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V6: Chapter 3

V6: Chapter 3

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Interlude: Celia

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Horns blared a deep and clean noise, and at once the constant noise of horses at a gallop that filled my ears for the last hour ceased..

There they were, in the distance, the largest army of monsters the world had yet seen.

“Tormund, report.” I brought the binoculars I held to my head to look upon the immense mass. There were at least ten thousand monsters present, and they were moving in loose formations and with their own kind. Goblins in light leather armor car...

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V6: Chapter 2

V6: Chapter 2

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“Let me guess, there’s no progress in splitting the Wardens apart.”

“None with the current resources available. No.” Ayah confirmed. “Especially since our people focused on finding the Academy.”

With four Citadels, I had a lot of funds and assets and people at my disposal, but with four Citadels that meant I had four Citadels worth of problems to handle. Getting the population of each region in line, routing dissidents, clearing Ancient Ruins, and setting up defenses against espionage w...

V6: Chapter 1

V6: Chapter 1

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Right.

Time for my best enlightened tyrant impression.

Lights!

Camera!

Action!

The ten-year anniversary of the city’s founding arrived, and a festival was in full swing all around the region of Talon Hills. From the smallest town, all the way to the capital, a great and grand celebration was surging across our land. Our new banners were being presented. Our crow went through several design iterations, but now it was redesigned to better fit our people’s self-image as the good gu...

Apocalypse Reborn: Academy: 6

Apocalypse Reborn: Academy: 6

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The Conquerors took the enforced ceasefire seriously, while the Children of the Elm declared that no one tells them what to do, and picked a fight against the Academy.

The Academy with a Citadel under its belt.

Yeah.

Not very surprised by the headlines on the local news.

“Couldn’t happen to better people.” The Academy had a strict policy against any budding nations on its boarders that couldn’t read the room.  That was to eradicate them from existence, and I h...

Somehow, I’m the Otome Game Villain 19:

Somehow, I’m the Otome Game Villain 19:

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Wordcount: 2500

Commissioned by LordMarksman

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One man with an overpowered Cash Shop item against a whole fleet of the final enemy faction by the end of the game.

If the game developers were decent people, I would lose.

Thankfully, they’re money-hungry hacks who know how hard they’ve made their games, so that they could sell their cash shop items in a full-priced game.

Thank you, hyper-capitalism, for making my new life easier.

“Status...

Apocalypse Reborn: Demon Lord 2

Apocalypse Reborn: Demon Lord 2

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I walked amidst hundreds of dead.

Many of them dead by my hand.

I should’ve felt bad, but most of them would’ve killed me in my sleep given the chance.

Intimidation and tradition only go so far, when literal wealth beyond measure is taken into account.

“Clean this up.” I ordered the nearest Citadel Guardian, and it obeyed. It tapped the floor of the Citadel beneath each corpse and they disappeared to be processed for anything useful and then discarded. Fertilizer...

Gentleman’s Guide to Fantastic Beasts 37

Gentleman’s Guide to Fantastic Beasts 37

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Wordcount: 2500

Commissioned by Sivantic.

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The parasites made a grave mistake.

They overestimated their strength and how much lives were valued by the rulers of this land.

Gale took a seat beside me, as I had left the enclosure for the parasite after having heard enough. Djet’Is stayed to get more of the information that she desired, while I left the matter to them. I had made my journey here with the intention of seeing a pandemic stopped, yet in t...

A Peasant’s Guide To Sorcerery: 17

A Peasant’s Guide To Sorcerery: 17

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Commissioned by Ichypa

Wordcount: 2500

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Interlude: Su

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All my life, I have craved power.

From the moment that I was cast out of the brothel where I was born, because my mother perished…

From the moment that I first felt hunger so deep that even mud looked appetizing...

From the moment that men began to stare at me…

I wanted the power of immortals, and their disciples, so that I could live without hunger and terror.

Yet, ...

V5: Epilogue

V5: Epilogue

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So, a fourth Citadel.

You must be wondering what that gives in terms of tech unlocks and how broken it is.

With a fourth Citadel, the presumption is that every AI faction will be against you and that they’ll be allying with one another. In a few months, they’ll be united and have four Citadels, while their armies are hitting every front that you have. And, mathematically speaking, the crises will begin soon after you get your fourth Citadel. It’s just flat-out impossible to get five Citadels bef...

Scarlet 52

Scarlet 52

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Commissioned by Sivantic

Wordcount: 2500

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“You rely on borrowed power?”

“I’m not a Devil and it works.”

