Greedy fools, all of them!
Vainqueur could smell their treachery. They all lusted for his hard-worn gold. “Minions, get out!” the dragon called from outside the pyramid, crushing the statue of the vile Furibon underfoot. “Minions! Minions!”
He had activated the Blinkb...
2020-04-02 16:18:36 +0000 UTC View PostTime to choose April's Vainqueur interlude! Also, as some of you may already know from the discord, I will soon start publishing a patron-commissioned story, "Never Die Twice," here on Patreon (planned schedule two chapters a week). The story will be fully accessible to all patrons, regardless of...
2020-04-01 12:57:21 +0000 UTC View PostBeautiful.
Simply beautiful.
Vainqueur had never seen such an exquisite city. Everything, from the pavement to the walls, was made of gold. The builders had even painstakingly recreated an entire park, replacing the flowers, trees, and grass with superior golden dupl...
2020-03-30 17:30:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe sun was high in the sky, yet darkness had taken over the earth.
Vainqueur could sense it all. The grim nightmares that awaited them behind the trees. The malevolence lurking at the heart of the jungle, the disgusting stench of paupers grasping for the gold of the well-to-do. The s...
2020-03-27 21:21:57 +0000 UTC View PostVictor’s hands had transformed into snakes, and his legs into tentacles, but otherwise, everything was fine.
The world had turned orange, and the stars into red eyes looking down on him. The pyramid now looked like a Freudian representation of pent-up sexual energies, and the spirit of sl...
2020-03-25 16:17:35 +0000 UTC View PostCongratulations! For helping your master defeat King Wotan and trapped his right-hand woman’s soul in your scythe, you have earned a level in [Weathermaker] and a level in [Reaper]!
Disaster! The worshipers of Sablar, worm god of destruction, have made their way to the New World! The vile Frank the Anark has captured Oriane, princess of the wood elves t...
2020-03-21 16:35:14 +0000 UTC View PostFire and ashes.
That was what Vainqueur’s world had been reduced to, as he kept battling that fomor who just wouldn’t die!
Warning! You have lost half your health!
The dragon ignored the pain, as Wotan’s spear gored through the sca...
2020-03-19 12:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post“I suggest we run,” Manling Victor pleaded to his master.
The dragon glanced down at his minion. The two had gathered, alongside Sweet Chocolatine—why a disaster happened whenever his lackey prepared to breed, Vainqueur would never understand—in the tropical forest to make their sta...
2020-03-17 14:09:51 +0000 UTC View PostVainqueur had to give it to Grandrake. Nobody would try to steal a hoard hidden here.
Springing from both the waters and the air, a huge tornado formed an impenetrable barrier of swirling winds in the middle of the ocean. Unlike other similar phenomenons, this particular twister did n...
2020-03-14 15:14:21 +0000 UTC View PostShopping for princesses was morally right!
It was true that Vainqueur hadn’t eaten a minion in a long while… and that he had come to realize that they had feelings beyond serving dragons… but catching princesses was a dragon’s duty! He also ate manlings on occasion, just not h...
2020-03-12 18:38:52 +0000 UTC View PostVote for Vainqueur's march interlude!
1) Jolie Dragon vs the World
On a quest to discover new lands with her minions (and her favorite friend, Kia), Jolie Dragon has finally the princess of her dreams! One problem: to catch the wild beast, she must fight the evil cult...
2020-03-11 17:50:20 +0000 UTC View Post“My crown…” Vainqueur mourned, as he rested on the ship’s deck. “My imperial crown…”
“I know, Your Majesty,” Manling Victor reassured him, while his undead dwarf lackeys oversaw the pirates. After salvaging whatever they could from the shipwreck and raising their dead mini...
2020-03-10 15:58:10 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Victor started regaining consciousness, it was with a mouth full of sand, and his armor drenched in saltwater.
His entire body was in pain, his nerves scrambled by the dragonslaying lightning. His head hurt, and his ears struggled to distinguish sound from his newfound tinnitus.&...
2020-03-07 09:43:01 +0000 UTC View PostAfter so long, the fateful day had come.
The Piggybank ship, after a long time being repaired, was now ready to cross the ocean and reach the New World. The golden aircraft shone brightly under the sun, Vainqueur marveling at his own perfect reflection on its surface. His elite lac...
