Princess Lunalah tapped rewind on the arena footage playing across her Qi tablet.
She zoomed in on the segment where the Iron Bull removed his helmet especially.
The screams from the crowd echoed her own sentiments.
A fine specimen indeed.
She watched the fight play out against the earth maste...
2023-07-09 18:08:31 +0000 UTC View PostI’d heard of the auction plenty of times but had never been before.
For one, not just anyone could enter or even participate.
Citizenship was a must, but beyond that you needed a special license available only to artisans or crafters. Even when clients nabbed monster cores with me out in the wild, they would the...
2023-07-06 03:04:40 +0000 UTC View PostIt turned out to be a bigger challenge leaving the arena than it was to get back into it.
Throngs of people mobbed me as soon as I exited the locker room, everyone wanting to shower me with praises and to get a glimpse of the Iron Bull up close and in person. I’d gone from a minor celebrity to a citywide sensation ove...
2023-07-02 12:11:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Holy shit…” I said as I glanced out at the crowd.
Bo Ren was nothing short of a genius.
In three short hours the stadium had gone from 10% capacity to being overcapacity by nearly double. Patrons and commoners flooded the seats with people filling the aisles and walkways, some even sitting on the floor of t...
2023-06-26 01:21:42 +0000 UTC View PostI headed straight for the arena after a quick change of clothes.
Before I left, I promised the people that I would rebuild their homes, starting in the morning, but as of right now, I had to ensure this didn’t happen again. I’d been blindsided by this, looking at the situation from all the wrong angles. I had though...
2023-06-19 13:25:17 +0000 UTC View PostI awoke with a hangover from hell.
And in this case, it might actually be literal.
Remnants from fever dreams filled with demons and monsters evaporated from my mind as my head began to clear. My eyes squinted from the bright lights of the infirmary and I realized I was once again in one of the grossly undersized ...
2023-06-18 15:44:41 +0000 UTC View PostMaster Hei Dong stepped lively through the lower halls of the high court, satchel and key tablet in hand. It was not often he had chance to engage in direct conflict with a rival sect. As an artisan craftsman, his skills were far removed from the courts of combat, but today he would do battle in the courts of law.
The p...
2023-06-14 17:14:25 +0000 UTC View PostI rushed in with abandon, fists flying.
I lacked my sword and axe, but I was far from weaponless. I tapped into the fresh Frenzy streaming from my Flame and cultivated it into solid form. The snake pounced at me lightning fast like a viper and it took all my focus to leap to the side at just the last moment, escaping it...
2023-06-10 18:32:57 +0000 UTC View PostTrue to my word, I was up early the next morning and out into the wild scouting as soon as the Bloodmoon set. It didn’t take me long to track down another giant boar which I quickly killed and slaughtered for the community to enjoy.
By daybreak I had returned to the bunker to find Jim already assembled with the soldie...
2023-06-08 02:55:51 +0000 UTC View PostI didn’t go to Jim’s office right away.
After the newly promoted Sergeant Andrews collected Richards’ body to prepare it for disposal, I hung back with Kelsey to do some preparations of my own. I rooted through the nearby trees for fist-sized rocks and began placing them in a line about three feet back from the ma...
2023-06-04 16:17:29 +0000 UTC View PostI took the lead with Kelsey, staying a good couple hundred feet ahead of Jim and his men. They were still trekking behind us cautiously with their weapons drawn like they were on a night jungle patrol or something.
I couldn’t blame them, though. Stepping outside like this was probably going against every survival inst...
2023-05-29 12:53:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe first part of the Shura went into the details of how to properly kindle someone’s ember into a Flame. I had gotten it mostly right with Kelsey, by evoking [Frenzied Flame] and [Pain and Sorrow], although I did it a bit out of order. It would then be up to the unkindled to overcome their fear of uncertain death to truly ...
2023-05-27 20:36:44 +0000 UTC View PostI spent a few minutes investigating the ape’s body for a core. Sure enough, there was one, but quite small. Certainly not as big as I thought it would be for how strong it was. Perhaps it had been drawing strength from Threja’s sword.
That reminded me of the strange effect the sword had had upon me killing it.
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2023-05-20 19:34:16 +0000 UTC View PostBefore Kelsey could even question what that meant, I charged forward with a savage roar of my own. My Dantian was still near empty, with preciously little Frenzy to spare but I used it to bolster my speed as I swept in to land a [Two Log Chop] on the beast’s sword arm.
It felt like hitting stone, my cursed steel axe b...
2023-05-19 22:46:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning, we were assembled outside the bunker, surveying what was left of the wagon. Jim was there, along with Flores and Harris. Joining them was Sergeant Richards and four of his men who I remembered from my visit before.
