“Goss, where did I put my good coat?”
“The rat one or the leopard one?”
“The, uh… The leopard one, I think. It’s not in the hoard,” I say, tossing a pair of rat-shoes over my head. I pull out a small nightcap made of drake tongue. What was I even thinking with this…? Slightly disgusted, I put it ...
2024-01-16 14:10:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe large round table finally finds proper usage as a total of nine dragons sit side-by-side around it, filling out its circumference with little room to spare. If my knowledge of dragon politicians isn’t failing me, it would seem that they’re arranged by type, going from one to nine clockwise.
The other people in a...
2024-01-15 12:39:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe day ends, and the next one arrives, as they always do. The monthly conference was a little under two weeks away, meaning that we had plenty of time to just hang around, not doing much of anything. However, that changed following a single, small discussion.
“So, assuming they’re okay with it…”
“Which ...
2024-01-15 12:36:36 +0000 UTC View PostMorning came quickly, though, by the time I was awake, Goss was already up and about, calling me a sleepyhead, a snoozer-loser, a nightcap-haver… Every slur in the book. I would’ve been more upset if he hadn’t been right. Yes, indeed—for once, I was as snug as a bug in a rug.
Being an effective worker to a tee, ...
2024-01-15 12:32:16 +0000 UTC View PostAs it turned out—he had not. Getting him up to speed was easy, though, and by the end of it, he understood quite well that I was very serious. It did take a couple of minutes though, so while I explained lobbying practices and my personal disdain for them, Goss brought us back into Loathe Summit, and then all the way back t...
2024-01-12 10:24:28 +0000 UTC View Post“Goss, where are we going? Please, I really think we should talk about—”
“I told you—I have to show you something.” He flaps his wings harder, the tunnel around us becoming a blur of dark rocks and indiscernible shapes flashing by. My ribs healed a few minutes back, but I still feel like my chest is cracked ...
2024-01-12 10:21:40 +0000 UTC View PostIt doesn’t take long to retell our day’s adventures, and by the end of it, Ymir has decided to join in on it as well.
“So, after all that, now, you suspect you may be one of mine. A suicidalist.”
Goss lifts his head off the seat. “I—I’m not! I was just—”
“We’re considering ...
2024-01-12 10:18:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe tunnels get smoother and smoother, inexplicably becoming broader as we keep going. But we don’t talk. The only sound is the flapping of his wings, and the whistle of his echolocation. Usually, I can tell if a silence is nice or awkward, but right now, I really have no idea. Goss seems nervous, but I can’t tell any mor...
2024-01-12 10:14:12 +0000 UTC View PostWith that done, we head to the ali… alui… aliusists! That is, the guys who blame their becoming dragons on their family, friends, and acquaintances.
They felt pretty promising when Goss described them, but once we showed up to visit, those hopes were dashed. For one, they were all crammed inside this tiny c...
2024-01-10 13:22:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe anger buzzing like a hive full of wasps in the air dissipates.
Goss almost looks despairing. “What’s so important about…? Types is everything! Your type determines why you became a dragon, and what keeps you as a dragon, and what can get you to ascend.” His brow furrows deeply. “Since kidnapping F...
2024-01-10 13:20:21 +0000 UTC View PostI help Fr. Moonlight bring out the skinned creatures for the feast. Alongside my and Goss’ pile of forty rats, there’s also a small boar, a dog, an unskinned gobling, two drakes, a green rabbit, and a pair of worms. All and all, there are nine pieces of meat and forty rats, with the rats making up a solid fifth of the tot...
2024-01-10 13:16:52 +0000 UTC View Post“...These are the fattest rats I’ve ever seen, but I’m not sure if—”
“But they’re smaller than a dog, aren’t they?”
Fr. Moonlight’s face crumples up slightly. “Of course, but that requirement is mainly an upper limit, not…”
“Aw, come on, Father!” Goss mewls, pushing his...
2024-01-08 21:55:46 +0000 UTC View Post“They should be okay with it. I mean, it’s just one teensy human, right? Those grumps in the aliusist party bring skinnies for dinner basically every week, so a single little tallthing shouldn’t be seen as any weird, even if he’s coming willingly. At least, I think so…”
I look over at Fr. M...
2024-01-08 21:53:13 +0000 UTC View PostSo, to summarize, he tried his breath on me a total of six times before we both realized that it wasn’t going to work. My heat protection evolved into heat immunity, my fire protection rose to level 9, and my divinity protection reached level 8. As a matter of fact, in the time it took for us to collectively figure out that...
