Even while drowning, Lexie subconsciously opened up her system screen and called her cards, but it was difficult to think straight long enough to choose one.
Even as a card–she didn’t know which–fell into her hands, she couldn’t call out the magic from it. Something had wrapped arou...
2025-06-17 22:17:15 +0000 UTC View PostLexie had seemingly walked right into a school assembly.
That was the only way to describe the scene. The hall was filled with about three people in uniform robes and on a raised stage sat about two dozen adults, who she guessed were the professors. It reminded her very much of the sc...
2025-06-16 22:39:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe man didn't respond, no matter how many times Lexie prompted him. Finally, she gave up and headed out to answer her father’s call.
She was still unsettled as she bounded down the stairs and questions plagued her. How on earth did that guy know her name? Was she hacked somehow? Co...
2025-06-12 23:03:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe Undernet was like the NET in its most stripped-down version. It was a whole different layout, arranged in panels with everything sort of just there, messy and disorganized. Most of the sites didn’t have a name, only links that were dots and numbers. Opening one of them sent her to a forum, ...
2025-06-11 23:07:30 +0000 UTC View Post“Did I ever have a birthday party?”
It was the first thing Lexie said the next morning, during the most melancholy breakfast they’d ever had. Neither father nor daughter had spoken much, except Aiden when he was checking up on her. He’d asked her how she was feeling this morni...
2025-06-10 23:13:56 +0000 UTC View PostFor a handful of seconds, Lexie didn't know what to say or do. She was frozen on the last rung of the steps, staring at the famous S-Rank Hero standing in her living room.
Stella also didn’t seem to know what to say. She stared back at Lexie with a growing watery smile and emotion g...
2025-06-09 22:01:14 +0000 UTC View PostHi all!
I’m back from my little mini vacation. It was very relaxing actually; I rented a beachside lodge and stayed there for a week. Explored nature, learned how to surf (I use the term learn loosely), and caught up on a lot of books and webtoons I previously didn’t have time to read. Als...
Lara hummed as she walked through the crowd, her hands harmlessly tucked in her fatigue pockets.
She was in her combat uniform for the Pierce Military Academy, made up of fatigue pants, a grey top, and similarly dull accessories. The only splash of color in her attire was her recently bleac...
2025-05-19 23:26:34 +0000 UTC View PostHi guys! So we’ve reached the end of Book 2 (for the Villain and Mercenary Tier at least), and I want to give you all a huge thank you for all the support. You guys have no idea how motivating, helpful, and often amusing all your comments, corrections, and feedback have been, especially in grow...
2025-05-09 00:13:14 +0000 UTC View PostNews of the multiple dungeon attacks flooded the NET within a few hours, as System access was restored just a few seconds after they killed the last troll. Lexie found it suspicious, thought that it meant someone was watching, and someone had orchestrated this whole mess, but she didn’t know an...
2025-05-08 23:50:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe past few minutes of Monty’s life had been a chaotic blur. Finding that door in Silas’ mind started it all. Silas had almost wrenched back control, but Monty had twisted his pathway, knocking him out before he could, which of course gave him a throbbing headache, but oh well.
Luckily...
2025-05-07 22:27:28 +0000 UTC View PostAiden felt like his veins were on fire.
His ears rang and his brain hurt as he siphoned mana through too thin an internal tube, releasing it into a blast of force at the monster. It hit straight in its chest, sending it slamming into the building. The troll growled.
Not enough.&...
2025-05-06 20:59:24 +0000 UTC View PostLexie’s failure was marked by the first tremor to hit the earth, radiating outwards by several feet. A rumble followed but it didn’t sound like that of an earthquake. More like the growl of a monstrous creature awakening underneath
Before Aiden and Lexie could react, or do much more tha...
2025-05-06 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostHartville was a port city-state in District 9 whose only bit of political importance was due to its trade route access and history as a neutral meeting point between all the other city-states. Its proximity to Capital City meant that it was typically a pretty safe area, with very low crime. That ...
2025-05-04 23:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostLexie gaped at the field, just as shocked as most of the crowd.
Did Tate just knock out Boris with a kick? That was...impossible. Boris was a Berserker. They had endurance like crazy, and they wouldn't have been knocked out by anything less than a bazooka. You just had to hope that y...
2025-05-04 00:38:58 +0000 UTC View Post“Do I look okay? Covered up enough?”
