“Brace!” Kay bellowed out as he thrust his arms forward, sending a wave of blood forward at the incoming wave of enemies. He made swirling whirlpools that sucked the first few beasts into the red tide, then solidified it into a crimson bulwark covered in spikes that held a few of the creatures in place.
The rest of the horde of onrushi...
2023-04-11 23:12:33 +0000 UTC View PostSomeone knocked on the door of his office as Kay methodically worked through the morning’s paperwork.
“Come in,” He intoned monotonously, expecting another armful of papers carried by an assistant.
The harried-looking staffer who stepped inside was exactly what he’d anticipated, but the three people that followed her in were ...
2023-04-05 15:57:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Our most vigorous and dedicated researcher-“
“Enough!” Kay interrupted Eleniah, still gasping for breath. “You have to stop so we can finish this up.”
Ahthia’s internal war was a loud one. Her obvious division between wanting to experiment with the Sublime Skill Kay had gotten from one of his tier five options battled ...
2023-04-04 17:43:54 +0000 UTC View Post“This is tasty,” Eleniah muttered as she took another bit of her lunch. “I really like this sauce.”
“Yeah, the mustard in it is great. Did you get any with that spicy-sweet pepper?” Kay asked.
“The molchino peppers? Yeah, I put some in both.” She held up her other flatbread fish wrap she hadn’t started on yet and us...
2023-03-31 01:54:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe pooled blood inside the dish sitting on Kay’s desk slowly startled to furl up like a slowly drying leaf on the ground as it began encompassing the pendant sitting in the middle. In one smooth motion, the crimson flower of blood sealed itself closed and began to shrink inward. A few moments passed as the blood seemed to vanish, seeping into...
2023-03-26 19:46:20 +0000 UTC View PostKay stared in concentration at the breastplate sitting on the training dummy, staring in concentration at it. The blood in his veins flowed smoothly through him, the power within held tightly in his grasp, waiting for the moment of release. His muscles tensed as he focused on the flow of mana through his blood. In one smooth motion, he drew toge...
2023-03-24 02:33:42 +0000 UTC View PostEdit: What is with me and misnumbering chapter titles!?
“Why is it doing push-ups?”
“Uhh…” Kay snapped out of his staring-at-the-wall trance and looked over to where Cindy was pointing at one of his simulacra, which was doing push-ups. “Oh, I was working on making giving them detailed muscles, and then I needed some way t...
2023-03-23 01:20:56 +0000 UTC View Post“Research!” Ahthia cried as she bustled into the room excitedly, carrying a notebook and waving at them. “Isn’t this exciting?”
Kay shook his head and chuckled, “I guess making you an archivist really was a great idea.”
“I do love it,” She grinned up at him as she took a seat across from him, “So thank you. Now, l...
2023-03-23 01:03:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe mausoleum looked too small for the four lonely tombs that contained the first bodies of those fallen in Kay’s services as members of the Blood Guard. It also looked too small for what Kay knew would one day be rows upon rows of stone boxes covering still bodies. They would expand when it became necessary, and Kay also knew that this place ...
2023-03-13 22:20:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Just to double and triple-check everything, you sure you can make that shot?” Kay asked the assembled group in front of him. He turned slightly to point down at the Ancient’s nest.
Lauren held out her hand, and blood flowed up into a bowstave. With an elegant motion, she drew back the string, drips of blood collecting at her fingert...
2023-03-10 16:12:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe Ancients sat in their massive nest in a rocky crag partway down into the enormous whirlpool that spun dizzyingly as the ocean was sucked into the pit below.
"No wonder it took us so long to find the damn thing." Tyuah muttered angrily, "I thought these weren't the fishing kind?" She shot Kay some side-eye as she lowered the spyglass. 2023-03-09 17:08:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Kay walked into the Adventurer’s Guild and was quickly escorted up to the Guildmaster’s office to wait for her to be available. It only took a few minutes for someone to stick their heads out and greet him. He strode into the office, doing his best to look self-assured.
Technically I’m higher ranking than her, at least in my own damn...
2023-03-02 19:52:54 +0000 UTC View PostThree chapters in a week! Feeling nice and productive! Also, Chapter 50! Woo!
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“So,” Eleniah spoke from her seat in the dark secret lair of her publicly accessible office that everyone in the school knew the location of, “What’s your Status look like nowadays?”
“Why are the lights off?” Kay asked, “And ...
2023-02-27 02:19:46 +0000 UTC View PostAlready got a chapter out this week for everyone, so this one's going to be pressing how many chapters ahead the Partisan tier is.
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Kay shifted in place on the bench in the school hallway and leaned back against the wall again after he got part of his belt to stop pinching against his leg.
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2023-02-24 00:40:11 +0000 UTC View PostBig important stuff! In universe at least. It's a slightly meta chapter to me.
EDit: Fixed title name. Me and numbering are having a problem ig.
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“Yer saying the System is an experiment?” Quol asked a little while later in a quieter meeting room that Cindy had dragged them into.
