The sliding door towards the back half of their train was occupied by the overnight cabins and the toilets. Different from most passengers on this long journey, Thurain himself didn't have a cabin ticket. Though of course he didn't need one, since he was just cultivating the entire time. Or...
2020-04-06 06:08:59 +0000 UTC View Post“He's a cultivator! Just look at his robes! Not even a poor person would would wear something this shabby, so he must be a hidden master!” A young girl around fifteen years of age had stood up to support Thurain. While the young cultivator was thankful for her help, there was no reason ...
2020-04-06 06:08:05 +0000 UTC View PostIn eternal struggle, red chased after blue. A giant snake of yang relentlessly chased after a little fleck of yin, fire after water, always round and round in an endless circle, along a course of human design. In their struggle, they ground against the edges of their confinement and got thi...
2020-04-06 06:05:59 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo, people. Hermit here.
As promised, here are the first few chapters of my new novel. Though they're a bit late, to be fair. I've been struggling with the title and character names a lot and I'm still not sure about either, so they may still change.
The novel is a xianxia novel wit...
2020-04-06 06:03:48 +0000 UTC View PostOnce they had made a comprehensive plan of attack, Sumaci finally made her fire and fashioned a torch for Corco to use in his exploration. Now armed with light, as well as an axe salvaged from the shipwreck, he returned back to the center of the island. Meanwhile, Sumaci reorganized the sal...
2020-04-06 05:46:24 +0000 UTC View Post As Mayu stormed towards Corco, his scrunched up face darkened further.
“Where did she go?” he asked from between his teeth. Even from a distance, Corco had been able to smell the alcohol in his breath already. This close, the king had to tilt back his head or he would have go...
2020-04-06 05:43:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe trip back through the island wasn't a long one for Corco. While in reality, the place was larger than in his cartoon imagination, it was still small enough to be crossed on foot in a single day, at least so long as one didn't lose his direction. Though he didn't have a working compass w...
2020-04-06 05:41:11 +0000 UTC View PostHello, hermit here.
Yes, I just got finished posting the 24 chapters I've owed. Honestly, the inconsistency has become a huge problem. For me it's mostly a combination of bad luck, stress and anxiety that keeps causing issues.
I ruined my hand in February, which meant I cou...
2020-04-01 05:45:03 +0000 UTC View Post “While you were away, there has been a message from Arguna.”
When the king entered his study again, Fadelio was already greeting him with new work before he had sat down.
Just like Corco had expected, when he returned to Rapra Castle his responsibilities were pilin...
2020-04-01 05:30:23 +0000 UTC View PostIn a different life, during his youth, Corco used to love old cartoons. To him, the cliché imagery of a person stranded on a lonely island had always possessed an innocent charm. The tiny island in the form of a half-sphere, made entirely of perfect, yellow sand and surrounded by endless w...
2020-04-01 04:02:50 +0000 UTC View Post A violent cough assaulted Atau, which caused him to drop the cup in his hand, and the drink with it.
Ever since he had experienced his first sip, the admiral had been a big fan of coffee. So when the dark-skinned foreigner had pushed a cup with a steaming, brown drink into his ha...
2020-04-01 03:32:43 +0000 UTC View Post“And under the crystalline shore
Not anger nor sorrow remain
Their hearts were no more as before
The sun would rise once again”
Atop the stage, the musicians performed their final song of the night. Most of the patrons of the Amber Cup taver...
2020-04-01 03:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post In the end, Sami and Chanca had found a place for themselves soon after, but it wasn't the place they had envisioned.
With a drawn-out sigh, Sami glanced through the dimly lit tavern as he brushed off the counter top and got ready for the evening. This place looked un...
2020-04-01 03:28:42 +0000 UTC View PostNever before had Sami felt this cold in summer. Though he really shouldn't have been surprised, since that was exactly what he had signed up for back in Vallunaraju. His home had always been a cold place. Dominated by fishermen, lumberjacks, and endless ice, Vallunaraju used to be one of th...
2020-04-01 03:26:59 +0000 UTC View PostWhile the signs of nature within and around Harkay improved Ulan's mood a lot, they didn't help her find work, or a place to sleep for the night. As she looked around for either, she soon realized that her options for work were in fact quite limited. Her previous plans had been to find a ri...
