"Before the Balrog's movements become clear, it's best for them to stay put and not go seeking danger," Garrett advised.
"I'll go speak to them about it," Gandalf agreed, then added, "Also, I'll keep an eye out for any news on this matter. If there's any progress, I'll come to inform you right away."
"Tea's ready!" Bilbo's voice came...
2025-10-25 03:23:32 +0000 UTC View Post"The Brandybuck family has always been rather peculiar."
During a chat, Bilbo mentioned Frodo's mother's family to Garrett.
"That's to be expected," said Daddy Twofoot as he happened to overhear Bilbo's words while passing by.
"After all, their house sits in the oddest part of the Brandywine River area, right next to the Old Fo...
2025-10-25 03:21:56 +0000 UTC View PostOutside Taki, above a cliff, rushing water poured down.
The water flow slammed into jagged rock walls. The roar echoed through the valley.
Shiori hid within the dense canopy of a tree, her Sharingan peering through layers of water mist at this waterfall barrier.
Occasionally a few birds swept past the waterfall.
Her gaze ...
2025-10-25 03:20:17 +0000 UTC View PostKenji stood in his workshop, staring at the puppet in front of him.
He'd spent weeks on this thing. Every spare moment between training sessions, he'd been here, carving, assembling, and calibrating. The puppet limbs for his own body had been finished on day one. That was easy, just swapping out the old materials for properly treated repla...
2025-10-25 03:18:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe morning after the memorial, Kenji woke early, jolted from sleep by a bad dream. In it, a White Zetsu had overheard what he'd said at the graves; somehow, he was ambushed outside Konoha and dragged away for experiments. The images lingered vividly.
He exhaled slowly, realizing how careless he'd been. He needed to be more cautious about ...
2025-10-25 03:18:16 +0000 UTC View Post"Kenji, you ready? It's time to go."
Ikkaku's voice came through the door.
"Yeah, coming."
Kenji checked his reflection one last time. Black clothing from head to toe, and standard mourning attire. He adjusted his forehead protector, making sure it sat straight across his brow, then turned and opened the door.
Ikkaku stoo...
2025-10-25 03:17:40 +0000 UTC View PostKenji didn't have a fishing rod, but he was a ninja now. That meant fishing the ninja way.
He pulled a kunai from his pouch and focused on the stream below. The water was clear enough to see the fish swimming in lazy circles near the bottom. He picked his target, the biggest one in the school.
His wrist snapped forward. The kunai plu...
2025-10-25 03:16:57 +0000 UTC View PostKenji woke at noon, ate a quick lunch, and headed straight to the Hokage Building.
The building was busier than last time. Chunin and jonin moved through the hallways with mission scrolls and reports. He recognized a few faces from the original Kenji's memories but didn't stop to chat. He had business with the Hokage.
When he reached...
2025-10-25 03:16:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment Kenji got home, he pulled out the chakra metal.
The small wooden box sat on his table, innocuous and unassuming. But inside was material worth more than most ninjas earned in a year. He opened it carefully.
A single black pellet lay cushioned in cloth, roughly the size of a large bean.
Chakra-conductive metal was rar...
2025-10-25 03:15:27 +0000 UTC View Post---Third POV---
NineTails' eyes widened.
"Me?"
"Yes, you." Hedgehog nodded firmly.
According to the battle meeting: Roads would be blocked by wasteland players coordinating with refugees to contain information spread.
The Air Force One Family controlled civilian opinion inside the city, preventing excessive resistan...
2025-10-23 02:59:38 +0000 UTC View PostThis time, steam continuously poured from Goliath's body in thick clouds that obscured his entire form.
The process was clearly much more difficult than the previous fusions.
Even Marcus and Usopp could see that something unusual was happening.
"Hey, hey, hey... is this actually safe?" Usopp asked nervously, backing up several ...
2025-10-23 02:52:55 +0000 UTC View PostMario reached out and clapped Thor on the shoulder. "I need to head back to Earth for a bit. Bring some people over here to look at all this tech."
"Mind using the Tesseract to send me there?"
He couldn't activate the Space Stone himself, that required either divine power or sophisticated machinery. But someone like Thor could easily...
2025-10-23 02:51:33 +0000 UTC View PostThere really weren't many people who could take on this job.
In the office, Masashi was reviewing a set of supporting intelligence materials from the Secretariat Division concerning the Land of Rain.
The compiled dossier described the recent developments in the Land of Rain and Ame.
As one of the key nodes in Konoha's alliance ...
2025-10-23 02:50:11 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Jiraiya and Hanzō faced off in their tense standoff, the other side of the battlefield had already descended into chaos.
Hanzō's breakthrough technique proved exactly as devastating as expected. The acidic rain hammered down on the water barrier formed by multiple ninjas, sending ripples across its surface.
Within seconds, th...
2025-10-23 02:48:41 +0000 UTC View PostWhen spring passed and autumn came, as September arrived, Garrett rode westward on horseback, under the wistful gaze of Wormi, once again heading for the Shire.
It was that time of year again, Bilbo's birthday.
It had been many years since his last visit. Garrett wondered how the old Hobbit was doing these days.
Carrying a few ...
2025-10-23 02:46:12 +0000 UTC View PostTime always brings sorrow to those who fail to notice its passing.
