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Freezing Shadows, Chapter 44

Chapter 44: Snakes

Fortunately, we made it to Detroit without incident. Didn’t even have ‘customs enforcement’ waiting for us at the small airfield near Ann Arbor that Whisper set down in, on the outer edges of what could be considered the Greater Detroit sprawl. Nice and quiet, just like Whisper liked it.

The ork looked at us as we got ready to drive our vehicles off his airship. “I’ll be sticking around for a week. Can stretch that to two, if needed, but not more tha...

Reborn as the First Boss, Chapter 90

Chapter 90 – Loot Distribution

“Mistress, not that I’m unhappy, but how are you not dead right now?

I chuckled at Jewell’s words, since it was clear she was saying out loud what most of the group was actually thinking. However, it was Zazriel that spoke first. “Angels and demons are more than just flesh, Jewell. Sure, Mistress’s skills from her Courtesan profession helped, but that would have only kept the dragon’s size from ripping or tearing her down there, as he...

System Supervillain, Chapter 152

Chapter 152 – Welcome to Srusk

There was a ‘welcoming committee’ for us when we got outside. Not too close, of course. Vehicle weapons could still be used on people, after all. However, that didn’t mean they weren’t out there. They were just under cover, was all.

The Rhuk’s sensors pinpointed several. Twelve Warrior Caste, with a Leader Caste riding herd on them. They were spread out, taking cover behind a couple nearby cargo shuttles, weapons trained on our...

The OP Lich is a Returnee, Chapter 194

Chapter 194 – Witches

Leaving the Sorcerers to their training, I next turned my attention to the Witches. I had bid them wait in the basement that I had dug with my powers, once the castle had been built. While I trusted in the discretion of the builders Lilah had hired through her law firm’s contacts, a ritual chamber was best made by one who actually knew what they were doing.

I paused to nod respectfully to the human guard outside the door. When I accepted the daughter of...

Dark Fate, Chapter 240

Bit under the weather today, but still got a chapter for y'all.

Chapter 240 – Trade

Thankfully, that was all for the major naval issues. There were some minor concerns that needed my signature to move forward, but nothing that needed more discussion than that. Unfortunately, that did not mean I was done for the day. No rest for the wicked, and all that. No, the Lieutenant from Commonwealth Naval Intelligence, Nyana Keldi, wanted a meeting with me, both in her role as an...

Lewd Dungeon, Chapter 398

Chapter 398 – Wedding, Part 2

 Maranda looked out at the crowd, and then at the two of us. “The Bonding of two partners in sacred ceremony is an ancient rite, held in one form or another across all faiths. In ancient times, it was a pledge between two people, or two families, to share in the prosperous times, and support each other through harsh times. Through feast and famine, peace and war, they would act as two halves of a whole, and be stronger for it. 2025-09-29 21:24:22 +0000 UTC View Post

Freezing Shadows, Chapter 43

Chapter 43: Mid-flight Planning

Samoset Nighthawk was an ork from the FAN. Specifically, the Algonquian tribe. However, as Whisper, he was one of the better smugglers working North America. Assuming you didn’t need to get someplace in a hurry, that is.

See, Whisper’s MO was using a big-ass Airship Industries Skyswimmer cargo airship. The thing came standard with SunCell and Improved Economy mods, basically meaning that it could fly for damn near ever, and you’d be landing ...

Reborn as the First Boss, Chapter 89

Chapter 89 – Dragon(s)layer

We made sure that we were all rested and ready before we left the boss room. The next floor, according to the Guild’s reports, held only one creature, and there was no door to wait at before going in. Once we went down the stairs, we would be in the boss room, facing the final boss of the dungeon, Ilbanth the Firelord. An actual Lesser Flame Dragon, he would be no mere beast like the Drakes were. He would have a class, and a profession, like Frostmaw. 2025-09-26 20:44:27 +0000 UTC View Post

System Supervillain, Chapter 151

Chapter 151 – Subversion

In the end, Nemesis managed to bag the battleship, the second cruiser, and one of the destroyers before the remaining four destroyers got to their hyperspace lanes and ran off. As for the orbital station, between Nemesis and Web Mistress, they had found a way to cause it to de-orbit, thanks to some brute force mechanics and hacking what remained of their equipment. The station, or at least what was left of it, was going to impact the surface of Srusk 3 in ab...

The OP Lich is a Returnee, Chapter 193

Chapter 193 – Sorcerers

After lunch, I had the mortals split into three groups, based on their paths. It was only natural, since the three paths each had very different methods of learning and growing in power. After some internal debate, I decided to start with the Sorcerers, who were both the easiest and hardest to work with, and set the other groups to cultivating until I got to them.

Nawai Kai and María Rodríguez were waiting for me, when I reached the spellchamber that ...

Dark Fate, Chapter 239

Chapter 239 – Changing Plans

“What’s the news?”

