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Aun’Saal Kel’tau stepped off the shuttle behind his more senior Ethereals, just a half-step behind, but that was enough of a show of deference for those who knew what to look out for. 

The Fire caste commandos, the three ethereals employed as their honour guard, were already fanning out around them in a protective circle. Even if all that was worthless, considering there m...

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Mia looked around in a panic, seeing not a single one of her comrades in a coherent state of mind. The ones passed out on the ground or cradling their temples while screaming their lungs out weren’t the problem, oh no, the most problematic ones were like Rex. The huge Lizardman seemed to be locked in a vicious fight with a foe only he could see, stomping and charging back and for...

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Zara still couldn’t believe it. It was impossible, something no Psyker alive today ever even dared to so much as dream of. The reality of that hit her once the stress faded away, leaving her just exhausted and staring up at the ceiling of her personal apartment. 

For the first time in her life, there were no whispers, no voices in her head beside her own, no monsters gnawing at the...

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“And now he is gone! The End!” I said, smiling at my entranced audience. 

Selene was groaning, massaging the bridge of her nose. Val looked mildly affronted, like I had just thrown a bug into his soup, while Zedev gave off no visible reaction, but I could feel him discard an entire mental folder of plans.

The others? Bob was horrified at having had a Primarch on th...

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Mia watched Aiden’s face relax after a few seconds, his agonised visage washed away by relief. He tried to stand, but the mage, who had dripped the potion into his mouth, kept him seated with a firm hand on the man’s shoulder.

“You did enough for now, Aiden,” the man whispered to the pyromaniac, probably not intending for the others to hear. Unfortunately for him, he ...

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‘When the time comes’, indeed. I’ll just have to make sure it stays the fuck away for a decade or two while I gather power. The Emperor returning in all his glory would be pretty useful for giving Chaos a black eye and pushing back their influence.

Though I would go back on my word without a second thought if I felt like whatever fucky sorcery Valdor came up with was a bust. I much ...

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No one paid us any mind; only a few sent some longer glances our way. I changed my hair and eyes, but my face and body were still the same, so it wasn’t unexpected that some looks lingered. I mean, my body was sculpted to perfection. I would have been disappointed if it didn’t earn me glances, even if this one was just a drone replica of my original Avatar, lacking the psychic ompf factor.&...

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Sparkle stalked the high branches of this weird, metallic forest he had found himself in. A Rift. There were stranger places in the Astral Sea, but most of those were far too dangerous for a newborn Sprite to explore, not so these Rifts. His sense of adventure was singing in glee, a part of hi...

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The Lion mulled over the strange woman’s proposal. Give her a chance to prove herself an ally of humanity? To prove that the artefact was best left in her hands? 

Humanity. Not the Imperium of Mankind. He observed, noting the precise wording. Did she know he likewise found the Imperium of today downright abominable and instead focused on protecting humanity as a w...

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“You can kill this clone, if you want?” I said, regrowing the Fulgrim meat puppet to full size as I went back to talking from my illusory self. “I bet it would be therapeutic.”

“Why show me this?” he growled, fingers tightening around his blade, and I could hear he spoke through gritted teeth and clenched jaw. He was restraining his anger, but I could feel that too, like a lea...

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AN:

So, as I've said in a previous note, I'm reducing the number of chapters released. I can't continue at the current pace, writing 4 chapters (10k - 12k words) per week, when combined with my other story. As such, the Monday chapter of Arcane Apocalypse will remain the fixed one, and I will also try to write another one for bonus chapters on Fridays, but idk how well th...

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“I know you are there,” the Lion called out, his helmet slowly panning around as he searched for his invisible foe. He found nothing, but he knew. “I feel your presence, your attention, your feelers poking at my mind. This won’t end well for you.”

That was the interesting part. He could feel that something was prodding at his mind, he could feel someone watchin...

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Mia was getting antsy by the time they closed in on where her team had stopped last time. It took one and a half hours to cross the distance, slowed as they were by the size of the group and...

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AN: Beware the cliff. If you're the sort who hates cliffhangers, I recommend skipping this and the next chapter. Both of them practically wrote themselves that way, I take no accountability!

Sorry, not sorry.

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While Echidna stalked her latest source of headaches as he slaughtered his way through Vallia, another problem was brewing across the stars, a problem that would be...

Arcane Apocalypse ~ 121

AN: My writing speed is still shit. I think I'll switch over to the 1 chapter per week schedule with a possible bonus chapter if I manage to write more than expected in a week or two. 

I'll write a notification like this when I do. 

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“Mom?” Mia asked hesitantly, her gaze flickering up to the canopy. The storm and darkness was there once a second th...

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My plans were made, and everything I had to do in the Vallia system was proceeding smoothly. Only checking up on Vallia itself was left on my to-do list. Still, I didn’t think that would be much of an obstacle at all; I had felt the spirit of the planet during my short, sneaky visit there a few weeks ago, and it wasn’t powerful enough to give me trouble. 

Everything was in order ...

Arcane Apocalypse ~ 120

My writing speed has been absolutely horrendous since the start of the Summer, this 30-35 °C heat is sapping my energy like nothing else. I'm managing for now, but I don't know whether I'll be able to keep up the 2 chapters per week release schedule, especially with me also having to write another 2 chapters per week for my other story over at Scribble Hub. Since that one is closer to reaching...

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I got started on turning my hasty plans and half-formed ideas from the day before into reality the next morning. Why did I wait till the next morning? None of your business.

But if you must know, I was busy celebrating my victory with my lovely girlfriend. 

“How many of you little beauties can I make before it starts causing problems, I wonder?” I mused al...

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Did the heavens truly exist in th...

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I took a delicate sip of the strange, pink tea I’ve been served and couldn’t help but humm in appreciation at the sweet, floral taste that spread through my mouth. It was almost like spring distilled into liquid and poured out into a cup, quite refreshing. 

“You have been hiding much of your strength, it seems,” Aun’Saal said, direct but not accusatory. A mere statement of ...

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I was still going over my haul from the battle while letting the Orks clean up the remaining Imperial holdouts when some of my buoys at the System’s borders, outfitted with gravitational, started going off. It was not the violent gravitational tsunami ships jumping out of the Warp sent, more like steady ripples. 

Not Imperial or Eldar then, which left Tyranids and the Tau as the mo...

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“This is sabotage,” Solomon Tetrarchus murmured grimly, his icy glare aimed at nothing in particular and yet it had the officer who had delivered the latest report freezing in place, the man’s face paling slightly at his commander’s tone. 

The virus-bombs, virus-torpedoes, the cyclonic torpedoes and another half a dozen varieties of exotic weaponry had gone missing in the las...

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A/N: Sorry for the late upload, this chapter fought me valiantly for every word, and I only finished writing it like ten minutes ago. Idk what it is, but this early summer heat is making a mess of my energy and making me lethargic. Pain in my ass.

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Watch-Sergeant Varran moved with stoic efficiency, ejecting a magazine from his bolter rifle and sticking a new one in its place ...

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Colonel Lars Zeigler ra...

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I never felt comfortable giving autonomy to my creations, especially the powerful combat-capable ones … though I suppose the fact that they are 100% organic gives me something of an ultimate backdoor to them, should their autonomy turn them against me. 

I was the natural predator of all things organic and corrupt, after all, though less so in the latter case. It was more like I was...

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Tarn didn’t know what he should have expected. He had lived for a long time, been in more battles than he knew numbers to count them with, and he was quite proud of the fact that very few things could stun him. He had had a Lictor jump him while he was taking a dump, had seen horrors few could even imagine and met both without blinking, merely roaring as he grabbed his axe and jumped into bat...