Lucille Sybil Kinnock idly fiddled with her shoulder-length silver hair while her chauffeur drove the landcrafter down Rumiga Boulevard. Their destination was the Imperial Provincial Palace of Rumiga, an opulent affair that doubled as the Imperial Territories’ centre of state. It housed the adm...
2021-06-14 13:16:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe morning sun hit Yuriko’s eyes the moment she opened them. She winced at the glare, snuggled into her blankets and dislodged Hunter Kitty from his nest between her legs. His claws punctured through the cloth and caught on her pyjamas, his distressed yowls waking her up completely.
“G...
2021-06-14 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Brother, I can’t see!” Kiruna complained. She scratched at the woven cloth covering her eyes. “I wanna see!”
“No, Kiru, you need to rest them,” Lukas said tiredly.
Lukas glared at Aengus, one of the few he actually knew from the Council. They shouldn’t have come here...
2021-06-07 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Yuriko woke up, the odd pressure was gone. She rubbed the sleep off her eyes, and threw off her blankets only to be greeted by an annoyed yelp.
“Oh, sorry Hunter Cat,” she yawned.
She was back in the shelter with Millie, Maryn, and Ishika. As she rubbed the sleep off her eyes...
2021-06-07 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Oy, oy, don’t you have any detection Spells?” Charlene poked Kiyo’s side. “Those Chaos Lords escaped the bombardment, you know.”
“One of them was crushed,” Kiyo rolled her eyes. “It’ll take a while for them to regenerate a Corpus. And no, I don’t have any ‘detection...
2021-06-07 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko’s sword dance Animus circulation pattern had been active from the very beginning and by now, it had consumed more than half of her remaining reserve. Just keeping it up wasn’t a problem, it was when she attacked and parried that incremental Animus was lost.
Her mind raced as soon...
2021-06-07 13:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostDanazzo Talwen Aralka resisted the urge to glance to his right, where that girl, Yuriko Davar, walked beside him. His squad was a makeshift team composed of nine regular Agaza students with him, a member of the Elite class, as their leader.
He’d lived in Rumiga City for the better part of...
2021-06-07 13:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko hurried down the bloodstained tunnel, keeping her paying as much attention to what she could hear. Every now and then, one of the ceiling light panels worked, though that meant islands of light in a river of darkness and shadow.
“How much blood did this guy lose?” she wondered. 2021-06-01 14:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The pressure bearing down on Lukas forced him to his knees. But as bad as it was to him, he knew that it was worse for Kiruna. He forced his head to turn, so he could look at his little sister. She lay on her belly, hands flat beside her head, facing away from him.
She had stopped tre...
2021-06-01 13:46:00 +0000 UTC View PostWhile the girls near the door recoiled at the boy’s words, Yuriko hurried up to him and pulled him inside. She took a quick glance down the hallway but didn’t see anything, even after she activated Enhanced Senses on her eyes. The absolute darkness of the underground proved a rather effective...
2021-06-01 13:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostKiyo sat on her desk early that morning, keeping a careful eye on the skyline visible from her window. The storm had begun to landfall and the skies were momentarily clear. There was quite a bit of time yet before it began and she should seek shelter.
Honestly, it was quite unnecessary for ...
2021-06-01 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few minutes flowed like mud. Krystal could barely keep sight of the monster. One moment, it was standing in the dark, the next, it was charging at them, hands tipped with razor-sharp claws extended to rip into flesh.
Krystal was the one closest to it with Heron just behind her. Ani...
2021-06-01 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAs thanks for joining us on this journey, we're releasing an extra 5 chapters for all tiers tomorrow, 9:00 PM GMT +8. We'll be going back to our regular release schedule next week but meantime, we hope you enjoy!
- L and R
2021-05-31 14:16:00 +0000 UTC View PostKrystal resisted the urge to tap her foot on the stone hallway, or snap her fingers, or shuffle step while marching. It was just so…uniform and serious, she thought.
She, Mikel, Heron, and Danika, were wearing their Agaza uniform, carrying Plasma Lancets, collapsible spears, side-blades, ...
2021-05-31 14:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostThat evening, Yuriko sat in a meditative pose on her bed and continued her experiments. The afternoon had been spent shopping at the Provisioner’s Lane with the Foster twins, who arrived at the gatehouse waiting area a few minutes after she’d completed her quick practise.