2020-03-05 21:37:05 +0000 UTC View PostLike a savior, Vainqueur’s friend rode through the portal, riding on his dark horse’s back.
He looked exactly the same as the day he left, covered by his armor and swinging his scythe. Yet his posture had changed. He seemed more confident, with his back straight and his shoulders ...
2020-03-03 11:05:32 +0000 UTC View Post“This is an excellent idea for an artifact,” Isabelle Maure said. “But without Hell’s Prime Contract to which all souls are bound, it will never work. You will need to summon and convince all...
2020-02-28 16:47:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Vainqueur! Vainqueur! Vainqueur!”
Carried by the voices and adoration of his fans, Vainqueur descended upon his Golden Colosseum while the roof opened on its own. The sun shone on the glittering golden ...
2020-02-26 19:26:09 +0000 UTC View PostVeran, goddess of war and fire, knew how to set the stage.
“To graduate from this academy, each of you must craft a personal artifact, according to our guidelines,” she declared, the ceiling flickering with phantom flames. Hiding her whole body behind a thick shell, she looked more like...
2020-02-23 09:33:39 +0000 UTC View Post“... you are asking me which school my minions must go to?” Vainqueur asked the ‘interim council’ from atop his hoard, more irked with each passing second.
“No, Your Majesty,” Tasty Miel replied. “We ask you if you would kindly ban vile satanic schools, and to enforce th...
2020-02-21 16:51:21 +0000 UTC View PostFour.
Four hours.
Victor had only left for four hours, and she already hated, hated, hated her job!
“Minion! Minion!” The dragon repeated the word with a stronger, higher pitched voice each time, as if he thought his victim too deaf to hear him. “MI...
2020-02-19 14:00:28 +0000 UTC View PostHi there, just informing you Vainqueur's chapter 72 should be up late on Wednesday rather than today.
The reason being that I've moved out (permanently) from France to Tunisia so I'm currently dealing with a few formalities; I just got internet today, I have to open a bank account etc...
2020-02-18 17:35:26 +0000 UTC View Post“... and here is the contract between V&V and Heaven to authorize the ‘SP covenant.’” Victor handed the council a pile of documents, “It includes the construction of a new hospital, schools, and angelic public teletransports.”
Since his mansion hadn’t been rebuilt since th...
2020-02-16 18:25:18 +0000 UTC View PostHi there, I'm upgrading the formula a bit: vote on a location V&V will crash (much to the 'happiness' of the locals) in volume III!
1) Atlantis: Realm of the Mermaids
They say Heaven exists in Outremonde: the mythical island of Atlantis, inhabited b...
2020-02-15 17:12:57 +0000 UTC View Post“El Dorado must be conquered!”
So Emperor Vainqueur declared atop his golden hoard, facing the greatest of his minions. From his chief of staff to Necromancer Jules, Tasty Allison, and Marbré the Dwarf. All speechless before the dragon’s bold declaration.
“For its ow...
2020-02-13 16:44:00 +0000 UTC View PostNoblecoeur hadn’t changed at all.
One of Gardemagne’s greatest cities, located near the eastern mountains and the fallen Harmonian Republic, Noblecoeur had been spared from the horrors of the Century War, making it a refugee center. Those fleeing the advance of the vicious fomors,...
2020-02-11 16:08:10 +0000 UTC View PostVainqueur Knightsbane, First of His Name, Great Calamity of the Age, Defender of the Hoard, Greatest Gladiator, Genius Wizard Presidente, and August Emperor of Murmurin, Ishfania, and the Albain Mountains, bravely fought for the invaders with claws and flames.
The great red dragon, his maje...
2020-02-10 13:56:24 +0000 UTC View PostHere is the compiled, free ebook version of Volume II (current title, "The Year of the Rogues"); I will send a copy by mail to Dracolich patrons as well.
Errors have been corrected, some extras added at the end (the map of the world and the stats of the characters at the end of the vo...
2020-02-05 17:09:48 +0000 UTC View PostChoose the first chapter of volume III!
1) Vainqueur: First Coin
Before it grew into the beautiful golden mountain it is today, Vainqueur's hoard began with one coin. Follow the adventures of Vainqueur the Wyrmling, as he leaves the nest to make a name for ...
2020-02-02 09:12:01 +0000 UTC View Post