Chapter 87: Big in Japan
“Much better to get a full-fledged Class for free than invest in the training or resources to make them after the fact. As long as there’s enough of them appearing naturally, anyway.”
It ...
2024-11-30 19:47:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 86: Grave Consequences
[Adjudicator - Level 25]
“Well, you were right, there’s nothing left of the guy.”
I wasn’t typically one to monologue, but I felt the need to break the mood...
2024-11-30 17:57:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 216: Shock and Awe
Emma backed away from the ledge immediately after dropping the payload, making sure to put some solid ground between them. Even so, the explosion was shockingly loud, making her teeth rattle and le...
2024-11-28 23:12:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 85: Impure World Reincarnation
“This is John, the young master of a rather influential official who lives near the top of Heaven’s Reach. His kind wouldn’t normally be caught dead in these parts, but John here ...
2024-11-28 21:19:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 84: Look Down
Annoyingly, neither of them said a thing to me, though judging by how Kyle stiffened shortly after, they had simply chosen to send him the details instead. An understandable precaution for sharing sensi...
2024-11-28 20:38:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 215: Flashdance
The stun grenade, that is, not a random flashbang effect in a can; even Felix wasn’t so cruel as to include joke crates with debuffs on an already lethal map. That said, this wasn’t entirely witho...
2024-11-27 20:20:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 83: Slumdog Millionaire
It was never a question whether a rough part of town existed. There was always one, in every decently sized human population, that particular kind of place which ranked at the bo...
2024-11-27 18:11:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 82: Call Me, Beep Me
We left the inn via the front door, which was a first for me; our caravan was parked in the empty space behind it, from which we disembarked and headed straight inside through the staff entrance....
2024-11-27 15:56:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 214: The Strongest Card
Neither Emma nor Dione were moving now, the former thinking the situation over, while the latter was happy to conserve energy in the battle of attrition their standoff had become.
“How...
2024-11-26 18:59:23 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 81: Aggressive Negotiations
“There’s a good reward for a proper specimen,” Kyle agreed, his poker face returning rather quickly, albeit too late for it to really matter. “But that comes with strings attached....
2024-11-26 17:27:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 80: Changing of the Guard
I had plenty of complaints to levy against Frontier’s education system, but even I could admit that they got the job done, at least in areas where the requisite institutional will existed....
2024-11-26 16:07:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 79: Among Us
[Harvey: Don’t trust your eyes.]
On its own, this was a generic bit of advice, broadly applicable to everything from walking at night to the dangers of mass media. Every message ...
2024-11-25 05:00:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 78: Ratatouille
One of the nice things about a quasi-medieval society was the relaxed attitude towards bringing your pet with you to dine. That had often been an issue back in London, whenever the team went out toget...
2024-11-25 01:22:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 77: Flogging a Dead Horse
“The Dead Horse,” I raised an eyebrow at the graphic sign overhead, featuring the eponymous horse being disembowelled in rather gruesome fashion. “This is where we’re staying?”
... 2024-11-23 22:23:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 76: Internationale
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Chapter 75: Papers, Please
Gridlocked traffic was something I was all too familiar with, London having had the dubious title of the most congested city in the west. The average commuter lost close to an hour a day sitting st...
2024-11-23 16:41:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 74: Heavensward
Three weeks ago, the caravan set off from Allensward with high hopes and expectations. Six carriages, a mounted escort of a dozen archers, with Harvey and I along for the ride. Now, as we crested the ...
2024-11-23 15:07:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 213: Help! I'm a Teenage Outlaw
Emma was feeling quite relaxed after easily dispatching her first two opponents. Mindful of the eventual shrinking of the arena, she abandoned her walk around the periphery and began h...
2024-11-23 13:11:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 212: Enter The Fist
Emma’s improvised attack didn’t quite land, but that wasn’t to say it was pointless. Her stalker was certainly shocked by it, backpedalling with a startled yelp that put paid to his hopes of...
2024-11-22 12:31:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 211: Stroke of Midnight
The wait until midnight passed largely in silence, as Felix vanished soon after greeting Emma, presumably to tend to the other contestants. Edith wasn’t in the mood to talk either, leaving E...
2024-11-21 10:13:23 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 71: Let It Go
I could only roll my eyes at that; there had been little to do except wait, ever since I woke up in that empty void.
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Chapter 70: Frozen
[Level Up!]
I opened my eyes to an empty white void, not a single discernible feature to be found. Turning my head made no difference and my sight stayed the same; were it not for th...
2024-11-21 07:21:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 210: Fight Club
[This looks to be the one.]
Emma halted in front of a plain white tent, exactly the same as all the other tents.
“I can understand the need to avoid provoking each other...
2024-11-20 10:41:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 69: Ice
The front horse whinnied pitifully, the forced calm of its blinders and whatever coated its feed (because no horse could be so calm in battle without supplements) failing as Sprites broke off to torment it, a...
2024-11-20 08:54:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 68: A Frosty Reception
Blizzard conditions presented some unique challenges for combatants, even more so than the dead of the night. Even back on Earth, arctic warfare was the bane of generals and a death sentence fo...
2024-11-20 06:54:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 209: Nocturne
Emma stayed outside of the family tent for a while after returning, and even did a few more loops in the sky nearby, but there were no more fortuitous encounters to be found. It was still the first day,...
2024-11-19 10:51:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 67: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
“It’s hard to believe we’re almost there.”
Pumpkin didn’t respond, preferring to keep snoozing away in my lap, wrapped up snug in his blanket, such that only ...
2024-11-19 09:35:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 66: The Devil’s Lettuce
Have you ever tried to pick up a squirming, nearly insenstate cat? Let me tell you, it’s a lot harder than it looks, and it looks pretty hard to begin with. Somehow, Pumpkin was both too o...
2024-11-19 07:36:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 65: My Chemical Romance
The inside of carriage six looked little different to the one Pumpkin was more familiar with, the only difference being the lack of any chairs. Instead, stacked crates lined the inside from fl...
2024-11-18 08:04:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 64: Stray Cat Strut
Ultimately, I gave no further thought to the matter of the Rainbow Fruit, beyond making a mental note to tell Pumpkin not to eat certain valuables, if they ever entered my storage. Whether he woul...
2024-11-18 06:58:29 +0000 UTC View Post