When she had first learned about the demons on Rosemount, Zae Zin Nim's greatest fear had been a demon stealing her cultivation. It was a terrible form of violation, stealing away everything she'd ...
2024-09-10 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostUsing elven cloaks or disguises would have been foolish in the capital, so they had few stealth options, but they still did their best to penetrate the First Crest defenses without conflict. As the...
2024-09-09 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostKai had hoped they would have at least a day to decompress and talk over everything, but the elves seemed to be impatient. They'd barely had time to eat before they were being called to the front a...
2024-09-06 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Zae Zin Nim sensed three presences approaching the cave, she was on her feet in an instant. She had passed beyond the point of simple recovery and begun training with the Pure Yin Shroud, so s...
2024-09-05 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostFor a while they just lay there, catching their breath. Omilaena had always been skeptical of the idea that emotion was essential for sex, but she was glad to be wrong. She hadn't just exorcised th...
2024-09-04 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostKai's time with the Savage Creed followers had been frustrating in multiple senses.
There had been a part of him that had hoped he would show up, learn a few tricks about the Savage Heart, an...
2024-09-03 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMost likely the world was going to hell in a handbasket outside, but so long as Kai was fine, Omilaena didn't really care. She was in the middle of a dozen different projects: refining new poisons,...
2024-09-02 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostDespite all the time he'd spent being chased by demons through the Commonwealth, Kai found that he needed to adapt his strategies again now. Anaelina had been aggressive and personal, always pursui...
2024-08-30 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostZae Zin Nim fought against a green flood, flailing her limbs to try to make headway and yet somehow never getting any closer. Kai hovered in the distance, swept up in the acidic waters, and she kne...
2024-08-29 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThis was the worst possible environment to test her mastery of the Prana Jewels, but Omilaena had no choice. Zae Zin Nim was in terrible condition, already unconscious in Kai's arms. Her soul had c...
2024-08-28 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostZae Zin Nim crossed the distance between them so quickly that Kai couldn't take action to help. It also wasn't necessary: she struck Anaelina with such fury that she was sent flying backwards, near...
2024-08-27 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostZae Zin Nim gradually woke up lying against the man she loved. For a while she just lingered there, happy and pleasantly sore and warm.
Thoughts returned after the sensations. Could the girl ...
2024-08-26 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostKai's eyes were open and he honestly wasn't sure if he'd ever closed them. He didn't feel exhausted - he was burning with nervous energy. Despite the terrible night spent thinking, his feelings wer...
2024-08-16 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAfter so long skirting the wilder parts of the Commonwealth, Kai felt a bit uncomfortable moving back into civilization. Yes, the crowds on the roads gave them more cover, but it also risked the ch...
2024-08-15 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe artisan had been chained to her work desk for the past five years of her life, ever since she'd fallen into debt. She thought she was a skilled artisan, but materials were so expensive, and whe...
2024-08-14 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a day of intense flying over the Commonwealth, the three of them trading off to sleep, it became obvious that they would have to fight. Their opponents couldn't quite catch up, but also could...
2024-08-13 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post(One year ago today I began posting Depthless Hunger. In that time I have posted 334 chapters here (298 on Royalroad). I have taken a few days of hiatus, and I had to switch from seven chapters per...
2024-08-12 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe second journey down to the Primal Loom was much less ominous than the first, yet Kai still felt the weight of its presence. Insanity or not, the Loom represented an immense amount of power, the...
2024-08-09 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOnce Kai was reunited with his allies and standing in Sandflower City, he felt much more truly relaxed. He didn't want to push and look suspicious, but as far as he could tell, Zae Zin Nim and Omil...
2024-08-08 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe Empress stood proudly, her human upper body upright and her tail coiled around her, despite the obvious injuries. She had been coughing earlier but now remained serene, Kai assumed with pure wi...
2024-08-07 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostTheir trio had been positioned close to the palanquin, but they couldn't stick too close or they would have been suspicious to anyone watching. Unfortunately, they'd been further away when the demo...
2024-08-06 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostTechnically Kai had been in the Coiled Empire before, but that had just been a stop on the way into the Commonwealth. This time they were landing on the end of the peninsula, in the largest city in...
2024-08-05 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostLess than a week into their voyage, the ship was struck by a vicious storm. The Waterborn sailing the ship were able to keep them on track, so the storm wouldn't slow them down beyond the usual dif...
2024-08-02 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostInafay had been happy to have Kai back, and she'd been glad to meet Zae Zin Nim and Omilaena. But there had always been part of her that knew it couldn't last forever and that this massive advantag...
2024-08-01 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostFor the most part, Omilaena found the phase training tedious. It wasn't the sort of thing that could be skipped or improved with a genius breakthrough, it simply required hard work. Even though it ...
2024-07-31 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThroughout his life, Kai had faced many obstacles and been rejected by fate many times. He'd managed to keep up with his peers only by dogged persistence, working harder and longer, always attempti...
2024-07-30 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostZae Zin Nim made rapid progress each week, though all of that progress would have been impossible for her not so long ago. It wasn't simply that she'd grown stronger and mastered the compression ex...
2024-07-29 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostDespite Gunjin's impatience, even he couldn't push them along that fast. Kai had time to say farewell to Tusquo, promising to return in time for the incursion and making the Irunian promise to actu...
2024-07-26 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post"How can there be an Insanity on Deadwaste?" Zae Zin Nim asked. She stared at the shard of metal as if she expected it to attack or explode at any moment.
"It's called the True Metal." Omilae...
2024-07-25 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIf Kai had a year he could have accomplished more, but Irun didn't have that much patience and he probably didn't have that much time before consequences would find him again. So eventually, about ...
2024-07-24 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post