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Igneel released a roar as we flew around the island, banking left and beginning our arc. Through his eyes, I could see those on the ground snap their heads upwards, looking at me as we began to reduce our altitude. We moved to land at the watchtower instead of at the mine so I could get a better idea of the scape of things right from the beginning.
“Welcome to Crete, my Lord...
2025-10-29 01:21:18 +0000 UTC View PostI took a bite of the cake, barely able to stop myself from moaning as the cake seemed to melt into my mouth. I had never had something so delicious.
“Yeah, everyone has that reaction the first time they taste Perenelle’s baking. She can’t cook for the life of her but damn it, my wife can bake better than anyone out there” Nicholas said, whispering the sentence into my ear.
“Perenelle spent all yesterday baking the cake. Nicholas and I have been decorating the place all morning, Harry” Sirius said, adding his own two knuts before plopping me down on the throne.
“Happy Birthday to you…” All three of them sang in unison, each one managing to get the key wrong in their own way— giving me fond flashbacks to the Hogwarts anthem where everyone would t...
2025-10-27 20:45:20 +0000 UTC View Post—
“What do you have for me now, Porvella?” I asked, stepping into the warehouse set aside for cement manufacturing.
“No good news, my lord. Production continues in line with expectations, but the limestone from the Crete mine is beginning to dry up.” She said.
“And why did no one bring this to my attention?” I asked, feeling my irritation begin to mount.
“Ceremonial fan? You held it and you don’t realise the value of what you held?” His benefactor asked, the old man’s form now stepping into the light.
“Yeah, can you just get to the point?”
“I suppose now that you have completed your part of the bargain, you can be let into the secret. This, my foolish boy, is one of the treasured tools of the Sage of Six Paths himsel...
2025-10-27 20:21:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you scared nephew?” He asked, already saddling his horse. I shrugged. His funeral then.
A few minutes later, we were thundering at each other from opposite ends of the field, and seconds after that, he was on the floor. He had missed with his thrust entirely, and mine had got him straight in the breastplate. He rolled on the ground with the impact, managing to make out to his f...
2025-10-27 09:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostI stayed there for close to ten minutes before I decoded to seek out the Alchemist myself. Was I being tiny bit impatient? Probably. 10 minutes late wasn’t that late in the grand scheme of things, but when you considered the added context that he was almost never late in all th time that were had been training together, that ten minute delay suddenly started to feel a whole lot more substanti...
2025-10-27 07:42:29 +0000 UTC View Post“Did you get it?” His benefactor asked as he walked into the cave.
“I still don’t see. Why we have to keep meeting in caves. You have the gold to pay me. Suely you fouled find something better than…this” He said, gesturing to their surroundings. He did not bother looking around again. He had already scanned it upon entry. It was just like every other cave he and his benefacto...
2025-10-26 19:58:45 +0000 UTC View Post“Arghhh” I screamed as I felt the wood of his lance shatter against my shield as mine failed to make contact. I kept riding, turning at the last moment to see that my opponent had done the same.
I gestured to the boy who ad taken the role of page for me, and accepted another of the special lances. “Hya” I roared, spurring my horse into motion. Right as we were about to clash, I p...
2025-10-26 19:33:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe day the seventh month died began like any other. I woke up and stretched, preparing myself to head out to begin the day’s first duelling session. After weeks of training— more like months with all the time that we had passed in the time turner, I’d managed to get Nicholas to begin moving. But if I had thought that getting him to move would make things easier from me, then I was far fr...
2025-10-26 19:32:42 +0000 UTC View Post“Okay, so what are the final numbers?” I asked the gathered room shortly having woken up from my forced nap. Turns out Kurama’s chakra could place a strain on my body if I used too much of it without ny own chakra to balance it out. I knew my compatibility with the nine tails was not as goods as Kushina’s or Mito’s even had been, but this was unexpected to say the least.
“Six...
2025-10-26 19:21:30 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up in the morning, chugged down the blue potion, ignoring the fact that it tasted like raw eggs and seemed to fight going down my throat for all its life. And I felt myself sharpen instantly. The normal haze that came from just having woken up disappeared almost instantly. It was like I had taken two shots of extra-strength espresso back to back. Cleaning and dressing with a single wave ...
2025-10-26 19:18:18 +0000 UTC View PostMID 110 AC
“Now how many panes did you say you wanted?” I asked the Braavosi representative as we looked down at the massive storage building I’d made for the glass we were producing. The alliance with Yronwood and The Tor had seen us receiving even better sand, and thanks to the optimizations we’d already implemented for using less than perfect inputs, we were able to scale produ...
2025-10-26 19:17:01 +0000 UTC View PostSo that is what I did. I connected the dots and figured it out. It took looking at the whole situation twice and then looking with my byakugan to see the way the seal interacted with my chakra to figure it out.
“Antibodies” I said in realization.
“Exactly. Remember that your earlier project for turning things to sludge and dissolving them?” She asked.
“Yeah, that ...
2025-10-26 19:15:54 +0000 UTC View Post“Fair enough” I said, not bothering to argue. King-consort title or not, there was just no world where I wouldn’t end up being the one in charge. Whether I had to work against Rhaenyra to get it or not, I just had too much ambition in me to be satisfied as a showpiece adorning Rhaenyra’s hand. And then there was the truth of how Westeros worked. The Lords would turn to me to lead them r...
2025-10-26 09:54:11 +0000 UTC View Post“What?” I asked when the laughter continued, getting more and more hysterical with no sign of stopping anytime soon.
