A door creaked as it opened, but it wasn’t the one she’d expected - it was a door behind her, from which emerged… A boy. Couldn’t have been older than fourteen, done up in downright whorish makeup and clad in glorified harem silks, some sort of metal chastity device gleaming beneath the sheer fabric. Zelsys couldn’t help noticing the m...
2022-05-22 21:24:28 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the end of the penultimate bout, she took a few minutes to rest and speak with the bookie, learning that Von Wickten fought in full plate using a sword and shield, and allowed challengers to use their own equipment as well, justifying this obvious unfair advantage as “Special Rules”. In these few minutes, she went through her F...
2022-05-20 19:42:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe bearded, tan-skinned man who had let them in walked over to a table covered in documents, a bright red lump pulsing on the back of his neck. Both women felt shivers run up their backs, their killing instincts demanding that this poor wretch be put out of his misery, but they both held back.
“De-po-sit?” the man asked again.
Z...
2022-05-14 04:11:38 +0000 UTC View PostZelsys drew in a deep breath and kicked up some sand, burning the better part of her lung capacity to generate Fulgur that she immediately dumped into her outstretched right arm, causing the minor muscles to twitch uncontrollably under her skin as snaking, blue-white arcs branched off of the limb to strike at airborne sand particles. Each grain ...
2022-05-11 13:37:28 +0000 UTC View PostReiner went quiet, staring off vaguely in the direction of the fighting pits. He didn’t seem particularly torn up or upset about the rather grave accusations Jorfr had just leveled at the knight-captain - Zelsys was willing to wager that Reiner had heard such things said about not just Von Wickten, but all of the town’s nobility. It wasn’t...
2022-05-10 05:03:39 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I renumbered the chapters to fit the 2k/ch release scheme.
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“Ah… Feels like head’s splitting open…” he grumbled, rubbing his temple before turning to Zel again. “Seems I conveyed my message, then. Whatever those creepy fuckers want from...
2022-05-05 20:39:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Right. Of course they don’t need to see you to tell that you’re looking at them, dumbfuck. Keep calm, just play the subservient peddler and you’ll be fine…” the griller told himself as he tried as hard as he could to stay small and not look at them.
His own eyes betrayed him, and he gave up in trying to avoid...
2022-05-03 05:08:31 +0000 UTC View PostIn the upper floors of the Von Hoedorff family manor, the young duke sat behind his desk, his back turned to the door as he looked out through one of the windows built into the titan’s eye sockets, thinking on the state of his domain. He was overjoyed over the great prosperity brought in by opening his domain to the World of Martial Arts, effe...
2022-04-29 04:36:23 +0000 UTC View PostMeanwhile, during this uncharacteristically short sparring bout while all of the students were occupied, the Instructor had quietly made his way inside the main building. He returned with something tucked behind the sash around his waist just in time to see Victor take Reiner’s hand to get back up, insisting that he was alright and that he had...
2022-04-25 04:16:25 +0000 UTC View PostThree knocks on the door: Two, then a short pause, and the third. The code for an injury that needed treatment, but wasn’t an emergency.
A deceptively clear voice rang out from behind the door: “Come in, come in!”
Inside, there was a room with two sections split off by partitions, and another, much bulkier door across from the ...
2022-04-22 05:00:35 +0000 UTC View PostI've taken into account the results of polls from here, RR, and the Discord, and decided to shift to a roughly 2k~ bi-daily chapter release schedule. Patreon rewards will be adjusted both to give higher-tier Patrons their money's worth, and to make said rewards work with this new release schedule.
EDIT: After some consideration, I've decid...
2022-04-17 18:47:43 +0000 UTC View PostOn his way to the training grounds, Victor stopped by an apothecary to replenish one of the several creams he used for his face. He found himself delayed further by a Kargarian peddler’s stand - one of many traveling merchants who had broken off from the Great Caravan to independently travel Ikesia. Victor had learned to ignore these peddlers,...
2022-04-17 05:01:28 +0000 UTC View PostMid-flight she somehow dug her fingers into the creature’s flesh, flipping it over and slamming it back-first onto the ground, wrestling with it and seemingly trying to stab it using what at a glance looked like a tonfa with a two-pronged, jagged blade on the front, terrible snapping noise and flashes of light issuing from the gap between the ...
2022-04-15 04:18:06 +0000 UTC View PostWith the beginning of a third major arc, I'll be able to alter my release pattern without significant issues, so I figured I should ask you all what you would prefer.
