When deciding what to make for the Phoenix Matriarchs, I was somewhat limited in my choices. Adding an enchantment so that the item changed size with the wearer was one thing. It was so simple and fundamental an enchantment, after all, that it was routinely incorporated into most armor and magical clothes. Granted, that was usually so that an armorsmith could make one breastplate, sized normally for their species, but the enchantments allowed it to be worn...

Dark Fate, Chapter 209

Chapter 209 – Aftermath

(Oval Office, White House, Washington, DC)

“Mister President, there’s been a development in Panama.”

President Harris groaned as he tried valiantly to not smack his head. “That damn King of Ceres just got down there, didn’t he? Like, it hasn’t even been a full day! What in the hell happened now?”

Evie Walsh, his Secretary of State, just shook her head. “From the statements we’ve received, King Greene was meeting with official...

Lewd Dungeon, Chapter 367

Chapter 367 – Dinner

Catalina’s team made good time through the dungeon. Of course, even experienced teams couldn’t get to the start of the new floors in a single day. Not with how the dungeon monsters scaled in strength, or some of the puzzles that acted as hard stops to speedrunners. Of the fifteen floors people had explored, seven had mechanics in place specifically designed to keep people from just charging through them to the bottom.

The Misty Swamp of floor two had peo...

Freezing Shadows, Chapter 13

Chapter 13: Plans

The Silver Lake facility was a simple building within line of sight of Silver Lake, not too surprisingly. Standard corporate building, all told. Parking lot, guards, blah-blah-blah. Biggest issue, from what I could see, is that they kept their ‘work computers’ as a stand-alone hardwired network, completely air-gapped from the wider Matrix. The outward-facing network had business emails the accounting stuff, and other things like that. Anything to deal with the movi...

Reborn as the First Boss, Chapter 58

Chapter 58 – Gilded

“Simple, Astruth. I found a magic seal, and decided to see what lay beyond. Especially since the conditions were so specific that, unless someone like me came along, you’d need at least three people to undo it. Now, let us see what lies in wait.”

The view beyond the now-open portal was of a dark hallway, lit with magical torches. It looked like any of the other hallways of the Shadow Prison, but there were no cells along the walls, and the lighting was ...

System Supervillain, Chapter 120

Chapter 120 – Staging Area

(Field Command Post, Hight Wycombe, United Kingdom)

Adams Park Stadium was buzzing, but not for the normal reasons. There was no game on, no concert, not even a political rally. Instead, the home of the Wycombe Wanderers was now playing host to the Army, and any supers (heroes or villains) that wanted to join in, as the primary staging area outside what was being called the London Exclusion Zone.

The alien shield covered an area roughly from Wood...

The OP Lich is a Returnee, Chapter 162

Chapter 162 – Crafting Plans

The day after my trip to the University of Tokyo Hospital to get my sister some exposure, as well as giving her an idea on where to get started in her research, I was back at Athelian Arms, working with my students. There were plenty of commissions for custom work waiting on us, after all. Indeed, my recent bout of publicity, running around the world and unleashing the seals, had only increased the number of people who knew about Athelian Arms.

Which...

Dark Fate, Chapter 208

Chapter 208 – Victorious

Your party has defeated a Level 2 Giant Kraken!

100% XP bonus for defeating higher Tier opponent!

50% XP Penalty for having a party member more than 10 levels higher than you.

You gain 100000 XP!

You have leveled up!

You are now Level 40.

You have 4017400 / 4095000 XP to reach Level 41.

+8 CHA, +6 INT, +5 WIS, +5 STR, +1 CON

4 Attribute Points to spend.

2 Skill points to spend.

Loot:<...

Lewd Dungeon - Chapter 366

Chapter 366 – Free-ish Man

I watched as the Dark Sage collected the fruits, and then used his escape charm to leave the dungeon. The [Slave Brand] on his back had disappeared, along with the Slave title. That meant that Tyrone was three times a failure as a Master. First, he failed to properly break or control his slaves. Second, he failed to anticipate betrayal and have orders in place to prevent it. And third, he failed to have anything set up so that his slaves might be transferred...