2020-04-01 03:25:54 +0000 UTC View Post A single bad day was all it had taken to uproot Ulan's precarious life. In the streets of Arguna, she used to be known as the beauty with the silver tongue. Back then, she had sung for whoever would pay her, and she had gained much fame as a result.
But before even those days, sh...
2020-04-01 03:24:49 +0000 UTC View Post Cold winds whipped swathes of water across the deck, harsh enough that the border between sea and air blurred.
“Hold fast!” Atau screamed against the endless roars of the wind. Although he shouted to boost the morale of his men, he didn't know if anyone could even...
2020-04-01 01:04:11 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Itzali had handed the earthen vial back to Naoka, the three men inside the palanquin became silent. Without any further interruptions, they made their way through the gates of the Silver Palace and to the front of the impressive Moonlight Ziggurat. The pyramid made of giant stone bloc...
2020-04-01 01:03:25 +0000 UTC View PostFor the first time in years, the ghost warriors' hideout above the Stone's Throw chess shop had seen a real change in its décor. A soft hum rang through the room now, its source sat atop a large table that took up an entire wall. Where before, everything inside the room had been understate...
2020-04-01 01:02:39 +0000 UTC View PostMellana had been born a noble lady. As one of great general Atoc's daughters, she had been afforded special treatment from birth. All her life, she had been special, unique even among the noble warrior descendants of the capital. Even sons and daughters of the high noble houses would have t...
2020-04-01 00:40:29 +0000 UTC View PostAbove Itzali's head, the tent flapped in the wind. Like a river that washes away the dirt, a fresh breeze rushed through and swept away the stench all around, if only for a moment. As the doctor took the brief respite to wipe the sweat and grime away from his face, his eyes followed the pat...
2020-04-01 00:38:39 +0000 UTC View PostKing Corco's study hadn't changed much since Antaya's last visit, but the changes were impossible to overlook nonetheless. Ever since she had entered the room, she had been asked to just sit there, while the king and her son Fadelio had worked on some strange automaton on the king's desk. F...
2020-04-01 00:37:11 +0000 UTC View Post Damn, damn, damn!
Over the past few days, Kizco hadn't slept very well. In his nightmares, the motionless face of a noble lady with a stern face and sharp eyes kept appearing. It was the same face he had seen again and again at his old work place, where he had pretended ...
2020-03-31 23:55:52 +0000 UTC View PostOnly five days after the fire in Saniya's flintlock manufactory, regular operations were about to resume. At first, there had been an extensive investigation, with police everywhere in and around the building. In the end however, the fire had been declared an accident by the police and any ...
2020-03-31 23:52:56 +0000 UTC View PostWhile the city's police was busy preventing a panic outside Chukru, the scene on the island itself wasn't the nightmare scenario many would have expected. All across Medala, a city fire would be a major catastrophe. After all, much of Medalan housing was built from wood and straw. Even in A...
2020-03-31 23:51:40 +0000 UTC View PostEarlier, when the apprentices had entered the manufactory's hall, the street outside had been almost empty. By the time they returned back to the light, the roads were packed with people. However, the crowd of Saniya wasn't in its usual constant flow. At this moment, the entire city had hal...
2020-03-31 23:50:40 +0000 UTC View PostFrom the time the sky over Saniya had still been dark, a row of young apprentices had stood at the ready in front of the city's newest manufactory. Now that dawn broke, some were tired and some were antsy, but none of them dared to move. After all, the chance they had been given was special...
2020-03-31 23:48:56 +0000 UTC View PostAround the time Antaya and her two children were enjoying their afternoon stroll, Corco was looking through the list of doctors he had received from Tama just before she had left. Although he called it a list, it was a series of extensive documents, so they deserved a closer look. After a w...
2020-03-31 23:47:52 +0000 UTC View PostWhile much of Saniya had been rebuilt since Corco's takeover, the public bath was still the same as it had always been. Just like in most of Medala's cities, the public bath of Saniya was a center of communal activity. The grand construction with its endless closed-off pools and halls of st...
2020-03-31 23:46:26 +0000 UTC View PostOn Antaya's journey through Saniya's old town, she was astonished by the familiar images around her. Although she had never been to Saniya before, it looked much like Arguna did: A chaotic mess of activity, with much of its social life going on in the wide streets of the city or in the open...
2020-03-31 23:45:21 +0000 UTC View Post