Sixty-Two
Heat suffused the room as red light blinded Kon. He blinked his eyes quickly as he tried to recover, looking back toward the console. The shuttle cannons, meant to fire at other spacecraft or heavily fortified positions, had just vaporized a channel into the forest.
Small bushfires were starting on th...
2025-06-16 17:53:00 +0000 UTC
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Sixty-One
“The cannon is on a rotating platform that is currently being powered by batteries. We can use this console to target and fire the cannon for now,” Bosch said as she led him up the stairs. The interior of the tower was just a series of ladders, catwalks, and equipment. The entire thing had been built to suppo...
2025-06-14 20:45:13 +0000 UTC
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Sixty
The sun was setting as Kon got close to Alpha. A thick lather of sweat covered his body as he ran, his chest heaving like a bellows as he closed in. It was the hardest he’d pushed himself since the plateau and he could feel the fire in his limbs. His nodes were burning, drawing strength from the energy reserves ins...
2025-06-12 23:23:40 +0000 UTC
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Fifty-Nine
“I’m telling you, this is where we’re supposed to be going,” Kon said as he held up the roughly drawn map. Diur leaned over his shoulder, the heat of her body pressing against him as she peered at it.
“I believe we’ve run too far. It would make no sense for a radio relay to be on the forest flo...
2025-06-11 22:47:02 +0000 UTC
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Fifty-Eight
Mathis had found proper armor for Kon, but had been only slightly perturbed when Diur had turned him down. She wore a basic ballistic vest that had a cheap energy absorption weave in it, designed to slow projectiles and distribute an energy based attack. From the way Mathis had sneered at the bulky black vest, ...
2025-06-08 22:36:03 +0000 UTC
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Fifty-Seven
“Sit,” Bosch commanded as they entered the small room. Kon looked around himself as they stood in the doorway looking at an unarmored Evelyn Bosch. Without her armor the Knight was still tall, broad, and muscular. But no longer did she resemble some metallic god of war dredged from the history books of old ...
2025-06-08 18:01:33 +0000 UTC
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Fifty-Six
“Wow. That looks like a shithole,” Kon muttered to Diur as they came upon Camp Alpha. Thick streaks of black smoke rose above the tightly packed camp. A low wooden wall ran along the perimeter of the camp, with slightly elevated towers on each corner of the square fortifications. A much larger tower was in th...
2025-06-06 01:38:27 +0000 UTC
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Fifty-Five
“What’s a pseudo C-Grade?” Kon asked as they slowly gathered up to leave the sight of the fierce fight. Diur was pale, a slick of sweat on her face as she looked around with wide eyes, her nostrils flared as she took everything in.
“A failed ascension. It straddles the realm between C and D, ...
2025-06-06 00:05:53 +0000 UTC
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Fifty-Four
Bosch returned silently with a chunk of rock in her hand that radiated power. Her Squire squad broke from their positions around the edge of the rift and formed up on the woman. She tucked the double fist sized rock in a pack one of them offered her. The Squire shouldered the pack when she finished and everyone ...
2025-06-05 22:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Twenty-Five
Dane lay stretched out across the ground, breathing heavily as steam rose off of his burning arm. Thick piles of ash lay around him, consumed by the hellfire he’d unleashed as the last wave of monsters had pushed toward the top of the hill. Tolic floated over him with all four of his arms crossed, frowning at...
2025-06-05 02:27:57 +0000 UTC
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Fifty-Three
A/N: If you want to hang out and talk about the series or my other works, I have a small slot on the Immersive Ink discord. It is SFW discord and pretty heavily moderated to ensure everyone can have a good time, so if you do come, please be kind and keep spoilers limited.
2025-06-03 22:39:19 +0000 UTC
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Fifty-Two
“What was what?” Kon asked. His mind was trying to figure out what was going on. He looked past Knight Bosch and to the forest around them, seeing no other signs of humanity or monsters.
“Cadet Kon. Your records indicate no establishments of nodes nor any type of energy enrichment program. So, h...
2025-06-01 20:53:31 +0000 UTC
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For those who found me during RS run, you likely also saw Moon Cultivation right there alongside me. This is that author's Patreon! If your enjoying my story, you'll likely enjoy his. It's a sci-fi xianxia set on the moon
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2025-06-01 19:32:04 +0000 UTC
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Twenty-Four
Xeroc panted heavily as he looked over the battlefield. Dead covered the ground, stretching out in every direction to form a carpet of corpses. Most of it was the natives and his own forces, but there were some monsters interspersed amongst the dead. Xeroc took a knee, looking down at Kage’s still form, the s...
2025-05-31 00:13:16 +0000 UTC
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Fifty-One
“I’ve never really watched this before,” Diur said as she sat on her heels, only inches away from Kon as he gathered up the stack of bloody F-Grade stones around himself. He offered her a quick grin as the small hill of stones tried to topple over.
“It’s pretty boring most of the time. I just sit ...
