“Give me one good reason why I shouldn’t just kill you now and call it a day?”
Maxwell didn’t reply, only begin to pound on Brock’s plated arm with vigour as he was slowly choked ever closer to death. He doubted that the man would have been able to speak even if he wanted to, though it didn’t really matter. It was meant to be a rhetorical question anyway.
Flames of disgu...
2022-01-11 00:09:44 +0000 UTC View PostWe had made a mistake. We were blinded by greed and power, fooled by the false safety of prosperity. Our judgement was clouded and it was truly our ignorance, nothing more, that spelled the ensuing demise of our civilisation. Or maybe, just maybe, it was retribution for our crimes against all of reality. Both of them.
- The Elysian Gospel 2022-01-11 00:07:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Thick tears threatened to fall from the corners of Harry’s eyes as he weaved through the labyrinth of short stalactites and bolted the distance to the outside. Fon lay feeble in his rather muscled arms, her breathing hitched and her violet blood dripping out and onto his skin, the warmth of it almost sickening.
As he ran, he just wanted nothing more than to curl up and sob, to forget ev...
2022-01-11 00:06:31 +0000 UTC View PostBefore him stood a cave mouth, about as wide as a bus and craggy akin to the gaping maws of an ancestral dragon. An icy draft lapped at Brock’s cheeks and limbs as he attempted to peer inside and gaze within its depths, although an unnatural dark obscured everything but the vague outlines of a descending slope and hanging stalactites.
It had taken a whole three days, but the group had f...
2022-01-11 00:02:55 +0000 UTC View PostAdam Seezy eyed the group beside him nervously. He may have come off as confident, but this entire situation was nothing more than a calculated gamble by that of his boss. There was no concrete evidence to his identity other than his obvious resemblance to Jane Carter, who they were already actively monitoring, and he was immensely relieved that they did, in fact, turn out to be related.
...
2022-01-11 00:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe other vehicles had long vacated into the sightless depths of the fog by the time their own had plunged into it. Immediately, the trio found themselves surrounded by an increasingly white obscuration, with each breath becoming a slightly more difficult affair as the thickness of the air mounted.
Maintaining a rightful suspicion as he moped quietly, Brock spread his aura throughout the ...
2022-01-10 23:59:04 +0000 UTC View PostMysterious. Unpredictable. Boundless. It was a fusion of that which was undoubtedly impossible to fuse, two untamed and opposing energies that defied the pre-established laws of reality, yet simultaneously kept those very same laws perfectly in check. They couldn’t understand it then, and even a dozen millennia later, t...
2022-01-10 23:57:59 +0000 UTC View PostBrock zipped back, dodging a clawed strike aimed at disembowelling him and ending the fight prematurely. Onlookers watched the situation unfold with a cruel concoction of barely restrained fear and confusion. Snorting, he grabbed the Skin Walker by its thin wrist during the follow-up attack and yanked hard, his movements aided by his Augment of Skies.
A sickening tear echoed outward, and ...
2022-01-08 02:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostBrock crept past the shabby doorway and surveyed the town laid out before him. Almost instinctively, he let out a whistle. As far as run-down went, he felt this place was the epitome of it. Not even taking the state of the structures into account, the air smelled dead and stale, feeling thick and humid as it slid up his nostrils.
Buildings had crumbled to rubble all around him, l...
2022-01-08 01:57:08 +0000 UTC View PostFon glanced sideways at the teenage boy – Harry, as he had introduced himself – as they walked through the run-down remains of the town. Starving individuals threw wary glares their way, aware of their power and protectively hunching over what little food they had. She could see in their eyes that they were willing to die just to have the luxury of eating tonight.
While she herself wo...
2022-01-08 01:55:22 +0000 UTC View PostNumb sensations. Aches. He felt his Inner Self raw and tender deep within, flinching with each feeble beat of his Ascendancy. Brock groaned through a sudden upsurge of nausea, and with strain, managed to crank open his heavy eyelids, meeting the world waiting beyond.
It took a handful of seconds for him to adjust to the dimly lit interior of his location. Candles were sparsely strewn abou...
