I finished bandaging the wound with a series of quick movements. One thing my posting here had achieved was that my hands had grown even more nimble. Maester Bernard did not have a forged links in healing— an oversight that I would see him repla...
2025-08-21 16:57:15 +0000 UTC View Post“Well done, Cousin. You have done a great deed here today” Rhaenys said, sliding down from Meleys’ back to walk towards Borros.
He met her with a wide smile and placed the head at her feet while she leaned in and embraced him. It was ...
2025-08-21 16:56:27 +0000 UTC View PostXXXXXXX- CEE
He heard a strange whistling sound, and when he raised his head, it was to see part of the army cast in shadow, looking up revealed a sight that would have made a lesser man sully his breeches. “Scatter” He screamed. He was ...
2025-08-20 12:24:03 +0000 UTC View PostI hadn’t paid attention to the duels during the qualification. There was nothing wrong with that: it was probably the wise thing to do considering just how many duelists are had been and how bad most of them were. I’d dueled someone who strugg...
2025-08-20 12:22:39 +0000 UTC View PostTaking the castle had ended up taking the better part of the day. They had started shortly after dawn, and the sun had begun to set by the time a bloodied Borros Baratheon returned with a head clutched under his armpit in one hand and this trusty ...
2025-08-20 12:20:56 +0000 UTC View PostXXXX- ONE MONTH LATER (Late 108 AC)
It had taken a whole moon to clear the island. Dragons, men, improvised siege engines. It had taken all that and more for us to be sure that every cave on the island that could sustain a sizable force was ...
2025-08-20 12:20:06 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard you say,” I told her, even as I began to mentally scramble for some way to get out of this. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to have a fucking Rinnegan. If I thought it was likely that swapping e...
2025-08-20 12:14:22 +0000 UTC View PostIn the blink of an eye, everything changed. Her attempt to freeze the shield, and through that, her magic, failed in a heartbeat as things just stopped. His magic stopped yielding to hers, and then the shield was back again, exploding forth in gol...
2025-08-20 11:58:45 +0000 UTC View Post“Winner: Álvarez” The referee announced, and then his name and picture were displayed on the screen. Mateo Álvarez. I would remember that name. Something told me he was going to be on my path to victory. Maybe I’d even meet him in the fina...
2025-08-20 11:34:26 +0000 UTC View PostHis choice of spells was as varied as his choice of shields had been. Bludgeoners, cutters, piercers, blasters, stunners, disarmers, it didn’t matter. If it could be used to incapacitate his opponent, he sent it. And the speed at which he cast ...
2025-08-20 11:09:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhat would it matter in the end though? I would win. I would rise above them all. By the end of the week, only one man would remain in this room— me. The next match was called, and the wheel landed on water again. I watched as one of the contest...
2025-08-20 09:02:47 +0000 UTC View PostWe were told, more or less in those exact words, to get off the pitch in short order, and we did so. I tried to shake hands with Kuznetsova, maybe strike up a conversation about how it felt to have been under the influence of my new type of illusi...
2025-08-20 05:31:23 +0000 UTC View Post“Yes, yes there is” he found himself saying immediately after. Especially when the two additional dragons being spoken of were Meleys and Vhagar. One of them was old enough to have participated in the famed Conquest of Westeros and it had the ...
2025-08-20 04:41:29 +0000 UTC View PostXXXXXX
I sat on Igneel’s back, waiting for the signal. I’d promised that we could get rid of the gates with one blow, and I’d be damned if I didn’t deliver. The army waited behind me, Borros in front of me with a bloodthirsty smile o...
2025-08-19 17:15:42 +0000 UTC View PostXXXXXXXX- CEE
“Landmines” He heard someone shout for what felt like the ninety-ninth time today as another cluster of shinobi blew sky high. The Iwa strategy was a shockingly competent one. Landmines buried so deep that they activated se...
