CHAPTER FOURTY SEVEN
Where he might’ve expected her to plummet like a stone upon losing consciousness, Purrsefone of Sands was surprised—though realistically he probably shouldn’t have been—when the little empress was gracefully let down on a cushion of...
2025-01-20 16:15:10 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER FOURTY SIX
The black scaled Ra’ak Neerian pulled the trigger-!
And a wall of shoddy weaponry—dozens of chipped swords, worn axes, and dull daggers all told—sprung up to oppose him. At the same time, Richard tugged on the mana strings he’d ...
2025-01-20 16:13:53 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER FOURTY FIVE
The burning noonday sun beat down mercilessly on the marching contingent of thugs and cutthroats. Transforming the pack of normally sharp eyed killers, into a troop of half-lidded, half conscious sleepwalkers—resembling a classroom of slee...
2025-01-17 19:55:18 +0000 UTC View PostINTERLUDE (X)
Minutes Earlier.
Alice was already having second thoughts. Of course, she’d known from the very beginning that this was a bad idea, had tried to insist on as much, to little success all around. The others were adamant, and she’d been loa...
2025-01-17 19:54:28 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER FOURTY FOUR
“Oh, quit being such a baby,” his body double chided.
Hand still planted on his chest, his superego did… something, and suddenly, the screaming stopped. The pain stopped. Actually, a lot of sensati...
2025-01-16 16:28:17 +0000 UTC View PostINTERLUDE (IX)
Lucky Lue’s Bed And Breakfast Casino
Lucky Lue’sha’arr’s bed and breakfast casino was a seedy establishment situated near the intersection of two major transit lines. Poor of upkeep and even poorer of renown, it was n...
2025-01-16 16:25:38 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER FOURTY THREE
DAYS LEFT BEFORE RARE CLASS CUTOFF DATE: (4/15)
Like he were setting a match to a fuse, Richard injected a full five points of his mana reserves into the line of powdered mana crystals.
And,
INTERLUDE (VIII)
Corporate Machine Operating Precisely As Intended
Rook Ba’shra looked out over the bustling metropolis from the comfort of his lavish penthouse apartment. Swirling a glass of two thousand year old vintage, he peered ove...
2025-01-15 12:42:05 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER FOURTY TWO
DAYS LEFT BEFORE RARE CLASS CUT OFF DATE: (6/15)
The next of the kids to unlock their ability cubes were Donald, and, surprisingly enough, Skye. Surprising because, unlike Jimmy and Donald, the ability she coalesced thr...
2025-01-13 18:02:22 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER FOURTY ONE
Jimmy Yoon stared unseeing into the depths of the snow covered forest. All of his attention focused intently on his core, his arms, the way his legs were spaced shoulders width apart—stance rock solid, as if anchored to the snow covered ear...
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For what was going to be the last time, so long as he had anything to say about it, the nosy butler with the head of a fish questioned his completely sane and entirely rational decisions....
2025-01-12 23:56:35 +0000 UTC View PostINTERLUDE (VII)
The Power of Peerage
Their second day hunting toy soldiers went significantly better than the first. Not a terribly difficult feat, considering just how poorly their previous escapade had gone. Denise having taken it espec...
2025-01-12 23:55:00 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER FOURTY
As it turned out, consuming the Alpha Cymbal Clang Primate was both, far less of an ordeal than he’d thought, and so much worse than he’d been anticipating. Less of an ordeal because, for whatever reason—be it a quality of their glittery ra...
2025-01-12 23:52:58 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER THIRTY NINE
I’m up! Wha-? Huh!?
Richard sprang to a sitting position, so fast and so suddenly, that he somehow managed to catapult himself into the roof of the tent. Ultimately catching some pretty gnarly air time, but, of course, it co...
2025-01-10 20:14:10 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER THIRTY EIGHT
Richard took the time to polish off the rest of the butchered elite before they finally set out for the clearing. Eventually all that was left was a graveyard of bones, perfectly picked clean, and a pot bellied infant far too full for his l...
