My status responded as if to deride me.
Ajax Volan, the Void Eater| Lvl 4,289 - A follower of Yawm, he is Yawm's strongest and most loyal ally. During the war with the Bracken, Ajax acted as a vanguard with Yawm. They have torn apart entire armies on their own. Despite refusing Yawm's gift of flesh, they remain on excellent terms due to their history before Yawm's resurgence as a celestial threat.
Not much else is known about Ajax. With its enormous ...
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Torix let his free hand flop against his side. "How exactly, is that supposed to be motivating?" "It's simple. Just now, you were in a life-
Torix let his free hand flop against his side. "How exactly, is that supposed to be motivating?" "It's simple. Just now, you were in a life-
Torix let his free hand flop against his side.
"How exactly, is that supposed to be motivating?"
"It's simple. Just now, you were in a life-and-death battle with mana. That is, in essence, on...
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It left a fearful smile on my lips, and Torix raised a hand. The armor rippled in response. It kept rippling, turning into a churning pool.
It left a fearful smile on my lips, and Torix raised a hand. The armor rippled in response. It kept rippling, turning into a churning pool.
It left a fearful smile on my lips, and Torix raised a hand. The armor rippled in response. It kept rippling, turning into a churning pool. Torix's eyes flickered. As mana surged from the body and over the...
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I laughed before cracking my neck, the sound echoing in the hall. "If I'm honest, I like how authentic you are." Torix swung his cape. "But
I laughed before cracking my neck, the sound echoing in the hall.
"If I'm honest, I like how authentic you are."
Torix swung his cape.
"But of course. Now, there is work to be done and blood left to be spilled."
He raised his hands. The supplies began amassing into the enormous underground dome under the frozen ocean. The und...
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I raised a brow, and Torix coughed into a hand. The lich mused.
"Backwater according to their standards, of course."
I turned to the others, shifting my dimensional wake.
"Alright. Is there anything else you need to say, Diesel?"
Diesel scratched his clipboard.
"We think that Schema is going to create a siege quest of our planet for several invading forces."
My eyes flared red as Event Horizon coursed over everyone, the aura as heavy as grief.
"Schema...
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Hod struck a pose.
"Hod ready. Hod always ready."
Torix coughed into a hand.
"Ahem. Why am I here, exactly? Aren't I busy scouting?"
I gave him a nod.
"Because we're going to build you a new body before we head out."
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Torix's eyes flared.
"Excellent. I shall make the arrangements for such a thing to take place. Bah. There's simply so much to do. I wonder what I should use for the ink?"
I swished my hands as if...
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And yet, there was no means of doing so. I could try to construct the most magnificent defenses the galaxy had ever seen, but could I stop any attack? Would those defenses leave my people with lives worth living? Did I want to spend every waking moment for decades doing so?
No. I was tired of waiting on my planets and hoping for the best. I wanted to know the secrets of the universe so that I could begin dismantling the pieces that kept trying to kill me. As I grabbed the edges of the s...
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The agent of Cygna carried a more combative form than before, its amber body carrying tiny cracks all over its surface. A rupture in spacetime leaked interdimensional energy behind it, and the corruption spread until I siphoned it to me. Althea moved behind me before she snapped.
"What in the hell is that?"
Kryaa waved a blurry, hard-to-make-out appendage.
"Ah, there you are. I've been searching for a while before I found your home."
Kryaa put two tendrils at the openi...
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Blegara would be reborn.
I gawked at it from the depths, my body dimming as I cooled myself down. Even Torix marveled at the sight before he raised his hands. With a telepathic roar, he announced to everyone present.
"We have created one of Blegara's twelve guardians. All hail Poseidon, the Cleanser of Seas."
A chorus of cheers erupted as I lifted myself from the ocean's surface. Water evaporated off of me, and I grinned at Alfonso. He squeezed the dark pearl in his hand bef...
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Torix gazed into the sunset, making sure it glinted on his dark, metal frame.
"Of course not, but it makes for one hell of a line."
I rolled my eyes.
"Let's go fix a planet."
His eyes flared a bright blue.
"It's quite the novelty. I'm far more used to breaking them."
