Gwendith examined her Animus scales. They’d crept almost all the way up her biceps though not quite reaching her shoulders. A hundred lumens worth of scales covered half of her forearm and she was close to reaching a thousand total. Her internal reserves had been humming at two hundred for quit...
2023-12-18 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostSeparating Ender’s Waltz from the Ennoia of Radiant Flying Swords was harder than Yuriko expected. She still managed it after a couple of minutes, and when she engaged it, images that foreshadowed her target’s movements appeared in her vision.
Her Animus drained away at ten lumens per s...
2023-12-11 14:00:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe blizzard lasted for several days and piled on several paces of snowfall. Yuriko’s house was practically buried to the rafters. And it wasn’t powdery snow, but wet, Chaos-laden ice. It had been a Chaos Storm and nobody realised in Faron’s Crossing since that kind of inclement weather rar...
2023-12-11 13:51:23 +0000 UTC View Post“Hi, Heron!” Yuriko said with a bright smile that made his heart rate nearly double and his hands clenched. Only when he heard the canvas stretch underneath his fingers did he start. His easel, paints, brushes, and palette were placed carefully across the low table and he had been preparing t...
2023-12-11 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, after doing her morning ablutions and training, Yuriko headed towards the other side of town. Waiting for the Circuit Tram was a bother, so she simply walked. Well, she actually glided along the street, her boots not quite touching the cobblestones while every step crossed five pace...
2023-12-11 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post“What did you want to show me?” Yuriko asked, bemused.
Gwendith grinned and pulled her towards the backyard, though they went around the walkway at the side of the house and the perimeter fences rather than through the house. The planters were covered in snow, though the walkway had bee...
2023-12-11 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostA day after the memorial, Yuriko found herself going through her new routine.
After years of constant battle, exploration, and missions, the past couple of Seasons had been quite soothing. It was now the 6th Day of Earth, AF 3002, and today she was due at Faron’s Crossing’s new academy....
2023-12-04 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostInside a box wagon, floating in the depths of Chaos, lay several unconscious bodies. The wagon, a cage really, drifted peacefully, though every now and then, the wards inscribed on its walls flared as a crosscurrent nudged it, imposing heavier pressure than the wooden construct could have taken. ...
2023-12-04 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post‘Damien!’ Yuriko yelled while panicking. The core fragmented and was about to shatter. She could see the cracks crawl around the broken sphere, and they were widening. She had a sudden sense of the entirety of the plane doing the same thing! She didn’t know if what she intuited was real, bu...
2023-12-04 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostEach and every crevice, every inch of space, in the planar core chamber, was covered in sunblades. Not only the open space either. The vanguard incarnations…each of them skewered by nearly a hundred blades each. The sunblades simply materialised into their bodies.
The sheer impossibility ...
2023-12-04 13:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostMum’s furious, desperate words slid away from Yuriko’s thoughts. She knew what Damien wanted, and she knew that the next thing that would happen would be darkness. She hoped that she would wake up with the plane intact, and her allies victorious…
Instead, something else happened.
<... 2023-12-04 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostTwelve Trinity sunblades, five hundred normal sunblades. Yuriko targeted the eight incarnations surrounding the planar core. She didn’t know how her Trinity sunblades would affect the core, and she feared that if they hit, she would doom the plane to complete destruction. The core was what kept...
2023-11-27 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe false ground gave way to Iola Brygos’ Domain. Eli’Theria and the two Legates landed on the true ground not a moment later, facing the odd gate that had stymied Yuriko’s scout sunblades. And it was a gate, taller than two Eli’Therias stacked together, and from the ornate patterns on it...
2023-11-27 13:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostEvery moment, every pace Eli’Theria moved closer to the mining pit, the resistance grew stiffer. After a while, multiples of the Chaos Lords appeared, forsaking the barons and doubling the viscounts. The singular earl became twins and the barrage of Chaos energies grew too much.
Mum silen...
2023-11-27 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Fysalli dumped Yuriko and Sadeen at the edge of the city, which had transformed greatly even after her last visit. Gone were the neat and tidy buildings, and gone were the fruiting trees. Instead, only rubble remained where the outskirts were.
The wall containing the inner city was inta...
