Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 126: Interlude: Reiser
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Lisette, the Draconic Royal Guard Captain, offered her had to me as I lay beaten on the ground.
I grasped her hand and gave her thanks without thought, as she helped me up from the training ground.
“You’ve grown stronger. Well done.” The words were like those who trained me before. Those whom my family could afford in our dire straits. Howeve...
2022-01-10 00:08:32 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 125
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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I’m fairly sure my current tactics could be explained and executed better by someone else. Hell, I’m sure that that someone could probably get everything done cheaper and earlier than I’m doing now with the assets that Roseanne had. Maybe, they’d have gotten away with just the bulletin boards and the schools, or perhaps they’d have gotten things done with just flyers a...
2022-01-07 23:28:29 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 124
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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Dates.
My only experience with dates is seeing couples hold hands during Christmas back home. There were also vague memories of my checking places out of a school magazine with a rather impish young woman. I didn’t recall her name, but I had a vague feeling that I had a somewhat entertaining time, which didn’t involve having to protect my chastity or looking at lots of...
2022-01-06 20:35:26 +0000 UTC
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DxD: Celeste 8
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Commissioned by Althero and Chaosbrain
Wordcount: 2000
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The Hero Faction in its full might was something to behold.
According to Sheridan and mom, though, they were a terrifying piece of work. They were a bunch of humans that had real power in their hands in the form of Sacred Gears and magic, and they used that power to do whatever they wanted. Hunting reserves filled with Beast Tribe people, assassinations and destabilizations of ent...
2022-01-04 03:25:12 +0000 UTC
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A Gentleman’s Guide to Hunting Fantastic Beasts: 16
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Commissioned by Sivantic
Wordcount: 2500
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Over the course of our refuge’s existence, a handful of individuals have arrived after being turned away by the outermost defenses of the kingdom. Small groups were common, and they were typically those who hunted for a living or were guards of villages that refused to leave their station. These groups survived the eternal night and sought refuge with us, whic...
2022-01-01 01:05:19 +0000 UTC
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Point Zero: Date
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Commissioned by Ichypa
Wordcount: 2500
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Going out to get absolutely plastered was the same a looking for trouble back home. You didn’t get shitfaced out in a pub in the middle of the night NOT looking for a fight.
Apparently, though, Elliot wasn’t exactly aware of that.
I didn’t find out in the middle of the night, either.
He didn’t have the social graces necessary to stay quiet and save face.
“Why do peop...
2021-12-29 17:06:41 +0000 UTC
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A Gentleman’s Guide to Hunting Fantastic Beasts: 15
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Commissioned by Sivantic
Wordcount: 2500
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In regards to power and ability, the standard individual of the new world that I inhabited was superior to the norm in my previous life. I had presupposed that the As’Kari were a different breed of people, whose harsh living and adaptations to the Great Desert changed them to be hardier and more adept at slaying monsters. They developed customs, had certain fo...
2021-12-29 17:02:09 +0000 UTC
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A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: Chapter 15
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Arksoul
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I saw only one way out of this situation and I liked it a lot.
“Yep, I’m done here. I don’t want to be here anymore. I’m going home. Let me out.” I was going to cut my losses and run. Sure, I spent a few days here in India and bugging out now would lose me time, but I felt that it was an appropriate course of action. In fact, I would go...
2021-12-20 20:07:08 +0000 UTC
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A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: Chapter 14
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Arksoul
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WMDs: check.
Tactical weapons of immense power: check.
Armor: check.
Weapons: check.
All in all, the Indians outfitted me well for the task at hand, and now everything else was on me.
“You will have the advantage. Shiva’s AI and gynoids are very capable against organized forces. We have found that singular individuals ...
2021-12-18 19:22:18 +0000 UTC
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Otome Game Villainess? Who Cares? I Want Giant Mecha. 7
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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The Heir of Ashdown offered me his hand and I accepted it as the crowd cheered around us. All who had witnessed the fight had seen me struggle against the man who took on all others and defeated them in an instant. They witnessed the legend-to-be before them come against a worthy foe, had their breath taken away by battle, and cheered loudly as it came to its ...
