After checking in at the Suna front-line camp and getting his assignment, Kenji immediately grabbed Kaede and headed toward the field hospital to find Aoi. With Tsunade still wandering the ninja world due to her hemophobia, refusing to participate in the war, her former student had stepped up to fill the void. Aoi had taken over many of Tsunade's responsibilities, primarily focusing on analyzin...
2025-12-17 00:09:02 +0000 UTC View PostFear, unease, and the creeping edge of madness.
These emotions crashed over the remaining staff members like waves, each one stronger than the last. Every fiber of their being screamed at them to get as far away from this thing as possible. But rationality, that thin thread of discipline, held them in place. If they fled now, they might survive this danger. But when Shiki found out they'd...
2025-12-17 00:04:10 +0000 UTC View Post"Oh! OH!"
Indigo watched the scene unfolding before him. The bizarre visual glitching effect made his eyes burn from the effort of tracking it. But he couldn't look away. He was too excited.
Change didn't frighten him. Even death was an acceptable outcome in his experiments. What truly unnerved him was when nothing changed at all. Stagnation was failure. But this?
Situations l...
2025-12-17 00:03:11 +0000 UTC View PostInside the fortress' IQ cultivation chamber, Indigo stood watching a sheep munching on an IQ plant like it was regular grass. He was deep in thought.
IQ plants were the primary ingredient for creating his beasts. To put it simply, they were as essential to the mutation process as water was to human life itself. The human body was about seventy percent water. The beasts had similar water c...
2025-12-17 00:02:24 +0000 UTC View PostMarcus' words made Usopp stop and think about the whole Devil Fruit situation from a different angle. But the more he thought about it, the more complicated his expression became. Those three Devil Fruits that had just appeared kept nagging at the back of his mind. Sure, Marcus had claimed that Devil Fruits actively gravitated toward people whose desires resonated with them. That sounded reason...
2025-12-17 00:01:44 +0000 UTC View PostIn just a few minutes, three Devil Fruits had materialized out of thin air and were now lying in front of Usopp.
He stared at them. Devil Fruits were supposed to be legendary treasures of the sea. And yet here were three of them, acquired as casually as picking flowers from a garden. It didn't make sense. Even the most basic logic suggested that if this method was so simple, major powers ...
2025-12-17 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostOn the shore of Angel Island, the once-chaotic crowd had fallen completely silent.
The refugees who'd been screaming and fighting just moments ago now stood frozen, staring open-mouthed at the pirate ships exploding one after another in the distance. Some had their hands halfway to their faces, caught mid-gesture. Others had tears still wet on their cheeks from their panic. But now they a...
2025-12-17 00:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostBreakfast ended, but nobody left the table. They all just sat there, looking at Marcus.
"Vivi filled you in on the East Blue Destruction Plan, right?"
Everyone nodded.
The reason Marcus had managed to keep the Straw Hats from using ender pearls to escape earlier was because he'd secretly exchanged a few words with Vivi using her Whisper-Whisper Fruit ability before they parted...
2025-12-16 23:59:21 +0000 UTC View PostMarcus had finally returned to the Straw Hat crew after several days away, and the state he found them in could only be described as pitiful.
They had food, technically, but never enough to feel satisfied. They had shelter, but it wasn't comfortable. And worst of all, they'd been deprived of proper sleep for so long that they'd forgotten what it felt like to get a full night's rest.
New World - Totto Land - Whole Cake Island.
"Mama, shouldn't we be doing something about this?"
Perospero, Big Mom's eldest son, held up the newspaper with his unusually long tongue hanging out as he spoke. The headline screamed about Shiki's declaration of war. Shiki's plan to destroy the East Blue was insane. So crazy it almost seemed impossible to pull off. But as one of the Four...
2025-12-16 23:57:44 +0000 UTC View Post"Where are you going?" Indigo called out.
"Preparing the next phase of the plan."
"But what about him? You're just going to let this go?"
Shiki paused at the doorway but didn't turn around. "They'll come back."
