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A Guardsman's Game, Chapter 33

Garahm eyed the unassuming metal ball on his palm, his eyes narrowing even as every single scanner he’d set loose upon it came back with a negative; the artifact was not corrupted and neither was it tampered with. For all intents and purposes, it was pure. But still, he had to make sure; after all, something of this magnitude might just be the catalyst that will bring about mankind’s ultimate victory. The time he’d spent studying it also revealed other, very concerning possibilities tha...

The Shattering, Chapter 13

“Get the children inside!” Sereen roared her command at the other Scrappers around her, the amateurs who’d frozen in fear and terror when their allies started dying and their houses started blowing up. Tsk, damn greenhorns. If death and explosions were all it took to make them freeze, then they shouldn’t have signed up to be Scrappers. Around her, the city of Culva burned, many of its citizens dead or dying, with what few survivors there were fleeing into the Deep Vaults, where the Ir...

The Honored One, Chapter 17

They moved quite fast, actually, almost blindingly fast. Satoru was quite certain he wouldn’t have been able to follow or even perceive the movement of their ships if it wasn’t for Six-Eyes  granted him incredibly perception. They were pretty big too, each one probably the size of a large house.

The Eldar vessels were... for a lack of a better word, just plain fucking weird, like a really strange mix of fishy and aquiline features. There were about twenty of the, eac...

A Guardsman's Game, Chapter 32

His eyes snapped open in the darkness. It was cold and damp, and somewhere in the darkness was the incessant sound of droplets falling into a puddle. His whole body ached. It felt as though he’d been run over by a tank and then some. But he was alive and, more importantly, he could move. And so he did. He stood up and felt the chill of cold stone beneath his bare feet. His vision adjusted not a moment later. Rocks and moss and alien vegetation, crystalline stalactites looming over him.

author notes and thoughts, entry #2

(Guardsman's Game)

- the Primarch who's coming back is... ding ding ding... Konrad Curze. He'll be having a redemption arc, wherein he learns to properly use his precog powers, faces the reality that he was a horrible person and that he could've changed his ways if he bothered to try, and that he alone in in control of his destiny.
- So, some chapters will have him as the POV character

The Shattering, Chapter 12

Thragg passed through the force field, a whole section of which cracked and shattered around him as though it hadn’t been there at all, as though it hadn’t been powerful enough to shield the mother ship from hundreds of metric teratons’ worth of kinetic energy, the power to punch through worlds. And yet, to Thragg, it was nothing. A stiff breeze met him as he passed, but nothing more than that. His eyes briefly glanced at the petal-shaped shards that scattered around him, likely the rem...

The Honored One, Chapter 16

That could’ve gone worse, Satoru would be the first to admit; it could’ve gone a lot worse. Because, as it turned out, the corrosive nature of True Negative Cursed Energy was a lot stronger than he’d first expected, which was a good way of saying he’d underestimated it quite severely, resulting in him damaging his own soul like a total jackass. It wasn’t too bad, Satoru mused; the damage wasn’t anything that would heal on its own within a full day or so, but, still, this ...

A Guardsman's Game, Chapter 31

“In the name of the Emperor, go in peace and live your life in honor of his name.” I said to the soldier who’d previously suffered burns across the breadth of his entire body, his flak armor melting and joining into his skin in numerous places and other places where the skin had been burned off entirely, alongside a great number of his muscles. Honestly, the man had been on death’s door by the time I got to him. No amount of medicine could’ve saved him, minutes away from dying as he...

The Shattering, Chapter 11

Exotic metal melted into hissing, sizzling molten slag as Thragg tore through the walls of the alien ship at a velocity that was approaching the speed of light. He could’ve gone much faster, of course – much much faster – but he was far too close to the planet he was protecting and any faster and he’d end up igniting the entire world’s atmosphere, killing everyone he was supposed to be saving from these aliens. Still, it never got old, Thragg mused, watching the burning debris scatt...

The Honored One, Chapter 15

“In about a day or so.” Satoru continued, shrugging. Larkin seemed frantic, but the man was likely worried over nothing. After all, an unspoken portion of his Binding Vow with Kairos essentially implied that the big blue bird couldn’t and wouldn’t try to kill him; disabling the ship seemed like a pretty good way to do that, actually. Therefore, the ship was well-enough to take them to the Craftworld, but not well-enough to get them anywhere else, which was a fair enough trade...

A Guardsman's Game, Chapter 30

Custodes...

The gargantuan ship hovered over the refugee camp, shining like a beacon of gold in an endless darkness, which was amazing considering the fact that it was morning. Rays and beams of sunlight glimmered off its shimmering surface, the images and sculptures of saints and heroes set alight in a radiant burst of resplendent gold. The weapons that jutted out of its sides were so utterly massive that a single shot from any of them would’ve surely been enough to reduce an entire ...

author thoughts and notes, entry #1

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- The introduction of a much much younger Katarinya Greyfax pretty much seals the timeline. We now know that it's definitely NOT the same century as Guillman's resurrection. But, I still haven't made up my mind about when this is.
- Duncan will become a major character, since the MC has been alone for long enough, I think.
- The Custodes are there to offer guidance, protection, and the occasional support, but their real reason for being there is that the GEOM need...

