Chapter 177
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
City of Rebirth, Outer defensive line
Alexandra winced as the retreating group of tanks vanished. Clearly the freaking Old World constructs had never heard of overkill, as a hundred plasma bombs detonated simultaneously, instantly vaporizing every tank and turning the sandy ground into glass.
The strike crafts powered onwards, their cloud of drones in tow…and Alexandra suddenly realized that the constructs probably had no idea what overkill wa...
2023-09-18 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 176
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Dungeon Factory, Assembly Point Alpha
"We have completed the preparations milady." Said Ella as her spider throne shifted, trying to find a better spot, Jared politely stepping out of the way. Given how crowded the area was, it was a futile endeavor. "All forces are ready to deploy or retreat at a moment's notice."
"Good." Alexandra nodded as she looked at the vast cavern. It could have handily served as a cross section of her entire army, from the old, ...
2023-09-17 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Note : Chapters 176 and 177 have been written and added to the queue !
Chapter 175
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
City of Rebirth
Allya hastily bowed as the figure emerged from the shadow of the ship's armored docking port, and Alexandra had to stop herself from whistling softly. Princess indeed, the dark elf carried herself like she owned the entire tower, and her full suit of plate armor, only missing its helmet, was intricately designed by clearly an exquisite artist…and very clev...
2023-09-16 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Well, I missed one of those for July. Unfortunate, but it happens.
So, what's been going on ? The answer is a fair bit, and not much of it good.
First and foremost, for those who haven't been looking at RR, I have fallen ill. I'm currently in the middle of doing lab tests for stomach pains and, to be candid, expulsing blood through the rear end. Needless to say, being in constant pain has made my writing come to a rather abrupt halt, at least for the time being.
And for these last few weeks I've been fighting my university'...
2023-09-05 01:31:02 +0000 UTC
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Note : Apologies for the late upload, I was working on book 4's edits and completely forgot to set it up in advance.
Chapter 174
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Defensive Line
Alexandra didn't think, she acted. She reached out her arm, and casted her high powered kinetic strike spell at the wall. The masonry exploded outward as she grabbed the baroness and jumped out of the hole.
Thankfully, their respective bodyguards were anything but idiots, and Anders barely even had the time ...
2023-08-13 16:30:28 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 173
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
City of Rebirth
"-My men have filled the holes left by Philia's knights, but we've had to increasingly rely on Crystal's golems." Said Anders, before sighing. "Honestly, I am starting to worry how much we have to depend on her forces."
"The Republic would have crushed us without her. Still can, for that matter." Answered Allya as she leaned back from the table in the command ce...
2023-08-12 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 172
Fallen Province of Irakia, Sagitarius Empire.
Hammer of Eternity, Command Center
All forward units destroyed. Noticeable lack of technology and tactics from the enemy.
The AI revised its estimations. Plenty of mages. Abnormally so. But little to no coordination. Possibly a separate force from the main defenders? Unclear.
Defenses had been reinforced. Cannons, primitive field guns and howitzers. Pathetic, but potentially dangerous given the decay of its combat units. Towers housing...
2023-08-11 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 171
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Dungeon Factory, Workshop
"So, any conclusions?" Asked Alexandra as she entered the workshop, Jared in tow. It was weird seeing the room covered in pictures, but since the guild hadn't allowed them to take samples of the enemy…
Seraph's golems saluted and the Earth-born saluted back.
"Yes milady! I have run a thorough search of my database, and the results are…disturbing, to say the least."
"How so?"
"Those weapons are indeed Sagita...
2023-08-10 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 170
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Dungeon Factory, R&D Facility Delta
"Well, at least we know the teleport redirect works." Said the apparition as her hologram sat down on one of the workshop table, clipping through the clutter on it. Alexandra could feel her disapproval over the deal and the risk taken for someone they, all in all, barely knew, but the Earth-born knew the apparition wouldn't fight her on it eith...
2023-08-09 16:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 169
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Dungeon Factory, R&D Facility Delta
Eismi had done some astoundingly stupid things in her life. Some were because she'd been dragged into her twin's messes, others were because of her own mistakes.
But very, very rarely had she done something so thoroughly stupid as mess up a teleport. A teleport which should have transported her into the dungeon's entrance.
Instead it appeared to have dumped her in the middle of some kind of laboratory. With a...
