This time, he placed the objects he conjured from his sleeve upon the table with his own hand.
Shen choked on his baijiu. His pupils constricted, his face went white. He knew that scroll.
“Did you not intend this for yourself, or should be unable, for your eventual heir-to-be?”
“Of course, I already practice it myself. Ho...
2023-04-23 08:15:47 +0000 UTC View PostOnce more, the saurian looked to Krahe.
“Alright, I get it, I get it, let’s go sit down and you can explain.”
“We don’t have the time. What we need are your services as a pawnbroker. I intend to recover the Silberblut Coupler, and Lady Blackhand has agreed to assist in the endeavor. She is, however, in no state to venture w...
2023-04-22 07:18:17 +0000 UTC View PostThere was no living soul in this world which Xiān Dì would allow to speak to him like this. Indeed, were it not for that soul-bond, Xiān Dì was certain that he would have slain Shen long ago, when he had been more arrogant than he was now. It was this reason, among others, that had led him to avoid his martial brother for many decades; they ...
2023-04-22 02:01:41 +0000 UTC View PostI figured it might be interesting to let readers influence the course of the story in a direct way. If you have any ideas for cultivation methods or artifacts (can be weapons or any other magical item) that you want to see in the story, comment on this post.
If I see something that fits, it might appear later in the story among other culti...
2023-04-21 22:41:57 +0000 UTC View Post“Tell me, Lady Blackhand."
Krahe groaned at him, but he continued.
"What is it that you seek? Besides the obvious answers of accruing riches and power, of striking down evildoers, those self-evident pursuits of any righteous soul; does a transcendent image tug at your soul? I would tell you first, should you wish.”
Finding ...
2023-04-21 04:17:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Seven hundred years to get that Dragonstone back,” he sneered disdainfully, drinking his dish of baijiu. Shen laughed softly at his response, refilling the dish before emptying his own and doing the same.
“But who else to stoke Kristina’s inner demon into foolish action than Zelsys Newman? That Walking Tribulation…” Xiān Dì ...
2023-04-20 18:47:46 +0000 UTC View PostShe returned to the other room and found a small, round box waiting at her side of the table, the medicine box gone. Before she could sit back down, Casus pointed it out: “For your sleep deprivation; I could see you nearly nodding off. We don’t have enough time for you to sleep properly, so roll a cigarette from this. Once you smoke it, you ...
2023-04-20 06:59:15 +0000 UTC View PostXiān Dì took a jaunt upon a flying sword to one of his many secondary palaces all across the empire, this time to the south-central City of Glittering Petals, a center of gambling and crime. The city was a pipe dream for many, being isolated from the rest of the country by dangerous land full of outlaws, just as Xiān Dì had intended when he ...
2023-04-20 00:09:15 +0000 UTC View Post“The Twin Churches are that old plus five-hundred years or so; it is because AB stands for After Banishment, when the Banishment Wheel was completed and set into motion, when the influence of the Outer Gods was… Well, banished from our world. History before then is muddy, but we know for certain that Zaveshism had existed for some time, whil...
2023-04-19 04:12:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe dossier had been hastily-written mere hours ago when the aftermath of that gruesome incident had been discovered. “Black hair with a white patch, anathema-burned left arm, fully functional despite the burns, tied off with two sets of seals. Other descriptors, in no particular order: Green pants barely able to contain her thighs and ass; Sh...
2023-04-17 19:29:53 +0000 UTC View Post[WIREBOUND WARDED SOULDREG VESSEL]
[Status:]
Good
[Details:]
Anti-scrying E3
Contents Concealment E2
Capacity 30,000 DU
[Contents:]
263 DDs
“Thirty thousand DUs.”
“Dreg...
2023-04-14 22:18:55 +0000 UTC View PostCasus’ claim proved itself true when, as the two of them were on the way to leave, Krahe went over all the other bodies, looting them for easy things like money and small trinkets before harvesting their Souldregs and pulling their Voidkeys. It wasn’t hard to find enough phials for her souldreg harvester, the few gangsters of elevated import...
2023-04-13 22:21:14 +0000 UTC View PostThere wasn’t an interrogation to speak of; the man spilled everything the moment he had a question to latch onto, and more, considering the stain forming on his trousers.
Soon enough they had the specifics as to where the Silberblut Coupler had been taken; Slaughterhouse Nine, the next stop on the Hashem train to hell. In this place, her...
2023-04-12 20:07:22 +0000 UTC View PostDespite everything else, his eyes were what grabbed her attention the most, being bright burningly orange with streaks of yellow. His pupils, cross-shaped at first, had now expanded into four-pointed stars.
His alien outward appearance contrasted with his foppish mode of dress; a white, satin shirt, tight leather trousers with lacing up th...
2023-04-12 02:18:58 +0000 UTC View PostKrahe pushed as hard as she could whilst also falling to the side in the hope that the man in silver would be unable to adjust his own trajectory, but his velocity far surpassed any that Krahe could generate.
