KnightofTempest

Interlude: The Battle of Seonan City

Seonan City was on fire. At least, parts of it were and that was something that Commodore Shun of the Waegu Pirates had never believed capable of happening. His predecessors, Scorching Goro and Olikpok of the Black Ice had built up the Waegu Archipelago as a minor regional powerhouse and a stronghold of Piracy, capable of fielding armies and fleets of their own. True, the armies and fleets wouldn't be considered more than a couple of regiments and squadrons by any of the Combatants fighting o...

Interlude: Brother Piggsy and Brother Sandy

Zhu Baije was in a bit of a bind. Not a deadly one, he was making headway, but a time-consuming one. Fighting a Hydra wasn't something he'd ever planned on doing, after all, and most of the multi-headed monsters he was familiar with were long dead. Xiangliu, for example, had been slain by Zhurong back in the days of Yu the Great, the first emperor of China, and had never produced a whole species of multi-headed serpents to begin with.

In fact, the only multi-headed opponent he'd ever fo...

Chapter 20

The inside of the Dry Siaka was a low-ceilinged place, the wooden floorboards dotted here and there with low-lying divans and silk cushions surrounding similarly low-lying tables upon which had been placed a variety of Hookahs and Opium Pipes. Nearby, a low bar served opium, hashish, ale, and wine from containers that were kept under guard by a pair of scarred, thugs in leather armor equipped with slashing swords and daggers that hung low on their hips. The darkened interior was lit by the wa...

Chapter 74

I clashed with the Rogue Wushi, Kwai Han at high velocity, both of us launching ourselves at each other even as Kibagami and Yotsuki Shingo moved away to the side, slashing, parrying, and riposting with their Katana as they did so. My own choice of weapon at the moment was the Sea Country-style Tinbe-Rochin, as Kwai Han's Earth Country-style Dao flashed out for my head, I brought my Kappa Shell Tinbe up to block, thrusting with the short, Rochin Blade at the same time. The Dao rebounded off t...

Chapter 77

Mister Big opened the fight, dipping down with his right-hand Escrima stick, swiping underhand at the floor with a rising blow, and pulsing Chi into his weapon. From the tip of his Escrima stick, a blue, crackling, energy wave raced along the floor toward me. It forced me to jump over it as the energy wave instead destroyed a table and chair set behind me with enough voltage to kill an elephant. Unfortunately, as I was airborne, Billy Kane pulsed Chi into his staff, thrusting out at me to sla...

Chapter 3

Lord Yu was ecstatic that I captured Orunmila and frankly, a bit perplexed that I had managed to rout his forces so completely and so swiftly. Almost as soon as Orunmila had been taken to a holding cell to await the negotiations with Olokun, Lord Yu was grilling me about what I did and how I did it. I held nothing back from him, I honestly had no reason to do so, as Yu was not only more reasonable than the majority of Go'auld in the Galaxy but also my Overlord and Sponsor. As I was now, there...

Interlude: Battle of Duskendale Part I

Brienne was nervous, it was completely unlike her, to be sure, but then, the last time she'd fought in a major life-or-death situation she hadn't had so much to lose. Not only was she married to a man who loved her for who she was, not only was she part of the current wealthiest and most powerful House in Westeros, but she was a mother too. Quentyn was still only barely a year old and already both his parents were off to fight in a war that could see them killed. It was a harrowing thought th...

Chapter 16

At ten in the morning on the Sunday of the first week of October, I found myself ushered out onto the school's Quidditch Pitch along with all the boys of my year for the Mandatory School Flying Lesson. The Girls had already had theirs yesterday, and Hermione hadn't stopped complaining about how much broom travel had made her queasy during our Cross-House Study Group Session. She'd even gotten into an argument with Ron Weasley over it, as he'd finally showed up to a session after realizing tha...

Chapter 43

Melissa Steiner was dressed in a white gown with gold accents, tailored to look like part-ball gown and part-military uniform. It was also tailored to show off the great beauty she was reputed to have. Honestly, she was a little young for my tastes. I was twenty-six, I didn't need to be canoodling with a sixteen-year-old and I especially didn't need to be canoodling with the sixteen-year-old Heiress to the whole damned Lyran Commonwealth. I did, however, need to get her approval for my candid...

Chapter 33

I spent most of the next thirty-six hours in my Tower's library looking into whether or not it was possible to build a Star Wars-style Blaster with local, Earth Six-One-Six, Components as part of my contribution of otheruniversal tech for Symkaria. Unfortunately, the damned things were entirely too reliant on Tibanna Gas, which while it wasn't an issue for me, given I could just nip on over to the Star Wars Universe and buy some, that wouldn't be the case for the Symkarians. Fortunately, ther...