Vali glared at my general direction, while I set my duffel bag filled with various tools around. My Longinus was very versatile in its effects, as long as you were creative yourself. Transfer gave me the ability to impart power into objects or other people. I’ve never done the latter, but the former was how I made my weapons last… or made them that much more effectiv...

V5: Chapter 14

V5: Chapter 14

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Interlude: Riegert

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It was a long time since I was last home, and as I expected, things changed quickly in my absence.

“Feels like we’ve stepped into a different world, but with all the same faces, Captain.” Oswald peered in every direction, as did many of the other many. His mustache quivered and his bushy brows narrowed, while he looked. Some older ladies giggled at the sight of him, and he flushed. “Can’t say it feels bad.”

“Our King has been busy.” The words didn�...

A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: 58

A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: 58

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Wordcount: 2500

Commissioned by Arksoul

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I did my best to avoid Latin America for a good number of reasons.

But, mainly, I didn’t want to deal with the cartels.

They were powerful, violent, and lethal before superhumans came to be, and they only got better at doing what they did when superhumans got introduced into the rest of the world. They used superhumans to bridge the last little gap that they had between having a well-armed priva...

V5: Chapter 13

V5: Chapter 13

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Honestly, I don’t see the appeal of city-simulation games.

Zone this, make public services, set taxes, make ordinances, set up public transport, get a city able to support universities, maintain wonders… and then use the terrain editor to drown everyone in septic waste for the giggles.

May as well just make a sand castle and knock it down after making some fanfiction about it.

Now, I’m not saying that city-simulation games don’t have appeal.

I, personally, don’t see the point o...

A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: 57

A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: 57

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Wordcount: 2500

Commissioned by Arksoul

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“Earlier, you were speaking to Maelstrom regarding your mortality.”

“Yeah? You got something to say about it?”

“I can perform genetic recombination and gene therapy on an industrial scale, as well as create entirely new bodies. If you begin to find issues with your body, come to me, so that they may be solved.”

“Guess you don’t want to lose your ability to send things up into...

V5: Chapter 12

V5: Chapter 12

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Interlude: Khanrow

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As the men enjoyed the comforts and festivities of victory upon their return, I met with Gilbert in a safehouse two towns away.

“How does it feel to be back?” Gilbert wore a new disguise as a stern, older gentleman clad in one of the Academy’s suits. If he didn’t speak to me with his voice, I would’ve wondered if he was right in front of me. “I’ve read your findings. A year being without civilization…”

“I lived for decades without the comforts o...

V5: Chapter 11

V5: Chapter 11

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Interlude: Celia

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The plight of the conquerors reached me, and but a few weeks later, the King of Wisdom unveiled his latest accomplishment.

There it was in bold font across the front of the paper: “Conquerors form Alliance with the King of Wisdom!”

I handed it away to Justinia and shook my head.

“As always, he’s always present when the opportunity arises.” Clad in armor, I stalked forward in the battlefield with my retinue in tow. Our territory in the former lands of ...

V5: Chapter 10

V5: Chapter 10

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Interlude: Conquest

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The creature controlling my father’s body was cruel and malicious.

With a bestial roar, it swung its demonic blade my way. The arm that held it was covered in layered plates the color of dried blood. Blood dripped from innumerable, self-inflicted channels upon its skin. It removed its eyelids, its cheeks, and its nose. Tattered skin and muscle hung like a beard from my father’s face, while the smiling smile of a skull bore down upon me. Above that horrible smile wer...

V5: Chapter 9

V5: Chapter 9

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The best opponent is one that’s been fucked over so hard before the fight that it would take a miracle for them to win.

Sure, if you have the technological, logistical, and economic advantages of a superpower, you can afford to just attack until the enemy dies. That’s a benefit of being the big kid on the block with the best toys. Granted, everyone’s going to come for your ass the moment you show weakness, but if you’re strong enough that’ll just be a good reason for you to fight back with justic...

V5: Chapter 8

V5: Chapter 8

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Interlude: Conquest

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Our home burned to the sound of distant thunder.

The King of Wisdom has shown us his hand.

No.

All this time, he bared the cards face up, as to prevent all other nations from playing against him. Ever since he unveiled his wonderous creation, all scholars and generals of all nations knew that what we now looked upon was possible, yet to look upon it was humbling.

Even if the defenses we set were present, could we have stopped this siege? This endless ti...

