Yet another cup smashed against the wall.
“HE DID WHAT?!”
Lady Song was on her feet, stalking back and forth. The jade sculptures lingering in the corners and on the walls shifted in response to her irritation. She reached up and tugged at her hair before turning to point a finger at her son. The brat wasn’t nearly as cowed as ...
2025-05-23 16:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostEuclidia stepped back from the ring of metal, pressing her hands together and bouncing up and down on the balls of her feet. The signal had gone through, and she felt everything was in the right place. All the settings were where they needed to be. The tech that Gravy Train had helped her build simulated the gravitational fields she needed to ma...
2025-05-23 16:01:35 +0000 UTC View PostHey Villains! Apologies for the delay on 291. I'm trying to get the releases properly synchronized forthe five-per-week releas...
2025-05-23 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostWhere the hell is First Wind? Flighty bastard, he’s supposed to be hanging around me.
Sonya frowned as she leaned against the door of the limousine, staring out into the city of Shanghai. She had originally planned to have the event in Beijing, but had changed her mind after everything that had happened. Shanghai had that skylin...
2025-05-23 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostTok… tok… tok…
The sound of her heels were strange in her ears. An etheric echo that gave a strange solidity to the place. It had never felt this real before. Never this solid. Before, it had been something she barely visualized, and over time she saw herself more as a ghost floating through it. Now she could smell the faint scent of...
2025-05-22 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostAnna woke to the sound of knuckles rapping against the wall. Her eyes fluttered and she glanced around groggily at the books and notes set around her in the corner of the room. Her head was pounding again. She sighed and looked to Catherine who was standing at the base of the stairs as always. The ex-paladin looked off and it took a second for A...
2025-05-22 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAdded a section with Catherine's POV at the end of 37 to make the chapter feel more whole. See you tomorrow with the next one!
2025-05-21 21:56:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe house was dark. The family that resided there was still away, off on some kind of business. The faint aroma of a long-extinguished scented candle clung to the walls. It was not the home of a wealthy family; perhaps just a little bit over middle-class. Signs of DIY work were scattered about - a furnishing that had been welded together rather ...
2025-05-21 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostA thin band of light spread across the doorway leading into the old room. A pair of cameras directed at the spot fizzled before the electronics inside popped. The streak of illumination opened into a portal and Sonya stepped through, hands behind her back. She raised a hand to her lips and coughed at the dust lingering in the air. She took anoth...
2025-05-20 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post“Anna, time to get up!”
Anna wasn’t sure when she had fallen asleep but she was certain it was well past the right time to do so. Not that she really felt guilty about it. Diving so deeply into study like that was invigorating in a way it hadn’t quite been when she was in high school. Doing well had given her a sense of achievement...
2025-05-20 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post“...have been asked to maintain a respectful distance,” the Nashville News Channel reporter said, turning and gesturing at the sign behind her displaying the name of the Nashville National Cemetery. “The VA passed a regulation following the Liberty War allowing Heroes belonging to state and private guilds who fell in the line of duty to be...
2025-05-19 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostOne notebook turned to two, then to three, ink stained her hands, her knuckles ached, and her eyes burned. She rubbed her fingertips together slowly as she looked over the latest sketch in her notebook. Her eye twitched and she scratched out a portion, looking back at the paper and writing down a few more notes. One of the first things she learn...
2025-05-17 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostSonya adjusted her sunglasses, taking in the view of the snowy city. A lot more of it was intact than she had expected. The monsters had clearly preferred to use the standing buildings as lairs rather than just rolling over them. She scratched her chin and sat down on the stool behind her before reaching into her warehouse. The low-tier ability ...
2025-05-16 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody, I've been working hard in the background to keep improving the story. With the edits in progress for Book 2 it was finally time to knock out the last chunk of modifications I wanted to make to ensure that it shined. As such, I've finally updated the beginning of the book to balance everything out and make sure that Sonya gets the ...
2025-05-15 19:46:40 +0000 UTC View PostSonya adjusted the gloves on her hands and watched the disguised Legionnaires march their way onto the small luxury helicopter. They wore the faces of dead Pandora representatives. According to the official word, they were on their way to give their in-person testimony as to the real details of the Dharan event. Sonya smiled to herself as they b...
2025-05-15 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostAnna dabbed her lip, hissing at the pain and scowling. Her first round of matches with Catherine had been, for lack of a better word, humiliating. Every time she hit the ground came with another flare up of that white-hot anger in her veins. Over and over again, stoked until she’d made a mistake and got a wallop in the face with the hilt of Ca...
2025-05-15 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostSonya walked down the hall, checking her phone again. She frowned a little at the message on it. The last thing she wanted was a text from Qilin, but she had unfortunately been forced to share the number with the two so-called bodyguards. Up until this point, the woman had refrained from sending her any sort of messages, yet that had changed aft...
2025-05-14 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment the heroes lined up around the boss, Sonya and the others were on their feet. It took a moment for Leiandra to realize this was something clearly traditional and ceremonial and rise as well. Sonya didn’t even spare her the usual smug grin. Her eyes were on the screen. No one spoke as the first attack was unleashed and the combinatio...
2025-05-13 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostOut of all the things they had discovered while exploring the precinct. The barracks was Anna’s favorite part. A proper bed, even if it was a cheap government-issued mattress, was the best sleep she’d had in a long time. It was a dreamless sleep, glorious and comfortable, she wasn’t sure what it said about her that she didn’t have nightm...
2025-05-13 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostNietz was standing in a tent inside of what had to be the fastest built forward combat camp ever set up. It had taken less than half an hour for the heroes gathered to organize and put everything together. Apparently, two of the forerunners in the competition were leading the charge. The first was Dragoon. Aside from her modeling career, she was...
2025-05-12 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post<”LILLY! YOU NEED TO RETREAT!”>
Crusader descended. She was well aware that going one on one with a peak epic monster was inadvisable for a ‘mere’ epic tier like herself, especially after they’d been fighting all day. It didn’t matter, though. Harbinger and Snow were dealing with the remaining hounds and BLF was engaged w...
2025-05-10 16:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post