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A Guardsman's Game, Chapter 62

With the death of the Warboss and the utter devastation with which I laid upon the Ork forces that’d conquered the planetary capital, the planet fell relatively quickly. After I’d unleashed the largest lightning bolt the galaxy has probably ever seen and leaving a massive, smoking, cackling crater at the center of the Hive City, toppling hundreds of buildings and turning solid rock and metal into molten rivers, causing a cascade of explosions and surges of fire and death that consumed tho...

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Twisted and Accursed, Chapter 21

It was dark when she walked in. The air smelled stale and a layer of dust covered the floor. No one had been here for a while, Taylor noted. All the windows were closed. The trash had been left in, but the lack of the scent of rot told her that, if her dad had been here for the last few days, then he certainly hadn’t eaten anything, which meant her dad hadn’t been staying here at all. In fact, no one’s been here for days. If she had to guess, then her dad was probably in some kind of re...

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The Bone King, Chapter 36

That was... a pretty good question, actually.


Just what the fuck did I want to do now?


I had two dragons and an Other under my proverbial wing. I could do whatever. Hell, I could fly out to King's Landing and order the King to kiss my feet and lick the ground I'm standing on and he'd probably do it, because I had two fucking dragons. No one else had dragons in this time period, I figured. And that made me a god. Factor in Little-Cloud's ice magic and my death magic, I'd ...

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Discord Server

Hey everyone! I created a Discord Server, where we can all hangout. It's pretty sparse at the moment, because I literally haven't done this before and I can count with one hand the number of times I've ever used Discord. Anyway, here's the link!

https://discord.gg/D7KPrRM3We

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The Cursed King, Chapter 34

"You want some?" Sukuna asked, chewing and then swallowing. The meat was... odd, but in a good way. Its texture was tough, but that may have been due to the method of preparation, as opposed to the natural texture of the meat itself. It was probably better served as some kind of sashimi, since – as it was now – it greatly reminded him of overcooked tuna, specifically one that was boiled for extensive periods, causing the already-lean meat to harden and tighten, making it wholly u...

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A Guardsman's Game, Chapter 61

The presence of Gork and Mork loomed over me, vast and incomprehensible, as though I was standing before twin suns, their raw, primal power radiating waves of heat and fury. They were far more than just gods of the Orks; they were embodiments of brutal cunning and cunning brutality, pure and unfiltered in their chaotic nature. To challenge them was to challenge the very essence of what it meant to be Ork – a race born for war, bred for conflict, and sustained by the sheer will to fight and ...

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The Honored One, Chapter 46

The plan ended up becoming way more complicated than Satoru initially expected, which – in hindsight, was something he should’ve expected. Actually, the plan was so ridiculously complicated that he dozed off when Caoimhe explained it to everyone, since it only made sense to Seers anyway, given their whole future sight bullshit, which was apparently the whole point of a Farseer. And now, after unlocking her full potential, Caoime Farseered the shit out of everything and came up with a very...

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The Shattering, Chapter 42

Her ears perked up at the faint noise of water droplets, falling from a high place and splattering onto a shallow puddle. She was familiar with that sort of noise. After all, before she ever became a scientist – or learned science, for that matter – Rosen was a prisoner, one of Udu Akkad’s many bastard daughters. She was little more than a toddler when the Emperor conquered her supposed father’s domain. Lost and forgotten, Rosen still had no idea how she ever ended up growing...

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The Bone King, Chapter 35

Omake, as requested by the Commissioner

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Jaehaerys I, the Conciliator, rubbed his forehead and sighed for the umpteenth time that same morning. Beside him, his beloved wife and queen, Alysanne Targaryen, did the same. He'd have pulled his white hairs straight from his gods-damned scalp if he could, but he actually liked what little remained of his hair was not going to do that. Otherwise, he'd end up bald by sunset. Calming himself, Jaehaerys breathed in deeply and forc...

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Twisted and Accursed, Chapter 20

Every single one of Taylor’s survival instincts screamed at her to run away as an explosion of invisible energies rapidly surged in every conceivable direction as the Banshee brought its hands together, “Domain Expansion: Song of the Bloody Mountain!



And then, the world shuddered as a wave of darkness expanded from the Banshee, moving so fast Taylor barely saw it, right before the darkness engulfed everything around her. And then, the city...

