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Hey. I fucked up last chapter. Luine was supposed to lose her hand, not her entire arm. And I knew that in my head, but my ...
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Hungry. Want to b...
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I finally have a working PC again! I actually ran this chapter through grammarly, tell ...
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I almost titled this chapter “I’m amazing” again. But thankfully, I came up with a different ver...
2024-05-29 14:01:45 +0000 UTC View PostAN:
Hey there! I’m back! I’m here!
I’ve done all I could for my release on RoyalRoad. The marketing is out there, both SH and RR are synced. Now all that’s left to do is to write. And write I shall. Well… later. I actually still have a small backlog despite the hefty one I already have posted, but they still need ...
2024-05-28 12:30:56 +0000 UTC View PostWe went back home after the battle with the skarid and the bestfiend attached to it. Those were the species names of the squid and the biting parasite respectively, as discovered by myself and Moonwash. I participated in the identification ritual just because I felt like it. I wasn’t the worst at the casting process because wind as an element did agree with me. I just never had the time to fo...
2024-05-18 16:06:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Gazelug,” Moonwash said. A name pronounced as Ga-Zel-Lug.
She and Elfrafim did the identification ritual for my kill, before cutting off the eyes for my later use.
“Its slime must be so valuable, but so much of it is ruined.” Elfrafim prodded at the corpse, making a disgusted face at the gunk that stuck to her palms.
She wiped it on me.
“Hey!” I snappe...
2024-05-18 16:05:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Is that it!?” I yelled as Baston reeled in whatever creature was caught in his fishing rod that was made only from materials that were level 40 or above. The hook was large and strange, able to somehow latch onto prey as if alive through some mechanisms, and it was supremely sticky, even producing its own disgusting slime!
I looked at the surface of the lake in anticipation, for we w...
2024-05-18 16:04:08 +0000 UTC View PostI finally broke the kiss after a few seconds, staring at Moonwash who stared back.
I worked my jaw a little and looked around, trying to find the thing I was going to say. All that came out was, “W-what?”
“That was a kiss.”
“I know what a kiss is!” I shouted, a little more forcefully than I intended. I definitely knew a lot more about it than her. “I jus...
“Haell! Are you alright! What happened!” The melodious chime of Elfrafim’s voice rang in my ears, forcing me out of my sleep.
“W-what…?” I opened my eyes blearily, but my attempts to get up bore no fruit, for everything was pain. “What the fuck?”
And then I remembered what happened.
I reiterated, “What. The. Fuck?”
“That’s what I’m saying!” El...
2024-05-18 16:01:55 +0000 UTC View Post"It's alive! IT'S ALIVE!"
I shouted in the middle of a bloodstained clearing. It was a large circular space, artificially widened and flattened, and now painted upon with a bloody and sinister ritual. Moonwash had actually gotten Luine to go out and somehow obtain cursetacean parts to add to the recipe, mixing its powdered form with my blood among other things. The Angelore empire hated c...
2024-05-18 16:00:56 +0000 UTC View Post[Mana-infused Blood has reached Level 14]
[Regen Heart has reached Level 13]
“You know I’m not good at this, right?” Luine lightly joked as she healed me with nature magic. I was lying down on the grass, fully immobile.
For once, I did not rise to the bait. “Yeah. Yet you still do it. Thank you, Luine.”
She raised a brow. “Yo...
2024-05-18 15:59:46 +0000 UTC View PostI watched from atop my throne as the secret base was thrown into a frenzy of activity. Moonwash was now doing my nails after having made the rest of me presentable for my big day. My face, my dress, and everything else were made fit for a demon queen, with half the materials used having come from our own hunts and foraging. I also wore my favorite ‘Freedom’ and ‘Victory’ necklaces too, ...
2024-05-18 15:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostBreak my arms. Enhance my swings. But don’t go too far, never leave it unrepairable.
Destroy, kill, and devour as I please, but do not make the ultimate sacrifice, for I can never again do any more damage if I die.
Violent. Pragmatic. Violent. Pragmatic. Violent! Pragmatic!
I repeated the same mantra in my head as I caused my blood to evapora...
2024-05-18 15:57:28 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up with a gasp and a start. My body groaned from a thousand pains all battling inside me as the flower meadow I laid on exerted work to heal all of the damage that I’d done to myself
“What the fuck happened!? I didn’t know you were this injured–I certainly didn’t do it!” Elfrafim screamed, her voice remained ethereal. The memories of the past couple of minutes cam...
2024-05-18 15:56:15 +0000 UTC View PostAll of us were crowded around Elfrafim like schoolchildren as she began her lesson. She summoned a bucket of water except without the bucket, and then dumped it all on herself.
“Are you okay?” I joked.
“Peachy,” her beautiful voice answered.
She demonstrated the washing process for a bit, which basically consisted of just surrounding herself with a bubble of water and ...
