AN: So sorry for the late post! I may have gotten a bit intoxicated last night. But hey, the chapter is a bit longer so silver lining!
Hope you enjoy! And maybe cry a little.
“Why does it feel so weird?!”
Blackblood shouted as he cleaved through yet another Royal, their armor already destroyed from repeated attacks...
2026-02-11 21:06:09 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember 18th, 629
Umara bit her nails as she watched John meet with that Versal.
She had a few views, more than a few cameras trained on his position. She could feel the tension among the army around her. The Commander of Iron Legion was meeting face to face with the enemy by himself. Although he was a mythical existence amon...
2026-02-04 15:00:27 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember 18th, 629
“It’s been getting worse.”
Umara muttered from beside me as we rolled. I nodded and continued staring off into the distance, my exosuit over my body, Totenstahl in my lap.
Tar rain had continued to fall ever since it started some days ago, giving us little respite. The entire ground was covered i...
2026-01-28 13:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Hey all! Quick update here.
First off, sorry for no sunday chapter. I'm currently trying to build up a backlog to make sure that when career stuff comes around, I'll be able to release even if I disappear for a few months.
for those who care to know more, the tldr is that no, I'm no longer doing army, yes I'm kinda back at squa...
2026-01-21 13:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Handler Actual, this is Dagger One-Three, stand by for transmission…”
Oscar glanced over as his squadmate operated their Beacon. Ever since they had been rolled out, they no longer had to be so careful about communicating within enemy territory. They could outright bypass the Node networks of a city and drop information straight at ...
2026-01-14 15:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Sorry for the late post! I've been storyboarding the big things that are coming up soon, making sure everything is being coordinated correctly. There's a lot of threads being pulled on at once, and we're about to start seeing how it all unravels.
I hope all of you have had a good new year so far! Now that we're through the holidays I'...
2026-01-08 01:02:55 +0000 UTC View PostMay 16th, 629
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking.”
Umara smirked as she heard John’s voice chime through the comm channel with artificial sultry smoothness. Stealth systems were cranked up so high around them that she could barely see the walls of the vehicle they were driving in, sounds of battle ringi...
2026-01-01 07:59:07 +0000 UTC View PostAN: This is just the first today. I had thought about waiting longer to post a large batch but I figured you guys would like it more if I simply posted them through the day to at least satiate the starvation.
May 6th, 629
General Gaffney didn’t have to give me the report. He had stopped doing so a while ago, knowing ...
2025-12-31 13:34:04 +0000 UTC View PostI hope you all have a wonderful Christmas. I've been doing my best to churn out more content, and its still a big maybe, but we might get another chapter today. Three more chapters and I'll be able to get the public to chapter 300, so that's what I'm shooting for by New Years.
Once again, I hope you all have a very merry Christmas. I'll h...
2025-12-25 13:07:25 +0000 UTC View PostMay 2nd, 629
“Well, they’ll certainly multiply the size of our infantry.”
General Gaffney muttered while looking over lists of units in our army.
Finding a place for the Flickers to fall into hadn’t been that difficult. Unfortunately it also wasn’t as simple as telling them to follow along. They couldn’t be co...
2025-12-25 13:01:55 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Hey all! Sorry again for the late post, and thank you guys so much for bearing with me. I'm finally on a free schedule now, so hopefully things go smoothly.
Hope you all enjoy this one. The symphony is yet to end.
May 1st, 629
“The Scourge is in sight, Commander!”
“Very good.”
I nodded at...
2025-12-22 08:36:31 +0000 UTC View PostApril 29th, 629
Umara’s steps hastened as John walked through the Line. All around her, she could hear the sounds of echoing chatter and rolling metal.
Troops all around were either repairing enough damage to the wall so that they could at least function normally and restore supply lines, or were mustering equipment an...
2025-12-13 02:07:26 +0000 UTC View PostHello all, just wanted to throw a small update out there. Next week is my finals week, so that means this week is the week that I have to finish up all of my projects. I've got one due tomorrow and then two on Thursday, so I'm not gonna be able to write as much as I want to.
I'm still shooting for Wednesday but this is basically my forewa...
2025-12-09 02:26:07 +0000 UTC View PostApril 27th, 629
I let out a long breath within the command center, my eyes closed as the tides shifted.
My brows raised, my mind filled with the Auric world around me. The Scourge, their intent, their hostility, their raving madness and demonic eagerness. I could feel it all crash against the Line, bearing down on every soldier...
2025-12-07 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostApril 26th, 629
After spending the day doing some shooting with Umara and testing out the extent of my new ability, I decided to make a call and inquire.
There was a reason I believed that I had just revolutionized the summoner class in a way never done before, despite the ability technically not being new.
Some tim...
2025-12-03 13:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostApril 25th, 629
“I’ll head back to the estate tonight, spend a few days there with you to recover. My experiments are done so I think it’s about time I take the spells to the field. Once I'm done resting, I’ll deploy to the Hardpoint.”