2021-12-16 22:26:56 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 123
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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Irreplaceable.
What made a noble amongst the Kindred irreplaceable?
It was a whole slew of things.
Money, personal power, alliances with other nobles, professional soldiery, and more.
There was no average noble amongst the Kindred, because they had numerous cultures, customs, and literal, different races. A lot hailed from lands beyond th...
2021-12-13 05:43:27 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 122
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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In another life, or rather in my past life, I came across a saying.
When you’re about to confront your death, you’ll know who you truly are.
Before I was stolen from my world, I’d probably just ignore the saying completely. Not because I was an arrogant, young man who thought he was being wronged by society, but because the quote wouldn’t mat...
2021-12-08 02:16:41 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 121: Interlude: ???
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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A single Harpy came and the world I knew came apart.
I was a to be a weaver, like my mother before her, and her mother before her. Our wares could not compete with the offers of Driders that were coming from afar, but we were deft with our hands and we knew how to flow against the challenges posed to our family. We switched to simpler thing...
2021-12-06 19:29:22 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 120
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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I expected Roseanne to stop me from purging an entire noble bloodline who killed a few of my soldiers and sold Kindred to the Kingdom. It would’ve been better to have a household under control, their voice and influence entirely hers, than have them destroyed. Knowing that, I was prepared to go against her wishes and take the punishment for destroying them on ...
2021-12-06 00:50:13 +0000 UTC
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DxD: Celeste 7
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Commissioned by Althero and Chaosbrain
Wordcount: 2000
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As much as I wanted to spend time around Devils in skimpy outfits, Hyoudou needed space to grow, learn, and gain practical experience. So, after a bit of training, I set him on his way to his hometown to investigate possible supernatural individuals and contact them without dying. Of course, I gave him the necessary things to stay alive and call for help just in case, as well as a brace...
2021-12-02 23:30:53 +0000 UTC
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A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: Chapter 13
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Arksoul
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Tactical nuclear weapons were a thing back in the states, before they decided that it would set the wrong precedent back during the Korean War. They had plans to utilize artillery-based nuclear weapons against Soviet tanks and sapper chargers meant to glass entire industrial districts via commando teams. I was pretty sure that the French, no matter how...
2021-11-29 19:24:54 +0000 UTC
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A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: Chapter 12
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Arksoul
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“So, how many times can I use this thing before it breaks?” The thing that I was talking about was a directed, electromagnetic pulse emitter. It was heavy, needed luggage-sized backpack battery on the back, and needed two hands to use. If not for a light exoskeleton built to help whoever used it not break their knees, as well as a supporting apertu...
2021-11-29 19:09:36 +0000 UTC
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Scarlet 30
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Commissioned by Sivantic
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Amazing tactical mind. Great long-term strategic planning. Immense experience in combat. Years of training and practice. The killer instinct most lack. Enough power to turn over a city block with ease.
But, in the end, defeated by boobs.
Shut up, Ddraig.
I’m going to stop talking, but it’s because I have nothing left to say.
With that parting shot, D...
2021-11-24 19:55:16 +0000 UTC
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Scarlet 29
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Commissioned by Sivantic
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I never handled anger well, especially since my anger usually flared up when I felt driven into a corner and had nothing to lose.
My meeting with Alexandria came to mind, and in my new body, my stomach churned at the memory of what I did to her.
But that was beside the point.
In my past life, my anger was something that drowned out my emotions and let me act viciously in the face of a t...
2021-11-23 03:21:20 +0000 UTC
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A Peasant’s Guide to Sorcerery 6
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Commissioned by Ichypa
Wordcount: 2500
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Ying looked down upon the meek, read-haired bandit that knelt before her beneath the light of the full moon with a frown, before shaking her head.
