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376 - 3 Days [Sturmblitz]

Three days and two nights passed.

Despite his entranced state, to the outside world, Victor never went fully catatonic. Between bouts of screaming and being consumed by inner dragonfire, in the short windows when the throes abated, he made it abundantly clear what he wanted — food. Always food. He devoured a third of his body weight over...

Krahe - Femme Fatale

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variant with and without detailed chest

228 - Afterburner [Cherno]

“Can you show me the blueprints of your arm?” she asked, expecting a simple no. To her surprise, Sauer reached up and detached the limb. He tossed it over to Krahe and sat down, leaning on his remaining arm.

One of its external access panels mercifully contained a miniature toolset for servicing and small repairs — something she had ...

227 - Sauer Pt. 2 [Cherno]

Sauer looked around.

“Interesting construct. Remarkably stable. From the looks of this mental space… Yes, this will give us a bit more time.”

“A low-footprint engram should not be this responsive. Not without supporting hardware.”

“And you should not be able to sustain such a high-resolution mental construc...

226 - Sauer [Cherno]

The vessel resembled a tanker in general shape alone. Unlike those vessels, it was constructed in a borderline baroque style, and the iconography of the Twin Churches abounded wherever it could fit. Countless guns, harpoons, and armaments of other sorts that Krahe didn’t quite recognize bristled from its hull. A huge wheel revolved in the midd...

225 - Neo Babylonia Pt. 2 [Cherno]

Krahe walked through the door, finding the “restaurant” to be just as she remembered it. Of course, in reality, it had not been here, but visiting that place was her only reason to take a break at this rest stop in particular, and so her mind placed it in the first empty space it would fit. She held a great deal of nostalgia for this place i...

224 - Neo Babylonia [Cherno]

A/N: If you got the amazon release of Cherno Caster Vol. 1, please don't forget to leave a rating or a review. Amazon doesn't have any minimum word count requirements for reviews, and ratings and reviews are even more important there than on RR. That's enough of me, here's the chapter.

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223 - Memoria [Cherno]

A/N: I deleted the first sentence of this chapter from the end of the previous chapter for better flow

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It was at this point that a door in an alcove swung open, and Casus stepped out. Only, the moment he fell into Krahe’s line of sight, his clothes flickered and c...

375 - The Guardian Pt. Final

With a furious roar, the great beast bears down upon the Guardian with the full might of its aura as it gapes open its mouths, unhinging their jaws. An emerald blaze wholly envelops the Guardian’s comparatively tiny silhouette, then implodes upon him, running through a spectrum of unearthly colours in the same manner that mundane fire would gr...

222 - Twin Return [Cherno]

A/N: Been far too long. Got completely tangled in choice paralysis as to how I wanted to start Vol. 3, plus the final steps leading up to Vol. 1's amzn release.

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Deep underground, a chitinous pod cracked open, segments of its shell rising in a motion akin ...

374 - The Guardian Pt. 2 [Sturmblitz]

But… At this point, all the pain doesn’t matter. If anything, the pain combined with the awareness that he should be dead clears his thoughts. The lightning-wrought giant of light glances down at him, and he meets its — meets her — gaze. The Guardian realizes that this is Old Itria, and these are the wretched beasts of the Divin...

373 - The Guardian [Sturmblitz]

The Guardian resolutely strikes hammer against anvil, perfectly in rhythm with the sutra he is chanting. His strikes are perfectly paced, perfectly placed, but the metal refuses to bend. His expression is feverish — veins bulge across his forehead and sweat drips from his brow. He brings forth black flame with all his strength, but the steel r...

372 - Tribulation Begins [Sturmblitz]

A chamber deep within the Guardian Spire.

Twenty minutes ago, Victor was slowly working his way through an ancient, yet remarkably well-preserves book. Beyond merely centuries-old, it was a historical treatise from the height of the Ankhezian Imperium, mostly pertaining to conflicts in far-off colonies — written in the self-translating A...

371 - Dangerous Methods Pt. 3 [Sturmblitz]

Kanberich laughed.

“Please, take mercy on my old bones. That trick I pulled back there was exhausting enough, you want me to take you back and then here again? Then carry out the rite and bring the both of you back again?” he complained, almost visibly withering right before Zel’s eyes.

The old monster dropped the act ...

370 - Dangerous Methods Pt. 2 [Sturmblitz]

“You, I, Toza, old Sanger, the mightiest warriors of Borea, the war-orphans forced to scavenge the battlefields, even that Kargarian noblewoman, Arnys Krishorn — we were born as beasts, or else made into beasts in the earliest moments of our lives. Such is our lot,” Kanberich expounded. “Where the likes of Victor possess surpassing talen...

369 - Dangerous Methods [Sturmblitz]

“What is the risk?” Victor asked, determination audible in his voice, echoing inside Daywolf’s mask.

“That’s the question, isn’t it?” Kanberich grinned. The madness in his gaze flared, then abated. “I am not a madman, of course there are precautions. But they only go so far. Be not mistaken, your life will ...