Indigo stood there, watching the Golden Lion walk away like nothing had happened. Like Marcus vanishing into thin air was just another Tuesday. He felt lost tryin...
2025-12-16 23:57:02 +0000 UTC View PostIn the end, Mephisto chose not to sign a contract with Mario. Mainly because he suspected that no matter how beautifully he wrote up a soul contract, it would be completely useless. Worse, he had the distinct feeling that if they did sign a contract, he'd be the one bound by every clause while Mario could just ignore the whole thing.
It was not worth the risk, better to keep things inform...
2025-12-16 23:54:47 +0000 UTC View PostMario hadn't even finished materializing when a miniature sun dropped from the sky. He tried to dodge, but the fireball was already kissing his face. The explosion him, and he went flying backward. His health bar plummeted to nearly zero in a single blast.
"Font of Vitality!"
A holy staff materialized in his hand, releasing a beam of divine light that poured over him. His health bar...
2025-12-16 23:54:04 +0000 UTC View PostThor rejected Mario's proposal.
"No. Loki is my brother. Not by blood, but in my heart he's no different from family."
The room fell so silent you could hear a pin drop. Sivir flushed with emotion and quickly asked, "You really mean that?"
Since becoming female, her personality had shifted from rational to emotional. It was fascinating to watch, like the same person viewed thr...
2025-12-16 23:52:36 +0000 UTC View Post"WOOOOO!"
"Go Hulk! Smash him!"
"Come on, flatten him!"
The roar of the crowd was loud in the massive arena. Mario sat in the VIP section, eyes fixed on the two figures clashing in the center ring. One was the Hulk. His opponent was Thor. Neither warrior carried weapons. This was pure, brutal hand-to-hand combat at its finest. Thor's eyes crackled with electricity, after some ...
2025-12-16 23:51:56 +0000 UTC View Post"So, how do you handle extreme temperatures?"
Mario studied the young black man sitting across from him. They were in one of Xavier's school's reception rooms. Xavier sat to Mario's left, with Erik stationed beside him.
"If it's not too extreme, and you give me time to adapt, I can manage most environments."
The young man's name was Armando Muñoz, though he went by Darwin, a ...
2025-12-16 23:51:08 +0000 UTC View PostCoulson walked through the dense forest in Central Park, his dress shoes crunching through layers of fallen leaves. Autumn had arrived, the canopy overhead was a patchwork of yellow and brown, and every breeze sent more leaves spiraling down.
Crunch. Crunch. Crunch.
The sound of his footsteps was oddly satisfying in the quiet woods. He spotted Mario sitting on his usual cou...
2025-12-16 23:50:07 +0000 UTC View Post"Careful with that. It's three thousand years old, from when Asgard was conquering half the known universe."
Tivan directed a crew of workers as they hauled his collection through the blue. The new location was considerably brighter than Knowhere, at least it orbited an actual star instead of floating in the dead Celestial's skull.
Mario watched the procession with satisfaction. "I'...
2025-12-16 23:49:13 +0000 UTC View PostWhat can possibly save you...
Yondu's thought process was simple: if Star-Lord were his biological kid, he would've thrown him against a wall as a baby and called it mercy. The boy was a walking disaster magnet.
To everyone else in the galaxy, Thanos was pure nightmare fuel. The lunatic traveled from planet to planet, slaughtering half the population for no apparent profit....
2025-12-16 23:48:14 +0000 UTC View PostTwo days passed in a blur of farming, negotiations, and surprisingly little violence.
Young Thanos had adapted to agricultural life with disturbing enthusiasm, even wearing a straw hat identical to Infinite Thanos'. Mario had ordered them custom-made from a craftsman back in Sicily, mainly because regular stores didn't carry them in "genocidal space tyrant" size.
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Splas...
2025-12-16 23:47:28 +0000 UTC View PostWatching Gamora and Star-Lord get hauled away by Nova Corps officers, Rocket looked like someone had just stolen his wallet.
"Where to now?"