2023-08-08 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Here's some golem artwork from the incredible Victoria Glazkow ! They are, in order, the musket golem, the Standard Combat Unit, and the Praetorian Guard (Elite variant). I hope you'll like them !
2023-08-08 07:32:58 +0000 UTC
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Note : Chapters 169, 170, 171 and 172 have been written and added to the queue !
Chapter 168
Fallen Province of Irakia, Sagitarius Empire.
Hammer of Eternity, Command Center
Three strikecraft losses. Two damaged. Target shot down. Successful bombardment of hostile fortress. Low tech static defenses, but access to high tech strikecrafts.
Possibly a remnant from an adversary, cut off from the command bunkers and fabricator arrays. Identity irrelevant, they would be exterminated.
<...
2023-08-07 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 167
Elturian Coast, Duchy of Sunrise
City of Sunrise, Ducal Palace
"So, Rebirth is under attack by Old World automata." Said Satina Olyrin, head of the house of Olyrin and by the grace of the Gods duchess of Sunrise. And soon-to-be queen of the Asarian Kingdom. "Fascinating."
"Indeed milady." Said her spymaster. "The town has already taken quite a bit of damage, same for the dungeon, and the worst is still expected to come."
"Good, very good…" The duchess leaned back into her seat. One of he...
2023-07-28 16:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 166
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Dungeon Factory, Command Center
Alexandra sighed as she sat down on her command chair, pinching the bridge of her nose.
This…situation was a headache. A huge fucking headache. There was only one clear reason as to why those Old World weapons were attacking her, and that was Seraph's little distress signal.
Which she hadn't mentioned to Emilia, because she'd been scared of the vampire digging into the facility or questioning Seraph, ...
2023-07-27 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Note : Chapters 166 and 167 have been written and added to the queue ! Apologies for the late upload, I got distracted and forgot to set it up for the usual time.
Chapter 165
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
City of Rebirth
Allya sprinted out of her manor, still sheathing some of her kunais, before dropping to the ground as the strikecraft roared overhead, and the manor's facade exploded in a hail of shards.
"Shit! Milady, are you alright?" Yelled out Valker as he ran out of the de...
2023-07-26 18:09:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 164
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
City of Rebirth
"So?" Asked Allya as Trira stepped into her office, much more rested and feeling almost human again. Her night with Pyn had also helped immensely with her stress.
"So," Answered the assassin sect leader as the door closed and the soundproofing and security enchantments came back online. "I had the results processed and analyzed. Luckily one of my own is capable of doing so. Those are the results."
She set down a holographic projecto...
2023-07-21 16:05:43 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 163
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Hammer of Eternity, Command Center
The artificial construct waited patiently for reports as the strike craft assembled for another attack run, a silent computer core in an empty command center, long empty of any of its human supervisors. It was not intelligent enough to truly know impatience regardless, but it was still programmed to know efficiency. Its foe had proven amazingly resilient, all things considered, and-
Alerts flashed. Automated sy...
2023-07-20 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Note : Chapters 163 and 164 have been written and added to the queue !
Chapter 162
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Dungeon Factory, Third Floor
Allya swore viciously as she leapt back, narrowly avoiding the fanged mouth of one of the cobras, stumbling as she slipped the in the half swamp.
She'd known the third floor would be hell. Before they'd had the advantage of every monster having been carefully studied and documented by adventurers, but now they were practically heading into...
2023-07-19 16:01:48 +0000 UTC
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Note : Edited the chapter to add a section at the end that I had forgotten to implement.
Chapter 161
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Dungeon Factory, Second Floor
Allya sighed as she sat down, before collapsing on her back. She just…stayed there, panting slightly, for several solid seconds. She was far from out of shape, or training, but holy shit she'd forgotten just how draining dungeon delving was. She was too used to assassinations, or being a commander in battle, where ninety-nin...
2023-07-08 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 160
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Dungeon Factory, First Floor
Allya leapt back, before throwing a kunai, nailing the golem right in the center of its forehead, where the processors were, for some ungodly reason.
The automata shivered, and then fell, like a puppet with its strings cut. Which was a rather appropriate metaphor in this case.
She looked around, and saw that the last few golems were also colla...
2023-07-07 16:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Adamari, also called the Shining jewel of the North, was once upon a time the greatest city in the world, and thanks to its extensive mana pools underneath the surface, rumored to have been the result of a partially functional pillar of power, a vast reservoir of wealth and power. It headed a Commonwealth named after it that saw a level of magical knowledge unmatched for millenia afterwards. Even the Orlov Empire was only nearing its accomplishments when the Tesseract Crisis came to be.
