Punk Hazard, outer perimeter.
“Thanks for the hard work.”
Kai hung up the call from Enel, forcing down the smile tugging at his mouth.
Since Enel had already located Vegapunk, it was time for Kai to take the stage.
“How do we get in?” Kuma asked quietly beside him.
According ...
2025-12-16 20:37:36 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you sure it’s here?” Holding a torch aloft, Sothia eyed the trembling dove beside her with deep suspicion.
She could hardly be blamed for doubting it. The towering rock face in front of them looked completely ordinary, with nothing about it that suggested any hidden secret.
“Coo!”
Under the terrifying human woman’s scep...
2025-12-16 20:37:31 +0000 UTC View Post“Let us look forward to the Legendary showdown between Zapdos and Moltres!”
As soon as the announcer finished speaking, the bell rang across the battlefield.
“Moltres, use Flamethrower!” Ryden Wataru ordered first.
“Zapdos, Thunderbolt,” Red said calmly.
Moltres immediately unleashed...
2025-12-16 20:37:21 +0000 UTC View PostYes, the ten massive figures standing before them bore the unmistakable features of Edward Weevil, the current Warlord of the Sea, who calls himself "Whitebeard's son."
"Admittedly, Edward Weevil has significant intellectual deficiencies," Shaka said, reading the doubt in their eyes with perfect calm.<...
2025-12-16 20:37:19 +0000 UTC View Post“As expected of Lord Red’s carefully trained Sylveon. It has defeated Ryden Wataru’s Dragonair and Gyarados back-to-back. What a sight for everyone here!”
“Of course, Dragonair also deserves immense credit. Without Dragonair’s earlier effort, Sylveon’s victory would not have been nearly so smooth.”
The announcer...
2025-12-16 20:36:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe tsunami set off by the World Economy News Paper was never going to hit only the World Government.
The entire world was left speechless by the news, and then it plunged into a level of uproar and unrest like never before.
“Is a new Pirate King about to appear?”
“Who ca...
2025-12-16 20:36:52 +0000 UTC View Post“Moria. The Dwarves’ great miracle.”
“A miracle?”
Not only the Hobbits, but even Boromir was a little curious.
He had grown up in Gondor. The moment he came of age, he had gone to the front, day after day under the Witch-king’s pressure. Forget the Dwarves’ underground kingdom; he had barely even seen Dwarves a handful of times.<...
2025-12-16 20:36:22 +0000 UTC View PostRivendell’s council hall.
Representatives of the Free Peoples from all across Middle-earth had gathered here.
Among the Elves were Elrond, lord of Rivendell, and Glorfindel; Lady Galadriel of Lothlórien; Galdor, a secretary serving as the Grey Havens’ envoy; and Legolas, representing Mirkwood.
Among Men were Boromir...
2025-12-16 20:36:20 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a startling thing to say.
Left this world?
The Vale of Anduin commander, listening in, felt his mind catch for a moment. He simply could not process it straight away.
Did it mean what he thought it meant?
For Men, the phrase “left this world” was usually just a more polite, more presentable way ...
2025-12-16 20:36:20 +0000 UTC View PostAfter arranging the castle and school affairs, Kael, Gandalf, Frodo and his three companions, Bilbo, Legolas, and the others gathered in Kael’s private tower.
Bilbo, as the former bearer of the One Ring, needed to attend the council as well.
Legolas was there as a representative of the Woodland Realm, traveling to Rivend...
2025-12-16 20:36:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe Fellowship of the Ring, all nine of them, set out from Rivendell. Elrond watched their departing backs, and a sigh escaped him.
The world was sliding into chaos and unrest, and there was nowhere that could be spared.
Even the Free Cities, which had always seemed so peaceful that evil was almost unheard of there, we...
2025-12-16 20:36:15 +0000 UTC View PostBeneath the tower, Nicolas Flamel faced a woman in a pure white gown. Both of them looked drained, as if they had just come through a fierce confrontation.
The churned‑up ground around them, and the mass of grey‑black mist tightly wrapped in countless runes, were proof enough of that.
Yet from the calm, almost orderly way they were speaking now, it wa...
2025-12-13 14:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostFred had already been knocked out again by that last strike.
The shimmering barrier of his Protego Shield Charm shattered, breaking into points of light that faded from the air.
Cedric stared at the looming black shape that had turned its horse and was now pacing toward ...
2025-12-13 14:14:57 +0000 UTC View PostIn the second stage of the duel, neither of them wasted another word.
Sean took a single step forward and vanished.
Voldemort raised his wand at once, ready to unleash a sweeping curse to flush him out, when a razor‑sharp killing intent sliced in at his right neck. He reacted instantly, jerking his head to the left. Eve...
2025-12-13 14:14:53 +0000 UTC View PostLupin had clearly not expected anyone to ask such a question. He paused, visibly taken aback.
Usually, when students faced a Boggart, they either panicked or wanted to know how to defeat it. Dudley, however, had gone straight for one of the trickiest angles imaginable.
If Lupin had not already known that Dudley was exceptionally g...