Fic Power Rankings

I have decided to establish a power ranking for the various supernatural martial artists, psychics, magic users, and so on in this fic. This applies in generalities, and there is always the potential for outliers to crop up over the course of the story based on various power-ups, transformations, item-based enhancements, and so on. In general, however, these are the rankings. I will list a few examples at each tier to let people know where some well-known characters stand at present, but you ...

Chapter 19

Shi Hou and Evening Rabbit stayed in Tulgadan only for forty-eight hours, as they attempted to get more information about the situation in Tashkek at the same time as they purchased more provisions. The first day was more fruitful than the second, as they found a couple of people to talk to who had dealings with either the Sons of Sextes Jyllis or the Sewer Rats. The information they found on the Sons of Sextes Jyllis came from a dusky-skinned, shawl-clad, Scholar from Sijian named Shani and ...

Chapter 12

The Fight started with Nemesis spouting a buncha flames from her mouth at Jackie. A trio of white-hot balls of fire slew toward Jackie forcing him to dodge away with the Wave Step and Quicksilver Stepping Method boosting his speed. Unfortunately, the fire seemed to be some kinda homing fire, as the fireballs started to follow Jackie around the room. He just barely was able to stay ahead of the flames, ducking, weaving, running, diving, and leaping around the room to keep ahead of the flames.<...

Chapter 20

The Captain-Governor's Mansion of Gimi Port was well fortified. It had its own wall, with a fortified keep, and everything. The gates were twin, solid, doors of lacquered wood, just fire-resistant enough thanks to the lacquer to avoid being burned up by the average Firebender attempting to gain entry onto the grounds. As Bikki approached, he spotted men on the walls, some of the remnants of the Gimi Immortals, standing ready with bows to pepper anyone who approached with arrows. On the ground...

Chapter 2

The ships given to me by Lord Yu as our left wing were a quartet of Ha'taks, the Xiaotian Quan, Tian Gou, Zouyu, and Fenghuang, along with the Al'kesh Gunships Guandao, Nandao, Podao, Liuyedao, Zhanmadao, Dadao, Miaodao, and Niuwedao. We were facing off against Orunmila and his two Ha'taks and five Al'kesh Gunships, led by his flagship, the Ha'tak Opele.

As Olokun and his flagship, Nla Ida took the bulk of his forces agains...

Chapter 73

The entrance that we entered the Otogakure Fortress-Lab through was hidden under a massive Hinoki Cypress that stood over forty meters tall with a trunk over two meters in diameter. The Hinoki stood on a hill in the middle of a clearing, with its massive canopy ensuring that the clearing needed no other trees to blot out the sunlight. Unfortunately, the tree itself wasn't doing so well, as a carpet of scale-like leaves covered the forest floor and what leaves that remained on the tree were br...

Chapter 92

Brownhollow was all things considered, not the hardest fortified town to besiege. Of course, that didn't make it the easiest either, but it was still a lot easier than something like Casterly Rock or the Eyrie would have been. In both of those cases, I would need to resort to tactics different from bombardment followed by assault, as they were built into mountains. I'd had a few tentative ideas in the event it became necessary to besiege either of them, but for now, Brownhollow was the goal.<...

Chapter 15

Over the next few weeks, my routine continued as it generally did. Magnus Gamp ran me through a series of lectures on various potion ingredients and Dark Creatures to finish off my First-Year education in Defense and start the Ingredient Lecture portion of Second-Year Potions, while also teaching me a few second-year practical lessons for Charms, Potions, and Defense, namely, Tarantellagra, Immobulus, the Fire Protection Potion, Strengthening Solution, Homorphus, and Fumos Dua.

Aside fr...

Chapter 76

The Interior of the Golden Dragon was fairly interesting to look at. Black paint on the walls contrasted against the yellow wood floors while red lighting around the place threw interesting shadows against everything. The kicker was the parasols, wood, and paper umbrellas hung upside-down from the ceiling in a unique effect that I thought was neat. Of course, that was just the main dining area. The bar was practically bathed in red light with Chinese lanterns sending crimson light to rebound ...