Freezing Shadows, Chapter 12

Chapter 12: Meet

“Good, you’re here,” Twilight said as we pulled up to the Silver Pavillion, the restaurant where we were having the meet. Meeting the Yakuza in a Japanese restaurant was a bit on the nose, like meeting the Mafia at an Italian place, but if it worked, it worked. At the moment, Twilight and the others were standing next to Babydoll’s van. Looked like the van had had some upgrades. A third drone launcher, maybe? I’d need to ask Babydoll about it later.

“W...

Reborn as the First Boss, Chapter 57

Chapter 57 – The Hidden Door

“PUSH FORWARD!”

The others answered my cry with ones of their own as we charged through the gauntlet of spectral undead. The deadly wraiths were able to damage someone’s soul with a touch, but they were intelligent enough to keep back from a group wielding blades designed precisely to kill them. Fortunately, some quirk of the dungeon meant that the wraiths could not pass through the floors, except when they first appeared. They could still move...

System Supervillain, Chapter 119

Chapter 119 – Honor

Cleaning out a single ship, room by room, to ensure that there were no survivors was a fucking pain. No two ways about it, it just plain sucked. There was no quick and easy way to do it, unless you were destroying the ships you wanted to keep. Thankfully, we had Web Mistress on our side, which meant that we could take breaks to rest and recover, inside her digital dimension, if we needed to.

And some of us did need it. Titania in her mechagirl form no longer ...

The OP Lich is a Returnee, Chapter 161

Chapter 161 – Teaching

Doctor Yanagi Naho smiled at her guests as they walked into the classroom. While it was not exactly common for major figures to want to visit the University of Tokyo Hospital, it wasn’t rare, either. What was rare, and what made this visit stand out, was that these guests didn’t want a tour of the hospital, or to have a photo op with some of the patients. Instead, they wanted to talk to the medical thaumaturgy students learning at the hospital, which was why...

Dark Fate, Chapter 207

Chapter 207 – Annihilation Beam

The shuttle came quickly enough, along with our fighter escorts. However, they were ill-suited to facing a Giant Kraken. Oh, not because their Tier 1 weapons would be ineffective. While there would be some reduction in efficiency, the System scaled vehicle weapons differently from swords or spellwork. The latter worked more closely with a user’s stats, while the vehicle weapons worked more off the power available to the vehicle. Unless you had a cheat...

Lewd Dungeon, Chapter 365

Chapter 365 – Review

I chuckled as I watched the Crimson Claws finish their fight against the Pharaoh, and moved on to the sixteenth floor, making them the first ones to actually see the new floor. While they got used to the fact that they were now in a series of caves underground, rather than in the desert, I went back over the logs of the fight. It was important to make sure to go over a fight’s mechanics the first few times people saw it, to make sure that I was maintaining a ‘...

Freezing Shadows, Chapter 11

Chapter 11: Downtime

It had been a couple weeks since our first gig, assaulting Mel Cozi’s house, raiding his slush fund and stealing his antique gun collection. His widow was set to inherit everything else, so she was happy-ish, and I’d seen her on the trid telling an embellished tale of the horrors of what happened, as if she hadn’t been hiding in the bathroom the whole time. Didn’t matter to me, so long as no one started really searching for the people who did the hit.

...

Reborn as the First Boss, Chapter 56

Chapter 56 – Decisions

We might have gotten all the way to the seventh floor on the first day, but our pace slowed dramatically as we went down. Only to be expected, given how the seventh-floor boss was Level 22, and we were only Level 23. Things slowed down more after that. The second day, we barely managed to finish the tenth floor in a day’s work, deciding to set up camp just inside the eleventh floor.

The tenth-floor boss, Ghoulmistress Glinda had been Level 28 Witch. A fa...