Shape of Monstrosity
Noun
This is a Master-Tier Skill Evolution exclusive to a specific kind of monster: A Cursed Tarrasque. No other being in Integration has been known to receive this Skill Evolution when they advance their Intimidation.
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2025-08-05 12:28:52 +0000 UTC View PostI prefer fighting an orc rather than talking to them. At least, the worst thing that happens when you fight an orc is that they overcome you. They kill you. They maybe torture you. But there's an end to the madness. There's a final point where it finishes and you feel no more. You suffer...
2025-08-04 18:21:07 +0000 UTC View PostGreatest. The once Prince of Pride. I cannot call him an ally, but I will not declare him an enemy either. Ultimately, it is hard to say what is right and what is wrong after all I experienced in the Claimed Hells.
But I will say this, I would not have succeeded without that st...
2025-08-04 16:58:29 +0000 UTC View Post+Hey, hey there people. Cala Marlowe coming at you from New Vultun. If you're hearing me now, this is not a live broadcast, no. This is a special spirit contagion, spreading through your thoughts, burrowing through your minds, and feeding you this latest update about all the wonderful...
2025-08-04 16:39:52 +0000 UTC View PostDespite the chaotic nature and requirements of most rituals, they are not, in fact, randomized actions performed to amuse the predilections of certain gods. Rather, they influence the ambient mana of the world in specific ways, which then allows said god to reach across the system's threshold...
2025-08-04 12:15:40 +0000 UTC View PostEvery form of attuned magic gives off its own frequency. Every spell is an adjustment, a manipulation of that frequency, but also the structure of the field itself. To understand it simply, it is like a reshaping of personal reality, a manipulation of the rules that govern the broader aspects...
2025-08-03 18:25:05 +0000 UTC View Post"What is the matter, Lord Scorn? I can hear you raging across four different dimensions. What has you so angered, dear boy?"
"Fuck off, Challenger. I don't have time to hear you flapping your cunt lips at me. I need to get to my gate. There are people I need to FUCK to death. I...
2025-08-03 15:40:31 +0000 UTC View PostReviewing the last few chapters: we know there are two kinds of mana cores, artificial and natural. Most mana cores fall into the natural category. These cores usually serve as the foundations for gates, as it requires a significant amount of mana clashing between two worlds to truly begin th...
2025-08-02 19:06:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe core function of Animancy is the restructuring of one's soul. It is the only skill, aside from when one is allowed to delve into their Legendary-Tier Skills, that allows you to shape your own story. You become an editor, so to speak, of your legend or someone else's legend at that. <...
2025-08-01 20:17:58 +0000 UTC View PostThere's gonna be a war at some point between us and the fictionals.
I don't like it. I don't want much want to fight it. I don't want to be here in the fathoms, but there's gonna be a war. Why is there gonna be a war? Because some of you other Trespasser assholes can't st...
2025-08-01 18:02:54 +0000 UTC View PostAs Pathbearers we constantly evolve. Our skills are engines of metamorphoses. With every experience, every feat, every trial we survive, they grow watered by the stories of our lives, shaped by our rising legend.
From Initiate to Hero, our Skill Evolutions evolve of their own a...
2025-08-01 12:14:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe next chapter III-37 is in editing, but I'm having a bit a post-storm fever now, so it might experience a bit of a delay.
I apologize for not delivering consistent 10ks these two days. Writing pace return to normal when I recover. This week has been a bit hard.
2025-07-31 17:26:51 +0000 UTC View Post"I'm not sorry, father! He deserved it! He deserved every second of the pain I gave him! I should have hurt him more! More!’
"I'm not asking you to be sorry. I'm telling you to be controlled. Are you a Pathbearer, Adam?"
"Yes."
"No. If you were a...
2025-07-31 15:59:46 +0000 UTC View Post“What the hell is this?
“My apron, my knife. I understand that what I did today-”
“Shiv, fuck off. What are you doing? Get that thing, get that out of my fucking face. I'm not firing you, and you're not quitting.”
“I- I hit the ch...
2025-07-30 18:16:59 +0000 UTC View Post“We welcome you, Jaus Avandaer. Know that you are the first Kosgan in many years to descend this place, to stand before us and be spared immediate death.”
“I am honored, O Dowagers combined, Dowagers alloyed. I have long wondered how you managed to avoid the notice of the...
