Illustrators, like authors, were only human—which meant delays were inevitable.
Completing the illustrations for a single volume already took a long time. Add in the possibility of delays, and it wouldn't be surprising if a book scheduled for release next year got pushed back to the year after.
Kotomi Izumi went straight to Mrs. Yuigahama, and the two of them decided to finalize t...
2025-08-16 14:53:24 +0000 UTC View PostVrrrmmm—!
The noise of these unfamiliar new craft immediately drew the attention of everyone around Bridgehead Base's airfield.
In the corridors, footsteps slowed. Workers on the runway also gathered curiously, moving closer, even pressing together for a better look.
"Check out those beasts of steel—so damn beautiful! Woohoo—! I can't wait to kick those blue-ski...
2025-08-16 14:53:23 +0000 UTC View Post"Could this ancient ruin actually be a military base? This clearly looks like a storage hall for robots!"
Staring at the neatly arranged robot army, Mirei Shinohara once again voiced her amazement.
Shiraori nodded in agreement, her beautiful crimson eyes flickering with excitement.
In her past life as a hardcore gamer, Shiraori had always been fascinated by robots and similar ...
2025-08-16 14:53:21 +0000 UTC View Post"!!!"
"???"
Stunned, astonished, bewildered…
People realized that the man before them, in just a few words, had decided the fate of two civilizations.
Like a lofty judge passing sentence.
And the conditions he proposed were, to humanity, nothing short of absurd.
"…."
After a brief silence, what followed was a wave of outrage sweeping across the worl...
2025-08-16 14:53:20 +0000 UTC View Post"So it's that great universe."
Aether's eyes widened, then quickly calmed, though deep within them flickered intense emotions.
Before arriving in Teyvat, he and his sister had already traveled through many worlds and even several great universes. Among them, the strongest was that very universe—the one where the Aeons dwelled.
And now, at last, it was time to annex that univ...
2025-08-16 14:53:19 +0000 UTC View PostHalf an hour later—
Watching yet another captured ninja take poison and die, Ai Tachibana frowned and shook his head at Ranzuki. "They came prepared. It seems there's no way to extract information from them."
Ranzuki rolled her eyes. "Don't you guys use genjutsu when interrogating ninja?"
Taki Tachibana explained, "These shinobi disrupted their own chakra flow with a forbidd...
2025-08-15 15:02:57 +0000 UTC View PostIn an inn within the Valley of Clouds and Lightning—
"Today's the day we agreed to meet with those two big guys, Ai Tachibana and Taki Tachibana. I should be getting word from them by now." Ranzuki couldn't help but find their work efficiency lacking. Back in Satsuki's castle, there was never such a thing as discussing a single matter for several days.
"With Lady Satsuki's wisdom,...
2025-08-15 15:02:56 +0000 UTC View PostImpossible!
Seeing this scene, Taki Tachibana's heart tightened. At the start, their clash could still be considered evenly matched, but in the following exchanges, the opponent had truly used only one hand to repel his elder brother.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he never would have believed it.
Ranzuki herself, however, was unconcerned. Even setting aside her true ...
2025-08-15 15:02:54 +0000 UTC View Post"STOP!!!"
The voice was like thunder from the sky, the force like a dragon bursting from its mountain pass.
Before this sudden, overwhelming storm of lightning, even the imposing presence of Taki Tachibana paled in comparison.
Fortunately, Taki's earlier strike had only been a probing attack—its chakra and force could be reined in. At the last moment, he withdrew his offensi...
2025-08-15 15:02:53 +0000 UTC View PostAtlas – San Bernardino Base, California.
Inside the massive, fortress-like building housing the R&D division.
Clang.
—[403 Exo Research – Surgery in Progress]—
The warning light above the door had been lit for fifteen minutes.
While Vela performed the cybernetic implant surgery for Mitchell, three armed MPs stood guard outside the mechanical ga...
2025-08-15 15:02:51 +0000 UTC View PostIn a certain mountain forest in the far north.
Elias and Sakura were walking forward, the latter like a samurai serving her lord, leading the way and slicing apart every Honkai Beast in sight with Frozen Naraka.
"Sakura, shouldn't it be my turn to take point by now?"
"No need. I haven't expended much energy, and these Honkai Beasts are too weak to warrant your personal effort....
2025-08-15 15:02:49 +0000 UTC View PostTomoka Yuigahama often unintentionally revealed an adorable, almost girlish side, and whenever Kotomi Izumi saw it, her heart would honestly skip a beat.
Mrs. Yuigahama's orange hair was tied into a braid—Kotomi didn't know the exact name for that style, but it gave off a gentle, graceful vibe. She wore a well-fitted nightgown, and the pale skin exposed to the air was like a ripe peach....
2025-08-15 15:02:48 +0000 UTC View PostPandora.
Under the light of the gas giant in the Alpha Centauri system, the lush landscape mirrored Earth's tropical jungles by day, but at night, the ground was bathed in an enchanting blue glow.
The tranquil moonlight shone upon this alien land teeming with life, casting an air of peace.
Over 98% of Pandora still remained covered in its original forest.
Even though out...
2025-08-15 15:02:47 +0000 UTC View Post"Sorry, but we can't accept your invitation. Compared to saving the world, we have something more important to do."
"Of course, after we finish that, we might consider joining you."
Mirei Shinohara didn't make things too absolute—after all, she wasn't sure whether Shiraori, after evolving into a god, could take someone out of this world.
If she could, then all would be perfe...
2025-08-15 15:02:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe Human United Fleet could not comprehend what had just happened.
The space navy was far too reliant on so-called advanced technology.
On every starship's radar display, there was no sign of the massive warship's movement.
Technically, it was invisible to everyone.
