PreCursive

Chapter 297 - The Nature of Divinity

“…what?” I asked in complete disbelief. I suppressed a small laugh from escaping me at Shurenga’s ridiculous words. “I’m not killing gods here, Shurenga. Most of the people I’ve stolen Skills from have been regular mortals.”

Wel, I’m not killing gods yet. I hadn’t forgotten Alveron’s request just after the events of Caer Drarrow to slay his grandfather the Mad God, nor had I forgotten said grandfather’s stirring last week.

But my ...

Chapter 296 - Apprehension

“I got Acting from that,” Kazuma said numbly, his hands still shaking even hours after the confrontation with the Kawamaran delegation. I don’t think he even noticed how the trembling was causing his drink to slosh and spill in his cup. “I can’t believe I got a General Talent from that. How did I get a Talent from…that?”

I hid a smirk behind the rim of my smirk, as I hung out with most of my companions after the Kawamaran delegates had left. It wa...

Chapter 295 - Layers Within Layers

AN:

Happy Valentine's Day.

Have some political intrigue. Very romantic, don't ya' know.

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“In fact, I’m goin’ to have to say hells no,” Shacklock continued, almost conversationally so. With every word that came out of the old madman’s mouth, the expressions on the younger Imperials and the two flag bearers' faces darkened. On the other hand, though, the elder Imperial’s face looked to have been ca...

Chapter 294 - Meeting Grounds

Three days later, I stood on familiar ground, surrounded both by familiar and unfamiliar people.

After our little meeting back in the Order encampment where I had wrangled a handful of concessions out of Shacklock, we’d all packed up rapidly. As per my agreement with Shurenga, Sena had stayed behind with I and my party while she rapidly transported herself back to her home volcano in order to make preparations for what I’d asked. The Shurengan that I had rescued back in the bunker h...

Chapter 293 - Deferred Responsibility

Name: Aveline Claire Montblanc

Age: 10 years

Species: Human

That was what Observe read to me when I used the Skill on the little girl as we walked through the busy Solstice’s Flame camp, hand in hand. I had used it for multiple reasons, after my little realization back in the Healer’s tent. One, I wanted to see if Aveline would actually register as having some kind of hidden, early Status in the eyes of ...

Chapter 292 - Something Odd

Well.

That was…a bit suboptimal. If I couldn’t go out to fight, then how was I going to keep growing…?

Is what I would say, if I wasn’t me. I had my Aetherial Mending, after all. With it, I received the full stack of Profession experience just from using it. It was one of its benefits, after all. I think the only reason I hadn’t shut myself into a workroom and crafted myself into an early grave was because I…just kind of didn’t want to? Sure, it would be saf...

Chapter 291 - Flash & Bang

Split second thought from my core was the only reason I even considered what I did next. My inner self frantically pointed out a half-remembered history lesson from my youth, on the effects of particularly intense explosions.

I tensed, and yelled as loudly as I could over the rumblings of the earth, directing my words to my companions who had rubbernecked along with me. “DON’T LOOK AT IT!” I screamed. “TURN AWAY, TURN AWAY!” There was no time for me to see if they wer...

Chapter 290 - From the Light

AN:

Apologies if this one is a little rough. I came down with a cold on Saturday, when I normaly sit down to start writing the week's chapters, and couldn't manage to get any words down. I felt good enough to bang this out on Sunday, though I'm unsure if it went entirely the way I want it to.

Honestly, I was really close to taking a one week break for a hiatus. I haven't done one of those in the nearly 2 years I've been posting now, and I've been thinking about it. But, I got this...

Chapter 289 - Intervention

The questing tentacles of Lucretia’s curse lashed out blindly where I had been standing only moments ago, but I was already gone. I floated in the middle of the mountain cavern outside the bunker, everything for miles illuminated by the floating ball of fire conjured by Sena. Far off into the distance, hanging above the edge of the bunker, I could see the cable that had snapped and caused the entire structure to tilt. The frayed edge of it swung slowly in midair, while the connection point ...

Chapter 288 - Erasure Protocol

I barely had more than a second to gape at the cloud of ash that settled onto the white steel floor of the bunker where the Lich had stood moments ago, before a loud, clear female voice began to echo through the halls. I couldn’t even where it was coming from, as all the light sources around us began to pulse an ominous red.

“ALL HANDS, EVACTUATE,” The robotic female voice droned. “I REPEAT, ALL HANDS, EVACUATE. ERASURE PROTOCOL HAS BEEN ACTIVATED, UNDER AUTHORITY OF…‘DOCTOR...

Chapter 287 - Wyrmfall

I crouched, motionless, along the outer rim of the railing that separated the inner walkway of the Core control room as a game of cat and mouse played out before my eyes. Just ahead of me, I watched as the tiny Sprite of azure flame and crimson thorn, shaped in the image of a tiny fairy, darted here and there before the enormous sphere of clashing Mana and Ki. Every so often, the construct under the control of my Core Ring would stop and perform a mocking gesture of some kind, directed toward...

Chapter 286 - Collision

AN:

You know, something just occurred to me about something you guys might be interested in. Last month my publisher conducted an interview about me and Sins, and included it in an article on their website. Up until this moment, I didn't even think that maybe you guys might be interested in that.

Maybe.

Derp.

Link posted below, if you're at all curious. The section with me is the last one at the bottom of the page.

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Chapter 285 - Core Sector

Travers and I had to walk slowly through the AutoMat infested hallway in order to not alarm or alert the sentry roombas in any way. If we picked up our pace at all, the beeping of their scans as we paced our way down the path would increase, almost as if they were bombs ready to go off at any moment.

Bombs with lasers that would incinerate both myself and the Lich disguised as his long-dead lover.

Because of the slow pace as we maneuvered among the AutoMats, I had plenty of time t...

Chapter 284 - Automatic

The door of Traver’s mysteriously teleporting clinic slid open once again, and this time, the environment on the other side was much, much different. I don’t know what I had been expecting for the area that the power core of this facility resided in. Maybe I had thought it would be even more corroded and miserable than the rest of the bunker combined. My Core, for instance, had thought it might possess more monsters stalking the halls.

But no.

It looked to be the exac...

Chapter 283 - Admittance

“But first,” I said loudly. “We need to find the lost Shurengan down here. None of this is going to matter if we can’t free the last person stuck in their trial.”

Azarus paused, where before he seemed almost amused at the idea of me acting as an assassin once more. “Ah. Tha’s…right.”

Harlow interrupted our sideshow before it could progress. “I do nooot know what a ‘Shurengan’ is, buuut if you refer to the laaast presence withiiin the facili...