“Sounds good, love. See you soon.”
I gave my goodbye to Umara, her image on my ...
2025-11-26 15:20:33 +0000 UTC View PostMarch 20th, 629
“Well, isn’t that something…”
Umara muttered as she viewed the two screens in front of her. On them were two different views of the same thing.
The disease of the Verks Marquisate had only spread more and gotten worse, despite the efforts of Iron Legion and quarantine measures. Umara figured it wou...
2025-11-19 22:31:10 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 15th, 629
I stared at Anderson for a few seconds before suddenly looking toward the door to my workshop.
“L-Let me go. I need to shut it down…”
“I already destroyed it. It’s the only reason you woke up. So explain. Now.”
I stopped trying to remove his grip, which was no different from forged met...
2025-11-17 05:45:36 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 15th, 629
“I think this is it.”
I stood within a workshop, looking up at a large device surrounded by sensors and measurement systems. It was a massive sphere capped with a parabolic reflector pointed to an opening in a dome above us.
I let out a breath of smoke, glancing at the few researchers around me gett...
2025-11-13 18:36:25 +0000 UTC View PostJanuary 1, 629
I watched Antares Squadron enter the fray, nodding at their display of combat prowess. Those chosen to fly the new generation of jet aircraft were the aces, the best pilots that Iron Legion had produced over the last two years. All of them were summoners, and all of them were on another stratum of combat effectiveness compar...
2025-11-05 18:08:05 +0000 UTC View PostJanuary 1, 629
The entire Line was on full alert.
An estimated 1.2 million Scourge and counting were moving to siege and nearly all of them were invisible to aerial view. The more advanced scanners were telling us that our estimates were not only in the right ballpark, but conservative.
The same Sovereign that had b...
2025-10-29 13:59:44 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I finally woke up, I found myself groggily shifting around, feeling a small needle-like pain in my head.
The sensations that registered next were rather interesting. Part of my body felt slimy, while others were dried or crusted. Moving at all on the bed registered more wetness.
Umara was locked against my body like ...
2025-10-27 03:45:12 +0000 UTC View PostTo those in my Discord: here you go, ya filthy animals.
December 10, 628
“Welcome to my humble abode. Please, take your seats.”
“In what universe is this humble?”
There were mutters as everyone moved into the ballroom of my estate, glancing around at the architecture and marble constructions. 2025-10-23 00:43:44 +0000 UTC View Post
AN: ITS DONE!
Yeah, Friday didn't happen, but in exchange the chapter is 6800 words long! It's not even the end of this day either, but I'll leave that for Chapter 301.
Highly doubt it's perfect. Never been married myself obviously, but hey, I think I made it cheesy enough.
I can't believe that Chapter 300 is here. We're at ...
2025-10-19 13:30:24 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Hello all! It's Wednesday, and the second half of Chapter 299 is out! It came out a lot longer than I thought it would, sitting at about 6 thousand words (worth two chapters), and while It'll end up getting put into just the single 299 chapter later for a grand total of 11k words (worth about four chapters), for now I've released it separate...
2025-10-15 12:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Last chapter before the big day! I might tack on more later, perhaps another conversation that would bump this chapter past 6k words. Or I'll just make it a part of the next chapter, like a prologue-esque intro. No idea, but for now, this is it. Hope you enjoy!
Just a reminder for my Seekers, this chapter has a part two! Go find chapt...
2025-10-08 13:00:22 +0000 UTC View Post“Bye, losers!”
“Just fucking leave, will you?!”
“What kind of sendoff is that?! Bitch!”
“No fuck you, bitch!”
“Guys…”
Aki sighed as Katta nearly went to blows with Blackblood, grabbing her friend’s bandaged arm and pulling.
“We need to go, Katta. Blackblood, go away for a...
2025-10-01 22:26:06 +0000 UTC View PostNovember 9th, 628
Umara coughed and slowly opened her eyes, dizziness lingering for some time before her mind cleared.
She looked around and struggled to her knees, seeing Zirion’s massive head still pointed at her.
Her vision flashed with multi-dimensional gridspace, her eyelids shutting in an attempt to w...
2025-09-25 00:52:34 +0000 UTC View Post“Mama…”
The little girl called out, looking up at her mother as they stood in the long food line. Her eyes fell on her mother’s wrist, purple splotches peeking from under her sleeve.
The little girl took a few deep breaths, shifting uncomfortably underneath her wool cloak. The incoming winter had demanded heavier clothe...
2025-09-21 21:59:16 +0000 UTC View PostNovember 3rd, 628
“Success?”
I took another mental look at the message Umara sent. After spending a couple weeks at the Gateway with the Dragon Zirion, her progress had been rapid. She had already been close to completing her objective, simply needing that final push. For an effectively self taught warlock, what she had do...
2025-09-17 17:35:51 +0000 UTC View Post