I’d assumed that wielding Azyr would be akin to Singing, that if I focused hard enough, summoned enough energy to do my bidding, I could bend its powers to my will and escape unscathed. I was wrong, and in hindsight, the reason why seemed obvious.
Wielding the Blue Wind of Magic was fundamentally a different task than Singing. Singing wa...
2024-01-14 10:04:44 +0000 UTC View PostHan I
Be careful, Kokuo said to him. Han conveyed his thanks, shifting his centre of gravity till he was ready to launch himself at the enemy.
Five minutes ago, he’d been sitting on a chair with a cup of tea, enjoying the peace and quiet away from Iwa and the Tsuchikage. Five minutes ago, he’d been think...
2024-01-09 18:20:45 +0000 UTC View Post“Here, here, and here,” the sensor laid three pins on the map in front of them. “These are the three largest concentrations of chakra. They’ve made three bases right behind the ridges, half-way to the foot of the ridges on the other side. There’s a few more located at the very peaks. Lookouts, mostly, their chakra isn’t all too impre...
2024-01-09 14:25:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe forges burned well into the morning, a steady line of weapons made of that black metal pushed out with every passing hour. Resources were collected, checked, and re-checked, then sealed into the waiting hands of supply officers. A gong struck once. Orders were barked out in a rush, a cacophony of noise that congealed into something almost so...
2024-01-09 11:05:07 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: So, received a fair bit of feedback on the lewd, and I decided to shift it to the end of this chapter (the last before we set off for Iwa). I did some editing so it wouldn’t seem too OOC, and added some in-story justifications for why. Tell me what you think.
Chapte...
2024-01-07 20:26:26 +0000 UTC View PostAs stupid as it sounded, I think I had been going in completely the wrong direction in attempting to understand what I needed to do to accelerate my growth as a Maia. Originally, I’d thought of the process in much the same way as one would of bodybuilding. You put enough strain on muscle you wanted to develop till you reached hypertrophy, wait...
2024-01-06 21:53:04 +0000 UTC View PostGaara III
Even now, days after the first transformation, days after Gaara had finally had a taste of what lasting peace looked like, he couldn’t begin to wrap his head around the whole thing. It all felt like a fever dream. A week ago, Gaara couldn’t even have dreamed of a life where he and Shukaku had come to an accor...
2024-01-05 19:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post“A Jinchūriki,” I began, drawing two circles into the sand, “Is, when realised to its fullest potential, a perfect symbiosis of human and tailed beast.” I raised my hand to stop Gaara from interrupting. The red-haired boy – well, I wouldn’t say he pouted, but I wouldn’t not say he pouted. “No, I do not think the tailed ...
2024-01-05 19:11:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 3.1
The shock of seeing the truth of my Maiar form so clearly would wear off soon, that much I knew. I was not yet strong enough, not yet completely in tune with my Maia self, that the effect of imposing my nature on others could last long. In fact, had Rasa not believed I wasn’t going to pose harm to him, it wou...
2024-01-04 17:28:54 +0000 UTC View PostRasa I
The man before him leaned back in his seat, that infuriating smile still plastered on his face. Rasa didn’t buy the act for a second.
Baki and Gaara’s report had been thorough enough to cover the basics. A routine civilian rescue and bandit elimination mission – the latter of which was certainly the only...
2024-01-04 17:25:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Magic,” Revelation began, gesturing at the empty field in front of him, “Is thought given form. The immaterial made real. It does not come from your mind, but your soul. When properly understood, it is capable of working miracles. That is your first test, Tim Hunter. Open your eyes to what lies beyond the veil. Reach for it with ...
2022-12-23 02:30:10 +0000 UTC View Post