2022-01-08 01:54:21 +0000 UTC View PostIn the pursuit of power, some fall to the darkness. Others overcome it, and become that much stronger because of it. Those that don’t do either, are probably dead.
- Motivational poster somewhere in the Multiverse.
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It was when Fon fumbled with her second arrow that she knew the grave mistake they had made.
This had been her life for the months foll...
2022-01-08 01:51:07 +0000 UTC View PostBrock flinched as a hoarse voice grated against his ears. He didn’t know exactly how, but it seemed to embody the word ‘pissed’ perfectly. Whoever was waiting inside was indeed rather annoyed, perhaps due to the fact that her clients were three hours late for their predetermined appointment. Harry ignored it and continued forward into the store.
Shrugging to himself, Brock followed ...
2022-01-08 01:49:51 +0000 UTC View PostHolding an unconscious and bleeding Korean woman over his shoulder, Brock knocked softly on the roller door to Ari’s warehouse, savouring the chilled bite of the midnight breeze. White stars sparkled upon the dark blanket of night in the sky, and he noted that since the System had arrived, the nights seemed to have gotten darker. Although with his enhanced stats, it didn’t really matter. 2022-01-08 01:45:35 +0000 UTC View Post
To Adelaide’s south was its stunning coast. A hotspot of beachgoers and sand enthusiasts alike, the sandy shores were always ready to be enjoyed and appreciated. Even in the dangerous world of post-System earth, it was truly the place to be.
As long as you disregarded the occasional appearance of legged sharks and the roaming tentacles of the family of Krakens laying deep below on the s...
2022-01-08 01:37:20 +0000 UTC View Post“Where is that fucker…”
Furiously rounding a street corner, Brock heaved out an aggrieved sigh as he was met with only more street and no sign of their target. Harry caught up to him soon after, and upon eying the very same thing as Brock, groaned. They had been looking for the asshole that had scammed them for well over ten minutes, mainly following old aura traces, yet he had trul...
2022-01-08 01:36:28 +0000 UTC View PostAnd so they stole back what was rightfully theirs from those who had dared to take it. It was truly a pity that the thieves were smarter than their countless mistakes suggested.
- The Forsaken King: Lost Secrets
**
Adelaide. The cosmopolitan coastal capital of South Australia. Home to outstanding amounts of the arts, museums...
2022-01-08 01:31:38 +0000 UTC View Post“Sir, I think I have something you’d want to see.”
Maxwell Washington glanced over at the aide to his left. The man sported a sleek grey suit, nothing too over the top, yet still enough to draw admiration. His head of dirty blonde hair was combed back, positively slick with hair gel. Adam Seezy, as he had always boasted, was a man who got the job done. Maxwell was proud to have some...
2022-01-08 01:27:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe new weapon James had made was just perfect considering the current handicap of its intended user. It had taken a week or so to truly get the hang of it, but the item was pretty straightforward. The kunai at the bottom was entirely devoted to being a ‘chain’ knife of sorts, able to be loosed at a moments notice following the momentum of his arm and functioning almost identically...
2022-01-08 01:21:57 +0000 UTC View PostIt took around two weeks before Brock was allowed to be discharged from the hospital, though the wait was made manageable by daily visits from both his brother and Harry, the latter having been freed the day after they were both admitted.
Much to the surprise of the medical professionals around him, Brock’s rather high Vitality had made quick work of his injuries, reducing his plethora ...
2022-01-08 01:15:09 +0000 UTC View PostBeep.
Darkness. All-encompassing, all-consuming. It was the walls, and it was the world. Life ceased to be yet had never been more perfect. The air was beyond zero, chilling him down to the deepest molecules of his very bones, invading his pathways and mind, slowly tempting him to let go and become something more.
To bleed is to show weakness. To show weakness is the most intolerable of sin. That has been the way of the Multiverse since time immemorial.
- Unnamed grave.
**
It had been a long while since Brock had been knocked off the roof of his firm by that magpie, but it seemed that two old friends had finally met again. Fate was a funny bitch.
A death...
2022-01-08 01:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post