Logically, a starship the size of the Moon should have caused obvious disturbances to other planets in th...
2025-08-15 15:02:44 +0000 UTC View PostLumine was overjoyed.
The Master of Law—a rank above even Almighty God.
Even holders of the Pseudo Star Map Creation could only reach Almighty God, their final limit being single-universe level.
But the Master of Law was a truly ultimate existence, transcending the limits of the universe itself. While not on par with the Master of Truth, within the boundless superdimensions ...
2025-08-15 15:02:43 +0000 UTC View PostAt this moment, Ranzuki had already stepped into the Valley of Clouds and Lightning.
It was her first time traveling such a long distance alone.
Since gaining self-awareness, Ranzuki had lived a life of strict seclusion, rarely venturing beyond her quarters. Her only previous journey outside the castle was when Satsuki had taken her to the desert city.
At all other times, Ranz...
2025-08-14 15:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostOnce she had this realization, Satsuki naturally wouldn't let such inspiration slip away.
Under Candle Nine Yin's protection, she sat cross-legged again, preparing to actively absorb the sage land's energy, now branded with the Candle Dragon imprint.
The Tenseigan's insight into energy granted Satsuki a fine perception of the power around her.
These originally pale-blue stream...
2025-08-14 15:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostIn her original plan, she intended to refine the natural energy sealed in her forehead, then fuse it with her Ōtsutsuki chakra to generate new sage chakra.
However, something unexpected occurred in the process.
The vast amount of natural energy she had absorbed from the Tenryū Heart Cave was incompatible with the natural energy of her current location. The two types of energy repe...
2025-08-14 15:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostSeeing this information, Satsuki thought for a moment before calling forth the dormant system in her mind.
The system responded sluggishly, "Host, you rarely take the initiative to contact me. What new question do you have this time?"
"What's the next world?"
One sentence from Satsuki caused the system to crash.
Same formula, same flavor.
After a while, the system ...
2025-08-14 15:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post"I've met Gideon and Mitchell's team."
"The best? Perhaps. But I'm generally skeptical of all ultimate weapon programs and extreme super-soldier projects. Industrialization, mass production, and scalability—that's always been the core of my philosophy. Honestly, I hope they aren't the best—just capable of constantly getting better…"
Tap, tap.
Wearing a custom si...
2025-08-14 15:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post"Now this is rare—why aren't you clinging to Elias today? Elysia, did you finally get dumped?"
"That kind of thing could never happen, not even in a dream, my dear Mobius! There's no way my Elias would ever dump me—impossible, absolutely impossible!"
Elysia waved her hand with full confidence.
But the next second, something seemed to occur to her.
Her expression chan...
2025-08-14 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post"Oh, is that so? Looks like if I want to hang out with Izumi-san on the weekend, I need to make a reservation even earlier," Ruriya Hojo said half-jokingly.
Hearing this, Yui Yuigahama, who was following behind Kotomi Izumi, had a vivid change in expression—like a little dog who'd been lazily enjoying the sun, eyes half-closed, suddenly springing up in alarm, worried someone might steal...
2025-08-14 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post"Pandora… Pandora, signal lock confirmed, database star map comparison… location identified as the southern constellation, Alpha Centauri triple star system. Comparing with the solar system as an exploration expansion reference anchor point… rough estimate: distance is 4.24 light-years."
"This location…"
A blue-skinned humanoid race, nearly three meters tall.
As Selene...
2025-08-14 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post"Uwah, what's Mom doing here?! Did she come all this way just to deal with me, the one that slipped through the cracks?"
"But geez, Mom looks terrifying… If I hadn't followed the Appraisal-based evolution path, would I have ended up like that too?"
"Thank goodness, praise be to Lord Appraisal and the Voice of Heaven! Otherwise, I'd have no face left to meet Eriri!"
Even as s...
2025-08-14 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostIn the following days, Setsuna gave everyone time to familiarize themselves with the situation.
The Heroic Spirits and Spirits were generally uninterested in this kind of hard sci-fi world—their specialty was magic, and fighting space wars with alien fleets on an astronomical scale was hardly their forte.
A few dragon girls simply said, "Call us when it's a magic world," and dove ...
2025-08-14 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAs Athena's words fell, she gently tapped the ground with her star-and-moon staff.
The Pseudo Star Map Creation—Zodiac—instantly unfurled, and the aura of another universe spread throughout Mount Olympus.
The Zodiac represented the paths traced by the sun, moon, and stars across the sky, as observed by humankind. The ancient sages who observed the heavens attributed the movement...
2025-08-14 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAfter her discussion with Candle Nine Yin about the Six Paths Treasured Tools, Satsuki secluded herself in the castle laboratory. She wasn't only reorganizing the future laboratory to be rebuilt at the Ryūmyaku, but also refining her plan for creating the Hyūga clan—laying it out into a workable process.
Regardless, creating a brand-new clan required one thing above all: enough resour...
2025-08-13 16:25:01 +0000 UTC View PostJust after returning, before Satsuki could decide how to arrange Ranzuki, she received a message from Shirakumaru.
She recalled that she had previously assigned him, via the Giant Tenseigan, to infiltrate the Uchiha clan. His mission: to reveal the identities of Indra and Asura to intensify the feud between the two clans, ensuring her plans could proceed.
This time, however, Shiraku...
2025-08-13 16:24:59 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the slash, the entire sage land before Satsuki began to crumble completely. In the area cut by the Earth Wheel Reincarnation Destruction, the very fundamental laws of existence were distorted.
The entire sage land had begun to self-destruct and disintegrate.
"Host, this space is extremely dangerous. I recommend immediate relocation."
In her mind, the system's voice rang ...
2025-08-13 16:24:58 +0000 UTC View Post