Several of his skeletal and decaying minions walked out of portals around him. They carried various waterproofed ritual supplies. Torix descended into the depths below.
"I'm quite looking...
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Beside him, three decapitated heads of its victims stared out into the distance. The knight said in a deep voice.
"Tell me. Has the reaper come?"
I frowned.
"Why would you do this?"
Althea shrugged.
"Who cares why it did this."
Her biotic rifle hissed as she loaded another bolt of bone into it. She frowned.
"It's just a dead man talking."
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Before she jumped in, I peered at the creature.
Corsack, ...
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Florence dragged a hand down his face.
"The man was an accountant, lawyer, judge, and auditor, yet you've given him the right to decide who is the winner? You might as well announce that you never intended on winning in the first place."
I beamed with confidence.
"Tera was able to take over an entire planet without spilling a drop of blood. What makes you think his entire species can't fix a wound on one measly world?"
Helios let out a long, grating sigh.
"Once m...
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I took a breath.
"Then let'em rip."
Shalahora placed a fingertip on his forehead before pulling a strand of mana from his head. It swirled as if alive, reminding me of a glowing jellyfish. He pulled it towards me before tapping my forehead. As it flowed into my head, I blinked, and a series of images flashed through my mind.
"This...This is-" I gasped before my shoulders dropped. "This is a bunch of animated series from Batman and Spiderman. Wait...It's especially about Veno...
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My eyes went distant.
"They're worse than evil."
Hod raised a wing with tremendous confidence.
"Hod think old people not that bad. Hod will say, Hod see old people in dark sometimes. Old people kind of scary, but Hod see their smile the next morning. Hod think them not so bad then."
Hod nodded as if he said something deeply profound. Torix gazed at the sky as if staring at infinity.
"You will survive this, Torix. You must."
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Plazia waved a hand through the floating, three-dimensional panorama of Blegara.
“Then retake them as necessary. Academia is often an exercise in effort and diligence, not intelligence or ability.”
“Eh, but book smarts tend to help. Anyways, look at this.”
I shared a few of the collected notes I gathered online with the hivemind, and we gathered a reasonable approach to the problem at hand. I pointed at the warp below that gushed water.
“Are you ready?”
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My stomach sank.
“That’s true. We’ll need to reverse engineer the cipheric tech that he’s using.”
“It will take you millennia to understand the cipher to such a level if you ever will.”
I raised my palms.
“Hey, let’s handle this one step at a time. Besides-”
Blegara’s scar shone like a necrotic wound in the light. I let out a sigh with no air for breath or medium for sound to travel in.
“We’ve got a lot of work to do.”
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As he finished his words, the enormous flesh moon moved. It writhed along its surface with ripples larger than mountains. It began pulsing towards portals before I connected to Plazia. The hivemind hissed its thoughts.
“You’ve wasted enough of our time speaking to the mad and deranged.”
I scoffed.
“You know as well as I do that we can multitask. Well, I’ve thought of how we’re going to kill that damn thing in the meantime.”
“Know this, Harbinger - I wil...
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That gave me pause.
“Schema defers to them, when necessary, but a pawn? What makes you say that?”
The voice radiated with certainty.
“A simple question. Where does mana come from?”
Understanding washed over me.
“It’s…The Old Ones.”
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The general's voice carried disdain.
“It’s good you’re thinking. You’re not as simple as you were when our organizations first met.”
Ignoring the...
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I cracked my neck.
“From what I can tell, there isn’t much of a difference between the two, but if I’m going to be an idiot, then I’ll at least take the good that comes with the bad.”
Plazia gave me a slow nod.
“Hm…Then do so. We need more idiocy in this world.”
I smiled.
“That’s what I’m here for.”
My armor bristled with a palpable energy.
“Now enough talk…Where is this monster?”
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Plazia cackled through the water. It was like a nightclub's music from the outside, muted but still clear.
"I assure you that you are still its sole retainer. I am a prime minister at most."
His insects return to managing the planet's affairs. I creased my brow.
"Right. It would seem you've managed to make a religion around yourself. You certainly have the ego for it."
Plazia rolled his fingers across his throne.
"The one I've centered it around isn't me."
