Garahm eyed the unassuming metal ball on his palm, his eyes narrowing even as every single scanner he’d set loose upon it came back with a negative; the artifact was not corrupted and neither was it tampered with. For all intents and purposes, it was pure. But still, he had to make sure; after ...
2024-02-08 17:38:27 +0000 UTC View Post“Get the children inside!” Sereen roared her command at the other Scrappers around her, the amateurs who’d frozen in fear and terror when their allies started dying and their houses started blowing up. Tsk, damn greenhorns. If death and explosions were all it took to make them freeze, then ...
2024-02-05 15:47:28 +0000 UTC View PostThey moved quite fast, actually, almost blindingly fast. Satoru was quite certain he wouldn’t have been able to follow or even perceive the movement of their ships if it wasn’t for Six-Eyes granted him incredibly perception. They were pretty big too, each one probably the size of a larg...
2024-02-02 10:34:53 +0000 UTC View PostHis eyes snapped open in the darkness. It was cold and damp, and somewhere in the darkness was the incessant sound of droplets falling into a puddle. His whole body ached. It felt as though he’d been run over by a tank and then some. But he was alive and, more importantly, he could move. And so...
2024-02-01 08:59:21 +0000 UTC View Post(Guardsman's Game)
- the Primarch who's coming back is... ding ding ding... Konrad Curze. He'll be having a redemption arc, wherein he learns to properly use his precog powers, faces the reality that he was a horrible person and that he could've changed his ways if he bothered to t...
2024-01-30 13:15:10 +0000 UTC View PostThragg passed through the force field, a whole section of which cracked and shattered around him as though it hadn’t been there at all, as though it hadn’t been powerful enough to shield the mother ship from hundreds of metric teratons’ worth of kinetic energy, the power to punch through wo...
2024-01-29 12:55:57 +0000 UTC View PostThat could’ve gone worse, Satoru would be the first to admit; it could’ve gone a lot worse. Because, as it turned out, the corrosive nature of True Negative Cursed Energy was a lot stronger than he’d first expected, which was a good way of saying he’d underestimated it quite severely, res...
2024-01-29 08:20:14 +0000 UTC View Post“In the name of the Emperor, go in peace and live your life in honor of his name.” I said to the soldier who’d previously suffered burns across the breadth of his entire body, his flak armor melting and joining into his skin in numerous places and other places where the skin had been burned...
2024-01-29 06:14:52 +0000 UTC View PostExotic metal melted into hissing, sizzling molten slag as Thragg tore through the walls of the alien ship at a velocity that was approaching the speed of light. He could’ve gone much faster, of course – much much faster – but he was far too close to the planet he was protecting and any fast...
2024-01-23 08:53:42 +0000 UTC View Post“In about a day or so.” Satoru continued, shrugging. Larkin seemed frantic, but the man was likely worried over nothing. After all, an unspoken portion of his Binding Vow with Kairos essentially implied that the big blue bird couldn’t and wouldn’t try to kill him; disabling the s...
2024-01-22 08:41:38 +0000 UTC View PostCustodes...
The gargantuan ship hovered over the refugee camp, shining like a beacon of gold in an endless darkness, which was amazing considering the fact that it was morning. Rays and beams of sunlight glimmered off its shimmering surface, the images and sculptures of saints and heroes se...
2024-01-21 11:01:06 +0000 UTC View Post(Guardsman's Game)
- The introduction of a much much younger Katarinya Greyfax pretty much seals the timeline. We now know that it's definitely NOT the same century as Guillman's resurrection. But, I still haven't made up my mind about when this is.
- Duncan will become a major character, ...
It did not take him long to notice the absolutely gigantic thing that appeared to be waiting for them in the distance. It did, however, take him far longer than he would’ve liked, to recognize the ring of Cursed Energy that was slowly, but surely, pulling their vessel towards ...
2024-01-16 01:33:34 +0000 UTC View Post“Your mother is dead.” Thragg said plainly and quickly. And Argall stiffened at the news – only very briefly glancing at the Rangdan creature in Thragg’s grasp.
There was no need to sugarcoat the truth of it to spare his boy from pain and grief. No need to lie when reality was so mu...
2024-01-15 06:05:24 +0000 UTC View Post“May I heal you?”
“Yes, by the God-Emperor, please.”
“Here you are; good as new. Now go and serve the Imperium of Man in the best way you deem fit. And may the God-Emperor be with you always.”
“Praise be to the Master of Mankind!”
“Next!”