“No, I’m saying...
2023-02-21 23:17:30 +0000 UTC View PostSo, I know some people don't like the minor cliff hangers and all that, but I'm not doing a 4000 word chapter. Also, the technical gun stuff is probably not perfect, but sue me I did as much research as I thought was necessary, I'm not writing a historical paper here.
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“When it ended up getting decided that Elen...
2023-02-16 16:14:38 +0000 UTC View PostThis was going to be one chapter, but then it got long. So now it's two. Enjoy!
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The third time they circled back past the same small restaurant, Kay finally got fed up. “What are we doing?”
Cindy shot him a look as they turned down the one street they hadn’t walked through in the same small i...
2023-02-09 23:03:29 +0000 UTC View Post“Alright.” Kay nodded to Curcius, who nodded back before sitting down. “Does anyone have any questions for Commander Mapsight before we move on to the next topics?”
Kay’s gathered advisors, who were more and more becoming a ruling council, as his “advisors” were quickly becoming ministers and government officials themselves, ...
2023-02-03 00:07:12 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m not a princess.” Was the first thing Lydia Icerose said to Kay after they’d sat down together at a commandeered table some of the Blood Guard had “reclaimed” from a local tavern. At least, Kay thought it was a tavern of some kind; there was enough alcohol in it for it to be one. Although, the stereotypes of pirates did lean towa...
2023-01-25 02:13:17 +0000 UTC View Post“This seems way too easy.” Kay looked around the area, frowning. With the two supposed pirate captains chased off by Eleniah, the remaining “defenders” in the port were all pretty substandard combatants that had been fairly easily crushed beneath the proverbial feet of Avalon. All that was left was to clean up any stragglers and start ge...
2023-01-20 04:30:29 +0000 UTC View PostI was going to do this with a chapter attached, but then I realized that would make things a little extra complicated with what I'm trying to do. I also planned to make this pretty simple, but then I realized that some people might want to read the full things, so I'll put the whole thing with a big banner for the tldr people.
To cut right...
2023-01-20 04:29:31 +0000 UTC View PostThis chapter didn't like me and I didn't like it. Took me forever to get it acceptable. I'm not even liking this whole scene/event in it's total form, and it's probably going to be shorter than originally planned.
Because I've been fighting with this whole scene, I've done a little work on another idea as a palate cleanser. Once I get a li...
2022-07-20 23:49:19 +0000 UTC View PostThrough the lens of the spyglass, Kay saw that Darkport was much less populated than their last visit.
“Looks like a few of the ships are gone.” Lauren commented, “There’s a new one that I don’t remember from last time too, but it looks like a recent capture.”
“Why do you say that?”
“The obvious battle damage,...
2022-07-08 02:19:26 +0000 UTC View PostSo, short version, I have problems with depression and anxiety. It's not fun to say that, but... yeah. When I said something about taking a short break because of burnout like two months ago or longer, part of the reason I was doing that was because I saw a stress and other things driven spiral into an anxiety and depression fueled bad mental pl...
2022-07-08 02:18:44 +0000 UTC View Post"My lord!"
Kay glanced up from his thoughts in the middle of his walk. He'd taken some time off, just as a small break, and was enjoying walking around Avalon, just watching people and taking in the growth and change that had come as the town expanded again and again. Someone ran up toward him while he was stopped looking at a fountain, an...
2022-05-04 20:12:18 +0000 UTC View PostKay glanced up from the huddle he was in as Cindy was escorted into the room. His Ministers looked up, and all of them turned to look at her.
She took a step back with a hesitant expression, bumping into the Blood Guard behind her as she saw everyone staring at her. "Um… hi?"
Kay took a moment just looking her over. He'd been busy ...
2022-04-27 20:49:25 +0000 UTC View Post“And that is why we shouldn’t ask the Adventurer’s Guild for assistance in this!” One of the representatives shouted, “Their attempts to get our Lord to fight their Founder’s daughter in order to create a counter to him shows that they cannot be trusted!”
“I’m not saying we ask the actual Guild for help! I’m saying we p...
2022-04-20 21:30:22 +0000 UTC View PostThousands of miles away from Avalon, in the middle of Korthilde, the capital city of Nelam, sat a massive golden castle. Made of a golden-hued stone and massive amounts of actual gold, the castle was the highest building in the capital by leaps and bounds. The massive shining edifice dominated the landscape and the skyline, forcing everyone who ...
2022-04-20 02:54:14 +0000 UTC View Post[————————————————————]
Bloody Step
- A prosthetic leg made of blood by Lord Kay, the Class Line Progenitor of Blood Manipulation and Blood Lord of Avalon, for a member of his Blood Guard. Created to replace a limb lost in duty to him, he made this pers...
2022-04-20 02:27:04 +0000 UTC View PostWe officially have learned I cannot count! Yesterday chapter 32 was supposed to go live for Supporters and I did 33. It's fixed now, and I'm going to find an elementary school to teach me how to count to three.
2022-04-15 17:17:06 +0000 UTC View Post