Flourish and Blotts was packed with people, and not just the usual crowd of schoolkids looking to buy their Hogwarts Books, either. The banner out front proclaiming for all to see that Gilderoy Lockhart would be present to sign copies of his Autobiography today clearly showed the reason why. Of course, as I wasn't taking Defense with the rest of the School thanks to my Advanced Tutoring Session...
2025-05-30 01:41:39 +0000 UTC
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Tanaka Yumi had been having an. . .interesting past few months. Honestly, she was surprised at how quickly her organization had grown after dealing with the last attempts by the Daybreak Gang, Lake Angels, and Iron Horse Bandits to put an end to her stealing. Those three, smaller organizations had practically fallen apart under constant pressure from the Aerugonian Mafia, Xing Lan Triad, and Dr...
2025-05-28 22:40:29 +0000 UTC
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I waited, pacing up and down the corridor. The screams from the room at the end of the hall were getting more frequent as the contractions got closer and closer together. Lanassa was in labor, and I was barred from the room as the physicians and midwives did their work. That was standard practice, though I wasn't totally sure why. There were cultural connotations, of course, but the reasoning b...
2025-05-28 17:28:58 +0000 UTC
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Haypile was about two and a half days over the border from the lands of House Hawick into Mooton Lands. To get there, we actually had to bypass a number of smaller villages and hamlets a day or so out from the border. That was fine, though, as once we had defeated the Army of the Vale in our ambush, we would be free to return and take those villages and hamlets at our leisure. That was the plan...
2025-05-28 09:15:17 +0000 UTC
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Emma Yung had been having an interesting past few months. Firstly, she'd effectively been voluntold into helping with White Council Wizard Training as soon as the White Council had realized what she could do with Chi and Magic. Not only that, but she had also been pressed into helping some of the White Council's non-Wizard Allies as well, such as Catherine Taylor and Anna Ischenko of the Venato...
2025-05-27 10:48:16 +0000 UTC
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Wusun was a planet of steppes and mountains. It was largely agricultural in the steppes, but also produced a decent tithe of both Naquadah and Trinium from mines in the mountains. The locals were an interesting mix of people. Both Cronus and my Uncle had put settlers here, with my Uncle's Han-descended Settlers living largely on the eastern edge of the Steppes, where a great river flowed into t...
2025-05-27 06:26:47 +0000 UTC
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Alia Fadal had a rough past couple of months. Sure, she and Tech Jacket had managed to contact the Guardians of the Globe and warn them about Omni-Man, and sure, she'd been able to use her cooking to boost their abilities, but Omni-Man's defeat had cost the lives of Red Rush, Darkwing, and Aquarus. It had also just been the start of things. When he'd failed to slaughter the Guardians of the Glo...
2025-05-26 20:46:57 +0000 UTC
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It's a Holiday here in the US, Memorial Day. I'm going to be at a barbecue with folks instead of online. I likely won't be able to get a chapter out today accordingly.
Apologies for the inconvenience. I'll have at least three chapters out tomorrow to make up for it.
2025-05-26 17:03:20 +0000 UTC
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Jackie Welles lit a candle for Ernesto. They'd never found him after the big explosion that had engulfed the Kabuki Docks. Apparently, he'd just vanished, and Jackie refused to believe he'd been zeroed. Ernesto was too Hard a Gato to just be zeroed like some Gonk. Apparently, the official word was that one of those old Sea Mines from back during the Unification War that the Corpos hadn't bother...
2025-05-25 09:01:48 +0000 UTC
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Here are the images for the last chapter. I had to go through several tries to get some of these right, and I'm still not a hundred percent convinced that Captain Azog's Portrait is good enough. He still looks a bit too much like a Goblin, too lean. It's the best I could get, though.
At any rate, the next chapter will be the next part of the Battle of the Jannath's Tears Archipelago as Ro...
2025-05-25 02:59:41 +0000 UTC
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Here we have the images for Chapter Thirty. This will be the last batch of images for the Cyberpunk Section of the Fic, as most of the stuff in the Epilogue will either be canon stuff or stuff I've already shown you images of.
At any rate, the next chapter will be the Cyberpunk Epilogue, and then we'll start our other Champion Interludes with Alia Fadal and how she managed to cope with th...
2025-05-25 02:18:19 +0000 UTC
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2025-05-25 02:01:34 +0000 UTC
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As soon as I entered Kabuki Central, heading for the Docks down near Pinewood South, it began to rain. Thunder rolling and sky opening up. That was just fucking typical, but I couldn't say it wasn't appropriate. After all, Vulcan did say that I would jump to my next world after zeroing another SI. Why wouldn't this sort of Scop happen if this were the end of my time in this particular world? It...
