Chapter 188
Power Leveling – Guild Style
Okay, so my friends and daughter are officially weird. That is all I will say about that, though I did find out something interesting. Namely the fact that apparently Qi might channel differently through different body types.
I had always assumed that Qi flowed and would feel the same regardless of the form it was being channeled, so ...
2024-01-25 21:28:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 38
Mourning
(Amoni Jacobs)
Thunderclap.
The fact that it rained on the day of Jacob’s funeral was almost too cliché. It wasn’t until Amoni realized how odd a thunderstorm in November was that Amoni began to truly realize what was happening.
Amoni’s awareness of the oddity started slowly.
“Looks like rain.” Bruce Jacobs, Amoni’s f...
2024-01-24 10:44:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 187
Things A Mother Does For Her Children
Sitting around patiently, that is my goal. Yep, totally doing it too.
For the moment I was able to both have a physical representative at the guild’s mobile guild hall, while I was running around finishing up our land unification quest. Oh, and apparently, I had a second simulacrum running about the faerie library on the two ...
2024-01-22 12:36:59 +0000 UTC View PostPrelude II
The world slowly began to come back to its once former glory, as auxiliary power cells and grids from all over the world slowly fixed broken pieces and came back to life.
During the time many deaths and accidents were reported and accounted for, multiple accidents on the highways where vehicles of all types felt catastrophic failures at the worst possible times. The damag...
2024-01-21 15:17:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 9
Burning, tearing, ripping.
Everything burned as Frank seemingly for the first time in forever began running and sprinting as fast as he could. Honestly, his speed and movements almost frightened him, as he was clearly on a different level of movement compared to what he was previously. His body and mind moved so much faster, took in so many more impulses, covered ...
2024-01-21 14:16:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 8
Having gone through multiple survival scenarios in his classes, Frank felt his body reacting before he truly thought out what he would do next.
In his mind he went through the checklist of items needed to survive. First find a safe place, preferably a choke point with only one way to enter or exit. Ideally this would be similar to the alleyway he lured both Scottie and Aar...
2024-01-20 19:20:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 186
Bad Roleplaying
(Mallory)
“Good question, wait right here.” Cass, who was in the form of the Deolar King and my Fiancé replied. Then just like that she Teleported away. At least I think that’s what she did as she was there one moment and then gone the next.
Mallory was about to say something, but was distracted by the giant fire elemen...
2024-01-20 14:05:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 185
The Five Point Exploding Palm Techniques
In the movies, the idea of a five-point palm exploding heart technique was just a myth. Something that had just enough of scientific backing that it could theoretically be believable enough to avoid breaking the immersion of the viewer.
For this case, the five-point palm exploding heart technique was an attack, where the her...
2024-01-19 17:25:44 +0000 UTC View Post<<<Author's Note: Don't worry, I fully intend to begin on book 2 here shortly. >>>
Epilogue
A million light years away, in a dying universe that mirrored the one that Misha now found herself transfixed in, developments were happening.
Developments that would forever change the evolutionary track of the Psychers.
The Ps...
2024-01-18 00:55:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 37
Hasty's Helpers
(Misha Tulley)
If Misha had to describe her current state of being right now, it would have to be exhaustion. With her newfound abilities, she had experienced something she never thought previously possible.
Her mind, arguably her strongest weapon, honed and refined over countless cycles of death, rebirth, and refinement had finally met its lim...
2024-01-17 10:14:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 184
Mistakes Were Made
“So, I admit that shrinking down the reincarnated spirit of a cardinal protector from their normal size of a massive dragon to that of a Pomeranian was a bit much. I admit this, okay. Not taking one modicum of responsibility away from that absolute fact. That said, I do think you could be a bit nicer.” I respond to the clearly irate Flumberro.
<... 2024-01-15 14:44:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 183
What Did She Do Now?
(Mallory)
Everything was frenetic, it seemed like everywhere Mallory turned around the civilization she had worked so hard to build up from the ground was being threatened at every corner. While it was expected to have losses during the land claim event, Mallory had fooled herself into thinking that she could avoid most of the major pitfalls. 2024-01-14 18:49:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 7
“GHAHHHHH!” Frank screamed wildly.
At the sound of his voice, the giant moving snake tilted its open maw back slightly, as if it was able to more accurately predict the landing path that Frank would take.
To his shock, the snake appeared to do just that, as he could see a giant glowing vortex suddenly open. Black energy and green glowed in abundance around him. O...
2024-01-14 14:11:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 6
Frank’s body moved on its own, the moment the giant serpent turned its gaze away, Frank found himself inside the tunnels.
He didn’t even feel the movement, as his eyes never strayed away from his target, the snake. He always kept his head forward, while his body moved seemingly on autopilot, low crawling backwards with such speed that he even amazed himself. His feet c...
2024-01-13 21:30:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 5
Frank awoke to feel the thrum of a pounding headache within his skull. Despite his clearly sleeping outside in a pile of dirt and debris, he felt warm. The reason for this warmth was readily apparent, as his body spent the entire time circulating the energy he had gathered before passing out.
This meant that his body was nearing a breakthrough, and that if he didn’t allo...