The Honored One, Chapter 14

It did not take him long to notice the absolutely gigantic thing that appeared to be waiting for them in the distance. It did, however, take him far longer than he would’ve liked, to recognize the ring of Cursed Energy that was slowly, but surely, pulling their vessel towards said thing. Satoru frowned for a moment and wondered if Kairos disabled most of the ship to prevent the big-ass vessel in the distance from just open firing the first chance they got. Or something. He...

The Shattering, Chapter 10

“Your mother is dead.” Thragg said plainly and quickly. And Argall stiffened at the news – only very briefly glancing at the Rangdan creature in Thragg’s grasp.

There was no need to sugarcoat the truth of it to spare his boy from pain and grief. No need to lie when reality was so much clearer. And so, Thragg told him the full truth of it. There was nothing more to be said – at least, for now. Still, he did not miss the break in Argall’s otherwise stony expression as soon as ...

A Guardsman's Game, Chapter 29

“May I heal you?”

“Yes, by the God-Emperor, please.”

“Here you are; good as new. Now go and serve the Imperium of Man in the best way you deem fit. And may the God-Emperor be with you always.”

“Praise be to the Master of Mankind!”

“Next!”

[Flesh Shaping] Level up!
[Flesh Shaping] is now at Level 2!

As it turned out, using my power to fix people was a good way to gain experience and increase my levels in [Fles...

The Honored One, Chapter 13

“Hey, dude; wake up.” Satoru slapped Larkin’s face to try and get him to wake up, but the man stubbornly remained unconscious. The same was true for Tanya, but Satoru slapped her too, just in case. A quick look with Six-Eyes told him that an incredibly powerful burst of Cursed Energy had overpowered their True Negative Cursed Energy and left them in their current vegetative states. They’d wake up eventually though; their brains were still intact and unharmed, and whatever physical dam...

A Guardsman's Game, Chapter 28

Without cultists and traitors or enemies, in general, to slow down my approach, I reached the territory of the City of Halfor after a mere hundred or so hours of constant running. Halfor, unlike Kuresh, was not a monstrous mega-city that stretched on for what seemed like thousands of kilometers in any single direction, with structures high enough to breach the sky, and underground chambers and labyrinthine tunnels and sewers that reached hundreds of kilometers deep. No, Halfor was a humble pl...

The Shattering, Chapter 9:

Thunder boomed from the sky and the ground shook beneath them.

Thragg’s eyes narrowed, his gaze turning upwards through the ceiling. His ears caught the thrum of engines, the thunderous beats echoing like war drums in the sky. Thragg knew that sound well. He knew it quite intimately, in fact. And then, the seconds ticked by, each one seemingly lasting hours and hours. A brief moment of silence passed, before a horrible howling, shrieking sound filled the clouds.

They were here.<...

The Honored One, Chapter 12

The clouds surged before his eyes and, before either Larkin or Tanya could, Satoru saw the stars in the distance, the infinite vastness of the cosmos unraveling before him. His Six-Eyes saw all of it; the light from the distant stars, the radiation from the nearby sun, the waves of dark energy that fluttered in the darkness of space, and the faint haze of Cursed Energy that seemed to blanket everything– all of creation. Satoru could hardly believe it. How was such a thing even remo...

A Guardsman's Game, Chapter 27

“You do not want your name to be known to those you saved?”

The God-Emperor and I were... somewhere that both existed and did not, a place that wasn’t entirely physical, but solid enough that I was able to look down and watch and smile as the world that I’d struggled so hard to save was now... well... saved. The traitor and heretic forces were all but wiped out, their presence cleansed by the counterattack of the Guard, alongside the Carcharodons, engaging in shock and awe tacti...

The Shattering, Chapter 8

“You... don’t want to use your powers against the aliens?” Argall’s eyes were confused, frustrated even. But Thragg couldn’t blame him. After all, if he interfered, then this whole thing would be over by tomorrow. The aliens would cease to exist and, likely never come back in fear of his power. And Argall was a very logical person. When there was a problem, the boy came up with a solution to solve it in the most efficient manner possible, using up as few resources and as less time a...

The Honored One, Chapter 11

"I never did ask for your name," Satoru said, approaching the duo. The father was hard at work, while his daughter just kind of squatted by his side. Satoru expanded his senses. If anything with Cursed Energy approached them, he'd know. Thus far, there didn't seem to be anything for several kilometers. Not even the Astartes were coming towards them, contrary to his expectations. Still, he couldn't let his guard down; he'd made that mistake before, after all, and it killed him. He held out his...

A Guardsman's Game, Chapter 26 (Start of Arc 2)

Ah, finally; I didn't think you'd ever finish the tutorial section. Good job. The others and I have been pleasantly entertained by your performance, thus far; so, keep it up. Honestly, I didn't expect you to somehow turn the Balrog to your side – oh, yeah, that's happening, even if it hasn't happened yet, a benefit of being able to perceive every single moment in time simultaneously. Aren't I awesome? Anyway, no one expected you to do that. I did several other simulations, using...