V7: Chapter 12
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The Undead marched against us in force.
The numbers were so high that they spread across the field like a living, teaming, unbroken mass of bodies. Besides animated skeletons and corpses, there were lesser, feral Undead units usually summoned by Guardian spellcasters. Empowered zombies, known as ghouls, had incredible strength and regenerating health as long as they consumed their enemies.
Many of the Undead weren’t humanoid, but also animals...
2024-05-11 18:05:31 +0000 UTC
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V7: Chapter 11
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Interlude: Riegert
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Jack called it a flying box, but in truth it more resembled the flying fortress.
The massive construction was built with the same concept as the transports pulled by flying horses. It would be expensive beyond belief to enchant a transport to fly and carry weight. Instead, what was required to achieve the effect was broken down, specialized, and made stronger. For example, one of the magics used to lift the transport was ...
2024-05-05 01:19:10 +0000 UTC
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Somehow, I’m the Otome Game Villain 24:
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by LordMarksman
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“Running away, huh?”
“Absolutely.”
“It’s awful how you’re so terrible that I can’t even shame you.”
“It’s called having thick skin!”
“I’d rather call it being shameless.”
Ideal grumbled, while I boarded the transport craft he designed. Luxion hovered in after the two of us. Marie wasn...
2024-05-03 05:34:40 +0000 UTC
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Apocalypse Reborn: Demon Lord 6
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Interlude: Tira
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It all went wrong.
We found it before the lessers did.
A ring which would bring return us to our greatest heights, as the true cultivators and caretakers of the world entire. With it his majesty would rise, all our kin would rally, and we will see the world cleansed of filth and return it to the green paradise it was meant to be. Our cause was just, our path set, and our paradise within reach.
Th...
2024-05-03 05:31:04 +0000 UTC
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Gentleman’s Guide to Fantastic Beasts 41
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Sivantic.
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Interlude: Gale
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Once upon a time, from my father, I had heard of the chambers of a city council.
Called upon to report on the local population of game alongside a multitude of hunters, he and his fellows were fed and cared for over the course of ten days and nights as they were ferried back and forth from our town and city. He told me of having meals...
2024-05-01 05:02:31 +0000 UTC
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Scarlet 56
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Commissioned by Sivantic
Wordcount: 2500
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Back to training, even though my most recent training was with Leviathan, the fact remained that I needed more.
And, what better way to do that than to put myself against the very powerful individuals who I had as allies.
Namely, Koneko.
“Die.” The cold, calm statement was followed by a punch that I barely managed to avoid. Despite her small size and stature, Koneko was easily stron...
2024-04-30 05:32:41 +0000 UTC
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V7: Chapter 10
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Anyone who’s played a multiplayer game can tell you that vision is incredibly important.
While I was born past the age when four player split screen was a thing, I managed to catch the tail end of split screen gaming before everything went straight to multiplayer. Dividing our lines of sight with some cardboard, playing rounds with just one bullet in the chamber up to 2AM and just eating fake cheese with crackers and tons of sugary carbonated drinks… y...
2024-04-28 05:22:21 +0000 UTC
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A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: 68
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Arksoul
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It takes a lot for me to say weird, given the life I’ve led.
I’ve met people who exchange bodies on the regular. Individuals who rob banks just for the sport of it. Warlords that have whole galleries of lovers on standby.
My threshold for ‘weird’ is higher than most people’s.
However, Qin’s employer definitely took the cake.
2024-04-27 19:01:29 +0000 UTC
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A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: 67
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Wordcount: 2500
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With one potential headache sorted, I went ahead and let Parvati finish its tour of the facilities it set up for the child soldiers.
Of course, it had a few words for me regarding my way of solving it.
“I had hoped that you’d find a way to convince Rai to cease. Not support her.”
“I take the path that avoids having someon...
2024-04-26 04:23:30 +0000 UTC
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V7: Chapter 9
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The final stage of an event in the game is dependent on how well you’ve done throughout the whole affair.
For example, if the Death Lord was allowed to run rampant, it’d eventually evolve from a tutorial crisis as it’d take over a Citadel and become a faction all its own. You fight through the event the whole time, but never out of your own territory, don’t bother with it since it’s not after you, and you find yourself with an enemy that chu...
