Chapter 60
A Bloodline Bottleneck
Flash.
A burst of light that seemed to slow down and stretch on into infinity. My mind knew this was the effect of adrenaline coursing through my body and mind. An automatic effect of th...
2025-12-06 17:10:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 59
Even Trash Has Its Limits
Never had I ever felt like I was truly part of a fantastical world that I was always meant to be, when I realized I was wielding a dazzlingly glowing sword while using mana-infused Skills to help me...
2025-12-05 21:24:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 58
Exercising by Exorcism
Mr. Yi, your resident Yaoguai Qūmóshī or supernatural exorcist was leading us quickly through Bloom Park.
By quickly, I mean he was running at near top speed, one where I found myself having t...
2025-12-04 11:06:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 57
Forming The Team
Just walking onto the lands, I can tell that the earth has been disturbed in some way. It’s almost as if the ground itself is letting me know that it has been defiled.
Which is odd as my first few ti...
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2025-12-02 11:22:19 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 55
Bone Chilling Dreams
Lethargy and complacency are probably the two biggest reasons why accidents happen.
We were finally heading home, now that we had dropped off Madame Voyou. After the emotional highs that had filled...
2025-12-02 04:08:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 381
A Mechrem In the Making
In physics there is always the question of what happens when the unstoppable force, i.e. a fully charging mechanoid object meets an immovable object, aka a recently Teleported mechan...
2025-12-01 11:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 54
My Favorite Degenerate
“I guess my first question is, about the military,” I asked.
Then as soon as I begin that question, I look to my right and instantly feel a bit awkward due to Madame Voyou’s appearance. See...
2025-11-30 17:28:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 53
They Do What to Healers?
(30 Minutes Later)
It was well past midnight by the time anyone dared check in on me.
“You good?” Lucia asked, her voice projecting far from another tunnel exit that had been partiall...
2025-11-30 14:01:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 52
Seal Master Breaker
Listen to your body. I guess that sounds like normal wisdom, but it apparently even applies to a world filled with magic and Skills.
Earlier I had listened to my own body, when I felt that I was put...
2025-11-29 23:48:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 51
Forced Update
I was helpless to move or change my fate.
No sooner had I understood the fact this Royal Seal being placed on me would be the equivalent of a countrywide electronic tracking bracelet, than I could already...
2025-11-29 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostGood afternoon,
First, I wanted to say thank you all for staying with me through yet another month. I also wanted to highlight that for the first time in months, I have felt truly alive while writing. Which goes in large part to your ...
2025-11-28 18:00:35 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude IV (Part II)
Ten Simple Words To Avoid the Apocalypse
(Quin “Mousey” Mossey)
They have term in the industry, for someone like Catarine DiVoratore, now Catarine Bloom, a protostella.
Even before she was transfe...
2025-11-28 15:12:24 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude IV (Part I)
Leaving It All Behind
(Leah “the Destroyer” Badiaz)
Trembling hands.
Even now, nearly an hour or two after her match. A match that should have just been a simple fight against some unnamed female, ...
2025-11-27 20:16:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 50
Show Yourself
“Remove your hood.”
Three words spoken with authority. Three words meant to force you to remove any traces of anonymity. Hearing the words, and seeing the relatively calm nature of the prince, I pause...
2025-11-27 14:29:19 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 49
Not A Friend
Chills.
I had chills running down my spine as I slowly walked forward, beckoned by the princeling. A person who all but oozed hair gel, power, and entitlement.
Getting close I could all but ...
2025-11-27 12:40:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 48
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
You know how you can always tell when someone important has arrived, when everyone else goes immediately quiet and immediately begins to drop to the ground.
It doesn’t take a genius to un...
2025-11-26 11:02:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 47
A Family Gathering
“We ask that you give time for royalty and foreign dignitaries the chance to leave first,” Sal’s voice began. “Trust me, you do not want to draw the attention of their bodyguards or service members...
2025-11-25 11:16:02 +0000 UTC View Post<<<Author's Note: Slight update at the beginning of the chapter so it doesn't seem as jarring.>>>
Chapter 46
Shrapnel And Servitude
It was over quickly.
Mada...
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Chapter 45
A Scald’s Power
Honestly, I didn’t know what I expected to hear.
<<<Author's Note: I updated the ending and changed the instrument to "an unusual violin">>>
Chapter 44
A Lost Chance
I will have to admit that most of the battles after t...
2025-11-22 13:05:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 43
Orders From Above
Ever have one of those moments where you realize that you might have done too much. That you achieved something so monumental that you wouldn’t possibly be able to actually accept the reward?
That w...
2025-11-21 11:16:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 42
Revenge At Its Finest
Just when I thought things couldn’t get any odder, life always has a way of throwing curveballs at you.
There I was, forced into a “right step pose” where I oddly enough had taken a right st...
2025-11-20 10:55:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 41
The Fountain of Love
After watching so many fights and really being forced to watch and dissect everything mentally, I’ve come to a few universal conclusions, especially after testing out my findings by using my own Skills...
2025-11-19 10:06:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 40
Horsey-ing Around
Ever notice how a good teacher waits until you finally feel comfortable enough to begin showing a hint of your personality, before bringing you back down to earth with ways to make a normally challenging ta...
2025-11-18 15:17:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 39
The Foreign Delegation
If there is one rule that I have learned about politics that seems to apply to both my last life, and this world, with would have to be on promoting cultural importance.
Cultural importance: anyt...
2025-11-17 10:54:38 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude III
From the Mezzanine
(Leah “the Destroyer” Badiaz)
As entertaining as the matches were, and they were all entertaining so far, no one could deny the fact that every competitor had all broken ranks to stand behind ...
2025-11-16 20:27:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 38
A Dentist’s Nightmare
Glug.
The massive anaconda like monster lunged upwards, cutting me off, and heading straight for its master, the Tamer that dared to bring it here while it was in the early stages of pr...
2025-11-16 18:26:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 37
Acid Rain
Sizzling, popping, bulging.
Seeing melted flesh is never easy to stomach, seeing a once beautiful and majestic creature laid low by an attack isn’t easy either. Even now, I can see the stark contra...
2025-11-16 14:22:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 36
Heel Hydra
In the grand scheme of ick, I assumed there was a hierarchy, a limit to what the world would throw at me.
Spiders, meh. Just squash them and move along.
Snakes, okay. You know just watch out for cupboa...
2025-11-15 16:33:35 +0000 UTC View Post