Building An Empire - Chapter 10 - Cracking The Doors
Team-
Ashford - Arcanine
Bastille - Tyranitar
Damascus - Machamp
Abrams - Slowbro
Melusine - Dragonite
Hrunting - Scizor
LB
Bastille, of ...
2026-02-08 21:35:08 +0000 UTC View PostBuilding An Empire - Chapter 9
Team-
Ashford - Arcanine
Bastille - Tyranitar
Damascus - Machamp
Abrams - Slowbro
Melusine - Dragonite
Hrunting - Scizor
Alex POV
Lance stared blankly into the...
2026-02-08 21:30:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 9
It was surprisingly easy to end the Maelstrom.
Not from a physical standpoint, no, the Bladekisser suit was the pinnacle of enhancement technology taken from Metal Gear, taken up a hundred notches by the exotic space-age materials I’d made it out of.
No, it was surprisingly easy on a mental level. Sure, I was a coun...
2026-02-01 20:54:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 8
There was an inherent issue with cybernetics.
Mechanics were all based around motors, servos, hydraulics, each with a specific amount of power per piece. Clamping force, horsepower, thrust, all limited quantities. A flat increase. Doubly so for power armor.
Power armor was as good an augment as the person inside...
2026-01-31 07:05:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 3 - Reintroductions
“All magic is logic, conversely, all logic is compatible with mana.”
I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes as I walked past the gates of the Bael School For Young Devils. The institution that had been so familiar to me for so long now felt like a stranger. Roads I once used to travel daily to get to school now felt foreign.
Chapter 2 - Infiltrating Home
“How did I let you talk me into this?”
I whispered under my breath, the noise being drowned by the sheer amount of people shuffling into the museum. I’d hoped that because it was a weekday, the Bael museum of devil history would have been empty. I’d been dead fucking wrong.
Who even went to museums these days? We had the d...
2026-01-04 18:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1 - Death and the Tower
A shaky hand struggled to keep the cigarette steady as I watched the smoke drift and form myriad shapes before me. Taking a quick drag offered only slight relief, momentarily easing the trembling. Wisps of smoke still danced in the light cast by the magical flame of the camp.
The night watch was a nightmare, but as the only middle-cla...
2026-01-02 07:02:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey y'alls!
So, we're in 2026 now. Honestly I never thought I'd have a patreon, or that people would want to pay to read what I write around this same time last year. Holy shit, sometimes it's still hard to believe.
So, I gotta thank you all for seeing enough worth in my writing to want to pay to read it. it means a lot, and I can't thank you guys enough.
I know resolutions ...
2026-01-01 06:30:33 +0000 UTC View PostSo, the results for the poll are out, and a decision has been made.
The plan now will be for me to post a 10K word pilot chapter for the new fix, as well as up to three chapters for it on Patreon. These will be posted post the 25th, for very obvious reasons.
Merry Christmas, all. Have...
2025-12-22 14:23:40 +0000 UTC View PostEmpyrean 22 - Home Away From Home
Ozpin POV
Of all the things that the newest iteration of humanity had invented in their brief time existing on this accursed world, soundproofing was by far his favorite.
Ozpin was one of the few people who could claim to have existed before the first jet engine was made. He could claim to be one of the first ...
2025-12-14 15:10:56 +0000 UTC View PostEmpyrean 21 - Life On The Other Side
Cardin POV
“Not that I’m not glad to see you, but what the hell are you doing here, Jaune?”
Jaune had fallen into step with them after devouring his breakfast faster than Cardin had ever seen anyone eat anything. He wasn’t saying a word, just following them, always maintaining a three step gap, just...
2025-12-11 02:13:43 +0000 UTC View PostSo, due to the discontinuation of Quixotic, we have one story slot currently open which I have to fill with a new story. As people who have subscribed to the Remembrance tier or higher, you have the power to decide which one of these will become my next story.
In the interest of fairness, I will only provide a one-line explanation of each story. The story that will end up being serialized...
2025-12-07 21:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostBuilding An Empire - Chapter 8
Team-
Ashford - Arcanine
Bastille - Tyranitar
Damascus - Machamp
Abrams - Slowbro
Melusine - Dragonite
Hrunting - Scizor
Alex POV
This… this was beautiful. 2025-12-06 21:01:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Building An Empire - Chapter 7
Team-
Ashford - Arcanine
Bastille - Tyranitar
Damascus - Machamp
Abrams - Slowbro
Melusine - Dragonite
Hrunting - Scizor
Alex POV
“Easy now, big girl.”
... 2025-12-02 20:15:08 +0000 UTC View PostEmpyrean 20 - Breathe
Jaune POV
He could see the enemy.
The jellyfish Grimm had killed itself, its red dome cracking and releasing an eerie red mist. The creature itself died, its tentacles falling limp under it as it eerily continued to float. Yet the mist had a life of its own, as it coalesced into an image of her.
His first observatio...
2025-11-29 02:01:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 7
I could taste the air.
No, that was not a metaphor. The acrid smell of burnt trash, layered with tones of motor oil, was like poison compared to the crisp, cold autumn air of my town. It felt like I’d traded a warm cup of tea and a blanket for a toxic cloud.
