Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 113
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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My return to Ylstu came with only minor celebrations, because I had no plans on sticking around for a prolonged period. I intended to only check on certain projects, maybe sleep in my bed for a few days, and then go back to help Roseanne, so that the Kindred’s civilization didn’t keel over and rot with all the growth it was currently experiencing. I would’...
2021-10-20 22:06:05 +0000 UTC
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A Gentleman’s Guide to Hunting Fantastic Beasts: 14
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Commissioned by Sivantic
Wordcount: 2500
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I knew little of establishing a village, but I did have experience in managing a medical area for soldiery fresh from battle.
The essentials to saving individuals from death were engraved into my memory. I could never forget the suffering of those valiant young men and my attempts to save as many of them as I could. Even if I found myself with a third, new...
2021-10-19 00:39:08 +0000 UTC
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Scarlet 28
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Commissioned by Sivantic
Wordcount: 2500
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I never had much contact with others in school, but now when it came to lunch I found myself surrounded.
“Say ‘aah’ Ise-kun.”
“W-wait, you fed him just a second ago, Rias-chan! It’s my turn.”
“If only you could be as aggressive when you play chess, Rias, you’d be much better.”
“Ne, Ise-kun, won’t you partake in mine instead? I made it just for you.”
2021-10-16 01:09:26 +0000 UTC
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A Peasant’s Guide To Sorcerery 5
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Commissioned by Ichypa
Wordcount: 2500
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The Lady Fei’yen led Ying to her office and bid her to sit, while she gathered scrolls locked within a cabinet. The eldest guard that met them prepared tea and served it with surprising grace and practice whilst in armor, as the older woman began to unravel scrolls and place them upon her finely-carved table.
“Zhao Zhang was someone who went unseen by many of the Houses in...
2021-10-14 01:46:07 +0000 UTC
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DxD: Celeste 5
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Commissioned by Althero and Chaosbrain
Wordcount: 2000
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“How do you feel?”
“A lot stronger than I should be.” Hyoudou Issei did his usual thing, which was scratch his cheek and smile worriedly. It was really refreshing to see, but the fact that he was younger than he should’ve been reminded me that I was far from home. Curse my awesome perceptiveness. “It’s amazing that I’ve changed this much in just a few weeks, Celest...
2021-10-12 04:03:30 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: Roseanne Alternative Part 10: Interlude: A Knightly Hero
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Commissioned by Lastmanstanding
Wordcount: 2500
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Wings.
Wings of flame.
Wings of flame erupted from their backs whenever they landed upon the earth.
The most merciless amongst their number flared their wings closer to the ground and unfurled them mightily. The weight and size of their great armaments shattered stone beneath their feet and sent tremor...
2021-10-09 06:18:48 +0000 UTC
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A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: Chapter 11
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Arksoul
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I have to admit that I have a few reasons as to why I’m willing to conduct guerilla warfare against a machine army.
The first was because I needed to start getting assets for use in the post-apocalypse. I had a few bars of precious metals and uncut gems lying around, but the post-apocalypse was running off of actual value systems rather than pe...
2021-10-08 00:46:26 +0000 UTC
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A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: Chapter 10
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Arksoul
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With a narrowed down location, and a few bits and bobs requisitioned from Maelstrom’s super-scientist workers, I managed to find the location of Shiva’s base.
Of course, I’m making it sound easy thanks to my circumstances. I could teleport and Walker had assets that she was willing to lend me to stop the propagation of living WMDs. It was i...
2021-10-05 03:47:19 +0000 UTC
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A Gentleman’s Guide to Hunting Fantastic Beasts: 13
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Commissioned by Sivantic
Wordcount: 2500
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My father from my previous life’s words echoed within the back of my mind.
“Doing good for others means doing nothing for yourself. It means suffering for ungrateful masses who will use you until you are utterly spent.”
I chose to be a doctor to prove him wrong, to become both a healer of the sick and a prominent member of society, as he said I...
2021-10-02 04:14:43 +0000 UTC
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Lady in Red: Chapter 5
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Commissioned by Sivantic
Wordcount: 2500
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I felt like a thunderstorm went through my entire body when I woke up. Every bone in my body ached and felt cracked, while my heart and head both felt like they were dragged over coals and smashed apart. The pain made my eyes water and it took nearly everything to not cry out the moment that I awoke in a bed that reeked and stank of many putrid things.