“Nicholas?” I called when he still hadn’t stopped.
“I can’t believe those are still around. Perenelle is going to have a fit when she finds out. She thinks she managed to find all of them”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, think about it...
2025-10-26 09:48:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Fine fine, Grandmother. I want to make a self-replicating matrix.”
“In what way?” She asked, appearance almost changing as her eyes sharpened and she began to hang on to my every word. She was in seal mistress mode now. The switch up used to throw me off something fierce when I was younger. Now I just appreciated how she could lock away that critical part of her mind until she ne...
2025-10-25 20:38:02 +0000 UTC View Post“So what is it? Lay it all on me” I said, missing the warmth of her body as she took a step back and reached into the satchel she carried on her shoulders. I’d made small messenger bags— more like had them made by a leather worker from Tyrosh so we could carry around some things while we flew our dragons. Laena had taken to wearing hers basically all the time.
I accepted the scro...
2025-10-25 20:35:44 +0000 UTC View Post“Easily. Input doesn’t mean subject. You seem to be getting them confused. While there is some overlap, they are far from one and the same. The input in a transmutation is in most cases, more than just the subject of the transmutation. In fact you can have a transmutation where the subject of the transmutation does not even form one of its inputs. In those cases, things end up being a bit m...
2025-10-25 20:33:13 +0000 UTC View Post“No one. I repeat, no one. Is ever going to call the city Bloodcity when a nice name like Bloodport is just right there for the taking.” She said, pitching her own name.
“Bloodcity is a much better name than Bloodport, can we be serious for a moment” I said.
“Not even close to being true, but that’s besides the point. You can’t rebuild the city”
“Watch me...
2025-10-25 15:06:25 +0000 UTC View Post“Okay so our first lesson is the mot important part of alchemy. Equivalent exchange” He said.
“I know that one, we can skip it” I said.
“You do, do you? Tell me what you know then” Nicholas said, making a come hither gesture. I nodded, and deciding where to start, began to tell him what I’d studied on the subject already.
“Alchemy operates on a balance of g...
2025-10-25 13:41:42 +0000 UTC View Post“Yes Hokage-sama” Shen said, even if I could tell that there was more she had to say. I nodded. I would look into other at some point in time, but not now.
“Dismissed, Shikahime” I said, and with a body flicker, she was gone. It was just Uzume and I now.
“I didn’t expect you to be so harsh with her” Uzume said.
“I’m more than capable of tough love when it ...
2025-10-25 11:48:31 +0000 UTC View Post“Now that that is concluded, we can move on to the next subject matter— revenge” I said.
“Revenge?” Toshiro echoed the word.
“Indeed. Suna might not have ordered Chiyo to do this, but they harbored her. They platformed her and allied with her. Suna must suffer for this to set an example for all the other villages. If you attack Konoha then it must be met with equal or ...
2025-10-24 17:00:36 +0000 UTC View PostI snuffed out the fiendfyre with an exhale before taking a step backwards. The bees followed, and I managed to almost nail one with a blasting curse. I hissed in frustration when the curse missed— just barely and then there was nothing I could do. My fingers froze around my wand, my legs did the same. I couldn’t move anymore.
“That’s enough poison in you to put down a nundu” Ni...
2025-10-24 16:56:35 +0000 UTC View Post“No no, my lord. No need to apologise to this. This one is sorry if this one has displeased, my lord. This one—“
“Enough, Rhaenos. I have already said that you have done good jib and haven’t displeased me in any way.” I said, cutting him off.
And before he could return top ranting or whatever, I changed the subject.
“When can the shipyard be expected to produce ...
2025-10-24 16:55:06 +0000 UTC View Post“And they still refuse to enter into any meaningful dialogue?” I asked, even if I knew what the answer was already.
“Their message remains the same— leave the Stepstones”
“Lovely” I said sarcastically, turning away.
“I’d love to see them say that when we burn that fleet of theirs— or when we burn them in their manses” Laena said. I shook my head. 2025-10-24 15:19:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I took my dueling stance, expecting Nicholas to say something, anything to begin the duel. Instead, he remained there, not moving an inch. Almost like he was meditating or something. Only when heard a rustling behind me did I realise that we had begun. I jumped to the side, rolling along the sand and jumping back to my feet a second later. A massive crab of all things had aimed its pincers at m...
2025-10-24 06:09:01 +0000 UTC View Post“And we know for sure that that was what she used for the civilian areas?”
“Yes.”
“The question then becomes how. Sure, our security was at less than full strength, but we still have measures to prevent shinobi gaining entry through that entrance, don’t we?”
“We have suspicions as to how she managed it. We think she used one of those human puppets of hers. Th...
2025-10-24 05:27:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Okay, so what are the final numbers?” I asked the gathered room shortly having woken up from my forced nap. Turns out Kurama’s chakra could place a strain on my body if I used too much of it without ny own chakra to balance it out. I knew my compatibility with the nine tails was not as goods as Kushina’s or Mito’s even had been, but this was unexpected to say the least.
“Six...
2025-10-23 09:28:52 +0000 UTC View PostMID 110 AC
“Now how many panes did you say you wanted?” I asked the Bravosi representative as we looked down at the massive storage building I’d made for the glass we were producing. The alliance with Yronwood and The Tor had seen us receiving even better sand and thanks to the optimizations we’d already implemented for using less than perfect inputs, we were able to scale product...
2025-10-23 08:30:33 +0000 UTC View Post