I'd been under Zeke's aura before, but this felt...different. of course, I'd know that he hadn't been trying last time. Given that an E-ranker's unleashed aura had been able to seriously pressure a whole crowd of us in the scavenger hunt I was pretty sure if he felt like it Zeke could have crushed us all to death with this kind of attack.
Instead, it felt JUS...
2023-04-21 22:18:58 +0000 UTC View PostWithout further ado, chapter one of Mined Games. I'm EXTREMELY proud of the title lol.
The world is not fair. This is not a new concept. It isn’t even a particularly interesting concept. But, much like every other eighteen year old in the kingdom aside from possibly the current crown prince, I found myself stewing on this unfortunate truth for the large portion of my da...
2023-04-21 20:35:07 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone, today we're getting started on my new story. Mined Games is an original novel about a native of a fantasy world who winds up finding a smart phone with a magic mining idle game on it and bonds to it. This story is in its testing phase, so feedback is appreciated. It's ten dollar patron only until we get to chapter thirty, when the first ten will drop on Royal Road and it will sh...
2023-04-21 20:32:05 +0000 UTC View PostWe didn't get attacked after the fifth match, which I attributed to how many of the cult got cleaned up in the raid last night. Since the other forces were busy recovering (or trying to exploit the Cult's weakness) we were safe enough to bring Alec and crew back to the house with us. Zeke was already gone when we came out, as were most of the others, so I assumed h...
2023-04-20 21:51:57 +0000 UTC View PostApril 13th 2016 Brightedge City, Barbaric Bison Coffee House, 10:00 PM EDT
Since she was so off kilter we decided to stay and let Raven enjoy her night. She was emotional and raw and that wouldn't have been useful for my training anyway, plus she was actually stupid cute being all shy and reserved. Granted, her massive tits probably didn't hurt my ...
2023-04-20 21:24:08 +0000 UTC View PostI was in shock. Alec had managed to break one of Abel's punches. Seeing as Abel was a Master Candidate with an extremely complimentary ability (albeit one he hadn't really been using just then) it was crazy to me that someone who definitely WASN'T a Master Candidate had countered his attack.
That giant flame chop hadn't been Intermediate manifestation, it had...
2023-04-19 21:00:42 +0000 UTC View PostJune 1st 2023, Gotham City, Gojo Penthouse 4:00 PM EDT
"I don't approve." I said firmly. My mood was pretty much in the gutter despite it being my twenty third birthday (though Reggie had tried to convince me I got two of those since I was reborn as a Dark Endless).
Zee, who was curled against me, giggled. "Yes, you've made that incredibly &n...
2023-04-19 14:53:35 +0000 UTC View PostWe made it home earlier than expected all things considered, but it was still relatively late. Since we had a battle tomorrow we decided to knock out early, but before we did, I went to go check on Benny. My friend was sitting outside staring up at the stars, and I sat down next to him.
"So, want to talk to me about your meeting with Celine the other day?" I ...
2023-04-18 22:38:05 +0000 UTC View PostApril 13th 2016 Brightedge City, Barbaric Bison Coffee House, 8:00 PM EDT
I got a call after meeting with Silver from someone I hadn't expected. Specifically, Thorn. The pretty goth got in touch with me because she apparently KNEW Raven. Barbie had hit a dead end and asked Zee because she knew my sorceress ran in similar circles to the the half dem...
2023-04-18 15:22:03 +0000 UTC View Post"So." Said Mel to Abel. Her tone dripping with relish as we walked into the Cavalcade's entrance. "Did you have to threaten him to get him to cave? Because I loved seeing you do that last time, and watching him get all whiny and stomp his feet would make me smile."
My mentor smirked at that. "No, I didn't threaten him, I just reminded him that it was my labyr...
2023-04-17 22:55:31 +0000 UTC View PostJuly 15th 2016 ???, 8:00 PM EDT
"So." I said dryly. "Is this the part where you reveal you fiendish plot and tell me Barbatos was working for you the whole time and now I'm totally at your mercy?" My voice was calm and bored, but inside I was anything but. The Upside Down Man was WAY stronger than Barbatos. I'd expected them to be equals but ...
2023-04-17 19:49:17 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 15th 2001, Westchester, New York 4:00 PM EDT
"So, you're saying you walked into my room because Kitty didn't give you proper directions?" Her eyes were narrowed at me, but more in suspicion than hostility. I had to admit it MIGHT have been because I saw that fat ass of hers bare, but her accent was seriously hot. Sort of a softer fre...
2023-04-17 00:02:36 +0000 UTC View PostApril 13th 2016 Brightedge City, Solomon Shipping Company, 12:00 PM EDT
Given everything that happened, my only real lead for the Fear Host was the Court of Owls. Luckily, I still had my in there, since the mask protected me from being connected to Mammon. The only person who knew who I was there was Silver, and she was under orders she couldn't br...
2023-04-16 23:58:20 +0000 UTC View PostJuly 15th 2016 Scala ad Caelum, 8:00 PM EDT
About six million of me died within the first ten seconds of the fight. Barbatos lashed out with a claw and rent the air of Scala ad Caelum, and darkness tore through the fabric of space and ripped me apart ad infinitum. I was fine, of course. There were far more of me than that, and about half of m...
2023-04-15 13:35:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing the other team did was check on Raka. Which was completely reasonable given how terrible that had to have been. "I am so sorry." I said quickly. "I don't know what the hell happened there. I wanted to win but I wouldn't have done...THAT. Hell, I couldn't have done that. I have no idea how or why that even happened."
Abel sighed. "Not your faul...
