The principal gestured for him to sit down on one of the broken rubble, but Toge could hardly care for his words. Now that the immediate dangers were taken care of, the only thing the platinum-haired boy could think of was a single figure.
Panda.
He turned, and there he was. The cursed corpse stood still for a second, then t...
2025-11-09 21:21:32 +0000 UTC View PostBefore I could go off slaying monsters, there was a more important issue to resolve: the issue of what to do with the chaos I’d ripped out of Gerion.
I stood still for a second and tried to sense it, which was not exactly a problem considering how eager it felt while flowing through me. The chaos magic writhed within my guts like a livin...
2025-11-08 22:28:10 +0000 UTC View PostEverything was a blur in Toge's vision. The world dimmed as he stared at a single figure. A single figure that shone brighter than even the sun overhead, a figure whose light could not be dulled by the curtain raised above them.
Toge stared at Panda.
"Impossible. I killed him. I destroyed his last core. How is he here?!" Usami stutte...
2025-11-02 22:40:00 +0000 UTC View PostIsaac
Gerion Lannister mumbled and muttered in his sleep throughout the night. It seemed like whatever nightmares had trailed him in the waking world had followed him to sleep. Isaac did not blame him. After spending a single day here, he even found something like respect in his heart for the man. To have survived...
2025-11-02 22:30:05 +0000 UTC View PostValkia was a stubborn girl, and she clung to life with the desperation of a man who sought water in the desert.
Kratos stood outside a partially crumbled building. The building was one of the few that actually stood tall. What he had mistaken for a ramshackle village at first had revealed itself to be a village that was just hastily built....
2025-10-31 22:21:52 +0000 UTC View PostWakako Okada
Wakako's office was sparse but comfortable. Her walls were lined with screens that displayed information, requests, and the endless flow of jobs that came through Westbrook. When a client came in, she always made sure to click the button on her table that hid the monitors, but alone, like she was righ...
2025-10-29 22:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostGerion
Gerion Lannister had been in the seven hells for so long, he was not sure he was ever going to step out again.
His mind swam through murky waters, struggling toward consciousness like a drowning man clawing for the surface. The last thing he remembered was... what? Days? Weeks? Months? Time had become...
2025-10-29 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe air in Wakanda felt harsh and dry with every breath Bucky took. Yet he set his shoulders, aimed down the sight and as the four-armed rapid monstrosity charged at him with a roar, he gunned it down with the machine gun in his hands. The bullet tore through the Chutari and sent the alien flying back, but there was more. There was always mo...
2025-10-26 22:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostToge gauged the distance. Even with the loss of Mezu, Usami didn't seem bothered, but now Toge knew why. Usami Kato was a name spoken alongside Mei Mei and Atsuya Kusakabe. They were generally regarded as the strongest First Grade sorcerers of their generation, but where Mei Mei and Kusakabe had been more popular, owing to taking more public-fac...
2025-10-26 22:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostValyria was a strange land in Isaac's eyes. He had traveled extensively in his past world, explored its lands, seen its cultures and civilizations nearly as much as Master Dracula had, and when he came to this world, he had assumed they were inferior.
The North was barbaric, filled with primitive men and women trapped in the Stone ages. He...
2025-10-25 22:57:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe pants were a tight fit, Bucky noted as he clasped the button above the zipper. It was a dark black material of some kind of synthetic fabric with more silver buckles than it reasonably needed. He had ripped them out, and they lay discarded to the side.
He turned away from Victor's body and to the brute. Unlike Victor who was just shy o...
2025-10-25 22:39:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe sound of waves crashing against sand drew my attention, and I turned to the distance. If we had landed a bit further south, we would have landed on what looked like a beach, or the remnants of one. The lava lakes that crisscrossed the entire land like a delta found their ends at the sea.
The combination of magma and seawater resulted i...
2025-10-22 22:29:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe brute came at him with all the grace of an avalanche and the skill of an amateur boxer. His cybernetic fists were massive, each one the size of Bucky's head, and they swung with the kind of momentum that would shatter bone and concrete alike. Could he match strength with the brute? Probably, but Bucky didn't try to match the power. Instead, ...
2025-10-20 22:28:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing he felt was cold. It was not the cold of winter; this one was different. More familiar. It settled on his skin and bit into his bones. James Buchanan Barnes had been in this situation too many times not to know what was happening, so instead of panicking, he remained still. He took in a calm breath, held it for two seconds, then ...
2025-10-19 21:40:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe preparation had taken three days.
I stood in the central chamber of Castlevania, watching as Isaac made his final checks. Across from him, Archmaester Marwyn adjusted the chains on his neck, the bronze links of his collar catching the torchlight. The archmaester had been fascinated when I’d extended the invitation, his thirst for kno...
2025-10-19 21:32:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe afternoon sun that shone across the Tokyo Jujutsu High courtyard would have been scorching if Jiki had never experienced the fiery dunes of Suna. As he had, he only mildly noted its inconvenience as he rounded the corner of the main building.
