Savage Awakening 413. Final Build
“I swear,” said Aiwë. “That's the first time I've passed out from exhaustion.”
He seemed exhilarated by this.
“That just means you weren't trying hard enough before,” Zane ...
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Savage Awakening 412. Stellar Infusion (III)
He did another four hundred.
“You’re a machine.” Aiwë was speechless.
He wheeled up to study Zane, who was busy chugging down some of the Barbarian Sage’s recovery drinks betwe...
2025-03-04 02:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 411. Stellar Infusion (II)
Zane blinked.
He felt the heat passing by his face—an incredible outpouring of energy packed into a pure, clean-cut pillar.
Then it struck flush and vanished.
The steel shone li...
2025-03-03 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 410. Stellar Infusion (I)
“Hey there,” said Zane, stepping casually out of the key-portal.
“You’re back!” said Aiwe.
He sat by the forge, heaving a hammer, with a copper welding mask pulled up. He soun...
2025-03-02 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 409. The Making (II)
That name rang a bell.
He’d definitely heard it before, but he wasn’t quite sure where…
Eh. He figured it’d come to him.
In the meantime—“I’m Zane.”
“Well,...
2025-02-28 21:22:57 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 408. The Making (I)
The Imperial Mark 10 was a castle with a hull. Its smokestacks rose like towers, and above them lay a field of billowing masts. Up on the ropes, wind mages pulled on Spirit Weapon gloves, ready to ...
2025-02-27 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 407. Solar Winds
A/N Really appreciate the kind words folks!
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He unlocked strand after strand, falling into a rhythm. Before he knew it, another year had gone by. 2025-02-26 02:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Savage Awakening 406. Lost Isles (I)
After the Temple, King Four Winds wanted to invite the mysterious expert known as Zane to court and make him his Champion. But Zane vanished as quickly as he'd come.
A few weeks later, a trav...
2025-02-25 02:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 405. The Summit of Powers (VII)
Bang.
For the second time that decade, a rift blew through the Sealed Demon Continent and changed the very skies.
A rift that ruptured out from one clenched fist—...
2025-02-24 02:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 404. The Summit of Powers (VI)
The dunes blew open, and all man saw was horror.
Waxen skin draped on gigantic limbs, some on three legs, some on eight, some on none at all. Misshapen skulls, hollowed-out eyes, and ro...
2025-02-23 02:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 403. The Summit of Powers (V)
A/N:
Bonus chapter x2! It's been a good week
//
“Horseshit!” said Skyhammer Kang.
“The signs were there,” said the Wandering Monk. His face, normall...
2025-02-22 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 402. The Summit of Powers (IV)
A/N: Bonus chapter!
//
Almost as soon as they went in, folk started getting spat right back out.
“Ho!” said Old Rao, the bookie. “And there goes the first e...
2025-02-20 19:15:03 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 401. The Summit of Powers (III)
He’d thought Burnwater was just saying things when he said there was a special charm to these little worlds. But he kind of got it. The place was fragile, sure, but the more time he spent here, t...
2025-02-20 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 400. The Summit of Powers (II)
In the years since the mysterious Zane’s disappearance, much had changed in the Sealed Demon continent.
On the frontier, in the never-ending wars between man and monster, the Four Winds arm...
2025-02-19 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 399. The Summit of Powers (I)
Not long after, Jin Wei became the first in his family’s history to ace the Silverwind Sect’s entrance examination. It qualified him to be a Chosen and go off to the main Sect in the Imperial c...
2025-02-18 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 398. The Three Miracles (II)
The folk of the town watched as plumes of dust avalanched down the mountain, rising to make new dark clouds.
Then a man walked out of the murk.
By now everyone there knew what kind of m...
2025-02-17 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 397. The Three Miracles (I)
The hunchback looked up and saw a great deal of chest. And higher, he saw a thick neck and jaw. And higher still.
Hunchback Lang had never cried, even as a child. He had never known fear in h...
2025-02-16 02:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 396. Never
A/N: Bonus chapter!
//
Zane sat cross-legged and weathered the storm.
Collisions ran through his mind. Waves crashing and crossing, and in their ...
2025-02-14 19:47:40 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 395. Sealed Continent (VI)
He came upon a cavern ringed with steel pillars. Faceless pillars, perfectly smooth, making a pentagram—as though meant to summon some deep-earth demon.
The bulk of their power wasn’t sho...
2025-02-13 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 394. Sealed Continent (V)
“I’m gonna be just fine,” said Jin, putting up a brave smile. “Don’t you worry about me, senior!”
“Sure,” said Zane.
They trudged up the winding, mossy path.
A few...
2025-02-12 02:30:21 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 393. Sealed Continent (IV)
The goon looked up.
A Zane-sized shadow fell across him.
He wondered what he should do about this guy. He was a bit worried he might break a little too much. The world, that was. He sti...
2025-02-11 02:30:54 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 392. Sealed Continent (III)
“Sure! My uncle runs the township’s store. This way.”
Uncle Wei was quite an old fellow. He looked over tiny wire spectacles with cloudy eyes. It took him a moment to recognize Jin. He ...
2025-02-10 02:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 391. Sealed Demon Continent (II)
There was a sound like a thousand reams of dry paper tearing at once.
Birds screeched into flight. Trees toppled in a circle, shattering like burnt-out coals as they hit the ground.
The...
2025-02-09 02:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 390. Sealed Demon Continent (I)
“It means you shouldn't have to worry about them,” said Noughtfire. “Seek out the anomalies in those worlds—the places where Law is strong where it has no right to be. And there, you will f...
2025-02-06 03:05:23 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 389. Homecoming (IV)
EDIT:
Wednesday's chapter will be up to an hour late again, sorry about that! Pulling late hours yesterday wiped me out for today--will get it done, though, and next week th...
2025-02-05 04:13:12 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 388. Homecoming (III)
He and Reina greeted them there, and were treated to a big hug and two little gift-baskets of cookies from Evan.
Evan could hardly sit still. It felt like every time they came bac...
2025-02-04 02:30:34 +0000 UTC View Post387. Homecoming (II)
A/N:
Forgot to schedule this chapter sorry about that!
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It felt like it’d only been a few weeks since he’d last been in the World Tree. But somehow Reina ha...
2025-02-03 03:04:16 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 386. Homecoming
A/N
Added a brief description of what his new Bone looks like to chapter 382!
He let out his Chains, and now they shared the presence of his Bone—that aura of n...
2025-02-02 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 385. Total Demolition (IV)
Not far off, Goloog the Living Bog kept up heavy fire.
Waves of acid waste battered the Barbarian Sage.
The Hydra froze it over. The Hydra was in poor shape, but it was still an Empyrea...
2025-01-30 02:28:41 +0000 UTC View PostSavage Awakening 384. Total Demolition (III)
Zane felt the exact moment he broke the lion. Felt the force ripple through the Monster, felt the muscles of the heart take the worst of it—and explode. First in force, then in flame. Felt that f...
2025-01-29 02:30:03 +0000 UTC View Post