V11: Chapter 8
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Additional 2000 words commissioned by ChaosBrain
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Interlude: Eminent Void Blade: She Who Glides Between Sunbeams
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The King of Wisdom asked, and the dead answered.
For hours and hours, he asked and wrote, while officers came and went. Only the Iterants stayed through the whole ordeal, while he simply sat, gather...
2025-06-30 18:11:12 +0000 UTC View PostApocalypse Reborn: Demon Lord 19
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Interlude: Sirena
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I awakened not beneath stone and the dim glow of crystals, but beneath blue skies surrounded by grass and flowers.
For a moment, I thought that I remained in Paradise.
But the familiar sensation of my form’s hands around my hilt convinced me otherwise.
“Saint of Swords, Sirena, I am the High...
2025-06-29 02:24:13 +0000 UTC View PostApocalypse Reborn: Demon Lord 18
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I had very little need for sleep or rest. If I closed my eyes for five minutes, that was enough for my brain to get the clarity that I needed from a full night with my previous night.
It would’ve been great if I had things to do with all the time that gave me. There were no games to play, no books for fun, or three-hour-long videos on top...
2025-06-27 17:56:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe Northern Noble is a Grinder (Chapter 13).
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Commissioned by Sivantic
Word count: 2500
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I made every effort to avoid Lady Aigen as much as possible.
Not that it was particularly difficult.
My days were spent killing monsters, consuming food, learning about the next set of monsters, and getting what rest I could. Entire swathes of time would pass...
2025-06-25 16:06:08 +0000 UTC View PostV11: Chapter 7
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Interlude: Sirena
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An avalanche to destroy the army, a plague to kill those who survived, and finally the faithful to fall upon that which remains.
The King of Wisdom’s meticulousness was as overwhelming as always.
I glanced at Ilych and found her gaze meeting mine at the same time.
Rita had fired her six poisoned arrows and terr...
2025-06-23 15:07:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe Northern Noble is a Grinder (Chapter 12).
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Commissioned by Sivantic
Word count: 2500
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I had idly considered the possibility that with Chloe our days would be easier.
I was proven wrong the very next day.
Wyverns were faraway cousins of dragons. As far away as an ape was to a human, according to some scholars, and some even said that they were ...
2025-06-22 23:02:20 +0000 UTC View PostAs a Househusband, Fiscal Responsibility is Imperative (2.1)
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Commissioned by Ichypa
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Time is like a gentle current.
Until you try to resist it because you have something important to do, then you realize that it’s a riptide that has you strapped down for the ride.
Right now, I was really feeling that fact.
Engagements typically lasted two to th...
2025-06-19 14:48:01 +0000 UTC View PostMy Weekly Gag Villain Job Is Pretty Fulfilling: Chapter 8
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Commissioned by Arksoul
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Man, it feels really good to see a plan come together.
The IHA and the Sentinels were working together and really showcasing how strong both sides were.
The Sentinels were more than capable of dealing with the regular mobs, but they needed help to deal with the converted...
2025-06-17 14:50:33 +0000 UTC View PostV11: Chapter 6
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Interlude: Rita
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The container for the prototype weapon in my hand was lighter than my bow, yet somehow I felt as though it was slipping from my grasp whenever I looked away from it.
One errant knock against a wall.
A single sudden drop.
One broken vial.
That was all it took.
One vial broken could mean my death, despite...
2025-06-16 15:21:25 +0000 UTC View PostMy Weekly Gag Villain Job Is Pretty Fulfilling: Chapter 7
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Commissioned by Arksoul
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If there’s a special showing with a crossover, it’s usually more than an hour long.
The IHA’s failure to showcase their abilities at the initial fight made it clear that they and the Sentinels needed to work together to defeat the new, combined foe. Saturday morning cart...
2025-06-15 15:44:22 +0000 UTC View PostV11: Chapter 5
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Waiting for things to happen was something that I’ve grown used to.
In-game, after everything’s set up, you hit the next turn button. Things get built, progress is made, and a load of things to do pop up. After you finish off the little bevy of challenges, you remember that you want something to happen, start the process of making it, and then click on t...
2025-06-09 16:17:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe Northern Noble is a Grinder (Chapter 11).
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Commissioned by Sivantic
Word count: 2500
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Lady Aigen sat in a gazebo in a frozen garden but was unperturbed by the frost. Clad in furs and leather strips across her body, she sipped heated tea from a fine porcelain cup without noticing the cold.
If I were a few days younger, I would’ve wondered how.
<... 2025-06-06 21:25:59 +0000 UTC View PostV11: Chapter 4
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Arming, clothing, and feeding 80,000 soldiers from the first round of drafts was a test of my nation’s logistical might.
On paper, we could do it, and I trusted the people who reported the numbers and came up with the plans. I did my best to vet my scholars, planners, and everyone involved in governance, while also policing them with Iterants to verify. Ha...
2025-06-02 03:57:46 +0000 UTC View PostApocalypse Reborn: Demon Lord 17
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I’ll be perfectly honest.
I thought that I’d need to destroy the Wardens, but after seeing what I was able to do with the Guardians, I decided to take a gamble.
I intended to tell their leader the truth about the afterlife, that it was ultimately at risk if we just went there, and bring them into the fold to win.
Every singl...
2025-05-30 16:23:42 +0000 UTC View PostMy Weekly Gag Villain Job Is Pretty Fulfilling: Chapter 6
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Commissioned by Arksoul
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Honestly, I’ve kept my antics clear of Europe for the most part, because they were really into investing in reverse-engineering technology and implementing super-science wherever they could. After the first alien invasion hit them, they really buckled down and threw money, titles,...
