I hate that I only make posts like this when I can't post. But really, I did a test today, and I have another tomorrow.
Unfortunately, I can't promise this will be the last time I don't post at the right time. I'm thinking that when it's time for my second test period/exam period at the end of the semester I'll take a full week break, but I still want to get out the right amount of chapters each week until then. Normally the weekends are the perfect time for me to smash out all the wor...
2024-04-15 12:50:03 +0000 UTC
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“Count Goldcroft, my lady, I must say, that I am undeniably impressed.” The haughty noble in his mid-thirties gestured to her with a gloved hand and then placed it on his chin with a smirk. “For one rumoured to have been born into the common caste, you are shockingly well-accustomed to the ways of our nobles. Why, I almost thought you were a high-born member of the Empire such as myself!”
Lucy masked her boredom behind a bright smile that suggested not a word of the...
2024-04-13 04:40:59 +0000 UTC
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Considering how well (read: NOT well) I’ve been releasing chapters these last two weeks, I think I really need to take a break and not post tonight. I don’t think I’d be able to get it done until Friday. Good news is that after this week and the next, I’ll have some more down time until the final tests and stuff, but yeah. I don’t think I can do it tonight.
Normally, I have the entirety of Wednesday off, but I’ve been busy with uni homework because the first flood of assign...
2024-04-10 07:02:08 +0000 UTC
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“Lucille, it’s time we head to Gilded Dome Hall and- what are you doing?”
Vincent stared at her as she looked at herself in the mirror, a pensive expression on her face.
Lucy was wearing very different clothes than normal. As this would be the biggest event she attended revolving around her, she was wearing a formal violet ceremonial embroidered cloak that sat on one of her shoulders, nearly reaching the ground. Two ornamental sheaths had b...
2024-04-08 14:45:14 +0000 UTC
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Hargrave turned the bronze canister in his hands, looking at the runes that had lit up after Lucille had turned it on. He glanced at her. “This is the item you showed me when we first met.”
She nodded. “The bloodline extraction device. The first thing you need to do after you kill the draconic monster is plunge that needle into its heart…” She mimicked the gesture with her hands. “…and extract the bloodline.”
“…I see.” Hargrave opene...
2024-04-07 13:49:35 +0000 UTC
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Just a note that I might not get a chapter out until tomorrow. I’ve been stuck writing a ‘literature review on the applications of SDI-12 in my major’ which I can tell you that there is NONE because people don’t use sensors that detect pH level on prosthetic limbs!
But never mind that. And I keep saying that I’m going to be releasing the glossary about the demon realm soon, and keep forgetting. Oh well.
Anyway, I’ll keep writing. I’ve finished the review and alread...
2024-04-05 11:46:31 +0000 UTC
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A stern-looking man with greying sideburns and dark hair rubbed his temples. He was sitting at a circular table that contained a strange black box in the centre. There were four armchairs around the table, three of which were occupied. Besides the first man on his right was a pasty-looking man in his 50s, staring off blankly out of the window of the skyscraper floor they were in. On the man’s right was a blonde-haired man in his early thirties, rubbing the back of his neck as he gazed at th...
2024-04-03 12:43:54 +0000 UTC
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She narrowed her eyes at the man who kneeled down in front of her. The man with golden eyes and brown hair ran a gold-armour-plated hand through his hair and shot her a winning smile. Then he opened up the small box in his hands to reveal the contents. A small, golden ring embedded with an amethyst.
“Lucille Adrienne Goldcroft,” Conlan Griffin began with a smirk. “Will you marry me?”
…
Lucy woke up in a cold sweat while clutch...
2024-04-01 11:50:58 +0000 UTC
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“And I went like thiiiiish and logged…. lobbed… lopped off his head!”
The speaker, who had one foot on the bar table, clumsily swung his hand outward, spilling some of the liquid in his tankard over the edging with a loud slosh. It landed on the head of one of the men seated on a bar stool who angrily swatted the man on the leg but returned to drowning in his liquor.
The man on the table didn’t care and stumbled down from the bench, spi...
2024-03-29 13:19:22 +0000 UTC
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“A subordinate of a noble.”
“No.”
“An Artificer?”
“Incorrect.”
“Hmm… ah. I’ve got it. You were an alchemist.”
Lucille glanced up from the pages in her hands to give her aide a raised eyebrow. “Vincent, have I ever brewed a single potion or elixir in front of you?”
“No, but…” The silver-haired man frowned and leaned back on the opposite couch with ...
2024-03-27 13:01:10 +0000 UTC
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“Scytale!”
The snake, who was curled up below the table in Lucille’s living room, lazily opened one eye to peer at the blonde-haired girl who had marched into the room. Her blond guard was leaning against the back wall in his normal position. “Hi, Annaliese. Back again?”
