I wish I could say that I had some time to catch up with my friends, but the days leading up to the Clan War was anything but relaxing. The state of Pandora was in such disrepair since, well, most of the population was kind of dead, that the core members of the Abyss guild were all busy trying to ensure that panic and pandemo...
2024-08-10 07:20:11 +0000 UTC View PostI tried to steer things away from the doom and gloom, maybe there was something we were missing. Surely if the Regressor of all people brought this up in a meeting, he’d have some kind of trick or quark that could be exploited, although given his less than sure posture, even I began to have my doubts.
“Let’s...
2024-08-07 05:49:40 +0000 UTC View PostTISMON NOTES: Hello again! So last chapter should end the 3rd volume before it becomes too bloated (it's gotta be book-sized to publish!), which means that we're on to Volume 4! I'll need to edit the last few chapters a bit first, add a proper epilogue as well, but I thought I'd write down the start of the next Volume fir...
2024-08-06 00:40:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the journey back to Bob’s headquarters and the subsequent train ride back to Site 1102 went in a blur. Q and Stanton left almost immediately after arrival, while Xalla and I stayed with Bob and Molly for a short while longer, but eventually, all of us realized that we’d neglected our duties for too long, and w...
2024-08-04 21:46:53 +0000 UTC View PostXalla decided to also go with the others since she was the one most knowledgeable about the state of affairs in Site 1102 ever since Q’s departure, which just left me with Molly.
Molly chuckled to herself once she was sure that Bob was completely out of earshot before turning her attention back to me. “That man’s ...
2024-08-03 20:24:19 +0000 UTC View PostWho sent me? Well, since my memories with Stanton were infuriating him to no end and little else, I think it would be best to keep my identity a secret for now. Let’s make Q seem like a great guy while I was at it. I was about to answer when I noticed Stanton gesturing for me to stop for a moment. He sat down on the floor a...
2024-08-03 05:04:24 +0000 UTC View Post“Acknowledged, my Host.”
That’s when I felt the change, and there was no other way to describe it than a fundamental change in… everything. My body expanded, slowly at first, but it increased in speed exponentially as if a chain reaction was taking place within myself. Yet that increase in mass had to come from ...
2024-08-02 04:14:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few days went by in a flash of activity… well, for the various media networks at least. I had to pretend to be wounded and on the verge of death while the various surgeons and doctors worked on the bullet wound. Noe kept the perception of my biology as mostly human so that no one would literally lose their minds fr...
2024-07-31 04:47:22 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up the next day feeling refreshed and ready to go. Setting up such a huge media gathering was all handled by my various aids and managers, and they were burdened with the task of making sure everything was good to go by 4 pm sharp. I arrived an hour prior and a huge crowd was already gathered, most were there to see me...
2024-07-29 21:34:29 +0000 UTC View PostI spent the next month doing nothing of note; I went to practice, ate out with buddies, and had a few interviews with the local newspapers and journalists. All in all, I lived my life in the same fashion that Ashwin would have. The people closest to him were worried about the small nuances of his personality that I got wrong ...
2024-07-28 06:46:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey Coach,” I said, “What’s up?”
A gruff voice answered back, “You okay, Ash? You were due for practice half an hour ago, I thought you were stuck in traffic or something, but it sounds like you’ve forgotten. Hey man, if you’re feeling off just let us know, you’ve been working your ass off lately, you...
2024-07-26 09:18:49 +0000 UTC View PostTISMON NOTE: Had to make some major adjustments to the last chapter, so this is not quite a reupload! Thanks!
“You have been sent to an alternate dimension, my Host.”
I blinked a few times, making sure that I heard her right. “That’s it? I mean, I thought it would be a lot worse. Let’s j...
2024-07-24 14:39:46 +0000 UTC View PostMy plan was simple enough, there were clearly dissenters or enemy spies all over this city, what with that last assassination attempt, so all I had to do was find another terrorist and have them “kidnap” me in a moment of weakness. It wasn’t like I was afraid that they’d be able to actually harm me given my half-Xollo...
2024-07-21 00:31:40 +0000 UTC View PostI don’t know what I expected when I entered the audience chamber, but it certainly wasn’t the sight of three tired and haggard-looking old people slumped down on a couch, seemingly in a daze. They barely noticed me when I got in, and one of the various aids lining the large room had to nudge them into action. It was only ...
2024-07-15 14:42:26 +0000 UTC View PostNoe made a mental map of the palace and the surrounding area as I followed Mark to the Council. Thankfully, that meant that I didn’t have to worry about getting lost and looking like an idiot trying to navigate this new environment going forward. It was a good thing that Noe was doing all of the heavy lifting because the ar...
