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Arcane: TTB: Ch. 160

"Tax collection! Open up!"

The knock echoed through the narrow street in Piltover's merchant district. A local man stood at the front of the group, flanked by four Noxian soldiers in full armor. The locals knew his face, Marcus Wrent, a mid-level clerk who'd worked in the commercial licensing office for years before apparently switching careers.

The homeowner opened the door without suspicion. Piltover's public safety had always been excellent, and seeing a familiar face made it s...

Arcane: TTB: Ch. 159

Emystan walked into Piltover's council chamber. Her left hand rested on the pommel of her runic sword. Behind her came a squad of her personal guard, all wearing full plate armor. Under normal Noxian protocol, a commander who surrendered lost the automatic loyalty of her troops. There'd be challenges, power struggles, maybe someone trying to pull a Darius and claim leadership through force. But Emystan's warband was different. These were her family's soldiers, sworn to House Emystan itself ra...

MPCW Ch. 30

Early the next morning, Qingxue dragged Alexei out of bed while the sun was still barely cresting the horizon.

"Do we have to do this now?" he groaned, stumbling after her as she led him across the courtyard. "It's not even properly light out yet."

"Yan is an early riser," Qingxue said. "And you promised her fruits when the tree bore its first harvest. We should deliver them before she starts her daily work."

Alexei carried a cloth sack containing thirteen Brightglow Fruits,...

MPCW Ch. 29

Around noon, Alexei pulled a grilled fish from his inventory, ate it to top off his hunger bar, and washed it down with some mushroom stew.

Lunch: accomplished.

The weird thing about Minecraft hunger mechanics was how slowly the bar depleted when you weren't doing anything strenuous. His last real meal had been two days ago.

"Immortal cultivation," he muttered to himself, watching his bobber float on the water's surface. "So much more boring than the novels made it sound." 2026-01-21 00:51:49 +0000 UTC View Post

NYP Ch. 112

The next morning, the area in front of Konoha's gates was packed with activity. Nearly a hundred ninjas had assembled for deployment. Some stood checking their gear one final time, examining weapons and supply pouches. Others talked quietly with squadmates, going over formations or just making conversation to settle pre-mission nerves. And scattered throughout the crowd were families, parents and spouses and children holding onto their ninjas for as long as possible before they had to leave.<...

OP: AMP Ch. 221

Two veteran pirates, both with bounties exceeding one hundred million berries, had stepped forward to defend Shiki's throne room. And just like that, both had been stopped cold. The three remaining defenders wore expressions that could only be described as mortified.

The first guy to go down had an Ancient Zoan Devil Fruit backing him up. The second was a renowned swordsman from the West Blue with a reputation that preceded him across multiple seas. Both were legitimate powerhouses who'...

MCIM Ch. 150

"Skye, want to drink a bit more?"

After multiple experiments, Mario had finally calibrated the perfect dosage of soul essence for Skye. No more accidental fever spikes or concerning temperature fluctuations. Mainly because he had become something of a human thermometer when it came to monitoring her condition. Overly sensitive, perhaps, but better safe than sorry.

Skye lay sprawled across the bed, completely drained of energy but radiating a mental clarity she'd never experienced ...

PIG V2 Ch. 50

Lead-grey clouds hung low over Gotham. No rain, but the air was thick with cold that seeped into your bones and made everything feel heavier than it should.

More than a dozen police vehicles had formed a loose perimeter around the low stone wall of Falcone Manor. The orchard beyond the wall was dead quiet. The wind moved through them without a sound.

Marco opened the car door and stepped onto the ground. His breath came out in white clouds. He looked up at the estate. Dark red til...

PIG V2 Ch. 49

"Marco, I think the chief is right. Don't worry." Edward looked up from the forensic reports spread across his desk. "Based on all the evidence we have, they can't touch you."

Marco leaned against the doorframe of the Forensics office, arms crossed. He'd come here looking for reassurance, though he wasn't entirely sure why. Maybe because Edward's logic was easier to stomach than Bob's pragmatism.

"Identify the problem, solve the problem," he continued, tapping one of the reports w...

MoP: Ch. 184

---Third POV---

"Although the newly unlocked spells fall into the flying and earth categories, I feel it's not that simple. For example, earth, as one of the four fundamental elements, water, fire, earth, wind, and the only one that exists in solid form, represents matter, solidity, and creation. Could it be related to keywords like stability, toughness, minerals, and protection? The sky can represent freedom of flight, so if we extend that to the concept of celestial bodies in the univ...

