Item Call-in Permit — Assembler (GRECKON M19c)
A sophisticated and comprehensive machine-factory packed into the smallest size possible, this unit fills less than twenty square metres and weighs only 34 tons. It can be separated into four parts for transport.
A...
2025-03-14 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostJo sat beside Beth, both of them with their backs against a wall—a wall that was shaking. The dim blue light of the Trade Link lit their faces and the many people around them. Around them, the castle was collapsing, but the Trade Link merely shook slightly. Those near to the doorway reported th...
2025-03-12 17:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai’s body leapt up the tower. Even with his Soul turned a warring tangle, it had accepted the drive the AIs gave it: Move forwards! Climb! And thus this chaotic Soul was able to utilise Symbiotes, to a degree, launching itself upwards.
In the distance a gunship swung through...
2025-03-10 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostPaxolnaz, outside the circle, watched with deep satisfaction. The human was a fool. It had expected it would be forced to endure more difficulties and trickery, but the human had simply… taken the Blade. After all those schemes, it had simply given in at the last hurdle.
The Demon’s exp...
2025-03-07 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostAfter retrieving all of his items and stuffing them into the Big Mouth, Nicolai activated the Cherubic Surgeon Permit. He couldn’t afford to go any longer missing an arm—he would need it for what was to come. On top of that, the surgery should be relatively quick, and wouldn’t require a los...
2025-03-05 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostThere were many mistakes in how they arranged themselves around him, and more in the measures they took before moving off.
They took his weapons and Imbued—they were quite confused by the severed hand with his Sheltering Glove, tucked into his belt—but they couldn’t take his Symbiotes...
2025-03-03 17:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post[Author Note: on RR there was a fair bit of debate/complaints over the 'Karl Returns' chapter. I felt there was some credence to the complaints so I've edited that chapter a bit - now it should be more believable about them letting in the Karl-bug-monster thing in as Karl is less obviously a dead...
2025-02-28 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post‘Piece of shit…’ snarled Vikrum, kicking at the shield. He’d shoot it but he had no ammo. Still, with his great strength he was making good progress. Actually, the punches and kicks seemed to have more effect on the shields than he’d have expected. He’d seen Nicolai somehow using his ...
2025-02-26 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post‘None can pass. In, or out,’ spoke Vikrum with a widening grin and a glance around at the great dome shield that encased the two of them.
‘Good,’ said Nicolai, and attacked.
He and his enemy moved in mirror of one another. Two quick silver feather shields were activated, catch...
2025-02-24 17:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs Vikrum had regrouped his people and moved toward the Coalition, he’d known it would be a difficult fight.
Already he’d lost many people, and after this lighting-quick attack from Viper, he even felt a little threatened himself. It’s unfortunate, he reflected. At this point...
2025-02-21 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai slipped through the castle. Around him moved groups of Chosen, rushing and yelling, but he was unseen by all. Rendered a living shadow beneath his shimmer poncho, his Soul shelled as necessary to hide any ripples.
He was hunting for Vikrum. Now and then he briefly unshelled, feeling...
2025-02-19 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai’s surprise was complete. He didn’t understand how someone could be there, the room had been empty just a second ago when he’d checked and it would have taken someone longer than that—while making significant noise—to pass through it. Even with the Grasping Finger and Pegasi ring...
2025-02-17 17:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe site of conflict between Chosen and Coalition was easily found. Drones sped around towers and gunfire echoed off the stonework.
Nicolai led the others to a vantage point from where they looked out upon a large courtyard. On one side, Chosen hunkered in their cover and buildings, shootin...
2025-02-14 17:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai’s eyes narrowed in response to the guilt he felt from the Modules. They knew what the problem was.
Probably they’re just happy to stay asleep, said Cyberwarfare.
Though capable of tricking any external system, none of the Modules were any good at lying or...
2025-02-12 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostOver the following days the Coalition grew.
Word had spread quick, people passing on Nicolai’s video whenever groups came into contact with one another.
With this, the demand for amenities and guns rose further still, and Nicolai’s business rose to new heights. The Coalition was i...