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The Cursed King, Chapter 33

Vulkan watched the reports stream in from across the battlefield, his dark eyes narrowing as he analyzed the situation. The feed from Sukuna's campaign was particularly… lively. He had seen devastation before, in all its myriad forms, but there was something uniquely unsettling about the way Sukuna and his Devourers fought. It was efficient, brutal, and far too gleeful for Vulkan's taste. He couldn't shake the feeling that Sukuna viewed this entire campaign as nothing more than an elaborate...

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The Bone King, Chapter 34

I stared at the limping, moving mountain of a dragon, its scales glimmering white, like iridescent pearls glimmering underneath a faint sunlight, despite the damage it'd sustained to its hide. Splinters of bone erupted from its skin, piercing through muscle and scale alike, ribs jutting out of its chest. Its wings lay broken and tattered, the leathery membrane between each enlarged and lengthened finger torn and shredded. Its tail was bent at an odd angle in several places, its spiked edge da...

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A Guardsman's Game, Chapter 60

Or so I thought.



Ribbons of emerald-green energies, licking the air like great tongues of fire, suddenly emerged from the stumps of the Warboss’s former limbs, forming constructs of psychic energy, the true nature of which I recognized with [Warp Shaping] and [Concept Shaping]. The burst of energies then began condensing and solidifying, until they formed gargantuan limbs of viridian fire. The Warboss looked confused for a moment as he examined his new limbs, stretching...

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The Honored One, Chapter 45

“Just so there are no questions,” Satoru began, raising his right hand and flaring his Cursed Energies, revealing the Mark of Khaine upon his wrist – Kaela Mensha Khaine, the Bloody-Handed God of Murder, one of the very few gods from the old Aeldari Pantheon who was still somewhat respected by the Drukhari. Satoru saw their eyes widening ever so slightly. “I am the Britheim and this-”



For a moment, he willed forth the Sword of Khaine, the weapon appearing in his...

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The Shattering, Chapter 41

It is a strange thing to know that my father is not human....



My suspicions began very early, when I was but a child, short and little; I saw my father easily lifting things that should’ve been physically impossible for any human – enhanced or otherwise. I saw him lift boulders the size of hills and mountains, and break iron stone with his bare hands as though it was nothing, as though the hardest geological material did not at all matter to him....

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A Guardsman's Game, Chapter 59

landed hard on the ground, my boots cracking the pavement beneath me, but I didn’t pause. The Kharsons flanked me, slipping between the shadows as I pressed forward, my eyes locked on the towering fortress ahead; their role was to relieve pressure while I dealt with the Warboss. The Ork Stronghold loomed over the battlefield, a grotesque amalgamation of metal plates, spikes, and guns, all crudely welded together in that haphazard way the Greenskins loved. The air buzzed with the stench of o...

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The Cursed King, Chapter 32

Sukuna did not bother with pleasantries. He had... well... he nothing to say to Vulkan, really. And, more than anything, he wasn't interested in meeting Vulkan just yet. No words were exchanged. Signals and codes were traded between fleets and bases, but nothing more than that. So, Sukuna had his fleet make a beeline for the nearest Agurasi-occupied world, a desert planet that saw too much sunlight. A huge portion of the xenos fleet was currently engaged in a massive naval battle against Vulk...

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Twisted and Accursed, Chapter 19

Taylor stared at the Cursed Spirit, her heart pounding in her chest. The banshee hovered before her, its mournful wails slicing through the night, each cry more desperate and agonizing than the last. The energy inside Taylor surged, responding to the threat, and she felt a strange connection to the spirit—a resonance of fear, anger, and pain. She then turned to Alice. “Hey, Alice, can you make sure no one interferes?”



There were heroes and villains running around. T...

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The Honored One, Chapter 44

“Well, ain’t this a bitch,” Six Eyes narrowed for a moment, before he sighed and blinked.


Satoru rolled the scroll back up, tucking it into his sleeve. The message from Cegorach wasn’t exactly what he’d call helpful—just more cryptic nonsense. But it did tell him one thing: the Laughing God was watching him. And if a trickster god with a penchant for chaos and mischief was paying attention, things were about to get even more interesting.



"Well, Lenth...

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The Shattering, Chapter 40

“A moon?” Jadan raised a brow, surveying a three dimensional map of this section of the galaxy – of the Hyperborean System and all the neighboring systems that were close enough to warrant constant surveillance. A few planets, Jadan noted, were marked as belonging to a faction that was known only as the Iron Men, but none of those planets were anywhere close to the matter at hand and so she did not bother asking. Besides, she’d retained her rank as a general and, thusly, was privy to ...