368 - The Dragonslayer Flame Method [Sturmblitz]

Kanberich held out his left hand, and within it ignited a flame. From this flame, he sculpted a scene, flicking embers onto the table, illustrating his words as he went. He even went so far as to alter the shade and texture of his flame to give visuals to the idea of someone becoming altered by mere proximity to a dragon descendant.

“Thi...

367 - Exorcism Liquor and Dragonslaying [Sturmblitz]

Kanberich nodded: “You could leave this stuff in a mundane bottle and it would still be good in five hundred years. It’s like a glass droplet — the components balance each-other with enormous force, such that it goes around and becomes completely stable again.”

Thus, Zel brought out her bottle with the Sap of Grinning Death. She pu...

366 - Old Dragonslayer's Manse [Sturmblitz]

At a simple gesture of the old dragonslayer’s hand, a smaller spire rose up in the middle, about as tall as a two-story house and no wider than ten meters across. It was nothing more or less than an elevator, and with a few more subtle gestures, they rode down into the spire, perhaps even into the mountain at its base. Zel couldn’t tell — ...

365 - SIEGFRIED [Sturmblitz]

Kanbu led them to a courtyard behind the building. A shaded walkway ran around its perimeter, supported by pillars, with an island of grass in the middle. A statue stood in the middle, bearing in hand a spear. It was nearly identical to the many guardian statues which had played so vital a role during the Blue Moon War. The pedestal was bedecked...

364 - The Heiress and the Living Relic [Sturmblitz]

The Founder of the Newman Sect walked through the city, followed closely by a bone-wrought figure somewhere between the size of a person and a tank suit. It floated behind her upon jets of black flame, resting the sacred staff Oculus across its shoulders with its hands draped overtop it, and a terrible centipede whipped back and forth from its b...

363 - "Daywolf" [Sturmblitz]

One by one, the swarm of servitors converged on Victor. Twisting, rearranging, disassembling and reassembling, they gradually formed a lanky, awkward framework, more hollow than not. Numerous holes hinted at an elevated degree of mobility than Dawnwolf — it even had full-sized vertical thrust vents on the front of its calves, protected by down...

221 - Razgriz Pt. 2 - Volume 2 FINAL [Cherno]

Krahe’s side of that exchange was significantly uglier and more painful. That double-fisted punch had not only burst one and scorched both of her lungs, it had also bruised her heart. Her impact with the wall didn’t do her many favours, either. As she slumped to the ground she slipped out of consciousness, but Barzai’s shrieking call insid...

220 - Razgriz Pt. 1 [Cherno]

Once more, the battle settled back into a back-and-forth. Krahe still questioned why Semzar had used the ring that early instead of waiting until he could affect the Wandrei Faust, whose Standoff-mode range was shorter than the ring’s maximum effective range. Did it not work on attacks and constructs of Theurgic nature? Besides being rather ge...

362 - 10101 [Sturmblitz]

Zel glanced behind him, at the vast array of tiny effigies, realizing their specific purpose.

“You have explained the reason why Koschei was doing what he was doing. You have yet to explain why you continued using the mask.”

“I… I admit I cannot yet bear with the weight. Obtaining the strength to snuff out the Order lies too ...

361 - Re: Brute Unsealing [Sturmblitz]

Arcs of golden fire indignantly flared from the Oculus, but Zel’s Thundergods pulled it into her grasp regardless, regenerating what small wounds they had been dealt in seconds. It burned her at first, but a moment later, as if recognizing her, the relic ceased protesting. The same could not be said for Bishamonten — the shrine’s doors rat...

219 - Vs. Semzar Pt. 5 - Wandrei Faust [Cherno]

At first, it seemed as if she was punching into thin air from several meters away, but as she reared her fist back, a row of fanged mouths opened down the length of her arm. In perfect concert with the punch, great black tendrils erupted from these maws, and Semzar’s entropy surged — the impact was more than twice the strength of a Yellow At...

218 - Vs. Semzar Pt. 4 - ASHURBANIPAL [Cherno]

To Semzar’s gaze, which instinctively understood anatomy for the purposes of assessing a would-be host’s suitability, she was worse than a rotting corpse. She was poison. Death on two legs in more ways than one. No… Not death. Murder on two legs.

“Why? Why? Why?! Why won’t you die already?! Whywhywhywhywhywhywhy-”<...

217 - Vs. Semzar Pt. 3 [Cherno]

“You stole that thaumaturgy, didn’t you?!” she mocked him. “The flames are barely warm! Could you not simply adjust it to remove the fire element? Could you not even go to the effort of stealing a fire affinity to go with your stolen thaumaturgy?!”

No verbal response came — but Semzar’s flames visibly grew, both in size and b...

216 - Vs. Semzar Pt. 2 [Cherno]

Hopping backwards and scrambling to keep distance from her, the mafioso babbled something under his breath whilst rummaging through his inner jacket pockets. Krahe wasn’t sure if it was an incantation of some kind or just a nervous tic. His physique began stretching his suit, tendrils bulging out from under his skin, which itself turned an uns...