John pulled the first window in front of him. “There will be 3 ‘minor’ boons, then a selection of the kinds of spells I can grant you, then one such spell, then 2 ‘greater’ boons and finally one more ‘minor’ boon,” he explained to Nahua. In actual terms, this m...
2024-06-08 07:42:04 +0000 UTC
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John pushed up against Nahua’s mental defences. The wall was not particularly sturdy, but would be soon enough. “That keeps me from reading your surface thoughts,” he told her.
“Wonderful.” Nahua put one of her pawns forwards and John immediately answered with ...
2024-06-07 11:14:21 +0000 UTC
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“A bird of metal?” Nahua asked when she saw the airplane. “What a particular shape for a conjured home.”
“Actually, it’s on wheels,” John told her, but did not stop to explain that to her in detail. She hummed at the suggestion. Even if the Aztec civilization on the Aby...
2024-06-06 05:42:30 +0000 UTC
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“It ain’t normal,” Alabasta said.
“Certainly not.” Atlas was gently spreading oil over the length of his blade. The fluid sparkled in the early sunlight. Tiny bits of alchemically loosened true silver particles within the liquid were attracted to the gaps in th...
2024-06-05 10:15:10 +0000 UTC
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“Let me lead,” Aclysia requested and John nodded.
The dragon maid jumped into the amniotic fluid that had been left in the sack that Xipe-Totec had been sealed in. The vile soup turned solid around her ankles. Raising Tiemarath, she prepared herself to break the dama...
2024-06-04 07:10:41 +0000 UTC
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The god of sacrifice charged again. John spawned two Unstable Arcana’s in his path. The spheres pulsed, covering Huitzilopochtli’s skin in silver, arcane fire. It vanished as quickly as it came, progressing like a flash burn, and left little visible marks.
The goal w...
2024-06-03 08:30:14 +0000 UTC
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Apexus hid in a cluster of swamp grass. The tall plants hid his form well. A number of leeches in the water attempted to draw nourishment from his naked calves. They failed to penetrate the skin and swam on after a while.
From his position, the slime had a good look at A...
2024-05-31 17:22:42 +0000 UTC
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“Hold still,” Glory instructed. The fingers of the golden wraith smeared a salve over the cut on the seer’s throat. It did little to heal the wound, but at least staunched the bleeding. “More vitality to you than I would think,” he complimented her.
“I have b...
2024-05-31 17:08:11 +0000 UTC
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“You sure?” Atlas asked.
Apexus nodded stoically. “We have what we came for. We won’t leave before we slay the Gargant. Might as well lend you a hand.”
“Won’t say no then,” Atlas stated, then was pulled aside in favour of his dryad girlfriend.
2024-05-30 17:30:12 +0000 UTC
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“The Abyssal Aztecs separated their territory into spheres of influence. Their rulership class was headed by three god-warriors that were supposed reincarnations of the lords of the north, east, and west. They, in turn, were underneath their ‘equal but superior’ in the f...
2024-05-30 17:24:18 +0000 UTC
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‘Man, that’s the last thing I wanted to know about the guy,’ Atlas thought and moved his eye away from the tiny pecker the huge Monk had between his legs. ‘Monks sure can be weirdos.’
“Put on some clothes, vulgar creature!” the high elf ranger shouted and n...
2024-05-29 14:53:16 +0000 UTC
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“So, I guess we just stand here and wait?” Korith asked.
“Yup-puh.” Reysha let the end of the confirmation pop, then took another bite of gorilla arm. “Want me to eat you out while we wait?”
“No!” Korith answered.
“I’d wash out my mouth fi...
2024-05-28 14:55:27 +0000 UTC
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“Shhh, shhhhh,” John whispered to Momo.
The fairy maid was trembling. After the initial shock had settled, she had joined them in combat. With all of the ants on the surface reduced to paste, Momo had suddenly tackled him. She was crying and he did not yet fully understand why. H...
2024-05-28 14:50:50 +0000 UTC
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Apexus peeked his head out of the door of the Mobile Estate. His eyes scanned the immediate surroundings of the door. Carefully, he stepped outside. There was nothing behind the minimal space between the door and the tree they had placed it against.
“It’s clear,” h...