Feh, I forgot how feeble you m...
2021-09-30 02:02:59 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: Roseanne Alternative Part 9
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Commissioned by Lastmanstanding
Wordcount: 2500
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War.
I thought I knew the word, as I was born and raised to fight against the Empire, and fought pitched battle after battle against them.
In truth, I knew only how to wage a campaign, like all my predecessors.
The Empire knew war. They had chains of supply that ran the length and breadth of their territory. They planned years ahe...
2021-09-28 22:25:02 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 112: Interlude: Roseanne
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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I held a pack of ice against my head as I looked upon what became of my study.
Various desks had been shuffled into the room and much of the regular furnishings were moved for the sake of more utilitarian tables and desks. My clerks worked with students from the academy, teaching them how to pore over documents and create summaries to ...
2021-09-23 22:17:32 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 111
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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My return to Roseanne was going about as well as expected.
Cellphone-chan looked at me, while I looked back from where I was being kept under arrest by the Demon Lord’s Royal Guard. I was about a day into being held in the palace while Roseanne figured out a way to deal with the problem that I plopped onto her plate. Now, I was staring up at a Roseanne...
2021-09-22 01:46:39 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 110
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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If I had it my way, after capturing Miriam and a few of her ships, I would’ve been on my way back to Ylstu already. While I would’ve certainly enjoyed a vacation in the guest villa, there was no good horror story that stopped with “then the monster decided to go on vacation after abducting the demigod.” By all means, it was far more terrifying and memora...
2021-09-18 01:51:06 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 109
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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Describing how magic felt was difficult. Much like electricity, it was like a buzzing sensation to all the senses when it saturated the area enough, but it didn’t feel inherently dangerous. While feeling ambient electricity in the air, a person’s first response is to run away, but it was different with magic. You wanted to find it, to get closer to it, and t...
2021-09-16 20:24:45 +0000 UTC
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Otome Game Villainess? Who Cares? I Want Giant Mecha. 4
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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If you wish to protect others, then you must be ready to cut down those who would do them harm.
Those words rang in Godfrey’s ears as he left the niceties of his room as the sun arose in his window. Many of his classmates still slept in the rooms that they claimed to be subpar and not worthy of their status, while he opened his luggage for the necessit...
2021-09-14 19:41:56 +0000 UTC
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DxD: Celeste 4: Interlude: Issei
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Commissioned by Althero and Chaosbrain
Wordcount: 2000
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“Would you die for me?”
Raynare’s words echoed in my ears, as I woke up in an unfamiliar room. It was a simple room, but there were machines next to my bed that I didn’t recognize. The walls were painted a pale blue, light music flowed through the room, and the lights were soft. Even though I woke up, even though I remembered the pain I endured from Rayna...
2021-09-11 18:11:23 +0000 UTC
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A Peasant’s Guide To Sorcerery 4
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Commissioned by Ichypa
Wordcount: 2500
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Ying felt an unpleasant sensation travel down her stomach, as Zhang directed her to move the carriage towards the innermost districts of the city, where the city was administered and where the nobility lived.
Most peasants who plied their trade and had the funds to afford wagons went towards the markets that served the outer-districts. Soldiers, craftsmen, merchants, and other...
2021-09-08 02:30:16 +0000 UTC
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A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: Chapter 9
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Arksoul
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One of my old survivalist buddies gave me a quote once about good and evil people. He tried to take credit for it, even though the internet still existed back then, and we all gave him shit for trying to make it his… but the message still stuck with me, even though we all agreed to go radio-silent was the wisest course of action.
People who thin...
2021-09-06 18:47:29 +0000 UTC
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A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: Chapter 8
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Wordcount: 2500
Commissioned by Arksoul
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I popped over to Walker’s house and appeared before the human weapon of mass destruction without warning.
She raised an eyebrow at me in response to appearing in her home in the middle of the night, as I placed my dog on her floor.
“Need you to take care of Jack for a bit.” I didn’t bother asking if she needed sleep, because she prob...
