Sorry for the delay! I've been struggling with writing lately, but arc 7 most certainly has a lot to give, so I am hoping to recover soon. Wish me luck!
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At first there’s panic. Fear. Disorientation. Trapped in a soft, warm cocoon, lit by a soft glow- but wrapped in material strong enough to block Qi, leaving the only senses a cultivator can...
2024-09-11 00:53:47 +0000 UTC
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Why yes, that IS a Naruto reference! Truly my pop-culture brainrot (i.e. delicious fermentation) is ever-growing. I was never much of a fangirl for Naruto, but considering how his Kage Bunshin no Jutsu works, it just felt appropriate! Anyways, enjoy! See y'all tomorrow!
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Raika walks carefully, each step spearing into the earth far below. Figuri...
2024-09-08 03:31:31 +0000 UTC
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Final chapter of the fortress arc! Longer AND shorter than I thought it would be, but I suppose all things are unknown and unpredictable until they are made, and then changed in turn. See you all in the next arc, where we go deeper into the madness of the 4th ring and the strangeness of the 2nd and 1st! See you guys again soon!
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Hao Ner...
2024-09-07 01:02:29 +0000 UTC
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Hello babes! Here's the poll! I'm not sure what to write for next chapter, so here's a juicy little goodie! We've got a few options: don't think that the ones not chosen won't get some chapters for themselves later, this is just what'll be the post-arc focus, the POVs we're getting direct responses to this Arc from in the few hours or days after it happens.
Top three chosen will be the three POVs we'll get next chapter! Feel free to vote for more than one!
2024-09-03 02:15:28 +0000 UTC
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Aaaand we're back! First interlude so far, I'm thinking maaaaybe two more. Depends on how I feel. Is a little bit bleh at the moment, lol, but I don't want to waste too much time in between. One from the Cru and some other folk, one from the Empire's POV, and then we should be back.
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“We can’t just leave these people.”
“The missi...
2024-09-03 01:58:32 +0000 UTC
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Had to streeeetch the creative muscles for this one! Can you tell I'm excited for more of the vistas, creatures, people and groups we're going to meet in the fourth ring? Because the amount is a Lot.
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“Three hundred dead along the far arm, and reinforcements from our sister city have yet to arrive. We’re looking at potential breaches in sec...
2024-09-02 03:09:45 +0000 UTC
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Hey hey! We're back! No dialogue for this one, but we're changing formats a bit for next chapter so I do hope y'all forgive me! Much to set up here as we enter the climax of the fortress city arc!
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She won’t let them get hurt again. Not now. Not because of her, like this.
She has more power and versatility than ever. She can f...
2024-08-31 21:03:36 +0000 UTC
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Here we are, back again! First week of school has NOT gone exceptionally in terms of my mental health but such are the woes of social conflict and drama, baybeee. The actual classes are going ok though! Anyways, wish me luck, and welcome back to another chapter!
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The fortress is in panic mode. The chaos of the battle, the screaming of the wound...
2024-08-31 04:27:25 +0000 UTC
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Sorry for the delay! Still not at my best, and this chapter got nice and thick on its way to being born. Imperfect as they all are, but certainly quite fun nonetheless! We're gonna be wrapping up the longer-than-expected fortress arc soon!
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The first thing Raika does, trapped beneath the rubble and half-looking at the apocalyptic battle ...
2024-08-28 23:03:52 +0000 UTC
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Hello! This was gonna be two chapters, but the first one was too short unless I was gonna get annoyingly prose-y about it, so now it's one thicker chapter for us to enjoy! Also, because the comments have gone wild, I want to reinforce something: this is NOT a mind control thing! That will not be recurring at this or possibly any point in the narrative, we’re past that. You’ve come this far, and I hope that you all trust me to be able to add something new without backtracking the story...
2024-08-26 05:09:51 +0000 UTC
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Alright, so it's not perfect. It's not perfect! But you know what? I think it's pretty fucking good. I think I got where I needed to go with it, and I think I had a good time writing it. I'm... in a weirdly delicate spot right now, emotionally? And so writing something so foundational was... moving.
Existence is a terrible burden sometimes.
What a joy it is, to be able to bear it anyways. And what a privilege it is, to have the choice to do and be better.
2024-08-25 04:08:22 +0000 UTC
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Aaaand we're back. My brain not so good the last few days and we got big bad final semester on the horizon of this week, but... new chapter is up, and has good things. I like it, personally, and it's got lots of good things! Growth for my littlest babychild and some POV shenanigans to play with some of what's going on mid-Tribulation!
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Jin...
2024-08-25 01:44:41 +0000 UTC
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Phattest chapter in a long, long time! 3.5k! Shit's nuts! I hope you guys enjoy it, but I think it turned out pretty ding-dang darn well, if I do say so myself. Enjoy the joys and the horrors!
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She hears him. What a strange, cathartic thrill it is, to see and feel and know him. She can feel his heart pumping, smell the violence in his veins, ta...
2024-08-22 04:42:47 +0000 UTC
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We get a little self-reflection / literal inteority chapter, and I get to leave y'all on a cliffhangar! This one's got a LOT of juice, so enjoy, it's got a ton of payoffs and an even phatter ton of new shit goin on!
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The nature of death is for things to end.
The nature of life is for things to be born.
The nature of t...
2024-08-21 03:38:53 +0000 UTC
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Oh I do so love it when a plan comes together.
Let's see where we go from here.
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“This is who you got?”
“ ‘Hello, Gou Mai! Thank you ever so much for acquiring a Nascent Soul cultivator who was free at a moment’s notice! Truly you are a caring and wise friend, who has done ever so much for my abrupt ...