2024-07-12 19:36:15 +0000 UTC View PostI was getting sick and tired of waking up not knowing what was going on. I know that my whole identity, my human one at least, is surrounded around sleeping, but I’m pretty sure that passing out and waking up in unknown situations wasn’t what I had in mind when I started this human project. Or maybe it was; it wasn’t li...
2024-07-06 04:21:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe journey to whatever Capital city the Order gods stationed their base at was uneventful; the only thing that I had to keep track of was the fact that I was healing a little too fast thanks to my Xollon Physiology. I had to have Noe suppress as much of that as she could, which kind of sucked because I would have been up and...
2024-06-25 23:28:34 +0000 UTC View PostIt took me a few minutes to dig our way out of the tunnel, being careful with the Absolute Luck Skill to ensure that my escape didn’t cause the entire tunnel system to cave in. I had worried that the rather loud exit we made would alert someone, but I needn’t have. No one could hear anything over the screams and cacophony...
2024-06-24 03:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate: Exams finish after next week! I'll be free to write full time again then, so thank you for sticking with me during this drought of content!
I shouldn’t have expected otherwise, but since I was tasked to play the role of a disposable, albeit valuable pawn, I wasn’t privy to the next part of Q...
2024-06-21 00:59:51 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate: Hello everyone, I'm sure that you've all noticed the slowdown in uploads lately. My day job (I'm a teacher) has been keeping me busy since the end of the school year is around the corner, so I've been way too overloaded with work so far. Regular releases will continue once the summer starts! Thanks! 2024-06-12 23:48:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Once the dust was finally settled, I could fully appreciate the look of this wicked Avatar thing. It kind of looked like a weird, slightly deformed demon. It had six pairs of wings made of fire with two arms that extended to below its feet, although it had three joints so its arms looked like weird noodles. Compared to its ar...
2024-06-06 13:25:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Shit,” Q muttered in a rare display of frustration, “If Origin’s directly involved after everything you told us, then we might be in for more trouble than we thought. We’re not sure how long we have until the Overseer and his people know of our absence, and even with the time dilation in this dimension, I’d say t...
2024-06-03 20:03:11 +0000 UTC View PostWe peered down from our vantage point on the easternmost tower and saw an entire army clad in gold approach from the horizon. They were marching fast toward our position and deeper into the epicenter of the catastrophe. At this point, the city we were in was completely engulfed in supernatural darkness, although the unrelenti...
2024-05-30 14:25:45 +0000 UTC View Post“Good morning, my Host,” Noe greeted, “I hope that you had a good rest.”
And I woke up again… or maybe it’s more correct to say that I fell asleep again?
“Do not worry about the nature of your existence; even with your full abilities at your disposal, you were unable to completely grasp the dif...
2024-05-28 15:46:28 +0000 UTC View Post“Please take a seat,” Q said to the envoy, “We’ve prepared some snacks and drinks as well. As a gesture of our goodwill, I would like to officially thank you for coming on such short notice. I am sure that your gods have a lot of questions for us, and we would like to take that opportunity to answer them.”
The...
2024-05-24 15:44:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe four of us left the conference room with our individual tasks, although all I had to do was supervise the lunatics. We had decided to use this town hall as our base of operations for the time being, and I had the chance to walk around the place trying to find where those three cult leaders had gone. I found them in the ba...
2024-05-22 13:03:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe four of us walked up to the cultist leaders. Our presence was so insignificant before due to my continual adjustments to the perceptions of the gathered forces that everyone was on immediate alert the second we moved. We tried to approach in as much of a nonthreatening manner as possible, with our hands up and waving slow...
2024-05-20 19:52:21 +0000 UTC View PostWe stepped out of the portal, a familiar feeling now that we’d done it a few times in short order, and saw that Q had dropped us on the outskirts of another city, albeit a smaller one this time. The surrounding landscape wasn’t too different from the place we started our misguided journey at, and I could infer that our ne...
2024-05-17 13:11:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe beast of Calamity flew into the expanding void of space with a new mission in mind, no, a new purpose in life. It had been created as a mere tool by the gods, nothing but a convenient slave that was bound to the whims of the fools that made it. Those creators didn’t care about how the Calamity felt, only that it could d...
2024-05-16 14:11:29 +0000 UTC View PostQ dumped us into a remote island surrounded by nothing but a beautiful ocean. The tropical breeze and calming waves were a nice distraction from the utter chaos that we had just escaped from, and the lazy afternoon sun would have made the scene perfect if not for the giant squirming mass of hair. Attached to it was a Molly wh...
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