Edits: At the bottom, tacked onto the end.
November 2nd, 626
Larissa’s eyes flashed as the tanks before her went to full activation. Shields flared around them and the enchantments glowed with such strength that she felt her very blood tingle with mana saturation.
She, John Cooper, and Umara Talerria stood behind...
2025-04-26 23:41:41 +0000 UTC View PostOver the course of several days, teams and soldiers from both Sawn Industries and Iron Legion were brought to the island.
After sifting through the Mantle’s data more, I discovered their name for the landmass: the Island of Continuance.
Umara had spent the preceding days taking the others to clear out Shades from...
2025-04-23 22:43:10 +0000 UTC View PostOctober 2nd, 626
“What a pain in the fucking ass.”
I sighed and sat back into my seat, deploying the program I had just finished developing.
The Mantle really knew how to piss a guy off. I understood why they were so careful with their systems, were so complex with their software, but it made my job that much harder.&...
2025-04-17 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post“SON OF A BITCH!”
I nearly screamed when I suddenly woke up, lucidity slamming into my body like a truck. So much pain shot through my brain that it felt like powdered glass had been sprinkled through my neurons.
I could feel every thought, could sense that the pain was caused when certain memories and their neurons were tr...
2025-04-15 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostI've just paused billing once again, so there will be no charges for another month.
I still don't know my timeline but things are moving along and unless I get screwed, things will be going according to what was said in my prior update. I will keep everyone updated with the changes.
Until then, I plan to continue writing like normal....
2025-04-15 00:33:41 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember 18th, 626
“Strap in, because this is the easy part.”
Aria inwardly sighed at Umara’s statement, Bloodsworn flourishing in her hands.
How dreamy fighting at Iron Legion had seemed. She had begged the Tavera Patriarch to let her go fight with John when he was still in the Kingdom’s military as things start...
2025-04-10 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember 18th, 626
My eyes snapped open right as the screaming started. I was starting to anticipate it now.
The silenced G18 appeared in my hand as the Shade crashed through the window of the room, spinning toward me. They always went for me. Always wanted my Psyka, my mind.
It was chipping at my sanity.
... 2025-04-08 12:48:42 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember 15th, 626
“Yeah, that’s it. Just a little more. Almost there…”
I muttered under my breath while adjusting the machines on my workbench, tuning the Psyka around an extra SEER Knife.
It was modified by Umara and jury rigged to accept a hardline connection from a similarly modified portable database that I ...
2025-04-03 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostI didn’t know for how long, but my mind was plunged into dark limbo after the battle. I remembered it in disturbingly perfect clarity.
Every little nightmare that the brain plunged into my mind, every ounce of stabbing sense of danger, every drop of adrenaline that surged through my exhausted body as a result.
I was nev...
2025-04-01 12:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostUmara watched John torch the surrounding forest, steadily walking forward as the fire engulfed everything around him. The forest was trying to resist the flames, but like John’s Psyka, it too operated by the power of the mind. Whatever poisonous power it was, it was forced to meet John’s specialty head on.
But it was able to resi...
2025-03-27 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember 11th, 626
Since the Fire Stabilizer was gone and the room we investigated was empty of all valuable material short of the report, we decided to camp out within and give ourselves a day of rest. Lord knows I needed it.
The next morning we left the room, fought off some Shades that had filled the void we left fro...
2025-03-25 15:23:47 +0000 UTC View PostSo I'm not sure how many have noticed but it's likely more than one since apparently Patreon shows a notification for it now. I've paused billing for the month. This post is to update everyone about why and what's going to happen in the future.
Currently I'm about to get neck deep in the process of pursuing my career. I've already been bu...
2025-03-20 17:36:13 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember 10th, 626
I glanced around, seeing everyone packing up their tents and supplies.
I had been within the warehouse for two full days simply studying the robot and any other small devices the others thought I might find interesting. It was only now, as dawn spread its dim light on the island, that I decided I had gotten ...
2025-03-20 14:29:10 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember 8th, 626
“Cargo is loaded and Overwatch is in the air, sir.”
“Thank you.”
I nodded to one of Sector 4’s Pale Horsemen, a checklist in front of him. I had the same checklist in my head and had already verified the place of every item on it personally.
Unlike the first time, I wouldn’t be leaving...
2025-03-18 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember 5th, 626
“So what do you think about them?”
My eyes remained on the spar beneath us. Umara pondered beside me, her gaze on the figures of Feiden and Tana slugging it out with Kwon and Song. The rest of the Desert Eagles were resting on the sidelines.
Katta was coming down from a Vigor high, Shadowbane was st...