“You are a thief. You steal from others to live. I have every right to cut you down and so do all others who know you.” Ying reached for the parcel that she’d asked made from the clan and placed it before the young woman befor...
2021-11-19 03:32:20 +0000 UTC
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DxD: Celeste 6
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Commissioned by Althero and Chaosbrain
Wordcount: 2000
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Seeing as there were a lot of humans present in this world, and the fact that humanity needed every advantage it could get, I went ahead and tried to make some Woden’s Blood to try and even the playing field.
Key word: tried.
“Well, that’s what it should be if you put all the chemicals together, boiled it to heck, and let it ferment.” Woden’s Blood was a substance ...
2021-11-16 02:47:54 +0000 UTC
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Otome Game Villainess? Who Cares? I Want Giant Mecha. 6
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Commissioned by Shaderic
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Clarisse hummed as she planned her days with meticulous precision with a mage’s light over her shoulder. Her desk was covered in books with worn spines from her personal use, and notebooks filled with notes on academia, while the left of her room was filled with equipment to train her body and form. Her untouched bed, as she worked with the moon and stars sh...
2021-11-13 03:01:58 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 119
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Going forth to save my soldiers brought a lot of memories I didn’t like.
Back in Ylstu, I had to husband assets carefully and I often used people to slow down the enemy or weaken them so that I didn’t have to risk losing my stronger warriors. I did my best to help them do their job, so that I could do mine. Terrain, traps, and tactics all amplified the...
2021-11-10 03:36:04 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 118
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Commissioned by Shaderic
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The sewer was filled with burnt corpses, a pile of ash, several Kindred dead on the floor from poison, and we had two Tanuki ready to do anything to survive. My Kunoichi were in the shadows and searching the tunnel for any other clues, while Ashe was looking at me for an explanation in regards to her violent reaction to a bunch of traitors to her people.
T...
2021-11-08 05:10:16 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: Interlude: Ashe
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2300
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The big city smelled terrible.
It was amazing, great, and large, but it smelled very bad.
Wet stone, dirty bodies, and dead wood filled my nose and I missed the smell of nature.
My home was much better. The houses were pretty and people walked around smelling very good, while leaves rustles from the surrounding forest. The wide stre...
2021-11-05 01:42:54 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 117
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2700
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In terms of firepower, I had more than most people could get their hands on.
However, much like money, it was never bad to have more firepower than I needed. Sure, nowadays, I was working with soft power. Influencing the economy, the culture, and the ethics of the Kindred through all my projects, but the fact remained that all of that was impossible withou...
2021-11-04 02:57:56 +0000 UTC
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Otome Game Villainess? Who Cares? I Want Giant Mecha. 5
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Commissioned by Shaderic
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The days I spent in the Academy passed by more quickly than I anticipated.
Between the lectures, my efforts to improve myself, and my duties, half a year passed in a blink of an eye and I found myself improving more than I believed possible in the Academy. The lectures proved more strenuous and thorough than I believed with more than a few of my fellow n...
2021-10-29 23:54:12 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 116
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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Through trial and error, I managed to get along with my fellow nobility and create a league of compatriots with which to work together for the betterment of the Kindred.
Yeah.
That didn’t happen.
After a dozen failed attempts to talk to Kindred nobility that wanted to jump on my lap before or after our meetings, I decided on doing things thro...
2021-10-28 02:13:09 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 115
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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I didn’t appreciate the Kindred capital the first time I spent time there.
In my defense, I was going through some serious bouts of guilt and depression, until I decided to throw myself at something constructive and fulfilling. All I saw was a place of debauchery and excess that had some things that I needed and a lot that I didn’t. So, I painted it al...
2021-10-26 01:18:25 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 114
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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I’d like to say that the slums forming on the outskirts of my city was gone by the time I returned and that my new residential zones had room to spare, but that wasn’t the case. Roseanne appointing me to my new position had my name travel around the Kindred lands and verified all the rumors about Ylstu being the place to be. That meant that even with more ho...
2021-10-22 22:07:07 +0000 UTC
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