She placed her hands on her hips. “Where is Lucy? I know she’s been avoiding me! I haven’t been able to find her all day!”
“Sure says something about someone’s ego when the...
2024-03-26 07:22:54 +0000 UTC
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Uh... sorry. I got swamped with assignments on the weekend, and tried to get everything done, but couldn't. I could release a shorter chapter today, and the remaining 1.4k tomorrow, but I feel like that would set me up for bad habits and I'd do this again. If you're worried about my bad writing habits and lack of backlog, good news: I've been doing this for six months already :P (Cos ADHD I do better when under pressure)
Good news is that from Thursday to Wednesday of next week is my m...
2024-03-25 12:58:13 +0000 UTC
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A dark-haired figure was lying sideways on a couch. His eyes were closed, his chin was propped up with his elbow on the armrest, and he was dressed in a black silk dressing gown and silk pants. A slight frown was on his face.
The Demon Emperor spoke. “Dion. I can’t sleep.”
[Why are you mentioning this to me? I’ve done nothing. Even if I had done something to you, then you would’ve known, because that’s the relationship between you and me.]
“I’m not referri...
2024-03-22 12:40:54 +0000 UTC
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“The right!”
“We’re not taking the right,” Lucy said with disdain. “We’re taking the left.”
“But the right would be quicker!” Scytale argued.
“Quicker if you mean a quicker way to end up in the jaws of a demonic beast,” she stated sarcastically.
“We’ll be fine,” he replied dismissively.
“We will not,” she stressed. “The right is more dangerous by almost ten times.”
“Have more faith. We’re both form...
2024-03-20 12:46:45 +0000 UTC
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“We want to go to the Demon Realm,” Lucille stated.
Vincent stared at them. “…what?”
Scytale turned to stare at her from his position on the floor. “We do?”
She looked down. “We do.”
“I… wait, wait.” Vincent raised his hands to pause her and pinched his nose bridge. “You want to go to the… Demon Realm of all places? Why there?”
“Stages,” she replied succinctly. “We completed them all at the end of last year, b...
2024-03-18 12:47:01 +0000 UTC
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“Conlan, where are we going?”
The man with golden eyes paused to look back at his redhead and green-eyed follower.
Catherine had a slight grin on her face. “I’ve been itching to fight some monster scum the moment we got on this island.”
“Well, I’m not here for monsters,” he said with a smirk. “We’re here for treasure.”
“Oooh, treasure?” Catherine’s eyes lit up. “I like the sound of that.”
“It’s not the kind of treasure we could...
2024-03-15 12:49:34 +0000 UTC
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“How in the realms is this monstrosity of metal and mana a filthy Dungeon?!” he yelled. “Those… tubes or whatever they are make it look like some giant octopus instead of the result of an artifact gone haywire!”
Lucille walked forward to the edge of the little viewing platform they were on and gestured to the beating golem core before them. “In function, this construct performs the role of a Dungeon. But it is, in fact, a sentient large-sca...
2024-03-13 12:44:09 +0000 UTC
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A young boy was lying sprawled out on the upholstered cough, a snore escaping his mouth. His silvery hair was haphazardly spread across the furniture’s cushions and one arm lackadaisically hung off the couch.
The door to the room burst open and Lucille marched in. “Scytale, time to get up! We need to go!”
The humanoid snake sprung to his feet, his hands held in a pose ready for combat. “Huh? Wha? Enemies? Where?”
Lucy sighed and shook her head as she walked over to...
2024-03-11 12:43:01 +0000 UTC
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-Minutes before-
“Good morning, Count Bentsen.”
The brown-haired aide of the Archduke looked up and blinked with surprise when he saw Lucille heading towards him. “Count Goldcroft! I nearly forgot you were due to visit today!”
“I’m sure it would be far easier on us both if I didn’t have to come, but we must respect the wishes of the Archduke,” she replied with a smile. “Have you been busy?”
He chuckled and gestured to the stack of documents...
2024-03-08 12:40:01 +0000 UTC
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Hargrave put the key away. “I gave Thriesen the key and told him to keep it safe from everyone, including anyone connected to the General in case I needed some funds independent from them. I expected him to use some of it for himself, but there is still more than half of the funds left.”
Lucille raised an eyebrow. “Hargrave, haven’t I given you practically unlimited access to the Founder’s vault, my finance?”
“You have, but the vault contains my collection of armour,...
