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Bk 2 Ch. 58

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Santi sat in his old room in Homebase. The small closet still had the stench of old sweat and cleaning chemicals. Santi sat with his back against the wall and tried to get to clear his mind before he went through the long list of System alerts that was waiting for him. He had gotten Bianca, Yessenia, and Mom...

Bk 2 Ch. 57 Goodbye

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A/N: Warning this is another emotional one. Little short but I was getting choked up writing it.

They buried Vicente the next day. Under a hot sun they laid him and the others killed in the rampage atop of pyres. Wood and other flammable items had been stacked up and now everyone was waiting. Santiago stood ...

Bk 2 Ch. 56 Reunions

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A/N: Planning on releasing Mon-Friday for RoWM for now until we're 25 chapters ahead of RR. Book 2 coming to a close in the next few chapters too.

Downtown had turned into a burning warzone. Corpses lay strewn everywhere with thick knots of the ape’s surrounding singular or some case knots of dead h...

Symbiote Knight Ch. 6

Chapter Six: Different Menu 

“Aberration? Fuck!” Hull spat as her long fingers dug into Cassian’s shoulder, dragging him upright. Cassian couldn’t breathe, the gnawing pain in his stomach was so intense. All around him the others were lying panting in exhaustion, the tendrils of metal having receded...

Bk 2 Ch. 55 The Spoils

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The kill notification dinged in his head as the woman died. Santi kept limping toward the VIP box, blood trailing behind him. The arena was deserted but the sounds of fighting outside were drifting in towards him. The primate screams and shouts mingling with the chaos of skills and spells going off in thunde...

Bk 2 Ch. 54 To the Victor

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[Gust] swept the primus down and towards Santi, causing the great ape to slam into the beam with its chest. The entire beam rocked from the weight, but as its thick fingers scrambled to pull itself up, Santi attacked. 

The morph lengthened into a long lance and he stabbed down, impaling the ...

Symbiote Knight Ch. 5

Chapter Five: The Rift

Cassian stared down at the rift as the airship sank lower and lower. A rippling vortex of greens, blues, and whites, steam rose in a column out of it. Soldiers clustered to the side rails of the ship, looking down at the rift now and then. None of them seemed concerned about the nature of ...

Symbiote Knight Ch. 4

Chapter Four: New World 

Water crashed over Cassian, jerking him awake with a splutter and a curse. He reached for the boot knife he kept and cursed again as his fingers scrambled over the empty sheath. Something hard hit his stomach and he doubled over gagging as a pitiless laugh rang out above him. <...

Bk 2 Ch. 53 The Duel

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Santi made it three steps before the alarm went off. A general hue and cry of shouts as guards all turned and looked away from him. People began to clatter and run, racing toward the open entryway and leaving Santi practically alone courtside. He caught snippets of the conversations, but the primary driver o...

Possible new cover. Any thoughts?

Bk 2 Ch. 52 Bar fight

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The maintenance halls were just as labyrinth as the sewers. Santi quickly grew lost, threading his way from one hall to another. A half a dozen wrong turns finally got him moving in a more productive direction. The faint voices of people could be heard and Santi followed their whispers like a bloodhound.&nbs...

Bk 2 Ch. 51 Plots

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The familiar taste of a healing potion washed down Santi’s throat and he leaned back to rest for a moment as the potion took effect. It was weak, but enough to start having his wounds begin to knit back together and stop the bleeding. Between this and his now increased vitality, he could keep pushing a bit...

Bk 2 Ch. 50

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A/N: I need a name for the Morph Weapon. Any suggestions?

Santi watched the assassin carefully as the man weaved through his allies. They all bent away from him, nervous in his presence. A feverish light was lit in the man’s eyes as he began to speak of his Patron. 

“You know nothing of our Lor...

Bk 2 Ch. 49

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The dilapidated building was a clone of everything else he had seen so far. Strewn about with the debris of the old world. Here and there signs of habitation, the nesting habits of the mutated apes evident to see. Santi looked at the gnawed bones and some of the panic faded away to be replaced by grim determ...

Bk 2 Ch. 48

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A thin steel door was all that was between him and Abraham. Santi stared at it for a moment before opening the door and walking in. The room had been stripped down to the bare concrete floors. Floor to ceiling windows had been broken away and a wind ripped through the floor in a constant howl. Abraham stood ...