In case you haven't noticed the change, Patreon rewards are currently planned to be 5k~ words advance for 1USD Patrons, 7k~ words advance for 3USD, 10k~ for 5USD, 15k~ for 10...
2022-04-15 02:16:30 +0000 UTC View PostHis weapon was terribly front-heavy to the point of awkwardness, for just below its spearhead it had a blunderbuss, the trigger placed halfway down the haft - it was this was what lent it the name Boarkiller. As he readied his spear and fought through his fear to look for an opening, he took note of the deformed manacles on the beast’s legs, e...
2022-04-14 03:57:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe sun dawned upon the Town of Arches, its rays filtering down through the eponymous cage of ancient, supermassive ribs that it had been built within, its walls little more than plugs in the gaps between each rib.
A young man dragged himself into the world of the waking, groggily sitting up in his bed as the pains of the previous day’s ...
2022-04-12 03:25:25 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: There it is, final chapter of ARC 2. 326544 words. Man.
I'm taking a month off starting today - 8th April - with the caveat that this isn't a hard break. I intend to begin publishing ARC 3 within this "break period" in order to build up a large advance chapter backlog before public publishing resumes, I just won't be on a hard daily s...
2022-04-08 01:56:36 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: We're pretty much in the final stretch here, I just need a bit more to set up the events of the next book. Sorry for the extra extra delay on this one, this is around the time I normally get done writing on any given day, you guys just normally don't see it due to backlog.
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2022-04-07 02:40:27 +0000 UTC View Post“Well that was fa-” she began, trying to sit up, only for the numerous battle-mended breaks in her ribcage to remind her of their presence; that was not to mention the still-healing wounds of being dismembered and having her heart cut open. Despite that, she still sat up just fine, remarking, “Oh, yep, sure feels like it was too fast a rec...
2022-04-06 00:21:26 +0000 UTC View PostEven now, bloodied and propped up by another, she grinned, by some impossibility exuding the appearance of an untouched, truly victorious warrior. It reminded Ubul of the Emperor, of Xiān Dì, in his younger days- nay, it reminded him of Young Master Tian Feng. That young man from all those centuries ago was an altogether different person to wh...
2022-04-05 01:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Patreon chapter early today, no particular reason.
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“ARE YOU SO FOOLISH TO THINK YOUR OWN HAND WILL DO ANY BETTER THAN THE BARBARIC THING YOU CALL A WEAPON?” he questioned, but his words were betrayed by the way he said them. Ther...
Ubul lunged forward, even now generating force enough to pulverize the ground behind him and anything that stood against him, pulsing with preternatural earthen magicks.
Makhus allowed his instincts to guide him, trusting his armor and his blade, feeling the surging flow of arcane power flood in from the belt, rendering out a series of bli...
2022-04-02 22:28:25 +0000 UTC View PostTwo figures stood atop flying swords high in the air, kilometers in the distance, one in white, the other in black.
“How?! Her soul should’ve burst at the seams, burned up to cinders! She should be a fulgurite statue! There’s no conceivable way her foundation…” the Black-robed Brother exclaimed in disbelief as he...
2022-04-01 17:05:37 +0000 UTC View PostFrom one second to the next, Zelsys switched from exclusively dodging to meeting some of the general’s strikes head-on, stealing the kinetic energy of some and reflecting that of others, even if his arms wouldn’t break under the reflected strength of his own strikes. Only the Lightning Butcher’s sawteeth had the power to bite into Ubul’s...
2022-03-31 20:41:30 +0000 UTC View PostZelsys could scarcely believe he had let her talk for this long. She wondered if he’d just let her finish this simultaneously complex and crude process unimpeded, wasting the trap Zefaris had set. Even she didn’t quite understand what she was doing, only the fact she felt an intangible precipice drawing closer as she drew upon the fulguric p...
2022-03-30 18:18:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe emotional rollercoaster of it all set aside, she physically struggled to keep up with her risen-from-the-dead lover’s movements. The manner in which Zelsys ripped across the battlefield, sliding and drifting, tearing chunks out of the ground with sheer force - her movement was better compared to Zero than a person. A high-velocity war mach...
2022-03-29 20:05:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe more she felt her reserves of earthen monads running out, the more waste-product found its way to her head, drawn to the tremendous arcane bleed off that had naturally formed into an antler-like shape. The left became iron, and the right bronze.
A single moment had been stretched out into an eternity by the incomprehensible current sur...
2022-03-28 20:16:46 +0000 UTC View Post
