I had no magic of my own to act as an equalizer and even if somehow I managed to learn some, what was the guarantee it would be enough? The Valyrians were the best and most twisted mages of an age far more magical than this one. While Euron Greyjoy’s accomplishment was without a doubt an impressive one, he had gone when dragons had died and magic slept. Now, neither of those things were through.
Still, no matter how much I thought about the dangers, the lure of Valyria remained. It ...
2025-08-25 12:28:40 +0000 UTC
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“Bu-but the boy is your enemy.” She tried.
“Yes, and he is a wizard. That means he is worth more than every single one of your kind combined. The fact that your pig of a husband would be so bold as to place his hands on a wizard. On magical blood. I find myself struggling to control my rage, Petunia.” The Dark Lord said, and Lucius tried hi best not to gasp in shock. His Lord was most definitely using legilimency to rifle through the muggles minds at will. So that meant what he...
2025-08-25 12:11:49 +0000 UTC
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Another sound came from the woman that rushed down the stairs after her son. A mixture between a gasp and a cry. She held her hands up to her mouth on seeing them. And it wasn’t just from seeing them, Lucius observed. It was from seeing him in particularly. How daft of the muggle. These things were truly little brighter than mules. How could she not see that his Lord was the true danger among the two of them. Lucius had barely even done anything here.
“You recognise Lucius’ mask ...
2025-08-25 06:16:44 +0000 UTC
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Of course, I could just pay a fair price for the slaves and eat the cost as an initial investment. That meant I would need to be selective with the kind of slaves I bought. It would be a matter of being highly skilled and specialised slaves from the free cities at a premium and then freeing them once they arrived at the Stepstones. I expected they would be grateful enough to receive their freedom that they would work for me. Loyalty was far from assured, but it would come with time.
Be...
2025-08-25 06:01:24 +0000 UTC
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The land of grass was filled with large swathes of grass that reached up to my waist in places, and merely up to my knees in others. It was harder to move through at a rapid speed, but we made good enough time. Especially when you consider the fact that we were only making a relatively brief detour here. My byakugan did not have the best range but with Uraume by my Sid, it was child’s play to notice and mark out the IWa patrols as they moved through the country..
So far, we had spott...
2025-08-25 05:42:42 +0000 UTC
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“I can not promise that you will all live through this. I can not even promise that your deaths will mean something— that shall be for you and your loved ones to decide. What I can promise, what I have always promised, is victory. I promise you that when we are through, no one. Not Iwa, Not Kiri, Not motherfucking Kumo will deny or strength. We are the great tree. We are Konoha. We are Hashirama Senju. We are Madara Uchiha. All of us. Not just me, not Uzume. We are the past, present, and ...
2025-08-24 09:37:50 +0000 UTC
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“By freak, surely you do not mean Wizard?” His Lord asked, and that was the tone every Death Eater became fa liar with at some point. It was the tone that told you that there were only two outcomes possible and they depended on what you said next. Either you would suffer under the cruciatus until your bowels loosened and you soiled yourself, or you suffered under the cruciatus until the Dark Lord got bored of it. Anyone with sense hoped for the former. The Dark Lord’s pleasure in the cr...
2025-08-24 09:22:38 +0000 UTC
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Westeros was the first choice. Not Driftmark, no. Maybe the Reach. They had a shit ton of small folk. But then again those smallfolk were needed to cater to vast acres of farmland. They had been farmers all their lives. The Stepstones were famously barren. I wasn’t going to bring farmers here only to tell them they could do anything but farm. Of course, I’d try out farming by myself to test if the famous knowledge was truth. Just because everyone knew something didn’t make it true— of...
2025-08-24 09:22:01 +0000 UTC
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“For someone with the ability to teleport, it’s almost impressive how you’ve somehow managed to be late” Uzume said in greeting when I appeared next to her, using the marker I had on her skin. I’d placed markers on her, Uraume, and Shikahime after our last meeting. Permanent markers on skin this time rather than just giving them kunai to carry around. If things did ever go irreparably wrong, I knew I would always be able to reach them. That was enough to settle a lot of m...
2025-08-24 09:21:12 +0000 UTC
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The home shone forth from within, casting light unto their masked visages. His mask was the standard for the inner circle Death Eaters, a silver ensemble with a horrific face carved onto it, but his Lord wore a simple golden mask. Apart from its material composition, it had no other defining features. Just a pair of slits from which his red eyes shot forth with hatred, anger, and menace. Those eyes were turned to him now.
“If you would, Lucius” His Lord said, gesturing to the door ...