Mario stared at Star-Lord's retreating figure, a smile spreading across his face. "Where? Back to the ship. We wait for someone to call me."
Ronan would definitely head to Kyln to retrieve the orb. All Mario needed to do was make sure the...
2025-12-16 23:46:48 +0000 UTC View Post"You are now a true squire of Rohan, Merry."
Inside one of the tents of the Rohirrim camp, Éowyn personally placed a helmet on Merry's head.
"Wonderful!"
Merry looked overjoyed. He excitedly drew his sword, so hastily that he almost cut Éowyn, making her gasp in alarm.
"Oh, sorry!"
He quickly sheathed his sword again.
Éowyn glanced at the short blade, whic...
2025-12-16 23:44:19 +0000 UTC View Post"The Paths of the Dead. This valley on the highlands is far from peaceful. Countless have tried to pass through, yet none ever returned. Among them was even a prince of Rohan."
On the eve before Rohan's army marched to war, Aragorn stood gazing toward the direction of the Dark Door, recalling the grim history of that place.
Behind him, Legolas, Gimli, Boromir, and Halbarad were maki...
2025-12-16 23:43:23 +0000 UTC View PostWhether this journey will end in a safe return, no one yet knows.
From Garrett's words, Théoden learned of the enemy's composition.
Nearly twenty thousand Haradrim and their mighty war elephants, more than ten thousand Easterlings, over seven thousand Far Harad soldiers, and tens of thousands of orcs and Uruk-hai. Altogether, perhaps a hundred thousand.
And leading them were ...
2025-12-16 23:42:25 +0000 UTC View Post"Come now, Shadowfax, show your true speed..."
Outside the walls, Gandalf gently patted Shadowfax. In the next instant, the great horse surged forward, and within the blink of an eye, only its distant silhouette remained.
"So fast."
Watching Gandalf's departing figure, even Garrett couldn't help but sigh in admiration. In terms of pure top speed, that horse was a little faster...
2025-12-16 23:41:27 +0000 UTC View PostThud, thud, thud.
With a gulp of milk down his throat, Garrett's vision gradually cleared up.
"You're awake."
A face loomed right above him.
"Gandalf? What are you doing here?"
Inside the room just off the main hall, Garrett stood up, rubbing his head. He shook it a few times, trying to dispel the last traces of drunkenness.
"Phew. That was close. I ...
2025-12-16 23:40:37 +0000 UTC View PostAfter all the necessary formalities were completed, it was time for the classic highlight of any banquet.
"No stopping, spilling, and regurgitating."
Gimli announced the rules of the contest as he took the cup of ale Théodred handed him.
Legolas picked up his own cup, looking curious. "So this is... a drinking contest?"
"Of course! What, you've never drunk before?"
<... 2025-12-16 23:39:49 +0000 UTC View Post"You two little Hobbits!"
Gimli shouted from behind Gandalf, "We've been chasing all this way, only to find you sitting here feasting!"
"And smoking!"
"We're just enjoying the fruits of victory. It's well-deserved compensation," Pippin said, taking a puff of his pipe. "Look here, ale from the Riddermark, and salted pork from the Shire."
"Salted pork..." he muttered the w...
2025-12-16 23:39:01 +0000 UTC View PostAt this moment, dawn finally arrived, neither hurried nor slow.
Inside and outside the walls of Helm's Deep, the corpses of enemies were piled up like mountains, making them extremely difficult to deal with.
Fortunately, the Ents who had just finished off the remaining enemy troops arrived. They helped bury the Uruk-hai corpses across the deep and wide valleys, piling them up until ...
2025-12-16 23:38:15 +0000 UTC View Post"Yes, the sun has indeed not yet risen."
Inside Helm's Deep, Théoden placed his helmet upon his head.
"But the light of dawn has arrived first."
Bwooooom!
From the tower above, Gimli blew the Horn of Helm Hammerhand. The Dwarf's bull-like lungs showed their full strength, and the sound of the horn echoed through the entire mountain range, deep, distant, and sti...
2025-12-16 23:36:51 +0000 UTC View Post