2024-05-18 15:55:13 +0000 UTC View Post“I am in awe.” Elfrafim’s smooth yet strong voice rang through the cavern the moment she descended the flight of stairs toward our base.
I looked at the same space which I had lived in for the past few years, a wide cave that we’d widened even further and made our own. It was one continuous space with only restrooms and beds given the courtesy of separate rooms for ...
2024-05-18 15:54:13 +0000 UTC View Post"Can you keep a promise?" I grabbed Elfrafim's shoulder and squeezed hard. She was very interested in what I was, so decided to just extend out an olive branch of trust. She could already kill me so easily if she so wished, and if my revelations here ever became a problem in the future, then I should hopefully be strong enough to destroy all comers.
"Yes. My lips are sealed as tight as th...
2024-05-18 15:51:48 +0000 UTC View PostI was tossed to the ground along with my sword. I rolled on the dirt and through the grass.
My world was a blur and it took an eternity to focus once more. I stood back up once I could, and my arms hung limp and broken.
My regen heart was still pumping rapidly from the energy of the prior fight, and it was already working on mending my many wounds. I decided to leave the organ to it...
2024-05-18 15:50:17 +0000 UTC View Post_________________
Name: Haell Zharignan
Species: Imp
—Mutations—
Menace Heart: Level 18
Demon Brain: Level 18
Demon Skin: Level 16
Demon Eyes: Level 15
Demon Flesh / Demon Bones / Demonic Musculature(s...
2024-05-18 15:49:16 +0000 UTC View PostDeep breath in, a peaceful breath out. Luine started talking just as I came down from my menace magic high, still surrounded by the corpses of our fallen enemies.
Maybe she should fall too.
She shouldn't. I was in full control, and I always knew who I was and what I valued. Becoming a betrayer and treating my friends poorly was certainly no part of Haell Zharignan.
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2024-05-18 15:46:47 +0000 UTC View PostLuine found the nest of the goblins, only a small one, all things considered. It was likely a new horde, at its most vulnerable state. With individually weak members, and not fully capable of defending themselves; but big enough to attract the attention of other monsters nearby.
Goblins were very difficult to ever fully eradicate, because there were always individuals of them, scattered e...
2024-05-18 15:45:44 +0000 UTC View Post“Mana and magic exist on a spectrum. Typically, they can appear as entirely different shapes and colors to someone’s perception, but it’s technically possible to do anything with any form of mana. Although maybe that’s a feat even dragons can’t do.”
“That’s a theory,” I told Moonwash, “Hell, it’s a mere hypothesis.”
“Yes. You’re rig...
2024-05-18 15:44:39 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you alright?” Baston addressed both me and Moonwash. All four of us, Luine included, were currently at the nearest river, having a picnic after all of yesterday’s craziness. It’s wild really, that it took this long for someone to stumble upon our secret hideout, although there had been people that passed around the periphery. They were fooled by Baston’s preparation...
2024-05-18 15:43:32 +0000 UTC View PostI stretched myself out languidly on the sofa of our base’s living room. This place had really only grown more homely over the past year. There were more decorations, from stands that housed paintings, to trophies of our battles and exploits. The place felt lived in, comforting, inviting. It had become much brighter, as we were able to afford the mana necessary to keep a variety of enchantment...
2024-05-18 15:42:24 +0000 UTC View PostMy parents had come and gone. They dropped off plenty of supplies, and left with even more packed into their bags. My time here was netting a whole host of materials from all the monsters that I killed, and I had them sell some of it for me. From tanned hides and cleaned bones, to organs preserved by alchemical compounds. It was a big harvest, and my share of it would net me a lot of gold!
<... 2024-05-18 15:41:03 +0000 UTC View PostBreak their bones. Cut apart their flesh! They shall know fear, and flee at the mere mention of my name!
HAELL ZHARIGNAN!
I panted as I finished off the last barkbark. I was lucky enough to chance upon a swarm, the lot of them individually weak and susceptible to my eyes and aura of intimidation. It was soo much fun killing them, and it brought me delight like no o...
2024-05-18 15:39:53 +0000 UTC View Post—Luine POV—
“AAAAARRRRRGHHGHHGGHHG!!!”
My breath hitched, and my muscles clamped up for a tenth of a tenth of a moment. I looked at Haell and saw dread incarnate upon the imp’s armored form.
It was brief, it was short, not even enough to make a difference if I was fighting someone, but I was still affected by the roar of someone two evolutions lo...
2024-05-18 15:38:33 +0000 UTC View PostFour sleds dragged through the ground, one for each of us. A tiger jumped out of the woodwork, but Luine swiftly brained it with a tossed knife. I did not even bother to let go of my own burden in preparation for battle.
The treeline broke shortly after, and finally we’d arrived at our destination after months of travel. A long way away from my hometown of Latarus sat an unassuming hill...
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