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Twisted and Accursed, Chapter 18

They’re looking for you, Taylor.” The ghost of Alice told her, smiling and revealing all the needle-like teeth behind her withered lips and too-wide mouth. Alice’s hair splayed outwards, like black webs or ancient branches. Her pale and chalky skin appeared almost like the surface of moon in the night. And yet, Taylor was pretty sure that no one else could see the creepy ghost; otherwise, people would’ve already started screaming. She’d sent out Alice’s ghost e...

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The Cursed King, Chapter 31

The creative competition was going reasonably well, actually, Sukuna mused as he found himself clapping at a stage performance by ten Legionnaires, one that almost reminded him of the plays he so frequently enjoyed from the Heian Era. Somehow, the Legionnaires had come up with a story that, eerily enough, was near-identical to the story of Emperor Jimmu, who was a Jujutsu Sorcerer that claimed descent from a bloodline of gods. Sukuna wished he had the chance to fight that guy, because – as ...

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A Guardsman's Game, Chapter 58

“No! Please! Mercy!” The wretched old man begged for his life. His face was decrepit, wrinkled and dirty, nails long and yellowed, his teeth withered and worn, and yet this... this was the one man whose word and presence loomed over the entire world. Once, this foolish, frail thing, had been the tyrant of the largest and most powerful Hive City of the entire world, the last and greatest of those who referred to themselves as the True Masters, despots and slavers, men who thought themselve...

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The Honored One, Chapter 43

Satoru ignored the one-eyed thing that crawled out of the portal, idly sending a mental command for it to just sit still and do absolutely nothing. Luckily, no other Cursed Spirit came crawling out, which was nice since the Aeldari probably weren’t too fond of these guys. Satoru never got the impression that the hot space elves were at all involved with or fond of Tzeentch. The opposite was probably true, considering Tzeentch, the Shifty Bitch, and Slaanesh, the Thirsty Bitch, were...

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The Shattering, Chapter 39

Okay, she definitely had no idea where she was, but that wasn’t going to matter in a moment.



“RAAAAAAAAAGH!” Nareena reared back her right fist and threw the hardest punch she’d ever thrown. She was under no illusion that her opponent was soft or weak, however. That said, given its humanoid form, despite lacking genitals, it did possess weak points and spots, places that’d hurt more than others. So, she targeted those, instead. As she weaved underneath the demon...

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The Bone King, Chapter 33

Huh... I was not expecting this.


The Other, or whatever, had fallen to her knees, after I used [True Resurrection] to bring her ass back from the dead – or whatever state of being she'd been at that point. Because something was different about her. Actually, a lot of small, very discreet things were suddenly different. Overall, she'd still be seen as an Other – no doubt about that. But then, if she was made to stand next to another Other, one would then begin to unrave...

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Author Update

Hey guys, I was diagnosed with COVID last week and writing has been a slog these past few days with the fever and fatigue. I'm getting better, however, since - as of five hours ago - my fever's gone and the body temp's kinda normal again. However, the mental fatigue is still there. It's weird, since thinking is literally hard, which isn't something I've ever felt before, but the doctor told me that this was apparently normal for COVID. I was able to push myself to write the last few ...

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A Guardsman's Game, Chapter 57

Athulhum’s healing trees was, perhaps, one of the greatest boons ever received by the Imperium of Mankind, his Imperium. Across thousands of worlds, and counting, his people were rejuvenated, their diseases cleansed and their bodies restored as they partook of Athulhum’s healing fruits. Of course, there were many who stood in the way, such as the corrupt and the inept, those who held power through fear and held control only because of the pain and the misery they brought about th...

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The Honored One, Chapter 42

While the Drukhari Delegates and Caoimhe’s Farseer Council gathered and, probably, threw insults at each other, Satoru confined himself within his manor. He had absolutely zero interest in the political or otherwise diplomatic bullshit that was happening among the differing Aeldari Ethnic Groups. Though, to be honest, it wasn’t because he wasn’t invested in the future of the Aeldari race; of course not. He’d already drank the Aeldari Cool Aid and was now all-aboard their little crusad...

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The Shattering, Chapter 38

Nareena’s eyes snapped open. And all before her was an endless, swirling landscape of twisting shapes and colors and sprites of bright flames and roaring faces. She blinked and rubbed her eyes and pushed herself up. Nah, she didn’t recognize this place. And she definitely didn’t remember taking anything funny before going to bed. Plus, she’d stopped with the psychedelics decades ago, before Syreen was even born. So, she definitely wasn’t high as a kite when she sl...

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