2025-08-24 08:37:23 +0000 UTC
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We moved on after a few minutes, and the rest of our patrol was relatively incident-free. We finished one pass across our course and started another pass, a bit forward. We didn’t come across any settlements. A few fishing boats had suffered our boredom and we’d ended up filling a few cliff face caverns with flames to be safe and then went about the rest of our day flying and thinking. Igneel did the flying, I did the thinking. The Stepstones would need multiple things to get them off the...
2025-08-24 07:57:33 +0000 UTC
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We banked left before we dove. I felt the air smash against my body, trying to toss me off the saddle but I held on with only my legs to keep me in place. It was a good feeling despite the strain. The feeling of flying and being free while I did it. Mother would never have consented a saddle being made for me without the customary chains but I had not bolted them in years, much in the same way as I had never flown with a whip after the first time. While it was much too weak to actually hurt I...
2025-08-23 23:40:57 +0000 UTC
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XXXXX- LUCIUS MALFOY
“Are you certain this is the place, Lucius?” He heard his Lord’s sibilant voice hiss through the mask he had now taken to wearing and nodded. He was certain this was the place. Of course he was. He wasn’t a fool. And even if he had been a fool, he would still have had enough self-preservation instincts to know that information taken to The Dark Lord could not just be confirmed once. He had one of his remaining contacts on the Board of Governors get a copy of...
2025-08-23 23:39:48 +0000 UTC
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“…And remember that if anything goes wrong, you can just toss the kunai at the wall and I’ll sense the change in velocity and position and know t come to you straightaway, Retsu knows everything about—“
“Shorirama” She cut in with a fond smile on her face as I explained things.
“I’ve done this before, and you’ve explained your requirements to me a dozen times already. Stop being worried and just go. You should have left five minutes ago”
“What?” I...
2025-08-23 23:38:32 +0000 UTC
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XXXXXXX- CEE
He heard a strange whistling sound, and when he raised his head, it was to see part of the army cast in shadow. Looking up, he saw a sight that would have made a lesser man sully his breeches. “Scatter,” he screamed. He was not the first one to do so, and far from the first one to obey the instruction, but the giant stone construct landed regardless. Cee struggled to put a number to the number of chakra signatures that ...
2025-08-23 23:34:53 +0000 UTC
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Taking the castle had ended up taking the better part of the day. They had started shortly after dawn, and the sun had begun to set by the time a bloodied Borros Baratheon returned with a head clutched under his armpit in one hand and his trusty hammer in the other. If it was ever a question of whether the man could back up his arrogance and confidence, then I would always be certain the answer would be yes. Because beyond a scratch on his arm, in a gap in his armour’s protection—Borros h...
2025-08-23 23:26:25 +0000 UTC
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I hadn’t paid attention to the duels during the qualification. There was nothing wrong with that; it was probably the wise thing to do, considering just how many duelists there had been and how bad most of them were. I’d dueled someone who struggled to cast a shield spell! While it had been the right choice to make, it did mean that I was taken by surprise when the Round of Sixty-Four began with an okay duel and only got better from there.
At this point, I was certain that my duel h...
2025-08-23 23:18:26 +0000 UTC
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From it rose a pair of eagles that took to the sky. I brought them down with a slash of my wand, forcing flames into th skies and forcing them to fly lower than they should have to avoid them. Two piercing curses later, and they were dead meat. She hadn’t stopped there. I stepped to the side to allow a rabbit fly past me as my attention was held by the pair of gorillas she had created in the time I’ used to dispatch the eagles. And even as I focused on them u could se her working on more ...
2025-08-23 22:54:21 +0000 UTC
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“Again” She growled as she pushed herself to her feet.
“That was the seventh time. You should be tired” I said.
“I can do this all day” She said, taking the rudimentary stance I’d taught her at the beginning. Scarily enough, she looked like she could. Where the fuck had she got all that stamina from? I wasn’t tired— far from it— but I was a well trained Knight in the making who had spent years basically doing naught but fighting. A noble lady...
2025-08-23 19:20:07 +0000 UTC
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XXXXXX- SHORIRAMA SENJU
“No” She said almost the same instant I’d made the offer. I looked over at her. Shikahime and Uzume were the only others in the room. Planning an invasion was not as simple as just diving into the opponent’s territory with our dicks in our hands and pissing on everything we could find, so this was the third such meeting we were having. Now the topic had come to what we were going to be doing about the Hokage seat. The one I would be leaving empty once I l...
