“Will you lie to me and pretend that it was madness that made my friend accuse you of hiding my twin from me?”
The question came after a prolonged silence. Outside the cathedral, the Horned Rat and John’s elementals ensured that they were alone for this. As alone as they could be, within these collapsed walls. Nightingale coul...
2025-06-14 11:54:45 +0000 UTC
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The fungal body burst. Screeching horrors were born from corrupted tissue flapping in the wings of the otherworldly conjuration. Manta-like creatures that rose into the air, soon tearing through the windows and stone walls in their search for chaos and prey. Dragon-like creatures shaped out of deformed humans. Human-like creatures, all th...
2025-06-13 16:09:53 +0000 UTC
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Once all of the sensitive intel had been disclosed, the commanders of the forces of the Greater Empire and the Illuminati came pouring in. There were many familiar faces in the crowd. Celeste, leader of the aristocrats of the Illuminati, Norahnon, Malady and even Marie were among the leading figures of the French forces.
By virtue o...
2025-06-12 20:25:47 +0000 UTC
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Alrighty, I have very little to say about the plot this time around but some about the business side of things, so you might want to stick around for that.
The goal of this arc was to have Apexus and group integrate with general adventurer society and in that, I believe I have succeeded. First arc had plenty of that and then the arc...
2025-06-11 22:24:08 +0000 UTC
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“We’re sorry,” Atlas apologized.
“You best be,” Aclysia was the first to respond. The angel had taken poorly to the attack four days ago. She was far from alone in that, although she was the one most overtly angry about this lapse in virtue. “Your greed has overcome you.”
“Can’t… fully deny that,” the War...
2025-06-11 22:23:02 +0000 UTC
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John entered the hall with long strides. It was a faithful and enlarged reconstruction of the big chamber that he had met William in when he had returned to Springfield. In every way that mattered, it was a cathedral, although a sparsely decorated one. All of the funds that John had poured into the Order as part of the annexation agreemen...
2025-06-10 21:31:15 +0000 UTC
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‘Yo, my King – I have pretty shit news.’
John was having a pretty shit everything at the moment. What Undine was doing was clearly working, but it still depressed his mood tremendously. That it was taking quite a while did not make it better.
When Metra had reconnected to his mental network, he had initially dared to hop...
2025-06-09 09:01:05 +0000 UTC
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Beijing was an international city.
For all of the difficulties that Communist China presented, its capital was fairly easy to get into. It was made a lot easier when John had previously greased some wheels in certain bureaus. Bribes worked in basically all countries, as long as one knew where in the bureaucracy oversight was the wea...
2025-06-07 10:30:46 +0000 UTC
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The presence of Lydia and her troops changed fairly little and a whole lot simultaneously. The Guild Hall was their least threatened position. Additional forces to fill out the lines and allow the outwards push to progress more smoothly were deeply welcome, however. Military modernization had been one of Lydia’s primary agendas, but als...
2025-06-06 17:15:21 +0000 UTC
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An Abyssal fleet always was an impressive and unimpressive sight in equal measure. The sheer scale of the ships was ludicrous. The biggest of the ships was 550 metres from point to keel. It towered 100 metres tall and had a prestigious width of 120 metres. It was an absolutely immense thing, surrounded on all sides by yachts and other ves...
2025-06-05 15:59:17 +0000 UTC
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“You might have surpassed my own combat meditation.”
Apexus’ comment caused the freshly healed Rogue to raise an eyebrow. “Nah,” she denied outright, waving her hand repeatedly. “That’s impossible. I was all agitated and smirky. You’re always calm and collected.”
“To be collected is in my nature,” Apexus ...
2025-06-04 20:42:47 +0000 UTC
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Layla was covered head to toe in guts.
Human guts, animal guts, elemental guts, most importantly Lorylim guts. Every corrupted entity she came across tasted her dagger. The weapon the fungal smith had left her did what it was supposed to, carving the life and soul out of every host that she came across.
The Lorylim matter on h...
2025-06-03 14:11:21 +0000 UTC
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Before anything else, John wanted to know what unique Traits Fianna possessed. If it was anything like Ehtra, that would inform his choice of Skills tremendously.

2025-06-02 05:11:45 +0000 UTC
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A visible wave of discomfort rippled through Scarlett’s body. It began at the interface point of her right shoulder, spread to the back, and all the way down to her glutes. The artificial arm moved, to take the second limb from John.
“I should keep a robot within distance to…” She stopped, her jaw clenching shut with a secon...
2025-05-31 13:18:49 +0000 UTC
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[Note: I have been requested to issue a warning if I do stuff with Scarlett having removable limbs… so here is that warning. I’m not one for the amputation fetish principally, but if the robot arms can be de- and reattached with relatively little issue…]
John was sleeping lightly.