2025-08-19 16:28:40 +0000 UTC View PostXXXXXX
Once the matter of getting rid of Hiruzen had concluded itself, getting myself appointed as Hokage proud to be shockingly simple. We called for nominations, Uzume nominated me. Kagami Saratobi nominated Orochimaru, and I won by a land...
2025-08-19 15:54:41 +0000 UTC View PostUzume prepared to reply so I just cut in, “So you mean to convince them to vote our way, we had to convince them that we didn’t need their votes?” I asked, incredulously.
“The Clan heads are a complicated bunch. If they felt you need...
2025-08-18 06:50:43 +0000 UTC View Post“A siege would be less bloody” I said, tossing in my two cents as I looked at the figure that depicted the castle. I knew there was only one option we would pick. Mother and I had run through the strategy yesterday already. A storm was inevita...
2025-08-18 06:49:12 +0000 UTC View Post“What? What happened?” She asked, not sure what was going on. Where had all the fire gone?
“Winner: Potter” She heard the referee say. She had lost, her wand was in his possession and she could not even tell what had happened. One s...
2025-08-18 06:46:22 +0000 UTC View PostMy clone walked towards her and now I covered them both in fire. I felt my clone pop a few seconds after the fire touched him and I took note of the memories as they came to me.
“A failure then” Uzume said with a shrug.
“Not so...
2025-08-18 06:21:06 +0000 UTC View Post“I knew you did not hate me, Ser Borros. If you hated me, I would have climbed my Dragon, and I would have returned to my home. I am— was the heir to House Velaryon. I took your cruelty both because I knew you did not intend it so, and because...
2025-08-18 05:33:45 +0000 UTC View Post“Yes, Ser Borros?” I finally addressed him when it became clear that hen was perfectly fine standing at the entryway and not saying anything.
“Let’s spar” the man offered after a few seconds of silence.
“I am no longer yo...
2025-08-17 19:51:51 +0000 UTC View Post“It wouldn’t be borrowed power” She said, but I just tilted my head at her. Ev en she knew that that was a particularly weak rebuttal. Taking her eyes to activate the rinnegan would be borrowed power.
“Fine. But after the Raikage, w...
2025-08-17 19:49:13 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard you say” I told her, even as I began to mentally scramble for some way to get out of this. Don’t get me wrong, I’df love to have a fucking Rinnegan. If I thought it was likely that swapping e...
2025-08-17 19:46:30 +0000 UTC View PostXXXXX- ONE MONTH LATER (Late 108 AC)
It had taken a whole moon to clear the island. Dragons, men , improvised siege engines. It had taken all that and ore for us to be sure that every cave in the island that could sustain a sizable force was...
2025-08-17 19:44:25 +0000 UTC View PostIn the blink of an eye, everything changed. Her attempt top freeze the shield, and through that is magic failed in a heartbeat ads things just stopped. His magic stopped ielding to hers and then the shield was back again, exploding forth in golden...
2025-08-17 19:43:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of my qualification duels passed without note, and I took note of the Leaderboards as the second day wore on. At the beginning of the day, there were several of us on perfect 4/4 records. By the end of it, only about eleven of us out of t...
2025-08-17 19:41:30 +0000 UTC View Post“There’s been a change of plans,” Mother said, spreading out a map of Bloodstone in Daemon’s command tent. He hadn’t even begrudged her taking control. I guess even the infuriating and mercurial man-child could see that pissing my mother...
2025-08-17 19:21:40 +0000 UTC View PostI watched her as she completed the examination. In the end, she did not need to change anything in the report apart from some notes about the scar tissue in his legs. Then she passed the report over to me. I nodded, knowing what I had to do. The n...
2025-08-17 19:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
Now you guys know we try to do two updates a day per story on here (and mostly stick to it), but as you can probably tell (it’s almost midnight already), there aren’t any updates for today. Now, don’t be worried, I don...
2025-08-16 22:58:47 +0000 UTC View Post