2025-02-10 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next few days events ramped up. That first time the Chosen emerged they were quick to move and attack anyone spotted moving around. Battles erupted but they stayed minor—in those first days the Chosen were a little battle-shy, not going for big fights and tending to retreat if they suf...
2025-02-07 17:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post‘So. Here we all are,’ said Nicolai, eyeing the big men and big women (status wise, at any rate) around him. Leaders of all the major groups who’d come to join the Coalition. He and the others were here to meet with them. He’d not given them any time to step back and grieve their recent l...
2025-02-05 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai flowed through the castle like an oil leak. He poured through holes in the ground, slid around blockages and squeezed through gaps. He floated over chasms, and used C4 to blow his way through the occasional wall.
In due time he arrived at a great door, one that had been shown in the...
2025-02-03 17:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai was alerted after moving halfway up the stairs, his Soul Sense moving ahead of him as always. He’d seen the door to the safe-place was hanging open. That was wrong: against protocol. The door should never be left open. He had made sure the others understood this.
‘Ready up, ...
2025-01-31 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post[Author Note:
After doing some more edits on Death of an Angel , the chapter ended up very long so I decided I'll split it in half when released on RR. To ensure the patreon releases mirror the RR release in chapter numbers, I'm therefore gonna name this chapter 197 rather than 196. So don'...
2025-01-29 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostPaxolnaz had been stuck down in the depths, slaving for its Master, when it felt the Ripples. Ripples that it understood immediately.
The Denizen had had its bodily form destroyed. Its Soul had been freed.
There could only be one culprit. The fact this had happened in the moment where...
2025-01-27 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post[Author Note:
Hey guys, so some of you mentioned on Monday's chapter that it seemed odd that in spite of finally getting the anti-material rifle, he was basically just chilling and not going to kill the Angel. I thought about that and yeah it didn't make much sense, like that was the whole ...
2025-01-24 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai gazed down at the Major Node forming on his palm. The Node was his world, his entire focus. There was no more.
This is a fight, he told the Thrill. The most important fight. A fight against the world itself, as it tries to keep me down, to deny me.
The Thrill...
2025-01-22 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostUser Interface 376 | User #53,217
- Cultivation
Total Nodes: 1 Major, 5 Minor
Available unconstructed Nodes: 0 Major, 0 Minor
Nodes in progress;
Right Kidney (Finalised: 100%) (awaiting final consolidation...
2025-01-20 17:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostVikrum stood, peaceful and satisfied.
He’d done it, at long last. His Seed was integrated and he was a Cultivator.
From his form extended a singular Soul Sense tendril. Vikrum had been disappointed to find that he was no stronger than any other new Cultivator, in terms of Soul and N...
2025-01-17 17:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostAfter returning to the others, Nicolai had learned that before he’d even defeated Gilvine, the Chosen who had attacked them had left. It had transpired these individuals were less enamoured with Vikrum than the standard fare. After a brief exchange of gunfire between Nicolai’s group, the grou...
2025-01-15 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostShadows wound in thick rivers over the walls, eyes opening up in them, the air pulsing and breathing. The dark knew this was the moment for it to emerge, and it raged that he denied it. It strained at the cage, poured through gaps. Let me join… it whispered and begged, reaching for the...
2025-01-13 17:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai turned a corner and at the same moment saw the AssassinBot modelled Cyborg coming into the corridor at the far end.
She didn’t waste any time, immediately firing at him with the anti-material rifle.
Nicolai hadn’t wasted time either, having ducked back around the corner be...
2025-01-10 17:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day Nicolai was able to arrange multiple trades. Maxine’s work on the radio was paying dividends, as increasingly people within the castle were mobilising, merging together into a coalition against the Chosen.
He had deals with a number of groups, and they set out for the first o...
2025-01-08 17:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostNicolai looked over the items before him. He was in his room, back in the safe place. On the table before him was the Repulsive Burst Symbiote. It appeared as a little round ball, rolling around on tiny legs.
Next to it was half of the Screaming White Face Grass, a small pile of Oma crystal...
2025-01-06 17:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post