That was until a particularly vicious war between...
2023-07-07 15:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Apologies for the late report, but this month...SUCKED wouldn't be a good enough word for it.
In short summary : The AC broke down, AGAIN, requiring repairs, AGAIN. My balcony started literally falling apart and had to be repaired in a hurry. My father got wounded, broke his leg, so I had to take care of him for a few days until he could go back home so my mother could kick his ass hard enough to go see a doctor because he wasn't FUCKING LISTENING TO ME. Then there is my university's administration, which I'm going to gloss over becaus...
2023-07-07 04:07:51 +0000 UTC
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A bit late on the report, and I straight up didn't do one for april. Well, these things happen.
How do I put this succintly...My move was complete and utter hell, and a total clusterfuck from start to finish. And it isn't truly over yet. I've had a ton of issues with my 'brand new' desk, that ended up being a wobbly, overengineered piece of shit that I can't even put screens on without them shaking so hard when I type I started immediately feeling nauseous. That was the primary reason why my pace was killed early on, and why the chapte...
2023-06-07 11:03:54 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 159
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
In flight near the Lost Sands Death Zone
Holy shit holy shit HOLY SHIT. Thought Sylvia as she looked at the sky in horror.
Now she understood why people never came back from this death zone. Why even airships just vanished, never to return.
There was a fucking carrier out there!
There was no other explanation for the multiple strike crafts assembling by squadrons and moving towards her ship. And at least it answere...
2023-06-05 16:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 158
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Dungeon Factory, Communications Room
Alexandra sighed as she looked up from the decrypted paper, gazing at the communication crystal in the middle of the room as she sat on the edge of it, her back to the door.
The UDC's rebels were proving to be a lifeline for her. She simply didn't have any other way to get reliable intelligence about the outside world. Well, she had Allya, but asking questions about, say, the military status of the kingdom and its int...
2023-06-04 16:00:20 +0000 UTC
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Note : Chapters 158 and 159 have been written and added to the queue !
Also...first person to correctly guess what Alexandra's other self is planning to do with all of that, what her real purpose is, gets a cookie. I'm curious if someone can figure it out ^^ .
Chapter 157
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
Dungeon Factory, Workshop
"Every adjudicator is accompanied by inquisitors?" Asked Alexandra as she quickly checked the new shotgun prototype. She might be doing the fourth floor a...
2023-06-03 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 156
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
City of Rebirth
"Shit." Said Allya as she set down the report on her desk. Her office was currently sealed on maximum security, and her guards had strict orders to not let anyone through, regardless of the reason.
"It is only circumstantial evidence." Cautioned Trira.
"Yeah. And normally I'd agree." Allya gestured at the report Trira's men had compiled. "But this is troubling."
The problem in question was that they had indeed fo...
2023-06-02 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 27
Salran Mountains, Starnor Imperial Border Territories
Airah's Cave
"So, this is supposed to generate water?"
"From what I understood?" Airah shrugged, glancing at her AI. "Yeah."
"...How?"
"Magic? We can generate fire out of nowhere with the firebolt. Hell, not just a bolt of thermal energy, actual flames like from a chemical reaction. If nothing else, that should be a hell of a lot weirder than creating matter from energy. I mean, humanity managed to do it before we'd even left Sol, ...
2023-06-01 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 155
Red Sands Desert, Principality of Rebirth
City of Rebirth
"A farm?" Said Allya, surprised.
"Yes milady. The conglomerate had originally shipped in a druid to study the alchemical loot from the dungeon. Once that was done, he started on a project to see if a farm would be viable, and he's apparently concluded that it is, and convinced the merchants to invest in it." Answered Melia. "It is nothing more than a large, glorified greenhouse, made to optimize crop growth, but it is a farm."
"Can ...
2023-05-31 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Note : Chapters 156 and 157 have been written and added to the queue !
Chapter 154
Eris Empire, Capital City of Starcore
Imperial Palace, Empress Sylvis Wing
Cassissa stared at her desk as she tapped its exquisitely carved wooden surface with her pen.
She hadn't been sure whether to believe Sseth or not when he'd told her what had become of Allya. An assassin? Then a baroness, lording over a new dungeon town at the core of a continent-spanning crisis? That seemed too wild to be true.
...
2023-05-30 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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