2024-01-08 21:49:52 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo!! As you might have noticed, currently, and as of starting this, I post the chapter here as I write them, usually in batches of 3-4. What I'm asking is whether or not you guys would prefer a more consistent schedule, more specifically once-a-day? Like this, you'd get 3-4 days in a row with chapters, and if I write more d...
2024-01-02 16:29:15 +0000 UTC View PostI’m listening to the back-and-forth, but more than that, I’m looking down at my hand. At my fingers. My claws might not be able to get through, but I have more weapons than that. Specifically…
<[Touch of Reversed Protection (Lv.2)]
Any [Protection] skill can be used in 2024-01-02 13:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Five seconds pass, and then ten, and then fifteen, and then…
The priest sighs loudly. “If neither of you want to fight, then—”
“I want to fight!” Goss chirps.
“Y—yeah, that’s right!” I say. “We’re totally going to fight. I just… I need to gather myself a little, okay? Dragons are su...
2024-01-02 12:58:02 +0000 UTC View PostAfter almost two weeks of trekking, as I began to scale the correct mountain properly, I noticed that the environment wasn’t becoming colder. It was getting warmer.
My eyes, which had been frozen in a permanent half-blink for several days, suddenly became warm enough to open again fully. I can see! Well, I co...
2024-01-02 12:54:05 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I return to the lobby, I find my eyes hallucinating scales, and I can feel the phantoms of non-existent snakes wrapped around every part of my body. Luckily for me, I have long since figured out how to handle this. Simply put, if you remove the limb or area experiencing phantom sensations, the feeling will typically be g...
2024-01-02 12:48:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy new year, and big THANK YOU to everyone who subbed this past year!!!!!!! The success of this story has given me reason to believe that I may be able to pursue a career in this, and it’s all thanks to each and every one of you!!!
So happy new year everyone, I hope you’ve enjoyed the year that was, and I hop...
2023-12-31 22:42:48 +0000 UTC View Post—Second! Oh, hey, I’m back here.
…Mrm. WHITE. And the poster.
Before I rush right into my newest toy, I take some time to give the lobby a new coat of paint, briefly angsting over the poster, finding my only solace in that, at the very least, I can enjoy the catharsis of ripping it off and eating it...
2023-12-21 14:20:14 +0000 UTC View PostAaaaaaaaaaand… there we go!
The rats look at me disapprovingly, which is really rich, coming from them.
What? Don’t you like the taste of your master’s flesh? Well, I’m sorry, but we’ve been here for almost a month, and I need to wait for a few more hours before I beat this floor. So if...
2023-12-20 09:38:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe silence in the room was deafening, but it was enough to rouse Emil to use one of the few trump cards Kitty had left the Server Alliance. “We have called for his execution as of a year back, and he is currently an outlaw. His actions do not represent the Server Alliance, nor the wishes of all hoeksak, and—...
2023-12-19 17:32:23 +0000 UTC View Post<PrissyKittyPrincess [F23]:
Hey moleman. just beat f22.
u doing good? gg>
The message hung still before Emil’s eyes, the simple words presenting themselves with little ambiguity. The same as it had when he received it almost a month earlier.
He had beaten the twenty-second floor. Emil could rem...
2023-12-19 17:28:39 +0000 UTC View PostAh, the lobby, the wonderful lobby. Eternally imperfect. Well, nothing to do other than—
My eyes get stuck on a pillar. No, not on a pillar. On the thing that’s plastered onto the pillow. As I stare at it in a mixture of horror and awe, a status box appears to explain everything.
<Gift from the
... 2023-12-19 14:36:45 +0000 UTC View PostWe agreed to do it at half past one in the morning. I had wanted to do it later, but Nazzo and Vann ganged up on me, arguing that since they were the ones affected by sleep deprivation, they were the only ones who should have a say in the matter. Foolishly enough, I let them.
So, at a quarter past one, I slipped out of ...
2023-12-18 11:06:40 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s dark now. The sun fell almost an hour ago, and I’m still waiting. It’s been seven and a half hours since the pillaging, and it’s been seven hours since I knocked on Vann’s door. Since then, I’ve been standing here. Waiting. Not patiently, but at the very least without training my resistances. I can’t imagin...
2023-12-18 11:01:12 +0000 UTC View Post(//AN: Misspelled Vann's name as Vet, now fixed. Enjoy!)
The third week came and went with no real development.
…I tried my best, okay? It just… It didn’t go quite as well as I’d hoped, is all. Vann wasn’t too cooperative, and my crewmates were likewise unwilling to really be part of my effort...
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