GSiN: Ch. 206

"Huh? Is it an earthquake?"

The constantly shaking ground made it hard for Kirin to keep her balance. She hurried over to lean against a nearby pillar, and still had the presence of mind to reach out a hand toward Ryouma.

"Don't worry, we get earthquakes here all the time. The buildings are designed with shock-absorbing features."

Ryouma, of course, knew this was no earthquake. The chakra that had suddenly erupted from the innermost ring of the venue was, to his senses, as c...

HSU: Ch. 349

The nighttime Konoha was as noisy as ever.

The only difference was that campaign posters for the election could be seen everywhere on the streets, proving that the village was in the midst of another round of power transition.

Masashi walked along the street. The surrounding clamor reached his ears, yet it didn't strike him as particularly loud. Even the streams of people coming and going seemed, in his eyes at that moment, to blend seamlessly with the surrounding lights.

It...

Arcane: TTB: Ch. 158

"FIRE! Keep firing, goddamn it!"

Emystan's command sword slashed downward.

The fleet's gun crews scrambled to adjust their aim, cannons swiveling to track the drone swarm. They fired in rotating volleys, trying to maintain continuous coverage while compensating for the drones' movement. Shell casings clattered across the decks as loaders hauled fresh ammunition into position. Nobody wanted to be the one who slowed down when Emystan was in this kind of mood. When she got angry, peo...

NYP Ch. 111

Night fell over Konoha.

Most of the village had gone to sleep. The celebration from earlier in the day had wound down hours ago, leaving the streets quiet and dark except for the occasional patrol passing through. Only a handful of lights still burned in windows, night owls working late or parents tending to crying children.

Through his Transparent Release puppet's perspective, Kenji watched a figure emerge from the building housing the Kumo delegation.

The man was dressed e...

OP: AMP Ch. 220

With the ankylosaurus held down by Bon Kurei, a man stepped forward from the remaining defenders. He was tall enough to match a Marine Admiral's height, his presence commanding attention.

"You're useless," he said flatly, not even looking at his struggling comrade. "Leave the rest to me."

As he took a step forward, everyone noticed something off about his proportions. His legs were abnormally long, accounting for nearly two-thirds of his total height.

A member of the Longleg...

MCIM Ch. 149

Mephisto took the Ghost Rider medallion from Mario's hand, turning it over. The artifact had undergone changes he couldn't quite identify, but he could still clearly sense the sinful souls trapped within its cursed metal.

Azure light flickered across his palm, and one by one, translucent blue spirits began streaming out of the medallion. They filled the air around them, growing in number until the entire chamber was packed with ethereal figures.

"Oh, this is beautiful."

With...

PIG V2 Ch. 48

The wail of sirens grew from distant to deafening. Red and blue lights tore through the darkness of the alley, painting the brick walls in harsh, strobing colors. Gordon was among the first through the police cordon. When he saw Barnes lying in the spreading pool of blood, all the color drained from his face.

"I was too late..." Marco's voice came out raw, scraped hollow. He was still sitting in the mud, back against the wall, gun hand hanging limp at his side.

Gordon didn't look ...

PIG V2 Ch. 47

A few days later.

Just after five in the afternoon, Marco stood in the doorway of the precinct office, thermos in hand, watching Internal Affairs haul boxes of files down the stairs. Renee led the procession. Crispus brought up the rear, looking apologetic even from across the hall.

"You done?" Marco called out.

Crispus nodded, offering a slight smile. "For now. We're taking the reports and data back to the commissioner."

"Huh." Marco took a sip from his thermos. "So.....

MoP: Ch. 183

---Third POV---

"What's a limited-time reward pool? Are the devs starting a gacha system now?"

Some players followed the prompt and clicked into the draw interface. They discovered there were three reward pools in total: Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced.

The draw currency was bluntly named Draw Tokens. Each player's number of tokens equaled their contribution points divided by 10.

Basic pool: 1 token per draw

Intermediate pool: 10 tokens per draw

Advanced ...

GSiN: Ch. 205

Staring at Jigen as he strolled toward him at an unhurried pace, Orochimaru inwardly cursed his luck.

This was bad. In hindsight, he should have taken the earlier chance to throw explosive tags. At least that would have caused a bigger commotion. Ryouma might have noticed more quickly.

Jigen walked through the rising smoke. Beneath his white robe, the black markings could be faintly seen slithering across his skin.

