Carmen Dei 26: The Rabbit and the Princess
The wind at Amber’s back was warm and gentle, her glider riding on it easily as she peered at the battlefield below her. There was smoke and dust filling the air that obscured things, but her modified goggles allowed her to see into the ultraviolet and infrared spectrums. Frequent use...
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Carmen Dei 26: For Our Freedom and Yours
Just before dawn, on December 21st, 2004, what was soon to be called World War III began when Imperial Russian forces under the command of the Harbinger Prince invaded Poland amidst a howling blizzard. Polish forces, under the command of one Colonel Eryka Pawłowska, an Electro Vision Hol...
2024-12-30 22:11:33 +0000 UTC View PostFor a war room, it was rather homey, with bright red and bronze decor and carved cherry wood furniture. The floors were polished marble, with strategically placed carpets over them. At the center was a large sand table, which several mages were operating to show the current state of the border with Elroad, along with the disposition of friendly ...
2024-12-29 16:10:24 +0000 UTC View PostComedia Glacialis 17: A Martial Theme Begins to Play
Provideniya Bay Airport was little more than a strip of asphalt and a few small huts, set between mountains next to the sea. Typically, the sort of flights it serviced were small single-engine craft, not a Boeing 737. It was also completely closed to foreign f...
2024-12-22 18:26:25 +0000 UTC View PostSuperbia Hominum 10: The First Sinner
With Scion’s decree against nuclear weapons at the conclusion of the Third Sino-Japanese War, NORAD became defunct. It was already in the mothballing process after the Endbringers arrived, and Parahumans replaced America’s strategic nuclear arsenal as deterrents. Now the process was comp...
2024-12-16 18:04:14 +0000 UTC View PostSuperbia Hominum 9: Clinging in the Darkness
The first time Bronya had seen the body of a dead god, it had been with her mother. They had traveled to the far north, to where a great mountain of black ice lay. When she had beheld it, she had seen the body of a great bear, it’s maw bisected by a spear of white ice.
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2024-12-10 16:25:29 +0000 UTC View PostIt was only two weeks to the Christmas Holidays, which meant that it was time for Ginny to finally prove herself. She tried to project an air of confidence and nonchalance as she strode towards the quidditch pitch, broom on her shoulders, her minions flanking her. She could do this. She had trained her entire life for this. They could win. ...
2024-12-03 16:11:25 +0000 UTC View PostSuperbia Hominum 8: The Lust of the Flesh
This is CNN. I’m Tom Brokaw, and this is 270 to Win. All across the nation today, Americans head to the polls to choose our next president. The battleground states to watch are Ohio, Florida, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Currently, polls favor Mrs. Rebecca Costa-Brown, former head o...
2024-12-01 16:47:34 +0000 UTC View PostComedia Glacialis 16: The Curtain Rises Upon the Next Act
It was unseasonably warm in Kyiv on October 29th, 2004. It was still only 10°C and the skies were cloudy and grey, but people went about without jackets, enjoying what was to be the last warm day for a very long time.
That is, until the c...
Superbia Hominum 7: Garden of Lies
For long months, they had incubated. Born of the corpse of their mother, the Thinker, they had been called forth by their Father. To prove they were Worthy. To be the opponent he sought. They would have been like their siblings, but mightier still. Stronger than the Behemoth. More alien than th...
2024-11-19 18:04:59 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude 11: Rumore Loquitur
Content warning: Reader discretion is advised. This chapter covers teen suicide.
It was cold, wet, and rainy, and part of Taylor just wanted to go home and get warm. Instead, she huddled deep within her jacket, and held out another flier to one of the passing high sch...
2024-11-15 16:33:26 +0000 UTC View PostAn American Endbringer in Sumeru
One of the worst things about having a semi-human body was that it was prone to shutting off at random times. Like transpacific flights. It wasn’t Ziz’s fault that they were so interminably boring. Oh sure, the first couple had been interesting as she rabidly devoured every episode of
Three days into their two week stint as royalty, Darkness came to Kazuma and Rin with a letter.
“You’re going to want to read this,” she said with a heavy sigh, holding the cheap parchment out.
Rin looked up from the desk where she’d been hard at work reviewing the palace budget. She took the letter...
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Interlude 10: The Sabzeruz Festival
Being atop a dendrosaur was a bit like sailing on a boat. The rolling gait of the giant creature was somewhat soothing, to the point that Paimon had passed out, a bit of drool leaking out of her mouth as she cuddled up in Lumine’s lap. The sweet fragrance of the flowers on the creatures had ...
