Swiss Arms
Chapter 24
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Attacking the men of the Baron of Bardis was an attack upon the Count of Toggenburg, the baron’s direct liege.
I didn’t realize it at the time, but that’s what my actions meant, even if it was in the defense of my personhood, safety, and neighbor. This was especially so because I was technically one of the s...
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2022-05-29 04:21:52 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Midst of Callousness
Chapter 11
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Joseph was a project.
I was honest enough to admit that.
The boy wanted to be more than what he was right now, and I was willing to help him. The cost, however, would be his willingness to endure some of my … less than ethical experimentations. Sorry, not experiments, because that would im...
2022-05-27 05:29:45 +0000 UTC View PostNoblesse Privilege
Chapter 17
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“You just had to stir up a bee’s nest, didn’t you, Geoffrey?”
I laughed, and it was a carefree laugh.
Why would it not be?
Yes, I was meeting with one of the Five Elders. Yes, I knew that they disliked the Nefertari Royalty. Yes, I brought Nico Robin with me, knowing that it wa...
2022-05-26 21:07:43 +0000 UTC View PostFamily Business
Chapte 36
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“I am happy that you two are safe and sound,” I spoke honestly while looking at auntie and brother.
Garen didn’t look as tired as aunt Tianna, but I could see that the recent crisis had troubled him.
“Thank you for your concern,” auntie replied with her usual cold stare, though I could see ...
2022-05-25 23:32:31 +0000 UTC View PostFamily Business
Chapter 35
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Lux bounced her baby boy on her knees, and he cooed and giggled.
She felt her lips tug up into a smile involuntarily.
Today would be the last day that she would be with her son before she went to join her brother. Marris had received an order from the king to help out a previously undermanned and underf...
2022-05-25 23:32:03 +0000 UTC View PostSwiss Arms
Chapter 23
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We made enough mirrors using silver and glass for the first semaphore and also a shit ton of nails for the watchtowers the mirrors would be housed in. As spring washed away to summer, I sent those two out, each with thin paperback instructions on how to use light as a communication system.
I personally went out to...
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An Arcanist in Karakura Town
Chapter 34
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When the European magicians came out of their “private” meeting, I was ready to meet them again.
The two inspectors of the Compact stepped out of the room. The toga-wearing elder...
2022-05-24 19:38:05 +0000 UTC View PostNoblesse Privilege
Chapter 16
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Crocodile grimaced as he dropped himself into the only good thing he managed to save from the Alabasta disaster: his armchair.
His situation wasn’t great. Why would it be? He lost his biggest base of operations, lost all of his good reputations, failed to assassinate a World Noble and dupe it on Alabasta...
2022-05-20 21:06:38 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Midst of Callousness
Chapter 10
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Joseph gulped.
He knew that waiting for a known violent cape outside his girlfriend’s home was not the smartest idea, but after what happened to him in that street with the giant monster, he wasn’t sure if not changing would get the rest of the city to leave him alone.
Besides, ...
2022-05-19 21:50:22 +0000 UTC View PostFamily Business
Chapter 34
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The Harrowing, the nasty business involving the Ruined King that I expected, came faster than I expected it to.
I received the news when I was in Jorasmang City.
“What?” I asked, hissing a little, as I stood up.
“T-The Black Mist!”
It was a legend of a ...
2022-05-18 18:50:06 +0000 UTC View PostFamily Business
Chapter 33
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“What do you think about your brother?”
Garen looked up from where he just put his training sword away.
“Your Grace?” he asked after him.
Jarvan IV waved dismissively at him. “No need to call me that in here. You know I don’t care. I just want to know what you think and feel about your...
2022-05-18 18:49:12 +0000 UTC View PostCelestial Hymn
Chapter 33
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I winced as the Celestial Forge reached out and pulled down two separate motes of power onto my soul.
The first of the two was Pale Ore. It was a physical ore of … not quite mythical properties but certainly magical ones. Any weapon or armor I made from it would possess edge and strength would only be matche...
2022-05-17 17:14:19 +0000 UTC View PostSwiss Arms
Chapter 22
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Deacon Benjamin did as he promised. He asked the people after their welfare, their questions about the faith, and whether they needed help or not. He didn’t ask anything remotely political or speak threateningly.