2025-01-10 03:02:08 +0000 UTC View PostINTERLUDE (VI)
G.I. Go Fork Yourself
Maya’s head snapped back with a hollow, thump!
“Argh! Son of a birch that hurts!” Maya screamed, falling back on her butt and instantly raising a hand to nurse her throbbing foreh...
2025-01-08 19:35:14 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER THIRTY SEVEN
Question.
How do you bargain with a baby? Scratch that, how do you bargain with a baby that is also, not so secretly, a System born Empress? Rewind a moment, how on earth do you bargain with a baby—that is also a not so secret S...
2025-01-08 19:34:06 +0000 UTC View PostINTERLUDE (V)
Girl’s Trip!
Hours Earlier (Minutes After They First Entered the Forest)
Sunlight shone through the sparse canopy overhead, scattering the quivering umbra of innumerable leaves across the uncannily flat forest floor....
2025-01-08 19:32:37 +0000 UTC View PostUPLOAD SCHEDULE: MONDAY, WEDNSDAY, FRIDAY
I just wanted to say a great big thank you and welcome to everyone who’s decided to become a patron!
I’m doing my best to pump out work I can be proud of, as well as use to entertain you...
2025-01-07 01:01:16 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER THIRTY SIX
“Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers!” Richard grunted, sweat dripping from his brow.
“She sells sea shells by the sea shore!” he groaned, limbs quivering, core burning, bare feet slapping against the rough terrain—th...
2025-01-06 18:33:01 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER THIRTY FIVE
Abilities. What were they? How did they work? And why could you only use so many at a time before your soul began to warp and stretch under the strain?
These were all fantastic questions!
They were also ones he didn’t really ha...
2025-01-06 18:32:00 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER THIRTY FOUR
Well. I think it’s safe to say that could’ve gone better. Admittedly, not my finest moment.
Before anything, Richard reached out and rested a hand upon the cold snout of the towering elite. In this way, seconds later, when...
2025-01-06 18:31:01 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER THIRTY THREE
Time seemed to screech to a halt as their eyes met.
Well, one pair of eyes and a single navy blue gumdrop, but then, really, who was keeping track? Not him, surely.
It’s hatred palpable. Seething. Bearing down on him like a ph...
2025-01-06 18:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER THIRTY TWO
The forested glen was wide and spacious.
Covered in moss and vibrant greenery, with a languid stream carving a line down its center, it was verdant, wild, though still clearly inhabited. Well trodden animal trails radiating out from the...
2025-01-06 18:29:00 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER THIRTY ONE
As they made their way deeper into the well lit forest, jumping over roots and balancing atop fallen moss covered logs, a stark divide appeared amid the gaggle of young children. Two diametrically opposed factions whose thoug...
2025-01-06 18:28:01 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER THIRTY
The children watched in dumbstruck awe as their youngest member weaved through forest and beast alike. Dashing back and forth, over and around. Leading the trio of Candy-Hide Boar’s by the nose, like it was a well choreographed dance n...
2025-01-06 18:27:01 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER TWENTY NINE
“You’re leaving?!” the children chorused with obvious dismay.
A pained grimace flit across the woman, Robin’s, face, before she plastered on a fake smile.
“Only for a little while- and we’ll be back ...
2025-01-06 18:26:01 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT
The warm light of rising dawn broke through the sparse cordon of deciduous trees, burning away the early morning mist blanketing the clearing. Streams of light, like spun gold, pierced the swiftly retreating gloom. Illuminating the myriad b...
2025-01-06 18:24:01 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN
The night was surprisingly warm inside the children’s tent. Maybe a little too warm with everyone crammed together like sardines. Still, it wasn’t as if he could really complain. The walls of the tent provided much needed cover...
2025-01-06 18:23:01 +0000 UTC View PostINTERLUDE (IV)
A Fair & Equal Trade
Asha’s heart raced. In fact it hadn’t stopped racing since the big reveal five minutes ago.
A Duchess, a Princess, and an Empress dock at a way station.
It’s like...
2025-01-06 18:22:01 +0000 UTC View Post