2024-04-21 03:58:33 +0000 UTC
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V7: Chapter 8
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They never tell you how hard it is to clean up after a battle, especially when the armies range in the tens of thousands. Yeah, yeah. Shit, piss, vomit, and all that happens. However, at some point, taking care of the battlefield becomes an operational issue as well, since our foes have a Death Lord at their disposal and have plenty of lesser magic users who can make use of dead bodies.
If we don’t take care of the dead, if we just let them fester to be e...
2024-04-14 03:09:26 +0000 UTC
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V7: Chapter 7
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Damn.
The plague’s not doing as well as I hoped.
Probably because of all the safety measures, but without the safety measures it could backfire, so those were a must.
“We’ll start marching on the Death Lord’s core by next week.” Development of the plague had been simple enough. I had people studying disease for a long time. Create substrates with collagen and nutrient broth, observe and isolate, and study diseases in mice in controlled...
2024-04-06 20:36:45 +0000 UTC
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Apocalypse Reborn: Demon Lord 5
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After second Citadel was taken, it became necessary to get more people just to keep track of things and keep everything in working order. As boring as bureaucracy is, there’s few things like a report with someone’s name and paycheck tied to it to make sure that work gets done. Thankfully, my brain was good enough to vet people for corruption and understand their limits, so finding people was easy enough and after training a few classes, find...
2024-04-01 01:58:18 +0000 UTC
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DxD: Celeste 19
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Commissioned by Chaosbrain
Wordcount: 2000
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Operation Ophis, thankfully, is quite synergistic with my current plans.
That is to create a money-printing machine to fund my way back home.
I mean, if I get into Ophis’ good graces, 90% of the work would be done given infinite power, but the last ten percent will need a lot of work in order to make something that can...
2024-04-01 01:26:13 +0000 UTC
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Scarlet 55
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Commissioned by Sivantic
Wordcount: 2500
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“So… I’d like to talk to this Hero Faction, if possible.”
“Do you mean ‘talk’ or do you mean ‘put down like rabid dogs?’” Azazel smirked and shook his head. He crossed his arms, while I just levelled a look his way. Soon enough, he raised his hands. “Look, kid, you’re strong. But we’re talking about people who inherited their power and who are fantastically ta...
2024-04-01 01:20:57 +0000 UTC
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Point Zero: Of Gods Old And New: 5
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Commissioned by Ichypa
Wordcount: 2500
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So, though it should really come to no surprise, Earth’s under threat.
Again.
“Never thought we’d have to worry about fallen gods and their followers.” The so-called Demon had been very informative. When Earth got hit by various apocalypses at the same time, old organizations that used faith and followers to keep dark things at bay shattered and broke. Before the...
2024-04-01 01:14:44 +0000 UTC
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Gentleman’s Guide to Fantastic Beasts 40
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Commissioned by Sivantic.
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Interlude: Gale
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I spoke and Halga listened, while we walked towards the largest building of the taken city. The scent of refuse and human body odor suffused the whole of the place. I had once been used to it, however the physician insisted on daily cleaning of the body and examination of the skin. After we discovered the parasite, and how it changed the bo...
2024-04-01 01:07:17 +0000 UTC
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V7: Chapter 6
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Of course, I get another bottom of the barrel Ancient Wonder.
The Seed Vault’s one of the DLC wonders. The third expansion, which revamped the religion system to more than a sub-system for culture, and added lots of new content and units and events. The updates to most of the factions were free, and if the host had the DLC everyone had it, so that the multiplayer didn’t get divided up.
Mostly, though, the DLC False Witness and True Divinity
2024-03-31 01:54:25 +0000 UTC
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Somehow, I’m the Otome Game Villain 23:
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Alzer is undeniably better than Holfort, but I had to admit a simple fact: it wasn’t apocalypse proof.
“I’m going to have to go back over there.” I had just reviewed my plans for the third time since returning home. All signs pointed towards the same, frustrating conclusion. “They’re going to lose, if we don’t do anything.”
“It is to be...
2024-03-27 03:37:19 +0000 UTC
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V7: Chapter 5
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The army advanced, we killed shit, and money was spent in eye-watering amounts.
Running a military campaign balloons costs of running a nation exponentially.
The average soldier in my army gets the equivalent of ten dollars in pay. A coin is minted out of steel and backed by law. I say it’s the currency, so it’s the currency, and people exchange goods and services with it and use the banking system with the money. I can go at length about finances...