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She was right about that. Torix pointed at her.
"Perhaps, but that isn't the true root of either of our reasonings."
She rolled her eyes.
"Oh, wise sage, please tell me what I'm really thinking then."
Torix flourished a hand.
"But of course. It's for style."
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We kept chatting away, each of us catching up on the moments we missed. The hours bled away before we reached Mt. Verner and Springfield, their develop...
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As my armor rippled over my skin, I stretched my arms. Over a hundred minds swirled in my head, their psionic might formidable and everlasting. The muscles in my body flexed like cables of orichalcum, and my wake spread forth, encompassing all of Springfield. Runes thrummed over my skin, their energy overwhelming and palpable.
I enveloped the city in The Rise of Eden, saturating its buffs onto my home. Unshackling self-imposed limits, I held the pocket dimensions inside my body with eas...
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He scrambled back to the fridges, and his eyes opened wide.
"You...You're not who I think you are...Are you?"
I frowned.
"I am."
Mana glowed over my frame. It dolloped like glowing poison floating across space. My runes blurred the air around me and molded gravitation to protect all that surrounded me. I sat down, my legs crossed, and my torso was still taller than the bar. A sad smile crossed my face as I loomed over the man as a titan of metal, violence, and potentia...
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Jamal hit the bar.
"Oh, come on. We barely talked about."
Nissa raised a hand.
"We've talked this over so many times. Stop acting like we're not exhausted with it. By now, you know what we think. You're just trying to wear us down."
As Nissa took a step away, Jamal turned to me.
"Before you go, let's hear what the new guy has to say."
I gulped as they all turned to me. Jamal gave me a nod.
"Well?"
I blinked.
"Me?"
Jamal gave me anoth...
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As I gazed at my palm, I felt a resurgence of memories alongside my healing. I had gorged on the interdimensional energy for a long time, and in turn, the faculties of my armor expanded. It felt good, like becoming something greater. In tandem, a sadness spurred forth. I would only get further and further from a life like this as time passed.
A part of me accepted that. Another part raged against this machine made of momentum. Either way, as Joshua left his bar's main room, I turned to ...
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They each put a dozen talismans over them alongside life-saving enchantments.
I did none of that. They gawked at me. I shrugged.
"I use other stuff to survive, alright?"
They rolled their eyes. Nissa let out a long sigh.
"You're like one of the guildies, always acting like you're invincible."
Jamal met our eyes.
"Let's hope he is. Is everyone ready?"
We nodded. Jamal flashed a roguish grin.
"Then let's see what's changed in a year? From the look...
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I raised my hands, and beyond the concealing magic of my cloak, the bright scars still traced my skin. They reminded me of my mortality, the wounds from a mad god. They were reminiscent of moon slices spreading over dark steel. Before this trip, I worried about being able to recover to my full might.
However, my wounds gave as much as they took. Today, I was a normal man, or at least closer to one. I held down a laugh as I relished in the weakness these scars gave me. It was like enteri...
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Diesel
Scott guffawed.
"Don't get me started on communications or electricity. This is what we call the dark ages, fellas."
I cracked my knuckles.
"Well, now, that's what we're here to fix. Isn't it?"
My team cheered. I flushed a bit from the support before rubbing my hands together in excitement.
"So everybody, let's get this show on the road."
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Daniel
After about two weeks o...
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I nodded.
"Fair enough. I never thought about making a business, actually-"
A notification rang in my ears. I opened a message from Torix, and confusion washed over me.
Torix Worm, The Harbinger's Erudition | Level: 18,000 | Class: Archmage - Now, I do understand that my memory has failed me before, but I must reiterate this point: who is this Marcella Meyor and Rebecca you keep speaking of? I've never heard their names in my life.
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I raised my hands.
"Then what the hell happened to her?"
Marcella gulped before frowning. She went to say something before she stopped. Fear spread over her before a resolve replaced it. She said.
"It was an agent from-"
She blinked before she snarled at herself. A moment later, blood began dripping from her nose. It poured out of her eyes, ears, and mouth. She trembled as her skin began melting even through the protective barrier of the antimagic shackles.
"It w...
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