2024-11-09 16:35:54 +0000 UTC View PostComedia Glacialis 15: The Dancer’s Costume Changes, the Thief’s Grand Reveal
The bedsheets rustled, and Anastasia turned around to see Thoma sitting up. She smiled at him, returning to the bedside to give him a kiss.
“Up already?” he asked, returning the kiss groggily and scrubbing his face with hi...
2024-11-04 21:48:52 +0000 UTC View PostTo celebrate 100 chapters of Second Archon War, here is a poll for a bonus chapter. Some are canon, all are silly. Vote for whatever tickles your fancy.
2024-11-03 05:19:57 +0000 UTC View PostSuperbia Hominum 6: Family Ties
His phone buzzed, and Eidolon paused in his pull-ups. The ring was the one he’s set for emergencies, so he let go, going over to flick it open. “Eidolon.”
“We’ve found her. She’s in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Coordinates are 42°57'29.3"N 85°41'36.5"W. PRT teams are stan...
2024-10-31 16:20:22 +0000 UTC View PostPRT Threat Assessment: Ziz
Photo of Ziz snapped by ...
2024-10-27 16:56:58 +0000 UTC View PostKazuma looked at the two women before him, and felt slightly dizzy. One was the very image of a royal princess, dressed in green dress with creamy white stockings, a small circlet of silver inlaid with pearls on her head. The other was a scruffy-looking but very attractive adventurer with her hair pulled back in a ponytail, a bushy tail poking o...
2024-10-26 15:40:56 +0000 UTC View PostSapientia Oromasdis 20: A Dream of Freedom
The people of New Delhi had been going through an ordinary day. No one had taken notice of two more women who had arrived from the airport at 9:17 am from Baghdad. The same flight arrived twice a week, and two more unremarkable passengers hadn’t meant anything to anyone, espe...
2024-10-23 16:48:35 +0000 UTC View PostWith the winter holidays around the corner, most students were frantically studying for their midterm exams. Hermione Granger had ensconced herself in the Room of Requirement, where she was surrounded by as much knowledge as possible in the theory that she could learn more by osmosis while she studied. The rest of Megumin’s gang joined her, if...
2024-10-21 17:20:11 +0000 UTC View PostSapientia Oromasdis 19: Hopebringer
At the upper extremity of the Earth’s atmosphere, the Simurgh lurked. Watching. Waiting. Calculating. Where would she strike this time? How would humanity be tested, to prove itself Worthy? To do that, she needed data. A great deal of data. She’d been monitoring what she could...
2024-10-19 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostImperatrix Umberosa 20: The Prophet’s Storm
Holding up the gem-like object, Eidolon frowned at it. From all appearances, it was an ordinary Cryo Vision. It felt cold to the touch, and while he couldn’t sense the Elemental Energy, Doctor Mother was inspecting what looked like a Dendro Vision, taking notes as sh...
2024-10-13 16:53:54 +0000 UTC View PostComoedia Glacialis 14: The Damsel reveals herself as the Princess
In her short life, Kollei had seen many people face death. She had done so herself, scrabbling and clinging to life as radiation slowly wrested it away from her. Others had been less tenacious, simply giving up and lying down to die when the end was n...
2024-10-08 23:10:57 +0000 UTC View PostComoedia Glacialis 13: The Stage Shifts to Another Scene
Once more, Anatoly found himself on the Tsaritsa’s left. Infuriatingly, this time, the man to his own left was none other than Thoma, now gifted with a Harbinger’s coat and a pair of red horns like that of a devil. Beside them, Ivan the Sleeper and Yelizav...
2024-10-02 16:23:07 +0000 UTC View PostMegumin lay sprawled on the cold stone floor, staring up at a portrait of a skinny old knight with a cockatrice plume in his helmet. He, of course, stared back, frowning at her.
“Rather rude to stare at a chap, wot? Dontcha have anything else to stare at, young thing-a-me-girl?”
“I am contempla...
2024-10-01 02:55:55 +0000 UTC View PostThree days later, Kazuma and Rin found themselves in a floating dragon carriage, along with Dust and Darkness. Megumin, Taylor, Aqua, and Keith were all riding in a second carriage. Initially, Kazuma had been somewhat leery of taking his least responsible (or most responsible, if you counted the quantity of trouble caused) party members to the K...
2024-09-23 02:40:07 +0000 UTC View PostSuperbia Hominem 5: Let No Man Tear Asunder
“Aunty Becky!”
Alexandria waved and smiled as the gangly bespectacled girl ran up to her from the jetway, along with the mousy-looking boy who followed along behind. She leaned over, giving Taylor a big hug, and then did the same with Junior who murm...
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