2024-03-25 17:03:13 +0000 UTC
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A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: 66
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Arksoul
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Interlude: Rai
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While the others deviated from the path, I stayed stringently adherent to the Emperor.
He may have passed, but the ideals that he espoused remained true.
I have listened and learned to the lessons and beliefs shared with me through the machine. The machine spoke on behalf of those who allowed our homeland to fall. The...
2024-03-25 02:03:06 +0000 UTC
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A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: 65
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Arksoul
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Unfortunately, while I wanted to just dine and deal with work stuff whenever I showed up at Parvati’s place, her kid was proving to be a bother.
Advika glared at me with crossed arms. The upper set. The lower set were typing away at a computer she was manipulating in front of her. Last time I saw her, if I recalled correctly, she saw clothing as unbefi...
2024-03-23 21:17:50 +0000 UTC
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V7: Chapter 4
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Another day, another attempt at getting Erlan to betray his people.
Thankfully, as expected, his people ran out of supplies and received nothing from back home, so I could swoop in and help.
Thanks for being a bunch of bastards, Forgers, you’re making me look good for being a decent human being.
“These supplies are exceptional.” Erlan stared at the ration kits handed out. I showcased it to him after asking him to check them for foods his p...
2024-03-17 23:01:20 +0000 UTC
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V7: Chapter 3
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The Forgers were the best heavy infantry that I could ask for.
While the Conquerors were good at holding the line, they truly excelled at being highly-mobile, professional soldiers. Special forces that could each carry the firepower of an armored personnel carrier, making them perfect skirmishing forces or black ops. Nothing like bringing in a squad of six musclebound titans closer to ten feet than five with all of them carrying autocannons and ridiculous a...
2024-03-10 02:08:10 +0000 UTC
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V7: Chapter 2
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So, what are the results of several years of setting the Chosen One through dozens of events, expeditions, and battles? In-game, experience can be gained through all three and even just administrating a city. The main difference with those three and administrating is that there’s multipliers for exp for events, expeditions, and fights. It’s more efficient to have your Champion encounter weird shit, go on adventures, and fight in battles and not just one of ea...
2024-03-02 02:38:20 +0000 UTC
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Point Zero: Of Gods Old And New: 4
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Commissioned by Ichypa
Wordcount: 2500
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The containment center for Verdict’s prisoners that met the requirements to be interred for a long time was a new facility that implemented the latest in the UN’s cryogenic technology, meaning that we were technically containing prisoners using the technology used by the latest WMDs mounted on satellites. While both the Hunter Killers and the Infected and even the other polities...
2024-03-01 07:11:03 +0000 UTC
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Scarlet 55
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Commissioned by Sivantic
Wordcount: 2500
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Now, I understand running away from a female that wants to be your mate when she’s stronger than you, but this is just silly. Don’t you want a harem?
I want a harem and a cozy life, Ddraig.
I’m not going to work my ass off and get as strong as I possibly can only to have a horrible private life at home. It’s fine and funny in manga, but I’m not spending my adult life kowtow...
2024-02-28 18:22:08 +0000 UTC
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Gentleman’s Guide to Fantastic Beasts 40: Interlude: Gale
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Sivantic.
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The northwestern lands of the kingdom were the most recent brought in by the crown. My grandfather told me stories of the wars in his youth against the people there. Their nation’s name was stricken from history and their mountain-lords deposed one by one, as cities were formed by magic and might to convey the will of the king upon the land. As it happe...
2024-02-27 06:48:35 +0000 UTC
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Somehow, I’m the Otome Game Villain 22:
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by LordMarksman
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After a lot of explaining and apologies to never do it again, my father relented and decided against keeping me in our territory for the rest of my life.
The signed document from the king and queen of the Holfort kingdom stating that I truly aided them and their nation helped a lot.
Now, while dad was nursing a stiff drink and I sat across from him with my b...
2024-02-20 16:59:17 +0000 UTC
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A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: 64
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Arksoul
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“So, how’d it all go?”
After the party was over, I dropped Qin and Bao off back to their ship, and went back to help cleaning up after the party. After I did that, I went ahead and gone over the Clancy to get the details on the latest happenings.
“Great, except we’re not exclusive.” Clancy was nursing a tall bottle of moonshine. It smel...
2024-02-20 16:55:38 +0000 UTC
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