Gathering our abandoned suitcases, we hailed two cabs and headed straight for the clan quarter.
I suggested stopping by a café on the way, but Sally immediately shot the idea down.
“You want to insult Aunt Mary?”
Sally alway...
2025-09-16 09:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostI hesitated only briefly before opening my third eye. The world bloomed with magic—colorful sparks pierced the air, threads of various elements stretched from the compartments, and in the hunter standing at the far end of the carriage, a black, ...
2025-09-16 09:04:01 +0000 UTC View PostMy birthday had unexpected consequences—we were all invited to a wedding. Logan didn’t care—what’s another ten guests when you’re already inviting three hundred?
But the thought of babysitting our reckless company didn’t exactly ...
2025-09-16 09:03:02 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up to a scream.
It felt like someone had jammed a needle into my ear.
I tumbled out of bed but sprang to my feet instantly, throwing up a shield from my ring—thankfully, I hadn’t taken it off for the night—and reached for ...
2025-09-16 09:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostLord Loxlin Series:
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Book 2 - Wizard's First Lesson
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I couldn’t see the thinhorn’s smile under his mask, but his eyes were laughing. The look of someone who had everything under control.
“Oh!” he said. “One female did escape, actually. The second team’s playing with her right now....
2025-09-14 23:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostI spent the entire first day diligently shovelling dung, avoiding the urge to activate any drones. For the first hour, I kept glancing around, trying to see if anyone was watching me. A fairly pointless exercise, really, a whole swarm of surveilla...
2025-09-12 23:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes, you need to stop and look at yourself from the outside.
Once again, I caught myself thinking that life was carrying me along with the current. I was flailing, spinning, clinging to the rocks jutting out of the stream, doing everyt...
2025-09-10 23:36:00 +0000 UTC View PostFunny thing, while using Thousand Sparks of Awareness, I never felt any smarter, but once the technique ended, I definitely felt dumber.
Artem, once he pulled himself away from his own ‘breakthrough’, explained that this was normal. He e...
2025-09-09 23:36:00 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Kate had calmed down a little, I offered to pay for the repairs, with great hope that she'd refuse. Thank God she couldn’t see my face through the closed visor, or she might have caught on to my sneaky little plan.
Kate told me to go...
2025-09-07 23:36:00 +0000 UTC View PostTo evaluate my new abilities, I needed a sparring session.
The obvious choice would’ve been Cinar — we’d sparred more than once before, and he would’ve gladly accepted my invitation. The problem was, Cinar was one of those who had a ...
2025-09-05 23:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe medic scanned my head first. He frowned and scanned again, as if something didn’t add up.
“Neural cortex is damaged. Multiple micro-traumas… Care to tell me what happened here?”
“I was practising a movement technique that...
2025-09-03 23:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostThere will be more tournaments (137 chapter+) — and I could use your input!
The first three readers to comment in the #characters-creation channel on my Discord server will be able to name and describe a character, and cho...
2025-09-03 08:47:16 +0000 UTC View PostIt took me over a month. Thirty-two days, to be precise, since the day I acquired Sky in the Fist. I had less than three months left to collect dust in the Air Garden. And throughout that time, I’d been doing nothing but burning incense sticks. ...
2025-09-02 23:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostThere was no essence available for units in the shop, but Novak had no trouble arranging a batch of thirty at cost price. Still, using them in batches for cumulative effect in the Air Garden required paying in points.
And in the halls where ...
2025-08-31 23:36:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as I received the technique, Kiwi said he didn’t like my stats.
“Your Fist dominates too clearly over everything else. You’ll have trouble with sensitivity, which is crucial for dust collection, and with executing the technique...
2025-08-29 23:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostSo, what was on my plate right now: upgrading old techniques, studying new mental ones, and picking an ultimate. The last I’d postponed until I could reassert control over my reactor. My energy expenditure was already too high. Just working with...
2025-08-27 23:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe annual auction had ended. Breakthroughs came in waves.
The total number of breakthroughs reached three hundred out of nearly two and a half thousand first-years. About fifty had already been weeded out for one reason or another. Another ...
2025-08-26 23:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostBao and Denis reacted differently from Marlon. Much closer to how I had expected — formally friendly. The news soured their mood somewhat, but it didn’t shake their determination to reach their goal.
If Marlon was right and they didn’t...
2025-08-24 23:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostI returned to my room with mixed feelings. After the shield experiments, Kate had me test the gap between our levels. She quite literally forced me to eat sand.
My reinforced body allowed her to hold back less. The electric bolts no longer h...
2025-08-22 23:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostI sat in the chamber, unable to make sense of what I felt. The body was mine, and at the same time not. Every breath echoed in my chest not just as air, but as a wave of energy that now resonated in my bones, my muscles, even my brain. As though I...
2025-08-20 23:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostMy breakthrough was to take place in the Hall of Meditation. But not the one I was used to. The Hall of Meditation, like the Halls of Order, Medicine, and Technology, was one of the school’s structural divisions. When a first-year spoke of the H...
2025-08-19 23:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt turned out nothing like I had imagined.
The reactive shield enhanced the striking properties of the Monkey and the Iron Head, but it also had a drawback — a negative effect on the recoil of the technique. After executing it, I would fre...
2025-08-17 23:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostTariq was expelled. Not for using banned substances.
In fact, only two of the ‘zombies’ were found to have illegal substances in their blood — and they weren’t combat stimulants, but mild recreational drugs. Those unlucky ones were e...
2025-08-15 23:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostNight had fallen over Verdis. The sky was strewn with stars, but neither Earth nor any other moon was visible from the window.
For the first time in a long while, I was able to take my usual seat at Novak’s tea table and gaze out at the im...
2025-08-13 23:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostI was standing in the middle of a mess of meat. Literally. Bones, blood, snot, broken teeth.
Some of the bullies were still twitching. One of them was even trying to get up despite a broken leg, a dislocated shoulder, and the fact that I’d...
2025-08-12 23:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostIn the infirmary they kept me for an extra day. Not in the pod, but in a room with an actual bed. I hadn’t even known they had those here.
Not that I spent much time lying on it, because the room also had a treadmill and a multi-purpose ex...
2025-08-10 23:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostWaking up the second time was easier.
And this time, I had underwear on — already a win.
For some reason, that was the first thing I remembered — not the failed tournament, not the demons, not the six days without cultivation.
<... 2025-08-08 23:36:00 +0000 UTC View PostGetting onto the arena without visibly limping was no small task. To move my nearly numb, frozen left leg properly, I had to tense my whole body, and risk another spasm. But I tried. Sweating, clenching my teeth so hard they creaked, I forced myse...
2025-08-06 23:36:00 +0000 UTC View PostA few drops of blood flew from the spike as Сinar’s fist went for another swing. My left hand was still pressed against his chest. I didn’t even realise how I’d activated the Monkey and pushed him away.
The spike had only grazed my ar...
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