2024-01-13 14:13:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 36
A Slight Leak
(Jerome Jacobs)
The world was going crazy. First there was a bright flash of light, and then all the power went out.
Silence.
If Jerome had to describe the sensations, he was feeling it would be silence. His heightened hearing and senses hinted at how wrong the world suddenly was. These were senses that had been enhanced and multip...
2024-01-12 11:42:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 4
Jitters.
Frank felt pure unadulterated fear, tension, and above all, Qi flowing through his body as he dazedly made his way out from the gymnasium.
He had signed away his chance at higher education by opting to join the work force early. This meant that he would forever be subject to lower tier jobs, like being a hazardous janitor, but it meant he would get money and...
2024-01-11 02:15:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 182
Turning Threats Into Promises
“What? I can’t take it easy and try to relax?” I ask, in a faux offended tone.
“No, it’s not that. It’s just that I figured you would be one of the people who would want to be on the front lines throughout this endeavor.” Gwen responds.
As she speaks, I can see the battle going into its final stretch.
The two ...
2024-01-10 12:18:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 35
Breakdown
(Phil Tulley)
Hip-hop music blasting.
“Yeah!” All four of Misha’s teammates were being loud and obnoxious and truth be told, Phil was loving every minute of it. The teammates were nice. Not exactly the type of people that Phil would expect to be driving home on a random Tuesday night, but sometimes life throws curves at you.
This...
2024-01-09 11:04:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 181
Letting Others Try
“Actually, I don’t mind your rain. Though I normally don’t like getting rained on as a whole.” Zero answers.
“You like the energy in the rain? Or what?” I ask, trying to understand a potentially hidden side of Zero. Or maybe hidden is not the correct word, but rather a side that I never thought to ask about.
“Normal rain just ...
2024-01-08 12:05:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 3
Frank appeared on top of the bleachers rather than the crevasse leading from the center of the structure. This did two things, first, it gave him a good view over the rest of the gymnasium, which showed that even now after all this time the final few students were matriculating their way through the awakening platform and were nearly on their way out.
The second thing bein...
2024-01-07 15:31:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 180
What Goes Into A Name?
“I don’t know, maybe we should call them what they are, Air Head and Rock Head.” I reply, wondering how we even got to this subject in the first place.
I mean I fully understand the concept that Mallory presented, that of giving the super tough guardian dragons a last name, so that they can be even more powerful when the later rounds of...
2024-01-07 02:03:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2
A daze, that was the only way Frank could describe the emotions that came next to him and coated his mind.
He felt lost.
For a moment, he had witnessed everything, he felt the call of something greater than himself. He felt the thrum and pull of power, and then he awoke to find that he would never be able to taste that power again.
Frustration, anger, rage, los...
2024-01-06 16:21:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 34
Communications
(Misha)
Misha could feel it, the indescribable pulse and function that stood out in her mind. As the communications channel was activated, dormant parts of her mind and coding suddenly spun around, going from being in a junk-like dormant state, into a fully activated state.
Tingling.
There was an odd tingling sensation that began ...
2024-01-05 11:57:28 +0000 UTC View Post<<<Author's Note: Don't worry, I don't intend for this to be too much of a thing. I just wanted to get my name out there, and figured the best way was to participate in Royal Road's Community Magazine, for which I needed a new work that will be at least 8K words by the end of January.
2024-01-04 08:53:52 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 179
Fighting Against Clouds
By the time I arrived, I realized a few things. First, I was not the first person here, as Mallory aided by the apparent earth dragon that had been tamed earlier was already here, along with a few hundred undead warriors.
While I was not opposed to using the undead warriors, as they were all higher level than any Midnight Hunter forces, it d...
2024-01-03 12:02:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 33
I Think We Broke Her
(Amoni Jacobs)
It should have come as no surprise that the new girl had her own full size regulation court that she could practice on. That and the car showed Amoni that above anything else, the new girl Misha was spoiled. That is, until she met the grandfather who showed pictures of what the Mustang GT looked like when she first got it, how it ...
2024-01-01 16:41:48 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude X
Biprism Interactive Control Tower I
“Twenty-four hours! That is how long our feed of the golden goose has been down!” Charles Rainquist, CFO for Biprism Interactive screamed at the room filled with developers and not one but three different outlets for the various AI engines that help govern BiPrism.
Of course, the source of the anger was easily identifiable, a...
2023-12-31 20:21:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 178
Let Sleeping Dragons Lie
I am in the process of watering my sixth connection spot, which would attach three more plots of cleared and cultivated lands together.
It is a times like these, that I realize just how great Mallory is at running a guild and how I would not want to do any of these things that she does. Just dealing with logistics and people would be too mu...
2023-12-30 15:30:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 177
The Dependability of Familiars
Well, I guess I should have been a bit more forceful in my decision to dislike the idea of being considered a fairy godmother for the pups. Especially, as I was almost immediately rewarded with the ability to be a fairy godmother in general.
“Maybe.”
Yep, with that one word reply to Kujo, I might have set myself up ...
2023-12-30 02:35:29 +0000 UTC View Post