Xena sighed. “Lexie, if you were any more covered up, you would literally disappear.” Xena was in her usual leather get-up, fresh from the train station, and Dewie was wearing a green and black polka-dotted bow tie.
Lexie, on the othe...
2025-05-02 23:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLexie frowned at the message, wondering what Shadow was trying to pull here.
Lexie: What do you mean?
Shadow: I mean exactly what I said. Don’t trust him.
Lexie: Okay but you understand that you can’t just tell me that, with no...
2025-05-01 22:53:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe sounds at her window were starting to irritate Lexie. She was trying to nap, which she had been trying to do for the past thirty minutes, but the incessant tapping of whatever bird was outside her window kept interrupting her. Right as she was on the precipice of sleep, it would tap again. Th...
2025-04-30 23:10:32 +0000 UTC View PostThat night, Xena, Dewie, and Lexie had a sleepover, eating pizza and talking just like the old times. Mostly Xena talked, telling them all about her adventures on the Fae Planet. Dewie also pitched in about his classes, and his extra classes, and all the stories Jace had told him about his upbrin...
2025-04-29 20:59:38 +0000 UTC View Post“What are you doing here?” Lexie asked, sitting up in bed as Xena crawled in through her window. The other girl hopped on the floor and Lexie saw that she was wearing brand-new boots, a new leather jacket, and black skinny pants. Her hair was shiny too, like it had been treated with a very ex...
2025-04-28 22:49:55 +0000 UTC View PostExhaustion crawled through Stella as she walked through the front doors. Today was a complete shit show. A string of robberies in District 6, at the same time as a school bus of children being kidnapped in District 8 and a monster attack in District 5. This whole week it had been like that, as if...
2025-04-27 22:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Woah.”
Dee’s comment wasn’t enough to drag Monty from his thoughts. They were sitting in a new trendy underground sports bar in Capital City and way too many people were there. The upscale bar with a touch of gritty was supposed to be the trendiest thing known to man. It just made ...
2025-04-26 22:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostLexie’s body felt electric as she walked through the tunnel leading to the arena. Her breath stuttered in her chest, nerves and anticipation melding until they became one. She flexed her fingers as she went over her plan in her head. She just needed to win. This time she wasn’t bothered with ...
2025-04-25 23:39:47 +0000 UTC View PostAiden didn’t stop trying to talk to Lexie.
He kept sending her texts every night, and it was always sweet stuff that made her feel so much worse about what she was doing. That first night, he sent, “Good night. I love you and I know you need your space, but I’m here when you’r...
2025-04-24 22:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostLexie’s next fight was in just one week, against a girl called Diana.
She was a technomage who also specialized in long-range attacks much like Lexie did. Luckily, Diana had been fighting in the underground and amateur spaces for some time, which meant there were already videos of h...
2025-04-23 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostLexie remained frozen as the applause thundered around her. Tank was still on the floor. For a second, she was concerned she’d done something to seriously hurt him. She’d tried to properly modulate the card but in the rush of everything that had happened, she feared that she had not paid enou...
2025-04-22 22:11:35 +0000 UTC View PostTate’s fight lasted a whole twenty minutes and he dominated every single second of it. At least to Lexie’s eye, he did. The announcer still referred to Tate as the underdog, exclaiming in surprise every time Tate pulled off a proper offense.
“Oh and look at that! Down goes another lim...
2025-04-21 22:34:27 +0000 UTC View PostLexie spent the day before her fight watching the video Cara mentioned again. As much as she tried to resist, her brain warning her that watching herself on video would probably be cringe-inducing, she did it anyway.
There were about ten videos uploaded about it, but only the top one ...
2025-04-20 22:28:25 +0000 UTC View PostLexie bolted up in bed as she opened the text from Xena.
It read simply, Can't Talk. Tell Emma to stop calling so many times.
Lexie read over those two lines again and again, trying to decipher a hidden meaning from it, but nothing was coming to mind. Could it r...
2025-04-19 22:11:31 +0000 UTC View PostA week later, Lexie stared down at the cards spread before her.
She blinked at it and wondered if she had truly done it. If she'd really made the Lexie defense deck.
It truly seemed like she had. It wasn’t done, but so far, it had everything she wanted. The malleability, and t...
2025-04-18 23:14:37 +0000 UTC View Post