2025-05-29 20:58:12 +0000 UTC View PostApocalypse Reborn: Demon Lord 16
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With the acquisition of Guardians of the Moon, I could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Finally, I had the skilled and experienced people that I needed to rule over my holdings.
Better yet, they saw it as me granting them immense favor.
They and everyone else probably thought that I’d want them as elite shocktroopers or somet...
2025-05-28 21:10:22 +0000 UTC View PostV11: Chapter 3
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Some game developers called a few cosmetic and stat changes to a faction DLC and called it a day.
Not my game devs.
A modding kit was one of the first things released with the game. New factions, cheats, and everything can be downloaded to a specific folder in the game, then activated in specific sequences in the game. People can make whole voiced camp...
2025-05-26 16:59:19 +0000 UTC View PostAs a Househusband, Awareness Is Required (1.5)
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Commissioned by Ichypa
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The trip back to the Namgoong Clan was as uneventful as trips in a world full of cultivators and demonic beasts went.
The guards stopped three demonic beast attacks.
A first-rate warrior went off to deal with bandits with a squad of second-rate warriors.
One of the villages we...
2025-05-21 20:48:06 +0000 UTC View PostV11: Chapter 2
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Interlude: Khanrow
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I looked upon the carcass of the creature before me before looking to my adjutant.
“This is a young man of only six years of age?” The Merchants of the Marsh were inconsiderate of the ramifications of rediscovered technologies. Their alchemists and scholars toiled away in hidden lands and unleashed monstrous things upon...
2025-05-19 03:46:50 +0000 UTC View PostMy Weekly Gag Villain Job Is Pretty Fulfilling: Chapter 5
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Commissioned by Arksoul
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After engaging with the Sentinels long enough with the copies of the aliens, I made a quick getaway. While the other heroes involved in the fight took more damage than expected, I made sure that the Sentinels were able to quickly dispatch my forces. The formatting of the crossover e...
2025-05-15 01:54:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe Northern Noble is a Grinder (Chapter 10).
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Commissioned by Sivantic
Word count: 2500
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With all my newfound strength, I believed myself ready for the challenge of slaying ogres.
I found that I was wrong very quickly.
Each Northern Ogre was thrice my height and had limbs thickly knotted with muscle as wide as my whole body. They were covered in ...
2025-05-15 01:42:25 +0000 UTC View PostV11: Chapter 1
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The Goddess of Life’s third perk line was a double-edged sword, primarily because of the fact that it was the best.
Some people in the community said that it’s unbalanced, and plenty of mods make it so that only the faction with the Goddess of Life gets the benefits.
They’re the kind of player that wants multiplayer matches to be restarted when they...
As a Househusband, Awareness Is Required (1.4)
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Personally, I consider every cultivator a psychopath, but it’s not their fault.
They don’t really have a choice in the matter.
Say you’re born into a sect’s main family. The only choice that you have at inheriting your family’s wealth and power is to throw yourself into training, listen to the words of your eld...
2025-05-08 01:55:26 +0000 UTC View PostV10: Epilogue
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Interlude: Celia
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Rumors and observations regarding the Goddess of Death abounded on my desk.
My agents watched her carefully, and even the budding information networks of my subordinates went to learn more of her to curry favor with me.
The information we received was grim.
Her strength and ability were without question. The Warden...
2025-05-05 04:30:49 +0000 UTC View PostGiant Robots? Say no more. I’m in.
Volume 2: Chapter 2
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Word count: 2500
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The most common bug variant is the ‘Ceros.’
Probably short for rhinoceros, since it was kind of like a rhinoceros beetle.
They had strong, ablative shells, limited amounts of fluid that can vaporize, and sectioned-off parts and pieces. They come out by the dozen and be...
2025-05-04 02:09:08 +0000 UTC View PostAs a Househusband, Awareness is Required (1.3)
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Sponsored by Ichypa
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A battle avoided is a battle won.
While saying those words aloud would’ve gotten me killed, it was a paradigm that I subscribed to wholeheartedly. Every time that I did a favor for others that got me out of a beating was a successful mission in my book. Training my ass off so that Father d...
2025-04-30 20:20:31 +0000 UTC View PostApocalypse Reborn: Unique Victory Conditions 2
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Commissioned by Chaosbrain
Word count: 2000
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Fate is Fortune, Fortune is Fate:
Merchants of the Marsh
Prerequisites:
Have 100,000 gold per turn
-Construct the World Wonder: The Oathkeeper
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The grand tower shines...
2025-04-30 20:06:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Northern Noble is a Grinder (Chapter 9).
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Commissioned by Sivantic
Word count: 2500
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After just a few days of wearing only armor and fighting against innumerable monsters, I found formalwear to be an unfamiliar luxury. The softness of the fabrics against my skin, the assured beauty provided by the corset, and the secrecy allowed by makeup allowed me to ga...
2025-04-28 16:02:06 +0000 UTC View PostV10: Chapter 14
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Another Council of Kings to address the Demonic threat sounded good on paper, but from my experience in-game and in reality, I knew that it was just going to be a waste of time.
Council of Kings was automatic and didn’t take time when you played in the game. They start happening every couple of turns, and everyone can work together on a countermeasure for...
2025-04-28 14:54:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe Northern Noble is a Grinder (Chapter 8).
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Commissioned by Sivantic
Word count: 2500
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One of my earliest lessons in magic was to know how to discern reality from fantasy. When skilled enough, illusionists can tamper with one’s senses; it was imperative to start training to defend against such things from an early age. Lacking strength in combat can be ov...
2025-04-26 22:11:40 +0000 UTC View Post