2024-08-19 01:05:00 +0000 UTC
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Aaaand another one! Joyous and delightful! Mei Yu is very fun to write, especially with how hard it is to tease the semi-enlightened delight that is Shin Ren my favoritest boi! The whole energy of his side of things is both more traditional in some ways and more upbeat in others, thanks to Gou Mai and Mei Yu, and the differences and similarities are really fun to play with, comparing his side to Raika and her own relationships!
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2024-08-17 21:15:12 +0000 UTC
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Hello! Interlude miniarc! Deuteragonist is back, baby!!! Time for my most beloved boy, the Cru, and his friends to start re-integrating baby, cause Taurus has been Plotting, and the fourth ring is calling!
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“How can this be!? I am an inner disciple of the Blessed Clouds sect! How could some lowly third-ring commoner-”
A m...
2024-08-17 17:56:24 +0000 UTC
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We'll explore more of the intimate nuances of how this power works for Raika in a little bit! It'll be a fun power-crafting chapter before we go straight back into the action next time we see her. See you all in our new and upcoming interlude, binding together some of our ever so beautiful side characters back into the absolute nightmare this little fortress city is dealing with!
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2024-08-16 23:01:39 +0000 UTC
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Maaaan, I'm gonna miss these guys. They were cool.
But I'm pretty sure they'll taste scrumpty-didly-umptious going down, so that's something!
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Raika, whole and complete once more, reforms a human mouth.
“No chance I can convince you to surrender?”
The Lightning Dao cultivator slams into her lower body hard enough ...
2024-08-16 04:48:52 +0000 UTC
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And we're back! Sorry for the delay, but the two-day break was exceptional for my mental health so actually I'm NOT sorry, haha! Now I can bring even greater content, and you! Can't! Stop me!
In seriousness, I'm doing a bit better! Life continues pressing but we keep marching, eh? Enjoy the chapter, and I'll see y'all tomorrow!
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2024-08-14 04:21:46 +0000 UTC
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This is SO much fun! Haha! At long last, we've hit the exponential growth curve and the point where I can go all out on the fight scenes! She's not the big dog yet, but it's nice to be walking the walk to back up my talk! <3
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A serrated whip of Blacksteel death cuts through three cultivators in a single movement, the fourth just barely save...
2024-08-11 03:21:45 +0000 UTC
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See, I thought this was gonna be a two-part interlude, but good lord, this one turned out delicious. My poor little IagOrpheus and his bestie Machiabuddy (like a friendly Machiavellian, get it?). As you can see, there are very much still a few other prongs in the fire, and while I am still overjoyed at getting to write some Gundam action at last. See y'all soon for more Raika and Shin Ren and our regularly scheduled horrorshows!
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2024-08-11 00:10:06 +0000 UTC
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I do so love a good little trial by fire :3. It would seem our good friend Raika is starting to have a bit of fun, and so am I!
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Raika wakes up dead.
She looks around at the fields around her. She’s sitting, cross-legged, in a green valley, flowing between two hills down towards a pond that is not a pond.
She knows that if s...
2024-08-09 04:53:51 +0000 UTC
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This chapter's imperfect due to a bit of sleeplessness and mania on my part, but I was too excited not to write, well, something. Turns out, evolution and randomly-generated results have a lot in common, and when you learn by surviving, something half-unkillable learns very quickly!
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“Contact, contact! The quarantine has been breache...
2024-08-08 05:25:53 +0000 UTC
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Hello! We're here! A couple of little snapshots from all around the little haunted house, just for proper setup before our good friend Vorhees pops in to say hi~
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Deep within a tower, standing tall and vibrant in steel, gold and jade, an alarm begins to ring. Flashing red lights and a series of runic formations circle each other, highlighting a...
2024-08-08 04:09:52 +0000 UTC
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I did a coin-flip. Heads, I let things build up in a calmer way, tails, I go chaos.
Then I flipped heads to mean chaos and tails to mean order.
Chaos won both times.
Enjoy living deliciously, my darlings.
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The train ride only takes about thirty minutes. Even with the spatial dilation effec...
2024-08-06 04:47:44 +0000 UTC
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Hello! We're back! Chapter 210 coming soon, and by 211 I'm planning to have shit kicking off properly. Let's boogie babyyyy~
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They do, in fact, force her through a second round of testing, and a cursory examination by a medical officer when she performs just as outrageously as the first time. Between her curse-skin blocking Qi and the fact she ...
2024-08-05 20:14:07 +0000 UTC
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After this it is IMMEDIATE bedtime! But also, horray! I made a new chapter! Makes me happi.
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The walk through the city is strange, to say the least. For all that the term Fortress-City is always used when speaking of the installations guarding the fourth ring, she hadn’t expected it to be quite so literal.
Her senses, in a calm, med...
2024-08-03 05:17:46 +0000 UTC
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We're kinda-sorta back, babes. Still messy and getting an early sleep tonight but this chapter was halfway finished already, so I figured I'd get back to work at least a little bit. Me, bad at taking breaks? Never heard of her.
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She’s hungry.
All the time.
Her hunger was never a huge concern, not something that felt overwhelming, ...
2024-08-02 02:41:10 +0000 UTC
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My beautiful boy! Look what I've done with my beautiful boy!
Haha he's a bomb now (and also the bomb). Boy fuck it up, I love this kid. Probably gonna be a good three chapters before we see him again but I'm liking the plan to keep things a bit more mixed this arc!
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“Is that not what’s usually requested of you, honored one?...
2024-07-29 03:32:36 +0000 UTC
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