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[2.22][Myron] Fortuitous Encounters
Myron,The Little KyriosAlone at sea, there was little for Myron and his stowaways to do but fish and tell stories.Once enough time had passed for Myron to separate his own emotions from the situation, he was able to acknowledge that meeting the Deceiver and his brother had been a moment of unbelieva...
[2.21][Lydia] Upon the Alikonia
Lydia Aetos,The Young Miss-tocratFirst light was just seeping through the wool curtains of the captain’s quarters when Lydia entered, bumping the heavy oak door open with her hip and sweeping through the room with a platter of food balanced on her left hand, a jug of water and a jug of wine tucked...
[2.20] ???
???A raven’s croaking wakes you.You groan, swat blindly at it, and roll over in your bed. You were in the middle of a positively bizarre dream, and if you give it up for even a moment you know that it will be gone for good. It is not often that you sleep this deeply. Down here in the chthonic dark...
[2.19] Twice-Named and Twice-Forgotten
Sol,The Raven From RomeI still couldn't see Selene, but as I ripped and tore my way through the corpse-domain of a long-dead titan, I heard her voice in the distance—clear as crystal and sweet as mad honey.“Bakkhos offered me the one thing that could withstand the weight of a heart flame’s...
[2.18] Silver-Age Scavengers
AN: There's another ~3k that goes at the end of this, but it's gettin' real late and sleep deprivation already did some weird things to this one. I'll get the other half edited and out the door soon.----------------------Sol,The Raven From RomeWe sat still as stone in the embrace of ...
[2.17] The Broad Strokes
Sol,The Raven From RomeThe Broad strokes of it were thus:The Civic Realm was a period of relatively carefree cultivation—the formative years in which a cultivator was punished the least for dabbling in contradictory concepts, and rewarded the most for broadening their horizons. To advance beyond t...
[2.16] Load-Bearing Principles
Sol,The Raven From Rome“You may have heard these words before, but bear with me until the end. There are as many paths to heaven as there are stars in the sky, but that doesn't mean that any man or woman can walk just any path they choose. Fortune, whether good or bad, opens a thousand doors a...
[2.15] Unsanctioned Salvation
Sol,The Raven From RomeThe world went dark, so abruptly that I feared the poison had knocked me out. In the next moment, however, the sea of clouds surrounding the platform of Selene’s heart flared to life once more—brighter than before, and with a narrow focus.Many-colored vapors still hung hea...
[2.14] The Prerequisite to Providence
Sol,The Raven From Rome"You've seen it for yourself now," Selene spoke up from the central dais. She smiled. "Though you'll need context to make any sense of the why that stands before you."The Saint of Scarlet Hearts waved her hands invitingly, urging us back to the saltwate...
[2.13] This Kills Heart Demons
Sol,The Raven From RomeGriffin had already moved past the second column and on to the third by the time I pried myself away from this first flawed ideal.The scarlet marble of Selene’s soul was cool beneath my feet, free of any imperfections. No matter how much I tried to set the thought aside and ...
[2.12] From the Vine
Sol,The Raven From RomeIt was a nostalgic feeling, marching outside myself again.Selene had been right to assume that gravitas would allow me to function within the boundaries of her soul. She had been right, right enough that it made me wonder. What else did she suspect about the captain’s virtue...
[2.11] A Total Eclipse of the Heart
Griffon,The Risen FlameSol’s eyes shut, his chin dipping down to his chest. His shoulders shifted all but imperceptibly, moved by a sigh that the Roman did his best to stifle. It was the reaction of a man that was all too used to being disappointed by his mentors, a man that was far too considerat...
[2.10] The Going Rate
Sol,The Raven From RomeThe haggling carried on long into the evening.Beyond the bare basics that every mentor of a young patrician was owed, Selene was to be my master in cultivation. That demanded more. Her hallowed status of Oracle, anointed or not, demanded more still. She was a Heroic soul, stan...
VS 2.9
Sol,The Raven From RomeIn the end, we didn’t turn the ship around.There were practical reasons. The whirlpool that had nearly sunk us, for one. I thought I had the trick of navigating it now, having watched the solar barge, but that ship had been moving with the current. Even if Griffon, Selene, a...
Saint Slayer Supreme [Title Pending] [0.1]
This is my first attempt at a litRPG story. It's not great, but then again, I'm trying not to split too many hairs with this one. I'm pretty new to the genre, so feel free to let me know if you have any suggestions (or warn me if I'm committing any unforgivable litRPG sins). For thos...
