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Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Twenty Seven

William was just about to scoop another mouthful of porridge and berries into his mouth when someone scooted into the seat next to him.

“Marline.” He inclined his head before returning to breakfast.

A breakfast that, prior to his teammate’s arrival, had been blissfully free of noise or interruption.

Which made sense given that the ‘rise and shine’ bell wasn’t going to ring for another thirty minutes or so. To that end, the cafeteria was near empty, but for a few ...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Twenty Six

Yelena watched the doorway through which the young Ashfield scion had just left for a few moments more as she pondered over the meeting they’d just had.

Precocious indeed, she thought with a smile.

A smile that only grew as her gaze flitted over to her childhood friend’s… complicated expression.

It seemed young William’s decision had come as much a surprise to his instructor as it had come to Yelena herself.

“He said no,” Joana said after a fe...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Twenty Five

“Where did he get a core?”

There was no preamble as the Blackstone matriarch appeared within the crystalline confines of the communication orb Tala was stood in front of.

Truth be told, that didn’t surprise the Blackstone heir.

Given just how many Instructors, students and other assorted ‘sources’ sent reports to the duchess, the notion that one of them had managed to get to a communication orb and relay the day’s events before Tala herself could wasn’t too sur...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Twenty Four

William struggled not to wince as the door to his alchemical storage room slowly cracked partially open.

“Goddesses’ mercy,” Marline hissed from behind him. “How is it worse the second time?”

“Because we added a few things the last time we were here?” William said as he unhooked the tripwire attached to the door before pulling it fully open.

“The potatoes are what’s making that smell!?” Marline hissed as she stepped inside.

“Yep. Never underestima...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Twenty Three

William smiled broadly as he watched his team whooping and hollering with delight as they made their way back to the dorms.

Though there was no missing the slight… gingerness of their movements.

Nor the smell, he thought with some amusement, thankful that he wasn’t downwind of the small collection of young women.

Anyone that believed a girls’ locker-room smelled any better than a mens’ after a hard workout had clearly not spent much time in one. To that end,...

Non-Canon Chapter Nineteen Omake

AN: I remember someone asking for the old chapter nineteen to be reposted, so here it is.

Now little more than a non-canon omake of 'what could have been'.

Among the staff of the Academy it was generally acknowledged that, for all that they were impressive displays of wealth, engineering, and foresight on the part of the Crown, the Floats and Skeleton were imperfect systems.

The practice environments they provided were little more than pale imitations of r...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Twenty Two

“Are you insane!?”

All movement in the hallway paused at the sudden outburst, before rapidly recommencing as the cadets present saw from whom said outburst had originated.

“Ah Tala,” William smiled as he regarded the rapidly retreating backs of his fellow marine-knight cadets. In no time at all the only ones that remained were himself, his team and Tala’s team. “So nice to see you. How are your studies coming along? I hope you’ve not been overstressing yourself, I kn...

House Sigils

House move went well. My back hurts. My fingers are sore. My mother's plants have been re-homed rather than thrown into a burning pit of fire like they deserved!

*Cough*

Just letting ya'll know that the next chapter will either be out in the next few hours or tomorrow morning depending on how long my eyes stay open - and how happy I am with it when I finish. Either way, this will not affect the chapter after this, which will be out on Friday.

As an apology for th...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Twenty One

Griffith watched with muted awe as dozens of sailors and fishmongers clambered over the slowly rotting corpse of what had once been a mighty animal.

Mighty enough to have once been thought of as a god.

And now she was dead.

“Al’Hundra,” Captain Sulla, as she’d introduced herself, breathed. “I honestly never thought it’d happen. Let alone that I’d be alive to witness it.”

Griffith hummed in quiet agreement with the city guardswoman with whom she was supp...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Twenty

Evan scowled at the visage that greeted him as he emerged from the toilet stall he’d just occupied.

There, reflected in the mirror over the sinks, was the passive expression of William Ashfield, the boy casually washing his hands as he hummed happily to himself.

The prick was clearly happy about something.

He was tempted to call the other man a satyr too, but he knew better than to apply that moniker to a future duchess’s betrothed. Even within the sanctity of his own mi...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Nineteen

“You know, it’s not going to disappear.”

It amused him a little how Marline failed to react to his words as she maintained a death grip on the mithril core in her hands.

For his part, he’d stashed his own below deck in an innocuous looking burlap sack. He’d also been amused by the face his teammate had made when he physically slung the thing down below.

He understood why of course. The importance of a family’s mithril core literally couldn’t be overstated. It <...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Eighteen

“It doesn’t look like much.”

It was all William could do not to sag as Verity so casually undercut his grand reveal.

Admittedly, the orc wasn’t wrong. His latest invention didn’t look like much. Little more than a long pipe with a variety of off-the shelf bolt-bow parts either magically or conventionally welded onto it. The thing in his hands looked like a paintball gun that had had its gas cylinder removed and the ammo hopper replaced with an upside down bolt-mag.

Chapter Eighteen/Nineteen Error

Sup all,

I'll just come out and say that I made a mistake last chapter - one that's been bothering me since yesterday.

Which is a shame because I like it as a chapter.

The issue is one of chronology.

To that end, I want to rename chapter eighteen to chapter nineteen and have this upcoming chapter be the new eighteen.

I mean, I suppose I could have it be a flashback to avoid this, but that just feels lame. Not that swapping chapters around after the fact *isn...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Nineteen (Previously Eighteen)

Among the staff of the academy it was generally acknowledged that, for all that they were impressive displays of wealth, engineering and foresight on the part of the Crown, the Floats and Skeleton were imperfect systems.

The practice environments they provided were little more than pale imitations of real combat.

The most glaring example of which was a lack of offensive spells. Easily the most potent weapons in any mages arsenal, there simply wasn’t any way to safely simulate th...

Sexy Steampunk Babes: Chapter Seventeen

Truth be told, Angelina hadn’t even been aware that the Academy had alchemy labs. Certainly, she’d never had cause to visit them in the two year she’d spent here.

Though, as she looked at them now, she had to wonder if she wasn’t alone in that. Separate from the rest of the campus, the squat decrepit structure had clearly seen better times.

Old, she thought as her eyes roamed over the peeling paint and worn architecture. Possible early sundering or even late c...