"Explain to me please, why you would ever think that sticking your head into a blast furnace would be a good idea?" I demanded of the hatchling, still dangling from one of Crinis' tentacles.
"I wanted to see what it looked like inside!" she protests.
"Inside? Inside is nothin...
2021-05-24 10:22:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe hatchling is practically vibrating with excitement as she watches all the action and I can already sense the thought of running off to explore further forming in her mind. This little thing! She needs to chill out, yeesh! Rather than toss her to Invidia for time out, I head off her burgeoning...
2021-05-22 10:28:00 +0000 UTC View Post[Alright Invidia, you can spit her out now.]
With a wet splat the hatchling is deposited onto the tunnel floor in front of me still dripping with demon saliva. With a shiver she begins to shake her legs and abdomen in an attempt to cleanse herself of the goo. She has a little success before...
2021-05-20 07:58:16 +0000 UTC View Post"You must be kind of a big deal, huh?" the hatchling observes, staring up at a giant statue of me carved from glittering stone.
"Ahem! You can ignore that. Come on, we have more interesting things to see."
"This is amazing to look at," she says as I drag her away, "I wonder who made i...
2021-05-19 11:34:55 +0000 UTC View PostWhile the hatchling enjoyed a little solitary education, we moved back out beyond the defensive lines of the territory to drive back the swarming monsters for possibly the final time. The mana levels continued their slow draw down and with every hour that passed the spawn rate of monsters began t...
2021-05-18 07:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostUniversal education. It's a desirable principle, but how many times has it been achieved on Pangera in any meaningful way? The only large society to apply this idea in a wide scale, to my knowledge anyway, is the Colony. Though it might not last long, the education every hatchling receives is...
2021-05-17 11:38:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe thing about the tunnels in the second stratum is that they're freezing cold, like really cold. What's more, when you get this deep, they reek of death mana, which when combined by the near total darkness makes them a rather unpleasant place to be. It's like being in a graveyard at night where...
2021-05-15 11:24:28 +0000 UTC View Post"How long have you got?" Advant asked, her scent distracted and her antennae wavering busily back and forth.
"Not long," replied Brendant, similarly occupied, "I'm only off shift for under an hour and I had to travel to get here."
"I also have a lot of places to be," Victor looked tir...
2021-05-14 11:47:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe battle yet raged, a full hearted defence of the Colony demanded the attention and resources of every caste and every council member worked (almost) around the clock to ensure the family would ride through the trouble, greater and stronger than ever before. In many ways, the current Colony was...
2021-05-14 11:47:07 +0000 UTC View Post"You could have told me what was coming," she groused to her father as they settled into a more private setting, "I might have worked a little harder if I'd realised what the Legion was looking to put me through."
The commander actually laughed. Laughed! She was so befuddled by the rarely h...
2021-05-11 10:58:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe third stratum remains a point of fascination for many researches due to several of its unique properties. For similar reasons, the various powers of the world make it a priority to establish and maintain vast swathes of territory within this region of the Dungeon. The first reason for thi...
2021-05-10 12:03:31 +0000 UTC View PostAnother one coming today.
The heat was pervasive, radiating out from the rock around her, from the open pits of flame that guttered and belched smoke in the distance and from her own suit. With a grunt of effort, Morrelia brought her twin blades forward, driving them straig...
2021-05-09 20:59:40 +0000 UTC View PostTravelling the wildlands of the uncultured south wasn't pleasant, dear reader, not at all! The depredation! The sheer lack of fortified beverages! I jest, readers, of course I jest. Who am I, after all? Tolly! The bold explorer of the unknown! Despite what I may have been lead to believe by t...
2021-05-06 10:17:59 +0000 UTC View PostWhilst trying to do everything I can to distract the vortex of water I keep my focus internal, driving and shaping the mana as best I can to create the most powerful fire spell I've ever attempted. The spell shape isn't too complicated, not compared to the heavy lifting I've been doing lately mak...
2021-05-05 12:03:40 +0000 UTC View PostNow that it's in front of me, I can sense it far more clearly, the aura of mana that had been spread throughout the tunnel has concentrated in one area, the hidden core of the monster now exposed and pulsing with power. This beast is no small fry, tier six certainly, and most likely not from the ...