The light of Anathema painted the walls and ceiling in swaths of dancing crimson, and just barely, Krahe managed to get her own head...
2023-04-10 23:20:27 +0000 UTC View PostVital intel revealed itself when she reached the next floor up and glanced down the hall. Hushed voices accompanied tense and scared faces peering out from cracked-open apartment doors. She wouldn’t have to clear the whole building.
As for those on the third, uppermost floor, they seemed to have decided that it would be best to wait for ...
2023-04-07 23:15:41 +0000 UTC View PostThat wasn’t a person, staring at Valza from across the butcher’s kitchen, wearing her sister’s boots. Those boots, which Shiva had inherited from their late father; she would’ve sooner died than part with them, and so Valza was utterly certain this raven-haired anathemist had killed her. He was once a renowned freelance contractor, falle...
2023-04-06 20:38:34 +0000 UTC View PostTaking the knife in her left hand, she moulded a mass of compressed pyroclast around its handle and down the flat of its blade, with vents facing the edge and point and channels leading to them from the handle. The design came out quickly, not because she had any great mastery over Thaumaturgy, but because she was just using Thaumaturgy to creat...
2023-04-05 23:18:29 +0000 UTC View Post[HEADKICKERS, HEIRLOOM COMBAT BOOTS]
[Status:]
Exceptional
[Details:]
These boots will adjust to perfectly fit their wearer.
They can shrink down to half or grow to twice their original size.
These boots actively repel filth and ...
2023-04-04 21:53:01 +0000 UTC View PostSix shots. That was how many a typical Pattner had in one clip, and Shiva didn’t see the tumorous hump or widened magwell to suggest a lengthened or double-stack system. She was familiar with such details because Sir Damrus had a few blueprint-accurate Pattner reproductions in his collection and Semzar had a habit of playing with them, but one...
2023-04-03 19:44:03 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I'm taking a 1-2 week break to do prepwork for the next arc, as I've done several times in the past.
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“Your Divinity,” Von Wickten began, “I am certain that you are already aware, however, I felt that I ought to...
2023-04-03 07:19:20 +0000 UTC View PostTracing the surface of her back in the spot which had burned, she felt a raised area of skin and simultaneously saw, in her mind’s eye, the appearance of a sigil. It was a seven-segmented, abstract design which ran the length of seven vertebrae across the lower half of her back, ending just above her tailbone. It was clearly patterned after th...
2023-04-01 19:32:02 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Shorter chap this go round. Didn't want to add filler or continue to the start of the next scene for this.
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Time resumed.
“Where is-” Zel choked out, but the Forgemother was already gone. She noticed that the gigantic antlers which had f...
2023-03-31 21:55:33 +0000 UTC View Post“Krahe. Yours?” she asked, taking a long drag. The thought that ran through her head was a consideration of whether this was just her foe trying to buy time, or some gangster equivalent to a feudal-era name exchange to ensure one could claim an opponent’s bounty.
“Shiva.”
“Nice to kill you, Shiva,” she said, exhaling an...
2023-03-31 19:48:46 +0000 UTC View PostFloating in cold nothingness.
Bound by bands of starborne steel, at once restrained and kept from falling apart by them.
Unthinking, unfeeling.
Time itself seemingly at a standstill.
Then, a sudden hammer-blow, releasing one restraint.
Another, and another.
This form, no longer broken, but nonetheless insuffic...
2023-03-30 19:00:26 +0000 UTC View PostA bright-red torpedo of screaming magic sailed right into the wall behind her as she slipped beneath and to the right of its trajectory. Its fulgent detonation, which roused memories of plasma warheads, ripped a man-sized hole into the building and sent both rubble and arcs of red lightning flying every which way, temporarily obscuring Krahe’s...
2023-03-30 18:15:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe woman raised her split eyebrow to him, and he let out a frustrated sigh, clarifying: “Number sixteen. Same holding place as Silberblut.”
At that, the lanky woman nodded, turning on a bootheel. Krahe took one last long, long drag, creating a reason to leave by burning the last of the Cassia as well as a time gap between the lanky on...
2023-03-29 19:57:07 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I retitled 208 and 209 to The Butcher Reborn Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 respectively.
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It was not the dragonsteel which gave way, and neither did the physical impact of her blows impart any change. Empowered by the Forgemother and Skinless One in concert, each of her...
Liquid metal flowed out from the belt over the man’s skin, enveloping him before it solidified into a full-body suit with compound, insectile eyes. It was made up of sleek, case-hardened armor all over, as if a stealth hoverbike had been given human form. Perhaps it was due to the Cassia’s inhibition-releasing effect, but Krahe actually made...
2023-03-28 23:19:28 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Next chapter on Wednesday, March 29th. I'm giving an important scene some extra time in the oven.
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Arcs jumped between the Butcher and its next closest segment, not yet conjoined. Zel turned the Brass Stake in hand, pushing past the sense of ...
2023-03-26 07:28:00 +0000 UTC View Post