“Well, not news, so much as concerns regarding the future,” Stratton said as she pulled up a table showing production schedules compared to recruitment rates. “As you can see, we have the first of the Repulse-class frigates slated to come out of the yards next month, but with the full activation of the Black Tear, that’s pulling a lot of the new recruits. Our population continues to grow, of course...

Lewd Dungeon, Chapter 397

Chapter 397 – Wedding, Part 1

It was one week to the day after the end of the Divine Trial, but all talk about the dragon, and how the Monkey King defeated him, had fallen by the wayside. Oh, it wasn’t like people had forgotten it. In fact, the videos taken from drone cameras were still some of the most-watched videos on different site. However, the world moves on, and there is always something new to draw the public’s eye.

In this case, everyone’s eyes were drawn to the...

Freezing Shadows, Chapter 42

Chapter 42: Dealing With a Dragon

I took a breath as I stepped off the elevator, and into the large open floor. The top floor of the Redmond Towers hotel was actually two floors put together. That was part of the reason why everyone knew this was a dragon’s lair, because Ivaeth hadn’t hidden the fact that she was remodeling the top two floors into her own personal penthouse.

The dragon looked just as I remembered her. During the beta, most people had to have a couple rude aw...

Reborn as the First Boss, Chapter 88

Chapter 88 – Backlash

Finally, we were at the boss room of the nineteenth floor. I’d managed to fill all twenty enchanted vials with Lesser Dragonkin ‘milk’, with the last batch coming from the boss of the eighteenth floor, Krubud Quickspell. That was an annoying fight, since Krubud was a Deathcaller Necromancer, and was able to raise the dead dragonkin in our wake as undead. Fortunately, he wasn’t undead, himself, so my enchantment spells worked just fine on him.

The ...

System Supervillain, Chapter 150

Chapter 150 – Control

(Security Control Nest, Chishk Prison, Temporary Slave Pens, Srusk 4)

Ahozk was bored. Bored and uncomfortable. Bored, uncomfortable, and slightly terrified. That shouldn’t have been possible, but it was the truth.

The uncomfortable part was easiest to explain. Only the 173rd Planetary Assault Legion enjoyed their time on Srusk 4, which everyone just called Rhuk, after the mythical ice predator from the early days of the Gel-nak, before they were ...

The OP Lich is a Returnee, Chapter 192

Chapter 192 – Goals

With the ceremony done, I shifted into my human guise, and an enchanted kimono, so that things wouldn’t be so formal. While some formalities would necessarily be a part of the apprenticeship process and my station, that did not mean I needed to get into everything right now. Instead, I led my new disciples to the same spellchamber that I had brought my previous disciples to after they’d sworn themselves to my service.

I stepped to the center of the room...

Dark Fate, Chapter 238

Chapter 238 – Naval Development

Suffice to say, the Commonwealth officers were happy to hear that the mystery ship that had been raiding the Incux was not hostile to them, though they were less happy to hear that the Kroscyl was only tangentially under my control. Having a living ship with a Tier 2 controller roaming around, using Hellspace and psychic weaponry was not exactly comforting to most people. It was like they didn’t trust people who rode around in eldritch horr...

Lewd Dungeon, Chapter 396

Chapter 396 – Watch Party

We weren’t holding the watch party in anyone’s actual divine realm. Too many wildly different personalities and potential conflicts for that. Even if we were all there to watch a dragon catch a whipping from the Great Sage, that didn’t mean everyone was suddenly going to be best buddies. And conflicts in the divine realm had a chance of filtering down to the mortals, which could cause problems like the one we’d just used a dragon to solve. It was pa...

Freezing Shadows, Chapter 41

Chapter 41: Dragon’s Lair

Redmond had been hit hard by life in general, the last few decades. Things had already been sliding, back when the Awakening happened, but the Second Corp War had really sent the place into a nose dive. That tends to happen when corporate strike teams fight over a nuclear power plant, and the thing goes full Chernobyl.

Thankfully, magic had been around by that point, and some local magic types had banded together to raise a barrier as a ritual, which ...

Reborn as the First Boss, Chapter 87

Chapter 87 – ‘Milk’

Level 50, back when we’d gotten it, had only given me 5 new skills, instead of the normal 10. Two racials (demon-themed and angel-themed, like usual), and one for each of my classes and my profession. All five had cost 4 skill points, and they’d been badass enough to be worth it, like Mind Sorceress’s [Empty Mind], where I could drop MP equal to a target’s (INT+WIS+CHA)x100, and literally erase all their knowledge, memories, skills, and personality, l...

System Supervillain, Chapter 149

Chapter 149 – Telling Blow

(Command Nest, Gel-nak Imperial Navy Ship Threefold Destruction of the Unworthy, Srusk System, Gel-Nak Empire)

Ship High Commander Arlushk cursed under his breath as he saw the devastation left in the impossible ship’s wake. The fighters had been the best chance they had of dragging this ship down, unless they could exhaust the power to its shields somehow. The few fighters who had survived the negative matter explosion had critical damage...