In fact, he got more questions from the locals about why the bishop started the war.
I helped ...
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Word Play
Chapter 8
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I woke up.
And smiled.
My latest creation stared at me lovingly, standing next to my bed and hovering down with a wide and thin grin, stitched face, and empty eye sockets.
I knew this because I made her. She liked to show her love by watching over those she loved in ...
2022-05-12 19:53:57 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Midst of Callousness
Chapter 9
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“See you later,” his neighbor smiled as she waved goodbye to the white man who stayed the night at her house for the past two days.
“Love you!” he grinned as he left, and she blushed.
Ugh.
Adults.
She sighed with that awfully common lovestruck sigh as she closed the door.<...
2022-05-12 19:52:05 +0000 UTC View PostNoblesse Privilege
Chapter 15
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“Home sweet home!” I called out as I stepped out off of my grand galleon and onto Red Port, the port that directly controlled the flow of legal movement across the Red Line.
This port, controlled by the World Government, was a safe haven from which that the Marines and the World Government met...
2022-05-12 05:31:18 +0000 UTC View PostFamily Business
Chapter 32
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Marjatta rose up from her bed as the morning sunlight speared through the gaps in her bedroom curtain and lit the room up with a beam of sunlight...
2022-05-12 05:30:32 +0000 UTC View PostFamily Business
Chapter 31
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The Freljordians that followed me were, one and all, magicians, shamans, or those who supported their family members who were magical in a land filled with magic haters.
Because while I did manage to make allies with the rich, powerful, and noble (the trifecta of financial, social, and politicial power), the ...
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Celestial Hymn
Chapter 31
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Time passed.
I used the expected court and street intrigues. A “gift” here and a gift there. My men and women, my acolytes, walking out on the streets with guards but there to hand out soup and bread to the poor. The Gold Cloaks tried but failed to muscle in when faced with magi...
2022-05-11 17:18:35 +0000 UTC View PostCelestial Hymn
Chapter 32
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“... Seven be Blessed.”
Robert did not like to call upon the Sevens. He thought that the Faith was “bullshit useless” and merely a decorative tool used by the lords and Faith’s own leadership for-profit and vainglory.
Never let it be said that Robert was stupid or uneducated. His brother simply...
2022-05-11 16:39:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe App
Chapter 4
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The defeat of the Slaughterhouse Nine and their sudden disappearance gave the nation a cause for celebration.
The movers and shakers, however, did not miss how a simple question asked in a simple way led to the Nine’s defeat at Harrington. This wasn’t just the USA, Canada, and Mexico who saw th...
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Greedy Cataloger
Chapter 10
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“Everyone alright?!” I called out as I drew my Shroud back and glanced at the site of the explosion.
The very air had been turned to glass, but what I noticed immediately was the dent in the sphere where I had held up my Shroud.
It t...
2022-05-07 20:53:55 +0000 UTC View PostNoblesse Privilege
Chapter 14
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Eventually, the dream had to end because I was needed back in Mary Geoise.
A man like me did not get to go on vacation for a long time. You think rich and powerful spend ¾ of their time playing? Ha!
… Well, the other World Nobles did, but I didn’t. I had shit to do, and I wasn’t letting go of ...
2022-05-06 22:30:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe Unavowed
Chapter 5
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“I lost.”
Loki winced from where she sat next to Riveria’s bed, but didn’t say anything for a moment.
“W-Well, you couldn’t have expect any of it! You saw what it did to you!”
“I felt it, Loki,” she sighed. “What did he call them?”
“The rest of the children might...
2022-05-05 21:42:17 +0000 UTC View PostIn the Midst of Callousness
Chapter 8 (NSFW)
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She knew that she wasn’t exactly the smartest woman.
If she was, then she wouldn’t have married an asshole and then divorce him later.
It was, however, what exactly happened.
If she was smarter, then she would have gotten more out of the divorce, but she didn’t and only had...
2022-05-05 21:42:00 +0000 UTC View PostFamily Business
Chapter 30
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I did not know that the marquis kept an entire prison population.
Well, a prison of forced laborers from the other side of the border.
Normally, prison wouldn’t be a thing this far out in the hinterlands of Demacia; Demacia didn’t offer anyone that kind of money to run prisons. The closest thing to ...
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