The trip there...
2021-05-31 13:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe next couple of days passed by in a blur. Yuriko’s classes had been cancelled and the students were preparing to weather the coming Chaos Storm.
“It’s expected within five days,” Master Alfein announced when she met them in the classroom. “Classes will resume afterwards. For no...
2021-05-31 13:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Who are you?”
The question hung in the still air while everything around her ground to a halt. The dreamscape Yuriko found herself in every time she used her Facet grew still. The rolling hills, the long green grass, even the leaves fluttering in the wind, everything simply froze.
<... 2021-05-31 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostEmyr Oona Kinnock strode down the Northwing Hallway of the Kinnock’s ducal palace alone.
He left his room just a couple of minutes ago, right after coming home from the Academy. A messenger crane from his mother had been waiting on his desk, fluttering its paper wings to keep itself barel...
2021-05-31 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“They’re frightening,” Ella-Mai said to Yuriko after one of Master Alfein’s classes. “My family has a storm shelter under the house with the walls almost completely covered in runescript to bleed away the ambient Chaos.” She shivered. “When it gets too much, mini bolts of lightning ...
2021-05-24 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe days passed and the inclement weather worsened. Yuriko spent much of her time training both the Golden Silhouette’s Animus techniques and Master Alfein’s skill cube. She kept training her body in the mornings, except during Sixthdays, the day when she had reserve officer training.
U...
2021-05-24 13:46:00 +0000 UTC View PostTock tock tock.
“Come in.”
Yuriko pushed the door open to Master Alfein’s office, revealing a smallish room that was mostly bare except for a desk and three armchairs: one behind where the cat-eyed instructor sat, and two facing together in front of it. The window behin...
2021-05-24 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe innkeeper brought over Yuriko and Krystal’s afternoon tea set the next minute, balancing a tray carrying the pot, the tiered cake stand, and their place settings over his shoulder.
“This is our famous Sunset Mellow Tea,” Barnaby said gaily. “A mix of Zarek Mountain tea and kaf r...
2021-05-24 13:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post“One, two! One, two! Keep it up, keep it up! Raise those knees, keep those backs straight!”
Thud, thud, thud, thud!
Yuriko followed the cadence easily, jogging in formation along with the rest of the cadets in her group. There were a hundred cadets to a cohort, each divid...
2021-05-24 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostWe are now all caught up again. :)
Thank you so much for your patience and understanding and we hope you continue watching Yuri's (and everyone else's, too!) story unfold.
- L and R
2021-05-18 14:26:35 +0000 UTC View PostAshley Sommer Gin hummed as she strode down the dirt path between fields. Large, wide steps, with her legs stretched out as far as they would go. Her back was heavy with her family’s supply pack. Planting day was still several weeks away, but the fields had to be tended and made ready, especial...
2021-05-18 14:24:18 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko ensconced herself in her room with her heart still racing. She’d nearly run from Aneurin’s Asmund Hall to the Golden Willow. Heron and the twins weren’t the only ones who tried asking her to the cotillion. Nearly a dozen boys and an odd girl met her by the entrance. She excused herse...
2021-05-18 07:13:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe Seeker of Delights waited behind a veil. She watched the human speak with her master, watched them dither over the meerest detail. All the while, her heart pounded with a furious rhythm, and a hunger gnawed at the edge of her mind.
Losing her Corpus to a whelp, at the cusp of victory, s...
2021-05-18 06:36:29 +0000 UTC View PostSwish!
Yuriko ducked and avoided a wooden ball that would have hit the back of her head. With a quick twist of her waist, she evaded the next one, and with a sweep of her arm, parried the third with her palm. She dashed forward on the narrow beam that was less than the width of her...
2021-05-17 14:06:45 +0000 UTC View Post‘Who are you?’ Yuriko thought furiously. She directed it to, well, her mind since she didn’t really know how else to address the voice. Given the fact that it had responded to her thoughts, maybe she didn’t really need to direct it anywhere.
She waited in silence while Master Alfein...
2021-05-17 13:26:06 +0000 UTC View PostHello, everyone!
Between getting vaccinated and participating in an unexpected vaccination drive in our neighbourhood, the past week has taken a bit of a toll on us and our schedule. For this week, there will be a slight delay in the Jade posting. The chapters will be completed tomorrow mor...
2021-05-17 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post