Chapter 42

I had chosen this trip to be the moment to unveil my Naval Capabilities to my Lyran Allies. I would arrive on board the Mako-class Corvette Hasta which I felt would show the Duke of Apollo a few things, not the least of which was that I was more than capable of holding up my end of any agreements made. After all, despite the fact that a Naval Corvette is the least powerful WarShip there was, having any at all was a big deal. Thus far, the only state that could boast such a thing was ...

Chapter 18

As Shi Hou and Evening Rabbit entered the territory of Tulgadan, the wetlands began tapering off at an even more rapid rate, the ground firming up and leveling off before turning into a regular plain of tall, yellow, steppe grass interspersed with sporadic foliage. To the Southeast, the Tashkek loomed at the edge of the Cursed Lands. Beyond that point was a cracked and blasted desert of wild magic and odd monstrosities, scourged remnants of the lands around Denandsor, a City abandoned after t...

Map for a Potential Chinese Sidequel

Introduction: This is for a future sidequel that takes place in the 300s of the same world as Hoplon. It will largely be self-contained to China and the surrounding areas, save for bits about the Gokturks which will play into the Direct Sequel to Hoplon.

The premise is that several SI's were inserted into the Three Kingdoms Period of China and made it so that the fragmentation continued for several decades more. Now an SI is being tasked to clean up the mess and unify C...

Interlude: Battle of the Noumenia

Oreos was a decent-sized town. Two centuries ago, Athens had sent two thousand colonists to establish a large port on the Island of Euboea which had more than quintupled in size ever since. Oreos had ridden the ever-shifting waves of war adeptly, first revolting against Sparta just before the Spartan defeat at Leuctra had signaled the end of Spartan Dominance in Greece, then allying with Phillip the Second of Macedon before his victory at Chaeronea, before more recently tying their fortunes b...

Chapter 32

Tony, Cap, Myself, and Reed Richards sat around a table in Avengers Mansion. The information we'd been given by General Aram had been brought up via holographic projection on the screen. It had been a full twenty-four hours since we'd returned from Serbia and now it was time to figure out what to do with the information we'd gotten.

Unfortunately, Doctor Strange had bowed out of the discussions. He technically wasn't a member of the current Avengers Roster and apparently had other thing...

Chapter 72

The first sign of trouble came not from us, but from one of the other platoons in Lance Company, a Platoon led by a member of the Kurama Clan named Kurama Heihachiro. Platoon Heihachiro must have stumbled into a trap seal array in the perimeter of the enemy base because there was a massive explosion followed by the crack of displaced air and the surging noise of electricity. Saisu held up a hand to get us to pause as he sent Fang to go check out the scene and report back whatever happened to ...

Announcement

As its a holiday weekend here in the US, things will be slower going this weekend. Unfortunately, that's just how things are.

Apologies for the inconvenience. I'll try to get things out when I can.

Chapter 1

Longinus was a world that had once belonged to a Minor Goa'uld back in the early days of Ra's Reign before Olokun had come to power in his realm. It had been ruled originally by the Goa'uld Dis Pater. Dis Pater had been a member of the same brood as Egeria, and along with Orcus, Janus, Honos, Jugatinus, Bellona, Lupa, and Volturnus formed a loose Pantheon of Goa'uld pretending to be various Gods associated with the Latins and Early Romans. When Egeria raised her banner of revolt, most of thos...

Chapter 75

I wasn't sure what to expect from the Address that Chin Gentsai had given me. Maybe a studio with an apartment above it, something like that. Whatever it was, it certainly hadn't been an Arcade Center. Ground Zero Arcades was a chain operated out of Detroit that franchised Arcades out across the Midwest and Southern United States. This one had a theme similar to a Supernatural Chinese Temple for some reason, complete with Demon Skull Entrance and Six-Armed Temple Statues.

My downloaded...

Chapter 91

Setting up the Blockade of King's Landing was probably the easiest part of the opening phase of the War. With over a thousand ships, it damned well ought to have been. It helped that what few ships the Lannisters had that could challenge the Blockade were on the wrong side of the Continent to do so. By the time my task force sailed for Cracklaw Point, we'd already turned back a number of ships from Myr and Tyrosh full of grain, salted fish, and other produce.

Mind you, those captains we...

Chapter 14

I entered the Old Art Room with a stack of instructional pamphlets I'd had made special from Tomes and Scrolls and delivered via Owl Order. It cost a pretty penny, and I'd had to shell out extra for one of the Second Years, Miles Bletchley, to pick them up from the School Owlery for me, as he'd been heading there anyway to pick up his monthly Seeker Weekly Subscription and I had issues as regards magical creatures.

Still, they would help and their contents were as varied as my offer of ...