2025-08-23 18:12:26 +0000 UTC
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Contrary to what I had thought the first time I had seen her, she was a burgeoning Mistress of Transfiguration. And she did it all with a staff. A unique staff, far more beautiful than the lumps of wood I’d used in the tournament.
This one was covered in gold— covered because I doubted she would be lifting solid gold with such ease, and had a ruby at the crown were it widened like a snake’s head.
“Do you know who I am, Harry Potter?” She asked, and her voice had a musi...
2025-08-22 06:07:58 +0000 UTC
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I walked back to the competitor’s box and noted the two significant changes immediately. For one, it was much more sparsely occupied than the last time I had walked in after a duel. For another, the thoughts were not anywhere near as disrespectful. They saw me as a threat now. The wolf in their midst. Or Dragon. Dragon would be a better word. Because these were not sheep. Watching them fight over the day had disabused me of that notion. Instead I was a dragon among wolves. These were still ...
2025-08-22 05:51:08 +0000 UTC
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“Objection noted and overruled” She said and practically manhandled me as she dragged me forward.
“A lady like you has no business being this strong” I said, even as I knew that I could break her hold in a matter of seconds if I decided to do so. Age could mean a lot, but training in the yard was one hell of an equalizer and Corlys Velaryon, no matter how progressive and love-filled for his daughter he was, would never have allowed her in the yard.
“Ser Ben helped me p...
2025-08-22 05:34:26 +0000 UTC
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I walked around the castle. We’d had it for a week, and this was my first chance to truly explore it. I had the scout’s report and had even seen a map drawn of the place by one of the stewards. I had left that behind though, just wanting to get lost in the privacy of my own thoughts.
“This is so boring” a voice cut through my musing as I leaned in to examine one of the many carvings on the wall. It was Laena. Yeah, the part of getting lost in the privacy of my own ...
2025-08-22 05:18:02 +0000 UTC
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He could feel her hands inside him even as he felt none of the pain. Nonetheless, he felt the violation.
Even worse, his head was propped such that he could see everything she did. He could see as she took out something that was shaped like a small child— an infant, and began to force it into his chest. There was no space, he wanted to scream. What a silly objection, he almost laughed then. Of course this woman would never stop. She removed what he felt as his right lung and replaced...
2025-08-22 04:57:50 +0000 UTC
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He screamed at himself. He felt at his internal systems, his Chakra. Chakra was not unknown to the monks, and they did not wield it as the shinobi did. They were better. Just like it had on every other occasion, it began to come to his aid, flushing the poison from his body.
“What an interesting ability? I can see you flushing my poison from your system even when it should take days to run its course. I was right. You will be an ever useful tool to add to my arsenal”
“Tets...
2025-08-22 04:44:41 +0000 UTC
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He shook it with his mouth, getting its death spasms out as it released his arm and then he dropped it. Well, someone for sure had been hitting the gym. How much neck strength would it have taken to hold something like that up by only his teeth? He smiled at me, a brutal, bloody thing, and for some reason, I found myself smiling back. He was going to lose, but he had given a good show at least.
This time, we struck as one. My tickling hex bounced his blasting curse to the side and I st...
2025-08-21 18:16:29 +0000 UTC
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“Let them sing songs of our duel” he said, I barely managed to catch it above the howling winds. It was wind first, and then rain next. In a matter of seconds I was soaked to the bone. I didn’t bother casting a weather repelling charm. Neither did my opponent,. Charms like that one were good for day to day living, but they tended to interfere with other uses of magic, and this was not a dight I wanted ti be dighting with a handicap for,. The referee cdropped his and. To begin the deal a...
2025-08-21 18:04:13 +0000 UTC
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XXXXX- RIKU THE GOLDEN FISTED MONK
She’s fucking insane, he thought to himself as he took another swig from his flask. His flask. His trusty flask. It was the only thing that made any fucking sense these days. It had only been three. Three days since they entered the land of Earth proper and in that time this woman had done things that nature would never have countenanced. Part of him told him to kill her. Part? Fuck no. The whole of his being told him to kill this woman and end these...
2025-08-21 17:41:27 +0000 UTC
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Thankfully, the rain of obelisks seized once they made a few more steps forward. From what Cee could discern, they had some sort of contraption— maybe a shinobi with a jutsu but he would bet it was something more mechanical because if they had a shinobi with that kind of power on their hands, why were still hiding. Such a person would give the Raikage a fight for the ages. One the Raikage would won of course. Nothing had ever broken through the Raikage’s lightning armour, but the fight wo...
2025-08-21 17:21:00 +0000 UTC
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