A Peasant’s Guide To Sorcerery: 16

A Peasant’s Guide To Sorcerery: 16

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Commissioned by Ichypa

Wordcount: 2500

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Interlude: Yuen

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Zhang’s daughter prepared a whole caravan of gifts for her father, which he happily returned as an investment back to her. She took the gift back with grace and humility, though many of her employees shuddered when she stated that she’d be putting it to very good use. I could only imagine that she was going to use all that gold and silk to dominate the trade markets in the desert.

And, if...

V5: Chapter 7

V5: Chapter 7

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I’ll admit it.

I’m a whore for instant gratification.

If I want something, and I’ve earned it, then I want to get it within a day at most. Less than 12 hours, if possible. Some people say that same-day delivery is a sign that society has gotten depraved, that it can’t be saved, and that there’s no choice but to burn it all down and start from zero. I disagree. If I have the money and the desire, then I should be able to get what I want in the same hour.

Nay.

In the same second t...

Apocalypse Reborn: Demon Lord

Apocalypse Reborn: Demon Lord

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I’ll admit it.

I was pretty stoked to be born as the big bad evil guy of an entire planet.

Not just “a” bad guy.

“The” bad guy.

Not just the big evil asshole that all the normal factions have to beat, but also the supreme, evil individual with so much power that even the factions meant to give everyone else bad ends have to work together to fight you.

Then, of course, I realized that it was my fate that I have to fight literally the entire planet and win, a...

Somehow, I’m the Otome Game Villain 18:

Somehow, I’m the Otome Game Villain 18:

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Wordcount: 2500

Commissioned by LordMarksman

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Shit’s fucked.

“Shit’s fucked.”

“Indeed.”

If not for my status as foreign royalty (practically), and the implicit mission that I’d been given, I’m sure that my head would be on the cutting block for execution. In fact, according to Luxion, Cleare, and Ideal’s little helpers (drones), there was lots of talk about doing that regardless. A certain Marquis, Frappy or something, ...

Apocalypse Reborn: Academy: 5

Apocalypse Reborn: Academy: 5

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The Conquerors had a lot to learn about public infrastructure and how it benefited the military, but I obliged them.

“All of this is overthinking. Put aside your desires to build triumphant messages to the whole continent, and focus on housing your people, caring for them, and getting them fed. Reduce your weaknesses first, then enhance your strengths.”

“The people can endure. They have endured far worse. The establishment of our nation via the creation of a worthy structure wil...

V5: Chapter 6

V5: Chapter 6

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The air lift saved all the women and children in the Citadel. We could’ve taken more elderly, but many of them refused to come aboard. Their reasoning was that their lives were played out and it was better to take others in their stead. Meanwhile, many of the male Conquerors who came along had to be forced to do so, and their shame was palpable. If not for the support of their people, if not for their opportunity to kill the people who wronged them, they would’ve been listed as deaths, too.

Yeah, as us...

Gentleman’s Guide to Fantastic Beasts 36

Gentleman’s Guide to Fantastic Beasts 36

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Wordcount: 2500

Commissioned by Sivantic.

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We entered the underground enclosure where the parasite and its host was kept.

I was surprised by what I found along its walls and floors and ceilings.

I had already seen the magic of these people time and time again. The massive tree that illuminated all was a product of their efforts. Then, there were their many flying ships, upon which they carried out their trade. Lastly, there was their arms and armor te...

Scarlet 51

Scarlet 51

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Commissioned by Sivantic

Wordcount: 2500

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“Hello, Ise-kun~. Would you like dinner, a bath, or me?”

I’ve never appreciated the Japanese language until this moment.

Rias had a big smile on her face, while Asia pouted and clung closer to me, as we entered my home. The scent of beef stew filled the entirety of the house, and Rias was wearing a pink apron and had her hair tied up.

“Everything in that order, please.” I provided my answer and Rias giggled and smiled. The no...

A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: 56

A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: 56

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Wordcount: 2500

Commissioned by Arksoul

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Clancy used the one thing that I couldn’t refuse to keep me around: hospitality.

“Here you go, Egress, try this out!” A little get-together formed topside of the bunker/former missile site. Over the last couple of years, the little underground complex had been upgraded. There were more than a few superhuman scientists here, and they’d expanded it in exchange for room, board, and protection. Clan...

A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: 55

A Perfectly Logical Guide to a Superhuman Apocalypse: 55

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Wordcount: 2500

Commissioned by Arksoul

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“I preferred you depressed and traumatized.”

“Sorry, can’t hear you over my bill counter. What’d you say?” I set up a stall just a few steps away from Walker’s house. Nothing more than a shipping container that I stripped the paint and rust off of, before making a service window and some ventilation in. After that, with a few solar panels, my store was good to go. My shelves were filled wi...