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Lewd Dungeon, Chapter 407

Chapter 407 – Sand

They all rushed into the safe room on the thirteenth floor. No one wanted to be outside in the blistering heat longer than necessary. They had heard stories of the desert floors, of course, but they had never seen a desert before. Such things existed on Bluemountain, of course, but not on their continent.

They had not truly believed that simple sand could be such a barrier. But trudging through the dunes was like walking through the swamp floors, only there ...

Freezing Shadows, Chapter 52

Chapter 52: Conclave

The Conclave of the Spectral Sword. That was the name of the group the dragon had given me. Not terrible, honestly. There were groups out there with names like the Hermetic Order of the Auric Aurora or the Society of the Phoenix Arisen, and other crazy shit like that. So, by that metric, the Conclave of the Spectral Sword was fine.

The letter I got included a quick background of the group. They were a collection of combat mages, united primarily by the fact ...

Reborn as the First Boss, Chapter 98

Chapter 98 – Discoveries

It was impossible to change from one form to another without dropping back to my true form. Unlike with my [Shapeshifting], where I could move between disguises and my true form at will, the forms given by the [Ritual of the Beast] had to be undone before I could pick a new one. An annoying thing, and one that lowered the usefulness of the ritual’s forms. Still, there were times when becoming a beast could be useful. Especially if those forms grew as I gre...

System Supervillain, Chapter 160

Chapter 160 – Considerations

As expected of someone in his position, Druxl was very happy to spill what information he thought would make him look more valuable to me. There were facilities on Thraxl Secunda to process the Systemite, and create System Foci, and there were even a couple finished pieces in the vault. After all, even if the civil war hadn’t completely killed trade within the Empire, trade ships weren’t coming to this system. Other than Systemite, the resources on S...

The OP Lich is a Returnee, Chapter 202

Chapter 202 – Military

Once my students had eaten breakfast and been set to their tasks for the day, I garbed myself in my Lich Queen armor, but kept my human guise, and summoned the visitors from the military to see what the problem was. When they arrived in my throne room, I saw that all four were wearing the dress uniforms of the Self-Defense Forces, though two were from the Ground forces and two from the Air forces. Even more interesting was that, while I could see that they had...

Dark Fate, Chapter 248

Chapter 248 – Reaction

(Unwind Lounge, Government District, Ceres)

“I can’t believe he pulled it off,” Kitamura Ena, Japan’s Ambassador to Ceres, shook her head as she watched the TV playing the live broadcast of the signing ceremony. Sure, she could have been watching this in the embassy, but the Unwind Lounge was another of Emperor Greene’s clever ploys. By having a nice restaurant near the embassies, where privacy wards were in place around every table, it allowed...

Lewd Dungeon, Chapter 406

Chapter 406 – Focus

However, the champion did not attack straight away. “Well, well, well. You are the first group of adventurers from Bluemountain to make it this far in the dungeon. Most of the ones who have come here usually falter by the time they get to the Black Temple, and leave, in search of easier fare. They were too used to ‘normal’ dungeons, and were thus ill-prepared for what my Lord’s dungeon had to offer.”

Rhys shook his head. He wasn’t going to compl...

Freezing Shadows, Chapter 51

Chapter 51: Settled Business

Kole Malone nodded as we stepped through the doors of the Redmond Towers hotel and casino. The troll who attended the needs of the resident dragon, Ivaeth, looked just like he had the last time they’d been here, with a slight grin on his overly large face. “Ah, Iceblade, and friends. The Lady is expecting you.”

The troll’s eyes turned to Kenzie Lyons, the technomancer we’d gone to Detroit to rescue. She was the only one not wearing armor, b...

Reborn as the First Boss, Chapter 97

Chapter 97 – Temptations

Naturally, the slaves I’d picked up from the bandits cleared me of any wrongdoing. I also managed to work a trade for the bard, selling him to the country of Bikar for 100 pp, a Tier 1 [Endless Camp Ration Box], and seven Tier 1 [Replenishing Skins], which would keep my new slaves fed and watered. The irony of having to buy items I’d traded away only three days ago was not lost on me. Still, the price was more than I was expecting, to be honest, but like...