2024-03-06 12:40:01 +0000 UTC
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The violet and grey hue of the earth-space fusion element Quake filled the room, and the building shuddered with the force of the powerful element. An enormous array encompassed the room and then shrunk down, dragging all the residual liquid with it. The warlock forced the substance into a compressed ball that was far smaller than what the amount of liquid could reasonably take, the space element bending rules to create an impossibly strong seal.
The sludge could be seen squirming insid...
2024-03-04 12:40:01 +0000 UTC
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“Hey Sedric, me and Lucy are going somewhere. Do you want to-”
“Go away you blighted snake.”
The door of the workshop slammed shut. Scytale turned around to face Lucy and Vincent. “I tried,” he said with a shrug.
Lucille rolled her eyes. “Hardly ‘tried’. You could’ve given him some hint as to where we were going.”
“I was just doing what you did to Vincent,” her bond argued.
“Vincent’s a special case,” Lucy replied with her arms cro...
2024-03-01 12:40:01 +0000 UTC
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“I told you that artifacts need to be over a thousand years old, didn’t I?” Lucy said with slight glee at their reactions. “Using a pocket dimension is cheating, in a way, but essentially the ‘Collective Conceptual Ideology’ of the spiritual realm needs to change enough for these artifacts to become more than just ordinary magic items. Their magic needs to become ‘unusable’. And… do you want even more proof?”
Sedric and Raegan hesitated but Annaliese nodded ...
2024-02-28 12:40:00 +0000 UTC
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“Prophetess, could you please-”
“Call me Annaliese and maybe I’ll stop.”
“…Annaliese?”
The Prophetess smiled and leaned forward over the back of the couch so Hargrave could see her face. “Sorry. I lied. I won’t stop.”
Hargrave’s expression twitched as the girl continued to hum, holding a comb in one hand and the pair of scissors in the other. Annaliese would comb his hair and then shorten it, evening up the ends of the thick red mop that was the...
2024-02-26 12:40:00 +0000 UTC
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Speeding up her thoughts after he had straightened up, she matched his characteristics to the man she had met in the past timeline. With slightly wavy dark hair that had no shine and an eye colour so dark it was nearly black, ‘Lucius’ appeared to be a man in his mid-30s with an average height. Just as she recalled, his high-society outfit was impeccably clean and tidy. His hair was stylishly combed back, and his fingernails were neatly and perfectly trimmed.
One of the most striking...
2024-02-23 12:40:00 +0000 UTC
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“Sedric, is this really-” Hargrave stopped to cough as dust fell from the roof above them due to their footsteps. “…your house?” he finished weakly.
Scytale was curiously inspecting the shelves as Sedric sighed and walked behind the front benchtop. “It is. Lucille met me here a few months ago and offered me the opportunity to become her crafter. I eventually accepted.”
The ponytailed man scratched his neck. “I haven’t bothered to collect any of my stuff from here...
2024-02-21 12:40:01 +0000 UTC
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“Captain!”
A woman with wild, curly hair raised her eyes to look at the door of her cabin. After a moment of contemplation, she ignored the knocking and continued to inspect the map of the Distorted Depths on her desk.
“M.W.S. Dawnlight Captain Riftmire! It’s your Vice Captain!”
She stuck a finger in her ear and moved a miniature model ship across the map, several models of various large sea creatures placed elsewhere. The knocking on the door intensified.
...
2024-02-19 12:40:00 +0000 UTC
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So, the main components of my soul constructs…
Lucille was lying on her bed, eyes closed as she theorised on how to make a movement ability relating to her incredible self-control. Because she learnt to use her soul to control her body over many years, it was clear that the System didn’t consider it a ‘skill’ for her to gain then, and she also hadn’t been trying to gain any specific ability for that.
But now she was wondering if she could get a skill ce...
2024-02-16 12:40:00 +0000 UTC
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The fire warrior hesitated for a brief moment when he saw the knife against his party member’s neck, but without wasting a second the fire mage summoned a giant fireball to shoot at Lucy in the rare moment she was standing still. The longsword warrior’s eyes widened as Lucy abandoned the man in her grasp and enhanced her AGI with wind mana to dash off to the side.
The earth warrior screamed in pain as fire consumed his body. The greatsword fell from his grip as he dropped to the gro...
2024-02-14 12:40:00 +0000 UTC
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“Alright! Huh? Why are you guys just sitting on the floor doing nothing? Let’s go!”
Lucille shot the humanoid snake a flat look as even Hargrave looked at the serpent with mild exasperation. Lucy held up the fruit natural treasure in her hand. “If you want to skip breakfast, then sure, we can leave now.”
Scytale’s expression froze and hastily ran over to sit down. “No, no, I can be patient. Gimme.” He snatched the food from her hand as if fearing she’d withdraw i...
2024-02-12 12:40:00 +0000 UTC
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