Ch 3 Candidate

Chapter Three: Candidate

Henri looked at Commander Bishop with wide eyes as she walked toward him and the Captain. Each step was slow and ponderous as every eye watched her with bated breath. There was a hunger in the lordlings gaze to see her fail in front of them, a new object for their ridicule and derision. ...

Ch. 2 Lord Mayor

Chapter Two: The Lord Mayor

The tram ride was remarkably silent as Cassian continued to blankly stare over at the rest of the lordlings clustered on the padded seats. They studiously ignored him and Henri while talking quietly to themselves. The city around them was simply a dreary blur of slate gray buildings a...

Bk 2 Ch. 47 Tower Climb

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Santi stalked by the severed heads, ignoring the sloughing skin that drooped off their skulls. Ground glass, as fine as sand, crunched under his boots as he walked into the bottom floor of the tower. The ground floor was a mess of broken furniture and scattered personal belongings. 

The smell of e...

Bk 2 Ch. 46 Bloody Streets

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A wide hand grabbed at the edge of the railing, bare knuckles white with strain with wiry black hair covering the back of its hands and arms. Hateful brown eyes came next as the beast glared at Santi as it rose up and over the concrete barrier to land in a crouch. It was as big as the Alpha was, but it lacke...

Bk 2 Ch. 45 Loss

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A/N: Chapter's a bit short. No lie it was hard for me to write this, was getting choked up. It'll get cleaned up in the editing room.

Something was wrong. Santi could feel it in the air as they walked back towards base. A tense feeling of electricity that filled the air, the way the gateguards looked away and...

Bk 2 Ch. 44 A Father's Love

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A/N: I'm sorry

Vicente woke up instantly, the predawn light softening the darkness in their room. Gabriella was a soft, warm, presence against his chest, her hair bundled up under his nose with strands somehow stuck in his mouth. 

She had never been one for cuddling at night before all of this. Sai...

Bk 2 Ch. 43 Deal making

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Congratulations, you are an Air Mage lvl. 34 

Santiago V. Silva 

Strength: 35 (60)

Durability: 35 (60)

Stamina: 33 (58) 

Dexterity: 32 (57) 

Bk 2 Ch. 42 Leadership

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A/N: First off, apologies for the lack of posts. I got a promotion at work and haven't had the time to write like I used to. I have also decided to increase the chapter lengths to 2k words. After August I will be going to a 4x a week schedule but will be working to get you guys up to 20 chapters ahead of RR.

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Bk 2 Ch. 41 A coup attempt

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“What do you mean a coup?” Yesi asked as they stood outside of Homebase. They had just enough time to scrub all the blood, dirt, and dried sweat off of themselves before they were heading toward the center of the community. Dozens of people were milling about looking a mix of excited, relaxed, and a few ...

Bk 2 Ch.40

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The pillar he had liberated the riftheart from a five foot tall orange shaft covered in dense runic script. He could barely understand a sliver of it, but from what little he understood it was very complex mana equations. It was beyond anything the cyclops could have made and stood out like a sore thumb from...

Bk 2 Ch. 39

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The heavy metal club smashed into the ground in a plume of dust, sending out a wave of dirt at Santi as he leapt back. His morph extended from a spear into his favored tendril whip, snapping the whip at its eye. The cyclops closed its fleshy eyelid and blood welled from the cut and flowed down its face. It s...

Chapter One

Chapter One: Summoned 

“It’s raining again,” Cassian remarked as he pulled the umbrella from its stand. The Lesser-Weaver silk umbrella cost more than he had ever seen and the Lowren family kept it casually stuffed in a stand with a half dozen other similar umbrellas. He wanted to roll his eyes at the...

Bk 2 Ch. 38

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The second cyclops died much as the first did, under a hail of arrows and then Santi coring it like an apple. Cameron’s shield was a twisted ruin that he had tossed away and Chloe had barely managed to avoid a deadly backhand. Santi stared at the purified metals that made up the golems and knew they’d be...

Bk 2 Ch. 37

37.

“Everyone ready?” Santi asked as they clustered around the entrance to the rift. His personal team were close to him with Rayleigh and her B team of Acolyte fighters ready to hold the entrance of the rift in case Santi and his team failed. 

Santi kept an eye on Cam, who looked like he hadn’t...

Bk 2 Ch. 36

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“How was your day?” Santi asked Yesi as he slumped into the couch. Cam and Bianca had taken a walk around the compound while Mom and Dad had retreated upstairs leaving the two siblings alone. It was one of the few times they’d been alone since they had been picked up from the farm. 

“Good....