System Supervillain, Chapter 159

Chapter 159 – Negotiation

“Nemesis, hunt at will. It seems one of the lizards on the ground has grown a brain. Either that, or they are about to try and find some way to beg for their lives. Maybe both. Either way, it should be interesting.”

While Nemesis set about playing with the Gel-nak fleet, I turned my attention to Web Mistress. “How far into the networks have you gotten?”

“I have access to the fleet comm network, working on accessing the individual ships...

The OP Lich is a Returnee, Chapter 201

Chapter 201 – Foundation

To the southwest of Hawai’i, between the Johnston Atoll and Tabuaeran Atoll, there was a line of seamounts that roughly followed one of the primary ley lines coursing across the planet. This ley line was the reason I picked this undersea range for the site of New Athelas. Not only would it provide access to resources that would be harder to come by near the surface, but the abundant mana from the ley line would make maintaining the shields that would cover...

Dark Fate, Chapter 247

Chapter 247 – Gathering

It wouldn’t be inappropriate to call the gathering before me an international conference. After all, there were official representatives from sixteen countries here, not including the Ceresan Empire. All of them were from countries that, before the Initialization, were routinely looked down upon by the major powers of the world, and effectively spent their existence since the age of sail being bullied by one or the other.

In addition to the official r...

Lewd Dungeon, Chapter 405

Chapter 405 – Six on Three

The last of the fifteen Knight Slimes fell. It had been a hard fight, since the liquid metal bodies of the slimes meant that they were hard to injure with physical attacks, but they had a level of innate resistance to magic, as well. Still, with a full half of their party having attack magic, and the other half having magic weapons to overcome the normal deficiency of such weapons against slimes, they had managed. The problem was that they did not have the...

Freezing Shadows, Book 6 Prologue

Prologue: Trade Chat

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Reborn as the First Boss, Chapter 96

Chapter 96 – Discussion

“…And that was how we took down the Theocracy’s attempt to spread discord between Bikar and Dascora, with the aid of the Fastriders.”

The major looting was already done, thanks to the tools the Voice of the World offered, but finding clothes that would fit the former captives took time. Since I did not want the atmosphere to become heavy, I filled that time with an edited version of our adventures since leaving Windwater. Well, everything I said...

System Supervillain, Chapter 158

Chapter 158 – Return

(Command Nest, Gel-nak Imperial Navy Ship Claw of the Vengeful Emperor, Thraxl System, Gel-Nak Empire)

Fleet High Commander Urlosk of the Thraxl Defense Fleet cursed his rotten fortunes. At one point, he had been Fleet High Commander of the Imperial Fleet, the fleet that guarded the Emperor himself when he felt the need to travel through the Empire. It was a glorious position, one that would have seen him set to become one of the highest-ranking L...

The OP Lich is a Returnee, Book 21 Prologue

Prologue – Trade Chat

(Magical World Disharmony Server, General Chat)

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Dark Fate, Chapter 246

Chapter 246 – Girls Night

(Imperial Palace, Ceres)

Talia Skinner led the way into the residential wing of the palace. For once, they a night to themselves, and they had some of their sister-slaves back from abroad. And that meant one thing: Girls Night.

“So, how did you get Master to agree to this?” asked Gloria, the Marine who had taken place in the Ceres Slavefight League. “I mean, I thought we were going to be having a nonstop orgy, with Master going until only ...

Lewd Dungeon, Chapter 404

Chapter 404 – Error: Mercy Not Found

Danyll gasped as she stepped through the portal, and looked up at the scene around her. “It looks almost like the Grand Arena in Mssera, capital of the Msserine Kingdom back on Bluemountain!”

Rhys looked around at what he knew was the twelfth floor of the dungeon, but looked like an outdoor arena. He, too, had seen Mssera’s Grand Arena, and he could see the similarities, but also the differences. “The statues to the gods do not repr...

