CH 184: Hard Counters, Three
).-. Beatrice .-.(
A self-satisfied smile was plastered to her face, and she sipped sweet brandy out of a metal cup.
The power-armor golems had performed nearly flawles...
2025-09-10 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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CH 183: Hard Counters, Two
/-__+ Talcinor Debrine Jr. +__-\
His fingernails pressed hard enough into his palms to make himself bleed.
Stupid. Unfair. Again.
He was here, and ready ...
2025-09-08 14:00:25 +0000 UTC View PostCH 182: Hard Counters, One
)+\( Hugo )/+(
Seven sets of footfalls crunched and scraped against the dirt. Their soft sound echoed off the tunnel's dark walls and joined a tense chorus of heavy breaths, ...
2025-09-05 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostCH 181: Arcane Wings
A brilliant, yellow-orange light shone from the top of the mountain like a new sun. It heralded the rise of something new and powerful. Something Legendary.
Reid exhaled.
The heat from ...
2025-09-03 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostCH 180: Difficult Tasks
)+\( Hugo )/+(
Hugo finished frothing the simple shampoo into Vidita's hair. She wiped suds from her eyes, then motioned for him to turn around as she grabbed a handful of th...
2025-09-01 14:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostCH 179: Strategic Thinking
).-. Beatrice .-.(
Figures and maps flitted by onscreen as her Orbital Fleet Admiral, Isard, spoke to each piece of information with barely-suppressed glee.
"Your...
CH 178: Looking Up
+ Reid +
After elite orb weaver spiders came guardians. Deja-vu of the Salamander fights aside, Reid figured it would be a good thing that the system gave a standard set of r...
2025-08-27 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostCH 177: Night Skies
+ Reid +
Reid dropped the ropes pulling the bone chests with his pair of captive spiders, and brought Bonewall to the front just in time to have one of the incoming beasts sl...
2025-08-25 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostCH 176: Effort and Productivity
Reid wrinkled his nose at the smell of the spiders' latest meal, and walked an extra few hundred feet into the forest before he sat down.
His stats were full to their potential, and that mean...
2025-08-22 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostCH 175: Ripples
).-. Beatrice .-.(
The pen Bea tapped against the scratched and dented surface of her desk snapped halfway through the video. She hurled it into the wall and grabbed another ...
2025-08-20 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostCH 174: Gross
Reid shouted, and every word punctuated a swing of his mace into the corpse of his defeated foes.
"FUCK. YOU. GOD. DAMN. HORROR. SHOW. BULL. SHIT."
He stopped, looked at his notificatio...
2025-08-18 14:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostCH 173: Shelter
)+\( Hugo )/+(
A chorus of footfalls on the old, sealed stone roads echoed off the damaged facades of the surrounding buildings. Storefronts where he had passed an afternoon ...
2025-08-15 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostCH 172: Vuxarina Again
+ Reid +
Reid surveyed the area around him as the difficulty increase - or the planetary cascade - continued to literally rain down from impossibly grey clouds.
Despite Nyx telling him ...
2025-08-13 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostCH 171: Toast, Jam, and Pastries (Book 2 Close)
||+|| Auluwin ||+||
The grey-robed figure slowly counted the physical currency she'd handed him, then held out a hand. A thick stack of photographs, newspaper articles, convo...
2025-08-11 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostCH 170: Tutorial Complete
Reid used the wall of the mountain to scrape lizard guts mostly off his arms. The corpse of Crinoptera was a mess of partially frozen, partially steaming remains. Its head was largely unto...
2025-08-08 14:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostCH 169: Reward Choices
Please select distribution.
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You have completed [The Beast Lords] questline with exceptional performance. You may now choose to distribute rew...
2025-08-06 14:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostCh 168: E is for Evolution
You have defeated Beast King Crinoptera, the Peerless Scourge - lvl 50 +
Reid panted, and let himself slide down until he sat on the edge of Crinoptera's wound. The glow fade...
2025-08-04 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostCH 167: Cascade
)+\( Hugo )/+(
The faint scent of active kitchens drifted through the air and tugged at his nostrils - beckoning him to breakfast. Hugo sighed, and placed his hand against the stacked stones ...
2025-08-01 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostCH 166: Churn and Flow
"Round two, motherfucker."
Crinoptera answered Reid with a cycling pulse - but it took a full three seconds for the ice breath to manifest.
Reid's new spiked boots crun...
2025-07-30 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostCH 165: Cracks
The first ice lance in the barrage to hit Reid slammed into his armor and knocked him face-first into the ground. The second and third followed soon after, crashing against his armor with ominous s...
2025-07-28 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostCH 164: Getting What You Wish For
Reid felt strength and power coursing through his body as it glowed. The beast lord still looked disinterested, but had one eye open and trained on Reid.
He used the extra few seconds of peac...
2025-07-25 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostCH 163: Crinoptera
It was too far for details, but he'd seen Crinoptera. An impossibly large shifting mass moving amongst the rock. The skinks he'd taken down were mere ants to this thing's size.
What kind of a...
2025-07-23 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostCH 162: Cold Comfort
Reid coughed a mouthful of blue blood that melted down through the snow.
One hand was pressed hard against his face. The other pushed against the ground and prevented him from falling complet...
2025-07-21 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostCH 161: Face Off
+ Reid +
The ice encroached and tried to swallow him as he launched himself up and through the hole made by his vertically thrown slug. He had to kick off the side of the hol...
2025-07-18 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostCH 160: Skink Shaming
There were a few things that drove Reid to an immediate, somewhat irrational level of anger.
People trying to harm his friends.
Phone calls on speakerphone in cramped public places.
... 2025-07-16 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostCH 159: The Worst
Reid's breath steamed against cold air. The past two days of travel had been mostly silent. He stayed in his own thoughts, and spent a good amount of the time just feeling himself, and all the chan...
2025-07-14 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostCH 158: Force Multiplier
+ Reid +
The final barrier shattered, and yellow-orange energy roared forth. It streamed around and through Reid, and propelled itself far away in the other direction, then ...
CH 157: Alignment
^+ Nyx +^
Her hands - thank the leviathan for hands - danced out and helped to finely manipulate her energies. It was the only reason she'...
CH 156: Direction
Reid had grossly underestimated the time it would take to travel to the final beast lord.
Days melted away as he plod a simple course over varied terrain. Mountains rose, and fell away behin...
CH 155: Fork
Reid spent days alone in the woods. Truly alone. He worked to keep his emotions tight to himself, to not allow Nyx to be disturbed by his feelings. He made sure his stat affixation work didn't tire...
2025-07-04 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post