2023-04-14 22:24:22 +0000 UTC View PostApril 13th 2016 Brightedge City, Hall of Nevers, 11:00 AM EDT
Dinah was waiting for me after I came out. Despite not showing much this early on, she was very obviously pregnant. Her normally flat stomach making it all the more obvious she was carrying my baby. Amy was with her, and when I stepped into the hallway she hurled herself into my ar...
2023-04-14 20:46:40 +0000 UTC View PostAfter doing Rime's wishes and handing over the elixirs to Benny (officially maxing out his elixir cap and bringing his Might up to one eighty nine and his stat total to five hundred and three) we headed for the arena to wait for the match to start, and we went over our various strategies for the fight in the waiting area.
The plan for going up against the Bur...
2023-04-13 21:00:38 +0000 UTC View PostJuly 15th 2016 Scala ad Caelum, 7:00 PM EDT
Silence. There was only silence as I stood in the forge of worlds. It wasn't total nothingness, not the silence of the void, but more the silence of the world holding its breath. The silence between two drops of water from a leaky faucet. The silence of a temporary stay of execution.
I could s...
2023-04-13 20:49:03 +0000 UTC View PostI wished we could have taken the next day off so I could keep Benny company while he thought things through. Sadly, that wasn't in the cards. We had to start looking into our next opponent immediately. We only had the day to prepare for the fifth round, and after the next fight we wouldn't even have that. With three hundred arenas in the city the fifth round would ...
2023-04-12 22:52:19 +0000 UTC View PostApril 12th 2016 Brightedge City, Hall of Nevers, 10:00 AM EDT
I was sad. Which made me fucking furious. My dad had been killed. Admittedly, when this happened to most people they got all weepy and morose, but I wasn't most people. I wasn't supposed to feel...upset. I snarled, smashing my fist into the wall of the room with a snarl and then gr...
2023-04-12 14:06:13 +0000 UTC View PostBenny didn't look so good. That was to be expected. I left Callie to talk to the others about what we'd learned and deal with next steps (sometimes it was really nice not to be in charge) and pulled my best friend aside to talk. Since we'd left the dorm he'd been quiet and almost listless. I hated seeing him like that, and I knew if it was me he would have been rig...
2023-04-11 21:59:33 +0000 UTC View PostJuly 15th 2016 Scala ad Caelum, 6:30 PM EDT
The saying 'be careful what you wish for' is one I've mostly overlooked for the majority of my life. Not that I wasn't aware of it, just that it wasn't something that really applied to me.
It definitely applied now. Barbatos WAS following me as planned, and I could sense a few others closing i...
2023-04-11 21:54:04 +0000 UTC View PostBenny was, understandably, not at all thrilled to find out his girlfriend hired people to assault and possibly murder us. I was still shaky on what their orders had been, but regardless of whether the intent was to take our lives it had clearly been to at least screw us over, and my best friend was devastated.
We debated over what to do for a short while, but...
2023-04-10 17:44:14 +0000 UTC View PostApril 11th 2016 Brightedge City, Sunken Cathedral, 8:00 PM EDT
I'd spent a while considering how to do this next rank up. Given how hard it had been to gather ten million points both times I'd done it, I knew it would be my last for a while. A hundred million points was going to be a nearly impossible task in the short term. I had unlimited options...
2023-04-10 17:37:02 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 15th 2001, Westchester, New York 3:00 PM EDT
The drive to the institute was longer than expected. I'd never actual been to my Uncle Chuck's place. I'd met him a few times over the years, visits mostly, and all I really knew about him was that he was bald, used a wheelchair, was a powerful mutant, and used to bang my mom. That last pa...
2023-04-09 22:27:37 +0000 UTC View PostJuly 15th 2016 Scala ad Caelum, 6:00 PM EDT
I double checked every single theory and finding I was able to derive from looking at Scala ad Caelum in the Outer Body trance. Years. Decades. Centuries of time. I did it over and over and over again. Making constructs more and more complex, polishing my void skills to the apex of what I could achi...
2023-04-09 22:23:21 +0000 UTC View PostApril 11th 2016 Brightedge City, Old Wayne Mining Headquarters, 7:00 PM EDT
I couldn't breathe. I couldn't think. My brain was on fire and there was a weird tightness in my chest and stomach that I'd never experienced before. "What did she just do?" I muttered to myself. "What just happened?" I wasn't sure why I was asking that. I knew the answer, ...
2023-04-08 10:58:10 +0000 UTC View Post"Well that was anticlimactic." Said Teague with a frown. "I was expecting this to be some huge ruckus, but SOMEONE." He glared at Abel. "Wasn't leaving any enemies for the rest of us."
My mentor snickered, but the rest of us just rolled our eyes. None of us were surprised by that observation. Abel was a Master Candidate. If they had someone below F-rank that ...
2023-04-07 22:09:33 +0000 UTC View PostJuly 15th 2016 Hall of Worlds, 10:00 AM EDT
We decided to rest in the hall before we entered. We weren't sure it was safe, but these doors seemed to be extremely obscure and old, and from their auras they hadn't been touched by anyone in probably millennia at the very least, so we all agreed resting here should be fine, and would, in the end,...
2023-04-07 22:04:32 +0000 UTC View PostThere were a lot of people here. More than I'd been expecting, and more than a few of them were F-rank. I don't think they had taken the four into account, probably because their addition to the party had been last minute, so there was only five F-rankers total. I was pretty sure those were prepared specifically for Rime, based on the way the efficiently spread out...
2023-04-06 22:51:20 +0000 UTC View Post