Chapter 46: The boy from the fishing village XVI
“Open your giftâ€, Viper said with a smile as he nodded to the small package he had placed on the table. He had been smiling a lot today. Since it was Glittering Wolf's birthday, it felt like none of his troubles could bother him. He wanted to...
Chapter 45: Calling Lookshy
Manovan of the Sea was met by the admired gazes of his people who were out on the square outside the administration building. A few of them had put up tents next to the fountain, afraid of entering any buildings because of yesterday's incident. They had made...
Chapter 44: Founding a city
Manovan woke up shortly after dawn by the comfortable sensation of Chanti's warm breath against his neck. She breathed heavily, still exploring the realms of her dreams. He turned around so his eyes met her sleeping face. She had always been so full of power. She...
Chapter 43: The boy from the fishing village XV
Viper knelt down next to a water barrel outside the hideout. His stomach was aching and he was throwing up his breakfast on the street. It wasn't aching because of a stomach bug. It was aching because of shame. He had shamed himself and he had...
Chapter 42: The God of the City
The crowd followed Manovan into the City of Dreams. They expressed their amazement, their wonder and their fascination for everything around them with wows, round eyes, dropped jaws and extensive body language. Many of them had never left the region surrounding...
Chapter 41: City of Dreams
Chanti Green-Paw looked up on the rising sun. She just felt something strong from her wedding band. It had made a spark of Essence and had her experience the feeling of a comforting Anima in its highest stage. Her husband had just reached that stage. But why?
She...
Chapter 40: The boy from the fishing village XIV
Viper suddenly felt claustrophobic. He couldn't breath. Many eyes were on him, but the sharpest ones were Dawn's. His leader. A Dragon-Blooded. Was she going to kill him? Did he have to kill her? Could he do it? What would happen if he tried and...
Chapter 39: Heroes
They flew for hours. The evening became night and the night welcomed the Unconquered Sun who walked his way across heaven. It hadn't been easy to rest on the back of a haruka at mountain-height in the sky. Manovan had spent the darkest hours of the night in amazement. Even...
Chapter 38: Soaring through the sky
“Why should we care about some random village?†Manovan asked. He looked Cypher up and down with his arms crossed. “We're standing in the world's greatest treasure and you want us to pick up and leave to save some strangers?â€
“I'm sorry, Cypher...
Chapter 37: The boy from the fishing village XIII
Viper woke up next to Glittering Wolf on the morning following the night of the murder. For the first time in a very long time he felt relaxed. He hadn't had any nightmares. Shin Cloud and Marca had died by his razor blade tonight and he felt...
Chapter 36: The screaming box
Manovan and Yuko had found themselves in the backdoor kitchen while Cypher was attending to some “business†outside. The young Solar sat on a marble counter of sorts with his legs crossed and his coral snake twined around his arm, releasing a dose of venom into...
Chapter 35: Manovan of the Sea
“Snap out of it already!†Coral said and snapped his fingers before Cypher's eyes.
The young Twilight had his full focus on the central mind unit which floated in the air before him, surrounded by swirling streams of Essence. The orichalcum synapses were...
I think I used 12-14 legs (with metal hooks for wall climbing) for my corpse centipede mount. I attached the legs to four sewn together torsos, made a scorpid tail of some left-over spines and a head and made two sets of double jointed arms (from four sets of arms) to easily grapple targets and...
Chapter 34: The boy from the fishing village XII
Cinnabar District was bright and lively even after sunset. The market in Cinnabar was not as big as Market Row in Nexus District, that was for sure, but there were other things that attracted the many people who roamed the streets this beautiful...
Chapter 33: The central mind unit
Chanti Green-Paw touched the celestial gate with the palm of her hand. She looked at its golden markings and then investigated the rest of the room with her eyes. Cypher stood by the panel before the two portals but nothing had been activated. Coral stood a...
Chapter 32: Warmth within a frozen heart
Coral Snake woke up early the following day. He had been sleeping well on the divan in the office while Cypher and Yuko slept on the benches in the corridor outside. Cypher had found an old game called The Game of Life the previous evening and they had...
Chapter 31: The boy from the fishing village XI
“I've had my eyes on you for a while, Viperâ€, Dust Spider said as he stood up from his armchair. His cackling voice was as charismatic as shattered glass and sounded just as poetic.
The old man was dressed in rags. He was tall and pale with...
Chapter 30: The armory
They followed the right corridor until they reached a storage room. Racks were filled with weapons and armors. Almost all of them looked like artifacts. There were daiklaves and reinforced buff jackets in jade of all colors. A few orichalcum items, such as a spiked mace...