The OP Lich is a Returnee, Chapter 191

Chapter 191 – Arrival

Lucia Menton was excited. Well, she thought, as she patted down her dress to ensure nothing was out of place, excited seemed a bit too dull a term for it, but ‘thrilled’ or ‘ecstatic’ sounded a bit pretentious for the moment. She wasn’t going to a concert, or getting invited on a date by her crush, or anything like that. Those were moments of joy, a flash in the pan, and then they were done. This wasn’t like that.

Those were all isolated momen...

Dark Fate, Chapter 237

Chapter 237 – Visitors

I did not even try to give myself the Seer title. For one thing, Seer was one of those ‘uncontrolled’ titles. Titles came in two types, passive, and uncontrolled. Passive titles (like Executioner) had a predictable effect that came into play whenever the circumstances warranted, and those circumstances were easily defined. Uncontrolled titles turned on whenever they damn well felt like it, and never had a predictable effect.

Frankly, I didn’t trust...

Lewd Dungeon, Chapter 395

Chapter 395 – Purged

The Divine Trials were a massive success, in my not so humble opinion. Within a week, the ‘problem children’ in Patriarch, Prophet, and Saint Pete’s religions were either gearing up and traveling to Jerusalem to try and ‘reclaim the holy land from the invader’. However, the three Divine Messengers were not so lenient as to make the call to arms simple, not when this was designed to be a way to purge them from the ranks without damaging their faiths. 2025-09-08 22:14:47 +0000 UTC View Post

Freezing Shadows, Book 5 Prologue

Prologue: Trade Chat

(Shadowmen In-Game OOC Forum, Seattle Section)

Reminder: This forum is for Out of Character (OOC) discussion only. Please direct in-character discussions (including business dealings and the like) to the appropriate in-world forums.

GreenGirl, Yolo, Scholar, DoReMi, RedFox, Rerun, ThirsT, SliceNDice, GrimDarkKawaii, NoNoNo, YesYesYes, FoldingChair, Squeaker, Anonymous2, Anonymous5, Anonymous8, KittyKat, HurtMeMommy, HardReset,...

Reborn as the First Boss, Chapter 86

Chapter 86 – Tier

“[Whirlwind Slash]!”

Linette’s cry echoed through the boss room as the dual-wielding fighter spun in the air like a top, blades extended. Four times each of her blade bit into the hide of Zojek the Flameborn, the Level 50 Flame Drake that was the boss of Floor 10, and our last obstacle before we started seeing the Tier 2 dragonkin. We were level 50, as well, and so very close to the next Tier that I could taste it.

Zojek howled in pain as my maid�...

System Supervillain, Chapter 148

Chapter 148 – Stalemate?

(Command Nest, Gel-nak Imperial Navy Ship Threefold Destruction of the Unworthy, Srusk System, Gel-Nak Empire)

Ship High Commander Arlushk snarled as the last of his patrol crafts was turned into a cloud of debris, courtesy of the damned human’s ship. The thing was roughly the same size as a Gel-nak destroyer, but the thing was quick, nimble, and dangerous. The negative matter weapons that had ended the first two patrol crafts had not made a...

The OP Lich is a Returnee, Book 20 Prologue

Prologue – Trade Chat

(Magical World Disharmony Server, General Chat)

UsualSuspect, manoutoftime, muon, MewTwo, Avariel, Chummer, Golddigger, CrazyCelt, Blaze, DoYouEvenLyft?, MarcoPolo, MightMakesRight, MacD, Inquisitor, OrangeQueen, Lizard, RedFox, SemiSolidSnake, BabyShark, Lichwatcher, Not_the_Face!, TheLichQueen, Scholar, Salty, Anonymous3, Anonymous4, Anonymous7, Anonymous9, WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot, DigDug, Backlog, DarkAvariel, Knocker, GrimDark, BloodForTheBloodGod, BackDa...

Dark Fate, Chapter 236

Chapter 236 – Close Call

Your forces have gained XP while under your orders. With Admiral, King, and [Mutual Might], you gain XP. Amount reduced due to actions being taken in another star system. Amount reduced due to not having direct involvement in actions. Amount reduced due to creatures being lower in Tier than you.

You have gained 2,312,000 XP.

You have leveled up!

You are now Level 10.

You have 8208400/6105000 XP to rea...

Lewd Dungeon, Chapter 394

Chapter 394 – Ambassador

Two days and three nights. That was how long it took Kithenin to start making trouble. The dragon had spent the time looking for an appropriate space to make his lair. I had half-expected him to go and turn the tallest building in the area into his lair, but the dragon instead decided to go down.

There were catacombs on the Mount of Olives, believed to be the burial sites of prophets. Kithenin did not care about the historical or religious significance...