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218 - The Divine Emperor in the City of Glittering Petals Pt. 4 [Sturmblitz]
This time, he placed the objects he conjured from his sleeve upon the table with his own hand.Shen choked on his baijiu. His pupils constricted, his face went white. He knew that scroll.“Did you not intend this for yourself, or should be unable, for your eventual heir-to-be?”“Of course, I alre...
49 - Case One Closed Pt. 2 [Cherno]
Once more, the saurian looked to Krahe.“Alright, I get it, I get it, let’s go sit down and you can explain.”“We don’t have the time. What we need are your services as a pawnbroker. I intend to recover the Silberblut Coupler, and Lady Blackhand has agreed to assist in the endeavor. She is, ...
217 - The Divine Emperor in the City of Glittering Petals Pt. 3 [Sturmblitz]
There was no living soul in this world which Xiān Dì would allow to speak to him like this. Indeed, were it not for that soul-bond, Xiān Dì was certain that he would have slain Shen long ago, when he had been more arrogant than he was now. It was this reason, among others, that had led him to av...
Cultivation Method and Artifact Submissions [Sturmblitz]
I figured it might be interesting to let readers influence the course of the story in a direct way. If you have any ideas for cultivation methods or artifacts (can be weapons or any other magical item) that you want to see in the story, comment on this post.If I see something that fits, it might app...
48 - Case One Closed [Cherno]
“Tell me, Lady Blackhand."Krahe groaned at him, but he continued."What is it that you seek? Besides the obvious answers of accruing riches and power, of striking down evildoers, those self-evident pursuits of any righteous soul; does a transcendent image tug at your soul? I would tell you ...
216 - The Divine Emperor in the City of Glittering Petals Pt. 2 [Sturmblitz]
“Seven hundred years to get that Dragonstone back,” he sneered disdainfully, drinking his dish of baijiu. Shen laughed softly at his response, refilling the dish before emptying his own and doing the same.“But who else to stoke Kristina’s inner demon into foolish action than Zelsys Newman? T...
47 - Gourmet Street Food [Cherno]
She returned to the other room and found a small, round box waiting at her side of the table, the medicine box gone. Before she could sit back down, Casus pointed it out: “For your sleep deprivation; I could see you nearly nodding off. We don’t have enough time for you to sleep properly, so roll...
215 - The Divine Emperor in the City of Glittering Petals [Sturmblitz]
Xiān Dì took a jaunt upon a flying sword to one of his many secondary palaces all across the empire, this time to the south-central City of Glittering Petals, a center of gambling and crime. The city was a pipe dream for many, being isolated from the rest of the country by dangerous land full of o...
46 - System Brainrot [Cherno]
“The Twin Churches are that old plus five-hundred years or so; it is because AB stands for After Banishment, when the Banishment Wheel was completed and set into motion, when the influence of the Outer Gods was… Well, banished from our world. History before then is muddy, but we know for certain...
45 - That Nobody [Cherno]
The dossier had been hastily-written mere hours ago when the aftermath of that gruesome incident had been discovered. “Black hair with a white patch, anathema-burned left arm, fully functional despite the burns, tied off with two sets of seals. Other descriptors, in no particular order: Green pant...
44 - "Lady Blackhand, are you an Otherworlder?" [Cherno]
[WIREBOUND WARDED SOULDREG VESSEL][Status:]Good[Details:]Anti-scrying E3Contents Concealment E2Capacity 30,000 DU[Contents:]263 DDs“Thirty thousand DUs.”“Dreg Units, yes. The real capacity is likely higher, but that’s what the maker set as the intended maximum. After a while of owning the ri...
43 - Casus Aristedes [Cherno]
Casus’ claim proved itself true when, as the two of them were on the way to leave, Krahe went over all the other bodies, looting them for easy things like money and small trinkets before harvesting their Souldregs and pulling their Voidkeys. It wasn’t hard to find enough phials for her souldreg ...
42 - I Am Blackhand [Cherno]
There wasn’t an interrogation to speak of; the man spilled everything the moment he had a question to latch onto, and more, considering the stain forming on his trousers.Soon enough they had the specifics as to where the Silberblut Coupler had been taken; Slaughterhouse Nine, the next stop on the ...
41 - Hotline Audunpoint Pt. 3 [Cherno]
Despite everything else, his eyes were what grabbed her attention the most, being bright burningly orange with streaks of yellow. His pupils, cross-shaped at first, had now expanded into four-pointed stars.His alien outward appearance contrasted with his foppish mode of dress; a white, satin shirt, ...
40 - Hotline Audunpoint Pt. 2 [Cherno]
Krahe pushed as hard as she could whilst also falling to the side in the hope that the man in silver would be unable to adjust his own trajectory, but his velocity far surpassed any that Krahe could generate.The light of Anathema painted the walls and ceiling in swaths of dancing crimson, and just b...