2025-12-13 14:14:48 +0000 UTC View Post"Ron, you destroy it," Harry said, picking up the sword and shoving it at him.
"What? I cannot. I will not be able to fight it off," Ron yelped, backing away, face white.
"That is exactly why you have to do it. You need to learn to resist it," Harry said.
He did not give Ro...
2025-12-13 14:14:42 +0000 UTC View PostAt the same time, at the headquarters of the World Economy News Paper, Big News Morgans threw the full weight of his media empire behind the biggest headline of the age.
Across every regional branch and printing line, presses screamed at unprecedented speeds, drums thundered, ink sprayed, and sheet after sheet swallowed world-shaki...
2025-12-13 14:14:37 +0000 UTC View PostKael's power had grown beyond measure over the decades. In an instant, he froze Old Man Willow where it stood.
The branches that had been reaching and swaying hung rigid in mid-air, as though time itself had stopped.
Without the Willow's droning enchantment, Frodo's mind cleared at once.
He saw the gnarled, looming ...
2025-12-13 14:14:32 +0000 UTC View PostLight?
No.
Levi uncorked a bottle of night-vision potion and drank, then peered into the distance.
That was not light.
Creeeak… screech…
A thin, vicious grinding echoed through the dark, something sharp rasping against hard metal. When Levi narrowed his eyes, he saw a knot...
2025-12-13 14:14:27 +0000 UTC View Post"Cough, cough... cough..."
In the dim dungeon, the silver-green-robed old man lay slumped over the table, coughing so hard it was as if he meant to hack up his lungs.
Opposite him, Dumbledore watched with keen interest, thoughts churning behind his calm blue eyes.
These shadows, which could behave ...
2025-12-13 14:14:07 +0000 UTC View Post"What was that?"
Cedric looked up sharply inside the maze, listening.
Beyond the faint rustle of shifting thorns, another sound threaded through.
A soft, steady clatter, like something hard scraping against itself.
Or perhaps just the wind.
"Must be my nerve...
2025-12-13 14:14:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Tom, your little scheme in the Ministry comes to an end today.”
As Sean spoke, Voldemort’s wand jerked sharply. A pulse of murky green shot along the beam of light between them, ramming towards the lightning Sean was hurling at him. Before it could reach him, a crackling surge of current flared from Sean’s wand and wiped the atta...
2025-12-13 14:13:59 +0000 UTC View Post"Even if he wanted to practise that spell, why did he have to provoke Buckbeak? That was incredibly dangerous," Harry said, frowning.
"Some magic can only really be trained under pressure," Dudley replied. "Have you forgotten? When we practised spells before, you did fine. But once it was a real fight, things were very different."
The three o...
2025-12-13 14:13:55 +0000 UTC View Post"Ow. Why did you hit me, Lada?" Ron groaned, staggering to his feet. A neat paw-shaped red mark bloomed on his cheek.
"For running out on Harry," Lada said, licking her paw and flicking the snow from her fur.
"How did you… oh. Aiden’s power, right?" Ron caught on at once.
If Lada was here, that could only ...
2025-12-13 14:13:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe barren island—
Was gone.
Wiped completely from the surface of the sea.
In its place yawned a colossal abyss, an endless pit the ocean kept pouring into.
The pull of the vortex dragged at the surrounding waters, and the ships at the rim felt an invisible giant hand closing on their hulls, dragging the...
2025-12-13 14:13:46 +0000 UTC View PostFrodo took the crystal phial and gazed at the holy light within. As he held it, his whole body felt eased and comforted, and the constant, muffled pressure the Ring exerted on his mind faded until he felt almost light again.
Realising this, Frodo’s face lit with delight. He knew at once that the Light of Eärendil was a p...
2025-12-13 14:13:34 +0000 UTC View Post“Why has Levi not come back yet?”
While Levi was venturing into the Northern Waste, Elrond and Glorfindel were waiting at a Free Cities outpost west of Dol Guldur, where they met Radagast the Brown.
The beast-loving wizard was one of the Free Peoples’ strongest sources of intelligence. Any bird or beast could be his eyes and ears. Even Sa...
2025-12-13 14:13:21 +0000 UTC View Post"Impossible. When I pulled you in, I scanned every living presence. Everything that was not a wizard should have been tossed somewhere else. How could anything else have come in with you?" The grey-black mist hanging in mid-air stuttered for a heartbeat. The old woman's face went blank, and a voice tinged with madness came from within the fog...
2025-12-13 14:10:23 +0000 UTC View PostLittle Hangleton, Riddle House.
The only light in the gloomy hall came from the hearth, where a weak orange flame crackled, pushing back a little of the chill seeping in from outside.
[You failed… Barty.]
The rasping voice of a dying old man sounded from the armchair.
V...
2025-12-13 14:10:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Indeed, it has been a long time, Tom.”
As Sean spoke, Voldemort’s smoky silhouette solidified, coalescing into his true body. Black vapour coiled up around Sean as well, smashing into the darkness billowing from Voldemort’s robes.
There was a resounding crack.
Both men slid back a step. Voldemort merely extended one pale han...
2025-12-13 14:10:14 +0000 UTC View Post