2025-05-30 23:13:25 +0000 UTC
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Fifty
“Those aren’t better,” Kon said, staring at the vermin crawling over the corpse of something that was nothing more than a series of bones held together by the last remnants of sinew. Stringy rust red bits of meat hung in dribbling strands from each curved rib, as furry black six-legged creatures scuttled about,...
2025-05-30 01:58:57 +0000 UTC
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Twenty-Three
“I’ve always heard you overgrown lizards were egotistical bastards. It’s good to see that the rumors were true in this case,” Dane taunted, knife held low as they circled each other. Gabe snorted softly from the slits on his muzzle like face, hot air blowing across Dane’s face.
“I will ...
2025-05-28 23:57:06 +0000 UTC
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Forty-Nine
“Are you sure about this?” Diur asked as they stared together at the small flower across the glenn. It hadn’t taken Diur long to find the natural treasure, the area was rife with them. Rifts had been depositing energy through the entire planet for who know how long, the treasures were fairly common if one ...
2025-05-28 01:14:55 +0000 UTC
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Forty-Eight
Kon couldn’t tear his eyes off the giant bug as it scuttled down the cliff side. Its legs were machinelike in their rapid movements, propelling itself down with reckless speed. Diur grabbed at his elbow and that seemed to break whatever hold the creature had cast on him. Kon turned and began to run into the f...
2025-05-27 04:52:55 +0000 UTC
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40.
“Heavy casualties amongst the regulars. Princess Aloria’s royal guard fared better, but still took losses. Militia detachment had nearly a fifty percent casualty rate, but not as many fatalities. We were able to pull them out and retreat. Most will be able to return to service,” Sammus finished off reading the lo...
2025-05-26 18:53:55 +0000 UTC
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Twenty-Two
Heat Resistance
F-2
Heat Resistance
F-3
The alerts chimed in his interface as Dane felt as the boiling mud slowly cooked him. The thin pipe he had built of long grass strands was poor for the situa...
2025-05-26 17:54:49 +0000 UTC
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Forty-Seven
“It’s weird seeing the sun,” Kon said as they reached the edge of the plateau. For two days they had kept moving, a sense of doom trailing after them. Kon was exhausted, tired in a way that went far beyond just the physical realm. It was a soul deep weariness that he feared he would never alleviate. ...
2025-05-26 05:32:05 +0000 UTC
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Forty-Six
A/N: Last two chapters are a bit short, but it's not going to be the new normal.
“We have to go back. She needs us,” Kon whispered as they stopped under the side, panting as they leaned against trees. Diur stood off to the side with her sword in one hand, the scabbard in the other. Her eyes were wide an...
2025-05-24 01:08:21 +0000 UTC
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Forty-Five
“Quiet.” The whispered command froze both Diur and Kon as they stopped mid step. Alice was taut as a tripwire, her eyes were wide open as she looked back and forth. She inhaled slowly, deeply, through her nose, head cocked to the side. Her axe was in hand as she looked at the forest to the side.
...
2025-05-23 04:20:03 +0000 UTC
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Twenty-One
Dane Rawlings
Lvl. 7
Race: Human
Stats
Strength: 16
Dexterity: 10
Endurance: 10
Vitality: 16
Intelligence: 14
2025-05-22 23:07:47 +0000 UTC
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Forty-Four
It didn’t rain soon. The water refused to fall until deep in the night and it left Kon a shivering mess as he scrubbed with sharp leaves to clean himself of the gunk on himself. He used the leaves to scrape at the edge of his skin, making it raw and red as he cleaned himself. It was painful and only part...
2025-05-21 22:51:14 +0000 UTC
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Forty-Three
A/N: Two in One Day! hope you enjoy.
“What happened here?” Alice said as Kon laid on the ground, gasping. Blood welled in the gashes in his leathers as he groaned in agony. Those talons had scraped through them with little effort as he ran out of the rift. Those birds had attacked him constantly as he...
2025-05-20 22:56:50 +0000 UTC
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Forty-Two
Kon’s feet were on the edge of the strong mushroom that only bent slightly under his weight. His torso dominated the rest of the space as he held himself as still as possible as the wake of passing earth rippled toward him. Sweat beaded along his forehead and dripped onto the glowing mushroom. His heart was a h...
2025-05-20 17:54:52 +0000 UTC
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Forty-One
Breathtaking. The interior of the rift stole away his thoughts as he stood on the precipice of a mountain and looked down upon a valley filled with more of the monstrous trees. Warm air blew across the valley to crash against the unyielding rock face, heat suffusing him as he looked upon the circling birds far be...
2025-05-20 04:26:29 +0000 UTC
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Twenty
Summoned Spirit lvl. 1 Upgraded!
Summoned Spirit lvl. 2
Possession Skill Increased
“That’s it?” Dane asked incredulously as he watched his bank of sacrificed cores drain down as Tolic shimmered and seemed to grow more solid. The four ar...
2025-05-19 19:04:51 +0000 UTC
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