“Hey, dude; wake up.” Satoru slapped Larkin’s face to try and get him to wake up, but the man stubbornly remained unconscious. The same was true for Tanya, but Satoru slapped her too, just in case. A quick look with Six-Eyes told him that an incredibly powerful burst of Cursed Energy had ov...
2024-01-08 21:26:50 +0000 UTC View PostWithout cultists and traitors or enemies, in general, to slow down my approach, I reached the territory of the City of Halfor after a mere hundred or so hours of constant running. Halfor, unlike Kuresh, was not a monstrous mega-city that stretched on for what seemed like thousands of kilometers i...
2024-01-08 08:21:17 +0000 UTC View PostThunder boomed from the sky and the ground shook beneath them.
Thragg’s eyes narrowed, his gaze turning upwards through the ceiling. His ears caught the thrum of engines, the thunderous beats echoing like war drums in the sky. Thragg knew that sound well. He knew it quite intimately, in f...
2024-01-05 14:17:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe clouds surged before his eyes and, before either Larkin or Tanya could, Satoru saw the stars in the distance, the infinite vastness of the cosmos unraveling before him. His Six-Eyes saw all of it; the light from the distant stars, the radiation from the nearby sun, the waves of dark energy th...
2024-01-03 11:04:25 +0000 UTC View Post“You do not want your name to be known to those you saved?”
The God-Emperor and I were... somewhere that both existed and did not, a place that wasn’t entirely physical, but solid enough that I was able to look down and watch and smile as the world that I’d struggled so hard to save...
2024-01-02 14:35:16 +0000 UTC View Post“You... don’t want to use your powers against the aliens?” Argall’s eyes were confused, frustrated even. But Thragg couldn’t blame him. After all, if he interfered, then this whole thing would be over by tomorrow. The aliens would cease to exist and, likely never come back in fear of hi...
2023-12-30 11:12:04 +0000 UTC View Post"I never did ask for your name," Satoru said, approaching the duo. The father was hard at work, while his daughter just kind of squatted by his side. Satoru expanded his senses. If anything with Cursed Energy approached them, he'd know. Thus far, there didn't seem to be anything for several kilom...
2023-12-28 09:36:49 +0000 UTC View PostAh, finally; I didn't think you'd ever finish the tutorial section. Good job. The others and I have been pleasantly entertained by your performance, thus far; so, keep it up. Honestly, I didn't expect you to somehow turn the Balrog to your side – oh, yeah, that's happening, even if ...
2023-12-27 09:37:18 +0000 UTC View Post"Father, what happened up there?" Thragg did not miss the look of concern on his son's face, the slight narrowing of his eyes, and the furrowing of his brows. The boy felt it, then, that surge of magic that came from the sorcerer. Did anyone else feel it? Thragg wondered. Or was it only his son? ...
2023-12-26 13:37:04 +0000 UTC View Post"That's a... strange name." Thragg said, shrugging as he grabbed a book, a compiled and refurbished work of numerous Scrappers, detailing everything they knew about the Dragons. Thragg knew little about the strange metallic beasts and so did everyone else. The book itself was about as thick as hi...
2023-12-26 13:35:24 +0000 UTC View Post“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!” The father and daughter screamed hard as the three of them reappeared over the clouds and immediately began plummeting down, right above the hangar’s supposed location. He ignored the duo for a moment and left them to their screaming. Instead, Satoru turned ...
2023-12-22 14:06:06 +0000 UTC View PostPower flooded me. Raw, untamed, and unrestrained. The eldritch energies that fueled the [Reaper Form] was not exactly [Warp Energy] in itself, but something else entirely, merely converting the [Warp Energy] that I absorbed into more of the actual stuff that fueled it. Regardless, the power that ...
2023-12-20 15:29:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe Balrog’s essence was akin to liquid fire and absorbing it was wholly different from that time I drunk a Daemon’s essence and reduced the creature to nothing. The Balrog was... as close to infinite as things could possibly get. However, its well of power wasn’t exactly bottomless – not...
2023-12-19 13:46:40 +0000 UTC View Post"It is undeniably a Gamer."
"Are you certain of this? Have you verified it with your senses?"
"I descended upon that obscure planet— even their revered golden deity failed to detect my presence. I had to assume the form of a grotesque creature, but I confirmed it firsthand. It was, ...
2023-12-18 11:24:55 +0000 UTC View PostIt was dead.
I stared at it for a moment longer, my brows furrowing as my eyes narrowed.
Why was it dead?
What killed it?
Where did I go wrong?
Hmm, I knelt down and examined the carcass a little closer. Ah, so that was the problem. Its metabolic rate was so freakish...
2023-12-14 11:08:37 +0000 UTC View Post