I knew it was toxic. My enhancements were most commonly administered ...
2025-11-24 02:50:47 +0000 UTC View PostSo the government documentation process that I'd been stuck in is finally over, for better or worse. My flight home is for friday night, so expect new updates this weekend!
Also to make up for the lost updates, I'll be posting more frequently for the rest of this week as well as the first week of December to make up for it.
-Cold Daylight
2025-11-20 11:38:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys,
So, as I mentioned in the last chapter of the dimensional workshop, I mentioned that there may be a delay because i'm away from home.
Basically, due to some paperwork bullshit, I had to travel home, halfway across the country. I'd originally assumed this to be a 2-4 day kind of deal, but here I am, a week later, still making daily trips to the local court and bank in orde...
2025-11-10 20:57:41 +0000 UTC View PostDimensional Workshop - Chapter 6
Lacrima was an interesting material.
I’d wanted to get my hands on it from the moment the door to the workshop opened in Earthland, but since the whole situation was kicked off by Natsu, I’d come to the realisation that Earthland was not yet safe for me.
I wasn’t Kakashi, I was enhanced, sure, but this wasn’t a sm...
2025-11-04 06:50:28 +0000 UTC View PostEmpyrean 19 - Hindsight
Ironwood POV
Jaune could no longer be considered human.
He knew that there was nothing illuminating about that realization. He had a general idea of what Jaune was capable of. He’d seen the video, he’d heard the story of what happened in Phalanx. He had beheld the man himself. To some extent, he liked to believe he ...
2025-10-27 00:03:24 +0000 UTC View PostEmpyrean 18 - What Is A God?
WIllow Schnee POV
They came for her, as she’d predicted.
She’d known of Jacques’ hidden army as long as it’d existed. She’d helped train them when it was still a grassroots operation, back when a job for Atlas was more desirable than serving the Schnee.
Then, as word of how well they were paid...
2025-10-25 09:33:36 +0000 UTC View PostEmpyrean 17 - Crumbling Bricks
Jacques POV
He didn’t like to get blood on his suit.
Even as a Gele, he’d always preferred shades of white. There was a certain purity to the colour he’d always admired. Just being draped in white made people trust him more. After all, how could a man like him be untrustworthy?
It was a silly notion, ...
2025-10-22 20:59:43 +0000 UTC View PostEmpyrean 16 - The Plans Of Mice And Men
Emerald POV
Walking into the den of the beast never felt this safe, nor this easy.
Back when she’d started out with Cinder, before Mercury had joined them, one of the easier ways to make a buck was robbing houses. It was easy. Cast an illusion to make them believe they locked the door when they in fact...
2025-10-21 01:15:24 +0000 UTC View PostSomeone requested for a glossary of all the pokemon in Alessandro’s possession, so I’ll be posting this before every chapter from now.
Ashford - Arcanine
Bastille - Tyranitar
Damascus - Machamp
Abrams - Slowbro
Melusine - Dragonite
Hrunting - Sciz...
2025-10-08 00:43:20 +0000 UTC View PostBuilding an Empire - Chapter 5 - The First Brick
The Indigo plateau… was definitely done dirty by the games.
To be fair, the first few games just treated the victory road as a real spectacle, as compared to the League. I mean, sure, the tall building that served as the headquarters for the league was still there, its glass exterior shining in the summer sun. ...
2025-10-06 05:16:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 5
Erza did arrive eventually.
Apparently, my shop had opened up in the outskirts of Magnolia’s commercial district. For one, I didn’t even know that Magnolia had a commercial district. The whole place looked too small to have ‘districts’ in the anime.
Then again, the source material wasn’t exactly the best when it came to fles...
2025-10-02 00:33:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dimensional Workshop - Chapter 4
I lay on the ground, blood trickling down from a gash in my head onto my cheek. Dazed, my vision swimming, I gazed up at his face, or what little of it I could see.
He stood there, stoic, unamused. One eye visible, the other hidden behind his headband. Kakashi looked bored, and considering how little effort it had taken him to de...
2025-10-01 20:59:46 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys. I caught the flu over the weekend and haven't been able to complete chapter 4 and 5 for the Dimensional Workshop.
I will endeavour to have these chapters posted by Wednesday at the latest. My sincerest apologies.
2025-09-28 16:22:49 +0000 UTC View PostEmpyrean 15 - Enaction
Jaune POV
His mind was filled with static.
He’d expected Winter to be happy. After all, she’d been hounding her mother to snap out of her inaction for years. He’d expected her to be thankful, but not… that.
He could still feel the softness on her lips, still feel that faint taste of cherry lingering o...
2025-09-22 23:45:33 +0000 UTC View PostWinter POV
There was something troubling Jaune.
They’d decided to spend the rest of the day covering up loose ends, or, well, that was the militaristic term to use. What it actually translated to was something far less grandiose.
They were just taking it easy. Sitting in a cafe that the student base of Atlas loved to frequent. Close enough to the schoo...
2025-09-21 15:51:22 +0000 UTC View Post