"To be honest, I really dislike violence. So, Orochimaru, yo...

HSU: Ch. 348

After speaking, Tobirama went right back to tinkering with his experiment. Watching him work so intently was still different from watching Orochimaru. The Snake Sannin approached experiments from a purely self-interested perspective. Every result served himself. Tobirama, on the other hand, conducted research to develop ninjutsu usable by the majority, or to study an enemy's weaknesses. He wasn't interested in experimentation itself.

A look of excitement would never appear on Tobirama's...

Arcane: TTB: Ch. 157

The Sun Gate's broad waters were choked with warships. Camille stood at the head of Piltover's hastily assembled "welcoming committee." Behind her, the city's elites shuffled nervously in their finest clothes, trying to look dignified while internally calculating their odds of survival.

House Medarda was conspicuously absent. Ambessa had made her position clear by not attending. Mel was here, but only in her official capacity as a Piltover councilor, standing slightly apart from the res...

MPCW Ch. 28

Yan caught every detail of Alexei's performance. His acting skills were decent enough to fool Qingxue, who had a soft spot for him, but she had been around the cultivation world long enough to recognize manipulation when she saw it.

"This is already the simplest primer I know. Any simpler and we'd be teaching prenatal education."

She shifted slightly in her seat, and Alexei quickly averted his eyes. The mature cultivator had a tendency to make certain anatomically gifted movements...

NYP Ch. 110

The day the Kumo envoys were scheduled to arrive came faster than expected.

To celebrate what Konoha's leadership was publicly calling "hard-won peace," the village had organized a grand festival. Colorful ribbons and banners hung from every building along the main street. Vendors had set up stalls selling food and festival goods. Children ran through the crowds waving small flags. The atmosphere was celebratory, almost aggressively cheerful.

Nobody seemed to notice the unusual nu...

OP: AMP Ch. 219

The ankylosaurus-transformed pirate's eyes burned as he glared at the Straw Hat crew blocking his path. If these random nobodies hadn't shown up out of nowhere, his future would've been secure. Second Division Captain at minimum, maybe First Division if he played his cards right. There was no way he'd have fallen below Third Division, not with the numbers he brought to the table and an Ancient Zoan backing him up.

Add in his years of experience running criminal organizations, and becomi...

MCIM Ch. 148

Mario pressed himself against the laboratory window, his conscience screaming at him for being a voyeuristic creep. But when he saw what was happening inside the lab, disappointment flooded through him. He deactivated his invisibility and walked straight inside.

How boring. I wanted to see something scandalous.

Inside the laboratory, Erik and Darcy were staring excitedly at a small metal ring placed on the experiment table. The ring emitted a soft blue glow. The two were ...

PIG V2 Ch. 46

Rain crawled down the windows of Joe's Tavern. Gordon sat hunched over a cup of black coffee he'd barely touched, watching the steam dissipate into nothing. Across from him, Marco stirred his own cup and waited.

Gordon's jaw was tight. His brow was furrowed deep enough to plant crops in. He looked like a man carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, or at least the weight of Gotham, which was pretty much the same thing.

"I got the notice from Internal Affairs," he said fi...

MoP: Ch. 182

---Third POV---

The man hesitated for two seconds.

"Pay... pay the robber's medical bills?"

"Next."

"No, I'm joking." The man struggled to protest. "Send Bob to work as a laborer at the blacksmith's for three months?"

Child coldly shoved him aside.

"Next."

"Kill Bob."

"...Next."

"Bob acted in self-defense and even captured the robber. Not only should he not be punished, he should be commended instead."

Child suddenly raised his head,...

GSiN: Ch. 204

Although this unexpected situation made Orochimaru quite uncomfortable, the other party's manners were impeccable, leaving him with nothing to criticize. After all, a so-called exhibition inherently carried the nature of an auction.

"This way please."

Seeing the two reach an understanding, the merchant felt a weight lift from his heart and personally pulled out a chair for Orochimaru.

After the three of them were seated again, he lightly clapped his hands twice. Several attr...

HSU: Ch. 347

According to the standards in Kaguya's memories, every Ōtsutsuki was a user of Yin-Yang Release, and that was before eating any chakra fruit. The key point was: even before eating fruit, the Ōtsutsuki were already very strong.

If they did eat the fruit, and added their random assortment of bizarre abilities on top of that, he would probably not be able to beat them, though he didn't think he'd be killed either.

Honestly, Masashi felt that he was now the type that was really hard...