39 - Hotline Audunpoint [Cherno]
Vital intel revealed itself when she reached the next floor up and glanced down the hall. Hushed voices accompanied tense and scared faces peering out from cracked-open apartment doors. She wouldn’t have to clear the whole building.As for those on the third, uppermost floor, they seemed to have de...
38 - One-woman Death Squad Pt. 2 [Cherno]
That wasn’t a person, staring at Valza from across the butcher’s kitchen, wearing her sister’s boots. Those boots, which Shiva had inherited from their late father; she would’ve sooner died than part with them, and so Valza was utterly certain this raven-haired anathemist had killed her. He ...
37 - One-woman Death Squad [Cherno]
Taking the knife in her left hand, she moulded a mass of compressed pyroclast around its handle and down the flat of its blade, with vents facing the edge and point and channels leading to them from the handle. The design came out quickly, not because she had any great mastery over Thaumaturgy, but ...
36 - Warding Chain [Cherno]
[HEADKICKERS, HEIRLOOM COMBAT BOOTS][Status:]Exceptional[Details:]These boots will adjust to perfectly fit their wearer.They can shrink down to half or grow to twice their original size.These boots actively repel filth and expel filth produced by the wearer through the soles. This expelled filth is ...
35 - Black Hand of Desolation [Cherno]
Six shots. That was how many a typical Pattner had in one clip, and Shiva didn’t see the tumorous hump or widened magwell to suggest a lengthened or double-stack system. She was familiar with such details because Sir Damrus had a few blueprint-accurate Pattner reproductions in his collection and S...
214 - Damage Control [Sturmblitz]
A/N: I'm taking a 1-2 week break to do prepwork for the next arc, as I've done several times in the past.________________________________________________________________________________________“Your Divinity,” Von Wickten began, “I am certain that you are already aware, however, I felt...
213 - Carnifex Fulguris [Sturmblitz]
Tracing the surface of her back in the spot which had burned, she felt a raised area of skin and simultaneously saw, in her mind’s eye, the appearance of a sigil. It was a seven-segmented, abstract design which ran the length of seven vertebrae across the lower half of her back, ending just above ...
212 - The Butcher Reborn Pt. Final [Sturmblitz]
A/N: Shorter chap this go round. Didn't want to add filler or continue to the start of the next scene for this._________________________________________________________________________________________Time resumed.“Where is-” Zel choked out, but the Forgemother was already gone. She noticed t...
34 - Thaumaturge Battle Pt. 2 [Cherno]
“Krahe. Yours?” she asked, taking a long drag. The thought that ran through her head was a consideration of whether this was just her foe trying to buy time, or some gangster equivalent to a feudal-era name exchange to ensure one could claim an opponent’s bounty.“Shiva.”“Nice to kill you...
211 - The Butcher Reborn Pt. 4 [Sturmblitz]
Floating in cold nothingness.Bound by bands of starborne steel, at once restrained and kept from falling apart by them.Unthinking, unfeeling.Time itself seemingly at a standstill.Then, a sudden hammer-blow, releasing one restraint.Another, and another.This form, no longer broken, but nonetheless ins...
33 - Thaumaturge Battle [Cherno]
A bright-red torpedo of screaming magic sailed right into the wall behind her as she slipped beneath and to the right of its trajectory. Its fulgent detonation, which roused memories of plasma warheads, ripped a man-sized hole into the building and sent both rubble and arcs of red lightning flying e...
32 - Mohawk [Cherno]
The woman raised her split eyebrow to him, and he let out a frustrated sigh, clarifying: “Number sixteen. Same holding place as Silberblut.”At that, the lanky woman nodded, turning on a bootheel. Krahe took one last long, long drag, creating a reason to leave by burning the last of the Cassia as...
210 - The Butcher Reborn Pt. 3 [Sturmblitz]
A/N: I retitled 208 and 209 to The Butcher Reborn Pt. 1 and Pt. 2 respectively.________________________________________________________________________________It was not the dragonsteel which gave way, and neither did the physical impact of her blows impart any change. Empowered by the Forgemother a...
31 - Smokery Pt. 3 [Cherno]
Liquid metal flowed out from the belt over the man’s skin, enveloping him before it solidified into a full-body suit with compound, insectile eyes. It was made up of sleek, case-hardened armor all over, as if a stealth hoverbike had been given human form. Perhaps it was due to the Cassia’s inhib...
209 - The Butcher Reborn Pt. 2 [Sturmblitz]
A/N: Next chapter on Wednesday, March 29th. I'm giving an important scene some extra time in the oven.________________________________________________________________________________________Arcs jumped between the Butcher and its next closest segment, not yet conjoined. Zel turned the Brass Stak...