Yet there are some who seem never to care about the affairs of the outside world, like Saruman.
Garrett sat in his castle, flipping through the reports.
According to the information provided by the Rangers, over the past few decades Saruman had been far from idl...
2025-10-23 02:45:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe sun was already high.
Marcus entered the kitchen and saw Alvida in her seat.
The table was already set with fresh food, clearly prepared by Sanji who must have returned to the ship earlier.
Honestly, if a woman had someone like Sanji taking care of her this attentively, it'd be hard not to develop feelings for the guy.
<... 2025-10-21 23:27:23 +0000 UTC View PostHeimdall's poker face made it impossible to read any emotions.
Thor looked confused. "The Tesseract? How'd you get your hands on that thing?"
"Someone gave it to me," Mario said with a shrug.
When it became clear he wasn't going to elaborate, Thor didn't press the issue. Instead, he stepped forward enthusiastically. "Could I bo...
2025-10-21 23:23:34 +0000 UTC View PostFrodo's parents had been rescued, and he was spared the fate of becoming an orphan.
When Garrett heard the Rangers' report, he leaned back in his chair.
A weight was lifted from his heart.
Yes, those two Rangers were the ones he had sent to patrol that region.
Of course, the Shire hadn't just received Rangers this year. M...
2025-10-21 23:22:25 +0000 UTC View PostBilbo greeted his hired gardener and offered his sincerest blessings.
"Sam, what a healthy little lad. He'll grow up to be a strong one."
Looking at the plump little fellow, he couldn't help but smile warmly.
But after seeing the child and offering his good wishes, just as he was about to turn, open the gate, and leave the live...
2025-10-21 23:21:28 +0000 UTC View PostMorning sunlight streamed through the wooden window, accompanied by bird songs outside. Kenji woke slowly, blinking at the ceiling. Out of habit, he raised his left arm and stared at the faint wooden grain. His fingertips registered the cool smoothness of the puppet joints. Sometimes the whole situation still felt surreal. Transmigrating into th...
2025-10-21 23:20:24 +0000 UTC View Post"Take this with you."
As the duel was about to begin, Rictus tore off the Petricite collar from his own body and wrapped it around Ambessa's arm.
"Hm?"
Ambessa turned her head to glance at her lieutenant, but she did not stop his actions.
Her trust in him was second only to her trust in her own family.
"Her runic bl...
2025-10-21 23:19:01 +0000 UTC View PostIn the end, Sōwa couldn't bring himself to kill his own brother. He just drove him out of Taki.
Jiraiya listened to the whole tearful story with furrowed brows, then gave Sōwa another long look. So the man's frailty wasn't natural weakness, it was the Hero Water that had wrecked him. And here he had been worried his books were responsibl...
2025-10-21 23:17:29 +0000 UTC View PostCrack!
Inside the dimly lit training room, Minato shattered a moving target in an instant.
He stopped, looked at his own hand, and let out a sigh.
The broken moving target automatically retracted, and the lights in the training room flickered on.
"Why don't you take a break?" Kushina stood at the doorway.
"...
2025-10-21 23:16:10 +0000 UTC View PostIt was well known that the Uchiha clan's rise within Konoha began with the emergence of the Uchiha–Hyūga alliance.
From that alliance and its core, the Police Force faction was established.
Just like the Ino–Shika–Chō trio formed by the Yamanaka, Nara, and Akimichi clans, the four-man squad of Uchiha, Hyūga, Inuzuka, and Abu...
2025-10-20 18:22:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe sun hung low over the horizon of New Earth, as the colonists had taken to calling it. From the balcony of their manor, Shin watched the twin moons rise.
"You're brooding again," Tsunade said, walking up behind him and wrapping her arms around his waist. "What is it this time?"
"Just thinking," Shin replied, leaning back into her ...
2025-10-20 18:19:48 +0000 UTC View Post"Since none of you seem interested in continuing the fight, then come with me!" Shin's expression became more serious as he spoke. "It's time to hold a rather unconventional meeting."
With that, he strode forward.
The others exchanged glances, then hurried after him.
---
Inside the Hokage Building's conference room, Tsuna...
2025-10-20 18:18:59 +0000 UTC View PostA short while later, Aoi strutted confidently toward the main entrance of the tower, with two subordinates following closely behind.
The two guards immediately bowed their heads respectfully upon seeing her. "You've arrived, Lady Aoi."
After hearing the two gatekeepers greet him, Jiraiya mimicked Aoi's aloof manner as he remembered i...
2025-10-20 18:17:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe Hextech Dragon raised its head, and inside its maw, a crackling sphere of blue energy began to condense. Lightning arced wildly across the gathered power, radiating overwhelming destructive potential.
"Pull back now. We've done our job drawing attention. Leave the rest to Camille."
The moment Riven saw the Hextech Dragon activate...
2025-10-20 18:16:21 +0000 UTC View PostSāra had already gone far away, leaving Minato with no choice but to refocus his mind on the messy battlefield before him. But when Minato turned his head, he saw Naruto staring straight at his face.
He instinctively reached for his cheek and only felt relieved when his fingers brushed against the hard surface of his mask.
"That…"...
2025-10-20 18:15:16 +0000 UTC View Post