The mind was difficult to get to rest wh...
2025-05-30 17:04:43 +0000 UTC
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“Thank you all for your service,” John greeted the room. It was swiftly becoming the traditional way he addressed his war council. He scanned the gathered mass as he advanced to his throne. There were almost a hundred people in attendance, although only eleven really mattered.
Scarlett and Momo waited on the sides of the Throne....
2025-05-29 19:48:03 +0000 UTC
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A single day was all they needed to reach the boss room.
“After all this time getting here… this feels almost too easy, doesn’t it?” Reysha asked.
“I’m more surprised that we didn’t run into the Atlas party,” Korith confessed.
“By all the we were aware of, we have been ahead.” Aclysia gently knocked t...
2025-05-28 17:51:29 +0000 UTC
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The Observe window was interesting twice over. First was that Fianna had more than doubled her level, when she had been effectively topped out since he had first hired her. More interesting than that was that her Stats had not changed despite this increase. It was the first time that John had seen something like that.
John gave the ...
2025-05-27 11:59:28 +0000 UTC
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It felt good to be desired. Regardless of situation and time, having an attractive person of the desired sex pining for one’s attention was an ego booster. Base satisfaction aside, he did not need Lyndell flirting with him in her enticingly forlorn ways.
Not that she was pursuing him in an aggressive way. After the comment on his ...
2025-05-26 10:26:43 +0000 UTC
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“So, I have been thinking…” Rave started.
“What a rare occurrence.” John could not resist the obvious opening.
His first fiancée rolled her eyes at that, bumped her shoulder into his, then gave Momo’s butt a smack for laughing at the joke.
They had wrapped up the military meeting. All of that had gone off wi...
2025-05-24 19:07:02 +0000 UTC
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John had expected to be woken up in at least one of his bodies. Some emergency somewhere that demanded his attention was certain to break out.
Nothing of the kind occurred. When he woke up, he did so to the usual sensation of a pair of lips wrapped around his cock. Tingles of electricity and tightness of the mouth made it clear that...
2025-05-23 09:05:24 +0000 UTC
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John entered the battle with 6’000 people at his disposal.
He ended the battle with 3’500 people at his disposal. Of those 2’500, most were outright dead and some were currently being saved from early onset infections. Removing a Lorylim from an organism was difficult, but not impossible, especially with Lyndell and Nia around...
2025-05-22 14:35:21 +0000 UTC
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It was a constant, high-frequency hum.
The noise had first made itself known to Apexus and Reysha, shortly after they had left the city. It had come in and out at the time, growing in strength and persistence as they travelled closer to the edge of the Trauma Influence Zone. By the time that they stepped out of the area that was off...
2025-05-21 15:14:13 +0000 UTC
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Cyber Scarlett, to be exact.
2025-05-21 01:30:39 +0000 UTC
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Another Monori is done! 3 versions this time: nude, casual, and armoured (the Astria Plate)
2025-05-21 01:27:06 +0000 UTC
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Lyndell dislocated her own shoulder in her attempt to move her arm. Fingers cracking, breaking, and snapping back into place, she grabbed the arm and slotted it back into place. Her head swung, her torso followed, and the whole of her flopped out of the basin. She twitched. The muscles in her thighs tensed, pulling her lower leg forwards ...
2025-05-20 16:27:00 +0000 UTC
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The situation was worsening.
Nia was out there taking out synapse creatures, but she was just one person and could not do this faster than the totality of snipers that had been on the rooftop. Ehtra had reinforced Salamander, but the Metracanas they were facing were stalling effectively, tying them down. Nahoa was decimating numbers...
2025-05-19 16:26:33 +0000 UTC
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Rave walked to the easternmost point of the star fort.
Nahoa, Nia and Ehtra had already scattered to the winds. Unlike them, the First Lady of Fusion was neither connected to John’s brain nor was she blessed with tactical intuition. If anything, past participation in battles had shown that she was prone to overextending. Thus, she...
2025-05-17 20:57:47 +0000 UTC
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John pulled the stopper out of the vial. The contents, bright red like stylized blood, were swiftly poured over the wounds that covered Fianna’s legs. It slowed the bleeding, which was all he had time for.
That the sniper lay on the staircase with massive chunks of her legs missing was one thing. The dead Lorylim matter scattered around ...
2025-05-16 15:20:48 +0000 UTC
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There was this… annoying scratching under her fingernails.
Fianna did not even have fingernails anymore. There were little protrusions at the tips of her metal hands that served effectively the same purpose. They were every bit as artificial as the rest of her arms from the shoulder sockets onwards. After the Digestive Plague had ...
2025-05-15 15:33:47 +0000 UTC
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