2023-11-27 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostIola Brygos’ eyes snapped open just as the wild gust spun her around and around. The view around her was monotonously grey, which was the only reason she didn’t feel nauseated. Grimacing, she stretched her consciousness to reconnect with the borrowed battlewings and set it to hover.
She...
2023-11-27 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post‘That was a strange set of runescript lines you used on your Animus constructs,’ Legate Segawa commented idly as they pushed their way against the darkness. ‘It cut through Domain barriers like they weren’t even there.’
‘Isn’t it?” Sadeen said proudly. ‘Yuri’s an excepti...
2023-11-20 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post‘Baby, you didn’t tell me you advanced!’ Mum pouted as she spoke. Both of them had entered Eli’Theria’s core and Sadeen piped up as soon as the hatch closed. ‘Hie hie! Knight Captain at seventeen! I knew you had it in you!’
‘Er, I just advanced, Mum,’ Yur...
2023-11-20 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post“What do you mean?” Yuriko asked Finan. The young man sighed and nodded for her to come closer.
His hands were flat on the Gemheart and a deep green Animus flowed from his fingers into the artefact. He had his head turned rather uncomfortably in order to talk to her so she went around t...
2023-11-20 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostFor a long moment, Yuriko could do nothing but gape at the breaking skies. The Chaos flows that were normally outshone by the Radiant Sun, began to seep through the cracks. Thick, viscous droplets of multihued, liquid Chaos, almost akin to distilled Chaos droplets but a thousandfold higher in vol...
2023-11-20 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostStaring blankly at the Obsidian Titan’s corpse, Yuriko pursed her lips in deep thought. She flew closer to the head, having an inkling of what she would find. And sure enough, carved on either cheek were the symbols of the Chaos Duke, an empty circle and a crescent moon. The markings didn’t g...
2023-11-20 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“This is not what I expected when told to expect trouble!” Virgil growled as he sighted down his Plasma Caster. He was stationed at the Watchtower’s peak and had been watching the Ritual’s progress when the earth shook and rumbled. Some instinct had him turn around and it was all he could...
2023-11-13 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko was exhausted. Advancing to Transformation, bringing hundreds of barbarian prisoners out, destroying the Chaos Fortress and finding out that she had been part of the reason for its existence, and most importantly, not finding her brother or his fiance. If not for her triumphs, she would ha...
2023-11-13 13:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe ritual chamber lit with Animus fires as Sadeen activated the beacon by investing her Animus, as well as nearly half of the Watchtower’s reserves into the pattern. The lights traced the lines, spiralling out from the chamber, into the hallways, and then out onto the surface, and deep into th...
2023-11-13 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostWith a long-suffering sigh, Sadeen knuckled her back as she pushed away from the ritual surfaces. It had taken a few days but it was finally complete. She cast a critical eye over the runescript lines in the chamber, then split off parts of her consciousness to double-check the rest of the lines ...
2023-11-13 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko felt her body disintegrate. The feeling should have frightened her but Damien’s knowledge and wisdom won the day. It was the beginning of Transformation and it was…unexpectedly nice.
It was as if she got a full body massage, soaked in a hot spring for hours, then got another luxu...
2023-11-13 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostIt suddenly occurred to Yuriko why she had such trouble imitating the swordsman’s waveform attack. While she had used consecutive strikes, and she infused each one with Empowered Strike, she realised that she had infused an equal number of lumens to each blade and that she did little to make th...
2023-11-06 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko crossed the distance between the wall and the struggling barbarian woman in less than a blink of an eye. The wind of her passage blew the women’s hair all over the place, but they showed no more reaction to it than her presence, which was none at all. Except for the struggling woman anyw...
2023-11-06 13:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Chaos swordsman's waveform attack struck again. It was nearly an hour after the first time Yuriko faced it, and while the damage to Eli’Theria’s thigh had been patched over, it was nowhere near closed. However, the damage affected their mobility far less than what could be inferred. Yurik...
2023-11-06 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostResisting the compulsion, and it was a deliberate effect, was simply a matter of using her Will to do so. No one, especially not an enemy, was going to tell her, compel her, to do anything! Yuriko shook her head and felt more than a bit annoyed. Once she examined all of the possibilities, her irr...
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