Tsaimath

Chapter 730

It was early afternoon by the time Mrs Wu managed to come by. After feeding Lia some of my Blood, infused with a bit of Astral Power, I started her on some simple martial arts exercises. She needed to have a balanced stance and learn how to throw a punch, how to kick without overbalancing and so ...

Interlude: Survivors' 104

“Ms Samantha, how are we going to do this?” Cheng Hu quietly asks Samantha, uncertain if she has a plan to actually move through the night. Because, given the thick clouds and fading light, it will soon be impossible to continue on normally. They will simply be blind and without being able to...

Chapter 729

It was hair-raising, and not just due to the cold, clammy mist I had conjured. Amusingly, it was only I who truly knew just how close we got to the cattle, the mist was dense enough to dampen any scents and the concealment runes I had imbued into its creation meant that even sounds were deafened....

Chapter 728

After instructing the others to stay back, I channelled power into my cloak, blending into the night, and started to move forward. I wasn’t about to get too close to the shapes I had stopped ahead, I simply had no way of estimating how perceptive they were so I wasn’t about to take any stupid...

Chapter 727

Night hadn’t quite fallen when we began our trek back to town. The skies were completely overcast, a thick layer of clouds blocking the harmful rays of the sun, giving me enough confidence to make the move.

Silva, Lia and I were accompanied by the five people who had come over from the Gy...

Chapter 726

It was a little surreal, getting pulled into what looked like a completely ordinary bedroom, furnished for an older teenager, by a vampire, only to notice movie posters that, quite prominently, featured characters that were, at least according to my sketchy pop-culture knowledge, vampires. Coinci...

Chapter 725

It was early afternoon by the time Lia and I moved back up, into the primary residence. I had warned her about the Curse of the Sun, making sure she knew to stay out of direct sunlight, though even indirect sunlight was somewhat painful. Luckily, the day was overcast, allowing us to move freely i...

Chapter 724

It was fascinating, just how good Lia was at running interference. Not only did she manage to keep Kira from disturbing my rest, she made sure that nobody did. While I had woken up during their conversation, I had remained in a dozing state, not quite awake but also not fully asleep. It was a sta...

Chapter 723

"Mistress, can you grant me a name?” the newly minted vampire asked, looking at me with crimson eyes that seemed to sparkle in the dim gloom of the cellar. Hopefully, that was the only part of her that would ever sparkle, otherwise, I would be the eternal sinner who brought sparkling vampires i...

Chapter 722

Blue windows cascaded through my field of vision, multiple notifications vying for my attention as I felt a surge of power flow through me. The surge wasn’t enough to soothe all my aches, especially that feeling of light-headed ache that settled somewhere within my skull, but it helped to drive...

WO, Ch. 146: Snowpoint City II

Walking was rough, the snow was slowing me down and concealing the terrain below, making it far harder to walk. Luckily for her, Vio was light enough to walk above the snow, without sinking in, or I would have either been forced to carry her or call her back into her Pokéball.

Just as the ...

Chapter 721

More and more of the strangely simple body plan of the Shattered was becoming clear in my mind. It felt almost tragic, these creatures would survive for a time, but they were a dead end. No reproductive capabilities I could detect, making them nothing but monsters that would terrorize the survivo...

Chapter 720

For a moment, I was tempted to simply reject her plea. After trudging through the mud the entire night and too little sleep during the day, I was rather tired and wanted some sleep. But no, she was the hostess, so I should at least hear her out.

“What happened to her? While I have some he...

Interlude: Survivors' 103

Leaving town feels weird. The switch from somewhat narrow roads, with possible danger lurking around the next corner or behind every dumpster, to wide open fields, with only a few shrubs, stands of trees and the ever-prevalent irrigation ditches providing any kind of cover is both disturbing and ...

Chapter 719

The situational awareness of these people was atrocious. There was no other way to describe it, Silva and I had calmly walked down the driveway, stopping maybe ten metres from the fence around the property they were living on and two people had walked past the gate without noticing me. Both were ...

Chapter 718

• AN: Just some horsing around...

Luckily, the scent of death I had smelled didn’t come from the farmstead I was approaching. When I reached the long driveway to the lit farm, the scent was still blown in my face by the wind, roughly coming from the direction I had been...

Chapter 717

Teaching my students was getting more and more interesting. While their practical skills were far from mine, their imagination and ideas were providing a constant challenge, making me question what I thought I knew about magic and oftentimes giving me a new perspective to consider.

Things g...

Chapter 716

“It’s good to see that you keep up your training,” Mrs Wu’s voice ripped me from my trance-like state, causing me to stumble and almost faceplant. I hadn’t paid any attention to my surroundings, completely losing myself in the movement and hadn’t even noticed her arrival. Though, in m...

Interlude: Survivors' 102

• AN: I probably should have slotted this interlude before Ch 709 but it doesn't really change things. Enjoy a look at "other" survivors. 

Five people are sitting around one of the many improvised tables in the Wu’s Gym, the place where the local survivo...

Chapter 715

The rest of the night was dedicated to teaching my three students. With my guidance, they tried their hand at killing Shattered using their magic, though only Kevin was having any real success. But on the skill side of things, they had made great strides, it seemed that experimenting and getting ...

Chapter 714

“Watch well,” I instructed my students, as I made myself somewhat comfortable above the manhole cover. A part of me still wanted to conjure my Throne but I simply lacked the power to do so easily. Maybe at some point I would be able to reclaim it, but for now, it was simply too much expenditu...

Chapter 713

Finding most of my students was easier than I expected, they hadn’t gone far. The sheer novelty of their magic had sent most of them into a bit of a tizzy, even Ling who was quite the sight with her white hair acting in stark contrast to the childish glee all of them were emanating. Only Leon w...

WO, Ch 145 - Deja Vu

• AN: Not too happy with it, I wanted to make the Uxie alien and, to a point, incomprehensible and confusing. Kinda like a robotic librarian, filled with vast amounts of knowledge but no idea how to effectively communicate or teach. Not sure I hit the mark, I might have to rework this at ...
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