2025-03-13 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostAugust 26th, 626
Few people turned to glance at me when I walked into the Command Center of the Glass Desert, most focused on their tasks. The entire base was busy and people knew by now that I didn’t seek to interrupt with my presence.
One man’s eyes found me and nodded.
“Sir.”
“General Gaffney. How...
2025-03-11 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostEdit: some grammar errors corrected.
July 14th, 626
“I call them Serums.”
“Why that name specifically?”
“Aki inspired me with the name, so I went with it. Anyway, you could say that they’re a kind of temporary Crown.”
Katta flourished a vial of green liquid, the end of it sporting a menacing ne...
2025-03-06 13:23:30 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the new map for the newest addition to our lore. Not incredibly detailed but it's something. Hope you like it.
2025-03-05 10:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostEdit: Added Jaya's name to those introduced. Idk why I forgot about her.
July 12th, 626
“Nothing. But. A. Damn. Rat!”
Blackblood yelled in frustration as Feiden zipped away. I chuckled a bit, Umara lying against my chest and smoking my cigar.
We were watching two sparring sessions. One was between Blackbl...
2025-03-04 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post“So they killed a sizeable army, and quickly. Is that all that’s here?”
“Yes sir, that and the video. The only reason we got this much is because he allowed it though, and that’s with someone on the inside that he also signed off on.”
“Mm. 50 thousand in just 4 hours. They slaughtered them all and then made it back in t...
2025-02-27 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post“Fuck babe! That shit’s almost as hot as you!”
Umara looked to the side to see John cackle after one of her spells detonated, a massive wave of fire erupting across entire hordes of monsters and cooking them alive.
She was a few dozen meters away from him, eyes peeking from under her Witch hat. Silently with a smile, she ...
2025-02-25 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostJuly 4th, 626
I ignored the turbulence in the plane and looked to my side, at Feiden. He sat in the chair next to me, wearing a custom operator variant armor, the best Sawn Industries could design and enchant, his helmet off and on his lap.
There was a hint of his Invocation around his neck. As for the Crown, the cos...
2025-02-20 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostJuly 4th, 626
“We’ve broken even.”
I paused my reading and looked up at Sawn.
“Financially, I mean. With the new contracts in effect, we’ve finally paid off all the upfront costs this endeavor has demanded.”
“...Impressive.”
I nodded, looking back down.
Half a year after ...
2025-02-18 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“April 16th. Replacement operation has succeeded without compromise. Gathering will proceed as normal.”
……
“April 23rd. The proving ground Camp Pheonix has reached a population of 31 thousand soldiers, primarily composed of those from the Whetted City. Brief glances at numbers estimate a distribution of 25% warlocks, 38% su...
2025-02-13 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostI will be renaming Cooper's PMC, as extensively discussed in the discord, but I wanted to drop a poll here as well since I know many aren't in the discord. I'll be filtering the options from the discord poll (there were simply a lot) and bring you all the most viable ones. I'd like to honor democracy but tbh I have my favorite. Still, I will lis...
2025-02-12 22:35:11 +0000 UTC View PostApril 1st, 626
Chief Ironheart had seen many things in his long life. There was little that could impress or surprise a man like him, who stood at the top of the world.
A few years ago when this large child had first visited his city, he hadn’t thought too much of it. Based on what little information there was abou...
2025-02-11 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“ESCAPE! ESCAPE! ESCAPE! ESCAPE! ESCAPE! ESCAPE!”
Tana grit her teeth as the screaming threatened to make her ears burst.
She barely felt the blood dripping from her eyes and nose, her heart beating at over 250 bpm and climbing as adrenaline flooded her body.
She ran and clawed her way to escape but she couldn...
2025-02-06 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostHe had it in the bag.
When the doors opened for intermission, all Umara could hear was shouting. She, like many of the other plus ones that had spent the first half of the day’s meeting sleeping, was supposed to enter during intermission but none of them could find it in them to take the first step forward.
It was a mad...
2025-02-04 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Since the story has progressed enough I'm finally able to post the full world map. It has labels, but its very rough and not to scale, so don't worry about numbers. I'm no geographer and I obviously didn't have a map built when I first started this story so liberties were taken down the road.
There may be some spoilers in it for the Seeker...
2025-01-31 14:52:12 +0000 UTC View PostFor those who weren't aware, Primordials have just received an additional two chapters to their advance pool, while Seekers have received one. This puts Primordials at 16 advance chapters, and Seekers at 6 advance chapters.
Enjoy!
2025-01-30 14:58:52 +0000 UTC View Post