2.8
Apologies for the radio silence. Holidays and a cross-country move have been kicking my ass, but that's all over with now. Going to do my damnedest to get back into the swing of things and power through this arc starting tonight. You've all certainly waited long enough.'Til then, enjoy.G...
2.7
Sol,The Raven From RomeEchoes.In the false light of a Roman pre-dawn, on the first morning of my married life, my wife took me by the shoulders and shook me out like an old toga. In the gray light of the coming dawn, I saw those schemes shining in her eyes and knew that I was lost. Her smile was dev...
2.6 [Scythas & Myron]
Scythas,The Hurricane Harvester“Look at what they did to us.”Jason sighed and turned back to his raft. Lefteris and Kyno stared at him from across the beach, that same wariness to them as there had been in Elissa. Like he’d bleed liquid lead if they cut him. Elissa faced the waves that had cla...
2.5 [Scythas]
Scythas,The Hurricane HarvesterWhen Scythas woke, the sun had risen behind a curtain of ash. The Sanctuary City of Olympia had been reduced to an airborne miasma, a sickly yellow film that tainted the morning skies. It reminded him of the extra set of eyelids that some beasts had, thin enough to see...
2.4 [Selene] (I am so sorry)
BORN TO WRITESTORY IS A FUCKKill Em All 199th OlympiadI am trash author410,757,864,530 DEAD GODS-----------------------------------------------------------------------------Selene, Saint of Scarlet HeartsSelene had met more than her fair share of prodigies in her time as the Raging Heaven’s would-...
2.3
Griffon, the Risen FlameThe day I watched my cousin’s golden mother die, a question had taken root in my mind. No matter how completely I’d tried to suppress it, utterly uncaring of my efforts, that uncertainty had remained - festering somewhere in the shadow of the soul that every man feared to...
2.2
Sol, The Raven from RomeI moved silently through their ranks, looking the sailors up and down. They stood frozen, waiting for something, the same thing that I was searching for in them. The closer that I looked, the more wretched that they seemed. Still too thin. Still too filthy and unkempt. All of...
2.1
Sol, The Raven from RomeCultivation.The race against mortality went by many names, depending on who was asked and where. The people of Rome knew it as the course of honors. The children of Helen called it the stairway to heaven, and the hollow Macedonians referred to it mournfully as the hitching of...
Interlude: Caesarion
Caesarion“Beware, cultivator. Your sins are set in stone.”Caesarion knelt upon the cool marble of a dead man’s dias, back straight and regally poised. His words were carefully measured, his voice a royal tone. Shadows of painted gold encircled both of his eyes, blending seamlessly with their o...
1.e [Nikolas Aetos]
The Stark Blade, Nikolas AetosNiko stared at the burning nightmare that had once been Olympia's dock town, and not for the first time, he wondered if his world was ending.Closer to the clouds, their feet planted firmly on the deck of the Alikonia - higher than they would have been in the crow...
1.e [Old 'Zalus]
One of two epilogue chapters to wrap up the Olympia Arc, then we're off to safer shores. Enjoy.---The war for the indigo throne was over. A cold conflict until the very last moment, eight elders of the Raging Heaven Cult had clashed in lethal violence - every one of them reaching for that empty ...
[MISC] The Fair Folk Went Down To Georgia
This isn't a Virtuous Sons chapter, just a little snapshot I wrote for a 1k contest in the discord server. I'll have the next VS chapter up sometime tomorrow.'Til then.------------The Fair Folk Went Down To GeorgiaGold is for the mistress - silver for the maidCopper for the craftsman, so...
1.140 [OLYMPIA ARC: END]
Griffon, The Risen FlameThe fight was ours to end.I could see it in their eyes and feel it in their hearts. It was arrogant of me to think it, absurdly so, but I could plainly see the truth of it. These men and women, these impossible glories, they were breaking apart. Their hearts and minds were st...
1.139 pt 2 [An Unkindness]
Lefteris, the Gold-String GuardianHis boys were dead.You must take aim, Polyhymnia urged him.His boys were dead, and their killers were walking free.Nock the arrow! I shall guide it!His boys were dead, and it was his fault that they’d died. In his greed, Lefteris had allowed himself to be swayed f...
1.139 [An Unkindness]
“Away with you! Begone! I’ll suffer no more!”An UnkindnessThe children of Helen were still transfixed by the stark pillar of light bisecting the earth and skies when the tragedies began.Across the Free Mediterranean, from the furthest colonies of the cardinal reaches - southernmost Egypt, east...