2021-05-04 11:47:17 +0000 UTC View PostWith the pupa safely ensconced within Tiny's muscular arms, we move at speed through the nest and back out to the front lines again. I've been doing this walk a great deal lately and I swear it gets busier every time. The vast farms that have been constructed are still teaming with ants, collecti...
2021-05-03 08:03:07 +0000 UTC View PostMuch like Tiny, Crinis wasn't satisfied with her initial rampage and pursued her opponents deeper into the tunnels. I use the word pursued in the literal sense since they were actively running away from her at that stage. On some level, it was fascinating to watch, since there didn't seem to be m...
2021-04-30 11:23:38 +0000 UTC View PostWhat follows is an hour in which Tiny goes completely berserk on every monster unfortunate enough to poke its nose into the tunnel in which we stood. So quickly was he mowing down the lower tier shadow creatures that he ended up pushing forward several hundred metres trying to find a challenger. ...
2021-04-29 07:56:52 +0000 UTC View PostTravelling the lands of the Colony was not something I was too eager to undertake. My decision to pursue this venture was only made after repeated, and passionate, requests from you, my dear readers. I was as intrigued as all of you, I'm sure, when word of this strange new place reached my ea...
2021-04-28 06:18:48 +0000 UTC View PostIt's not only the pets that need to get some mutating done, I'm in the same boat myself! Whilst I haven't been packing on the Biomass at the moment, I've been making sure I keep a steady intake in order to continue accumulating points and there's plenty that I can do with them. I'm not planning o...
2021-04-27 06:32:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe soft glow of evolution is gradually fading and the two of them are looking significantly different. Well, Tiny is, at any rate. Crinis remains blobbed up in a small ball, wobbling slightly as whatever internal changes that are taking place complete themselves. My first pet and friend in this ...
2021-04-25 09:47:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe society of the Colony was alien to me at first, as one may well expect. The differences in origin between I, a surface born sapient of the Iron Sands, and the ants who made up the insect empire (as I like to call them. They dismiss the title and refer to themselves exclusively as 'the Col...
2021-04-22 08:40:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe first time I met Anthony, I honestly didn't think much of them. Insect type monsters were weak, such was common knowledge. In fact, that knowledge was so common, that it was some time before I realised I didn't actually know much about that branch of monsters, I had simply dismissed them ...
2021-04-21 08:18:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe wave ground on as Tiny and Crinis continued their evolution, the ants of the Colony working industriously as they always did. The never ending spawns of monsters were a blessing and curse, disrupting all usual business, but flooding the nests with Biomass and cores that were in turn used to f...
2021-04-20 11:28:53 +0000 UTC View PostWith Tiny and Crinis asleep in the evolution chamber, I feel as if something of a weight has been lifted off me. Not in the sense that I don't have to worry about them anymore, I'll always be worrying about them, but it's nice that they're going to be as strong as I am now. With a group of potent...
2021-04-19 10:44:04 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time her master returned, her perfect, wonderful master, Crinis was practically vibrating in excitement. What a wonderful day! What a precious opportunity! To have her dearest master devote his care attention to her evolution on a personal level, it was far more than she, a mere servant, d...
2021-04-16 06:25:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe master spoke long with the stone people and Tiny did his best to pay attention. What had been done to his core seemed to help his concentration, and he was able to follow the conversation better than before, but he still felt a little itchy all over, but there was nothing nearby for him to hi...
2021-04-15 11:34:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe thing that must first be known about the Demon Cities, is that they are constantly at war. At war with each other, at war with themselves, at war with the great civilisations of +, at war with the very real limitations of time and space. It is a point of contention amongst most contempora...
2021-04-14 10:27:38 +0000 UTC View Post
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Thought I'd put a post up of this incredible artwork from reader and hyper-talented artist Rhyu!
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2021-04-13 23:34:27 +0000 UTC View PostIt takes a day of near constant fighting to help the Colony shove back the wave to the outer defensive walls and once again the endless defence against the monsters continues. It's all worth it though. Every hour, the family is harvesting ridiculous amounts of Biomass and cores from the farm zone...
2021-04-13 11:22:48 +0000 UTC View Post