After an enjoyable time cultivating and hunting mercenaries, Zae Zin Nim was irritated to be dragged back and forced to help, not just with the Irunian training, but with this strange exercise. All...
2024-07-23 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post"You're sure you want to do this?"
"I'm sure."
Kai stood with Omilaena and Tusquo in one of the innermost chambers of the Irunian government building. Omilaena was in full research mode...
2024-07-22 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Tusquo took them seriously and began assembling a brigade of Irunians, at first Kai thought he was completely unprepared. He was good at hunting monsters and fighting, not actually training an...
2024-07-19 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAfter years of training, Tusquo Agyama was a man with a sober awareness of his own limits. He was reasonably adept at the Path of Steel, not the best. Competent in Physique, not extraordinary. One ...
2024-07-18 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostZae Zin Nim gave Kai a strange look. "You don't recognize them? I thought you knew every group on Deadwaste."
"Most of the continent borders the Frontier, but not every part." Kai shook his h...
2024-07-17 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostKai had known many Irunians, and Irunian steel had played a major role in his life, but this was his first time actually visiting the country. As they headed southeast his first thought was that it...
2024-07-16 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTechnically these were some of the least important duels of Zae Zin Nim's entire life, yet she found herself filled with tension. Yes, nothing in her life was at stake and the Frontier elites would...
2024-07-15 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostTechnically Kai was supposed to be thinking about how to kill the immortal slime, but mostly he sat at the edge of the abandoned town and ruminated. It was unusual to run into a monster that so tot...
2024-07-12 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTheir task in the Earth Union was taking longer than expected, but Kai didn't mind at all. While he tried to figure out the mystery of the blob-like monster he had plenty of time for training, both...
2024-07-11 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOriginally, Zae Zin Nim hadn't cared about what happened to the Frontier nations at all, and even now she struggled to get excited about Earth Union politics. But over the course of time, as she be...
2024-07-10 17:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Inafay heard they were going to meet at the Adobe Retreat, she had hoped for a quick peaceful resolution and feared extended negotiations. Instead, the challenges had been nothing like she exp...
2024-07-09 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post(Cognosticon here: I fucked up, there are two chapter 307s in my store. Because of that, the second 307 [this one] got skipped. You are meant to read this chapter, then 2024-07-08 21:58:09 +0000 UTC View Post
After the initial demonstration, the group spent only another week at the outpost before moving down to the Frontier wall and continuing their training. Despite everything he'd seen, Kai was still ...
2024-07-08 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostTechnically Kai had been to the Frontier many times in his life and even spoken with the elites there. This time, however, he was coming to actually train with them. It wasn't really the dream he'd...
2024-07-05 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostFinally, all three of them were reunited and moving in the right direction. Kai somewhat resented all the time they'd needed to sneak around and arrange indirect meetings, but that was the price th...
2024-07-04 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe entire time they were on the Waterborn ship, Omilaena had to resist letting any of her amusement slip out. Zae Zin Nim was practically petrified by a little flirting and the politics of the bed...
2024-07-03 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAfter spending a few weeks on the Waterborn ship, Zae Zin Nim was beginning to understand the politics of the Water Union. She wished she didn't.
As far as she could tell, the basic principle...
2024-07-02 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTechnically Kai could have been traveling faster, but he couldn't feel any guilt over taking a little more time. What was the point of training so much if he couldn't build a life with friends? Jus...
2024-07-01 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostFor the first entire week after arriving on Deadwaste, Zae Zin Nim had followed absolutely all operational security. She had worn old rags, avoided drawing attention to herself, switched from qi to...
2024-06-28 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostKai was accustomed to fate punishing him thoroughly every time he made a mistake, so he was still a bit stunned that everything had been resolved so quickly. Once Inafay vouched for him, none of th...
2024-06-27 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostKai had been in confrontations with authorities multiple times in his life, but this one might be unique. So many times his actions had been limited, or the authorities had enough strength to threa...
2024-06-26 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostFor his entire life, Aniogun had wanted nothing more than to compete in the Hundred Zephyr Rings. He didn't think that he'd win, even though he'd dreamed of it. Usually over five hundred young men ...
2024-06-25 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Kai finally landed on Deadwaste, the lamia ship left him alone and he suddenly realized that he wasn't back home at all.
To the civilizations on Rosemount or Cloudspire, Deadwaste was a ...
2024-06-24 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
(Cognosticon here. I wanted to split the voyage chapters into short ones, both to give a sense of more time passing and to emphasize that the characters are split up, but I didn't want to stiff rea...
2024-06-21 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostAfter such a grueling battle, and confrontations with many of the most powerful beings in Rosemount, it felt surreal to go shopping. Kai wasn't familiar with the elven capital, so he needed others ...
2024-06-20 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostEven though theoretically she was safe now, Zae Zin Nim couldn't relax in the elven city. The time away from the Brightwind sect, just with her close allies, had made her forget how Cloudspire poli...
2024-06-19 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHalf the city had gone dark by the time they finally broke free of it. One second Kai was running between dead energy lines, then they disappeared into the final buildings and he was free. There we...
2024-06-18 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post<
Name: Matiavel the Destroyer
Total Power: 1860
Pureflame Demon: Diamond Rank (1000)
Demonic Cultivation: Earth Soul (445)
Physique: C-3 (315)
Soul Level: 10...
2024-06-17 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostIt was as if Zae Zin Nim had awakened again. Fear gave way to a savage joy as she fought alongside Kai and she pushed herself to greater heights, channeling all that she had learned and cultivated ...
2024-06-14 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostDespite the amount of time that had passed, despite how far she had advanced, when Zae Zin Nim saw her father's cultivators she shivered. All six of them had reached the Earth Soul stage and they w...
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