2021-09-03 19:17:48 +0000 UTC
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A Peasant’s Guide To Sorcerery 3
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Commissioned by Tomio
Wordcount: 2500
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Ying stared at the young woman she faced, before letting loose a sigh.
“Your instincts and training saved you, thief, but you and I both know that you cannot flee from what you just witnessed.” Ying spoke to the red-haired young woman before her. The lithe individual was seemingly a mere bandit, but Ying knew better as an aspirant within the Beggar’s Sect. Her clothes wer...
2021-08-27 19:06:59 +0000 UTC
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Lady in Red: Chapter 4
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Commissioned by Sivantic
Wordcount: 2500
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I’d been to the big city before.
Most of my classmates wanted to get out of town and live in it, but I didn’t get it.
The place was loud, dirty, and people were always busy all the time. You needed a car to get around everywhere. The cars in the train were dirty, the trains were always late, and the busses were worse. Everyone ran around trying to get money and barely looked u...
2021-08-26 19:01:48 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: Roseanne Alternative Part 8: Interlude: Hachiman
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Commissioned by Lastmanstanding
Wordcount: 2500
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Every relationship involves drawing boundaries and making compromises.
I say this as a young man whose only had one relationship, but in my defense, I was taking advice passed down all of human history and desperately doing my best to overcome human physiological reactions during puberty.
Or, in simpler terms, give ...
2021-08-24 21:53:17 +0000 UTC
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Scarlet 27
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Commissioned by Sivantic
Wordcount: 2500
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Ddraig,
Yeah?
On a scale of 1 to 10… how bad is my current situation?
At least, 8. Probably a 9.
Yeah, I thought so.
I passed out after landing the hit on Valper. Blood loss from the previous fights, along with the hits I took to hit Valper, resulted in unconsciousness overtaking me.
The battle had been won, and Asia was available, so I was sure tha...
2021-08-24 19:28:55 +0000 UTC
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DxD: Celeste 3
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Commissioned by Althero and Chaosbrain
Wordcount: 2000
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Azazel held onto the first modern computer I’d made and teared up at me.
“No. Don’t take it away from me! I need it!”
The first computer I made wasn’t all that good compared to what I worked with back home, but I had the benefits of over fifty years of hardware build-up and software evolution backed by AI. In this world, I had to make do and scale up production lat...
2021-08-23 00:04:45 +0000 UTC
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Otome Game Villainess? Who Cares? I Want Giant Mecha. 3
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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The Academy was a bore and it offered me little outside of the classes that pertained to Chevaliers.
The vestiges of my past life granted me an impressive education. Though my past self hadn’t been of any particular importance, the education that he received was astounding. Most of those who were not of nobility were lucky to be able to read and do bas...
2021-08-16 19:02:19 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 108: Interlude: Reiser
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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By his command, the skies burned once more as a fleet that would be the nightmare of the Empire was felled by my Lord’s command.
The arcane might of a Pharaoh, used to hold aloft a castle’s worth of stone to guard a fleet of ships high, was turned against that Pharaoh’s army. The terrible weapons my lord unleashed, amalgamations of...
2021-08-12 23:45:50 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 107
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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Naturally, I had concerns about arming Reiser with the equipment necessary to take down a Pharaoh. It would be weird if I didn’t, since our relationship with one another was fucked over by her decision to leave me on the front and go fight for the people who abducted me from my home.
Sure, since then she betrayed and tried to lead a rebellion against the Empire from with...
2021-08-11 18:09:20 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 106
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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I’ve always been fond of having advantages and leveraging them as much as I possibly could.
However, I was sure that I was doing a third-rate job compared to someone who knew what they were doing.
I made up for that disadvantage by being incredibly aggressive.
In terms of economics and territory improvement, I was pretty much staying afloat because of money. ...
2021-08-10 18:29:49 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, I’m Not A Hero: 105
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Commissioned by Shaderic
Wordcount: 2500
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“You persuaded a Pharaoh to allow you to become his executioner, yet the very first thing you do is have your beloved vessel be given the ability to fly.” Ur sighed as she stood next to me. Ever since our new purpose was made clear, she’d started dressing in her usual clothes, rather than the fancy, silk stuff for high society. Limbs covered in armor and the rest of her bo...
2021-08-10 00:32:09 +0000 UTC
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