Freezing Shadows, Book 5 Epilogue

Epilogue: Elsewhere

(MetaTech Virtual Headquarters, Shadowmen Control Room)

Demi Turner breathed out slowly. “All right, continued rollout of the Brotherhood plotlines look to be going as expected. Have the AIs pinned down where the eventual locus point will be? We’re goint to need to do some preliminary work on that, if they haven’t already.”

Sally Navarro shook her head as she looked over the readouts. “Not yet. So far, Germany, Ola Serin, Ola Tarin an...

Reborn as the First Boss, Chapter 95

Chapter 95 – Captives

“Start collecting heads,” I told my pets. “I’ll see about the slaves in the loot table.”

As they set to work, I made sure to shift back into my ‘human’ form. Didn’t want to show off too much, too soon. Opening the door greeted me with the stench of unwashed bodies. Sure enough, there were eight people, naked save for a chain around their neck. Each one had a [Slave Brand] on their left butt cheek, which was like the [Slave Collar], but cou...

System Supervillain, Chapter 157

Chapter 157 – Aftermath

(Srusk Spaceport, Srusk 3, Srusk System)

White Bear and Venom (still wasn’t going to try and pronounce the Russian names) were waiting for me as I stepped out of the Rhuk’s doors, and onto the spaceport tarmac. The spaceport had certainly changed over the week that had passed since we opened the portal to Earth. The portal was still standing there, off along one wall, trucks full of troops and supplies coming through from Russia, and trucks...

Dark Fate, Chapter 245

Chapter 245 – Discussion

It was 15:30 Ceres Time when the call came through. Well, that meant it was only 12:30 EST in Washington DC, where the call was coming from, but time zones were fun like that. Especially when one decided to set your time zone as UTC -2, which was only shared year-round by a few islands in the South Atlantic. Given everything that had happened in the last few days, I had a good guess as to what the call was going to be about.

The screen snapped on, reve...

Lewd Dungeon, Chapter 403

Chapter 403 – Stripped

Rhys Lunaleaf staggered slightly as he stepped through the portal. It was late on the third day of their delve into Lord Kuronoth’s dungeon, and the fourth day since they came to Earth, and he was already very glad that they had spent that extra day gathering information and preparing supplies. Without that knowledge, things would have been much more difficult.

It wasn’t that the dungeon creatures were terribly powerful. Part of the Dungeon Contract ...

Freezing Shadows, Chapter 50

Chapter 50: Quiet Escape

In the end, all four of the extra technomancers decided to take their chances in the Barrens. The human man was from Detroit, and the Troll woman was from Chicago, so they were confident in their ability to find friends in the area. Ork woman went with the troll. Dwarf man was from Toronto, which also wasn’t too far away. They were all adults, and knew about how to spoof their trail. Their getaway was on them.

Twilight took care of getting them on thei...

Reborn as the First Boss, Chapter 94

Chapter 94 – Fogaxed

Sadly, Tibby the ranger lookout was a lot less of a threat when there was an invisible Planar Huntress stabbing her from behind with a Forceblade. The ghostly weapon stabbed through her spine, and possibly her heart, as well. The only sound she made was a soft gasp, before she began choking on blood as I kicked her off my blade. A quick slice relieved her of her head, ensuring that, even if she had some manner of health potion or the like, she would not be recov...

System Supervillain, Book 14 Prologue

Prologue – Trade Chat

(Capes & Cowls Forum, General Chat)

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The OP Lich is a Returnee, Chapter 200

Chapter 200 – Undead and Familiars

An hour later, my apprentices had returned from their various errands. The four who had helped in stripping the skeleton of its flesh suit were looking much better, instead of appearing as though they’d stepped out of a horror movie. All six of them, though, had slightly queasy expressions on their faces. Understandable, given what they had just experienced.

“Magic, my disciples, is affected by the mind, by your will made manifest...