Kelsey and Susan were there also, albeit with Susan staying within the safety of the inn...
2023-05-18 01:06:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe aftermath of the battle was a nasty one.
Hacking through a horde of two hundred plus demons was all fun and games until you had to clean up the mess. I took the lead on the job, throwing severed torsos, legs and arms into piles. It was gruesome work, but once I started, Colonel Jim commanded his men to join in.
<... 2023-05-14 17:35:50 +0000 UTC View PostMy vision went in and out as a trio of soldiers manhandled me down several flights of stairs and finally threw me into a cell. I was only vaguely aware that there were other people in there with me until one of them suddenly cried out.
“Kelsey?!”
“Mom!”
Through my hazy vision I saw Susan rushing to e...
2023-05-11 01:04:04 +0000 UTC View PostFor a split second I wondered if I could have possibly gotten lost and found a different bunker, but that was wishful thinking. The place where I had lodged Threja’s sword into the group was now a gaping crater of busted concrete and twisted rebar.
How the hell did they get it out? I thought as I stared at th...
2023-05-07 18:40:13 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up early the next morning with thoughts of competing in the arena still on my mind, but I needed to prioritize the safety of my people in the wild first. By the fading red hue of the Bloodmoon, I mucked about in the empty square of D block, loading a wooden cart with the supplies I had rounded up the day before.
...
2023-05-04 02:23:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe mixing of Zu Tien into the fold went about as well as could be expected.
People were initially shocked, confused and even angry, but Gui Zu, the master bridge-builder, stuck by Zu Tien’s side as he introduced her to people as an ally, reassuring them of Zu Tien’s penance the same way he had with me. Not everyone...
2023-04-29 15:21:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe multicolored hues of neon Qi lightning ran criss-cross above the square of the central market district in the heart of downtown. It was twilight now and the Bloodmoon was on the rise, filling the city with an eerie red glow. Gui Zu walked next to me as we waded through the crowd, his large form now only slightly bigger th...
2023-04-26 16:15:52 +0000 UTC View PostI borrowed some clothes from a couple of the farmers that came to put out the fire. I offered to pay them for the threads, but after me helping them tend to the blaze and knowing who I was, they refused to take a single Wen. Granted the clothes didn’t fit too well either, but it was better than walking around town practical...
2023-04-26 16:14:41 +0000 UTC View PostI left the handler station feeling like a mountain was upon my back.
The day had turned from pretty great to shitty in a matter of minutes and my mind was still reeling from it all.
I need to focus, I told myself. I had stop worrying about what happened and get my head back in the game.
I s...
2023-04-26 16:13:43 +0000 UTC View PostButterflies filled my stomach as I approached the abandoned train station that was now overrun with weeds, vines and decade old trees. Ren and Rho were already there, flanking the cultivator wearing dark robes and a black veil.
Her body stiffened as she caught sight of me and I could sense both anger and desire flare fr...
2023-04-26 16:12:40 +0000 UTC View PostA wave of familiarity and nostalgia hit me as I approached the Eastern Gate of Jurin Province. The wooden lean-to, that was constructed more like a barn with no walls, was already brimming with off-world cultivators eager to get their hands on the exotic advancement components found out in the wild. The familiar white and gre...
2023-04-26 16:11:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe Tarim Wastelands, Li Wan Province, Planet Terra
Princess Lunalah, Two Hundred and Fifty-Seventh heir to the Imperial Yee Dynasty released a tired sigh as the two Gold Bracket cultivators bounced back and forth across the mile- wide battlefield in the height of the noonday sun.
The Tarim wastel...
2023-04-26 16:10:39 +0000 UTC View PostI stared at the Lady Silver Light with utter incomprehension in my mind and uncertainty in my heart.
Here was a woman I’d spent intimate time with.
We’d fought together.
Killed an Awakened Reper Beast together.
And after bearing her soul to me, we had made sweet love together as well.
But now...
2023-04-26 16:07:37 +0000 UTC View PostMaster Hei Dong let out a tired sigh as the fool Lo Feng stormed into the audience chamber of the High Magistrate. The room was relatively quaint and modest for the authority it held. Simple wooden partitions, barely waist-high, divided the room into three separate boxes.
Hei Doing stood within the defender’s box, acc...
2023-04-26 16:06:04 +0000 UTC View PostAs the square got back to normal, Jian Yi and I made our way to the Official Head Quarters of the Terran Sect. Despite the fancy name, it was little more than one of the empty apartments on the bottom floor of the complex, which in itself was the dilapidated remains of a Days Inn hotel. The empty room was converted into an of...
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