He paused mid-step when he spotted Toge Inumaki sitting alone on a wooden bench, methodically ...
2025-10-19 21:26:16 +0000 UTC View PostI sat alone in my study once more, slowly leafing through a page on interspatial transference. Dracula's study was a trove of hidden knowledge, and as Alucard had said earlier, he had forgotten more than some civilizations ever learned.
As I leafed through the pages, I felt there was some truth to the familiarity within. I was familiar eno...
2025-10-12 22:49:11 +0000 UTC View PostMarwyn stepped into the study with the kind of awe he tried and failed to suppress. His eyes darted to the pit, to the glint of broken mirrors still lingering on the floor from my earlier work, to the vaulted ceiling that seemed higher than when he first entered. Castlevania enjoyed playing tricks on new guests.
"Sit," I said, lowering mys...
2025-10-08 21:24:56 +0000 UTC View PostSukuna walked into the clearing, but this time his smile had reduced a fair bit, and Toji was certain it had something to do with the corpse at his feet. Sukuna came to a stop and stood unmoving, eyes narrowed, lips curled with slow-flowing blood in the corner, and focused on Toji, his smile just as thin.
Toji stared back at him, his grin ...
2025-10-06 22:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI had just concluded the meeting with the freefolk and the Watch a few minutes ago, and now I sat in the castle, thinking and calculating my next steps. Given my position, it all circled back to the Others, or more precisely, the Great Other. I had no desire to wipe out their entire species. Such genocide was unwarranted, even if they intended t...
2025-10-04 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe silence stretched, long enough for their nerves to fray. Coughs were swallowed, boots shifted on the stone. Only the heartbeat thrum of Castlevania’s vast engines filled the air. The sight of the interior of Castlevania had sealed their mouths shut. Even Jeor Mormont, who I was certain was more used to luxury owing to his status as a previ...
2025-10-01 22:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post"You will not deny me my joy of combat against such an opponent, Kenjaku," Sukuna grunted out, eyes narrowing.
"Unfortunately, I shall." Kenjaku replied with a thin smile. "When you return to full power, I'm certain to pay for this defiance and transgression, but till then, Toji Fushiguro is too dangerous to let you face him alone. It's no...
2025-09-28 21:41:57 +0000 UTC View PostI walked past Isaac, the still-struggling Other dangling from my grip like an animal awaiting slaughter. Its taloned hands clawed weakly at my arm, but the effort was wasted. A curiosity more than a threat now.
My gaze swept across the ruin. The wall still smoldered from fire and broken ice, the great wooden gate reduced to splinters by th...
2025-09-27 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Ser Garrow had served Lord Edgar Morne for almost a decade now, and in that long service, he had seen storms. He had ridden through sleet that cut the skin raw, trudged through mud that swallowed horse and man alike, and endured nights when thunder rattled the very marrow of his bones. But nothing, nothing, lingered in memory like the storm ...
We climbed out of the pit and made our way back to Odin's Study, and I fell into the well-carved throne with a huff.
"This is a working greater than any that has been done in multiple generations. We can't do it alone," Freya started, her feet taking her as she paced the study, deep in thought.
"Tell me what you need, and it shall be...
2025-09-25 17:25:00 +0000 UTC View PostAgent Miller had seen her share of bad days in the PRT. Gang wars, parahuman skirmishes, and protests that turned bloody. But nothing, absolutely nothing, matched the storm that swallowed Brockton Bay that morning.
An Endbringer's attack was never something you got used to. It was the worst-case scenario, a moment that nobody would wish on...
2025-09-24 22:19:58 +0000 UTC View PostToji let out an annoyed sigh, cracking his neck to the side. Sukuna stood twenty feet away, arms crossed and wearing Itadori’s face like a well-fitting mask. The King of Curses bled malevolence into the air, so heavy it pressed against the world itself. Toji couldn’t sense cursed energy, but even he felt the weight of it as plainly as the su...
2025-09-21 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostTormund
"AHHHHHHHH"
Fresh screams rang out ahead and Tormund shifted his focus from the strange man to the spectacle ahead of him and he saw that in the space of a few seconds, when he turned to look at where the sound came from then to Hector, the entire front line of crows had been massacred.
Their b...
2025-09-21 21:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostYgritte
The wights came as a horde, unceasing and relentless. They trudged through the snow, hurling their dead bodies towards the wall and the gates, and it wasn't just humans. There were dire wolves with blue eyes that moved faster than the humans, but the true danger lay in the trudging form that was hidden behind, its ...
2025-09-17 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHector looked at the two groups, a clear divide between the black-cloaked men and the fur-clad men and women, and let out a sigh while pinching the bridge of his nose. He could already feel a headache coming.
"You caused this. Do not forget that," a voice called out behind him. He didn't need to turn to tell it was his fellow forgemaster.<...
2025-09-14 21:16:55 +0000 UTC View Post