288. The Chimera
“Find him,” breathed Jez. “And destroy him. Go!”
The Thunderfire Chimera raised an arm in mechanical salute. Then it rumbled into the sky, trailing fire and crackling lightni...
2023-07-11 06:50:04 +0000 UTC View Post
“Find him,” breathed Jez. “And destroy him. Go!”
The Thunderfire Chimera raised an arm in mechanical salute. Then it rumbled into the sky, trailing fire and crackling lightni...
2023-07-11 06:50:04 +0000 UTC View PostXalaxia, Pure Jade Realm
Middle Realms
Weeks ago…
When Xinther, messenger of the Jade Emperor, felt the light on his face he t...
2023-07-10 04:12:45 +0000 UTC View PostMillennium Caverns - Middle Realms
Ancestral Home of the Orcs
Nothing grew in the Millennium Caverns. The soil was dry, void of nutrients, and vomited ...
2023-07-09 06:36:15 +0000 UTC View PostBefore Dorian left, he cast a Blessing of Asclepius on Junior and the rest of his Empyreans, all of whom were still snoring. He left them a note—“Out for a walk. Be back soon!”
A tug of...
2023-07-08 06:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe Blessings and Curses of Yeshima were her signature weapons. With them she conquered the Realm of True Light; with them she was ranked among the most powerful Godkings in the Multiverse. At firs...
2023-07-07 04:47:40 +0000 UTC View Post“How’s it going up there?” yelled Dorian. His stalwart troupe of healers couldn’t hear him at first, so he opened a tunnel through the air to shepherd the sound through.
“Can’t—...
2023-07-06 06:50:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt seemed to have punctured his heart, lungs and liver all at once. And probably a lot more, judging by the way his whole midsection seemed to shut down. There was the pain, of course—great shock...
2023-07-05 05:52:35 +0000 UTC View Post“Hello, Fate,” said the head of Nuwa, a whisper trickling out the gaping, toothless maw.
“And goodbye,” croaked the head of Auras.
“We must get you to a healer,” said Fate, ...
2023-07-04 02:58:59 +0000 UTC View PostIt was easy to tell where Jez’s territory began. Just look to the sky—blue melting gradually into gold like some otherworldly sunset.
Dorian’s crew crash-landed into a hill so hard it b...
2023-07-03 05:13:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe thirteen ranked Godqueen in the Multiverse sat crosslegged atop a parapet, admiring her painting. In one hand she held a wooden brush whose tip smoldered with Laws of Necromancy. In the other s...
2023-07-02 04:22:40 +0000 UTC View Post“Junior, you dare?!”
There was no qi nor Law in the air, but the hall was still choked with tension. You could see it on Junior’s face, which spasmed and twitched and trembled. It was a...
2023-07-01 06:18:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Halt!” cried the Enforcers as he ascended the staircase up to the Grand Basilica. It was so wide an army could’ve marched up it. Right now it was just him sauntering up the steps. Even so, t...
2023-06-30 04:30:48 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: edited this into last chapter
[“So… why are you here?” said Rin.
“Ehh. It’s a long story. Let’s just say I left some things on this R...
2023-06-29 04:05:11 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the sun rose over Mystic Phoenix Village, the folk were already awake. Today began exactly like yesterday, and the day before that. Wake at dawn. Burn incense to Yeshima, Praise Be Her Name. P...
2023-06-28 03:52:03 +0000 UTC View PostWith one last punch the Infinity Heart ruptured. A gale of gold qi buffeted him, howling out the room, up the winding staircase, desperate to escape. Then there was silence.
One down! 2023-06-27 03:29:23 +0000 UTC View Post
For so long Jez had seen the virtue of keeping a certain childlike innocence. A sense of wonder. A boundless kindness toward every living being.
He saw now why children grew up. It was a way ...
2023-06-26 01:28:38 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Dorian emerged from the Chamber he felt about the same, and looked about the same too. His aura was still that of his Black Hole. If he summoned qi, by default Eclipse qi of Eclipse Laws would...
2023-06-25 03:15:12 +0000 UTC View PostGerard retrieved the core. In the end it was not with a hacksaw but with a surgeon’s scalpel, some softening acids, and enough gauze and ointment to stock a hospital. He insisted on spraying the ...
2023-06-24 04:03:41 +0000 UTC View PostGerard was the first to his feet. He rushed over, shoving aside cringing, stunned soldiers, all propriety for once forgotten. He knelt by the charred husk on the ground, rolled it—him—...
2023-06-23 04:33:43 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a cannon built at the peak of Mt. Tai. It had been here long before the fortress was built, long before the dragons came to the dragonrealm. It was made by an ancient Godking of a foreign...
2023-06-22 06:22:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe invader did not manage to bat all of the cannonballs out of the sky.
He knocked down the first with a wing. Whacked the second away. Then the third caught him in the face and sent him fla...
2023-06-21 05:30:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe battle had barely ended and they were already spinning up songs for Sun. Her soldiers bounced her between them as they flew a victory lap, cheering and hooting and spewing celebratory peals of ...
2023-06-20 06:00:24 +0000 UTC View PostA/N:
Sorry for the late chap!
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Mt. Tai’s courtyard garden was the envy of the dragonrealm. The soil was fine and loamy and so soft your feet sank into it, as ...
2023-06-19 16:41:24 +0000 UTC View PostAn hour later in real-time, Dorian was fully healed and so was Gerard. Before they set off Gerard insisted on burying Pliny. Even crowned him with a gravestone—something neat and poetic about ret...
2023-06-18 05:16:44 +0000 UTC View PostFor a few breaths, Pliny merely frowned at the axe-shaped hole in the mountain. His expression was blank. Then he let out a sigh that started from his belly, flowed up his chest, and where it passe...
2023-06-16 19:29:45 +0000 UTC View PostDorian emerged to a slaughter. At first he couldn’t comprehend what he was looking at.
There was Gerard, in Midnight Roc form. Breathing heavy. Collapsed on the floor, glasses crushed at hi...
2023-06-15 21:11:24 +0000 UTC View PostThere was another reason Dorian found it hard to gauge his strength. For the first time his cultivation had gone from percentages to absolute numbers. It reflected his feeling of the Black Hole—l...
2023-06-14 18:09:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe Frost Realm
Jez stood atop an icy bluff overlooking a slaughter. His eyes were closed, his hands clasped behind his back. He hummed to the tune of the battle, to the thro...
2023-06-13 20:16:32 +0000 UTC View PostAt first Dorian thought he’d been shunted into yet another cavern. Albeit a strange, misshapen one—one that’d suffered a few cave-ins and whose walls were this sparkling, translucent color. C...
2023-06-12 21:33:59 +0000 UTC View PostDorian’s plan came to him as a vision.
He was like a gull flying amid a great storm. And thus far he’d been battered about. But if he could just find the eye and ride it for all he was wo...
2023-06-11 22:54:23 +0000 UTC View Post