2025-05-25 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Chakra Affinities: Fire, Water
Rank: Tokubetsu Jonin
Bingo Book Bounty: 15,000,000
Stats: 38
Ninjutsu: 3
Taijutsu: 5
Bukijutsu: 5
Fuuinjutsu: 3
Genjutsu: 1.5
Intelligence: 3.5
Strength: 4
Speed: 5
Stamina: 5
Hand Seals: 3
Mission Log: 80 D-ranks, 15 C-ranks, 4 B-ranks, 2 A-ranks, 1 S-rank
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2025-05-24 18:51:31 +0000 UTC
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Chakra Affinities: Earth, Water
Rank: Tokubetsu Jonin
Bingo Book Bounty: 20,000,000 Ryo
Stats: 38
Ninjutsu: 3.5
Taijutsu: 5
Bukijutsu: 4
Fuuinjutsu: 2
Genjutsu: 2
Intelligence: 3
Strength: 5
Speed: 5
Stamina: 5
Hand Seals: 3.5
Mission Log: 40 D-ranks, 10 C-ranks, 6 B-ranks, 4 A-ranks, 3 S-ranks
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2025-05-24 18:37:21 +0000 UTC
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Chakra Affinities: N/A
Rank: Tokubetsu Jonin
Bingo Book Bounty: 25,000,000 Ryo
Stats: 37.5
Ninjutsu: 2.5
Taijutsu: 5
Bukijutsu: 5
Fuuinjutsu: 5
Genjutsu: .5
Intelligence: 4
Strength: 5
Speed: 5
Stamina: 5
Hand Seals: .5
Mission Log: 60 D-ranks, 10 C-ranks, 6 B-ranks, 4 A-Ranks, 3 S-Ranks
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2025-05-24 18:24:11 +0000 UTC
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I frowned as Suzie and Katrina went off into another room together, hoping that my Adoptive Kid Sister and my Fiancée weren't going to share any embarrassing stories or anything like that. You never could tell when the women in your life got together to talk. Equally likely was Suzie trying to suss out Katrina and see if she was right for me or not, which, given I was planning on proposing ove...
2025-05-24 17:19:45 +0000 UTC
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It was three days later, as we sailed east toward Cadfael Island, that the fight came upon us. As it turned out, there were only four ships. One was from Cadfael Island, a Galley with a Prow that reached up in the shape of a pearlescent seahorse, the Nacre Seahorse, according to the nameplate. At the prow stood a man with a long blonde beard in Magical Breastplate Armor with a Magical ...
2025-05-23 10:44:04 +0000 UTC
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The Walk of Shame back to my apartment after the all-night bit of Stuffit with Meredith Stout at the No-Tell Motel wasn't much of a Walk of Shame, actually. The No-Tell Motel was used to Gonks showing up for a random sexual rendezvous, and there was a lot kinkier stuff that'd gone on here than a bit of wax play, some choking, and so on. Accordingly, nobody said a goddamn word as I made my way o...
2025-05-23 03:46:51 +0000 UTC
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Over the course of the next month and a half, I kept myself busy largely with various projects. Not only was I continuing to learn how to cook from Lucia, but I was also learning Spells from the Grimoire of Gwynedd and looking into various enchantments, not just the one requiring the Greater Toadstone for my duster, but also looking into reverse-engineering the Enchantments of the Crown of Gwyn...
2025-05-22 19:40:55 +0000 UTC
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I spent the next few days between the fight with Shrapnel and my Interview at the Daily Planet looking into the situation on Earth by tapping into global communications networks with the Comms Unit on the Lucky Lady, interspersing that with a bit of training using the Brench Gravity Tiles that I had gotten the ship upgraded with for training purposes. I managed to push my Arcosian Powe...
2025-05-21 12:02:03 +0000 UTC
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Ser Andar Royce was a tall, bearded man, though not necessarily broad. He was more wiry than anything else, lending him the appearance of a spruce tree in human form. Lord Mors Marshberry, my Bannerman, who had arrived the previous day with his reinforcements from Harrenhal, liked the comparison so much that her gave Ser Andar the nickname of Ser Spruce. That, it seemed, had stuck with Ser Anda...
2025-05-21 04:21:16 +0000 UTC
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2025-05-20 12:15:55 +0000 UTC
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2025-05-20 12:07:32 +0000 UTC
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The Debriefing that I went through with Suzie Q was pretty quick, honestly, she was more interested in the fact that I'd zeroed both Nikita Letov and Igor Baranov than she was in hearing about the fight with Aleksander Yurinov. Apparently, between the attacks on the Red Cyclone Bathhouse and the Hotel Vladivostok, we'd wound up zeroing around seventy-five Gangoons working as enforcers for the N...
2025-05-20 12:03:14 +0000 UTC
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The next three months were a flurry of activity. Not only did I have to invest in my newly seized worlds from the former borderlands, but I also had to make sure that my forces were ready to assault Cronus. At the same time, I was also trying to devote time to half a dozen personal projects as well, mostly of the engineering variety. Reverse-Engineering the set of Ancient Armor that I took from...
2025-05-20 02:24:54 +0000 UTC
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Here we have the Images for Chapter Fifty-Four. Not just the stuff from the Labyrinth, like the Book of Cagliostro and Mask of Amenhotep, but also a few images of various components of Ultron's Army of Vibranium-Plated Combat Drones as well. Hopefully, those turned out all right, I couldn't quite get the Image Generators to pick up on the Ultron Design Ouvre, so let's just say he's trying a new...
2025-05-19 04:54:49 +0000 UTC
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Xander Harris was pretty wigged out. Sure, he'd seen some weird stuff over the past couple years, but he'd largely gotten used to a certain level of wigginess. A lot of supernatural stuff was in his wheelhouse now, especially after meeting Ulysses. This, though, seemed different somehow. See, he was standing over a corpse in the alleyway behind the Local S-Mart, which wasn't super unusual. The ...
2025-05-19 00:39:11 +0000 UTC
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Here we have the images for the last of the interludes, showing things like the Sewers and the Casino and whatnot. Hopefully, you guys are enjoying image dumps when I put them out. This one wasn't too much of a pain in the ass to generate, though.
At any rate, the next chapter will be a return to the MC's POV as he meets with Meredith Stout. We've only got three or four more chapters lef...
2025-05-18 05:39:21 +0000 UTC
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2025-05-18 05:26:39 +0000 UTC
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