2025-07-30 15:03:38 +0000 UTC View Post“Leonid, Captain Leonid, wake up.”
“What is this? What's happened?”
“Well, technically what happened is, on your world, you're dead.”
“What?”
“Yeah, you're dead. However, due to some kind of quirk in the Fathoms and...
2025-07-30 14:33:03 +0000 UTC View Post"Alright, Chef. You're officially a commis now. You know what that means?"
"Are you going to start paying me to peel these potatoes?"
"You're being a felling smartass with me, boy."
"No, Chef. I just got used to saying yes, so you stop yelling at m...
2025-07-29 19:12:39 +0000 UTC View PostOrcs call their army an orchestra for a reason. They make music with each other. They're not cooperating, they're just filling in the gaps.
Orcs call their army an orchestra for a reason. They make music with each other. They're not cooperating, they're just filling in the gaps. Make no...
2025-07-29 12:22:55 +0000 UTC View PostTo be Sang is to be caged in a cycle, to be bound to the fates of our mothers, our forebears before us, to taste the sting of ever reaching to the masculine, and to know that our fathers, our brothers, our sons are never to be again, or so the dragons would hope. What they believed would be o...
2025-07-28 17:08:30 +0000 UTC View PostEarth-based technology doesn't work very well with Essence. There are a lot of theories as to why, but in simplicity, it's because we have hard laws. We're not narrative-based. There's nothing spiritual about our materials, the mechanisms we use. There isn't a satori behind what rituals work,...
2025-07-28 14:59:26 +0000 UTC View PostAn average Pathbearer assault team numbers four. Four to magnify each other's strengths and make up for each other's weaknesses. Four so tha
An average Pathbearer assault team numbers four. Four to magnify each other's strengths and make up for each other's weaknesses. Four so that at l...
2025-07-28 11:06:28 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings:
Most of you are new here, while some of you have been here for a while. To newcomers, welcome. I hope you're enjoying Deathless. I hope the same for older readers, but this update will go over the state of my older stories as well.
The first item is weekly feedback. It's ...
2025-07-27 18:34:17 +0000 UTC View PostNo two armies in integration can be led the same way. Despite fighting as a collective whole, every army is made up of individual Pathbearer
No two armies in integration can be led the same way. Despite fighting as a collective whole, every army is made up of individual Pathbearers. Ind...
2025-07-27 18:27:30 +0000 UTC View PostStrife had always been here. Before I was, Strife waited for me, the ultimate discipline, awaiting its ultimate disciple. You look upon me l
Strife had always been here. Before I was, Strife waited for me, the ultimate discipline, awaiting its ultimate disciple. 2025-07-27 14:54:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't know how to stop the works. Let's start there. I have no idea. This war has been going on for generations. Longer than my grandmothe
I don't know how to stop the works. Let's start there. I have no idea.
This war has been going on for generations. Longer than my g...
2025-07-26 19:55:27 +0000 UTC View Post"What is death?" If you ask a Biomancer, it is simply a state of being. It is when all functions of the body stop and the organism begins t
"What is death?"
If you ask a Biomancer, it is simply a state of being. It is when all functions of the body stop and th...
2025-07-26 10:57:09 +0000 UTC View PostBecause Unique Skills fall beyond the bounds of anything the system has seen before, it is hard to judge exactly when they will evolve and w
Because Unique Skills fall beyond the bounds of anything the system has seen before, it is hard to judge exactly when they will evolve and what th...
2025-07-25 20:32:07 +0000 UTC View Post"Hello? Hello? Is anyone there? I've been trapped here. Trapped. Trapped for years. Is anyone there?
I... I made Greatest angry. The Prince of Pride. I didn't know he was the Prince of Pride. I... I should have never... I should have never insulted him. I should have never laid...
2025-07-25 16:51:52 +0000 UTC View PostAdept gives you a taste of becoming more than mortal, of evolving beyond the constraints of an ordinary body. Master lets you experience the
Adept gives you a taste of becoming more than mortal, of evolving beyond the constraints of an ordinary body.
Master lets you exper...
2025-07-25 11:34:00 +0000 UTC View PostThere is one skill an orc retains between all their reincarnations, just one. Their soul is refreshed as they pass through the Challenger, a
There is one skill an orc retains between all their reincarnations, just one. Their soul is refreshed as they pass through the Challenger, as they...
2025-07-24 18:32:18 +0000 UTC View Post