2024-05-27 15:03:33 +0000 UTC
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Of all the entities that he would run into, John had assumed that he would have had at least a degree of resistance against the appearance of the god of the fear of death. Media was saturated with this form of death.
Yet, he felt dread at the sight of it.
The Grim ...
2024-05-27 14:53:36 +0000 UTC
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Korith woke up. It was a random awakening, brought about by nothing else than the heat between her legs and in her chest.
The shortstack was pretty used to waking up like this by this point. Sleeping naked in a bed shared with two other nubile women and a massive stud of...
2024-05-26 13:50:13 +0000 UTC
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The Adventurer’s Guild separated its members into ten tiers, signified by cards made from ever rarer kinds of metal.
Copper cards were the lowest of the low. They were so cheap to produce that the service of having them created was free in basically every Guild outpost...
2024-05-25 20:25:45 +0000 UTC
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“Where is it… where is it?” the old lady mumbled.
The reward for the Quest already lay on the table. Four whole gold coins, most of it in silver, carefully counted by Korith and then put into the party treasury by Aclysia. It was the entirety of the reward promised...
2024-05-25 16:52:22 +0000 UTC
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“Could mean sated, could mean hungry, could mean overflowing…” Momo scratched the back of her head, studying the photo prime-John had sent her via Harem Comms. “This is why pictographs suck. They’re super hard to interpret correctly and then they have double meanings...
2024-05-25 16:47:58 +0000 UTC
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It was complete luck.
They had put a grid on top of their assumed path of the road, estimated in relation to where the roads in Tathnuachan met the village border, and were making their way down. Because they were on a timer, they had been assigning higher and lower prio...
2024-05-24 10:48:16 +0000 UTC
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‘This Leaf is truly gargantuan,’ Apexus thought.
High up in the sky, he gazed out over the landscape. He was used to sprawling forests, green plains, and all manners of biomes by now. What he wasn’t quite used to was the sheer scale of sameness in this one. Even hi...
2024-05-23 15:02:13 +0000 UTC
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Two days later.
“I knew it, I knew it, I knew it!”
Momo stormed into the room, grabbing everyone’s attention. She dashed straight past Undine and Siena, in the middle of their chess game, and to the biggest table around. There, she put down a folder of notes and started t...
2024-05-23 12:07:33 +0000 UTC
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The fist connected. Atlas’ speed was more than Apexus had anticipated. Even if he had seen the attack coming, he would have found it hard to dodge. Everyone around was treated to the absolutely absurd sight of a Warrior’s uppercut slamming straight into the underside of a ...
2024-05-22 13:46:13 +0000 UTC
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Thundering song echoed from the Adventurer’s Guild.
Mugs were slammed on tables, creating a beat that nearly drowned out the lute it was supposed to support. Under the guidance of a Bard, a blonde half-elf seated on top of a table, nearly the entire tavern sang along.<...
2024-05-21 14:16:21 +0000 UTC
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John entered the room they kept Fianna in. It was one the nicer segments of the airplane, although its original ornate state was compromised by the moved furniture. Much of the plane’s furnishing was bolted down to stay put in case of a sudden plunge or similar unforeseen ch...
2024-05-21 14:04:53 +0000 UTC
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“It’s been too fucking long,” Reysha groaned. “Can something, please, fucking happen?”
“I would advise against such requests. Unexpected events on the Branches are typically the cause of death by Parasyte,” Aclysia stated, her even voice compromised for a m...
2024-05-20 13:50:03 +0000 UTC
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Getting back to Merida by night had been easy. A cab called, a cab paid an extraordinary sum for the trouble. Just like that, they were back in the city. Abyssal connections had been pulled so Claire could smoothly extract Fianna from the hospital and then be driven back with ...
2024-05-20 12:15:53 +0000 UTC
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Two days of searching later, they found Tathnuachan.
They had been following the strategy and kept following the grid as mapped onto their search area. Still, they were surprised when the pinging Barrier Sense brought them not to some isolated tribe or Abyssal retreat, b...
2024-05-18 12:00:06 +0000 UTC
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“You are aware we are equals?”
“On paper!” the Gamer shouted at the Horned Rat. “You expect me to believe that you don’t have any control over your fellow Triumvirate members, Suel?!”
The god on the other end of the line laughed in its two-toned voice...
2024-05-17 13:03:59 +0000 UTC
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